Courses

Fall 2025 Courses

• MHUM-1101: Introduction to Medical Humanities
  Professor Lindsey O’Neil
• MHUM-1007: The Problem of Suffering
  Professor Paul Noufi
• MHUM-1012 and MHUM-4012: Art & the Power of Observation
  Professor Julia Langley
• MHUM-1200: Insider/Outsider: The Anatomy of Identity
  Professor Julia Langley and Toni-Lee Sangastiano
• MHUM 2400: Medicine & the Mythology of Race
  Professor Corey Williams
• MHUM-2500: Plague and Punishment
  
• MHUM-4450: Aging and Ageism
  Professor Pamela Saunders
• PSYC-2400: Social Psychology
  Professor Kostadin Kushlev
• PSYC 3200: Health Psychology
  Professor Jessica Chiang
• PHIL-2001: Bioethics
  Professor Laura Bishop
• PHIL-2001: Bioethics
  Professor Clark Donley
• PHIL-2005: Clinical Ethics
  Professor Jeffrey Spike
• PHIL-2090: Ethics of AI and Health
  Professor Joel de Lara
• PHIL-4311: Philosophy of Health
  Professor Quill Kukla
• STIA-3257: Global Health History and Politics
  Professor Emily Mendenhall
• STIA-3262: Culture, Reproductive Sci & Tech
  Professor Cecilia Van Hollen
• STIA-3294: Global Health Security and Diplomacy
  Professor Rebecca Katz
• HEST-2254: Intro to Healthcare Ethics
  Professor Sarah Vittone
• HEST-4400: Int Concepts in Mind-Body Med
  Professor Sarah Vittone
• HEST-4430: Interdisciplinary Palliative Care
  Professor Sarah Vittone
• UNXD-2109: Health Inequities in Context
  Professor Theodora Danylevich
• UNXD 3318-90: Health Innova. for the Common Good
  Professor Brian Floyd
• SOC-3709: Sociology of Health/Illness
  Professor Alyssa Newman
• ANTH-2250: Intro to Medical Anthropology
  Professor Sylvia Önder
• ENGL-4257: Disability Narratives
  Professor Theodora Danylevich
• GLOH-4402: Convos in Health Global-Local
  Professor John Monahan
• GLOH-4420: Mental Health in Global Development
  Professor Shabab Wahid

Spring 2026

Coming soon!

Fall 2024 Courses

• ANTH-2250: Intro: Medical Anthropology
  Professor S. Önder
• ANTH-2252: Gender and Global Health
  Professor Andrea Chiovenda
• ANTH-2259: Plagues, Pandemics, and People
  Professor Andrea Chiovenda
• ARTH-1111: Art and the Body
  Professor T. Hunt
• ARTH-3510: Picturing Death
  Professor A. Acres
• BIOL-2501: Global Health History
  Professor T. Newfield
• CLSS-2088: Magic and Science in the Mediterranean World
  Professor Lingxin Zhang
• LING-5313: Language & Health
  Professor M. Ford
• MHUM-1007: The Problem of Suffering
  Professor M. Pottash & P. Noufi
• MHUM-1101: Introduction to Medical Humanities
  Professor L. O’Neil
• MHUM-1103: Literature & Medicine
  Professor D. Marchalik
• MHUM-1111: Public Health Ethics 
  Professor J. Spike
• MHUM-1200: Insider/Outsider: The Anatomy of Identity in Art and Language
  Professors T.L. Sangastiano & J. Langley
• MHUM-3310: Literature of AIDS & Epidemics
  Professor R. Alameddine (Visiting Medical Humanities Scholar in Residence)
• MHUM-3330: Laughter is the Best Medicine
  Professor J. Spike & A. Langlieb
• MHUM-4450: Aging and Ageism
  Professor P. Saunders
• PHIL-2001: Bioethics
  Professor L. Bishop
• PHIL-2001: Bioethics
  Professor D. Shope
• Professor J. Spike
• PHIL-2090: Ethics of AI & Health
  Professor J. de Lara
• PSYC-2228: Health Psychology
  Professor J. Chiang
• PSYC-2400: Social Psychology
  Professor K. Kushlev
• SOCI-3709: Sociology of Health/Illness
  Professor Kimberlee Holland
• THEO-3030: Religion, Medicine & Disability
  Professor Erin Cline
• UNXD-3318: Health Equity for Common Good
  Professor Brian Floyd

