Medical Humanities & Health Studies
Offered at IU Indianapolis by School of Liberal Arts
About
The Medical Humanities and Health Studies (MHHS) program offers an interdisciplinary curriculum to prepare undergraduates to understand the broader role and determinants of health and medicine in today's world.
This program offers both a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science degree.
Humanities courses raise questions on how human beings deal with health, medical intervention, illness, and death, while social science courses provide insight into the social, economic, and cultural contexts of health, illness, and healthcare. Students benefit from the wealth of faculty in the School of Liberal Arts and across the IU Indianapolis campus who have strong teaching and research interests in the area of healthcare.
An academic foundation in MHHS can be valuable to students pursuing virtually any career path, including but not limited to social/economic research, medicine, allied health professions, dentistry, health law, medical social work, nursing, public health, and public policy studies. Our graduates have pursued degrees in pharmacy, medicine, occupational therapy, and other health professions, as well as entered law and graduate school programs.