Requirements for Minor
To earn a minor in Health: Science, Society and Policy, students must complete the following:
Required Courses
- BIOL 15b (Biology: Human Implications) or BIOL 22b (Cell Structure and Function)
- HS 104b (American Health Care) or LGLS 114a (American Health Care: Law and Policy)
- HSSP 100b (Introduction to Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Population Health)
- SOC 191a (Health, Community and Society)
Electives
Complete two elective courses from among the “focal areas” listed here.
| Focal Area A: Biological Dimensions of Health and Illness | |
| ANTH 116a | Human Osteology |
| BCHM 172a | Cholesterol in Health and Disease |
| BCSC 1a | Designer Genes |
| BIOL 22a | Genetics and Molecular Biology |
| BIOL 22b | Cell Structure and Function |
| BIOL 42a | Physiology |
| BIOL 43b | Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy |
| BIOL 55b | Diet and Health |
| BIOL 106b | Chemical Biology: Medicinal Enzymology |
| BIOL 125a | Immunology |
| BIOL 126b | Protein Structure and Disease |
| BIOL 128a | Human Genetics |
| BIOL 132a | General Microbiology |
| BIOL 149b | Molecular Pharmacology |
| BIOL 160b | Human Reproductive and Developmental Biology |
| BIOL 172b | Growth Control and Cancer |
| BISC 2b | Genes and the Human Story |
| BISC 4a | Heredity |
| BISC 4b | Food, Nutrition and Health |
| BISC 5a | Pathogens and Human Disease |
| BISC 5b | Diseases of the Mind |
| BISC 6b | Environmental Health |
| BISC 7a | The Biology and Culture of Deafness |
| BISC 8b | Drugs That Change the World |
| BISC 9b | Biology of Cancer |
| NBIO 140b | Principles of Neuroscience |
| NBIO 145b | Systems Neuroscience |
| NBIO 146a | The Neurobiology of Human Disease |
| NBIO 150a | Autism and Human Developmental Disorders |
| NPSY 141a | Stress, Physiology and Health |
| NPSY 199a | Human Neuropsychology |
| Focal Area B: Social and Behavioral Dimensions of Health and Illness | |
| ANTH 111a | Aging in Cross-Cultural Perspective |
| ANTH 127a | Medicine, Body and Culture |
| ANTH 142a | AIDS: Science, Society and Policy |
| ANTH 154a | Culture and Mental Illness |
| ANTH 160b | Dirt, Disgust and Contagion: The Anthropology of Pollution |
| ENG 58a | Literature and Medicine |
| ENG 58b | AIDS, Activism and Representation |
| HSSP 114b | Racial/Ethnic and Gender Inequalities in Health and Health Care |
| PHIL 23b | Biomedical Ethics |
| PSYC 33a | Developmental Psychology |
| PSYC 37a | The Psychology of Adult Development and Aging |
| PSYC 38a | Health Psychology |
| PSYC 130b | Life Span Development: Middle Adulthood |
| Psyc 142a | Sport Psychology: A Health Psychology Perspective |
| PSYC 145b | Aging in a Changing World |
| PSYC 169b | Disorders of Childhood |
| SOC 117b | Sociology of Science, Technology and Medicine |
| SOC 165a | Living and Dying in America: The Sociology of Birth and Death |
| SOC 189a | Sociology of Body and Health |
| SOC 190b | Caring in the Health-Care System |
| SOC 193a | Environment, Health and Society |
| SOC 194a | Sociology of Mental Health and Illness |
| Focal Area C: Health-Care Policy and Practice | |
| Undergraduates in the HSSP program may be admitted to the graduate-level courses below (numbered above 200) with the permission of the instructor. | |
| HS 124a | Dilemmas of Long-Term Care |
| HSSP 102a | Global Perspectives of Health |
| HSSP 104b | Health Economics |
| HSSP 106a | Managing Medicine |
| HSSP 107b | Health-Care Technology: Evaluating Emerging Medical Services, Drugs and Devices |
| HSSP 112b | Public-Health Perspectives on Child Welll-Being |
| HSSP 115b | Perspectives on Behavioral Health: Alcohol, Drugs and Mental Health |
| HSSP 118b | Viewing Health Policy Through the Lens of Literature |
| HSSP 192b | Sociology of Disability |
| JOUR 130b | News Writing for Science and Medicine |
| LGLS 114a | American Health Care: Law and Policy |
| LGLS 121b | Law and Social Welfare: Citizen Rights and Government Responsibilities |
| LGLS 129b | Law, Technology and Innovation |
| LGLS 131b | Patient Autonomy: Law, Medicine and Ethics |
| LGLS 132b | Environmental Law and Policy |
| LGLS 138b | Science on Trial |
| LGLS 149B | Genetics, Law and Society |
| SOC 176a | Nature, Nurture and Public Policy |
| WMGS 106b | Women in the Health-Care System |