Minor Requirements: 15 Credits

Students declaring a minor in HEHM must have at least a 2.5 overall GPA. No grade lower than a C will count towards the minor. At least 12 credits for the minor must be taken with CU Denver faculty. Students may count ONE relevant transfer course toward their elective requirements for the minor.

Required Course: HEHM 3100: Introduction to Health Humanities - 3 Credits

This is a multidisciplinary course, introducing students to the ways various disciplines approach health and medicine. As part of their introduction, students will be required to attend three events at the Anschutz Medical Campus – such as lectures in the “Arts and Humanities” series, Mini Med School, or special programming. We recommend that students take HEHM 3100 before or concurrently with other courses for the minor.

Electives: 3 upper division courses from at least 2 different disciplines - 9 Credits

Electives include the courses below (the list is not exhaustive). One elective course can be a service learning course or independent study approved by an HEHM advisor.

*Capstone - 3 Credits

Certain courses below, designated with asterisks, are appropriate for a capstone course. They 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 asterisk courses at the culmination of their minor course work. If asterisk courses are not available, students may arrange an independent study with the approval of the Health Humanities advisor.

Elective and Capstone(*) courses (not exhaustive)

A few of the courses on this list have departmental prerequisites, so make sure you meet the requirements of the department before enrolling.

• 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 – Migrant Health
• 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 and Disability Narrative*
• ETST 3002 - Ethnicity, Health and Social Justice
• GEOG 3501 - Geography of Health
• GEOG 4235 - GIS Applications in the Health Science
• 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 Topics* (see Prof. Levine-Clark)
  • Medicine and Society: The Ancients to the Present
  • Gender, Science, and Medicine, 1600 to the Present
  • Gender, Race, and Sexuality in the History of Medicine
• 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 and Aging
• PBHL 4020 – Global Health
• 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 – Death and Dying
• PHIL 4242 – 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 3440 - Medical Sociology
• SOCY 3570 – Death and Dying: Social and Medical Perspectives
• SOCY 4050 – Health Disparities
• SOCY 4110 – Sociology of Health Care
• SOCY 4290 – Aging, Society, and Social Policy