Medicine, Literature, and Culture Minor < University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The interdisciplinary honors minor in medicine, literature, and culture was developed in collaboration with Honors Carolina and the Department of Social Medicine in the UNC School of Medicine. It encourages students to explore the cultural and historical dimensions of medical practice by viewing the practice of medicine not simply as an application of chemical and biological analyses of and interventions in the functioning of the human body but also as a cultural practice embedded in changing ideas of disease, health, doctors, patients, medical institutions, and ethics. The minor is available to students accepted into Honors Carolina and to any undergraduate student who has achieved and maintains a grade point average of 3.00 or better.

Requirements

In addition to the program requirements listed below, students must:

take at least nine hours of their minor "core" requirements at UNC–Chapel Hill
earn a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.000 in the minor core requirements. Some programs may require higher standards for minor or specific courses.

For more information, please consult the degree requirements section of the catalog.

Course List
Code	Title	Hours
Core Requirements
Five courses representing at least three different subject codes:		15
ENGL 268H	Medicine, Literature, and Culture
Four additional courses in at least two additional subject codes
Total Hours		15

Options for additional courses include, but are not limited to, the following courses:

Course List
Code	Title	Hours
AAAD 300	Cultures of Health and Healing in Africa	3
AAAD 387	HIV/AIDS in Africa and the Diaspora	3
ANTH 147	Comparative Healing Systems	3
ANTH 270	Living Medicine	3
ANTH 319	Global Health	3
ANTH 444	Medicine, Politics, and Justice	3
ANTH 474	The Anthropology of Disability	3
ANTH 272/ENGL 264	Healing in Ethnography and Literature	3
ANTH/FOLK 470	Medicine and Anthropology	3
ANTH/FOLK 473	Anthropology of the Body and the Subject	3
ANTH 442/WGST 440	Health and Gender after Socialism	3
ANTH/WGST 443	Cultures and Politics of Reproduction	3
CMPL 383	Literature and Medicine ^H	3
ENGL 266	Science and Literature ^H	3
ENGL 269	Introduction to Disability Studies	3
ENGL 370	Race, Health, and Narrative ^H	3
ENGL 610	Practicum in Health Humanities	3
ENGL 611	Narrative, Literature, and Medicine: Advanced Interdisciplinary Seminar	3
GEOG 222	Health and Medical Geography	3
HIST 329	An Introduction to the History of Medicine ^H	3
HNRS 650	Topics in Medicine and the Humanities	1-6
MEJO 560/HBEH 660/HPM 550	Environmental and Science Journalism ^H	3
PLCY 361	Health Policy in the United States	3
PLCY/HPM 565	Global Health Law & Policy	3
PLCY 570/HPM 571	Health and Human Rights	3
RELI 665/WGST 664	Body and Suffering in Christian Mysticism	3
SOCI 422	Sociology of Mental Health and Illness	3
SOCI 431	Aging	3
SOCI 469	Health and Society	3

H	Honors version available. An honors course fulfills the same requirements as the nonhonors version of that course. Enrollment and GPA restrictions may apply.

Additional courses can be applied to the requirements for this minor with the approval of the advisor for the minor.

At least three courses used to fulfill requirements for the minor must be counted exclusively in the minor and cannot be double-counted with a major or second minor. All courses must be taken for a standard letter grade, with the exception of one course (three to four credit hours) of By-Examination (BE) credit.

See the program page here for special opportunities.