An option is a “mini-minor” – a set of courses in one discipline that can be completed in conjunction with any undergraduate degree program, allowing you to focus on an additional subject of interest.
Learn about arts-based approaches to health, what it takes to make good ethical decisions in a medical context, and how the arts influence and are influenced by cultural views on health and wellness. This option encourages students to make connections between how we imagine health, illness, and disabilities and our lived experiences of them. Complete this option and be prepared for a wide range of health-related and caring professions in public health, bioethics, arts-based therapies, pharmaceutical sales, medical insurance, health communication, health administration, and health law.
Courses & Requirements
Students who have fulfilled the requirements for an Honours or General degree in any subject may graduate with an Option in Health & Medical Humanities if they successfully completed the following 4.0 credits:
- 0.5 GESO credits consisting of:
- GESO 2002H: Health Humanities
- 3.5 credits from:
- CAST-SOCI-GESO 4511H
- CUST 2560H: The Making of the Modern Body
- ENGL 2609H: Contagion
- ENGL-GESO 3609H: SickLit
- ENGL-GESO 3700Y/3701H: Writing the Body
- GESO-NURS 2121H: Women and Health
- GESO-CAST-ERST 3141H: Gender, Health, and Environments
- GESO-PHIL-SOCI 3400H: Feminism and Disability
- GESO-PSYC 3796H: Feminist Psychologies
- GESO-ANTH 4932H:Sex, Gender, and Science
- HIST 2091H: The History of Childhood
- HIST-SOCI 2601H: Public Health and Medicine: Doctors, Nurses, and Patients in History
- HIST-CAST-SAFS 2821H: Food in History
- HIST 3630H: Plagues, Poxes and Pandemics: Disease in History from the Black Death to COVID
- HIST 4550Y/4551H: Topics in the History of Early Modern Europe
- HIST 4800Y: History of Madness
- PHIL 2030H: Death
- PHIL 2390H: Biomedical Ethics
- PHIL 4390H: Advanced Topics in Biomedical Ethics
