All courses listed here count toward the Medical Humanities minor, even if they are not listed in the Rice General Announcements (GA).
Summer 2025 Courses
Intro Course (required for the Minor)
MDHM 201 Intro to Medical Humanities TTh 11:30 – 2:25 pm, Katherine Shwetz
Elective (4 required for the minor, courses vary by semester)
MDHM 260 Creative Writing for Med Hum, Cameron Hammon
MDHM 272 Literature & Medicine, MW 6:00-8:45 pm, Cameron Hammon
BIOS 368 Conceiving and Misconceiving the Monstrous in Fiction and in Art, in Medicine and in Biosciences, MTWThF 1:00 - 4:00, Michael Gustin
SPAN 322, Spanish Professional Practicum, Thais Diaz Montalvo
Practica (1 required for the minor, if taking MDHM 402 must take MDHM 403 in Spring)
MDHM 420, Medical Humanities Spanish Practicum Abroad, Thais Diaz Montalvo
MDHM 421, Medical Humanities Chinese, Liang Fu
MDHM 430, Health, Humanism and Society Scholars Medical Humanities Practicum (1 year), Melissa Bailar
MDHM 436 engaged Learning and Research in Medical Humanities, Melissa Bailar
Fall 2025 Courses
Intro Course (required for the Minor)
MDHM 201 Intro to Medical Humanities TTh 1:00 - 2:15 pm Samin Rashidbeigi
Electives (4 required for the minor, courses vary by semester)
ANTH 342, Ethnographies of care, Th 4:00-6:30, Kamala Visweswaran
ANTH 399, Anthropology of Reproduction, W 3:00 - 5:30, Eugenia Georges
ASIA 307, Medicine and Empire in Asia, T-Th 1:00 - 2:15, Chang Xu
ENGL 378, Politics of Reproduction: Sex, Abortion, and Motherhood, MW 2:00 - 3:15, Carly Thomsen
GERM 352, Politics of the Flesh, T-Th 1:00 - 2:15, Martin Blumenthal-Barby
HEAL 222, Principles of Public & Community Health, MWF 9:00 - 9:50, Heidi Perkins
HEAL 380, Disparities in Health in America, T-Th 1:00 - 2:15, Cassandra Diep
MDHM 142, The Colors of Life and The End of Life, M 1:00 - 3:50, Marcia Brennan
MDHM 260, Creative Writing and Medical Humanities, M 4:00 - 6:30, Cameron Hammon
MDHM 266, Medical Ethics, MWF 11:00 - 11:50, Samuel Reis-Dennis
MDHM 272 / ENGL 272 - 001, Literature and Medicine, MWF 11:00 - 11:50, Cameron Hammon
MDHM 272 / ENGL 272 - 002, Literature and Medicine, MWF 9:00 - 9:50, Matty Hemming
MDHM 275, Topics in Health Inequities, MWF 12:00 - 12:50, Matty Hemming
MDHM 307, Medicine and Empire in Asia, T-Th 1:00 - 2:15, Chang Xu
MDHM 359, Responsible AI for Health, T-Th 10:50 - 12:05, Kirsten Ostherr
MDHM 378, Politics of Reproduction: Sex, Abortion, and Motherhood, MW 2:00 - 3:15, Carly Thomsen
PHIL 266, Medical Ethics, MWF 11:00 - 11:50, Samuel Reis-Dennis
PHIL 566, Topics in Medical Ethics: Ethics of Psychiatry, M 1:30 - 3:30, Samuel Reis-Dennis
RELI 142, The Colors of Life and The End of Life, M 1:00 - 3:50, Marcia Brennan
RELI 150, Sacred Birth, M 4:00 - 6:30, Judith Ellen Brunton
SOCI 345, Medical Sociology, T-Th 10:50 - 12:05, Miranda Waggoner
SPAN 322 - 011, Special Topics: Advances Spanish II: Spanish for Medical Prof II, MWF 9:00 - 9:50, Aymara Boggiano
SPAN 372, Reproductive and Maternal Health in Latin America, MWF 10:00 - 10:50, Claire Branigan
Practica (1 required for the minor, if taking MDHM402 must take MDHM403 in Spring)
MDHM 402, Health, Humanism and Society Scholars Medical Humanities Practicum (1 year), Th 4:00 - 5:15, Matty Hemming
MDHM 430 - 001, Health, Humanism and Society Scholars Medical Humanities Practicum (1 semester), T 4:00 - 5:15, Melissa Bailar
MDHM 430 - 002, Health, Humanism and Society Scholars Medical Humanities Practicum (1 semester), T 4:00 - 5:15, Katherine Shwetz
SPAN 323, Spanish Professional Practicum I, ---- ----, Jessica Morones