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.)
* 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
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