Medical Humanities Minor

Official requirements are listed here, on the UD Catalog page for the Minor.

You may substitute classes with a significant medical humanities focus for officially listed classes with approval of the minor’s faculty advisor. Approval is not guaranteed; contact your advisor before registering.

• Here is a non-exhaustive list of classes that are good substitutions for the minor.
• Not all classes are offered every semester – use UDSIS class lists to plan your schedule. Also check ‘topics’ classes, offered by many departments, for courses with a medical humanities focus.
• The following departments offer courses that may qualify as substitutions for the medical humanities minor: Africana Studies, Anthropology, Behavioral Health and Nutrition, Cognitive Science, Communication, Sociology & Criminal Justice, Economics, Health Studies, History, Human Development and Family Studies, Nursing, Philosophy, Theatre, Urban Affairs and Public Policy, and Women and Gender Studies.
• Take classes in a range of different departments, but don’t worry much about how courses fit in the listed MHM groups (other than Grounding). As long as you take classes for the minor in a range of different departments.
• A MHM related independent study might be a good option for some. (Even if you don’t take an MHM independent study, I highly recommend you consider taking some kind of independent study while you are at UD.)

The capstone gives students a chance to reflect on your overall experience of the minor.

• To enroll in the one-credit, pass/fail independent study (PHIL366-000), email the minor’s faculty advisor after your registration has opened, and well before the end of free drop-add. Contact the advisor early in the semester to organize meeting times and to get your capstone project underway.
• The capstone topic is very much up to you. For example, you might focus on something that stuck with you from one particular course, or a theme that has struck you over the various courses you have taken in the minor, or you might reflect on how you expect medical humanities to inform you in your career going forward.
• After the early semester meeting with the MHM advisor, you will submit a first version of your capstone essay in plenty of time for a follow-up meeting.
• After the follow-up meeting, you will complete any needed revisions before the end of the semester.