Fourth-Year Electives Offered
At this time, the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics offers one fourth-year elective in the months of February and October of each academic year:
Humanistic Elements of Medicine
Initially designed for students participating in the Certificate Program, this course is available to all fourth-year students interested in an elective that addresses a number of topics relating to the medical humanities. Some of these topics include, but are not limited to, ethical, philosophical, social, and legal dimensions of health care; perspectives on the doctor/patient relationship; and the spiritual dimensions of health care. As part of this course, all students are required to prepare a senior project. This course is taught in seminar-style each day in the months of February and October, with faculty of the McGovern Center facilitating discussion.
For more information about this course, you may contact the course coordinator, Angela Polczynski at:
Angela.Polczynski@uth.tmc.edu.
The Center has recently developed two additional electives that are pending approval:
- Memoirs of Mental Illness; and
- Public Health.