Disease and Society (HDS)
Core Courses
ONE of the following core courses is required; the remaining one may be taken as an elective
HSOC 260 Social Determinants of Health
HSOC 430 Disease and Society (STSC 430)
Pre-Approved Electives
FIVE of these pre-approved courses are required, but students may petition to substitute other courses for these pre-approved electives. Download petition
ANTH 152 Fat in Society -or- NURS 313
ANTH 310 Anthropology and Biomedical Science
ANTH 359 Nutritional Anthropology (HSOC 359)
ANTH 437 Cultural Models and Health (HSOC 437)
ANTH 441 Cultural Approaches to Health (HSOC 4410
BFMD 073 Infectious Disease
BIBB 109 Introduction to Brain and Behavior
BIBB 240 Human Chronobiology and Sleep
BIBB 270 Drugs, Brain and Behavior
BIOL 406 Infectious Disease Biology
ENVS 407 Tobacco Addition (HSOC 407)
ENVS 408 Urban Asthma Epidemic (HSOC 408)
HSOC 230 Epidemiology
HSOC 232 Social Epidemiology
HSOC 259 Complementary/Alternative Med (STSC 259)
HSSC 533 Folk/Unorthodox Health (RELS 505)
NURS 313 Obesity in Society –OR- ANTH 152
NURS 318 Race/Class/Gender in Hlth Care (HSOC 341)
PSCI 135 Politics of Food (HSOC 135)
PSCI 139 Politics of Poverty and Development (HSOC 139)
PSCI 335 Healthy Schools (HSOC 335)
SOCI 111 Health of Populations (HSOC 111)
SOCI 277 Mental Illness
STSC 212 Science, Technology and Warfare (HSOC 212)
STSC 311 Science, Medicine and Media (HSOC 311)
STSC 428 Genetics and Social Policy (HSOC 428)
ONE of the following: HSOC 102, PHIL 072 (HSOC 101), SOCI 118 (HSOC 118), -OR- HSOC 140
(updated 11/09)
Courses that were previously approved but are no longer on this list still count toward the major if taken before Dec. 2009.
Former Lists of Pre-Approved Courses 2007 and 2008
