Undergraduate
Minors
Minor in Medical Sociology
Considering the unique resources and needs of IU Indianapolis, the Department of Sociology offers a minor in medical sociology. This program is designed to lead to a general understanding of the social context of health, health care, and the delivery of medical services and should be of special interest to all students majoring in health-related specialties.
A minor in Medical Sociology (SOC) requires satisfactory completion of the following requirements:
- Completion of properly distributed credit hour requirements for the baccalaureate degree in effect when the student was admitted to their home school.
- Completion of 15 credit hours, with a minimum grade of C in each course.
- no more than one course may "double count" toward multiple minors.
- 6 credits must be completed at IU Indianapolis.
- to declare the minor, complete the School of Liberal Arts online declaration form here.
- Sociology majors cannot earn the Medical Sociology minor (see Medical Sociology concentration).
Minor Requirements:
- SOC-R 100: Introduction to Sociology (3 cr.)
AND
- SOC-R 381: Social Factors in Health and Illness (3 cr.)
OR
- SOC-R 382: Social Organization of Health Care (3 cr.)
9 additional credit hours of sociology courses selected from the following:
- SOC-R 320: Sexuality and Society (3 cr.)
- SOC-R 321: Women and Health (3 cr.)
- SOC-R 327: Sociology of Death and Dying (3 cr.)
- SOC-R 335: Aging and the Life Course (3 cr.)
- SOC-R 349: Victimology (3 cr.)
- SOC-R 385: AIDS and Society (3 cr.)
- SOC-R 415: Sociology of Disability (3 cr.)
- SOC-R 485: Sociology of Mental Illness (3 cr.)
If you would like more coursework from the sociological perspective than a minor provides, we would encourage you to consider the Liberal Arts Dual Degree Advantage. Talk to an advisor today.
