Health and Society major requirements for students declaring in August 2020 and beyond. Health and Society students who declared prior to August 2020 have the option to follow these requirements or the earlier ones found below.
Thirty-three credits, as follows:
Three core introductory courses, 3 credits each:
- HSCI 021 Intro to Public Health
- HSOC/SOC 054 Health Care in America
- HSOC/ANTH 089 Global Health, Development, Diversity
One 100-level methods course, 3-4 credits:
- SOC 100 Fundamentals of Social Research
- STAT 111 Elements of Statistics
- STAT 141 Basic Statistical Methods
One or two 100-level College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) courses, 3-6 credits:
- ANTH 172/GSWS 165 D2: Gender, Sex, Race, and the Body
- ANTH 173/HSOC 103/ HSCI 103 D2: Foundations of Global Health
- ANTH 174/SOC 155 D2:SL: Culture, Health, Healing
- ANTH 189D2: Aging in Cross-Cultural Perspective
- PHIL 144 Philosophical Problems in Medicine
- SOC 120 Aging in Modern Society
- SOC/GSWS 140 Gender, Sexualities, Medicine
- SOC 157 QR: Population Health Research
Up to one 100-level non-CAS course, 0-3 credits
- EDHE 146 Personal Health
- ENVS/HLTH/NR 107 SU: Human Health & Environment
- ENVS 181 D1: Environmental Justice
- HLTH 105 D2: Cultural Health Care
- HLTH 155 D1: Racism & Health Disparities
- HSCI 102 Epidemics-Dynamics of Infectious Diseases
- HSCI 130 Health Promotion
- HSCI 160 Health Communication
- NFS 114/FS 103 Human Health in Food Systems
- NFS 143 Nutrition and the Lifecycle
One or two 200-level CAS courses. Of their 200-level courses, students are encouraged to take one methods course, 3-6 credits:
- ANTH/BIOL 241 Human Diversity & Evolution
- ANTH 288 Anthropology of Global Health
- PSYS/CRES 276 Cross-Cultural Psychology
- PSYS 279 Health Psychology
- SOC 223/GSWS 250 Sociology of Reproduction
- SOC 224 Health Care and Aging
- SOC 254 Sociology of Health & Medicine
CAS Methods Courses:
- ANTH/BIOL 242 Research Methods in Human Diversity
- ANTH 288 Anthro Research Global Health
- ANTH 290 Meth of Ethnographic Field Wrk
- GEOG 202 Research Methods
- GEOG 287 Spatial Analysis
- POLS 230 VT Legislative Research Service
- SOC 274 Qualitative Research Methods
- SOC 275 Methods of Data Analysis in Social Research
Up to one 200-level non-CAS course. Of their 200-level courses, students are encouraged to take one methods course, 0-3 credit:
- CSD/EDSP 274 D2: Culture of Disability
- NFS 244 Nutrition, Health & Disease Prev.
Non-CAS Methods Courses:
- CDAE 250 Applied Research Methods
- EDFS 209 Introduction to Research Methods
- HLTH 250 Community Participatory Rsch
- HSCI 240 Project Planning and Evaluation
- STAT 200 QR: Medical Biostatistics/Epidemiology
Nine 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 (with the exception of the 100-level methods course for which only one will be counted) and/or any courses listed as HSOC elective courses.
Restrictions:
- For interdisciplinary exposure, no more than 21 credits of courses can come from a single course prefix.
Notes:
- 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 HSOC advising documents each semester. Use your degree audit, to track your overall progress toward at least 84 CAS-designated course credits.
- No more than one course may overlap between a student’s major and minor, or between a student’s two majors in a double major.
- Please be aware that some courses have extra pre-requisites.
- 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 check if 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 103) as their Natural Science distribution.
Previous Health and Society major requirements for students who declared prior to August 2020. Health and Society students who declared prior to August 2020 have the option to follow these requirements or the newer ones found above.
The major requires 33 credits as outlined below, with at least 12 credits at 100-level and at least 6 credits at 200-level. Courses must be from the list given by the HSOC Major program. For interdisciplinary exposure, no more than 21 credits can come from any one discipline.
Three core introductory courses (9 credits total):
- HSCI 021 Intro to Public Health
- SOC 054 Health Care in America
- ANTH 089 Global Health, Development, Diversity
One 100-level methods course (3 credits):
- SOC 100 Fundamentals of Social Research
- STAT 111 or 141 Elements of Statistics or Basic Statistical Methods
Two 100-level courses from the following list (6 credits total):
- ANTH 174/SOC 155 Culture, Health, Healing
- EDHE 146 Personal Health
- ENVS 107/HLTH 107/NR 107 Human Health & Environment
- ENVS 181 Environmental Justice
- HLTH 103/ANTH 173 Foundations of Global Health
- HLTH 105 Cultural Health Care
- HLTH 150/HSCI 102 Epidemics – Dynamics of Infectious Diseases
- HLTH 155 Racism & Health Disparities
- NFS 114 Human Health in Food Systems
Two 200-level courses (6 credits), of which students are encouraged to take one methods course:
- ANTH/BIOL 241 Human Evolution and Diversity
- ANTH 288 Anthropology of Global Health
- CSD 274 Culture of Disability
- ENVS 236 Women, Health & Environment
- ENVS 237 Human Ecology & Health in Arctic
- NFS 244 Nutrition, Health & Disease Prev.
- NFS 262 Community Nutrition
- PSYS 276/CRES 276 Cross-Cultural Psychology
- PSYS 279 Health Psychology
- SOC 223 Sociology of Reproduction
- SOC 224 Health Care and Aging
- SOC 254 Sociology of Health & Medicine
Methods courses therein:
- ANTH/BIOL 242 Research Methods in Human Diversity
- ANTH 290 Ethnographic Methods
- CDAE 250 Applied Research Methods
- EDFS 209 Introduction to Research Methods
- ENVS 200/HLTH 250/CDAE 295 Community Participatory Research
- GEOG 202 Research Methods
- GEOG 287 Spatial Analysis
- POLS 230 VT Legislative Research Service (with health focus)
- SOC 274 Qualitative Research Methods
- SOC 275 Methods of Data Analysis in Social Research
- STAT 200 Medical Biostatistics/Epidemiology
Nine 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.
See HSOC courses below and on the Advising page:
ALL HSOC COURSES (CORE AND ELECTIVE) OFFERED IN SPRING 2020
ALL HSOC COURSES (CORE AND ELECTIVE) OFFERED IN FALL 2019
ALL HSOC COURSES (CORE AND ELECTIVE) OFFERED IN SUMMER 2019