Undergraduates may earn a Bridging Disciplines Programs (BDP) certificate in one of 17 different concentration areas. BDP certificates allow students from a variety of majors to explore their interests and learning goals. The list below includes BDP certificate topics relevant to students with interests in health and health care. Explore the list below to see how the 17 BDP certificates overlap with your interests.
Children & Society – Children and Health Strand Concentration
- Explores the development of children and the social forces that impact them, focusing on topics such as adolescence; children and health; children, media, and the arts; children and public policy; and more. Students in the Children and Health Strand Concentration explore children’s health from the perspectives of their physiological, developmental, environmental, and social well-being.
- Examines a variety of disciplinary approaches to environmental processes and contemporary environmental issues, including sustainability, conservation, food and natural resource management, media, and policy.
Ethics & Leadership in Health Care
- Study of ethical issues in health care policy, administration, and delivery. Topics may include abortion, euthanasia, palliative care, scientific research with human subjects, technological innovation, and access to health care.
Non-profits & Social Entrepreneurship – Health and Health Care Strand Concentration
- Introduces students to social enterprise and administration of non-profit organizations. Concentration areas include art and social change; community welfare and social justice; environment; health and healthcare; international development; and youth and family. Students in the Health and Health Care Strand Concentration examine topics related to health from physiological and psychosocial perspectives, as context for understanding the role of health-focused non-profits.
Patients, Practitioners & Cultures of Care
- Explores health, health care, healing, and social justice issues from a variety of humanistic perspectives.
Social Inequality, Health & Policy
- Examines the causes and consequences of the huge disparities in health, life expectancy, and medical care delivery in the world today, exploring topics such as social/economic disparities, public health, and policy. Concentration areas include public health; family, fertility, and the life course; and migration and diaspora.