Undergraduate
Minors
Minor in Medical Humanities and Health Studies
The interdisciplinary minor in medical humanities and health studies seeks to promote an increased awareness of the human, social, and cultural dimensions of health care and health care systems. It provides an exciting opportunity for students to work in close conjunction with faculty who have strong teaching and research interests in the area of health care. Relevant issues to be addressed during the course of study in the minor include human values and ethics in decision making; patient care as an art form and scientific endeavor; impact of ecology and economy upon health care practice; the relationship between cultural and social systems and public health and access to health care; the connection between health care systems and good health; the role of the provider-client relationship, especially in the areas of communications skills and the human dimensions of patient care, the meanings of suffering, illness, and dying; and technology's role in improving care but creating a legacy of patient dehumanization.
A minor in Medical Humanities and Health Studies (MHHS) requires satisfactory completion of the following requirements:
- completion of properly distributed credit hour requirements for the baccalaureate degree in effect when the student was admitted to their home school,
- completion of 15 credit hours, with a minimum grade of C in each course,
- completion of 6 credits at IU Indianapolis,
- no more than two (2) courses in any one disciplinary area (except MHHS)
- only one (1) course can be double-counted for the MHHS minor and another minor or major, unless formally established exceptions have been granted,
- to declare the minor, complete the School of Liberal Arts online declaration form here.
Minor Requirements:
- MHHS-M 301: Perspectives on Health, Disease, and Healing
3 credits from the Humanities Perspectives on Health Care, chosen from the following:
- COMM-C 392: Health Communication
- COMM-C 410: Health Provider–Consumer Communication
- ENG-L 431: TOPICS: Illness Narrative
- HIST-H 364: History of Medicine and Public Health
- HIST-H 374: History of Science and Technology II
- HIST-H 418: History of Humanitarian Assistance (3
- MHHS-M 420: Culture of Mental Illness
- MHHS-M 492: Perspectives on Medicine in Film
- MHHS-M 492: Literature of Addiction
- PHIL-P 393: Biomedical Ethics
- REL-R 368: Religion and Healing
- REL-R 384: Religions, Ethics and Health
- SOC-R 327: Sociology of Death and Dying
3 credits from the Health Social Science course, chosen from the following:
- ANTH-A 460: Forensic Anthropology
- ANTH-A 468: Bioarcheology
- ANTH-B 370: Human Variation
- ANTH-B 480: Human Growth and Development
- ANTH-E 421: The Anthropology of Aging
- ANTH-E 445: Medical Anthropology
- ECON-E 307: Health Economics
- ECON-E 387: Health Economics
- GEOG-G 410: Medical Geography
- SOC-R 321: Women and Health
- SOC-R 381: Social Factors in Health and Illness
- SOC-R 382: Social Organization of Health Care
- SOC-R 385: AIDS and Society
- SOC-R 410: Alcohol, Drugs, and Society
- SOC-R 415: Sociology of Disability
- SOC-R 485: Sociology of Mental Illness
3 credits chosen from the above categories or from the following electives:
- MHHS-M 201: Introduction to Medical Humanities and Health Studies OR a course chosen from the above lists.
AND a second upper-level MHHS-M course (300/400 level) (3 credits)
- MHHS-M 325: Ancient Medicine Medical Terms
- MHHS-M 390: A Body of Law: Medicine, Humanities, & Law
- MHHS-M 420: Culture of Mental Illness
- MHHS-M 492: Topics in Medical Humanities and Health Studies
- MHHS-M 498: Readings in Medical Humanities and Health Studies (1-3 cr.)
- MHHS-M 420: Culture of Mental Illness
- MHHS-M 492: Perspectives on Medicine in Film
- MHHS-M 492: Literature of Addiction
All course are three credits unless otherwise noted.
