Scholars’ Certificate Programs
The undergraduate certificate in Medical Humanities offers perspectives on medicine and health drawn from art, philosophy, history, religion, literature, and other fields in the humanities and social sciences. It is a valuable credential for students pursuing a career in healthcare (e.g., nurses, doctors, psychologists, physical therapists, etc.). It would signal to employers and health professional schools that you have a broad understanding of medicine including its social, ethical, cultural, and historical dimensions. For students in education or a humanities field, it provides you an area of expertise and knowledge that you could utilize in your career or graduate studies.
The certificate is open to everyone. Courses that you are taking for your major may also count towards the certificate’s requirements. See below what additional courses you need to take in order to earn the certificate.
Requirements (18 hours total)
Core courses (6 hours):
- SMHU 4000 Honors Seminar in Medical Humanities
- One of SBIO 3870 Seminar in Biomedicine (03) Biomedical Ethics, SLSC 4820 Sociobiology and the Evolution of Sex, SPHI 3100 Professional Ethics, SBIO 3880 Darwin and Evolutionary Theory, SPHI 3860 Philosophy of Knowledge, or SSOT 4230 Sociology of Mental Disorders
Medical Science courses (6 hours):
- 6 credit hours of courses at the 2000-level or above with the following prefixes: AS, ALHE, BIOL, BMET, HED, NURA, NURB, PSYC, RADS, and SBIO.
Support courses (6 hours; at least 3 hours must be at the 3000-level or above):
- ALHE 2200 Cultural and Ethical Influences on Health Care
- ALHE 2210 Introduction to Imaging Sciences
- ANTH 3050 Biological Anthropology
- AS 4040 Special Populations
- AS 4510 Ethics for Addiction Professionals
- BIOL 2990 Environmental Law BIOL 3280 Evolution
- BIOL 4340 Bioethics
- CFS 3500 Cultural and Societal Issues Affecting Families
- COMM 2500 Interpersonal Communication
- CJ 4500 Drug Use in Modern Society
- ENGL 2700 Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies
- ENGL 3910 Multicultural Literature
- ENGL 4160 Language and Gender
- ENGL 4700 Literature and Culture (02) The Literature of Health and Healing
- ENGL 4720 Language, Social Interaction, and Social Identity
- ENGL 4970 Film, Gender, and Sexuality
- GEOG 2020 Cultural Geography
- HED 4500 Sexuality Education
- HED 4600 Drug and Alcohol Education
- HIST 4070 Slavery in the Americas
- HUM 4010 Health and Humanity
- HUM 4020 Human Values and Health Care
- NURA 2550 Humanistic Nursing
- NURB 3030 Nursing as a Profession
- NURB 3122 Dimensions of Professional Nursing
- NURB 4950 Special Topics in Nursing
- PHIL 1010 Introduction to Philosophy
- PHIL 1020 World Religions
- PHIL 2020 Ethics
- PSYC 3050 Diversity Issues in Psychology
- PSYC 4440 History of Psychology
- PSYC 4450 Abnormal Psychology
- PSYC 4900 Psychology and Film
- SBIO 3870 Seminar in Biomedicine (03) Biomedical Ethics
- SBIO 3880 Darwin and Evolutionary Theory
- SHPS 2000 Seminar in the History and Philosophy of Science
- SLSC 2000 Interdisciplinary Seminar (04) Music and Disability Studies
- SLSC 4820 Sociobiology and the Evolution of Sex
- SLTN 2880 Greek and Latin Elements in English
- SPHI 2820 Ethics
- SPHI 2850 The Religious Philosophies of India and China
- SPHI 3100 Professional Ethics
- SPHI 3820 Existentialism
- SPHI 3860 Philosophy of Knowledge
- SSOT 3830 Understanding Violence
- SSOT 4230 Sociology of Mental Disorder
- SOWK 3080 Loss, Grief, and Dying
- SOWK 3090 Human Diversity
- SOC 3239 Sociology of Deviance
Qualified students pursuing a B.S. in Nursing can also earn a Louisiana Scholars’ College Honors Certificate.
This credential will tell employers and graduate schools that you succeeded in taking challenging courses, that you are a high-achiever, and that you have the skills and knowledge that will allow you to excel and be a leader in the workplace and your field.
