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Minor

Health Humanities Minor

University of California, Los Angeles College of Letters and Science 78 courses

About This Program

The health humanities is an interdisciplinary field that studies health and the human condition, with a focus on interpreting the physical and cognitive experience of illness as narrated in art, film, music, and literature. Through a core course, electives, and a capstone project, students acquire the research tools and critical methods to understand health from humanistic and comparative perspectives.

Degree Requirements

The Minor: Required Lower-Division Course (5 to 6 units)

Select one course from:

The Minor: Required Upper-Division Courses (24 to 27 units): Elective Courses (12 to 15 units)

Select three courses from the following. At least one course must be from a subject area within the humanities such as American Sign Language, classics, comparative literature, English, English composition, or philosophy. Substitutions are approved in consultation with the student services adviser and director of undergraduate studies.

Code Course Title Credits
AF AMER 110B Reproducing While Black: Politics of Black Reproduction 4
AF AMER 110C Black Health Matters: Wellness, Health, and Self-Care 4
AF AMER CM110D Posthumans 4
ASL M115 Enforcing Normalcy: Deaf and Disability Studies 4
ANTHRO M126N Genes, Disease, and Culture 4
ANTHRO 136M Medical Anthropology 4
ASIA AM M117 Asian American Personality and Mental Health 4
ASIA AM M161 Ethnic, Cultural, and Gender Issues in America's Healthcare Systems 4
CCAS CM106 Health in Chicano/Latino Population 4
CCAS M106B Diversity in Aging: Roles of Gender and Ethnicity 4
CLASSIC 148 Early Greek Medicine and Thought 5
COMM 121 Communication Development
CESC 172XP Community-Engaged Research to Address Health Disparities 4
CESC 173XP Blood Donations and Community Engagement 4
COM LIT 180 Variable Topics: Health Humanities in Comparative Contexts 4
COM LIT 181 Philosophies of Illness 4
COM LIT 182 Balancing Act: Comparative Approaches to Wellness, Health, and Medical Practice 4
COM LIT 183 Literature and Madness 4
COM LIT 184 Moving Images: Mental Health on Film 4
COM LIT 185 Health Humanities Perspectives on Hip Hop 4
COM LIT 186 Film on Brain 4
DIS STD 101W Perspectives on Disability Studies 5
DIS STD M112 Disability and Musical-Dramatic Arts: Representation, Embodiment, Themes, and Practices 5
DIS STD M139 Perspectives on Autism and Neurodiversity 4
DIS STD M148 Sociology of Mental Illness 4
DIS STD M161 Sports, Normativity, and Body 4
DIS STD M172 Care Work: Disability Justice and Health Care 2
DIS STD M172XP Care Work: Disability Justice and Health Care 3
EE BIOL 186 Evolutionary Medicine: Clinical Perspective on Medical, Surgical, and Psychiatric Disorders 4
ECON 131 Economics of Health and Healthcare 4
EDUC 132 Autism: Mind, Brain, and Education 5
ENGL M103 Studies in Disability Literatures 5
ENGL M118F Food Cultures and Food Politics 5
ENGCOMP 131C Specialized Writing: Medicine and Public Health 4
ENV HLT 100 Introduction to Environmental Health 4
ENV HLT 120 Environment and Health 5
EPIDEM 160 Infectious Disease Prevention and Control 4
EPIDEM 165 Non-Communicable Diseases: Mortality in 21st Century 4
FOOD ST M136 Eating Society: Science and Politics of Food from Individual to Planetary Health 4
FOOD ST M177 Superfoods: Cultural and Global Perspectives 4
GENDER CM143XP Healing, Ritual, and Transformation 4
GENDER M164 Politics of Reproduction and Everyday Life 4
GEOG 136 Health and Global Environment 4
GRNTLGY M108 Biomedical, Social, and Policy Frontiers in Human Aging 5
GLB HLT 140 Equity-Focused Program Evaluation in Global Health: Theory and Practice 4
HLT POL 100 Health Care Systems and Health Policy 4
HLT POL 140 Foundations of Maternal and Child Health 4
HLT POL 141 Pharmaceuticals and Health 4
HLT POL 142 How Health Happens 4
HIST 179A Variable Topics in History of Medicine 4
HIST 179B History of Medicine: Foundations of Modern Medicine 4
HIST 179C Medicine and Society in 20th-Century America 4
LGBTQS 184 Variable Topics in Science, Health, and Genetics 4
LIFESCI M174 Health Disparities 4
MED 185 Integrative East-West Medicine for Health and Wellness 5
MSC IND M103 Music, Mind, and Brain 4
NEUROSC 142 Neurophilosophy: Introduction and Assessment from Neuroscience Perspective 4
PHILOS 155A Medical Ethics 4
PHILOS 155B Topics in Medical Ethics 4
PHILOS 173 Philosophy of Medicine 4
PSYCTRY 173 Mental Health: Bias, Inequities, and Racism 4
PSYCTRY 178 Cannabis and Cannabinoids: From Pharmacology to Public Policy 4
PSYCTRY 186 Ecological Medicine 4
PSYCTRY 187 Songwright's Apothecary Laboratory 4
PSYCH 119V Brain and Art 4
PSYCH 134K Effects of Early Adversity and Trauma 4
PSYCH 150 Introduction to Health Psychology 4
PSYCH 152 Mind-Body Interactions and Health 4
PUB AFF 134 Politics of U.S. Health Policy 4
PUB AFF M157 Built Environment and Health 4
PUB HLT C150 Fundamentals of Public Health 4
SOC GEN 125 Critical Study of Health, Sickness, and Healing in Global Perspective 4
SOC GEN 164 Ethics in Health and Research 4
SOCIOL 140 Negotiating Medical Care: Physician-Patient Conversations 4
SOCIOL 170 Medical Sociology 4

The Minor: Required Upper-Division Courses (24 to 27 units): Capstone Course (4 units)

Complete the following course:

Code Course Title Credits
COM LIT 187 Capstone in Health Humanities 4

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