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Why Minor in Medical Humanities?

Interdisciplinary programs are those programs that don't fit neatly into a predefined box. They cross the traditional lines of academic categorization to draw upon and add knowledge to multiple disciplines. They invoke art, science, music, culture and society to better understand complex ideas.

Why Minor in Medical Humanities?

Aside from the obvious reason of adding breadth to your education and the way you think of health care, there are several tangible reasons for minoring in Medical Humanities:

  • Careers in the health sciences consistently rank in the top ten for projected job growth through 2020.
  • Medical schools are encouraging students to include study in the Humanities and Fine Arts as part of their education.
  • Hospitals, including UNMC, have a growing interest in the practice of the Arts and Medicine, Narrative Medicine, and Medical Humanities.
  • The minor is also applicable to a wide number of career paths:
  • Medicine
  • Public Health
  • Psychology, Mental Health Psychology and Counseling
  • Nursing
  • Social Work
  • Health Education
  • Bioethics
  • Health Care Administration
  • Communications and PR
  • Patient Advocacy
  • Human Resources
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  • Chaplaincy, Pastoral Care


Knowledge & Skills Gained in the Medical Humanities

  • Broadens knowledge of issues related to health, illness, medicine and healing
  • Offers a range of diversity-related courses that will help students function more effectively in their professional lives
  • Includes options for service learning that will increase opportunities for interaction with health practitioners, as well as local and global communities
  • Offers flexibility in course delivery (in person, on-line)
  • Supports and complements health-related STEM courses
  • May give students an advantage when applying for medical school or other health science-related fields

Why interdisciplinary studies?

  1. Creativity often requires interdisciplinary knowledge.

  2. Immigrants to disciplines often make important contributions to their new field.

  3. Disciplinarians often commit errors which can be best detected by people familiar with two or more disciplines.

  4. Some worthwhile topics of research fall in the interstices among the traditional disciplines.

  5. Many intellectual, social, and practical problems require interdisciplinary approaches.

  6. Interdisciplinary knowledge and research serve to remind us of the unity-of-knowledge ideal.

  7. Interdisciplinarians enjoy greater flexibility in their research.

  8. More so than narrow disciplinarians, interdisciplinarians often treat themselves to the intellectual equivalent of traveling in new lands.

  9. Interdisciplinarians may help breach communication gaps in the modern academy, thereby helping to mobilize its enormous intellectual resources in the cause of greater social rationality and justice.

  10. By bridging fragmented disciplines, interdisciplinarians might play a role in the defense of academic freedom

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