Transitioning from Healthcare Studies (HCS) to Health Studies (HS)
The Department of Health Studies created in 2021 grew out of an interdisciplinary program in Healthcare Studies. The old BA in Healthcare Studies (HCS) focused on the ethical, legal, business, and political aspects of healthcare service delivery. The new BA in Health Studies investigates the social, cultural, environmental, biological, psychological, ethical, economic, legal, and policy contexts that shape individual and population health.
Catalog Years 2020-21 and older
The Healthcare Studies major required an introductory course in healthcare studies, a statistics course, a course on ethics, a senior capstone experience, and electives selected to fulfill distribution requirements in law, philosophy, and humanities (1 course); research methods, analysis, and communication (2 courses); and applied health studies (2 courses). The Healthcare Studies minor required an introduction to healthcare studies (HCS 100), a course on health and the caring professions (HCS 201), an ethics course, and 2 electives. The HCS program is being phased out and replaced by the Health Studies program. Only students enrolled at UR in or before 2020 are able to major in HCS.
Health Studies Major for Catalog Year 2021-2022
Health Studies majors under this catalog year will complete courses in the core areas of undergraduate public health education: health policy (HS 100), global health (HS 101), and epidemiology (HS 250). Majors will also take courses in statistics and ethics; select 4 electives from 3 lists of health-related courses that present humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences perspectives on health; and complete a two-semester capstone experience.
The major requires completion of 10 units, including:
HS 100 Introduction to Health Studies
HS 250 Epidemiology and Health Research Methods
Research Methods, one unit chosen from:
BIOL 320 Experimental Design and Biostatistics
BUAD 202 Statistics for Business and Economic
MATH 209 Introduction to Statistical Modeling
Health Ethics, one unit chosen from:
PHIL 265 Bioethics
LDST 377 Ethical Decision Making - Health Care
Humanities Perspectives on Health, one unit chosen from:
ANTH 302 Medicine and Health from a Global/Anthropological Perspective
ANTH 303 Biopolitics in Medical Anthropology
CLSC 210 A History of Early Medicine
HS 200 The Medical Humanities
HS 240 Law and Medicine
HIST 361 Madness and Society in the Modern Era
HIST 390 Food and Power in Africa and Asia
Social Science Perspectives on Health, one unit chosen from:
GEOG 345 Global Sustainability: Society, Economy, Nature
GEOG 370 Geographies of Economic Development and Globalization
HS 201 Health and the Caring Professions
PLSC 365 U.S. Health Care Policy and Politics
PSYC 323 Health Psychology
Natural Science Perspectives on Health, one unit chosen from:
BIOL 199 Molecular Mechanism of Medicine or BIOL 199 Genes, Neurons, and Behavior or BIOL 199 Microbial Stress or BIOL 199 Emerging Infectious Diseases or BIOL 120 Emerging Infectious Diseases
BIOL 220 Human Physiology with Lab
BIOL 322 Cancer Biology and Tumorigenesis with Lab
BIOL 324 Molecular Virology with Lab
BIOL 336 Eco-epidemiology with Lab
BIOL 340 Introduction to Immunology with Lab
BIOL 346 Medical Entomology with Lab
BIOL 354 Biological Basis of Neurodegenerative Diseases with Lab
ENVR 322 The Global Impact of Climate Change
GEOG 260 Foundations of Geospatial Analysis
MATH 304 Mathematical Models in Biology and Medicine
Elective
Choose one from any of the humanities, social sciences, or natural sciences blocks.
Capstone
HS 390 Senior Capstone I
HS 391 Senior Capstone II
Health Studies Minor for Catalog Year 2021-2022
Health Studies minors under this catalog year will complete courses on health policy (HS 100), health and the caring professions (HS 201), and ethics, plus two electives.
The minor requires completion of five units, including:
HS 100 Introduction to Health Studies
HS 201 Health and the Caring Professions
LDST 377 Ethical Decision Making - Health Care or PHIL 265 Bioethics
Two units chosen from:
ANTH 302 Medicine and Health from a Global/Anthropological Perspective
ANTH 303 Biopolitics in Medical Anthropology
CLSC 210 A History of Early Medicine
HIST 199 Health In American History
HIST 361 Madness and Society in the Modern Era
HS 200 The Medical Humanities
HS 240 Law and Medicine
MGMT 355 Health Sector Analysis
PLSC 365 U.S. Healthcare Policy and Politics
PSYC 299 Developmental Disabilities in Children
PSYC 323 Health Psychology
PSYC 331 Behavioral Neuroscience
PSYC 341 Cognitive Neuroscience
PSYC 444 Clinical Case Studies (Foundations of Neuropsychology)
RHCS 102 Interpersonal Communication
SOC 340 Sociology of Health and Illness
Health Studies Major for Catalog Year 2022-2023
Health Studies majors under this catalog year will complete coursework in health policy (HS 100), global health (HS 101), epidemiology (HS 250), and statistics, and will select 5 courses total from 3 lists of health-related courses that present humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences perspectives on health. (No more than 2 courses from the same department other than HS can apply toward the major requirements.) The major is rounded out by a one-semester integrative capstone seminar (HS 400).
