Requirements

Health and Society minors are encouraged to discuss their minor with both an HSOC advisor and their major advisor to develop a plan of study that fits their strengths and interests and conforms with relevant college and university policies.

18 credits in minor courses, plus 3 credits in pre/co-requisite courses, including:

Requirement Description		Credits
CORE INTRODUCTORY COURSES. 6 credits.
2 courses/6 credits from the following:		6
HSCI 1100	Introduction to Public Health
HSOC 1600/SOC 1300	Health Care in America
HSOC 1700/ANTH 1190	Global Health Devel & Diversit
CORE INTERMEDIATE COURSES. 6 credits.
2 courses/6 credits from the following:		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
ELECTIVES. 6 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. 1-2 additional courses/3-6 credits at the 2000-level or above chosen from eligible courses in the College of Arts and Sciences, which regularly include:		3-6
Core Intermediate CAS Courses: ANTH 2170, ANTH 2181, ANTH 2191, ANTH 2205, ANTH 2410, ECON 2850, GEOG 2782, PSYS 2500, SOC 2260, SOC 2300, SOC 2320, SOC 2335
Additional CAS Courses: ANTH 3192, ECON 3850, ECON 4850, GEOG 3782, 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, POLS 3490, PSYS 3510, SOC 3300, SOC 3335
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
OPEN LEVEL. Up to 1 additional course/3 credits chosen from eligible courses and experiences, which regularly include:		0-3
Core Introductory Courses: ANTH 1190, HSOC 1600, HSCI 1100, HSOC 1700, SOC 1300
CAS Courses and Experiences: ANTH 1400, ENGL 1260, HSOC 1990, HSOC 2991, HSOC 2994, HSOC 3994, HSOC 3995, HSOC 4991, HSOC 4994, HSOC 4995, HSOC 4996, PHIL 1675, REL 1650, SOC 1320, SOC 1340
Courses and Experiences that can be applied if the project is health-related: CAS 2920, CAS 2991
Non-CAS Courses: ASCI 1090, CDAE 1020, CSD 3200, EDHE 2460, EMED 3000, HLTH 2010, HLTH 2050, HLTH 2070, HLTH 2400, HSCI 1200, HSCI 1300, HSCI 2190, HSCI 2300, HSCI 2500, HSCI 2600, HSCI 3100, HSCI 3200, HSCI 3300, NFS 1043, NFS 2114, NFS 2143, NFS 3262, NFS 4245, STAT 3000, SWSS 1040
Non-CAS Courses that can be applied if the project is health-related: EDFS 3090, SEP 2810
DISCIPLINARY REQUIREMENT
For interdisciplinary exposure, no more than 12 credits for the major can come from a single subject code, with the exception of the HSOC subject code.
NOTES
Graduate-level courses, including those in Public Health, may be accepted as 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 in an area related to Health and Society 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.

Restrictions

Ineligible Major: Health and Society

A maximum of 6 credits may overlap between the HSOC minor 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 minor.

Pre/Co-Requisites

Requirement Description		Credits
INTRODUCTORY METHODS COURSE. 3 credits.
Choose 1 of the following:		3
STAT 1110	Elements of Statistics
STAT 1410	Basic Statistical Methods 1

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 minors.

Courses for the minor 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 minor in previous years but have since been deactivated may be applied to this year’s minor 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. For a Bachelor of Science degree, the maximum is 50 credits.

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