Medical Humanities Electives are listed below. Students may also petition up to 4 quarter units to count other relevant, but unlisted, courses as electives.
Elective Courses (Updated Fall, 2020)
[By Department]
Black Studies
15 The Psychology of Blacks
106 Women and Politics of the Body
137E The Sociology of Black Experience
138 African Religions in the Americas
154 Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice
Chicana/o Studies
124 Introduction to US Xicana/o(x) & Latinx Public Art
137 Xicana/o(x) Oral/Visual Traditions: Spirituality as Resistance in meXicana/o Art Practice and Culture
134 Chicana/Latina Public Art
149 Body, Culture, Power
187 Language, Power, Learning (Crosslisted with Linguistics 187)
Classics:
60 Science and Medicine in Ancient Greece
Comparative Literature
36 Global Humanities
186FL Vegetarianism: Food, Literature, Philosophy
27 Memory: Bridging the Humanities and Neuroscience
192CA Cognitive Approaches to World Literature (cross-listed as ENG190)
East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
CHIN 48 Ethics and Society according to Classical Chinese Thought
CHIN 163A Sex, Drugs and Chinese Meditation [cross-listed as RGST 163A]
CHIN 180QC Queer, Crippled China
EACS 7 Asian Values
EACS 47 Introduction to Daoism [cross-listed as RGST 47]
English:
50 Introduction to US Minority Literature
109 Writing of Verse
134FC Flor y Canto Poetry Reading & Writing from Xicano/a/x Perspective
137B Latinx Poetry, Spoken Word, and Performance Art
170 series (Literature and Mind emphasis)
170 LM Literature and Medicine
170 IM Introduction to Literature and Mind
170 MB Mind, Brain and Literature
170DA Disability Aesthetics
170 MT Modern Thought and Literature
171 Literature and the Human Mind
171LE Literature and Emotion
175HR Human Rights
190 Cognitive Approaches to World Literature [cross-listed as Comp Lit 192CA]
Feminist Studies
40 Women, Reproduction, and Cultural Production
130 Perspectives on Women’s Health
161 Constructions of Sexuality
French and Italian Studies
ITAL 139YY: Cultural Representations in Italy: Italy in the Age of the Coronavirus
FR 154: Medicine and Comedy
ITAL 160: Senior Seminar: Italian Biopolitics
History
20 Science Technology and Medicine in Modern Society
74 Poverty, Inequality, and Social Justice in Historical and Global Context
101G Comparative History of Same Sex Practices and Gender Variance
105CW Science and Technology in Cold War US
106B The Scientific Revolution, 1500-1800
133D The Nazi Holocaust and Other Genocides
168N Interracial Intimacy
175D American Family History
193F Food in World History
INT
35HD History of Disease
75 Medicine for Underserved Communities
133A Memory: An Interdisciplinary Exploration
156EE Environmental Ethics (cross-listed as RS156EE)
156BE Bioethics (cross-listed as 156BE)
175 Health Policy and Access to Care
184PD Honors Seminar – Introduction to Clinical Medicine (Blain)
187AC Community-based Participatory Research on Health Disparities
199H Honors Independent Study – Clinical Research (Blain)
Linguistics
50 Language and Power
180 Language, Race, and Ethnicity
187 Language, Power, and Learning (Crosslisted with CHST 187)
Philosophy
4 Introduction to Ethics
7 Biomedical Ethics
100 Ethics
131 Advanced Topics in Ethics
138 Normative Ethics
141 History of Ethics
Religious Studies
12 Religious Approaches to Death
14 Introduction to Native American Religious Studies
18 Comparing Religions
47 Introduction to Daoism
61 African Religions in the Americas
71 Introduction to the Religion of Asian America
101B Religious Experience
110L LGBT Religious History: Queering the Spirit
123 Asian American Religion
156BE Biomedical Ethics [cross-listed as INT 156BE]
156CC Seminar in Social Ethics
161E Buddhist Cognitive and Contemplative Sciences
193B Religion and Healing in Global Perspective
Spanish and Portuguese
145 Spanish for Healthcare
Writing
105SW Science Writing for the Public
105WE Writing and Ethics
109HP Writing for the Health Professions
109ST Writing for Science and Technology
