Health Humanities and Health Science, BS (Boston)

Undergraduatemajor2027 catalogSocial Sciences HumanitiesBoston128 semester hours totalunverified parse — check the source

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Required Courses

• INSH 1300 — Introduction to Health and Humanities
• INSH 2302 — Culture, Technology, and the Future of Health

Core Humanities Electives

From the catalog

Complete two of the following not used to satsify another requirement:

• Choose 8 semester hours from:
  • AFCS 1101 — Introduction to African American and Africana Studies
  • ASNS 2245 — Introduction to Asian American Studies
  • ENGL 1400 — Introduction to Literary Studies
  • All of:
    • HIST 1200 — Historical Research and Writing
    • HIST 1201 — First-Year Seminar
  • PHIL 1101 — Introduction to Philosophy
  • PHIL 1110 — Introduction to Religious Studies
  • WMNS 1103 — Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • WMNS 1105 — Introduction to Trans Studies

Core Health Humanities Electives

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Complete three of the following not used to satisfy another requirement:

• Choose 12 semester hours from:
  • ENGL 2770 — Writing to Heal
  • ENGL 3700 — Narrative Medicine
  • HIST 2233 — The History of Medicine in North America
  • PHIL 1145 — Technology and Human Values
  • PHIL 1165 — Moral and Social Problems in Healthcare
  • One of:
    • WMNS 1225 — Gender, Race, and Medicine
    • AFCS 1225 — Gender, Race, and Medicine
    • HIST 1225 — Gender, Race, and Medicine

Core Digital Health Humanities Electives

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Complete two of the following not used to satisfy another requirement:

• Choose 8 semester hours from:
  • ARCH 5312 — Mapping and Building Health
  • ENGL 3460 — The Archives of Public Health
  • HIST 3344 — The History of Western Public Health
  • PHIL 3065 — Bioethics in the Age of Big Data

Public Health Core

• One of:
  • PHTH 1261 — Comparative Healthcare Systems
  • PHTH 1260 — The U.S. Healthcare System
• PHTH 2210 — Foundations of Biostatistics
• One of:
  • PHTH 2300 — Communication Skills for the Health Professions
  • PHTH 2301 — Communication Skills for the Health Professions—Global
• One of:
  • PHTH 2350 — Community and Public Health
  • PHTH 2351 — Community and Public Health - Global
• PHTH 2515 — Healthcare Policy and Administration
• PHTH 4120 — Global Perspectives on Discrimination and Health
• PHTH 4202 — Principles of Epidemiology in Medicine and Public Health
• PHTH 4540 — Health Education and Program Planning

Science Requirement

• All of:
  • BIOL 1111 — General Biology 1
  • BIOL 1112 — Lab for BIOL 1111
• All of:
  • BIOL 1113 — General Biology 2
  • BIOL 1114 — Lab for BIOL 1113
• All of:
  • CHEM 1161 — General Chemistry for Science Majors
  • CHEM 1162 — Lab for CHEM 1161
  • CHEM 1163 — Recitation for CHEM 1161
• MATH 1241 — Calculus 1
• PSYC 1101 — Foundations of Psychology

Introduction to College

• One of:
  • HSCI 1000 — College: An Introduction
  • HIST 1000 — History at Northeastern
  • ENGL 1000 — English at Northeastern
  • PHIL 1000 — Philosophy at Northeastern

Professional Development

• One of:
  • HSCI 2000 — Professional Development for Bouvé Co-op
  • EESH 2000 — Professional Development for Co-op

Writing

• ENGW 1111 — First-Year Writing

• From the catalog

  Advanced Writing Course

  Courses listed below are preferred but other advanced writing courses will be accepted:

• One of:
  • ENGW 3306 — Advanced Writing in the Health Professions
  • ENGW 3308 — Advanced Writing in the Social Sciences
  • ENGW 3309 — Advanced Writing in the Humanities
  • ENGW 3315 — Interdisciplinary Advanced Writing in the Disciplines

Capstone

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Complete one of the following:

• One of:
  • HINF 5301 — Evaluating Health Technologies
  • HSCI 4720 — Health Science Capstone—Service
  • HSCI 4730 — Health Science Capstone—Research
  • HSCI 4740 — Health Science Capstone Seminar
  • All of:
    • HSCI 4970 — Junior/Senior Honors Project 1
    • HSCI 4971 — Junior/Senior Honors Project 2
  • PHTH 4515 — Critical Issues in Health and Public Health Policy
  • PHTH 4602 — Private Guns, Public Health
  • PHTH 4616 — Addressing Rural Health Inequities
  • PHTH 4717 — Advancing Health Justice Through the Law
  • PHTH 4818 — Let’s Talk About Sex: Exploring Key Topics and Current Issues in Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • PHTH 5214 — Environmental Health
  • PHTH 5230 — Global Health
  • PHTH 5236 — Food, Nutrition, and Health
  • PHTH 5560 — Public and Community Health Program Evaluation
  • PHTH 5603 — Qualitative Methods

Substitutions

Stated by the catalog on this program's requirements:

• Must complete 0 SH Capstone Project Design and Planning (HSCI 4700) course as pre-requisite.
• Junior/Senior Honors Project 1 (HSCI 4970) will count as a 4 SH general elective.

Possible equivalents for this program beyond the above — dashed means a suggestion, not a rule, and every substitution needs your advisor's approval:

• AFCS 1225 ↔ HIST 1225 (tier B)
• AFCS 1225 ↔ WMNS 1225 (tier B)
• HIST 1225 ↔ WMNS 1225 (tier B)

What the tiers mean

Parsed from the catalog by NU Map; the structured machine copy is in this college's JSON for the 2027 catalog, under health-humanities-and-health-science-bs-boston, and the official page is the authority.