For the most current description of this major, please see the department or program's web site. This broad cultural approach lets students study both science and its real-world circumstances, using tools of the humanities and social sciences. With its broad, integrated approach, the HSS major is both flexible and demanding. In addition to a core of HSS courses, students can study sociology, anthropology, philosophy, social and economic history, law as it bears on medicine, and political science, as well as engineering and natural science. Science, engineering and pre-medical majors find in HSS a broadening perspective on their fields.
Majors emerge well prepared for professional study.
HSS majors have been extremely successful in entering medical and law schools. Others have readied themselves for graduate study not only in the history of science but in other fields of the social sciences and humanities. HSS graduates work for government agencies on problems of science and public policy. They hold positions in science museums as curators and planners. They are also employed in scientific journalism, in computer, pharmaceutical and medical supply industries, in health insurance, and in other science-based enterprises.