Scofield Hall, Room 9
      711 E. 51st Street

Faculty Coordinator/Program Adviser:
    Dennise Todd, Director of Pre-Health Programs, (816) 235-6270

The interdisciplinary minor in healing and humanities enables students to explore the complicated nature of health care issues by integrating knowledge from the arts and humanities with the social and natural sciences. The minor is particularly appropriate for students considering health-related professions, complementing other scientific, clinical and professional preparation. Health care careers are projected to be among the fastest-growing fields in the 21st century. America’s changing health care environment increasingly calls for individuals who understand the complexity of factors affecting healing and who are able to take a humane, holistic approach.

The healing and humanities curriculum enables pre-health and health professions students to develop an interdisciplinary foundation for a future health care career. To earn a minor in healing and humanities, students must earn at least 18 credit hours from the list of approved courses below and other courses as approved by the program adviser. Credits must be earned in at least three departments or curricular designations. At least nine credit hours must be upper-division (i.e., 300 or 400), and at least nine must be earned at UMKC. Students may select from among a wide variety of courses offered by many participating departments. The program adviser is available to provide academic advice on course selection and degree requirements, as well as career guidance. Students interested in the healing and humanities minor should consult with the program adviser to plan a program of study.

Approved Courses:

• AMER-ST 350 Medical Humanities and American Studies
• ANTHRO 328 Anthropology of the Body
• ART 300CA Images of the Human Body in the Renaissance (Interdisciplinary Cluster Course)
• ART 300CH Healing and the Arts (Interdisciplinary Cluster Course)
• ART 300CM Body Images in MEDICINE and the Arts (Interdisciplinary Cluster Course)
• A&S 100 (First Year Seminar, Pre-Health sections only)
• A&S 240 Analysis of Medical Terminology
• A&S 304CM Body Images in MEDICINE and the Arts (Interdisciplinary Cluster Course)
• A&S 365P Introduction of Substance Abuse Counseling: Theory and Practice
• A&S 420 Literature: A Healing Art
• A&S 492 Field Practicum in Aging
• CHEM 206 Human Nutrition
• COMM-ST 140 Principles of Communication
• COMM-ST 344 Communication in Organizational Settings
• COMM-ST 377 Interpersonal Communication
• COMM-ST 431 Colloquium in Interpersonal Dynamics: Health Communication
• COMM-ST 444WI Intercultural Communications
• COMM-ST 400CT Healing and Cultural Diversity (Interdisciplinary Cluster Course)
• CJC 317 Policies of Drug Use and Control
• ECON 465 The Economics of Health and MEDICINE
• ENGLISH 225 (Writing, Healing, and the Humanities sections only)
• ENGLISH 300CO Issues in Death and Dying (Interdisciplinary Cluster Course)
• ENGLISH 400CA Images of the Human Body in the Renaissance (Interdisciplinary Cluster Course)
• HISTORY 412B The Black Death and Late Medieval Society
• HISTORY 428A HISTORY of the Body
• HISTORY 428B Women MEDICINE: Patients and Practitioners from Antiquity to Present
• HMNTY 408P Images of Aging in Literature
• HMNTY 490P Perceptions and Images of Disabilities in Literature and Film
• INT-DISC 350P Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Aging: Readings and Film
• INT-DISC 401P The Natural Life Cycle
• INT-DISC 402P Literature and Life Sciences
• INT-DISC 403P Stages of Growth
• INT-DISC 420P Brain and Behavior
• MEDICINE 9514 Medicine, War and the Arts
• MEDICINE 9515 Medicine and Music
• MEDICINE 9518 Medicine, Literature and Law (3 credit hours applicable to minor)
• MEDICINE 9578 Healing and the Arts (Interdisciplinary Cluster Course)
• MEDICINE 9594 The Body Image in Medicine and the Arts (Interdisciplinary Cluster Course)
• NAT-SCI 430PC Biological and Ethical Issues in Aging (Interdisciplinary Cluster Course)
• NURSE 230 Health Issues in Aging
• NURSE 252 Human Growth and Development
• NURSE 356 Spanish for Health Care Pre-Professionals
• PHILOS 221 Contemporary Moral Issues
• PHILOS 300CK Controversy and Choice in Life and Sciences
• PHILOS 315 Logic and Methodology in the Health and Social Sciences
• PHILOS 321 Introductory Ethics
• PHILOS 334 PHILOS of Science
• PHILOS 338 PHILOS of Biology
• PHILOS 350 Case Studies in the Methodologies of Science
• PHILOS 360 Current Issues in Bioethics
• PHILOS 400CO Issues in Death and Dying (Interdisciplinary Cluster Course)
• PHILOS 401PC Biological and Ethical Issues in Aging (Interdisciplinary Cluster Course)
• PSYCH 215 Meditation, Self-Hypnosis, and Biofeedback
• PSYCH 300CT Healing and Cultural Diversity (Interdisciplinary Cluster Course)
• PSYCH 320 Ethnic and Minority Perspectives in PSYCH
• PSYCH 328 PSYCH of Human Sexual Behavior 
• PSYCH 331 An Introduction to Health PSYCH
• PSYCH 406P Introduction to Developmental Disabilities
• PSYCH 407P Developmental Disabilities and Community Life
• PSYCH 410 Abnormal Language
• PSYCH 418 Brain and Behavior I (formally Biopsychology I)
• PSYCH 419 Brain and Behavior II (formally Biopsychology II)
• PSYCH 430 Introduction to Community PSYCH and Community Mental Health
• PSYCH 433 Abnormal PSYCH
• PSYCH 440 The PSYCH of Aging
• PSYCH 441 Adult Development and Aging
• RELIG-ST 494RS Death in HISTORY of Religion
• RELIG-ST 496RS The Body in the HISTORY of Religion
• SOC-SCI 411P Aging in America: Past and Present
• SOCIOL 211 Social and Psychological Development through the Life Cycle
• SOCIOL 303CA Perspectives in Science and Healing (Interdisciplinary Cluster Course)
• SOCIOL 303CO Issues in Death and Dying (Interdisciplinary Cluster Course)
• SOCIOL 303CT Healing and Cultural Diversity (Interdisciplinary Cluster Course)
• SOCIOL 316 SOCIOL of Death and Dying
• SOCIOL 317 Policies of Drug Use and Control
• SOCIOL 328 Anthropology of the Body
• SOCIOL 410R Aging in Contemporary Society
• SOCIOL 416 Aging and Developmental Disabilities
• SOCIOL 417 Practicum in Aging and Developmental Disabilities
• SOCIOL 439 Social Meanings of Illness, Suffering and Healing
• SOCIOL 440R SOCIOL of MEDICINE
• SPANISH 216 Spanish for the Health Sciences
• THEATRE 300CH Healing and the Arts (Interdisciplinary Cluster Course)