The Health Humanities and Equity Minor provides students with an interdisciplinary set of skills and approaches such as narrative medicine, empathetic imagination, cross-cultural medicine, historical concepts of health and care, ethical deliberation, and collaborative problem solving. In addition, the minor includes unique opportunities for civic engagement and experiential learning in a range of contexts, including public health, developmental learning, environmental justice, healthcare ethics, and other projects related to community well-being.
Degrees Offered:
- Minor: Health Humanities and Equity
Course Listings:
- Click here to read complete descriptions of the Health Humanities courses offered at 性视界. (begins on page 97)
Note: Because of the interdisciplinary and flexible nature of the Health Humanities, substitutions to the required courses below may be approved by the director of Health Humanities, Dr. Cynthia Richards (crichards@wittenberg.edu).
Degree Requirements:
Minor in Health Humanities and Equity (22 Credits)
Required Core Courses鈥�8 Credits:
Health and Narrative Medicine鈥�4 Credits
Students must take four credits in a course that focuses on narrative structure through methodologies of close reading, reflective writing, and creative applications. Content for this course will also focus on Illness, health, health care, and the body. Courses include:
- ENG 335TF: Narrative Medicine鈥�4 credits
Health and Equity鈥�4 credits
Students must take four credits in a course that focuses on ethics and/or the cultural study of illness, health, health care, and the body. This course will also address issues of social justice and the body. Courses include:
- RELI 213 Religion and Medicine
- PHIL 378 Bioethics
Health Humanities Interdisciplinary Requirements鈥�12 credits
Students must take three additional courses, one in Natural Science, one in Social Science, and one in Humanities.
- Natural Science: Students must take four credits in natural science, with a focus on illness, health, health care, and the body. Students can select from the already-approved list found on the course catalog, or other director approved courses in the Natural Sciences.
- Social Sciences: Students must take four credits in social science, with a focus on illness, health, health care, and the body (50%). Students can select from the already-approved list found on the course catalog, or other director approved courses in Social Science.
- Humanities and the Arts: Students must take an additional four credits in the humanities or other director approved courses in humanities.
Note: Because the required courses are broad across various disciplines, the Health Humanities and Equity minor combines easily with other majors such as: Biology, Chemistry, Psychology, Sociology, Health Sciences, Exercise Science, Public Health, and Neuroscience. It is highly encouraged that students pursing one of these majors consider adding a Health Humanities and Equity minor to their course schedule. Because the majors listed above already incorporate large amounts of social and natural science courses into their curriculum, students will often discover that they only need to complete their Humanities and the Arts requirement along with the capstone to secure the minor.