Spring 2025 Courses

• ANTH-2256: Disability and Culture
  Professor S. Önder
• ANTH-4258: Cultures of Childbirth
  Professor S. Önder
• FREN-4601: Health, Race, and Colonialism
  Professor Jennifer Boum Make
• GLOH-4402: Convos in Health Global Local
  Professor John Monahan
• HEST-3355: Health Equity Think Tank
  Professor B. Floyd & E. Yearwood
• MHUM-1007: Problem of Suffering
  Professor P. Noufi
• MHUM-1101: Introduction to Medical Humanities
  Professor L. Krishnan
• MHUM-1110: War, Death, and Remembrance: The Untold Truth Behind DC’s Monuments and Memorials
  Professor J. Langley
• MHUM-2100: Birth Narratives
  Professor L. Lazzari
• MHUM-2220: Pediatric Ethics
  Professor J. Spike
• MHUM-2275: Medicine and the Muse: Writing Through Change
  Professor A. Forna
• MHUM 2400: Medicine & the Mythology of Race
  Professor J. C. Williams
• MHUM 3200: History of Animals in Medicine
  Professor C. Sexton
• MHUM 3320: Medicalization of the Mind: Literature of Psychological Thought Pre-Freud
  Professor L. O’Neil
• MHUM-4960: Senior Capstone Seminar
  Professor T. Newfield
• PHIL-2001: Bioethics
  Professor S. Kao
• PHIL-2090: Ethics of AI & Health
  Professor J. de Lara
• PSYCH-2400: Social Psychology
  Professor W. Parrott
• PSYCH-3220: Health Psychology
  Professor K. Kushlev
• SOCI-3709: Sociology of Health/Illness
  Professor A. Newman
• STIA-3221: Global Health History & Politics
  Professor E. Mendenhall
• STIA-4243/ASST 4047: Medicine and Power in India
  Professor C. Van Hollen
• STIA-4555: Global Medicine and Technology
  Professor C. Van Hollen
• STIA-4969: Mind, Madness, Medication
  Professor E. Mendenhall
• WGST-2239: Race, Gender and Medicine
  Professor T. Danylevich

Fall 2023 Courses

• BIOL-2600: Select Agents: Biology and Security
  Professor M. Parker
• BIOL-2670: Global Health History
  Professor T. Newfield
• ENGL-4180: Death in the Digital
  Professor A. Phillips
• LING-5313: Language & Health
  Professor M. Ford
• MHUM-1007: The Problem of Suffering
  Professor M. Pottash
• MHUM-1101: Introduction to Medical Humanities
  Professor L. Krishnan
• MHUM-1111: Public Health Ethics / PHIL-2004: Public Health Ethics
  Professor J. Spike
• MHUM-1103: Literature & Medicine
  Professor D. Marchalik
• MHUM-1200: Insider/Outsider: The Anatomy of Identity in Art and Language
  Professors T.L. Sangastiano & J. Langley
• MHUM-4450: Aging and Ageism
  Professors P. Saunders
• PHIL-2001: Bioethics
  Professor L. Bishop
• PHIL-2007: Philosophy of Medicine
  Professor E. Reverman
• PHIL-2090: Ethics of AI & Health
  Professor J. de Lara
• PSYC-2400: Social Psychology
  Professor K. Kushlev
• SOCI-3709: Sociology of Health/Illness
  Professor A. Newman

