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Program Contacts

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Program Director

Admissions Contact

Program Coordinator

Scott Graham

Phillip Barrish

ssg@utexas.eduScott Graham
ssg@utexas

pbarrish@austin.utexas.edu

Blake Lee Pate
blake.lee.pate@austin.utexas.edu

Location

UT Humanities Institute
William C. Powers Student Activities Center (WCP) 4.138

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The MA-HHM degree is offered according to four plans, ranging from a coursework-only plan to plans that include coursework and three different varieties of culminating research experience. The plans are described here.  All degree plans include:

Required Course: HHM 380 Introduction to Humanities, Health, and Medicine

Provides an overview of the history, aims, and challenges of the field and its current role in health-professional education and practice. Units focus on subfields within the health humanities, including, for example, literature, narrative, and health; history of medicine; medical anthropology; disability studies; and bioethics.

Required Course: HHM 383 Topics in Theory and Methods in Humanities, Health, and Medicine.

HHM 383 will be cross-listed with selected theory and methods courses offered by other departments. Sample courses include: 

  • Black Studies Methods (AFR);

  • Introduction to Digital Humanities(ENGL)

  • Theories of Interpersonal Communication(CMS);

  • Qualitative Methods for Social Sciences(SOC);

  • Feminist Theory (SOC) 

Prescribed Electives: Depending on degree plan selected, 3-5 different variants of HHM 385 Topics in Humanities, Health, and Medicine.

HHM 385 will be cross-listed with selected topics courses offered by other departments. To meet this requirement, students must select topics courses cross-listed with at least two different academic departments. Sample courses include:

  • Body in Indian Medicine and Myth (ANS);

  • Health, Medicine, and American Literature since the Civil War (ENGL);

  • History of Science (HIS); History of Physical Culture and Alternative

  • Medicine (KIN); Sociocultural Influences on Health (NURS);

  • Disability and Aging (SW). 

Electives: Three elective courses, chosen in conjunction with the HHM graduate advisor. These electives may but aren’t required to be cross-listed with an HHM course number. 

Notes: (1) Students may design their coursework to concentrate in a specific area of the health humanities such as, for example, medical anthropology, literature and medicine, or the history of medicine. (2) Students may count up to nine semester-credit hours from upper-division undergraduate classes towards the degree.

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Required application materials include:

  • Online application

  • Transcripts

  • Statement of Purpose (750 words)

  • 10-20 page writing sample no more than five years old

    • Many students draw their writing samples from academic papers (usually humanities or

      qualitative social

      qualitative social science) written while

      pursuing another

      pursuing another degree, including baccalaureate

    • DMS students will have the option of choosing instead to write an expanded Statement of Purpose (1500 - 2000 words)

  • The Graduate School’s GRE requirement will be waived for DMS students

Orientation

This MA-HHM program typically holds a one-day orientation the week before the fall semester begins on the main campus. When known, the date will be listed in the DMS MS3 Academic calendar.

Graduation

See the Graduation page for more information.

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