About This Program
The Bioethics and Health Humanities minor engages students with interests and talents in humanities fields who are also interested in various careers in health care. The minor gives students opportunities to explore bioethical questions, including understanding the challenges of various communities in accessing health, as well as health humanities, focusing on expressions of health care concerns in humanities fields.
Students in humanities, social science, health care and science majors emerge from the minor prepared to engage health care and its variations and ethical challenges with invaluable perspective and insights.
Contact Information
Program Delivery
Admission Requirements
Admission to a minor is open to students declared in a bachelor’s degree, the A.A.B. or A.A.S. degree or the A.T.S. degree (not Individualized Program major). Students declared only in the A.A. or A.S. degree or the A.T.S. degree in Individualized Program may not declare a minor. Students may not pursue a minor and a major in the same discipline.
Program Learning Outcomes
Graduates of this program will be able to:
- Describe historical, literary and philosophical domains of bioethics and/or medical humanities scholarship.
- Analyze and evaluate complex texts relating to the ethical, social and cultural aspects of medicine through close reading and critical interpretation of argument, history and narrative.
- Explain how justice and injustice, inclusion and exclusion, shape both cultural values and health trajectory of diverse groups.
- Research and communicate their own arguments about bioethics and health care humanities.
