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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Medical Humanities, B.A.


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The Medical Humanities major is designed to provide students with an understanding of the complexity of health and healing, the impact of scientific medicine on society at large, the tools to evaluate and analyze metrics of wellness, and the ability to utilize disparate techniques of critical thinking and textual interpretation. Students receive an intentionally interdisciplinary education which fulfills the requirements for prior course work at most medical schools while at the same time emphasizing the traditional liberal arts. The major is ideal for those wishing to do work in the medical fields while allowing for a broad education across the non-science oriented areas of study.

Degree Requirements

Institutional Degree Requirements 

General Education Requirement


First Year Seminar


Foundations Requirements


Communication course:


Advanced Communication course:


Quantitative Fluency course:


Global Citizenship course:


  • Satisfied by major (6 credits of a language)

Disciplinary Perspectives Requirements


Humanities course:


Choose 3 credits of the following Arts courses:


Social and Behavioral Sciences course:


Natural and Physical Sciences course:


Constellation Requirement


The Constellation requirement is met when a student completes four courses from a minimum of three disciplines within the Constellation requirements. Students who transfer in 60 credits or more at the time of admission to the college will be waived from the Constellation requirement, except for Education majors. The waiver applies to the requirement for graduation but does not waive the credits to graduate; students need to meet the overall bachelor’s degree credit requirement.

Required Courses


Required Major Courses


Students must receive a grade of 2.0 or higher in each course within the major.

Medical Humanities Elective


Students must complete 3 credits of the following:

Medical Humanities Electives


Students must complete 9-12 credits of the following:

Foreign Language Requirement


Student must complete 6 credits of the same foreign language.

General Elective Courses


Students must complete 2 credits of free elective courses. Students who take MAT120 instead of MAT171 need 3 credits of elective courses.

Suggested Course Sequence


Freshman Year


Fall Semester (16 credits)


Spring Semester (17-18 credits)


Sophomore Year


Spring Semester (17 credits)


Junior Year


Fall Semester (16 credits)


Spring Semester (15-16 credits)


Senior Year


Fall Semester (15 credits)


Spring Semester (12-14 credits)


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

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