- The Health Care-Social Issues interdisciplinary minor consists of seven total courses, of which a minimum of five must be upper- division.
- Upper-division courses must not overlap with courses in the major.
- A lower-division elective course that is not health-related must be followed by a health-related upper-division course in the same department.
- A health-related academic internship (AIP 197) or internship completed through UCDC may take the place of an upper-division elective course.
- For more information on health-related internships through AIP, please click here. For more information on the UCDC program, click here.
- Beginnning Fall 2006, any student declaring this minor may take any two courses Pass/No Pass.
REQUIRED COURSES
SOCIOLOGY/L 40 - Sociology of Health Care Issues
PHILOSOPHY 163 - Bio-Medical Ethics
One course in Urban Studies and Planning chosen from the following:
USP 143 - The U.S. Health Care System
USP 144 - Environmental and Preventive Health Issues
USP 145 - Aging Social and Health Policy Issues
USP 147 - Case Studies in Health Care Programs: Poor and Undeserved Populations
ELECTIVE COURSE OPTIONS
Anthropology
LD-2 - Human Origins
BI-101 - Topics in Bio-Medical Anthropology*
GN-100 - Topics in Socio-Cultural Anthropology *
SC-164 - The Anthropology of Medicine
Biology
36 - AIDS Science and Society
Contemporary Issues
22 - Human Sexuality
40 - The AIDS Epidemic
136 - The Anthropology of Medicine
Economics
140 - Economics of Health Producers
141 - Economics of Health Consumers
Ethnic Studies
142 - Medicine, Race, and the Global Politics of Inequality
History of Science
115 - History of Modern Medicine
116 - History of Bioethics
117 - N/A
174 - N/A
Philosopy
148 - Philosophy and the Environment
151 - Philosophy of Neuroscience
162 - Contemporary Moral Issues
164 - Technology and Human Values
Psychology
2 - General Psychology: Biological Foundations
60 - Introduction to Statistics
104 - Introduction to Social Psychology
124 - Introduction to Clinical Psychology
132 - Hormones and Behavior
134 - Eating Disorders
155 - Social Psychology and Medicine
163 - Abnormal Psychology
168 - Psychological Disorders of Childhood
169 - Brain Damage and Mental Functions
172 - Psychology of Human Sexuality
174 - Communication Disorders in Children and Adults
179 - Drugs, Addiction, and Mental Disorders
181 - Drugs and Behavior
188 - Impulse Control Disorders
Science, Technology and Public Affairs
181 - Elements of International Medicine
Sociology
60 - The Practice of Social Research
B113 - Sociology of the AIDS Epidemic
B120S - Special Topics*
B143 - Suicide
C134A - The Making of Modern Medicine
C134B - Medicine in the Twentieth Century
C135 - Medical Sociology
C136A - Sociology of Mental Illness: An Historical Approach
C136B - Sociology of Mental Illness in Contemporary Society
Urban Studies and Planning
143 - The U.S. Health Care System
144 - Environmental and Preventive Health Issues
145 - Aging Social and Health Policy Issues
147 - Case Studies in Health Care Programs: Poor and Underserved Populations
*approval required
