Master's Programme Plus "Health Humanities"
Let's Talk About Health! Social Dimensions of Health and Illness
From summer semester 2026, CIRAC will be offering one of the first Health Humanities study programmes in the German-speaking world.
In the Health Humanities module, students will explore how health and illness are understood in different social, historical and cultural contexts. They examine how literature, film, art, philosophy, history and sociology make aesthetic, ethical and cultural ideas of health and illness visible - and how these are linked to medical progress, social inequality and political and economic decisions. Students gain insights into the practice of healthcare and thus sharpen their focus on central social challenges.
Further information: https://www.uni-graz.at/de/studium/rund-ums-studium/masterstudium-plus/health-humanities/
Winter Semester 2026/27
- Robots and Other Friends: Post- and Transhumanism in US Culture – Master’s Seminar in Anglophone Culture (SE)
- Health Humanities: Theories and Methods – Master’s Research Seminar (SE)
- Fragile Ecologies: Human Health and Ageing Between Nature, Technology and Culture – Specialised Topics in Health Humanities I (KS)
- American Culture: History and Society – Lecture (VO)
- Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies – for members of the PhD programmes (DQ)
- Introduction to Literary Studies 1 (PS)
- Topics in American Cultural Studies (Beyond the Nuclear Family: Critical Perspectives on Kinship and Care through the Ages) (PS)
- Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies (DQ for members of the PhD programmes)
Summer Semester 2026
- Topics in American Cultural Studies (Narrating Endings: The Ethics of Dying, Death, and Grief in North American Literature) (PE)
- Multi-Disciplinary Gender Studies (DQ for Members of the PhD-Programme) (DQ)
- Introduction to Health Humanities (Lecture and practical)
- Arts Based Approaches to Health Humanities: Exploring Illness Through Literature, Film, and (Social) Media (KU)
- Ethics of Care and Care Policy (SE)
- Tutorial for Postgraduates (Applied Ethics)
- Introduction to Health Humanities (Lecture and practical)
Winter Semester 2025/26
- American Culture - History and Society (VO)
- Literary Studies Seminar (Gender, Aging, and Care in North American Short Fiction) (SE)
- Multi-Disciplinary Gender Studies (DQ for Members of the PhD-Programme) (SE)
- Master Research Seminar (Aging, Health, Illness, and Disability in North American Literature and Culture) (SE)