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Undergraduate Certificate in Health Humanities

The Undergraduate Certificate in Health Humanities is designed for students in the humanities, social sciences, public health, nursing, pre-med and pre-health who want to develop their studies with interdisciplinary perspectives on health and medical topics.

Students explore health, medicine and healing in humanities-based courses through a variety of departments including English, Earth and Environment, Global & Sociocultural Studies, History, Liberal Studies, Philosophy and Psychology, as well as the Honors College. Students will gain research and analytical skills, build expertise in communicating with diverse communities, and discover many career pathways in and around health care and the humanities.

This 18-credit program is ideal not only for students who plan to pursue careers in public health, nursing and medicine, but also for students interested in studying health concerns from historical, literary, anthropological and other perspectives.

  • Courses

    Earn the certificate by completing six of these courses:

    • WST 3011 Understanding and Preventing Campus Sexual Assault
    • WST 3700 Introduction to FemTech: Innovations in Women's Health
    • WST 4645 Queer Theory
    • WST 4703 Health Disparities: Gender, Race, and Class 
    • AMH 3314 Public Health and Medicine in United States History
    • AMH 4318 Health Humanities 
    • AMH 4671 Race, Gender and Science in the Atlantic World
    • ANT 3462 Medical Anthropology
    • ANT 4480 Anthropological Approaches to Global Health
    • ANT 4485 Psychedelics and Culture
    • CLP 4314 Psychology of Health and Illness
    • CYP 3003 Introduction to Community Psychology
    • DEP 2000 Human Growth and Development
    • DEP 3404 Psychology of Adulthood
    • ENC 3363 Writing about the Environment
    • ENC 3311 Advanced Writing and Research
    • ENC 3354 Writing as Social Action
    • ENC 3363 Writing about the Environment
    • ENC 3378 Writing Across Borders
    • ENC 4241 Scientific Writing
    • ENC 4260 Topics in Professional Writing
    • ENC 3354 Writing as Social Action
    • ENC 4331 Writing, Rhetoric, and Community
    • ENC 4357 How to Go Public
    • ENC 4405 Queer Rhetorics
    • ENL 4215 Medieval Monstrosity
    • HIS 4315 Gendered History of the Body
    • HIS 4492 A History of U.S. Health Policy
    • HSA 3412 Cultural Competency in Health Sciences
    • HUM 1020 Introduction to Humanities
    • IDS 3183 Health without Borders
    • IDS 3189 International Nutrition, Public Health, and Economic Development
    • LAH 4722 Health, Medicine, and Disease in Latin American Social History
    • LIT 4403 Literature among the Arts and Sciences
    • LIT 4420 The Psychological Novel
    • LIT 4606 Literature of the Sea
    • PHC 3101 Introduction to Public Health
    • PHI 3320 Philosophy of Mind
    • PHI 3400 Philosophy of Science
    • PHI 3454 Philosophy of Biology
    • PHI 3601 Ethics
    • PHI 3638 Contemporary Ethical Issues
    • PHI 4633 Biomedical Ethics
    • PSB 3002 Introductory Bio-Psychology
    • PSY 2012 Introduction to Psychology
    • SOP 3004 Introduction to Social Psychology
    • SYO 3400 Health and Medicine in Society
    • SYO 4420 Comparative Health Systems
    • SYP 4730 Aging in Society


    For more information, please consult the FIU Catalog. Please Health Humanities in the search bar on the left-hand side. 

  • Application

    Current degree-seeking students that haven't applied for graduation should send an email to wstudies@fiu.edu with their PID and expected graduation to begin the enrollment process. Students that have applied for graduation need to submit the Change of Program/Plan form to add a certificate. They can enter their information in the student section of the form and send it via email to wstudies@fiu.edu.