Nov 16, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Health Humanities, Minor


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Health Humanities explores the human condition of health from a variety of critical and creative perspectives. The Health Humanities Minor asks questions about health, illness, disability, and healthcare across the sciences, arts, humanities, and social sciences. Core courses are grounded in the humanities, whereas electives draw not only from the humanities but also from the arts, social sciences, and natural sciences so that the Health Humanities minor complements any undergraduate major and ensures that students build a complex understanding of what it means to be well in physical, mental, social, and cultural contexts. Each student has the opportunity to chart a path through the minor coursework that supports their intellectual curiosity, professional goals, and personal wellbeing. The Health Humanities Minor prepares students for careers throughout the healthcare industry as well as careers in policy, administration, education, and advocacy where health and health policy play a role.

For additional information regarding the Health Humanities Minor, please contact Dr. Alex Bay (bay@chapman.edu) in the Department of History.

Students pursuing a Minor in Health Humanities are required to:

  • Complete a minimum of 21 credits in the minor, 12 of which cannot be duplicated by the major or any other minor.
  • Complete a minimum of 12 upper-division credits.
  • Complete a minimum of 6 upper-division credits in residence.
  • Maintain a 2.000 cumulative GPA and 2.000 GPA for all upper-division coursework.

core requirements (3 credits)


electives (18 credits)


At least four must be upper division. No more than three courses (9 credits) can be taken from the same discipline.

total credits 21


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