Science, Health and Society

Minor coordinators: Professors Kleinschmidt and Pinnow

A minor investigating the interdisciplinary nature of health and health care.  Students choose from one of two options, and all students are required to take the capstone course, INTDS550, Science, Health, and Society Seminar, and complete 84 hours of a combination of shadowing and service related to health.  The minor is administered by a committee whose membership includes Professors Kleinschmidt and Pinnow.  Requires 23 to 24 creidts.

 

Contact information for Science, Health, and Society minor

Professor Ann Kleinschmidt, Biology Department ann.kleinschmidt@allegheny.edu  332-2366

Professor Ken Pinnow, History Department kenneth.pinnow@allegheny.edu  332-4308

 

SCIENCE, HEALTH, AND SOCIETY

August 1 , 2008

Option A: Open to those majoring Humanities and Social Science

 

Take two of the following introductory science course sequences

Biology 220 and 221 (FSBio201 can be substituted for Bio221)
Chemistry 110 and 112 (If matriculating before 2003, complete Chem 101 and 102 or Chem 111, 115, and 116)
Physics 101 and 102 (or 110 and 120) 

Take one upper level elective from list below

Take INTDS 550

Complete 84 hours of shadowing/service in a health related field

Submission of Science, Health, and Society Portfolio

 

Option B: Open to all students

 

Take four courses from the following three areas.  You must take at least one course from each area:

Note: In consultation with either Professor Ann Kleinschmidt (ann.kleinschmidt@allegheny.edu) or Ken Pinnow (kenneth.pinnow@allegheny.edu, upper level electives can be substituted into one of the three categories, but, they can not be double counted)

 

Health and Science Foundations

Chemistry 105 The Science of Chemistry

Biology 070 Human Heredity

Environmental Science 110

INTDS 310 Neuroscience of Music Comprehension

INTDS 312 Neuroscience of Dance/Movement

Psychology 172: Health Psychology

 

Social Foundations

Com Arts 120 Media and Society
Economics 100 Intro to Microeconomics: Wealth, Poverty, and Power in America
Economics 250 Issues in Financing Health Care (Pre-requisite: One micro- and one macro-based introduction to economics)
History 152 Death and Dying in Latin America
History 170: Classics of Science and Medicine
INTDS 207: Human Sexual Identities
Political Science 221 Law and Society
Political Science 236 Health Policy in the US (Pre-requisite Political Science 110: Recommended but not Required)
Psychology 103 Drugs and Society
Psychology 105 Foundations of Psychology
Psychology 160 Life Span and Development Psychology
Women’s Studies 100

Ethics Foundations

Philosophy 130: Values and Knowledge
Philosophy 140: Ethics and Community
Philosophy 270 Early Modern Philosophy: Science and Knowledge
Philosophy 230: Science in its Cultural setting (Pre-requisite: One course in natural science or permission of the instructor)
Religious Studies 200: Christian Ethics

 

Take one upper level elective from list below

Take INTDS 550

Complete 84 hours of shadowing/service in a health related field

Submission of Science, Health, and Society Portfolio

 

Upper Level Elective

 

Communication Arts 365 Media and Cultural Theory (Pre-req, Comm Arts 120)

History 380: Disease and Medicine in Modern History (Social Foundations) 

History 584 Doctors and Deviants (pre-requisite: Permission of Instructor)

INTDS 306 Cultural Construction of Sexuality (Pre-req INTDS 207 or permission of instructor)

INTDS 315 History of Neuroscience

INTDS 540: Personal and Community Health (Health and Science Foundations)

Philosophy 310 Global Justice (Philosophy 140 or 210 or permission of instructor)

Philosophy 375 Cultural Studies of the Body (Ethical Foundations)

Philosophy 380 Holistic and Feminist Science Studies (Pre-req and intro philosophy course and a laboratory science course)

Philosophy 395 Medical Ethics (Ethical Foundations)

 

V:  INTDS 550 Seminar in Science, Health, and Society: Can be taken in either the Junior or Senior year.  Not open to First Years or Sophomores.  Must have completed at least 60 of the service/shadowing hours.

 

Before receiving a signature for this minor, students must present a plan for courses they will take to complete this minor.

Students must declare this minor before the end of their Sophomore year.

 

INTDS550

Description: 

Selected topics related to the understanding of the interdisciplinary nature of Health Care.  This course serves as a capstone to the Science, Health and Society minor and consists of analysis and discussion of literature addressing issues of Health Care.  Students are required to write research papers that cause them to reflect upon the service/shadowing and course work completed to fulfill the minor. 

Prerequisites: Completion of the majority of the other coursework and 60 hours of service/shadowing, or permission of the instructor.  Note, this course is on an every other year basis.  Planned years:2009-2010, 2011-2012 academic years

 

Goals and Objectives:

The objective of this course is to serve as a common experience for students completing the Science, Health, and Society minor.  There are a diversity of paths a student can take to complete this minor and the capstone course will serve to allow the participants to discuss their own experiences, choose literature that will educate other students in areas that they may not have explored, and to contemplate and write about what they have learned about the interdisciplinary nature of Health care as they have moved through this minor.  The students will be asked to keep a portfolio of their course work and shadowing/service and this will be used as the basis for one of the papers for this course.  The students will also be required to write a research paper that investigates a particular aspect of Health Care drawing on resources of a wide number of disciplines.