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Health and Society is an interdisciplinary cross-college program that brings together an array of social science and humanities approaches to address critical questions concerning health, illness, healing, and health care in human populations. Focusing on interactions between societal issues and health, program faculty and students examine the ways in which societies affect, are affected by, and respond to health and illness. The program explores the many ways in which health, healing, and health care are defined, perceived, and enacted in different sociocultural settings, and in which access to health and health care are distributed, within and across populations. The program investigates how social, cultural, political, economic, psychological, geographic, and environmental contexts shape human experiences of illness and healing and health-related knowledge and practices.
Housed in the College of Arts and Sciences, the Health and Society major and minor draw on courses from a range of academic disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, public health, psychology, political science, economics, geography, philosophy, religion, literature, and environmental studies, among others. See the major and minor requirements pages for a list of regularly applicable courses and the See Also list in the Schedule of Courses (Classic Version) for semester-specific offerings.