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How To Apply/Declare
Current Undergraduate Students: Declare or change your minor by completing an Undergraduate Program Add/Change form.
Prospective Undergraduate Students: Apply for admission to UMass Boston by completing an application. Start by reviewing the first-year and transfer application pages for important information about requirements, deadlines, and application status checks. Use the links below to apply:
Curriculum
Level One Courses (6 Credits)
Take two courses from the list below.
- CLSICS 294 - Magic and Science in Greece and Rome 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 150 - Food and Empire 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 171 - Leeches to Lasers: Medicine and Health in the United States 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 276 - This Land is Your Land: A Survey of American Environmental History 3 Credit(s)
- HONORS 290 - Special Topics 3 Credit(s)
Level Two Courses (12 Credits)
Take four courses from the list below.
- AFRSTY 404 - Race, Class, and Health Inequalities 3 Credit(s)
- ANTH 263 - Environmental Anthropology 3 Credit(s)
- ANTH 316 - Nutrition, Growth and Behavior 3 Credit(s)
- ANTH 324 - A Biocultural Approach to War 3 Credit(s)
- ANTH 357 - Culture, Disease, and Healing 3 Credit(s)
- ANTH 358 - Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities 3 Credit(s)
- ANTH 364 - Anthropology of Adolescence: Biocultural Interactions 3 Credit(s)
- ASAMST 345 - Asian American Cultures and Health Practices 3 Credit(s)
- ASIAN 371 - Environmental Issues in China 3 Credit(s)
- COMM 330 - Health Communication 3 Credit(s)
- COMM 345 - Environmental Communication 3 Credit(s)
- ECON 381 - Economics of Global Health 3 Credit(s)
- ENGL 268 - Outbreak! On Reading Narratives of Infectious Disease 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 314 - Health and Healing in Early Modern Europe 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 347 - Feast to Famine: Food in African History 3 Credit(s)
- HONORS 210G - Honors Intermediate Seminar 3 Credit(s) - Myth of Human Races as Biological Construct
- HONORS 295 - Honors Topics in the Natural Science 3 Credit(s) - Unheralded women in Science / Revolutions in Physics
- HONORS 380 - Honors Colloquium 3 Credit(s) - Exploring the Medical Humanities
- HONORS 490 - Special Topics 3-6 Credit(s) - International Epidemics
- PHIL 220 - Environmental Ethics 3 Credit(s)
- PHIL 222 - Moral Issues in Medicine 3 Credit(s)
- PHIL 299 - Public Health Ethics 3 Credit(s)
- PHIL 346 - The Philosophy of Science 3 Credit(s)
- SOCIOL 367 - Drugs and Society 3 Credit(s)
- SOCIOL 368 - Substance Use, Abuse, and Addiction 3 Credit(s)
- SOCIOL 384 - Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care 3 Credit(s)
- SOCIOL 386 - The Sociology of Mental Health and Illness 3 Credit(s)
- HUMCTR 220 - The Life Cycle and the Environment 3 Credit(s)
- PHIL 265 - Sanity and Madness 3 Credit(s)
- SOCIOL 342L - Aging and Society 3 Credit(s)
- WGS 230G - Reproductive Rights and Wrongs 3 Credit(s)
- WGS 268 - Global Bodies: Sex, Families, and Reproductive Rights in Transnational Perspective 3 Credit(s)
- WGS 343L - The Cultural Politics of HIV/AIDS 3 Credit(s)
Completion Requirements
Complete 18 credits from six courses, including two level one courses and four level two courses.
Pass/fail: No more than two courses taken pass/fail may be applied toward the minor.
Contact
Olivia Weissr, PhD, Program Director
McCormack Hall, 4th Floor, Room 645A
617.287.6865
Olivia.Weisser [@] umb.edu
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