Health and Illness in South Florida: Implementing a Health Humanities Minor

FAIN: AKB-298431-24

Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton, FL 33431-6424)
Michael A. Rapoport (Project Director: September 2023 to present)
Clarissa Ann Chenovick (Co Project Director: September 2023 to present)
Adam Wyatt (Co Project Director: September 2023 to present)

A three-year project to develop five new courses and establish a new interdisciplinary minor in health humanities for undergraduates. 

Florida Atlantic University’s (FAU) Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters proposes a three-year project to create an interdisciplinary minor in Health Humanities. This minor will serve as a bridge connecting the teaching of topics related to health and medicine, typically rooted in scientific and biomedical disciplines, with the methods and aims of the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Faculty and staff in the College of Arts and Letters and College of Medicine will collaborate in the implementation of the minor. The minor aims to create opportunities for dialogue between humanities and non-humanities students and for faculty, increase enrollment in humanities courses from students outside of Arts and Letters, prepare students for future education and careers related to health and medicine, and strengthen connections between FAU and the local community.