To earn the certificate, you take some of your core courses from the Louisiana Scholars’ College. There are no extra courses that you need to take.
Instead of separate courses in History, Literature, and Communications, you will take Texts and Traditions I, II, & III: a great books sequence of courses in which you will read books, study cultures and history, and learn about ideas from around the world and the beginning of human history to the modern period. You will take honors versions of Chemistry, Applied Statistics, and either Precalculus or Applied Calculus. Instead of ENGL 1020, you will take Critical Reading, Critical Writing with a choice of subjects, for example, Selfhood and Community, The Modern Synthesis, Writing About Film, Music and Disability Studies, and others. The rest of your coursework will be the regular core and Nursing major courses.
Dual-enrollment credit and test scores will qualify some students to take advanced versions of these courses, which then may be applied to other Scholars’ minors and certificates.
Admissions criteria and application process are the same as for other prospective Scholars and can be found here [https://www.nsula.edu/scholars/apply-to-lsc/], or notify the Scholars college of your interest at scholars@nsula.edu.
Qualified students pursuing a B.S. in Radiologic Sciences can also earn a Louisiana Scholars’ College Honors Certificate.
This credential will tell employers and graduate schools that you succeeded in taking challenging courses, that you are a high-achiever, and that you have the skills and knowledge that will allow you to excel and be a leader in the workplace and your field.
To earn the certificate, you take some of your core courses from the Louisiana Scholars’ College. There are no extra courses that you need to take.
Instead of separate courses in History, Literature, and Fine Arts, you will take Texts and Traditions I, II, & III: a great books sequence of courses in which you will read books, study cultures and history, and learn about ideas from around the world and the beginning of human history through to the modern period. For one of your core science courses, you will take Honors Chemistry I. You will take honors math courses. Instead of ENGL 1020, you will take Critical Reading, Critical Writing with a choice of subjects, for example, Selfhood and Community, The Modern Synthesis, Writing About Film, Music and Disability Studies, and others. The rest of your coursework will be the regular core and Radiologic Sciences major courses.
Dual-enrollment credit and test scores will qualify some students to take advanced versions of these courses, which then may be applied to other Scholars’ minors and certificates.
Admissions criteria and application process are the same as for other prospective Scholars and can be found here [https://www.nsula.edu/scholars/apply-to-lsc/] or notify the Scholars college of your interest at scholars@nsula.edu.
The certificate is open to everyone. Courses that you are taking for your major may also count towards the certificate’s requirements. See below what additional courses you need to take in order to earn the certificate.
Requirements (18 hours total)
Core courses (6 hours):
- SMHU 4000 Honors Seminar in Medical Humanities
- One of SBIO 3870 Seminar in Biomedicine (03) Biomedical Ethics, SLSC 4820 Sociobiology and the Evolution of Sex, SPHI 3100 Professional Ethics, SBIO 3880 Darwin and Evolutionary Theory, SPHI 3860 Philosophy of Knowledge, or SSOT 4230 Sociology of Mental Disorders
Medical Science courses (6 hours):
- 6 credit hours of courses at the 2000-level or above with the following prefixes: AS, ALHE, BIOL, BMET, HED, NURA, NURB, PSYC, RADS, and SBIO.
