Bachelor of Arts in Health Studies

About this programme

Interdisciplinary Health Studies offers a multifaceted approach to the study of health. Health Studies allows students the opportunity to engage with health from biological, behavioural, social, environmental, ethical, historical, cultural and population perspectives. At Mount Allison, Health Studies draws on concepts from across the life sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Students develop the critical thinking, analytic, and communication skills needed to engage in complex and nuanced issues such as: Students also pursue specialized studies through a concentration in one of three innovative topic areas: In the health equity and diversity concentration, students will explore ways that health is socially and culturally constructed from a critical studies perspective. Students will analyze the ways in which oppression, marginalization, and health interact in society by considering how gender and sexism, colonialism, racism, sexual orientation, ageism, and dis/ableism, and the combination of these, impact the health of various social groups. In the health analysis concentration, students will develop the skills to analyze data on health in the population. Students will build an analytic toolkit including qualitative and quantitative analysis, statistical coding, geographic and spatial data analysis. In the environment and health concentration, students will explore the interdependence between human health, animal health, and the environment. Students will consider the ways in which the natural and built environment can shape health, such as exploring how the