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Health Humanities B.S.

多学科课程阐明影响健康结果的社会因素, 提供基本生物伦理学的培训,并为学生在健康相关职业中以人为中心的挑战做好准备.
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健康人文学科补充了科学,使学生为涉及健康相关职业的以人为中心的挑战做好准备. Coursework focuses on topics like biomedical ethics, 残疾社会学和压力对健康的影响.

About this Program

  • Bolster your cultural, historical, 与卫生和卫生专业有关的道德和社会知识.
  • Learn about the social determinants of health, 例如贫穷与健康或种族与健康结果之间的联系.
  • Learn new ways of thinking about disability, as well as about the impact of illness on people’s lives, 增加你对模棱两可的同理心和容忍度——这是卫生专业中重要的技能.
  • 提高你的分析性写作和批判性思维能力,并将其应用于与健康相关的主题.
  • 追求本科研究和实习机会,实践这些你在现实世界中获得的技能.
  • 探索不同的职业选择:通过一对一的学术咨询, internships and career conversations, 找一个与健康相关的职业,最适合你对健康的兴趣, disease, healing and disability.
  • 在MCAT考试中获得优势(我们的重点是批判性思维和生物伦理学),并被医学院录取,或为健康相关领域的成功进一步学习做好准备.

Program Information

Degree Type

Major

Outcome

B.A.

Modality

In-person

College or School

Career Path

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College of Arts and Sciences

The College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) is Syracuse University’s first and largest college. As the home of the liberal arts, 我们国际公认的课程为雪城大学提供了50多个自然科学和数学专业的教育基石, 人文与社会科学(与麦克斯韦公民与公共事务学院合作).
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Curriculum

As a health humanities student, 你将学习医学伦理等领域的核心要求, bioethics and sociology. Then, 你将从以下类别的选修课程中进行选择:健康和全球关注, health and social concerns, stages of life, health in communities, and health and communication. Finally, 在你大四的时候,你将完成一门顶点课程,这门课程需要一个顶点项目.

  • Accurately characterize the field of health humanities.
  • Describe, 比较和对比人文社会科学的一些基本理论和方法, particularly as they relate to the health humanities.
  • 描述健康人文学科如何补充你的主要专业.
  • 运用健康人文学科知识进行批判性评估, orally and in writing, 与健康有关的媒体项目和其他声明或主张, illness and health care.
  • Demonstrate an ability, orally and in writing, to engage in well-informed, 对与健康有关的特定主题进行具有文化敏感性的道德反思, illness, disability and/or health care.
  • 充分了解不同文化和历史对健康的理解, illness, and/or disability, 以及对健康和健康不平等的社会决定因素的理解.
  • 有能力从事健康人文学科的长期累积学习, culminating in a research project presented to peers.
  • 表现出同情他人观点的意愿和能力.

The health humanities major is an integrated learning major, meaning that it must be paired with a primary major. 第一专业决定了学生能否以B的成绩毕业.A. or B.S. degree. For example, a student who pursues the B.A. 在心理学和健康人文学科的课程中,他们将以B级毕业.A., whereas a student who pursues the B.S. 在生物学和健康人文学科的课程中,他们将以B级毕业.S.

Extracurricular Opportunities

Community service

Global Medical Brigades

全球医疗旅是一个由学生和医疗专业人员组成的国际运动,与当地社区和工作人员一起实施可持续的卫生系统. 学生志愿者前往偏远地区协助医疗保健工作, rural and under-resourced communities in Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua and Ghana, 在其他方面获得医疗保健的机会有限或没有的地方. 全球旅还支持社区的经济发展, sanitation and clean water projects, 并以整体模式独特地实施这些项目,以满足社区的健康和经济目标.

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Student organization

Rebecca Lee Pre-Health Society

丽贝卡·李学前健康协会以丽贝卡·李·克鲁普勒命名, the first African American woman in the U.S. to earn an M.D.-是一个学生组织,旨在促进和鼓励不同群体的学前健康学生参加专业健康学校, including those for medicine, physician assistant, physical therapy, public health, pharmacy and other health careers. 欢迎各专业学生加入本组织.

Student organization

Syracuse University Ambulance

澳门线上赌场救护车是一个由学生组成的志愿者团体,他们提供中级生命支持, transport, 快速心脏除颤以及雪城校园内外的非紧急运输. 成员是经过培训的专业人员认证的emt,并回应超过1,500 calls for emergency service every year, providing 24/7 coverage for the community.

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