Medical Humanities Major, (MHBA)BA or (MHBS)BS

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A Medical Humanities major is offered as an interdisciplinary program in the College of Arts & Sciences, providing students opportunities to pursue diverse career paths in both the humanities and sciences in careers such as medicine, health care policy, law, public health, management, patient advocacy, health journalism, bioethics, and health care consulting, as well as in academic careers in teaching, writing, and researching in universities in narrative medicine, literature and health, or history and medicine. Rather than limiting the student to a single focus, this interdisciplinary study allows for room to create a career path specific to the desires of the individual while laying a foundation for advanced degrees.

The determining factor for this degree will be the greater number of hours in either humanities or sciences.

Requirements

Liberal Arts: 47

All majors at Harding are required to complete the 47-hour Liberal Arts program.

Major: 33 hours

BDOC 3040 - Christian Bioethics Credit Hours: 2, 3
ENG 3300 - Studies in English and the Medical Humanities Credit Hours: 3
HIST 3158 - History of Medicine Credit Hours: 3
HUM 4600 - Directed Senior Project in Humanities Credit Hours: 3 ¹
or PPHS 4510 - Preprofessional Health Science Capstone Credit Hours: 1 ¹
PPHS 2100 - Introduction to Medical Humanities Credit Hours: 1

Major Electives:

Choose courses from the elective menu below to make a total of 33 hours (including hours above). No more than three courses in this menu with the same prefix can count toward the major.

ANTH 2500 - Anthropology Credit Hours: 3
ART 1030 - Drawing I Credit Hours: 3
ART 1050 - Drawing II Credit Hours: 3
BHIS 3030 - Living World Religions Credit Hours: 3
BMIS 3020 - Development Ministry Credit Hours: 0, 3
CJ 3260 - Drugs Alcohol and Crime Credit Hours: 3
COMM 3610 - Nonverbal Communication Credit Hours: 3
COMM 3630 - Argumentation and Persuasion Credit Hours: 3
COMM 3650 - Interpersonal Communication Credit Hours: 3
ENG 3100 - Business and Professional Writing Credit Hours: 3
ENG 3910-3913 - Writing Nonfiction Credit Hours: 3
ENG 4030 - Study in Literature or Composition Credit Hours: 1-3 ¹
FCS 3300 - Medical Terminology Credit Hours: 1
FCS 4260 - Human Sexuality Credit Hours: 3
FR 3000-3001 - French Conversation Credit Hours: 1
FR 3130 - Advanced Conversation Credit Hours: 3
FR 3271 - Selected Readings in Culture and Literature Credit Hours: 3
HIST 4100-4104 - Special Topics in U.S. History Credit Hours: 3 ¹
or HIST 4130-4134 - Special Topics in World History Credit Hours: 1-3 ¹
NURS 3050 - Culture of Poverty Credit Hours: 3
NURS 4130 - Health Care Missions Credit Hours: 3
PHIL 3010 - Introduction to Philosophy Credit Hours: 3
POLS 4288 - Public Policy Credit Hours: 3
PPHS 3970-3978 - Topics in Health Sciences Credit Hours: 1-3
PSY 2400 - Developmental Psychology Credit Hours: 3
PSY 4250 - Neurophysiology Credit Hours: 3
PSY 3800 - Psychology of Personality Credit Hours: 3
PSY 3820 - Abnormal Psychology Credit Hours: 3
PSY 4300 - Cognitive Neuroscience Credit Hours: 3
SOC 3450 - Gerontology Credit Hours: 3
SOC 4100 - Human Diversity Credit Hours: 3
SPAN 3130 - Advanced Conversation Credit Hours: 3
SPAN 3271 - Selected Readings in Culture and Literature Credit Hours: 3
SPAN 3283 - Medical Spanish Credit Hours: 3
SPAN 4020 - Survey of Peninsular Spanish Literature II Credit Hours: 3
SWK 3950 - Child Abuse and Neglect Credit Hours: 3
SWK 4020 - Death, Loss, and Grief Credit Hours: 3
THEA 1900 - Acting I Credit Hours: 3

Note(s):

¹ Course topic must be related to the medical field.

Minor: 18 hours

Remaining Bible/Electives: 30 hours

BDOC 3040 is counted above in the hours required for the major.

See Bible Class Enrollment policy here.

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