Student Learning Outcomes
The program in Medical and Health Humanities helps its majors to:
- Develop knowledge of how non-medical disciplines contribute to the study of health, illness, and care.
- Demonstrate knowledge of how cultural and social perspectives impact the concept of health.
- Demonstrate knowledge of factors that complicate health care delivery and health care access.
- Develop communication skills (written, oral, and visual) across multiple disciplines that will prepare them for professional life and/or graduate school.
The Medical and Health Humanities program goals are realized in the following student learning outcomes (SLOs):
Program Goal 1 Outcome:
SLO1: Students will be able to apply the concept of homeostasis to evaluate and solve physiological problems.
SLO 2: Students will be able to assess how non-medical disciplines approach the study of health and illness.
SLO 3: Students will be able to apply knowledge from non-medical disciplines to the study of health, illness, and care.
Program Goal 2 Outcome:
SLO 1: Students will be able to identify different cultural and social views of health.
SLO 2: Students will be able to assess how cultural and social perspectives impact concepts of health.
Program Goal 3 Outcome:
SLO 1: Students will be able to identify factors that affect health care delivery and health care access.
SLO 2: Students will be able to assess the impact of factors that affect health care delivery and health care access.
Program Goal 4 Outcome:
SLO 1: Students will be able to develop focused, convincing, and coherent arguments.
SLO 2: Students will be able to effectively use research, including evaluation and documentation of sources.
The Medical and Health Humanities major provides students with a strong transdisciplinary background in issues relate to medicine and health. The major has a large number of free electives and allows students to join the pre-Doctor of Physical Therapy program , specialize in pre-law, or pursue a double major in another humanities discipline.