OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
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The undergraduate Certificate in Medical Humanities offers OSU students a multi-disciplinary integrated program to study health, medicine and the healing professions.
Maanas Tripathi HST’ 13 is an Internal Medicine resident at Las Palmas Del Sol medical center in El Paso, TX.
"The biggest skill I’ve learned by being a Philosophy major is how to think critically and communicate that through verbal and written form." Hevani Fifita PHL ‘19
Sarah Settimo REL'19 was drawn to OSU because she wanted a different experience than the one she had when attending a small private Catholic high school.
School/program missions and areas of excellence
SHPR empowers our students and community members with the knowledge and skills to engage in broad public debate and enrich public discourse. We inspire the pursuit of evidence-based analysis, critical empathy, and an appreciation of the multiple perspectives, complexities, and contingencies in the world around us.
History:
Knowledge of the past is vital to understanding the diversity, complexity, and challenges of today’s world. Our history program emphasizes analytical rigor, evolving interpretations, and engagement with multiple forms of evidence. Through critical thinking and expository writing, our students prepare for a future as engaged citizens who can construct reasoned arguments, evaluate global perspectives, and challenge simplistic explanations.
Philosophy:
The Philosophy Program is committed to excellence in the teaching and study of philosophy as a discipline actively engaged in our world. We foster intellectual rigor, and the critical interpretive, analytical, and communicative skills necessary to support lives guided by ethical reflection and civic responsibility.
Religious Studies:
Religious Studies addresses the academic study of comparative religion with a focus on diversity as well as ethics, sexuality, and violence. Our students graduate with an understanding of the impact different religious traditions have made in the world and continue to make in the realms of politics, aesthetics, social structure, and culture.
