Requirements for the Minor in Health, Medicine, and Society 

Students may be Sociology Majors and Minors in Health, Medicine, and Society (MHS). Only SOC 105, SOC 200 and
SOC 201 can be applied to both the major and the minor.

• All courses for the minor must be passed with a letter grade of C or higher.

• Completion of the minor requires 21 credits.

• At least 9 of the 21 credits must be taken at Stony Brook.

• At lease 9 of the courses must be at the Upper-Division level (300+)

• 1. Required Core Courses (9 credits)
  • SOC 105 Introduction to Sociology
  • SOC 200 Medicine and Sociology
  • SOC 201 Research Methods
• 2. Choose Two Sociology Electives (6 credits)
  • SOC /WST 247  Sociology of Gender
  • SOC 248 Social Problems in a Global Perspective 
  • SOC 310  Ethnic and Race Relations
  • SOC 337 Deviance
  • SOC 339 Sociology of Drugs and Alcoholism
  • SOC 340 The Sociology of Human Reproduction
  • SOC 344 Sociology of the Environment
  • *SOC 393 Special Topics in Health, Medicine, and Society
• 3. Choose two related Electives (6 credits)
  • AFS 306 Gender and Public Health in Africa
  • AFS/HIS 368 Health and Disease in African History
  • AFS/SUS 374 Environment and Development in African History
  • AFS 381/WST 382 AIDS, Race, and Gender in the Black Community
  • ANT 260 How We Eat
  • ANT 359 The Archaeology of Food
  • BIO 358 Biology and Human Social and Sexual Behavior
  • BME 205 Clinical Challenges in the 21st Century
  • CLS 325 Latin & Green Orgins/Medicine
  • ECO 327 Health Economics
  • ENS 312  Population, Technology, and the Environment
  • HIS 237 Science, Technology, and Medicine in Western Civilization I
  • HIS 238 Science, Technology, and Medicine in Western Civilization II
  • HIS 286 The Global History of Human Health
  • HIS 293 Disease in American History
  • HIS/AAS 352 Environmental History of China
  • HIS 365 Environmental History of North America
  • HIS 398 Topics in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology
  • **HPH 201 What is Public Health
  • **HPH 312 Infectious Disease & Vaccines
  • HPH Population Mental Health in the 21st Century: Climate Change, Trauma and Disparities
  • MEC 280 Pollution and Human Health
  • PSY 333 Mood Disorders
  • PSY 334 Autism Spectrum Disorders
  • PSY 342 Psychology of Women’s Health
  • PSY 346 Health Psychology 
  • SUS 340 Ecological and Social Dimensions of Disease
  • WST 394 Special Topics in Medicine, Reproduction and Gender 

**The topics of SOC 393 may change, you may use up to 6 credits of this course to apply to the MHS minor AREA II as long as
the topics are different
** This course is acceptable but may need an exception in degreeworks at this time