INTERDISCIPLINARY
MINORS MULTIDISCIPLINARY
MINORS CATALOGUE
Science, Health and Society
Minor coordinator: Professor Kleinschmidt
A minor investigating the interdisciplinary nature of health and health
care. Students choose from on of two options, and all students are required
to take the capstone course, LS550, 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 credits.
Contact information for Science, Health, and Society minor
Professor Ann Kleinschmidt, Biology Department akleinsc@allegheny.edu
332-2366
Professor Ken Pinnow, History Department kpinnow@allegheny.edu
332-4308
SCIENCE, HEALTH, AND SOCIETY
May 13, 2003
Option A: Open to those majoring Humanities and Social Science
- Take two of the following introductory science course sequences
- Biology 220 and 221
- Chemistry 110 and 112 (If matriculating before 2003, complete Chem
101 and 102 or Chem 111, 115, and 116
- Physics 101 and 102 (or 111 and 112)
- Take one upper level elective from list below
- Take LS 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:
- Health Foundations
- Biology 060: Cancer: Causes and Consequences
- Biology 070: Human Heredity
- Biology 071: Biotechnology
- Biology 072: The Neurosciences
- Psychology 172: Health Psychology
- Physical Education 540: Personal and Community Health
- Social Foundations
- History 170: Classics of Science and Medicine
- Philosophy 230: Science in its Cultural setting (Pre-requisite: One
course in natural science or permission of the instructor)
- Economics 112 Wealth, Poverty, and Power in America
- Economics 250 Issues in Financing Health Care (Pre-requisite: One
micro- and one macro-based introduction to economics)
- LS 207: Human Sexual Identities
- Psychology 103 Drugs and Society
- Ethics Foundations
- Philosophy 130: Values and Knowledge
- Philosophy 140: Ethics and Community
- Religious Studies 200: Christian Ethics
- Take one upper level elective from list below
- Take LS 550
- Complete 84 hours of shadowing/service in a health related field
- Submission of Science, Health, and Society Portfolio
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