Blue Book Electives
Each semester, the McGovern Center sponsors a number of blue book electives (also called extracurricular electives), optional short courses designed to enrich and enhance the medical student’s core curriculum experience. While blue books are open primarily to McGovern Medical School students, some of the McGovern Center’s electives are made available to students of other schools, including UTHealth’s Schools of Dentistry, Nursing, and Public Health, and Baylor College of Medicine.
Fall 2021
- Art of Observation
- Arts and Resilience
- Critical Racial Discourse
- Cultural Conversations
- Deconstructing Dementia
- Growing Empathy Through Improvisation
- Health Professionals Against Human Trafficking
- Health Professionals Against Interpersonal Violence
- Humanities in Film
- Introduction to Medical Humanities
- LGBTV+: Sexuality & Gender in the Age of Media
- Popular Modalities of Complementary Medicine
- Reproductive Health and Choice
- Women’s Health
Spring 2022
- Art of Observation
- Arts and Resilience
- Cultural Conversations
- Health Professionals Against Human Trafficking
- Health Professionals Against Interpersonal Violence
- Humanities in Film
- LGBTV+: Sexuality & Gender in the Age of Media
- Reproductive Health and Choice
- Suffering: Pathographies of Mental Illness
- The Healer’s Art
- Women’s Health
Return Date TBD
- Gun Violence and Physicians
- History of Medicine
- Hot Topics in Ethics
- Humanities in Dermatology
- Medical Spanish
- Sacred Sites of Houston
Questions about the McGovern Center’s blue book electives may be sent to Angela Polczynski, MBA, EdD.
If you are a student seeking faculty or Center sponsorship for a series you are developing, please contact Rebecca Lunstroth, JD, or Thomas Cole, PhD.
Please contact the Office of Educational Programs for general questions about blue books, including the process for proposing or renewing an elective. This office maintains an online system containing all available electives for each academic year and through which all proposals for new or returning series are submitted.