UMKC Medical Humanities Course List
Values, Policies, and Practices in Health Care
(16-week course)
This course takes a contemporary approach to the current health care system, examining the ways in which cultural values have shaped and continue to shape health care practices and policies.
Healing and the Arts
(16-week course)
This course focuses on ways in which the arts serve as a healing life force in society. Starting with the topic of creativity and its impact on the arts, the course traces the arts from antiquity to modern day to study the intimate relationship between art and healing.
Healing and Cultural Diversity
(16-week course)
This course develops an understanding of cultural diversity and teaches better communication skills to health care providers and consumers so cultural barriers can be overcome and the health process can be enhanced.
Literature: A Healing Art
(month-long course offered in September)
Literature will be explored as a healing art: healing health care providers and receivers. Life stories will be used to learn about people from all walks of life.
Medicine, Literature and the Law
(month-long course offered in March)
Perspectives in Science and Healing
(16-week course)
Students will critically investigate the theories, paradigms, models and practices that relate to vital research and biomedical issues that confront the health care professions.
Body Images in Medicine and the Arts
(month-long course offered in June)
The course identifies key issues that affect attitudes of health care providers toward patients based upon prevalent attitudes toward the human body.
Writing, Healing, and the Humanities
(16-week course, fulfills humanities 225 course requirement)
Students will explore the relationship between healing and the humanities by using examples from literature and developing their own writing on the fundamental aspects of what it means to be human.