Bioethics, Humanities & Medicine Interdisciplinary Minor
The minor requires 18 hours. No more than 3 credits counting towards a major and no more than 6 credits counting towards another minor can also count towards the Bioethics, Humanities and Medicine minor.
Elective Courses
Students must take 6 credit hours of courses from Group A and 6 credit hours of courses from Group B. Courses in Group A must be taken in two different departments. Courses in Group B must be taken in two different departments. For course descriptions, please see the Bulletin of the Undergraduate Schools.
Group A
- ANT 360 Anthropology of Global Health (3h)
- ANT 362 Medical Anthropology (3h)
- BHM 385 Special Topics in Bioethics, Humanities and Medicine (with approval of steering committee) (3h)
- BIO 386 Genetics and African Diaspora (3h)
- COM 345 Rhetoric of Science and Technology (3h)
- COM 355 Survey of Health Communication (3h)
- COM 356 Health Communication: Patient-Provider (3h)
- COM 357 Health Communication Campaign (3h)
- COM 358 Health Communication and Bioethics (3h)
- COM 361 Family Communication and Health Across the Lifespan
- COM 364 Narrative, Communication, and Health (3 h)
- COM 370 Special Topics:
Family Communication & Health Across the Lifespan (3h)
Classroom to Community: Enhancing Patient Care with Take the Fight to Cancer (3h) - CNS 334 Ethics in Health and Human Services (3h)
- CNS 335 Health and Human Services in Diverse Society (3h)
- ECN 240 Economics of Health and Medicine (3h)
- HES 360 Epidemiology (3h)
- HPA 150 Introduction to Public Health (3h)
- SOC 329 Health Inequalities (3h)
- SOC 331 The Social and Legal Contexts of Medicine (3h)
- SOC 335 Sociology of Health and Illness (3h)
- SOC 336 Money, Markets, Medicine (3h)
- SOC 368 Death and Dying (1.5h)
- SOC 383 Special Topics Seminar in Medicine and Health Care (3h)
- SOC 383/A Sem: Opioids in American Society (3h)
- WGS 330 Gender and the Politics of Health (3h)
Group B
Other courses, including Special Topics courses in a number of departments, may be suitable as electives in the minor. These courses can be counted toward the minor with the approval of the interdisciplinary minor in Bioethics, Humanities and Medicine committee.