Medical Humanities, B.A.

First Year Seminar

• FYS 100 First-Year Seminar 3 credit hours
• FYS 102 Common Hour 0 credit hours

Foundations Requirements

• Communication course:

• FCO 105 Rhetorical Communication 3 credit hours

• Advanced Communication course:

• FCO 225 Interdisciplinary Communication 3 credit hours

• Quantitative Fluency course:

• PHL 231 Logic 3 credit hours

• Choose 3 credits of the following American Citizenship courses:

• PHL 245 American Philosophical Thought 3 credit hours
• REL 269 American Religious Thought and Culture 3 credit hours

• Global Citizenship Course:

  Satisfied by major (6 credits of a language)

Disciplinary Perspectives Requirements

• Humanities course:

• PHL 221 Introduction to Philosophy 3 credit hours

• Choose 3 credits of the following Arts courses:

• ART 101 Art and Visual Culture 3 credit hours
• CRW 272 Introduction to Creative Writing 3 credit hours
• MUS 186 Listening to Music 3 credit hours
• THE 154 Introduction to Theatre 3 credit hours

• Social and Behavioral Sciences course:

• PSY 100 General Psychology 3 credit hours

• Natural and Physical Sciences course:

  Satisfied by major (Any of the required science based courses)

Constellation Requirement

The Constellation requirement is met when a student completes four courses from a minimum of three disciplines within the Constellation requirements.  Transfer students that are awarded 60 or more credits upon acceptance to York College will not be required to complete a Constellation except for Education majors.

Choose 3 or 4 credits of the following two courses:

Those intending to attend medical school are encouraged to take MAT 171.

Students who take MAT 120 will have to take an additional elective to meet the 120 credit hour minimum for the degree.

• MAT 120 Applied Calculus 3 credit hours
• MAT 171 Calculus I 4 credit hours

Choose 3 credits of the following three courses:

• PSY 221 Child and Adolescent Development 3 credit hours
• SOC 100 Introduction to Sociology 3 credit hours
• SOC 302 Sociology of Health and Illness 3 credit hours

Medical Humanities Electives

Students must complete a total of 9 elective credits from the following courses.

• BIO 201 Medical Terminology 3 credit hours
• BIO 220/221 Human Anatomy and Physiology I 4 credit hours
• BIO 222/223 Human Anatomy and Physiology II 4 credit hours
• BIO 240 Genetics 4 credit hours
• BIO 352 Biochemistry II 4 credit hours
• HIS 364 Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877 3 credit hours
• HIS 371 American Constitutionalism (I): Structures of Government 3 credit hours
• HIS 372 American Constitutionalism (II): Civil Rights and Liberties 3 credit hours
• HIS 402 The Black Death 3 credit hours
• HUM 242 Science and Religion 3 credit hours
• HUM 300 Science Fiction 3 credit hours
• LIT 344 Love and Sex in Literature 3 credit hours
• LIT 346 Literature and Society 3 credit hours
• LIT 347 Literature and Psychology 3 credit hours
• LIT 378 Queer Literature and Theory 3 credit hours
• LIT 391 Literature of Terror 3 credit hours

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• PHL 238 Race, Gender, and Sexuality 3 credit hours

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• WGS 238 Race, Gender, and Sexuality 3 credit hours

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• PHL 390 Philosophy of Technology 3 credit hours
• PSY 210 Fundamentals of Biopsychology 3 credit hours
• PSY 230 Abnormal Psychology 3 credit hours
• REL 265 World Religions 3 credit hours
• SOC 225 The Family 3 credit hours
• WRT 352 Rhetoric of Science 3 credit hours

Foreign Language Requirement

Student must complete 6 credits of the same foreign language.

Elective Courses (6-7 credits)

Students may choose any 6 credits of elective courses.  Students that take MAT120 instead of MAT171 need 7 credits of elective courses.

Freshman Year (29-30 credits)

• CHM 134/135 General Chemistry I 4 credit hours
• CHM 136/137 General Chemistry II 4 credit hours
• FCO 105 Rhetorical Communication 3 credit hours
• FYS 100 First-Year Seminar 3 credit hours
• FYS 102 Common Hour 0 credit hours

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• MAT 120 Applied Calculus 3 credit hours

•      OR

• MAT 171 Calculus I 4 credit hours

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• PHL 221 Introduction to Philosophy 3 credit hours

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• PHL 245 American Philosophical Thought 3 credit hours

•      OR

• REL 269 American Religious Thought and Culture 3 credit hours

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• Foreign Language course 3 credit hours
• Medical Humanities Elective course 3 credit hours

Sophomore Year (32 credits)

• BIO 150/151 Introduction to Molecular Biology 4 credit hours
• CHM 234/235 Organic Chemistry I 4 credit hours
• CHM 236/237 Organic Chemistry II 4 credit hours
• FCO 225 Interdisciplinary Communication 3 credit hours
• PHL 220 Principles of Scientific Reasoning 3 credit hours
• PHY 110/111 General Physics I 4 credit hours
• PHY 112/113 General Physics II 4 credit hours
• PSY 100 General Psychology 3 credit hours
• Foreign Language course 3 credit hours

Junior Year (31 credits)

• BIO 290 Biostatistics 3 credit hours
• BIO 350 Biochemistry I 4 credit hours
• HUM 350 Research Methods in the Humanities 3 credit hours
• PHL 231 Logic 3 credit hours
• PHL 346 Bioethics 3 credit hours
• PS 110 Introduction to Political Science 3 credit hours
• Constellation course 3 credit hours
• Constellation course 3 credit hours
• Disciplinary Perspectives - Arts course  3 credit hours
• Elective course 3 credit hours

Senior Year (27-28 credits)

• HUM 310 Medical Humanities 3 credit hours
• HUM 402 Humanities Seminar 3 credit hours
• PS 357 Health Law and Policy 3 credit hours

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• PSY 221 Child and Adolescent Development 3 credit hours

•      OR

• SOC 100 Introduction to Sociology 3 credit hours

•      OR

• SOC 302 Sociology of Health and Illness 3 credit hours

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• Medical Humanities Elective course 3 credit hours
• Medical Humanities Elective course 3 credit hours
• Constellation course 3 credit hours
• Constellation course 3 credit hours
• Elective course 3-4 credit hours