Health Humanities MA/PG Dip/PG Cert

The programme enables students to approach issues relating to health and illness from both a historical and contemporary perspective and from a variety of a disciplines, including anthropology, history, philosophy, sociology, science and technology studies, global health, literature and film studies. Students will also learn to work in an interdisciplinary manner.

Students undertake modules to the value of 180 credits.

The programme consists of two core modules (60 credits), elective modules of 15 or 30 credits each (up to a total of 60 credits) and a research dissertation (60 credits).

A Postgraduate Diploma (120 credits), two core modules (60 credits) and two electives (60 credits) is also offered.

A Postgraduate Certificate (60 credits) is also offered.

• Illness
• Madness

Students may choose from the list of recommended modules below, or other relevant modules in UCL, with the approval of the convenors. Please note that some modules fill up very quickly, so places cannot be guaranteed.

• Anthropology and Psychiatry
• Classical Chinese Medicine
• Clinically Applied Cultural Psychiatry
• Conflict, Humanitarianism and Health
• Cultural Memory
• Death, Dying and Consequences
• Disease in History
• German Literature and Psychology
• Global Health and Development: Emerging Policy Debates
• Global Justice and Health
• Health Inequalities Over the Lifecourse
• Health Policy and Reform
• Medical Anthropology
• Medieval Science and Medicine in Global Perspective
• Science, Technology, and Identity
• Social Value and Public Policy, Health and the Environment
• From Imperial Medicine to Global Health, 1860s to present
• Medicine on Screen
• Politics and Ethics

All students undertake an independent research project which culminates in a dissertation of 10,000-12,000 words.

The programme is delivered through a combination of lectures and seminars. Assessment is through essays and a dissertation. There is no unseen examination.