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Home » Arts and Sciences » Academics » Degrees » Undergraduate » Medical Humanities (Minor)

Medical Humanities, Minor

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  • Requirements

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.

Course List
Code Title Credits
Introductory Course
ENGL 3730Introduction to Medical Humanities, Literature3
English Requirement3
ENGL 3740
Medicine and Literature
(or any other ENGL course bearing the Medical Humanities attribute)
Philosophy, Theology, and History Requirements6
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 Course3
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 Credits15

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.

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