Medical Humanities Minor
Program Requirements
- Total units required: 18
Required Courses
First-year courses include the following:
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| MedH 130 | The Art of Medicine | 3 |
| MedH 151 | First-Year Seminar: Stories of Medicine | 3 |
An additional 15 units of Medical Humanities courses are required to complete the minor: At least 12 of these units must be core courses, designated by the "CFH MH" attribute, whereas the remaining 3 credits may come from either the core or affiliate lists shown below. At least 9 units of core courses must be at the 300 level or above. Core courses include the gateway courses as well as the following:
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| MedH 214 | Medical French | 3 |
| MedH 248 | Religion, Health, and Wellness in Modern America | 3 |
| MedH 3001 | Philosophy of Medicine | 3 |
| MedH 301R | Historical Methods - European History (when offered as "The Black Death and the Plague in Europe") | 3 |
| MedH 3033 | Religion and Healing | 3 |
| MedH 3041 | Making Sex and Gender: Understanding the History of the Body | 3 |
| MedH 3044 | Humors, Pox, and Plague: Medieval and Early Modern Medicine | 3 |
| MedH 3067 | Current Topics in the History of Medicine | 3 |
| MedH 307 | Writing and Medicine | 3 |
| MedH 310 | From Hysteria to Hysterectomy: Women's Health Care in America | 3 |
| MedH 3141 | The Racial and Sexual Politics of Public Health | 3 |
| MedH 316 | Gender and Health | 3 |
| MedH 353 | Medical Spanish | 3 |
| MedH 360 | Trans Studies | 3 |
| MedH 366 | Art and the Mind-Brain | 3 |
| MedH 3672 | Medicine, Healing and Experimentation in the Contours of Black History | 3 |
| MedH 3801 | Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine | 3 |
| MedH 385 | What is Medical Humanities? | 3 |
| MedH 391W | Literature and Medicine | 3 |
| MedH 399 | Independent Work in Medical Humanities | -3 |
| MedH 233F | Biomedical Ethics | 3 |
| MedH 130 | The Art of Medicine | 3 |
| MedH 1640 | Health and Disease in World History | 3 |
| MedH 408 | Disease, Madness, and Death Italian Style | 3 |
| Anthro 4134 | The AIDS Epidemic: Inequalities, Ethnography, and Ethics | 3 |
| MedH 414 | Gender, Religion, Medicine, and Science | 3 |
| MedH 420 | Nature, Technology, and Medicine in Korea | 3 |
| MedH 4601 | Historical Racial Violence: Legacies & Reckonings | 3 |
| MedH 4647 | Ancient Madness | 3 |
| MedH 468 | Topics in French Literature: Disability Studies, Before "Disability" | 3 |
| MedH 4700 | Ancient Greek and Roman Gynecology (Ancient Greek and Roman Gynecology) | 3 |
| MedH 471 | Galen's "On Prognosis": A Social History of Medicine in Second-Century Rome | 3 |
| MedH 474 | Frankenstein: Origins and Afterlives | 3 |
| MedH 4881 | Advanced Seminar: Mad: Mental Illness, Power and Resistance in Africa and the Caribbean | 3 |
| MedH 4885 | Advanced Seminar: Medicine, Disease, and Empire | 3 |
| MedH 491 | Staging Illness | 3 |
| MedH 4990 | Advanced Seminar: History of the Body | 3 |
| MedH 495 | PNP Seminar (when offered as "Mental Health & Mental Illness: Philosophical Questions") | 3 |
Core courses are recommended to take at least two of seven different disciplinary categories: Classics & Art History; History; Languages/Literature/Culture; Medicine, Race and Ethnicity; Performing Arts & Music; Philosophy & Religious Studies; and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. (The interdisciplinary "What is Medical Humanities?" course [MedH 385] may count toward any of these disciplinary categories.) Core courses may require additional prerequisites within their home departments or programs.
Up to 3 units of affiliate courses from complementary disciplines in the natural sciences and social sciences discipline (designated by the "CFH MHA" attribute) may be applied to the minor. These courses include but are not limited to the following:
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Anthro 3201 | Gender, Culture, and Madness | 3 |
| Anthro 3283 | Introduction to Global Health | 3 |
| Anthro 3310 | Health, Healing and Ethics: Introduction to Medical Anthropology | 3 |
| Anthro 3620 | Anthropological Perspectives on the Fetus | 3 |
| Anthro 3625 | The Female Life-Cycle in Cross-Cultural Perspective | 3 |
| Anthro 3626 | Adventures in Nosology: The Nature and Meaning of Disease | 3 |
| Anthro 4033 | Culture, Illness, and Healing in Asia | 3 |
| LatAm 325 | Cultures of Health in Latin America | 3 |
| Psych 399 | Living, Dying, and Death: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Understanding the End of Life | 3 |
| SOC 2510 | Sociological Approaches to American Health Care | 3 |
| SOC 2520 | Inequality By Design: Understanding Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities | 3 |
| SOC 4511 | Sick Society: Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities in the United States | 3 |
Any additional affiliate courses must be approved by the minor director.
Additional Information
While our core courses and affiliate courses are generally listed under the L85 MedH designation, the most up-to-date list of recent medical humanities courses and medical humanities affiliate courses can be found by searching Washington University Course Listings for the "CFH MH" and "CFH MHA" attributes or by consulting the course requirements online.
Contact Info
| Website: | https://history.wustl.edu/medical-humanities-minor-requirements |