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What is health humanities?

Health humanities is a growing field that combines traditional humanities like writing and art with the social sciences, pre-med, and medical humanities. The unification encourages you to explore different aspects of the human condition and create a deeper understanding of the patient’s needs.

This approach gives you the tools you’ll need to be a well-rounded health care provider and patient advocate.

Program Information

Campus - Baldwin City
Undergraduate
Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Why be a health humanities major at Baker University?

Traditional health care, pre-med, and nursing programs focus on solving a patient’s medical issues but don’t consider the environmental, psychological, and overall importance of their medical history. The flexible health humanities curriculum encourages you to explore all factors that influence health and wellness, which will prepare you for numerous career opportunities.

Therapist measures a patient's knee joint angle with a goniometer.

What can you do with a health humanities degree?

  • Health care administrator
  • Public health advocate
  • Pharmaceutical sales representative
  • Medical illustrator
  • Art therapist
  • Librarian
  • Historian
  • Clinical social worker
  • Speech pathologist
  • Patient care coordinator

Scholarships for Health Humanities Majors

The Departments of Humanities and Applied Health Sciences gives these awards with financial prizes to be applied to the following year’s tuition:

  • Mildred Hunt Riddle Departmental Recognition Scholarship for Humanities
  • Dr. Irene Murphy Memorial Scholarship
  • Etta and Orin Murphy Scholarship Kahle Endowed Scholarship
  • Kahle Endowed Scholarship
  • The Moorman Prize for Prose Writing
  • The Moorman Prize for Poetry Writing
  • Jefferson-Greiner Scholarship
  • Mildred Hunt Riddle Departmental Recognition Scholarship for Exercise Science
  • Benjamin A. Gessner Award
  • Thomas G. Manson and Frances B. Manson Scholarship
  • Robert L. Miller Scholarship

Coursework & Requirements

  • All students majoring in Health Humanities must complete the requirements for the Bachelor of Arts degree. Health Humanities majors must also successfully complete (earn a grade of C or higher) a minimum of 40 credit hours following the curriculum below. Note: An individual course may not be used to satisfy more than one requirement for the major.
    All of the following core courses (25 – 26 hours):

    EN 152 Introduction to Writing and Research
    EN 223 World Literature OR EN 224 Studies in World Literature
    EN 226 Multi-Ethnic American Literature OR EN 228 Studies in American Ethnic Literature
    EX 327 Public Health Communication and Literacy*
    EX 388 Global Health Issues*
    GS 201 Introduction to Gender Studies
    PH 211 Logical and Critical Thinking
    PY 382 Health Psychology* OR PY 386 Clinical and Counseling Psychology*
    SO 372 Sociology of Medicine*

    * Note: These courses have prerequisites or require permission of the instructor to enroll.

    Two of the following behavioral, health, or natural science courses, from two different disciplines (prefixes) (6-7 hours):
    BI 125 Human Genetics
    BI 151 Molecular and Cellular Biology
    BI 246 Human Anatomy and Physiology I
    BI 262 Microbiology
    CH 137 General Chemistry I
    EX 245 Human Nutrition
    PY 382 Health Psychology
    PY 386 Clinical and Counseling Psychology

    Two of the following humanities courses, from two different disciplines (prefixes) (6 hours):

    EN 210 American Literature, Colonial Period to 1890
    EN 212 American Literature since 1890
    EN 215 Studies in a Literary Genre
    EN 218 Studies in a Literary Theme or Movement
    EN 223 World Literature
    EN 224 Studies in World Literature
    EN 226 Multi-Ethnic American Literature
    EN 228 Studies in American Ethnic Literature
    EN 232 Poetry Writing I
    EN 234 Fiction Writing I
    IN 101 Introduction to International Studies
    IN 212 Global Problems
    PH 115 Introduction to Philosophy: A Historical Approach
    PH 120 Ethics
    PH 270 World Philosophies
    PH 310/PS 310 Social Justice: Theory and Practice
    PS 201/PH 201 History of Western Political Thought I
    PS 202/PH 202 History of Western Political Thought II
    PS 203 Public Policy Analysis
    PS 210 American State and Local Government
    PT 212 People of the Book
    QS 212, relevant theme, with prior approval of the Health Humanities faculty

    One upper-college humanities course (EN, FR, GN, IN, PH, PS, or SP prefix) (3 hours). Note: EN 262 and EN 362 are meant for Education majors and do not count towards the Health Humanities major or minor.

    SUPPORTING COURSEWORK

    All Health Humanities majors earn the Bachelor of Arts degree, and must therefore complete a world languages course sequence through number 204. Health Humanities majors are also required to successfully complete a minor in a discipline of their choice. (Students with a second major are exempted from the minor requirement.) Depending on their future plans and career goals, students may choose to design an interdisciplinary minor in consultation with Health Humanities faculty. However, interdisciplinary minors are not posted on student transcripts.