Medical Humanities Certificate

This certificate is jointly offered by the Department of Religious Studies and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. The certificate provides a cross-disciplinary study of cultural and personal engagement with illness and health. The program offers social, historical, rhetorical, and artistic approaches to urgent questions of bodily experience that are often limited to scientific medical paradigms. The certificate will assist students in a variety of disciplines to develop skills for empathizing with the experiences of others, interpreting personal challenges and tragedies in life stories, understanding ethical dilemmas and notions of moral responsibility, and evaluating complex arguments about the practice and costs of health care in contemporary society. Such diverse perspectives will greatly enrich courses of study in health-related fields as well as any fields of critical inquiry into human cultures and communities.

This certificate is administered by the Department of Religious Studies.