Amy Sneegas
Assistant, Department of Humanities & University Ministry
What is health humanities?
About
Health humanities is a growing field that combines traditional humanities like writing and art with the social sciences, pre-med, and medical humanities. The unification encourages you to explore different aspects of the human condition and create a deeper understanding of the patient’s needs.
This approach gives you the tools you’ll need to be a well-rounded health care provider and patient advocate.
Why be a health humanities major at Baker University?
Traditional health care, pre-med, and nursing programs focus on solving a patient’s medical issues but don’t consider the environmental, psychological, and overall importance of their medical history. The flexible health humanities curriculum encourages you to explore all factors that influence health and wellness, which will prepare you for numerous career opportunities.
What can you do with a health humanities degree?
- Health care administrator
- Public health advocate
- Pharmaceutical sales representative
- Medical illustrator
- Art therapist
- Librarian
- Historian
- Clinical social worker
- Speech pathologist
- Patient care coordinator
Scholarships for Health Humanities Majors
The Departments of Humanities and Applied Health Sciences gives these awards with financial prizes to be applied to the following year’s tuition:
- Mildred Hunt Riddle Departmental Recognition Scholarship for Humanities
- Dr. Irene Murphy Memorial Scholarship
- Etta and Orin Murphy Scholarship Kahle Endowed Scholarship
- Kahle Endowed Scholarship
- The Moorman Prize for Prose Writing
- The Moorman Prize for Poetry Writing
- Jefferson-Greiner Scholarship
- Mildred Hunt Riddle Departmental Recognition Scholarship for Exercise Science
- Benjamin A. Gessner Award
- Thomas G. Manson and Frances B. Manson Scholarship
- Robert L. Miller Scholarship
Health Humanities Course Descriptions
Meet the Faculty
Dr. Tamara Slankard
Professor of English
B.A. Belmont University, M.A. University of Tulsa, Ph.D. and Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Expertise: American literature, modernism, women’s and gender studies, cultural studies
Office: Case 305E
Dr. Joanne Nystrom Janssen
Professor of English
B.A. Bethel University, M.A. Ball State University, Ph.D. University of Iowa
Expertise: British literature, 19th century literature and culture, periodical culture, postcolonial and world literature
Office: Case 305C