Feb 16, 2025  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Society, Medicine, and Health Minor


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Admission Criteria


Current UB students seeking admission to the Society, Medicine, and Health minor should complete the College of Arts and Sciences Major/Minor Change Request Form.

Course Requirements


Society, Medicine, and Health Core (6 credits)


Total Credits Required for Major: 18


Total Credit Hours Required represents the minimum credits needed to complete this program, and may vary based on a number of circumstances. This chart should not be used for financial aid purposes.

Academic Requirements


Minimum GPA of 2.000 overall.

Minimum grade of C required in SOC 229 SOC 322 /SOC 477 , or approved substitutes.

Sociology Department course overlap policy: For Sociology/Criminology double majors, no shared classes are allowed other than the 3 shared required classes (101, 293, 294).  For Sociology and/or Criminology majors also minoring in a departmental minor, and/or for double minors, a minimum of 4 of the classes required for the minor must be unique, i.e., not shared across other departmental majors or minors.

Transfer Credit Policy

The department accepts up to 9 credit hours of appropriate sociology/criminology courses toward the minor requirements. Course descriptions and syllabi may need to be provided.

Learning Outcomes


Upon successful completion of all requirements, the student will:

  • Think critically and sociologically about complex social issues that impact health, healthcare, and health policy
  • Apply sociological theories and methods to understand the structure of modern health care and its contribution to health disparities
  • Define health and illness, understand sociological ways of thinking about the sick role, patients/families and health care providers, and their roles in health, and differentiate the contributions of agency and structure
  • Think sociologically about ethical principles in health behavior, care, technology
  • Use a sociological framework to elaborate the practices of health and wellbeing, the treatment of illness, and/or the social and organizational structures of health care
  • Compare/contrast health care systems and experiences in other societies

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