Medical Humanities

The program learning outcomes for this major are:

• Integrating approaches to medical issues with perspectives from the humanities, including literature, history, ethics, the arts, and religion.
• Analyzing the differences between social and cultural contexts and how they affect medical practice.
• Connecting concepts and understandings of disease, death, treatments, and wellness to different historical eras and to various locations around the globe.
• Synthesis of knowledge from various disciplines in the medical humanities and communication of reasoned arguments regarding the role of humanities in medical care.
• Research in the medical humanities with an appropriately designed study within the students’ area of interest.
• Creation of a personal philosophy of ethics based on appropriate models.
• Demonstrated proficiency in writing with the language and terminology of both the medical field and humanities.