Health Humanities
The minor in Health Humanities offers an interdisciplinary study of how people understand and experience health, illness, and medicine across cultures, places, and times, through the perspectives of the arts, humanities, and social sciences. It is the undergraduate counterpart to Medical Humanities curricula offered at various colleges of medicine. The minor requires 15 credits, at least 12 of which must be in the College of Arts and Letters. The minor is open to all undergraduate students at FAU.
Development of the minor in Health Humanities is funded in part by a National Endowment for the Humanities "Humanities Connections" grant.
Who should minor in Health Humanities?
We all should! Health, illness, and efforts to maintain health and eliminate illness through various medical interventions are universal aspects of being human. We are all patients at some point, and many of us will act as caregivers, as well. We can all benefit from studying various cultural, historical, ethical, religious, and political perspectives toward health, illness, medicine, and health care.
Students who are pre-med may find the minor especially appealing, as the Health Humanities coursework will help develop several of the American Association of Medical College's professional competencies expected of medical students, including cultural awareness and humility, human behavior, empathy and compassion, ethical responsibility to self and others, interpersonal skills, oral and written communication, and critical thinking.
Did you know that students with undergraduate majors in the humanities had higher average test scores than students in various STEM majors on the MCAT (based on data collected between 1991-2009)?
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