Social Dimensions of Health Certificate (Undergraduate)

Undergraduate Certificate in the Social Dimensions of Health

Social Dimensions of Health Certificate Checklist

The interdisciplinary Social Dimensions of Health upper division certificate is designed to enhance students’
  1. Understanding of the sociocultural forces underlying health and illness experiences
  2. Ability to use sociocultural theories and data to analyze health issues
  3. Knowledge of the ways sociocultural variables inform health care delivery, health practices, and health policy

 

Academic Program Requirements

The certificate is open to all undergraduate majors. A grade of “C” or higher is required in all certificate courses.

Similar to other majors/minors/certificates, students must declare their certificate in the SDOH with UMBC to receive credit: https://registrar.umbc.edu/forms/records-updaterequest-forms/

Required Courses

  • SOCY 310: Social Stratification and Inequality
  • SOCY 351: Sociology of Health, Illness, and Medicine
  • SOCY/PBHL 354: Social Bases of Public and Community Health

Elective Courses (Choose 2 from the list below)

  • ANTH 312: Medical Anthropology
  • ANTH 424: Psychological Anthropology
  • PBHL 350: Public Health Ethics
  • PBHL 380: Global Issues in Health and Disease
  • PBHL 420: Epidemiology
  • SOCY 315: Population & Society (must email Dr. Jackson-Soller to have this officially added to SDOH in your degree audit)
  • SOCY/GWST 332: Human Sexuality in Sociological Perspective
  • SOCY/GWST 333: Human Sexuality in a Cross-Cultural Perspective (must email Dr. Jackson-Soller to have this officially added to SDOH in your degree audit)
  • SOCY 359/EHS 345: Death and Dying
  • SOCY 374: Drugs and Alcohol in Society
  • SOCY 397: Body & Society (must email Dr. Jackson-Soller to have this officially added to SDOH in your degree audit)
  • SOCY 451: Sociology of Health and Illness Behavior
  • SOCY 458: Sociology of Mental Health and Illness

For more information about the certificate and/or requests to have SOCY/GWST 333, SOCY 315, and SOCY 397 count on your degree audit as SDOH electives (these courses are new adds and therefore the program needs to add them manually), please contact Dr. Aubrey Jackson-Soller: aubrey@umbc.edu