Medical Humanities Honors Track

 

Medical Humanities Honors track provides the Honors Scholars with a broad understanding of medicine from an interdisciplinary perspective combining humanities, social science, and the arts. The selection of courses in this track provide a better examination of issues surrounding health and illness - from personal to global issues. Scholars take courses from a variety of disciplines such as philosophy, ethics, history, comparative literature, psychology, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, literature, theater, film, and visual arts.

By defining a track, Honors Scholars can explore the field in a focused and planned way in honors-only courses as they are working toward their majors. The Honors track consists of nine Honors courses applicable to the four groups of Honors course requirements. Scholars completing an approved milestone experience (internship, co-op, research experience, or international study) may complete the track in eight courses. (No online courses and no Honors-mixed courses count towards the required coursework. Honors mixed courses count toward honors electives.)

Components of the Medical Humanities Honors Track: 

  • Coursework
    • One “200” level honors course designated as part of Medical Humanities (see below)
    • Two “300” level honors courses designated as part of Medical Humanities (see below)
    • One HSS Capstone designated as part of Medical Humanities (see below)
    • Four elective honors courses* OR three elective honors courses* plus one interdisciplinary course enhanced as honors approved by ADHC advisors**
    • One major capstone course
  • Optional approved milestone experience
  • Medical Humanities Colloquium (one per semester)
  • Appropriate community service

* Honors courses in health related disciplines such as Biology, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biomedical Engineering, or Chemistry
** A course connecting medical practice or related sciences to an historical, humanistic, or societal issue through enhancement
*** Internship, co-op, research experience, or international study such as a semester abroad

Medical Humanities Honors Track Coursework

BIOL 200H Concepts of Biology

BIOL 205H Foundations of Biology: Ecology and Evolution

STS 221H Sociology

STS 205H Introduction to Research Methods (typically offered in Spring)

STS 210H General Psychology

STS 201H Understanding Technological Society

BIOL 320H Discovering Biological Research

BIOL 338H Ecology of Dining Hall │ Stanko, Maria

BIOL 368H Ecology & Evolution Of Disease │ Gareth, Russell

BIOL 375H Conservation Biology

BIOL 498H Food for a Hot Planet │ Stanko, Maria

BME 498H Engineering Better Medicines │ Kumar, Vivek

HIST 338H Environmental Justice and Climate Change│Neil Maher

HIST 378H Medicine and Health Law in Modern America │ Pemberton, Stephen

HIST 380H History of Public Health │ Dent, Rosanna

HIST 381H Science & Technology in Modern Medicine │ Pemberton, Stephen

PHIL 351H Biomedical Ethics

STS 359H Cyberpsychology │ Tyrol, Katherine

HSS 403H Media, Trauma, Cure │ Rutkoff, Rebekah

HSS 403H Madness, Technology, and the City │ Ozludil, Burcak

HSS 404H Biotechnology and the Law│ Dent, Rosanna

HSS 404H Human Subjects: The History of Experimenting on Humans │ Dent, Rosanna

HSS 404H Epidemic, Health, and Justice │Pemberton, Stephen

HSS 408H Medicine and Globalization │ Edel, Gareth

HSS 408H Philosophy of Animal Minds │ See, Adam

Educational Outcomes:

  • Students will understand the social and cultural context of well-being/health and disease (Proficiency)
  • Students will be able to recognize critical questions in biomedical ethics (Proficiency)
  • Students will be able to use their area of academic expertise in an interdisciplinary manner so as to address a question of public health (Mastery)