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The Five College Program in Culture, Health, and Science allows students an opportunity to explore human health, disease, and healing from an interdisciplinary perspective. The study of human health requires theoretical frameworks and research strategies that integrate physical and socio-cultural aspects of human experience. The newspapers have been filled with health-related stories linking health and culture. Whether discussing beef bans and mad cow disease, SARS outbreaks, new forms of health insurance coverage, or the importance of cultural competence, these stories all describe research results arising from collaborative work among multiple disciplines. Graduate programs and medical schools are giving greater attention to interdisciplinary training, recognizing that tomorrow's health experts will need to know how to link their understandings of history, culture, and behavior with clinical and epidemiologic models of health and disease.

Students in the Culture, Health, and Science program study health and disease by linking the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Students interested in pursing health careers will benefit from interdisciplinary programs in sociomedical sciences and medical humanities. The best health practitioners, researchers, and policy analysts will understand how behavior influences disease distribution and how biomedical categories change across time and culture. They will understand how to communicate research results to audiences of policy makers and to the general public. Faculty at undergraduate institutions benefit from collaboration across disciplinary lines between the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Both faculty and students will be enriched by their connections to health practitioners in their local communities and internationally.

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Fall 2008 courses are posted! Please let us know if you find a course that should be listed but isn't. Check Us Out On Facebook! Click Here SENIORS: Don't forget to submit your checklists!	Welcome! The Five College Program in Culture, Health, and Science allows students an opportunity to explore human health, disease, and healing from an interdisciplinary perspective. The study of human health requires theoretical frameworks and research strategies that integrate physical and socio-cultural aspects of human experience. The newspapers have been filled with health-related stories linking health and culture. Whether discussing beef bans and mad cow disease, SARS outbreaks, new forms of health insurance coverage, or the importance of cultural competence, these stories all describe research results arising from collaborative work among multiple disciplines. Graduate programs and medical schools are giving greater attention to interdisciplinary training, recognizing that tomorrow's health experts will need to know how to link their understandings of history, culture, and behavior with clinical and epidemiologic models of health and disease. Students in the Culture, Health, and Science program study health and disease by linking the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Students interested in pursing health careers will benefit from interdisciplinary programs in sociomedical sciences and medical humanities. The best health practitioners, researchers, and policy analysts will understand how behavior influences disease distribution and how biomedical categories change across time and culture. They will understand how to communicate research results to audiences of policy makers and to the general public. Faculty at undergraduate institutions benefit from collaboration across disciplinary lines between the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Both faculty and students will be enriched by their connections to health practitioners in their local communities and internationally. Five College Collaboration\|Steering Committee Featured News 05/19/2008 Voices of Latino/a Youth Photo Exhibition 05/14/2008 Digital Storytelling Exhibition 04/30/2008 The Human Cost of War and Chemical Weapons: Focus on Iran more> view all