Support courses (6 hours; at least 3 hours must be at the 3000-level or above):
- ALHE 2200 Cultural and Ethical Influences on Health Care
- ALHE 2210 Introduction to Imaging Sciences
- ANTH 3050 Biological Anthropology
- AS 4040 Special Populations
- AS 4510 Ethics for Addiction Professionals
- BIOL 2990 Environmental Law BIOL 3280 Evolution
- BIOL 4340 Bioethics
- CFS 3500 Cultural and Societal Issues Affecting Families
- COMM 2500 Interpersonal Communication
- CJ 4500 Drug Use in Modern Society
- ENGL 2700 Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies
- ENGL 3910 Multicultural Literature
- ENGL 4160 Language and Gender
- ENGL 4700 Literature and Culture (02) The Literature of Health and Healing
- ENGL 4720 Language, Social Interaction, and Social Identity
- ENGL 4970 Film, Gender, and Sexuality
- GEOG 2020 Cultural Geography
- HED 4500 Sexuality Education
- HED 4600 Drug and Alcohol Education
- HIST 4070 Slavery in the Americas
- HUM 4010 Health and Humanity
- HUM 4020 Human Values and Health Care
- NURA 2550 Humanistic Nursing
- NURB 3030 Nursing as a Profession
- NURB 3122 Dimensions of Professional Nursing
- NURB 4950 Special Topics in Nursing
- PHIL 1010 Introduction to Philosophy
- PHIL 1020 World Religions
- PHIL 2020 Ethics
- PSYC 3050 Diversity Issues in Psychology
- PSYC 4440 History of Psychology
- PSYC 4450 Abnormal Psychology
- PSYC 4900 Psychology and Film
- SBIO 3870 Seminar in Biomedicine (03) Biomedical Ethics
- SBIO 3880 Darwin and Evolutionary Theory
- SHPS 2000 Seminar in the History and Philosophy of Science
- SLSC 2000 Interdisciplinary Seminar (04) Music and Disability Studies
- SLSC 4820 Sociobiology and the Evolution of Sex
- SLTN 2880 Greek and Latin Elements in English
- SPHI 2820 Ethics
- SPHI 2850 The Religious Philosophies of India and China
- SPHI 3100 Professional Ethics
- SPHI 3820 Existentialism
- SPHI 3860 Philosophy of Knowledge
- SSOT 3830 Understanding Violence
- SSOT 4230 Sociology of Mental Disorder
- SOWK 3080 Loss, Grief, and Dying
- SOWK 3090 Human Diversity
- SOC 3239 Sociology of Deviance
Qualified students pursuing a B.S. in Nursing can also earn a Louisiana Scholars’ College Honors Certificate.
This credential will tell employers and graduate schools that you succeeded in taking challenging courses, that you are a high-achiever, and that you have the skills and knowledge that will allow you to excel and be a leader in the workplace and your field.
To earn the certificate, you take some of your core courses from the Louisiana Scholars’ College. There are no extra courses that you need to take.
Instead of separate courses in History, Literature, and Communications, you will take Texts and Traditions I, II, & III: a great books sequence of courses in which you will read books, study cultures and history, and learn about ideas from around the world and the beginning of human history to the modern period. You will take honors versions of Chemistry, Applied Statistics, and either Precalculus or Applied Calculus. Instead of ENGL 1020, you will take Critical Reading, Critical Writing with a choice of subjects, for example, Selfhood and Community, The Modern Synthesis, Writing About Film, Music and Disability Studies, and others. The rest of your coursework will be the regular core and Nursing major courses.
Dual-enrollment credit and test scores will qualify some students to take advanced versions of these courses, which then may be applied to other Scholars’ minors and certificates.
Admissions criteria and application process are the same as for other prospective Scholars and can be found here [https://www.nsula.edu/scholars/apply-to-lsc/], or notify the Scholars college of your interest at scholars@nsula.edu.
Qualified students pursuing a B.S. in Radiologic Sciences can also earn a Louisiana Scholars’ College Honors Certificate.
This credential will tell employers and graduate schools that you succeeded in taking challenging courses, that you are a high-achiever, and that you have the skills and knowledge that will allow you to excel and be a leader in the workplace and your field.
To earn the certificate, you take some of your core courses from the Louisiana Scholars’ College. There are no extra courses that you need to take.
Instead of separate courses in History, Literature, and Fine Arts, you will take Texts and Traditions I, II, & III: a great books sequence of courses in which you will read books, study cultures and history, and learn about ideas from around the world and the beginning of human history through to the modern period. For one of your core science courses, you will take Honors Chemistry I. You will take honors math courses. Instead of ENGL 1020, you will take Critical Reading, Critical Writing with a choice of subjects, for example, Selfhood and Community, The Modern Synthesis, Writing About Film, Music and Disability Studies, and others. The rest of your coursework will be the regular core and Radiologic Sciences major courses.
Dual-enrollment credit and test scores will qualify some students to take advanced versions of these courses, which then may be applied to other Scholars’ minors and certificates.
Admissions criteria and application process are the same as for other prospective Scholars and can be found here [https://www.nsula.edu/scholars/apply-to-lsc/] or notify the Scholars college of your interest at scholars@nsula.edu.
