Students who desire to follow careers in the healthcare and medical professions, medical education, science journalism and communications, or in bioethics, public policy, and law as they pertain to medicine are advised to take the Biomedicine and Culture Option of the STaC curriculum. This option also serves as a foundation for graduate work in science and literature, and in a variety of humanities, communications, and public policy-related areas.

This option is designed to provide students with a broad background in the significant concepts, developments, and events in the history of biomedicine and biomedical ethics, and to develop their abilities to think critically and to communicate effectively about the interactions among medicine, science, and social change.

Students selecting the Biomedicine and Culture Option must complete the normal course requirements for the BS In addition, they must also:

Select their 9 hours of STaC literary/cultural courses from among LCC 3206, 3208, 3210, 3212, 3224, 3252, 3256, and 3262,
Include in their 9 hours of STaC issues courses LCC 3318, and two courses chosen from among LCC 3302, 3304, 3306, 3308, 3310, 3314, and 3316,
Take LCC 2300 and LCC 3219 (in place of two LCC electives),
Select the non-major cluster from among CS, BIOL, BIOMED, PSYCH, or a related field, or create an interdisciplinary cluster grouped around specific biomedical issues.