Major
MHS majors craft a plan of study that includes core MHS classes, electives that meets their particular interests, and an area of concentration. 36 credit hours of course work, distributed as follows:
1. CORE COURSE: One of the following core courses (3 hours):
- MHS 1920, Politics of Health
- MHS 1930, Social Dimensions of Health and Illness
- MHS 1940, Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
- MHS 1950, Theories of the Body
- MHS 2110, American Medicine in the World
- MHS 2230, Masculinity and Men’s Health
- MHS 3890 (HUM 1610), COVID and Society
- ANTH 2342, Biology of Inequality
2. CONCENTRATION: Four courses (12 hours) not used to satisfy the core course or elective requirements in one of the concentrations areas:
- Global health: emphasizes social and political determinants of global health disparities, history of global public health concepts and practices, relationship between culture and health, various health systems.
- Health policies and economies: emphasizes the economic, legal, and political dimensions of health.
- Health behaviors and health sciences: emphasizes biological and social foundations of health.
- Inequality, intersectionality, and health justice: emphasizes how diverse structures of inequality intersect and shape health disparities; and considers the role of social justice movements in reducing inequities.
- Medicine, humanities, and the arts: emphasizes critical inquiry of our most basic ideas about health and medicine.
- Critical Health Studies: Students choosing this concentration must propose a set of four courses (12 credit hours) that form a coherent program of study related to critical health studies and receive approval from the director of undergraduate studies.
(Lists of applicable courses are listed in the catalog)
3. ELECTIVES: Seven courses (21 hours) not used to satisfy the core course or concentration requirements chosen from the catalog. All MHS and MHS-approved courses may count as electives (except MHS 3830/3831; 3880/3881; and 4998/4999). Up to 12 hours from the following list may be counted for the major: BSCI 1510-1511; BSCI 2101 (formally MHS 3101); BSCI 2520; BSCI 3101 (formally MHS 3102); BSCI 3234 (formally MHS 1500); CHEM 2221-2222 or 2211-2212; MHS 1600. Your grade in all of these courses will count toward your MHS GPA.
4. DISCIPLINARY REQUIREMENT: One course (3 hours) from the following courses must be used to satisfy the concentration requirement or electives requirement.
- ANTH 2213W, Food, Identity, and Culture
- ANTH 3143, Medical Anthropology
- ANTH 3141, Anthropology of Healing
- ANTH 3345, Genetics in Society
- CSET 2500, Science for Everyone
- CSET 2550, Genetic Breakthroughs: The Promise and the Problems
- ECON 2350, Health Care Policy
- ECON 3350, Economics of Health
- GSS 3305, Gender and Sexuality in Times of Pandemic
- HIST 2780, Superhuman Civilization
- HIST 2800, Modern Medicine
- MHS 1960, Health Humanities
- MHS 2140, Health Care in the United States: Policy and Politics
- MHS 3050W, Medicine and Literature
- MHS 3120, Medicine, Science, and Technology
- MUSL 3235, Music, Pandemics, and History
- PHIL 1008, 1008W, Introduction to Medical Ethics
- PHIL 3608, Ethics and Medicine
- PSY 3635, Health Psychology
- RSLT 4834, Post-Freudian Theories and Religion
- SOC 3301, Society and Medicine
- SOC 3304, Race, Gender, and Health
- SOC 3306, Gender and Medical Work