Spring 2024 Courses

• ANTH-2256: Disability & Culture
  Professor S. Önder
• ANTH 2259: Pandemics, Plagues, and People
  Professor E. Guevera
• ANTH 2301: Embodied Lives: Q St Ancestors
  Professor D. Justinvil
• BIOL-2504: Global History of Plague / HIST-4104: Global History of Plague
  Professor T. Newfield
• GLOH 4402: Convos in Health Global-Local
  Professor J. Monahan & S. Kim
• HEST-3355: Health Equity Think Tank
  Professor B. Floyd & E. Yearwood
• MHUM-1008: Ethics of Research with Human Subjects
  Professor M. Pottash
• MHUM-1110: War, Death, and Remembrance
  Professor J. Langley
• MHUM-1103: Literature & Medicine
  Professor D. Marchalik
• MHUM 2100: Birth Narratives
  Professor L. Lazzari
• MHUM-2202: Methods in Medical Humanities
  Professor D. Marchalik
• MHUM 2210: How to End a Pandemic
  Professor S. Abramowitz
• MHUM-2220: Pediatric Ethics
  Professor J. Spike
• MHUM-2275: Medicine and the Muse: Writing Through Change
  Professor A. Forna
• MHUM 2300: Sculpture and Health
  Professor G. Hanna
• MHUM 3320: Medicalization of the Mind
  Professor L. O’Neil
• MHUM-4960: Senior Capstone Seminar
  Professor T. Newfield
• PHIL-2001: Bioethics
  Professor J. Spike & S. Kao
• PHIL-2090: Ethics of AI & Health
  Professor J. de Lara
• PHIL 4302: Topics in Philosophy of Disability
  Professor J. Reynolds
• PSYC-2228: Social Psychology
  Professor W. Parrott
• PSYC-2228: Health Psychology
  Professor K. Kushlev
• SOCI-3709: Sociology of Health/Illness
  Professor K. Holland
• WGST-2239: Race, Gender, and Medicine
  Professor T. Danylevich

Fall 2022 Courses

• ANTH-2256: Disability & Culture
  Professor S. Önder
• BIOL-2600: Select Agents: Biology and Security
  Professor M. Parker

• BIOL-2670: Global Health History
  Professor T. Newfield

• IDST-2120: Disability Justice at GU
  Professor L.X.Z. Brown

• MHUM-1101: Introduction to Medical Humanities
  Professors M. Pottash & J. Langley

• MHUM-1103: Literature & Medicine
  Professor D. Marchalik
• MHUM-1111: Public Health Ethics / PHIL-2004: Public Health Ethics
  Professor J. Spike
• MHUM-1112: Clinical Ethics / PHIL-2005: Clinical Ethics
  Professors T. Foreman & J. Spike
• MHUM-3302: Death in America
  Professor H. Groninger
• PHIL-2001: Bioethics
  Professor L. Bishop
• PSYC-2400: Social Psychology
  Professor K. Kushlev
• SOCI-3709: Sociology of Health/Illness
  Professor K. Holland
• STIA-3257: Global Health Foundations
  Professor E. Mendenhall

Spring 2023 Courses

• AFAM 2800: Black Sexuality
  Professor L. Horton-Stallings
• ANTH-2250: Intro: Medical Anthropology
  Professor S. Önder
• CULP-2260: Performance & Narratives of Pandemic Culture & Politics
  Professor D. Goldman
• HEST-3355: Health Equity Think Tank
  Professor B. Floyd & E. Yearwood

• HIST-4104: Global History of the Plague / BIOL-2504: Global History of the Plague
  Professor T. Newfield
• MHUM-1103: Literature and Medicine
  Professor D. Marchalik
• MHUM-1110: War, Death, and Remembrance
  Professor J. Langley
• MHUM-1130: End of Life Ethics
  Professor M. Pottash
• MHUM-2202: Methods in Medical Humanities
  Professor D. Marchalik
• MHUM-2220: Pediatric Ethics
  Professor J. Spike
• MHUM-2275: Medicine and the Muse: Writing Through Change
  Professor A. Forna
• MHUM-3310: Literature of AIDS & Epidemics
  Professor R. Alameddine (Visiting Medical Humanities Scholar in Residence)
• MHUM-4960: Senior Capstone Seminar
  Professor L. Krishnan
• PHIL-2001-01: Bioethics
  Professor J. Earl
• PHIL-2001-02: Bioethics
  Professor L. Bishop
• PHIL-2001-04: Bioethics
  Professor J. de Lara
• PSYC-2228: Social Psychology
  Professor W. Parrott
• SOCI-3709: Sociology of Health/Illness
  Professor A. Newman
• TPST-2600: Performances & Narratives of the Pandemic / CULP-2260: Performances & Narratives of the Pandemic
  Professor D. Goldman

