Social Science and Medicine Minor

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The minor Social Science and Medicine allows students in many fields, including the medical fields to broaden their academic views to allow them to see the interaction between health, society and culture. This minor gives students the cultural and social contexts that can help facilitate effective health care, and showing how applications of cultural, social and economic frameworks in clinical settings can enhance the well-being of both patients and providers. Students in the minor are given the opportunity to examine health and illness from an integrated, social science perspective. Students pursuing this minor will learn to identify and analyze the social, behavioral, and cultural factors that influence how people from diverse backgrounds perceive and experience health and illness.

Academic Policies and Requirements for Minors:

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Hours to Minor: 18 hours

Required courses (9 hours):

A. Required Methods course (3 hours):

SSGS 400 - Conducting Research in the Social Sciences 3 hrs.

B. Social Science coure:

Choose at least 2 of the 5 courses (6 hours)

ANT 442 - Medical Anthropology 3 hrs.
ECO 444 - Economics of Health Care 3 hrs.
CMS 440 - Health Communication 3 hrs.
SOC 312 - Sociology of Mental Health and Illness 3 hrs.
SOC 423 - Sociology of Health 3 hrs.

Elective courses (9 hours) or additional courses from B above:

Anthropology majors that choose ANT 442 can only count two ANT courses below

ANT 441 - Human Variation and Adaptation 3 hrs.
ANT 445 - Bioarchaeology 3 hrs.
ANT 447 - Nutritional Anthropology 3 hrs.
ECO 225 - Environmental and Natural Resource Economics 3 hrs.
HIS 422 - History of Medicine 3 hrs.
IDS 370 - Introduction to Health & Medical Humanities 3 hrs.
IDS 371 - Topics in Health & Medical Humanities 3 hrs.
KIN 377 - Social Foundations and Issues in Sports Coaching 3 hrs.
KIN 405 - Governing Agencies in Sport 3 hrs.
MKT 471 - Marketing in the Health Care Industry 3 hrs.
MKT 473 - Regulatory and Ethical Issues in the Health Care Industry 3 hrs.
PHI 316 - Philosophy of Science 3 hrs.
PHI 452 - Health Care Ethics 3 hrs.
PS 471 - Politics and Business 3 hrs.
PS 473 - Public Policy 3 hrs.
PSY 400 - Health Psychology 3 hrs.
PSY 435 - Drugs And Behavior 3 hrs.
PSY 456 - Adult Development and Successful Aging 3 hrs.
SOC 410 - Sociology of Sport 3 hrs. (Not an option for Sociology majors that have chosen two SOC classes in B above)

DPH Courses only available to public health majors and minors no more than 9 hours to count in the minor.

DPH 305 - Introduction to Public Health 3 hrs.
DPH 321 - Community Health 3 hrs.
DPH 414 - Consumer Health 3 hrs.
DPH 438 - Workplace Health Promotion 3 hrs.
DPH 470 - Health Law and Justice 3 hrs.
DPH 485 - Communication in Public Health 3 hrs. (WI)