Overview

The field of Health and Medical Humanities explores and promotes relationships among the arts and humanities on the one hand and health and health care on the other.

The substance, methods and passions of the humanities have the potential to transform health care for all by enhancing human connections, deepening the capacity for empathy, and improving our understanding of the cultural and social contexts in which health, illness, and care occur.

At the same time, focusing on health and health reinvigorates and reveals new relevance for humanities scholarship and teaching in a society increasingly dominated by STEM fields.

Who should apply?

The Humanities, Health and Medicine program at the University of Texas at Austin is designed in particular, however, for three specific audiences:

Students considering applications to health professional school but who also have interests in the humanities, arts, or humanistic social sciences. The health professions increasingly recognize the importance of humanistic knowledge and skills for expanding providers’ capacity to offer empathic and context-sensitive patient care, as well as to enhance their own self-care, self-reflection, and resilience. Indeed, many medical schools now view a record of sustained interest and accomplishment in the liberal arts as a “plus factor” in admissions.
Students who wish to explore the special forms of significance that humanistic disciplines gain when pursued in the contexts of health, healing, and health care. Such students may ultimately choose to use their MA in Humanities, Health, and Medicine as a bridge to PhD programs in any number of humanities disciplines, including the medical humanities themselves.
Students, including those who may already have substantial professional experience, who wish to bring humanistic knowledge, skills, and frameworks to the health care sector, whether as care providers, researchers, policy advocates, consultants, or administrators.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Topics in Theory and Methods in Humanities, Health, and Medicine
Black Studies Methods
Digital Humanities
Theories of Interpersonal Communication
Qualitative Methods for Social Sciences
Feminist Theory
Body in Indian Medicine and Myth
Health, Medicine, and American Literature since the Civil War
History of Science
History of Physical Culture and Alternative
Sociocultural Influences on Health
Disability and Aging

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 12 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-08-23 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-02-01 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

30 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Austin, United States

Disciplines

Medicine Health Sciences Liberal Arts View 524 other Masters in Medicine in United States

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General requirements

A bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited institution in the United States or a comparable degree from a foreign academic institution
A grade-point average of at least 3.00 in upper-division coursework and in any graduate work already completed
An official score on the GRE (optional)
Complete transcripts from all institutions of higher education attended
A personal statement of 500-800 words, which should include information about specific topics or areas of interest within the health humanities and about how earning the degree would help to advance the applicant’s academic, professional, or personal goals
Three letters of recommendation, at least two of which should be from professors with whom the applicant has studied at an institution of higher education
Writing sample (10-20 pages). Your writing sample will be used to help assess your readiness for graduate-level work in humanities disciplines.

Tuition Fees

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17694 USD / year

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17694 USD / year

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8928 USD / year

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Living costs

Austin

United States

1243 - 2304 USD / month

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