B.S. In Interdisciplinary Health Services

Requirements For The Interdisciplinary Health Services Major

GER Common Courses (See Curricula): 6 courses
GER University Distribution (See Curricula): 14 courses, including:

Mathematics: MAT 1171,1181 or higher (Topics in Contemporary Math & Intro to Statistics)
Natural Science: CHM 1011/1112, CHM 1021/1122 (General Chemistry I & II)
Philosophy 2000 Level: PHL 2321 or 2461 (Philosophy of Death or Philosophy of Science)

GER Electives: 8 courses

Major Concentration Courses:

IHS Core Requirements: 5 courses

IHS 2101 Psychosocial Aspects of Health, Illness, and Disability
IHS 2231 Health and Society
IHS 2111 The Health Care System and Its Responsibilities
IHS 2311 Statistics and Research Methods in Health Fields
IHS 2901 Senior Capstone in Health Services

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Area Studies: Choose 5 courses from the list below (at least 2 courses must be from the Health Services Courses)

Health Services Courses:

IHS 2411 Alternative Medicine and Non-traditional Therapies
IHS 2421 Public Health and Disease
IHS 2431 Helping & Healing: Ethics, Community, and Personal Transformation
IHS 2441 Health Administration
IHS 2451 Seeking a Better Death: Hospice Care
IHS 2461 Administration of Health Care and Public Health Organizations
IHS 2471 Nutrition, Exercise, and Body Composition
IHS 2481 Health and the School-aged Child
IHS 2491 Managed Health Care
IHS 2531 Nutrition: Health & Disease
IHS 2541 Diversity Leadership in Health Care
IHS 2501-2511 Independent Health Research
IHS 2601-2611 Internship in Health Services
IHS 2161 Alcohol, Drugs & Society
IHS 2181 Social Gerontology

Social Sciences Courses:

PSY 1781 Health Psychology
PSY 1201 Sports Psychology
PSY 1221 Intro to the Nervous System
PSY 1611 Drugs, the Brain, and Human Behavior
PSY 2181 Abnormal Psychology
PSY 2361 Physiological Psychology
SOC 2171 Sociology of Mental Health
SOC 2241 Issues in the Sociology of Medicine

Natural Sciences Courses:

Lab Sciences courses in Biology or Chemistry including:

BIO 1031/Organismic Biology
BIO 2011/Comparative Anatomy
BIO 2041/Systemic Physiology
BIO 2061/Microbiology
BIO 2211/Biochemistry
BIO 2221/Histology

CHM 2311/Organic Chemistry I
CHM 2321/Organic Chemistry II

Additional Science Requirements: 2 courses

BIO 1011 Biology I: Cells
BIO 1021 Biology II: Genetics

Note: Students planning graduate study in allied health are strongly encouraged to minor in biology or chemistry.

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