Medical Humanities Certificate
Also available at OSU-Portland and via Ecampus.
The undergraduate certificate in Medical Humanities offers OSU students a multi-disciplinary integrated program to study health, medicine, and the healing professions. The certificate relies on key courses in medical anthropology, literature and medicine, medical history, and biomedical ethics for its core content foundations. Courses from additional different disciplines—biology; ethnic studies; kinesiology; philosophy; political science; psychology; public health; religious studies; sociology; and women, gender, and sexuality studies—can fulfill complementary elective courses. The certificate program emphasizes skills in professional identity, reflective writing, cultural competency, and diversity as a complement to the scientific features of the healing professions. The certificate will prepare students to empathize with the sufferings of others, reflect critically on medical knowledge and discourse, create new representations of the medical experience, and confront moral, psychological, and ethical dilemmas.
For further information, please contact Courtney Campbell, 541-737-5651, ccampbell@oregonstate.edu
Current students in the Medical Humanities Certificate program should contact David Bishop, 541-737-8918, david.bishop@oregonstate.edu
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required | ||
| Select a minimum of 10 credits from the following: | 10 | |
| *BIOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF RACE 1 | ||
| *INTRODUCTION TO MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 1 | ||
| WRITING, LITERATURE AND MEDICINE | ||
| *HISTORY OF MEDICINE PRE-1800 1 | ||
| *^HISTORY OF MEDICINE 1 | ||
| *INTRODUCTION TO DISABILITY STUDIES 1 | ||
| SELECTED TOPICS | ||
| *BIOMEDICAL ETHICS 1 | ||
| DEATH AND DYING 1 | ||
| Electives 2 | ||
| Select a minimum of 17 credits from the following: | 17 | |
| INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 1 | ||
| *BIOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF RACE 1 | ||
| *ANTHROPOLOGY, HEALTH, AND ENVIRONMENT 1 | ||
| *ANTHROPOLOGY AND GLOBAL HEALTH 1 | ||
| *INTRODUCTION TO MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 1 | ||
| EVOLUTIONARY MEDICINE | ||
| NEUROANTHROPOLOGY | ||
| *INTRODUCTION TO MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | ||
| *MOLECULAR MEDICINE | ||
| *HUMAN IMPACTS ON ECOSYSTEMS | ||
| HEALTH COMMUNICATION | ||
| WRITING, LITERATURE AND MEDICINE | ||
| *PLAGUES, PESTS, AND POLITICS 1 | ||
| *NATIVE AMERICAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | ||
| *FOOD JUSTICE | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HEALTH 1 | ||
| *INTRODUCTION TO THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM 1 | ||
| *SOCIAL AND INDIVIDUAL HEALTH DETERMINANTS 1 | ||
| *HIV/AIDS AND STIS IN MODERN SOCIETY 1 | ||
| *GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH 1 | ||
| FOUNDATIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH 1 | ||
| *FAMILIES AND POVERTY 1 | ||
| *^THEORY OF EVOLUTION AND FOUNDATION OF MODERN BIOLOGY 1 | ||
| *HISTORY OF MEDICINE PRE-1800 | ||
| *^HISTORY OF MEDICINE 1 | ||
| *^STUDIES IN SCIENTIFIC CONTROVERSY: METHODS AND PRACTICES 1 | ||
| *SCIENCE AND RELIGION 1 | ||
| ^HISTORY OF ANIMALS IN SCIENCE | ||
| *HISTORY OF PSYCHOTHERAPY | ||
| *SOCIOCULTURAL DIMENSIONS OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY 1 | ||
| *POWER AND PRIVILEGE IN SPORT 1 | ||
| *DISEASE AND SOCIETY 1 | ||
| HUMAN NUTRITION 1 | ||
| *ISSUES IN NUTRITION AND HEALTH 1 | ||
| TERMINOLOGY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES 1 | ||
| *INTRODUCTION TO DISABILITY STUDIES 1 | ||
| SELECTED TOPICS | ||
| *BIOMEDICAL ETHICS 1 | ||
| DEATH AND DYING 1 | ||
| ^PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY | ||
| WOMEN, WEIGHT, AND BODY IMAGE | ||
| *FAT STUDIES 1 | ||
| HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY 1 | ||
| HEALTH, ILLNESS AND SOCIETY 1 | ||
| DEATH AND DYING 1 | ||
| SOCIOLOGY OF AGING | ||
| *RESISTING GENDER VIOLENCE 1 | ||
| *GENDER AND SCIENCE | ||
| *POLITICS OF MOTHERHOOD IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT | ||
| GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN'S HEALTH | ||
| RACE, GENDER, AND HEALTH JUSTICE | ||
| *ENGLISH COMPOSITION 1 | ||
| Total Hours | 27 | |
| * | Baccalaureate Core Course |
| ^ | Writing Intensive Course (WIC) |
| 1 | Courses available to Ecampus students earning the certificate |
| 2 | Courses taken as required 10 credits cannot also be counted as electives |
Major Code: C868