Bachelor of Arts - Health and Society

The timeliness of B.A. with Major in Health and Society is felt globally as populations grapple with health, healing practices and health care. Health and Society brings together an array of social science and liberal arts approaches to address critical questions concerning health in human societies.

This program joins highly engaging faculty and broad-thinking students to examine the many ways in which human health, healing, and health care are defined, perceived, and enacted and distributed within and across populations.

Health and Society students take a variety of College of Arts and Science  courses in subjects such as: Anthropology; Critical Race and Ethnic Studies; Economics; Environmental Studies; Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies; Geography; Philosophy; Political Science; Psychology; Religion; Sociology; and more. As a cross-college major, Health and Society also offers students the opportunity to take some non-CAS courses in areas such as Communication Sciences and Disorders, Community Development and Applied Economics, Public Health Sciences, Health Education, Nutrition and Food Science, Statistics, and more.