The B.A. and B.S. Health and Society majors are designed to provide students preparing for healthcare professions with experience of both the humanities and social sciences, while also incorporating most of the prerequisite courses required by graduate programs in health care. By combining coursework in biology, psychology, sociology and other disciplines, the majors give students an interdisciplinary perspective on human health, and the social and psychological ramifications of wellness, disease and health care. The humanities and social-science coursework is specifically tailored to the interests and needs of students preparing for careers in healthcare, either as practitioners or in other roles:
- -Through their experiences in psychology courses, Health and Society majors develop a much richer understanding of the inner workings of their future patients’ minds, including factors that could bear on the development of medical conditions and factors that could impede treatment regimens.
- -The philosophy courses in the Society content area of our Health and Society major foster students’ moral and intellectual development, and enable them to better appreciate the difficult moral questions that patients and physicians grapple with in making treatment decisions.
- -The sociology courses in the Society content area provide students with a better perspective on the complex social forces that affect access to good health care and effective follow-through on treatment regimens.
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Our Health and Society majors give students beginning careers in health care a richer and more mature understanding of the many dimensions of human life and society that will bear on their efforts to provide quality health care to as many people as possible.
Total Tuition Fees: $162,000
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