Health and Society B.A.
All students must meet the University Requirements.
All students must meet the College Requirements.
Major Requirements
33 credits, including:
| 3 core introductory courses: | ||
| HSCI 021 | Introduction to Public Health | 3 |
| HSOC/SOC 054 | Health Care in America | 3 |
| HSOC/ANTH 089 | D2:SU:Global Health Devl & Div | 3 |
| 1 100-level methods course: | 3-4 | |
| Fund of Social Research | ||
| QR: Elements of Statistics | ||
| QR:Basic Statistical Methods 1 | ||
| 1 or 2 100-level College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) courses: | 3-6 | |
| D2:Gender Sex Race & the Body | ||
| D2: Fndns of Global Health | ||
| D2:Culture, Health and Healing | ||
| D2:Aging in Cross-Cultrl Persp | ||
| Phil Problems in Medicine | ||
| Abnormal Psychology | ||
| Mysticism,Shamanism & Possessn | ||
| Aging in Modern Society | ||
| Gender, Sexualities & Medicine | ||
| QR:Population Health Research | ||
| Up to 1 100-level non-CAS course: | 0-3 | |
| Personal Health | ||
| SU: Human Health & Envirnmt | ||
| D1:Environmental Justice | ||
| D2:Cultural Health Care | ||
| D1:Racism & Health Disparities | ||
| Health Promotion | ||
| Health Communication | ||
| Human Health in the Food Syst | ||
| Nutrition in the Life Cycle | ||
| 1 or 2 200-level CAS courses. Of their 200-level courses, students are encouraged to take 1 methods course. | 3-6 | |
| Human Diversity and Evolution | ||
| Anthro Research Global Health | ||
| Intro to Health Psychology | ||
| Sociology of Reproduction | ||
| CAS Methods Courses: | ||
| Research in Hum Biol Diversity | ||
| Anthro Research Global Health | ||
| Ethnographic Field Methods | ||
| Spatial Analysis | ||
| VT Legislative Research Srvc | ||
| Internship in Gerontology | ||
| Qualitative Research Methods | ||
| Up to 1 200-level non-CAS course. Of their 200-level courses, students are encouraged to take 1 methods course. | 0-3 | |
| D2: Culture of Disability | ||
| Women, Health & Environment | ||
| Nutr in Hlth & Disease Prevntn | ||
| Non-CAS Methods Courses: | ||
| Applied Research Methods | ||
| Intro to Research Methods | ||
| Project Planning and Eval. | ||
| QR: Med Biostat&Epidemiology | ||
| 9 additional credits drawn from the list of HSOC electives posted each semester, at least 3 credits of which must be taken at the 100-level or above. May include any of the courses listed above that have not already been counted toward your degree (except additional 100-level methods courses) and/or any courses listed as HSOC elective courses on the HSOC advising webpage each semester. Please note that the degree audit does not list all possible electives, and the degree audit software is not able to recognize any elective that is not an option as a core course. Please contact the HSOC Director to request that those electives be counted toward your major. | 9 | |
Restrictions
For interdisciplinary exposure, no more than 21 credits of courses can come from a single course prefix.
Other Information
To meet the CAS 84-hour rule for cross-college majors, HSOC majors must take at least 84 of their 120 credits in CAS-designated courses. To help meet this requirement, pay attention to which HSOC courses count toward the CAS hour rule as listed on the HSOC advising webpage each semester. Use degree audit tools to track overall progress toward at least 84 CAS-designated course credits.
No more than 1 course may overlap between a student’s major and minor, or between a student’s 2 majors in a double major.
Please be aware that some courses have extra prerequisites. It is the student’s responsibility to check for prerequisites and to take them ahead of time.
Navigating a cross-college major, multiple majors, or dual degrees can be complex, so all Health and Society majors should meet with an academic advisor to ensure their course plans are suitable.
Students who are pre-health track should take (BIOL 001 and BIOL 002) or (BCOR 011 and BCOR 012) or (BCOR 021 and BCOR 103) as their Natural Science distribution.