Courses: A Unique Opportunity

Although many universities and medical schools have programs in medical humanities and/or bioethics, Davidson College is one of the first liberal arts colleges to offer such a program.

In order to complete the requirements for the Medical Humanities Concentration, students must take six courses, including two core requirements and four electives. Students are strongly encouraged to take one class that offers an applied experience in a health care setting. Students are invited to suggest courses for their concentration and their major that are not included in this list.  Permissions must be obtained by the Director or Associate Director of Medical Humanities. 

Core

Philosophy 130 Medical Ethics
CIS 391 Research Ethics

Applied Experience

CIS 380  Issues in Medicine
CIS 390  Health Care Ethics

Considerations for PreMed

BIO 361  Issues in Reproductive Medicine
CIS 303  History of Medicine
CIS 381  Health, Law and Public Policy
CIS 392  Epidemiology
CIS 397  Future of American Health Care
ECO 122  Introduction to Health Economics (non-majors)
ECO 222  Health Economics (majors)
REL  256  Religion, Ethics, and Medicine

Considerations for Population Health

ANT 340  Medical Anthropology
BIO 103  The AIDS Pandemic
CIS 392  Epidemiology
CIS 470  Global Health Ethics
HIS 472  Law, Justice, and Human Rights in China
SOC 360  Medical Sociology
SOU 385  Public Health in India

Additional Electives

BIO 310  Bioinformatics
ENG 110  Literature and Medicine
ENG 494  Disability in Literature
PHIL 230  Philosophy of Medicine
PSY 245  Psychology of Aging
PSY 303  Behavioral Neuroscience
REL 155  Issue in Religion and Science
REL 257  Death, Dying, and the Afterlife