Health & Medical Studies
Danville, USA
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English
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On-Campus
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Introduction
With the large number of current and prospective students interested in health and medicine, this minor will provide a structure for how STEM fields intersect with social science and the humanities. Students, specifically students interested in healthcare, need to understand that the challenges in healthcare and society are complex problems that require an interdisciplinary approach. The minor will pair well with majors both in and outside of Division III (including Business, Politics and Foreign Languages) and will allow students to develop and demonstrate an understanding of health and medicine in the global community.
Throughout the course of this minor students will learn to:
- Describe how the sciences, social sciences and humanities integrate with medical content.
- Connect science, social studies, and humanities to the work of healthcare professionals.
- Integrate the ways of knowing (science, social science, and humanities) to understand the equity issues in the healthcare system, especially related to the variety of socioeconomic, social location, and racial demographics present in the healthcare system.
- Critique forms of systemic oppression and marginalization based on difference and identify how these structures enable and constrain agency and inform visions of equity and justice.