Undergraduate
Student Learning Outcomes
Bachelor of Arts in Medical Humanities and Health Studies (B.A.)
Students completing the Medical Humanities & Health Studies B.A. program will achieve the following:
Know
- That human experiences of physical and mental health, disease, illness and healing are defined within the context of social, cultural, economic, historical, religious, and legal contexts, and
- How these factors impact the perception, delivery and effectiveness of medicine and health care.
Understand
- The human dimensions as well as the socio-cultural, economic and ethical complexites that arise both in illness and health care practice, and
- How the humanities and social sciences can be used to apply more effectively the life science and technological advances that address health issues.
Be able to
- Use the humanities and social sciences ( e.g., literary narrative, bioethical considerations, socio-economic and historical analysis) to understand the human experience of health, illness and healing;
- Critically read, evaluate and interpret multiple sources of information and competing perspectives to understand health problems and issues more thoroughly, and
- Present such analyses in forms using the conventions and standards of the appropriate academic disciplines.
