Medical Humanities, Minor
The Medical Humanities Undergraduate Minor program at Saint Louis University is dedicated to the study of the humanities as foundational disciplines for quality health care education and professional development.
Leadership
Anne M. Stiles, Ph.D.
Director
Curriculum Overview
The course of study is intended to prepare students for careers in the health sciences by giving them an expanded awareness of how disease and care have been imaged and experienced by people in diverse personal circumstances, cultures, and eras, and how people's values often conflict in the health care setting. Such awareness can serve as a foundation for competent, ethical care that acknowledges and respects differing interpretations and meanings of illness experience and suffering. Such awareness also serves as the ground for addressing responsibly the conflicts of value that arise in endeavors of treatment.
Code | Title | Credits |
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Introductory Course | ||
ENGL 3730 | Introduction to Medical Humanities, Literature | 3 |
English Requirement | 3 | |
ENGL 3740 | Medicine and Literature | |
(or any other ENGL course bearing the Medical Humanities attribute) | ||
Philosophy, Theology, and History Requirements | 6 | |
HIST 3350 | Plagues and Peoples: Disease and Society in the Pre-modern World | |
HIST 4900 | Seminar in European History | |
HIST 4910 | Internship/History in Practice | |
Required Elective Course | 3 | |
CMM 3090 | Health Communication | |
ENGL 3490 | 19th Century British Literature | |
ENGL 4530 | Medicine, Mind, and Victorian Fiction | |
HCE 3010 | Ethics in Clinical Medicine | |
HCE 3200 | Freaks and the Medical Body | |
HCE 3210 | Superheroes & Social Justice | |
HCE 4110 | Health Ethics, Race + Identity | |
HCE 4200 | Warriors and Medics | |
HCE 4230 | Controversies in Research Ethics | |
HCE 4240 | Ethics and Geriatric Care | |
HCE 4250 | Law and Bioethics | |
HIST 3350 | Plagues and Peoples: Disease and Society in the Pre-modern World | |
HIST 4900 | Seminar in European History | |
HIST 4901 | Sem: American History | |
MUSC 2300 | Intro to Music Therapy | |
THEO 3560 | A Post Human Future? The Ethics of Technology | |
Total Credits | 15 |
Internship
Internship in a Clinical Setting (ENGL 4910 Internship (1-6 cr)). In place of one elective, students may opt to complete a 3-credit internship in a clinical setting. This internship should involve at least 30 credits of shadowing or other work in a health-care environment. It must be supervised by the Director of Medical Humanities and by a designee in a health care setting. Internships at Saint Louis University Hospitals cannot be counted towards this requirement, but internships in other hospital, classroom, or clinic settings are eligible.
Capstone Requirement
In the final year of the minor, each student will be required to complete a substantial (18-20 page) research paper on a topic chosen in consultation with the Director. Often, this paper expands on written work completed in the student’s coursework for the minor. Each spring, students completing the minor will present their capstone papers at a public forum on campus.
Continuation Standards
All Medical Humanities minor courses must be completed with a grade of C or higher in order to count for the minor and for the student to continue in the minor.