Health Humanities Minor

The Health Humanities (HEHM) Minor critically analyzes historical and contemporary connections among health, medicine, and society. The minor deepens cultural and political contexts of theories and practices to understand disease and wellness, pain and suffering, personhood, the nature of death and dying, embodied experience, and the limits of technological knowledge in health fields.

Students utilize humanistic perspectives to analyze approaches and practices related to health and medicine by studying literature, history, philosophy, rhetoric, the arts, and related social science fields. This assists in exploring the human dimensions of medical practice and how they interact with lived experience, revealing the ethical, cultural, and social contexts of health and medicine.The Health Humanities offer insight into the human condition as it pertains to the arts and sciences of healing.

1. Students must complete a minimum of 15 credit hours taken from the approved courses.
2. Students must complete a minimum of six upper-division (3000-level and above) credit hours in the minor taken from the approved courses.
3. Students must earn a minimum grade of C- (1.7) in all courses that apply to the minor and must achieve a minimum cumulative minor GPA of 2.0. Courses taken using P+/P/F or S/U grading cannot apply to minor requirements.
4. Students must complete a minimum of nine credit hours with CU Denver faculty taken from the approved courses.

1. Students may only count one relevant transfer course toward their elective requirements for the minor.
2. Students may double count no more than two courses from their major toward the minor elective requirements.
3. Students may take any of the courses from the capstone list as upper division electives. 
4. Upper division level electives may carry prerequisites that must be completed before enrolling.

1. HEHM 3100 Foundations of Health Humanities
2. Take three of the following upper division electives

   
   ANTH 3150 Special Topics in Medical Anthropology

   ANTH 3202 Anthropology of Health Care Policy

   ANTH 3666 Anthropology of Death

   ANTH 4010 Medical Anthropology: Global Health

   ANTH 4290 Anthropology and Public Health

   ANTH 4300 Immigrant Health

   ANTH 4600 Medical Anthropology
   ANTH 4800 Special Topics in Medical Anthropology

   COMM 4500 Health Communication

   COMM 4525 Health Communication and Community
   COMM 4550 Rhetorics of Medicine & Health
   COMM 4558 Digital Health Narratives

   COMM 4575 Designing Health Messages
   COMM 4620 Health Risk Communication

   ENGL 4290 Rhetoric and the Body
   ENGL 4745 Humanistic Writing About Medicine and Biology
   ENGL 4755 Illness & Disability Narrative
   ETST/PBHL 3002 Ethnicity, Health and Social Justice

   GEOG 3501 Geography of Health
   GEOG 4235 GIS Applications in the Health Sciences
   GEOG 4710 Disasters, Climate Change, and Health

   HIST 4347 History of Biology
HIST 4348 Mind and Malady: A History of Mental Illness
   HIST 4503 Topics in History of Science
   HIST 4840 Independent Study: (see Professor Levine-Clark for specific topics)
   PBHL 3030 Health Policy
   PBHL 3031 Health, Human Biology and Behavior

   PBHL 3041 Health, Culture and Society

   PBHL 3051 Mental Illness and Society

   PBHL 3070 Perspectives in Global Health
   PBHL 3071 Global Topics In Sexual and Reproductive Health
   PBHL 3091 Live Long and Prosper: Public Health & Aging
   PBHL 4020 Global Health: Comparative Public Health Systems
   PBHL 4040 Social Determinants of Health

   PBHL 4070 Health Disparities
   PBHL 4200 The Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic
   PHIL 3340 Investigating Nature: Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
   PHIL 3550 Philosophy of Death and Dying
   PHIL 4242 Medicine, Health Care, and Justice: Bioethics
   PSCI 4330 U.S. Health Policy

   PSYC 3262 Health Psychology

   PSYC 3385 Psychology of Mindfulness

   PSYC 3611 Psychology of Women
   PSYC 4485 Psychology of Cultural Diversity

   SOCY/PBHL 3440 Medical Sociology
   SOCY/HEHM 3570 Death & Dying: Social & Medical Perspectives
   SOCY 4050 Health Disparities

   SOCY 4110 Sociology of Health Care
   SOCY 4290 Aging, Society and Social Policy
   * The Upper Division (3000-level and above) elective list is not exhaustive and continues to be updated. One elective course can be a service learning course or independent study approved by an HEHM advisor. Students may take any of the courses from the capstone list as upper division electives. 
3. Take one of the following Capstone courses, not already completed**:

   COMM 4500 Health Communication

   COMM 4525 Health Communication and Community
   COMM 4550 Rhetorics of Medicine & Health
   COMM 4558 Digital Health Narratives
   COMM 4575 Designing Health Messages

   ENGL 4290 Rhetoric and the Body
   ENGL 4755 Illness & Disability Narrative

   HIST/WGST 4345 Gender, Science, and Medicine: 1600 to the Present
   HIST 4348 Mind and Malady: A History of Mental Illness
   PBHL 4200 The Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic
   PHIL 4242 Medicine, Health Care, and Justice: Bioethics
   **These courses incorporate substantial original writing or research projects designed to promote broad reflection about the role of culture, society, and ethics in medicine. Students should choose these courses at the culmination of their minor course work.