Course work
Courses
The list of courses included is not all-inclusive. The student, research advisor/mentor, and co-directors will design a program tailored to the student's interests, goals and background.
INDE 212 The human condition: Medicine, Arts, & Humanities (2 units)
MED 250a Medical Ethics I (2units)
Course Descriptions
(6 units required with an Application, 12 units are required without an Application.)
INDE 212. The Human Condition: Medicine, Arts,
and Humanities
Introduces the interdisciplinary field of medical humanities: the use of the arts and humanities to critically examine medicine in personal, social and cultural contexts. Students explore a variety of topics germane to medical humanities, such as the doctor-patient relationship, the patient perspective, the meaning of doctoring, and the meaning of illness. A number of genres are examined such as visual arts, performance arts, film, and diverse subgenres of the literary arts (e.g., poetry, fiction, scholarly writing). The course is designed for medical students in the Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration in order to expose students to a wide range of topics and methods for potential medical humanities scholarly projects, but all students are welcome.
The field of bioethics including theoretical approaches to bioethical problems. Contemporary controversies and clinical cases. Issues include: genetics and stem cell research; rationing; ethical issues in care at the end of life; organ transplantation issues. Values that arise in different situations and clinical encounters.
Choose from courses in one of four sub-areas (biomedical ethics, history, literary/visual/performing arts, social and cultural medicine) listed below and/or undertake directed study with any faculty member associated with the Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities concentration (4-8 units depending upon combining with Application).
Sample Elective Courses
Biomedical Ethics Focus
HRP 211. Advanced Issues in Health Law and Policy: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in the Genetics Revolution
HRP 209. Medicine and the Law
Genetics 208. Ethical Issues for Geneticists
GSBGEN 522. Ethical Issues in the Biotech Industry
Ethics in Society 78. Medical Ethics
Ethics in Society 170. Ethical Theory
Philosophy 278. Margins of Agency
Human Biology 2,3,4S. Bioethics (1-2 units each)
Human Biology 121. Ethical Issues in the Neurosciences
Law 649. Advanced Issues in Health Law and Policy: Genetics and Law
INDE/Genetics 238. Current Concepts and Dilemmas in Genetic Testing
History Focus
Med 206. History of Medicine Online
Med 207. History of Medicine
STS 121A. A History of Vision: Between Art and Science
History 264. The History of Women and Medicine in the U.S. (5 units)
History 203/303D. The History of Artificial Life
History 13. The Emergence of Modern Medicine
History 33A. The Rise of Scientific Medicine
Literary/Visual/Performing Arts Focus
Med 211. Creative Writing for Medical Students
Human Biology 175. Health Care as seen through Medical History, Literature and the Arts
Human Biology 75S. Novels and Theatre of Illness
English 170. Introduction to Literary Theory & Critical Methods
Comp Lit 202. Comparative Fictions of Ethnicity
Comp Lit 237. Five Words
STS 121A. A History of Vision: Between Art and Science
STS 121B. Deceptions: Perspectives from Science, Technology and Art
Human Biology 116. Eye and Implications of Vision
Art and Art History 162/362. Cyborgs and Synthetic Humans
Social and Cultural Medicine Focus (includes Ethnicity/ Gender/ Medical Anthropology/ Language/ Linguistics/ Communication)
Med 224. Ethnicity and Medicine Lecture Series
Med 226. Building Our Humanity: Culture, Emotions and Medicine
Med 228. Physicians and Social Responsibility
Med 261 A,B,C. Medicine in a Multi-Cultural Global Society
Sociology 141A. Social Class, Race/Ethnicity, Health
Sociology 135/235. Seminar in Women's Health: Women and Disabilities
STS 155 (CASA 132). Science, Technology and Gender
Anthropological Sciences 170. Medical Anthropology
Anthropological Sciences 270. Advanced Medical Anthropology
Anthropological Sciences 210. Examining Ethnographies (5 units)
Anthropological Sciences 275. Anthropology of Death and Dying
Anthropological Sciences 176A/276A. Anthropological Perspectives on Child Welfare
Anthropological Sciences 177. Health and Healing in South Asia
Anthropological Sciences 180/280. Introduction to Anthropological Genetics
CASA 82/282. Medical Anthropology
CASA 140/240. An Archaeology of Death
CASA 354.
CASA 358. Current Visions in Medical Anthropology
CASA 359. Approaches to the Body
Medicine 246. Interpersonal Communication
Linguistics 146. Language and Gender
Human Biology 118. Human Diversity: A Linguistic Perspective
HRP 280, 281, 282. Spanish I, II, III for Medical Students
