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.
33 credits in major courses, including:
| 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 |
| INTRODUCTORY METHODS. 3 credits. | ||
| Choose 1 of the following: | 3 | |
| Elements of Statistics | ||
| Basic Statistical Methods 1 | ||
| CORE INTERMEDIATE COURSES. 6 credits. | ||
| ARTS & SCIENCES (CAS) INTERMEDIATE COURSES. 1-2 courses/3-6 credits from the following: | 3-6 | |
ANTH numbered 2170 to 2199 | ||
| Culture, Health and Healing | ||
| Aging in Cross-Cultural Persp | ||
| Foundations of Global Health | ||
| Gender Sex Race & the Body | ||
| Topics in Biological Anthro | ||
| Psychopathology | ||
SOC numbered 2260 to 2339 | ||
| Crim Justice & Public Health | ||
| Population Health Research | ||
| Sociology of Death & Dying | ||
| Gender, Sexualities & Medicine | ||
| NON-CAS INTERMEDIATE COURSES. Up to 1 course/3 credits from the following: | 0-3 | |
| Cultural Health Care | ||
| Human Health & the Envirnmt | ||
| Health Promotion | ||
| Health Communication | ||
| Racism and Health Disparities | ||
| Human Health in the Food Syst | ||
| Nutrition in the Life Cycle | ||
| Environmental Justice | ||
| CORE ADVANCED COURSES AND METHODS. 6 credits. | ||
| CAS ADVANCED COURSES. 1-2 additional courses/3-6 credits from the following: | 3-6 | |
ANTH numbered 3170 through 3199 | ||
| Anthro Research Global Health | ||
| Topics in: Health Economics | ||
| Topics in: Health Ec (W) | ||
| Health Politics and Policy | ||
| Intro to Health Psychology | ||
| Health: Race, Class, & Gender | ||
| Sociology of Reproduction | ||
| METHODS. Students are encouraged to take one advanced Methods course with a health-related project or placement. Choose up to 1 additional course/3 credits from the following: | 0-3 | |
CAS Advanced Methods: | ||
| Ethnographic Field Methods | ||
| Anthro Research Global Health | ||
| VT Legislative Research Srvc | ||
Non-CAS Advanced Methods: | ||
| Intro to Research Methods | ||
| Hlth Promotion Prog Plan/Eval | ||
| Med Biostat&Epidemiology | ||
| NON-CAS ADVANCED COURSES. Up to 1 course/3 credits from the following: | 0-3 | |
| Culture of Disability | ||
| Epi, Pub Hlth & Emerg Disease | ||
| Nutrition for Global Health | ||
| ELECTIVE COURSES. 9 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 CAS ELECTIVE. 1-3 additional courses/3-9 credits in CAS courses at the 2000-level or above chosen from eligible courses, which regularly include: | 3-9 | |
| Microeconomic Theory | ||
| Qualitative Research Methods | ||
| Geohealth | ||
| Medical Ethics | ||
| VT Legislative Research Srvc | ||
| Mystics, Mediums, Shamans | ||
| Sociology of the Holocaust | ||
| Health: Race, Class, & Gender | ||
| Sociology of Reproduction | ||
ANTH numbered 2170 to 2199, PSYS 2500, SOC numbered 2260 to 2339 | ||
| OPEN ELECTIVES. Up to 6 additional credits chosen from eligible courses and experiences, which regularly include: | 0-6 | |
Honors (CAS): HSOC 4996 | ||
| DISCIPLINARY REQUIREMENT | ||
| For interdisciplinary exposure, no more than 21 credits for the major can come from a single course prefix. | ||
| 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 are pre-health should take (BIOL 1400 and BIOL 1450) or (BCOR 1400 and BCOR 1450) or (BCOR 1425 and BCOR 2500) to meet their Natural Science Catamount Core Curriculum requirement. | ||
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.
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.