The major requires completion of 10 units, including:
HS 100 Health Policy
HS 101 Global Health
HS 250 Epidemiology and Health Research Methods
HS 400 Senior Capstone
Statistical analysis, one unit chosen from:
BIOL 320 Experimental Design and Biostatistics
BUAD 202 Statistics for Business and Economic
MATH 209 Introduction to Statistical Modeling
Humanities Perspectives on Health, one unit chosen from:
ANTH 271 COVID-19 in International Perspective
ANTH 272 Global Women’s Reproductive Health
ANTH 302 Health Inequities in International Perspective
ANTH 303 Biopolitics in Medical Anthropology
ANTH 305 Health and Migration
CLSC 210 A History of Early Medicine
HIST 291 Histories of Public Health and Biomedicine in the Global South
HIST 361 Madness and Society in the Modern Era
HIST 390 Food and Power in Africa and Asia
HS 200 The Medical Humanities
HS 203 Health Ethics
HS 240 Law and Medicine
LDST 377 Ethical Decision Making - Health Care
PHIL 265 Bioethics
Social Science Perspectives on Health, one unit chosen from:
GEOG 345 Global Sustainability: Society, Economy, Nature
GEOG 370 Geographies of Economic Development and Globalization
HS 202 Patients and Providers
MGMT 355 Health Sector Analysis
PLSC 365 U.S. Health Care Policy and Politics
PSYC 323 Health Psychology
PSYC 299/WGSS 279 Women's Health
SOC 340 Sociology of Health and Illness
Natural Science Perspectives on Health, one unit chosen from:
BIOL 220 Human Physiology with Lab
BIOL 322 Cancer Biology and Tumorigenesis with Lab
BIOL 324 Molecular Virology with Lab
BIOL 336 Eco-epidemiology with Lab
BIOL 340 Introduction to Immunology with Lab
BIOL 344 Behavioral Ecology with Lab
BIOL 346 Medical Entomology with Lab
BIOL 354 Biological Basis of Neurodegenerative Diseases with Lab
ENVR 322 The Global Impact of Climate Change
MATH 304 Mathematical Models in Biology and Medicine
PSYC 331 Behavioral Neuroscience
PSYC 341 Cognitive Neuroscience
Electives
Choose 2 additional courses from the 3 lists above (humanities, social sciences, natural sciences); no more than 2 courses from the same department (except for HS) can apply toward the degree.
Health Studies Minor for Catalog Year 2022-2023
Health Studies minors under this catalog year will complete courses on health policy (HS 100), global health (HS 101), and “patients and providers” (HS 202), plus two electives. The two electives must come from different departments unless both are HS courses.
The minor requires completion of five units, including:
HS 100 Health Policy
HS 101 Global Health
HS 202 Patients and Providers
Two units chosen from:
ANTH 271 COVID-19 in International Perspective
ANTH 272 Global Women’s Reproductive Health
ANTH 302 Health Inequities in International Perspective
ANTH 303 Biopolitics in Medical Anthropology
ANTH 305 Health and Migration
CLSC 210 A History of Early Medicine
ENVR 322 The Global Impact of Climate Change
GEOG 345 Global Sustainability: Society, Economy, Nature
GEOG 370 Geographies of Economic Development and Globalization
HIST 291 Histories of Public Health and Biomedicine in the Global South
HIST 361 Madness and Society in the Modern Era
HIST 390 Food and Power in Africa and Asia
HS 200 The Medical Humanities
HS 203 Health Ethics
HS 240 Law and Medicine
HS 250 Epidemiology and Health Research Methods
LDST 377 Ethical Decision Making - Health Care
MATH 304 Mathematical Models in Biology and Medicine
MGMT 355 Health Sector Analysis
PHIL 265 Bioethics
PLSC 365 U.S. Health Care Policy and Politics
PSYC 323 Health Psychology
PSYC 331 Behavioral Neuroscience
PSYC 341 Cognitive Neuroscience
SOC 340 Sociology of Health and Illness
All Catalog Years
Students are expected to fulfill all prerequisites necessary for courses within the major or minor. Prerequisites do not count toward the minor unless otherwise noted. The grade point average of the coursework comprising the major or minor must be no less than 2.00 with no course grade less than C-. No more than two transfer courses may be applied to the minor requirements. All policies in the catalog apply to Health Studies programs.