Senior Madison Kindler is seeing on Handshake that her health humanities major is opening doors she wouldn’t have anticipated, ones in the Navy, in social work, as a caretaker, and beyond.
With this educational background, she says, graduates have a wide range of career possibilities, ranging from social workers to health workers to patient advocates.
Kindler, who is also majoring in psychology, is hoping to become a clinical psychologist and is looking at graduate schools. At first, she was planning to minor in health humanities, but she decided to double major because she felt the two academic areas paired well.
“Health humanities is a holistic approach,” she said, “There’s a psychological, physical, and spiritual aspect. Health humanities helps us see this is a person, not just someone on a piece of paper. It’s nice to take a step back and see things in their shoes.”
In this major, Kindler said, she’s taken theology and literature courses, women’s narratives, world health ethics, histories of medicine, health psychology, developmental psychology — a wide range of courses, giving her a broad approach to understanding people’s perspectives.
