Degree Requirements
PRE-MAJOR IN MEDICAL HUMANITIES (B.A. Degree)
Students interested in Medical Humanities as a major will choose the Pre-Major in Medical Humanities designation upon enrollment at Baylor. To declare a major in Medical Humanities (B.A. Degree), a student must:
- Complete a minimum of 45 semester hours, at least 15 of which are completed at Baylor.
- Earn a B or better in MH 1331, Introduction to Medical Humanities*
- Earn at least 3.0 cumulative Baylor GPA.
- Students must qualify for admission to the major before completing 60 hours in residence (30 hours in residence for transfer students).
*Requirement beginning in the 2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog
After 45 hours, students who have declared a Pre-Major in Medical Humanities major will be notified via e-mail if they qualified to declare Medical Humanities as a major. For those who qualify, the University Advisement Office will be notified. For those who do not qualify, the student’s major will be changed to Undeclared.
Thirty-three semester hours including the following:
A. Nine (9) hours from three core courses:
MH 1331: Introduction to Medical Humanities
PHI 1309: Introduction to Medical Ethics OR REL 4395 Bioethics
MH 2301: Christian Spirituality and Health Care
B. Medical Humanities Distribution Courses (3 semester hours from each of the following distribution lists):
Philosophy:
PHI 3301: Moral Philosophy
PHI 4310: Philosophy of Science
PHI 4325: Literary and Philosophical Perspectives on Medicine
PHI 4363: Philosophy of Medicine
Religion and Spirituality:
MH 3342: Medicine, Missions, and the Gospel
HED/MH 4305: Theology of Suffering and Healing for Healthcare Professionals
MH 4361: Meaning, Money, and Medicine
REL 3345: World Religions
REL 3390: Christian Ethics
REL 4395: Bioethics
Literature & The Arts:
*MH 3300: Visual Arts and Healing
MH 4319: Writing About Sickness and Health
CW 3302: Poetry of Illness and Imagination
ENGL 4334: Literature, Medicine and Public Health
ENGL 4431: Publishing the Literary Magazine
GTX 3343: Great Texts in the Origins of Science
GTX 3370: Great Texts in Medicine
GTX 4341: Great Texts in Modern Science
4. Historical Perspectives:
MH/HIS 4300: History of Medicine
MH 4303: History of Women in Medicine
CLA 4300: Medicine and Healing in the Ancient World
HIS 3321: History of Global Epidemics
Behavioral Health:
NSC/PSY 4312: Behavioral Medicine
PSY 3321: Abnormal Psychology
PSY 3341: A Survey of Human Development
PSY 3355: Drugs and Behavior
PSY 3399: Positive Psychology and Well-Being
PSY 4355: Psychology and Aging
Social Sciences and Health:
MH 4372: End of Life Care & Bereavement
MH 4382: U.S. Health Care System
*MH 4391: Disrupting Disparities in Healthcare
MH 4396: Disability and Society
SOC 3372: Population Health
SOC 4353: Sociology of Medicine
C. Six semester hours selected from additional courses from the distribution lists above and from these additional choices:
*MH 4351: Supervised Clinical Medicine
*MH 4377: Supervised Hospice Care
MH 4V98: Advanced Topics in Medical Humanities
ANT 1325: Introduction to Global Health
ANT 4325 Medical Anthropology
CLA 3381: Medical Terminology
EDP 2336: The Developing Child
EDP 3361: Developmental Disabilities
ENV 3314: Introduction to Environmental Health
ENV 4325: Human Health Risk Assessment
SWO 4395: Aging and Mental Health
PUBH 3325: Maternal and Infant Health
PUBH 4321: Human Sexuality
PUBH 4331: Intervention Design in Public and Community Health
PUBH 4340: Global Health
SPA 2321: Intermediate Spanish for Health Professions
SPA 4321: Advanced Spanish for Health Professions
*This course fulfills the College of Arts and Sciences Engaged Learning requirement
Requirements for a MINOR in Medical Humanities
Beginning with the 2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog, students wishing to declare the minor in Medical Humanities must first earn a B or better in MH 1331 Introduction to Medical Humanities.
A minimum of 21 semester hours in Medical Humanities
A. Nine (9) hours from three core courses:
MH 1331: Introduction to Medical Humanities
PHI 1309: Introduction to Medical Ethics OR REL 4395 Bioethics
MH 2301: Christian Spirituality and Health Care
B. Twelve (12) hours comprised of three hours from each of the following four categories:
1. Literature & The Arts (3 hours)
*MH 3300: Visual Arts and Healing
MH 4319: Writing About Sickness and Health
CW 3302: Poetry of Illness and Imagination
ENGL 4334: Literature, Medicine and Public Health
ENGL 4431: Publishing the Literary Magazine
GTX 3343: Great Texts in the Origins of Science
GTX 3370: Great Texts in Medicine
GTX 4341: Great Texts in Modern Science
2. Historical Perspectives (3 hours):
HIS/MH 4300: History of Medicine
MH 4303: History of Women in Medicine
CLA 4300: Medicine and Healing in the Ancient World
HIS 3321: History of Global Epidemics
3. Behavioral Health (3 hours):
PSY 3321: Abnormal Psychology
PSY 3341: Survey of Human Development
PSY 3355: Drugs and Behavior
PSY 3399: Positive Psychology and Well-Being
NSC/PSY 4312: Behavioral Medicine
PSY 4355: Psychology and Aging
4. Social Sciences and Health (3 hours):
MH 3342: Medicine, Missions, and the Gospel
HED/MH 4305: Theology of Suffering and Healing for Healthcare Professionals
MH 4372: End-of-Life Care and Bereavement
MH 4382: U.S. Health Care System
*MH 4391: Disrupting Disparities in Healthcare
MH 4396: Disability and Society
SOC 3372: Population Health
SOC 4353: Sociology of Medicine
*This course fulfills the College of Arts and Sciences Engaged Learning requirement
Advanced work--minimum 9 hours
No more than 3 hours from the student's major may be applied to the Medical Humanities Minor
Grade point average--a minimum of "C" (2.00/4.00) in all courses in the minor