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 | |
SOC 100 | Fund of Social Research | |
STAT 111 | QR: Elements of Statistics | |
STAT 141 | QR:Basic Statistical Methods 1 | |
| 1 or 2 100-level College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) courses: | 3-6 | |
ANTH 172/GSWS 165 | D2:Gender Sex Race & the Body | |
ANTH 173/HSOC 103/HSCI 103 | D2: Fndns of Global Health | |
ANTH 174/SOC 155 | D2:Culture, Health and Healing | |
ANTH 189 | D2:Aging in Cross-Cultrl Persp | |
ENVS/HLTH/NR 107 | SU: Human Health & Envirnmt | |
ENVS 181 | D1:Environmental Justice | |
PSYS 170 | Abnormal Psychology | |
REL 104 | Mysticism,Shamanism & Possessn | |
SOC 113 | Crim Justice & Public Health | |
SOC/GSWS 140 | Gender, Sexualities & Medicine | |
SOC 154 | Sociology of Death & Dying | |
SOC 157 | QR:Population Health Research | |
| Up to 1 100-level non-CAS course: | 0-3 | |
EDHE 146 | Personal Health | |
HLTH 105 | D2:Cultural Health Care | |
HLTH 155 | D1:Racism & Health Disparities | |
HSCI 130 | Health Promotion | |
HSCI 160 | Health Communication | |
NFS 114/FS 103 | Human Health in the Food Syst | |
NFS 143 | 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 | |
ANTH 288 | Anthro Research Global Health | |
ENVS 236 | Women, Health & Environment | |
PSYS 279 | Intro to Health Psychology | |
SOC 223/GSWS 250 | Sociology of Reproduction | |
SOC 257 | Health: Race, Class, & Gender | |
| CAS Methods Courses: | ||
ANTH/BIOL 242 | Research in Hum Biol Diversity | |
ANTH 288 | Anthro Research Global Health | |
ANTH 290 | Ethnographic Field Methods | |
GEOG 287 | Spatial Analysis | |
POLS 230 | VT Legislative Research Srvc | |
SOC 220 | Internship in Gerontology | |
SOC 274 | 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 | |
CSD/EDSP 274 | D2: Culture of Disability | |
NFS 245 | Nutrition for Global Health | |
| Non-CAS Methods Courses: | ||
CDAE 250 | Applied Research Methods | |
EDFS 209 | Intro to Research Methods | |
HSCI 240 | Project Planning and Eval. | |
STAT 200 | 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 course listing for each semester on the HSOC advising webpage. Also, keep track of which of non-HSOC courses are counting as CAS-designated courses. 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.