Medicine, Health and Culture Minor

To fulfill interdisciplinary minor requirements, students must successfully complete 20 or more credits from at least four different disciplines:

• BIO-140 The War on Cancer
• BIO-252 Oceans and Human Health
• BIO-435 Agroecology
• ECN-236 Economics of the Environment
• ECN-242 Health Economics
• ENG-253 Altered States in Victorian Literature
• ENG-373 Medical and Scientific Culture in Film
• HSC-153 The First Thousand Days: Nicaraguan Study
• HSC-205 Fundamentals of Public Health
• HSC-304 Environmental Health
• HSC-313 Medical Aspects of Athletics
• HSC-315 Fundamentals of Nutrition
• HSC-341 Science of Aging
• HSC-342 Chronic Diseases
• HSC-401 Epidemiology
• HSC-415 Advanced Nutrition Principles
• HST-307 Life on the Margins in Early Modern Europe
• HST-310 History of Western Medicine
• IDS-301 Field Work in Medicine
• MUS-327 The Alexander Technique and Body Mapping
• MXP-260 Botswana Paradox
• PHL-302 Clinical Medical Ethics
• PHL-305 Bioethics
• PHL-321 Philosophy of Psychology
• POL-205 Public Policy in the United States
• PSY-213 Adulthood and Aging
• PSY-214 Health Psychology
• PSY-218 Abnormal Psychology
• PSY-404 Autism
• PSY-415 Placebo Effect
• PSY-418 Eating Disorders
• SOC-234 Medical Sociology
• SOC-260 Global Health Inequalities
• SOC-262 Social Determinants of Health
• SPN-205 Beginner Medical Spanish
• WGS-240 Women in Science

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• Students must also submit a portfolio in their final term at Furman to be considered by at least two members of the minor oversight committee demonstrating the connection between the courses contributing to their minor requirements. An exit interview with a member of the minor oversight committee is also required to successfully complete the minor.

   

  All courses contributing to minor requirements will dedicate at least 50% of their content to questions directly associated with medicine, health and/or culture. Furthermore, first year seminars will not be considered for inclusion in the minor, while relevant credit-bearing internships or other courses completed in related areas may be considered on an individual basis.