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Culture, Health and Illness Minor

This minor is an excellent choice for students planning to apply to medical school, or health careers in fields like nursing, biomedical sciences, counseling, public policy, patient and victim's advocacy, and social work.

The minor in Culture, Health, and Illness uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine the study of health and illness among individuals and groups. Students pursuing this minor study the social and cultural factors that influence the ways in which people from diverse backgrounds perceive and experience health and illness.

Program of Study (total credit hours: 18)

Required Courses (6 credits)

Choose one of the following:

ANTH 1001 Introductory Anthropology
ANTH 1201 Introduction to Biological Anthropology
SOCI 1001 Principles of Sociology

AND Choose one of the following (students may take both*):

SOCI 3500 Culture, Health and Illness
SOCI 3550 Race, Gender and Medicine

Elective Courses (12 credits)

Your four elective courses must be from at least TWO different academic disciplines. The courses are grouped by tracks, though students are not required to select a single track and may choose to specialize in one aspect of culture, health and illness OR to approach the issue broadly and take courses from different tracks: