Undergraduate Degree Tracks

Health begins long before a patient enters a doctor’s office. Explore how work, families, neighborhoods, inequality, public policy, and healthcare institutions shape who gets sick, who receives care, and how people live with illness.

You’ll learn to:

• Investigate social determinants of health and differences in health outcomes.
• Evaluate quantitative and qualitative evidence about health and healthcare.
• Communicate findings through clear research reports and policy-informed analysis.

The track builds a foundation for health research, community health, healthcare organizations, and policy, as well as graduate or professional study in public health, sociology, social work, medicine, and related fields. Students considering clinical programs should plan for their additional prerequisites.

Crime makes headlines. Understanding it takes evidence. Study why crime occurs, how laws are created and enforced, and how communities and institutions respond to harm.

You’ll learn to:

• Use sociological explanations to investigate crime, deviance, and delinquency.
• Examine victimization and the relationships among law, inequality, and power.
• Evaluate evidence about justice policy, crime prevention, and public safety.

The track builds a foundation for justice-related organizations, victim services, community programs, public agencies, policy, and research, as well as graduate or professional study in sociology, criminology, criminal justice, public policy, and law.

Who makes decisions about new technologies, and whose lives do those decisions change? Study artificial intelligence, biotechnology, digital media, and other innovations alongside questions about ethics, institutions, policy, and inequality.

You’ll learn to:

• Explain how social forces influence science and technological development.
• Assess the ethical and policy questions raised by emerging technologies.
• Communicate complex issues to people with different disciplinary backgrounds.

Add these perspectives to your major and develop skills relevant to technology, research, policy, communication, and public service.

The certificate requires 15 credit hours: SYP 2422 plus two approved Humanities electives and two approved Social Science electives. It may be completed fully online; elective offerings and prerequisites vary.