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.
- This minor is not open Sociology majors (see Medical Sociology concentration in Sociology major). Only one minor can be earned from the Sociology department (Criminology, Medical Sociology, or Sociology).
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.
