Health Humanities

Bachelor's

Health Humanities offers a distinctive approach to the study of health by bringing the Humanities and Psychology into sustained conversation. Rather than viewing health solely through a biomedical lens, the program explores how health, illness, disability, aging, mental health, and care are experienced, represented, communicated, and understood within different social and cultural contexts. At the heart of the program is interdisciplinary learning. Students encounter perspectives from literature and culture, psychology, ethics, language and communication, disability studies, aging studies, narrative, and the arts. This combination allows them to approach complex questions of health from multiple perspectives and to recognize the connections between individual experience and the broader cultural and social environments in which health and care take shape. The program places particular emphasis on critical inquiry, research, and communication. Students learn not only to engage with ideas and theories, but also to analyze narratives and cultural representations, investigate contemporary health-related questions, and work across disciplinary boundaries.