2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Health Humanities Minor

Minor Requirements

Students must take HH 101 and must cover at least four out of the five different areas below (6 credit maximum per area).

Required Course

HH 101Introduction to Health Humanities

3

Health & Literature/Language Courses

ENG 299 can be taken in consultation with program director.
ENG 246Disability Stories

3

ENG 260Literature of Illness & Healing

3

ENG 265Creative Writing: Health and Healing

3

ENG 268Where is the Global #MeToo Today?

3

ENG 279Trauma in Contemporary Literature

3

FR 109French for the Professions

3

SP 109Spanish for Health Professionals

3

Health & Anthropology/History Courses

AN 110Human Cultural Diversity

3

AN 210Culture, Health, and Wellness

3

HI 203Medicine, Disease & History

3

HI 204History of Medicine in China

3

HI 213Hurricanes, Wildfires & Pandemics

3

Health & Catholic Studies Courses

CIT 208GOD on Broadway

3

CIT 211Do All Dogs Go To Heaven?

3

CIT 213Wild Irish Spirits: Theatre & Ritual

3

CIT 214Woundedness, Vulnerability, & Healing

3

CIT 216Just Beauty: Can Beauty Save the World?

3

CIT 218The Good Life: Your Path, Your Purpose

3

Health & Media/Arts Courses

AR 299, DA 299, MU 299 & THR 299 can be taken in consultation with program director.
AR 220Drawing II: Figure Drawing

3

CM 214Foundations in Health Communication

3

CM 251Studies in Self-Help Books

3

CM 256Magazines & Body Image

3

CM 358Diverse Health Communication Campaigns

3

DA 310Social Issues Through Dance

3

Health & Philosophy/Religion Courses

PH 140Introduction to the Philosophy of Art & Beauty

3

PH 207Philosophy of Lived Experience

3

PH 271Bioethics: Philosophical Approaches

3

PH 277Happiness & the Good Life

3

PH 294PHILOSOPHICAL TOPICS IN IRELAND

3

TRS 210Theology & the Human Person

3

TRS 211Death, the Future, & Eternity

3

TRS 251Bioethics: Religious Approaches

3

TRS 252Theology and Ethics of Death and Dying

3

TRS 373Religion, Health & Healing

3