B.A. with Major in HSOC (Catalogue)

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
STAT 1110	Elements of Statistics
STAT 1410	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
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
PSYS 2500	Psychopathology
SOC numbered 2260 to 2339
SOC 2260	Crim Justice & Public Health
SOC 2300	Population Health Research
SOC 2320	Sociology of Death & Dying
SOC 2335	Gender, Sexualities & Medicine
NON-CAS INTERMEDIATE COURSES. Up to 1 course/3 credits from the following:		0-3
HLTH 2050	Cultural Health Care
HLTH 2070	Human Health & the Envirnmt
HSCI 2300	Health Promotion
HSCI 2500	Health Communication
HSCI 2600	Racism and Health Disparities
NFS 2114	Human Health in the Food Syst
NFS 2143	Nutrition in the Life Cycle
SEP 2810	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
ANTH 3192	Anthro Research Global Health
ECON 3850	Topics in: Health Economics
ECON 4850	Topics in: Health Ec (W)
POLS 3490	Health Politics and Policy
PSYS 3510	Intro to Health Psychology
SOC 3300	Health: Race, Class, & Gender
SOC 3335	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:
ANTH 3130	Ethnographic Field Methods
ANTH 3192	Anthro Research Global Health
POLS 4310	VT Legislative Research Srvc
Non-CAS Advanced Methods:
EDFS 3090	Intro to Research Methods
HSCI 3300	Hlth Promotion Prog Plan/Eval
STAT 3000	Med Biostat&Epidemiology
NON-CAS ADVANCED COURSES. Up to 1 course/3 credits from the following:		0-3
CSD 3200	Culture of Disability
HSCI 3100	Epi, Pub Hlth & Emerg Disease
NFS 4245	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
ECON 2450	Microeconomic Theory
GEOG 2550	Qualitative Research Methods
GEOL 2410	Geohealth
PHIL 2670	Medical Ethics
POLS 4310	VT Legislative Research Srvc
REL 2652	Mystics, Mediums, Shamans
SOC 2220	Sociology of the Holocaust
SOC 3300	Health: Race, Class, & Gender
SOC 3335	Sociology of Reproduction
ANTH numbered 2170 to 2199, PSYS 2500, SOC numbered 2260 to 2339
ANTH numbered 3170 through 3199, ECON 3850, ECON 4850, POLS 3490, PSYS 3510
OPEN ELECTIVES. Up to 6 additional credits chosen from eligible courses and experiences, which regularly include:		0-6
CAS Courses: ANTH 1100, ANTH 1400, ECON 1450, ENGL 1260, PHIL 1675, POLS 1300, PSYS 1400, REL 1650, SOC 1320, SOC 1500
Non-CAS Courses: ASCI 1090, CDAE 1020, HSCI 1200, HSCI 1300, HSCI 3200, NFS 1043, SWSS 1040
Special Topics (CAS): HSOC 1990, HSOC 2990, HSOC 3990, HSOC 4990
Internship (CAS): HSOC 2991, HSOC 4991; or CAS 2920 or CAS 2991 with an appropriate placement
Teaching Assistantship (CAS) : HSOC 2994, HSOC 3994, HSOC 4994
Undergraduate Research (CAS): HSOC 3995, HSOC 4995
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.