Health Humanities Minor
Introduction
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The Health Humanities minor critically analyzes historical and contemporary connections among health, medicine, and society. The minor deepens understandings of disease and wellness, pain and suffering, personhood, the nature of death and dying, embodied experience, and the limits of technological knowledge. Studying literature, history, philosophy, rhetoric, the arts, and related social science fields, HEHM students explore the human dimensions of medical practice and how they interact with lived experience, revealing the ethical, cultural, and social contexts of health and medicine.
These program requirements are subject to periodic revision by the academic department, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences reserves the right to make exceptions and substitutions as judged necessary in individual cases. Therefore, the College strongly urges students to consult regularly with their major, minor and CLAS advisors to confirm the best plans of study before finalizing them.
Program Delivery
- This is an on-campus program.
Declaring This Minor
- Please see your advisor. Students declaring a minor in HEHM must have at least a 2.5 over GPA.
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General Requirements
Students must satisfy all requirements as outlined below and by the department offering the minor.
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Program Requirements
- Students must complete a minimum of 15 credit hours taken from the approved courses.
- Students must complete a minimum of six upper-division (3000-level and above) credit hours in the minor taken from the approved courses.
- Students must earn a minimum grade of C- (1.7) in all courses that apply to the minor and must achieve a minimum cumulative minor GPA of 2.0. Courses taken using P+/P/F or S/U grading cannot apply to minor requirements.
- Students must complete a minimum of nine credit hours with CU Denver faculty taken from the approved courses.
Program Restrictions, Allowances and Recommendations
- Students may only count one relevant transfer course toward their elective requirements for the minor.
- Students may double count no more than two courses from their major toward the minor elective requirements.
- Students may take any of the courses from the capstone list as upper division electives.
- Upper division level electives may carry prerequisites that must be completed before enrolling.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Take the following required course: | 3 | |
| Foundations of Health Humanities | ||
| Take three of the following upper division electives from at least two different disciplines: 1 | 9 | |
| Special Topics in Medical Anthropology | ||
| Anthropology of Health Care Policy | ||
| Anthropology of Death | ||
| Medical Anthropology: Global Health | ||
| Anthropology and Public Health | ||
| Immigrant Health | ||
| Medical Anthropology | ||
| Special Topics in Medical Anthropology | ||
| Health Communication | ||
| Health Communication and Community | ||
| Rhetorics of Medicine & Health | ||
| Digital Health Narratives | ||
| Designing Health Messages | ||
| Health Risk Communication | ||
| Rhetoric and the Body | ||
| Humanistic Writing About Medicine and Biology | ||
| Illness & Disability Narrative | ||
| Ethnicity, Health and Social Justice | ||
| Geography of Health | ||
| GIS Applications in the Health Sciences | ||
| Disasters, Climate Change, and Health | ||
| History of Biology | ||
| Mind and Malady: A History of Mental Illness | ||
| Topics in History of Science | ||
| Independent Study: HIST (see Professor Levine-Clark for specific topics) | ||
| Health Policy | ||
| Health, Human Biology and Behavior | ||
| Health, Culture and Society | ||
| Mental Illness and Society | ||
| Perspectives in Global Health | ||
| Global Topics In Sexual and Reproductive Health | ||
| Live Long and Prosper: Public Health & Aging | ||
| Global Health: Comparative Public Health Systems | ||
| Social Determinants of Health | ||
| Health Disparities | ||
| The Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic | ||
| Investigating Nature: Introduction to the Philosophy of Science | ||
| Philosophy of Death and Dying | ||
| Medicine, Health Care, and Justice: Bioethics | ||
| U.S. Health Policy | ||
| Health Psychology | ||
| Psychology of Mindfulness | ||
| Psychology of Women | ||
| Psychology of Cultural Diversity | ||
| Medical Sociology | ||
| Death & Dying: Social & Medical Perspectives | ||
| Health Disparities | ||
| Sociology of Health Care | ||
| Aging, Society and Social Policy | ||
| Take one of the following Capstone courses, not already completed: 2 | 3 | |
| Health Communication | ||
| Health Communication and Community | ||
| Rhetorics of Medicine & Health | ||
| Digital Health Narratives | ||
| Designing Health Messages | ||
| Rhetoric and the Body | ||
| Illness & Disability Narrative | ||
| Gender, Science, and Medicine: 1600 to the Present | ||
| Mind and Malady: A History of Mental Illness | ||
| The Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic | ||
| Medicine, Health Care, and Justice: Bioethics | ||
| Total Hours | 15 | |
- 1
The Upper Division (3000-level and above) elective list is not exhaustive and continues to be updated. One elective course can be a service learning course or independent study approved by an HEHM advisor. Students may take any of the courses from the capstone list as upper division electives.
- 2
These courses incorporate substantial original writing or research projects designed to promote broad reflection about the role of culture, society, and ethics in medicine. Students should choose these courses at the culmination of their minor course work.
To learn more about the Student Learning Outcomes for this program, please visit our website.