Certificate Requirements

The Care, Health, and Resilience Certificate requires 12 credit units of core classes and 6 credit units of electives.   

Core Courses

(Students must take three of the seven classes listed below; each course is worth 3 credit hours.)

Course #Course Title
SOCY 1022Ethics & Social Issues in U.S. Health & Medicine
SOCY 2080Sociology of the Helping Professions 
SOCY 3045Sociology of Death & Dying
SOCY 3052Medical Sociology 
SOCY 4052Social Inequalities in Health 
SOCY 4062Suffering & Care in Society
SOCY 4063Rish & Resilience in Society 

Required Internship*

(3 credit hours)

Course #Course Title
SOCY 4932Internship in Care, Health, & Resilience

Electives

(Students must take two of the classes listed below; each course is worth 3 credit hours)

Course #Course Title
ANTH 4110Human Evolutionary Biology
ANTH 4610Medical Anthropology
ARSC 1220Global Health Issues for the Health Professions
ARSC 3001Social Engagement & Human Rights
ECON 4242Urban Economies: The Economics of Cities
ECON 4646Topics in Health Economics
ECON 4897Economics of Organizations
ENGL 1001-002Epidemics & Literature
ENVS 3525Health & the Built Environment 
ENVS 4800Critical Thinking: Resilience & Healthy Cities
ETHN 3201

Multicultural Leadership: Theories, Principles, & Practices

GEOG 3692Intro to Global Public Health
GEOG 3742Place, Power, & Contemporary Culture
GEOG 4852Medical Geography
HUMN 3550Imag(in)ing Meaning
IPHY 2500Perspectives in Health & Medicine
IPHY 3490Intro to Epidemiology 
INVS 3302Facilitating Peaceful Community Change
PHIL 1160Introduction to Bioethics
PHIL 3160Bioethics
PHIL 4110Contemporary Moral Theory
PSCI 3084Diversity, Disagreement, & Democracy
PSYC 2606Social Psychology
PSYC 3131Human Emotion
PSYC 3456Psychology of Personality
SLHS 1010Disabilities in Contemporary Society
SLHS 3014Hearing Loss Epidemiology
WMST 3400Gender, Personality, & Culture

 

*Given the difficulties of securing internships caused by the coronavirus, students are allowed to substitute one of the remaining core courses for the internship until further notice.