Catalog Year: 2022-2023
Banner Code: LA-MINOR-HIST-HDC
The Health, Disease, and Culture minor provides students with a multidisciplinary understanding of the social construction of health and diseases in modern and historical societies. A combination of courses in health, humanities, and social sciences allows for a view of health and disease from both a contemporary and historical lens with a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
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Total credits: 15
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Social and Cultural Constructions of Health and Disease | ||
| Select two courses from the following: | 6 | |
| Humans, Disease, and Death (Mason Core) | ||
| Medical Anthropology | ||
| Foundations of Health Communication | ||
| Family and Health Communication | ||
| Introduction to Health Behavior (Mason Core) | ||
| Health Communication | ||
| Topics in Global History (Mason Core) (when topic is GLobal History of Disease) | ||
| Death, Dying, and Decision Making | ||
| Ethical Issues in Global Health | ||
| Mental Illness and Criminal Justice | ||
| Death, Dying, and Grieving | ||
| Death and the Afterlife in Religion | ||
| Spirituality and Healing (Mason Core) | ||
| Gender, Health, and Culture in the United States | ||
| Science of Health and Disease | ||
| Select two courses from the following: | 6 | |
| Medical Mycology | ||
| Conservation Medicine | ||
| Global Health (Mason Core) | ||
| Introduction to Public Health | ||
| Introduction to OneHealth | ||
| Health Behavior Theories | ||
| Health and Disease | ||
| Health and Environment | ||
| Global Health Interventions: History and Systems | ||
| Global Health Interventions: Emerging Issues | ||
| Fundamentals of Epidemiology | ||
| Global Emerging Infectious Diseases | ||
| Social Determinants of Health | ||
| Social Determinants of Health | ||
| Culture, Sexuality and the Global AIDS Epidemic | ||
| Study Abroad in Public Health | ||
| Mindfulness, Meaning Well-Being | ||
| Foundations of Resilience and Well-Being | ||
| Contemporary Health: Intersections in Science and Society (Mason Core) | ||
| Abnormal Psychology | ||
| Science of Well Being | ||
| Total Credits | 12 | |
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Select course from above lists that was not used to meet another requirement or complete an internship with a health-related focus | 3 | |
| Internship | ||
| Internship in Communication | ||
| Global Experiential Learning | ||
| Research Internship in Public Health | ||
| Internship | ||
| International Internship | ||
| Philosophy Internship | ||
| Religious Studies Internship | ||
| Internship in Sociology I (Mason Core) | ||
| Internship in Women and Gender Studies | ||
| Total Credits | 3 | |