The undergraduate certificate in Medical Humanities offers perspectives on medicine and health drawn from art, philosophy, history, religion, literature, and other fields in the humanities and social sciences. It is a valuable credential for students pursuing a career in healthcare (e.g., nurses, doctors, psychologists, physical therapists, etc.). It would signal to employers and health professional schools that you have a broad understanding of medicine including its social, ethical, cultural, and historical dimensions. For students in education or a humanities field, it provides you an area of expertise and knowledge that you could utilize in your career or graduate studies.

The certificate is open to everyone. Courses that you are taking for your major may also count towards the certificate’s requirements. See below what additional courses you need to take in order to earn the certificate.

Core courses (6 hours):

• SMHU 4000 Honors Seminar in Medical Humanities
• One of SBIO 3870 Seminar in Biomedicine (03) Biomedical Ethics, SLSC 4820 Sociobiology and the Evolution of Sex, SPHI 3100 Professional Ethics, SBIO 3880 Darwin and Evolutionary Theory, SPHI 3860 Philosophy of Knowledge, or SSOT 4230 Sociology of Mental Disorders

Medical Science courses (6 hours):

• 6 credit hours of courses at the 2000-level or above with the following prefixes: AS, ALHE, BIOL, BMET, HED, NURA, NURB, PSYC, RADS, and SBIO.

Support courses (6 hours; at least 3 hours must be at the 3000-level or above):

• ALHE 2200 Cultural and Ethical Influences on Health Care
• ALHE 2210 Introduction to Imaging Sciences
• ANTH 3050 Biological Anthropology
• AS 4040 Special Populations
• AS 4510 Ethics for Addiction Professionals
• BIOL 2990 Environmental Law BIOL 3280 Evolution
• BIOL 4340 Bioethics
• CFS 3500 Cultural and Societal Issues Affecting Families
• COMM 2500 Interpersonal Communication
• CJ 4500 Drug Use in Modern Society
• ENGL 2700 Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies
• ENGL 3910 Multicultural Literature
• ENGL 4160 Language and Gender
• ENGL 4700 Literature and Culture (02) The Literature of Health and Healing
• ENGL 4720 Language, Social Interaction, and Social Identity
• ENGL 4970 Film, Gender, and Sexuality
• GEOG 2020 Cultural Geography
• HED 4500 Sexuality Education
• HED 4600 Drug and Alcohol Education
• HIST 4070 Slavery in the Americas
• HUM 4010 Health and Humanity
• HUM 4020 Human Values and Health Care
• NURA 2550 Humanistic Nursing
• NURB 3030 Nursing as a Profession
• NURB 3122 Dimensions of Professional Nursing
• NURB 4950 Special Topics in Nursing
• PHIL 1010 Introduction to Philosophy
• PHIL 1020 World Religions
• PHIL 2020 Ethics
• PSYC 3050 Diversity Issues in Psychology
• PSYC 4440 History of Psychology
• PSYC 4450 Abnormal Psychology
• PSYC 4900 Psychology and Film
• SBIO 3870 Seminar in Biomedicine (03) Biomedical Ethics
• SBIO 3880 Darwin and Evolutionary Theory
• SHPS 2000 Seminar in the History and Philosophy of Science
• SLSC 2000 Interdisciplinary Seminar (04) Music and Disability Studies
• SLSC 4820 Sociobiology and the Evolution of Sex
• SLTN 2880 Greek and Latin Elements in English
• SPHI 2820 Ethics
• SPHI 2850 The Religious Philosophies of India and China
• SPHI 3100 Professional Ethics
• SPHI 3820 Existentialism
• SPHI 3860 Philosophy of Knowledge
• SSOT 3830 Understanding Violence
• SSOT 4230 Sociology of Mental Disorder
• SOWK 3080 Loss, Grief, and Dying
• SOWK 3090 Human Diversity
• SOC 3239 Sociology of Deviance