Medical Humanities Minor
Program Requirements
Total Units Required: 18
- Of the 18 required units, 15 units (i.e., five courses) must be core courses.
- The remaining 3 units (i.e., one course) can be either a core course or an affiliate course.
- Of the 18 required units, 9 units (i.e., three courses) must be at the 3000 level or above. For example, “What is Medical Humanities?” is a 3000-level core course.
Core Courses
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| AFAS 4656 | Historical Racial Violence: Legacies & Reckonings | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4134 | The AIDS Epidemic: Inequalities, Ethnography, and Ethics | 3 |
| BEYOND 1009 | The Art of Medicine | 3 |
| BIOL 2444 | The Language of Cancer | 3 |
| CLASSICS 3800 | Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine | 3 |
| CLASSICS 4640 | Ancient Madness | 3 |
| CLASSICS 4701 | Ancient Greek and Roman Gynecology | 3 |
| COMPLITTHT 420A | Bodies in Pain: Disability and Illness in the Nineteenth Century | 3 |
| DRAMA 4530 | Presence in Performance: Alexander Technique and Mindful Movement for Performing Artists | 3 |
| DRAMA 4911 | Staging Illness | 3 |
| EALC 4200 | Nature, Technology, and Medicine in Korea | 3 |
| EALC 4320 | Topics in Medical Humanities in East Asia: Illness, Healing and the Body in East Asia | 3 |
| ELIT 3504 | Literature and Medicine | 3 |
| FRENCH 2140 | Medical French* | 3 |
| FRENCH 311C | Advanced Medical French* | 3 |
| FRENCH 361 | Thinking-It-Through: Transplants* | 3 |
| FRENCH 3720 | The Art of Health in Nice (summer course)* | 3 |
| FRENCH 375 | Medical Narratives, Narrative Medicine* | 3 |
| FRENCH 3795 | In Depth: Care Work* | 3 |
| FRENCH 4680 | Topics in French Literature: Disability Studies, Before "Disability"* | 3 |
| GREEK 4710 | Galen's "On Prognosis": A Social History of Medicine in Second-Century Rome | 3 |
| HISTORY 1151 | Health and Disease in World History | 3 |
| HISTORY 3017 | Humors, Pox, and Plague: Medieval and Early Modern Medicine | 3 |
| HISTORY 3027 | Topics in the History of Medicine: History of Madness | 3 |
| HISTORY 3234 | Women and Crime in the Evolution of American History | 3 |
| HISTORY 3314 | Historical Methods-European History (when offered as "The Black Death and the Plague in Europe") | 3 |
| HISTORY 3672 | Medicine, Healing and Experimentation in the Contours of Black History | 3 |
| HISTORY 4057 | Advanced Seminar: Medicine, Disease, and Empire | 3 |
| HISTORY 4889 | Advanced Seminar: History of the Body | 3 |
| ITAL 2800 | Sex In Italian Culture and Media | 3 |
| ITAL 4080 | Disease, Madness, and Death Italian Style | 3 |
| ITAL 4100 | Mamma Mia!: Motherhood, Maternity, and the Female Reproductive Body in the Italian Cultural Context | 3 |
| MEDH 3000 | What is Medical Humanities? | 3 |
| MEDH 3999 | Independent Work in Medical Humanities | 3 |
| PHIL 2060 | Biomedical Ethics | 3 |
| PHIL 3000 | Philosophy of Medicine | 3 |
| PHIL 3140 | Philosophy of Biology | 3 |
| PHIL 3320 | Art and the Mind-Brain | 3 |
| PHIL 4180 | Topics in Advanced Philosophy of Science (when offered as "Philosophy of Medicine") | 3 |
| PNP 4500 | PNP Seminar: Mental Health & Mental Illness: Philosophical Questions | 3 |
| RELPOL 2350 | Religion, Health, and Wellness in Modern America | 3 |
| REST 3033 | Religion and Healing | 3 |
| SPAN 3530 | Medical Spanish | 3 |
| WGSS 3055 | Making Sex and Gender: Understanding the History of the Body | 3 |
| WGSS 3081 | From Hysteria to Hysterectomy: Women's Health Care in America | 3 |
| WGSS 3135 | The Racial and Sexual Politics of Public Health | 3 |
| WGSS 3155 | Feminist Health Studies | 3 |
| WGSS 3500 | Trans Studies | 3 |
| WGSS 4017 | Healing and Social Justice | 3 |
| WGSS 4115 | Gender, Religion, Medicine, and Science | 3 |
| WRITING 3004 | Writing and Medicine | 3 |
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This course has French-language prerequisites.
Core courses fall into seven disciplinary categories: (1) Classics & Art History; (2) History; (3) Languages, Literatures, Culture; (4) Medicine, Race, and Ethnicity; (5) Performing Arts and Music; (6) Philosophy & Religious Studies; (7) Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Students must select courses within at least two of the seven disciplinary categories.
Affiliate Courses
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| AMCS 3755 | Disability, Quality of Life & Community Responsibility | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3201 | Gender, Culture, and Madness | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3283 | Introduction to Global Health | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3310 | Health, Healing and Ethics: Introduction to Medical Anthropology | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3620 | Anthropological Perspectives on the Fetus | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3625 | The Female Life-Cycle in Cross-Cultural Perspective | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3626 | Adventures in Nosology: The Nature and Meaning of Disease | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4033 | Culture, Illness, and Healing in Asia | 3 |
| GLOBAL 3006 | Global Health and Language | 3 |
| LATAM 3160 | Cultures of Health in Latin America | 3 |
| PSYCH 3460 | Living, Dying, and Death: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Understanding the End of Life | 3 |
| SOC 2050 | Inequality By Design: Understanding Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities | 3 |
| SOC 4111 | Sick Society: Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities in the United States | 3 |
On a case-by-case basis, and at the student’s request, the Director of the Medical Humanities Minor may allow a course not on this list to serve as an affiliate course.
Additional Information
The most up to date list of Medical Humanities courses can be found by searching "Medical Humanities" in Workday or by consulting the course requirements online.
Contact Info
| Website: | https://history.wustl.edu/medical-humanities-minor-requirements |