About the Program
Health & Societies offers an interdisciplary major designed to make undergraduates a part of the network of scholars and programs at Penn focused on health, the social sciences and the humanities. Combining the freedom of an individualized major with the coherence of a core curriculum, the major is organized around a set of foundation courses and department electives, and a set of courses tailored to student interest drawn from across the university.
It provides an intellectual and practical education for undergraduates interested in the fields of medicine and health. Many of our majors go on to jobs or graduate study in medicine, law, government, business, journalism, public health, international health and development, and biomedical sciences. The Health & Societies major is part of the University’s response to the global nature of modern health problems and to the steadily expanding reliance on a multidisciplinary approach to their solution.
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