Summer 2023 Courses

• WGST-2239: Medicine, Race & Gender
  Professor T. Danylevich

Fall 2021 Courses

• ANTH-2256: Disability & Culture
  Professor S. Önder
• BIOL-2600: Select Agents: Biology and Security
  Professor M. Parker
• BIOL-2670: Global Health History
  Professor T. Newfield
• HIST 3610: Topic: Medicine in the Middle East
  Professor B. Grams

• IDST-2109: Health Inequities in the Time of COVID
  Professor T. Danylevich
• IDST-2120: Disability Justice at GU
  Professor L.X.Z. Brown
• MHUM-1007: The Problem of Suffering
  Professor M. Pottash
• MHUM-1101: Introduction to Medical Humanities
  Professor L. Krishnan
• MHUM-4450: Aging and Ageism
  Professors P. Saunders & A. Oldenburg
• PHIL-8301: Theories of Medical Ethics
  Professor D. Sulmasy
• PSYC-2400: Social Psychology
  Professor K. Kushlev
• PSYC-3220: Health Psychology
  Professor K. Kushlev
• SOCI-3709: Sociology of Health/Illness
  Professor K. Holland
• STIA-3257: Global Health Foundations
  Professor E. Mendenhall

Spring 2022 Courses

• ANTH-2250: Intro: Medical Anthropology
  Professor S. Önder
• HEST-3355: Health Equity Think Tank
  Professors C. King & E. Yearwood
• HIST-4104: Global History of Plague / BIOL-269: Global History of Plague
  Professor T. Newfield
• MHUM-1004: Death in America
  Professor H. Groninger
• MHUM-1008: Ethics of Research with Human Subjects
  Professor M. Pottash
• MHUM-1103: Literature & Medicine
  Professor D. Marchalik
• MHUM-2202: Methods in Medical Humanities
  Professor D. Marchalik
• MHUM-2250: War, Medicine, & Care in the 20th and 21st Centuries
  Professor L. Hartmann-Villalta
• PHIL-2001: Bioethics
  Professors S. Aas, C. Kochevar & J. Earl
• SOCI-3709: Sociology of Health/Illness
  Professor K. Holland
• STIA-4969: Mind, Madness, Meditation
  Professor E. Mendenhall
• WGST-2239: Medicine, Race & Gender
  Professor T. Danylevich

Summer 2022 Courses

• WGST-2239: Medicine, Race & Gender
  Professor T. Danylevich

Fall 2020 Courses

• ANTH-2256: Disability & Culture
  Professor S. Önder
• BIOL-2670: Global Health History
  Professor T. Newfield
• IDST-135: Pandemics: Texts & Contexts
  Professor L. Krishnan
• IDST-2109: Health Inequities in Time of Covid
  Professors C. Day & T. Danylevich
• IDST-2121: Ethics of Research with Human Subjects
  Professor M. Pottash
• IDST-2122: The Problem of Suffering
  Professor M. Pottash
• TPST-215: Performance & Pandemic: Arts/COVID-19
  Professor D. Goldman

Spring 2021 Courses

• ANTH-2250: Intro: Medical Anthropology
  Professor S. Önder
• BIOL-2104: Global History of the Plague / HIST-4104: Global History of the Plague
  Professor T. Newfield
• FREN-4773: Maladies/Miracle Cures in 19th Century France
  Professor S. Lee
• HEST-3355: Health Equity Think Tank
  Professors C. King & E. Yearwood
• IDST-1004: Death in America
  Professor H. Groninger
• IDST-1005: Medicine, Law, Ethics & End of Life
  Professor M. Pottash
• IDST-2202: Methods in Medical Humanities
  Professor D. Marchalik
• MHUM-1101: Introduction to Medical Humanities
  Professor L. Krishnan
• SOCI-3709: Sociology of Health/Illness
  Professor K. Holland
• WGST-2239: Medicine, Race & Gender
  Professor T. Danylevich

Summer 2021 Courses

• WGST-2239: Medicine, Race & Gender
  Professor T. Danylevich

Spring 2020 Courses

• IDST-131: Medical Humanities: Medicine and Mystery
  Professors D. Marchalik & L. Krishnan
• IDST-132: Medical Non-Fiction & Journalism
  Professors D. Marchalik & L. Krishnan
• IDST-133: Living and Dying
  Professors H. Groninger & M. Pottash