Curriculum and Policies
We attempt to keep these lists up-to-date, but it is possible that offerings may change.
Curriculum
HatH course offerings vary each term and new classes are continuously being added to the curriculum. If you have questions about course offerings please contact the certificate advisor.
HatH Certificate courses are distributed across requirement categories including Core courses, Health and Illness in Social Context courses, Cultural Competency courses, and Capstone courses. HatH Certificate courses are offered by more than a dozen departments across campus, allowing you to tailor the certificate to your interests.
You can find the current Health and the Humanities Certificate requirements on Guide.
Information on HatH Capstone courses
HistSci 525: Health and the Humanities will bring your experiences in the certificate together with that of other Health and Humanities certificate students. In the capstone course, which will be run as a limited-enrollment seminar, you will have the opportunity to explore the role of language and culture in the creation and circulation of biomedical knowledge; our lived experiences with illness (physical and mental); the intricate intersections of race, gender, sexuality, disability and medicine; the political dimensions of diagnosis, disease, and epidemics, and the role that fiction, creative non-fiction, comics, and film play in shaping our experiences with health and medicine.
There are also several health-focused service-learning courses available that fulfill the capstone requirement. In these courses, you will directly apply course concepts as you work across disciplines with your assigned community partners. For example, in Nursing 511: Community Supports for People with Dementia, you will learn about concepts such as stigma and isolation, diversity, cultural competency, and personhood; and you will have the opportunity to use these concepts directly as you work with various community partners to improve the lives of people living with dementia and their caregivers. Service-learning sites in Nursing 511 offer a range of experiences including planning of community events, training businesses how to become dementia friendly, and planning/executing cognitively stimulating programs for persons with dementia.
See Guide for eligible Capstone Courses.