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Minor Requirements

The minor in Medical Humanities and Culture consists of 18 credit hours or 6 classes.

• Two-four courses (6-12 credit hours) must be chosen from offerings in the humanities (Group A); if two humanties courses (6 hours) are chosen, then 12 hours must be chosen from the social sciences, so that the student takes the requisite 18 hours total. 
• Two-four courses (6-12 credit hours) must be chosen from offerings in the social sciences (Group B); if two social sciences courses (6 hours) are chosen, then four courses (12 hours) must be chosen in the humanities, so that the student takes the requisite 18 hours total.

Group A: Humanities (2-4 courses: 6-12 hours)

• ARTH 333 - Art, Anatomy, and Medicine, 1700-Present     
• CLAS 230 - Medical and Scientific Terminology  
• CLAS 360 - Classical Origins of Western Medical Ethics  
• ENGL 341 - Literature and Medicine  Prerequisites: ENGL 101  and ENGL 102   or equivalent 
• HIST 393 - Making Modern Science: The Life Sciences   
• HIST 451 - The History of American Medicine        
• HIST 452 - The History of Science in America        
• JOUR 562 - Communicating Science, Health and the Environment  
• PHIL 312 - Classical Origins of Western Medical Ethics  
• PHIL 321 - Medical Ethics         
• PHIL 323 - Ethics of Science and Technology          
• PHIL 360 - History and Philosophy of Science        
• PHIL 362 - Philosophy of Research Design in Science and Medicine        
• PHIL 512 - Philosophy of Science  Prerequisites: 3 hours in philosophy beyond the 100-level or consent of instructor
• PHIL 550 - Health Care Ethics  Prerequisites: 3 hours in philosophy beyond the 100-level or consent of instructor
• PHIL 598 - Readings in Philosophy  Prerequisites: 3 hours in philosophy beyond the 100-level or consent of instructor
• RELG 473 - Religions, Medicines, and Healing        
• SPAN 360 - Spanish for Healthcare Professionals  Prerequisites: SPAN 309, or equivalent course at the college level, or consent of the instructor
• THEA 554 - Performing Arts Safety      

Group B: Social Sciences (2-4 courses: 6-12 hours)

• ANTH 204 - Plagues Past and Present        
• ANTH 208 - Anthropology of Globalization and Development     
• ANTH 212 - Food and Culture      
• ANTH 221 - Forensics of Sherlock Holmes     
• ANTH 262 - Basic Forensic Anthropology      
• ANTH 263 - Medical Experimentation and the Black Body       
• ANTH 366 - Medicine, Disease, and Slavery       
• ANTH 388 - Cultures, Pregnancy, and Birth  
• ANTH 551 - Medical Anthropology: Fieldwork  
• ANTH 552 - Medical Anthropology  
• ANTH 557 - Psychological Anthropology       
• ANTH 565 - Health and Disease in the Past     
• ECON 531 - Health Economics   Prerequisites: ECON 221   and ECON 222  , or ECON 224  
• ENHS 323 - Global Environmental Health  
• ENHS 324 - Environment and Obesity        
• ENHS 660 - Concepts of Environmental Health Science     
• ENVR 323 - Global Environmental Health  
• HPEB 511 - Health Problems in a Changing Society      
• HPEB 512 - Southern Discomfort: Public Health in the American South       
• HPEB 513 - Race, Ethnicity, and Health: Examining Health Inequalities       
• HPEB 547 - Consumer Health in Contemporary Society        
• HPEB 551 - Medical Anthropology: Field Work  
• HPEB 552 - Medical Anthropology  
• HPEB 560 - Cooking Up a Storm: Food, Globalization, Localization, and Health in the South         
• HPEB 621 - Maternal and Child Health  
• HSPM 412 - Health Economics       
• MGMT 371 - Principles of Management       
• MGMT 374 - Strategic Human Resource Management  Prerequisites: MGMT 371    
• PSYC 465 - Health Psychology  Prerequisites: PSYC 101  
• PSYC 503 - Psychology of Drug Use and Effects  Prerequisites: PSYC 450   or PSYC 455   or PSYC 460   or consent of instructor
• SLIS 415 - Social Informatics    
• SOCY 310 - Social Demography       
• SOCY 315 - Global Population Issues      
• SOCY 360 - Sociology of Medicine and Health        
• SOCY 510 - Life Course Demographics  Prerequisites: SOCY 310   or consent of instructor
• WGST 113 - Women’s Health   
• WGST 388 - Cultures, Pregnancy, and Birth  
• WGST 621 - Maternal and Child Health   

Note: Departmental or Honors College special topics courses related to medicine may satisfy the minor requirements in either the humanities (Group A) or social sciences (Group B), provided that the course substitutions are pre-approved by the office of the Dean of Undergraduate Student Affairs and Advising in Flinn Hall in consultation with faculty content experts; bring a syllabus to Flinn Hall for the course you want pre-approved. Appeals to register in pre-approved honors college courses should be directed to the Honors College.