All students must meet the Degree and University Requirements.

All students must meet the Catamount Core Curriculum Requirements.

All students must meet the College Requirements.

Major Requirements

Students who are pursuing the B.A. in Health and Society are required to take at least 84 credits of coursework in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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 and include the specific prerequisite courses necessary for their chosen path through the major.

33 credits in major courses, plus 3 credits in ancillary courses, including:

Requirement Description		Credits
CORE INTRODUCTORY COURSES. 9 credits.
HSCI 1100	Introduction to Public Health	3
HSOC 1600/SOC 1300	Health Care in America	3
HSOC 1700/ANTH 1190	Global Health Devel & Diversit	3
ANCILLARY INTRODUCTORY METHODS COURSE. 3 credits.
Choose 1 of the following:		3
STAT 1110	Elements of Statistics
STAT 1410	Basic Statistical Methods 1
CORE INTERMEDIATE COURSES. 6 credits.
2 courses/6 credits from the following Arts & Sciences (CAS) courses:		6
ANTH 2170	Culture, Health and Healing
ANTH 2181	Aging in Cross-Cultural Persp
ANTH 2191	Foundations of Global Health
ANTH 2205	Gender Sex Race & the Body
ANTH 2410	Topics in Biological Anthro
ECON 2850	Health Economics
GEOG 2782	Health Geography
PSYS 2500	Psychopathology
SOC 2260	Crim Justice & Public Health
SOC 2300	Population Health Research
SOC 2320	Sociology of Death & Dying
SOC 2335	Gender, Sexualities & Medicine
CORE ADVANCED COURSES. 6 credits.
2 courses/6 credits from the following Arts & Sciences (CAS) courses:		6
ANTH 3192	Anthro Research Global Health
ECON 3850	Topics in: Health Economics
ECON 4850	Topics in: Health Ec (W)
GEOG 3782	Topics in Geography and Health
POLS 3490	Health Politics and Policy
POLS 4310	VT Legislative Research Srvc (with a health focus)
PSYS 3510	Intro to Health Psychology
SOC 3300	Health: Race, Class, & Gender
SOC 3335	Sociology of Reproduction
ELECTIVES. 12 credits.
Course offerings for Health and Society vary frequently and often include Special Topics, Topics In, and Honors College courses. Before registration each semester, a list of eligible courses is posted as a See Also list in the Schedule of Courses (Classic Version). Many of those courses will not show up immediately in students’ degree audits. The courses listed in this table are always eligible and should automatically be applied in degree audits.
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL OR ABOVE. 2-4 additional courses/6-12 credits at the 2000-level or above chosen from eligible courses, which regularly include:		6-12
CAS Core Courses: ANTH 2170, ANTH 2181, ANTH 2191, ANTH 2205, ANTH 2410, ANTH 3192, ECON 2850, ECON 3850, ECON 4850, GEOG 2782, GEOG 3782, POLS 3490, PSYS 2500, PSYS 3510, SOC 2260, SOC 2300, SOC 2320, SOC 2335, SOC 3300, SOC 3335
CAS Courses: GEOL 2410, GSWS 2415, HSOC 2990, HSOC 2991, HSOC 2994, HSOC 3990, HSOC 3994, HSOC 3995, HSOC 4990, HSOC 4991, HSOC 4994, HSOC 4995, HSOC 4996, PHIL 2670
CAS Courses that can be applied if the project is health-related: ANTH 3130, CAS 2920, CAS 2991, GEOG 2550, POLS 4310, REL 2652, SOC 2500
Non-CAS Courses: CSD 3200, EDHE 2460, EMED 3000, HLTH 2010, HLTH 2050, HLTH 2070, HSCI 2190, HSCI 2300, HSCI 2500, HSCI 2600, HSCI 3100, HSCI 3200, HSCI 3300, NFS 2114, NFS 2143, NFS 3262, NFS 4245, STAT 3000
Non-CAS Courses that can be applied if the project is health-related: EDFS 3090, SEP 2810
OPEN LEVEL. Up to 2 additional courses/6 credits chosen from eligible courses and experiences, which regularly include:		0-6
CAS Courses: ANTH 1400, ENGL 1260, HSOC 1990, PHIL 1675, REL 1650, SOC 1320, SOC 1340
Non-CAS Courses: ASCI 1090, CDAE 1020, HSCI 1200, HSCI 1300, NFS 1043, SWSS 1040
DISCIPLINARY REQUIREMENT
For interdisciplinary exposure, no more than 21 credits for the major can come from a single subject code.
NOTES
Graduate-level courses, including those in Public Health, may be accepted as advanced courses or electives with prior approval from a Health & Society advisor. Graduate courses are often open to upper-level undergraduate students with instructor permission.
Students who plan to do an honors thesis or apply to graduate school are encouraged to take one or more intermediate or advanced research methods courses. Examples include ANTH 3130, ANTH 3192, EDFS 3090, GEOG 2550, SOC 2300, SOC 2500, and STAT 3000.
Students who plan to apply to medical school or related clinical graduate programs should meet their Catamount Core Curriculum Natural Science requirement with an introductory-level BIOL or BCOR sequence.

Restrictions

A maximum of 9 credits may overlap between the HSOC major and the Public Health AMP (e.g., PH 6010, PH 6020, and/or PH 6030). Students may not count both STAT 3000 and PH 6030 toward the HSOC major.

Pre/Co-Requisites

Introductory and intermediate courses for various subject areas may be necessary to reach some of the courses that can be applied to the major.

The most common prerequisites for courses in the Health and Society curriculum are ANTH 1100, ECON 1450, ECON 2450, GEOG 1760, GEOG 1780, MATH 1212, POLS 1300, PSYS 1400, SOC 1500, and SOC 2500.

Other Information

In the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), only one course may overlap between a major and a minor or between two CAS majors.

Courses for the major and/or its pre/co-requisites that are cross-listed in the catalog or schedule of courses under another course prefix may be taken under that other prefix and still count for these requirements.

With the approval of the chair/director, courses that applied to the major in previous years but have since been deactivated may be applied to this year’s major requirements if they are reactivated.

For a Bachelor of Arts degree, no more than 45 credits in courses with the same departmental prefix may be used toward completion of the 120 credits required for graduation.

At least half of the credits used to complete major requirements must be taken at the University of Vermont.