First Year Seminar 191PHHS05 - FYS-U-Thrive: Health & Society

This seminar will support your transition to college and introduce you to a topic in public health and health sciences. The first six weeks will provide foundational skills for students to thrive at UMass. The last seven weeks will focus on exploring the topic: Connecting Health and Society. What does it mean to be a part of a broader community, and what can we ask of our neighbors when we need them to protect our health? Where are the lines between individual responsibility and the community? This course will cover the importance of environmental, societal, and political forces that influence the health of a population. Given the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, how and why these factors are important have come to light for all of us. Students will be actively engaged in learning about these influences from a local, national and global perspective as well as those within our UMass campus.

First year (Fr or Soph)