Welcome to Integrated Health Studies

The Integrated Health Studies (IHS) secondary major provides a liberal arts foundation in humanities, social sciences, and scientific reasoning, with opportunities for integrated learning and individual application in a capstone experience. It can be valuable to those interested in a variety of career fields and pathways, with particular connection to a pre-health track.

Students planning on a career in health care need a strong science foundation for their professional programs. But equally important is knowledge of the social context of health, skills for navigating the multi-dimensional nature of health problems, and other practical, patient-centered health care practices.

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The Integrated Health Studies secondary major is appropriate for any student who wants to work in healthcare and is on a traditional pre-health track.

This program is also appropriate for students interested in health-related careers. A student who majors in social work and wants to work in a hospital will develop ethical and scientific reasoning skills necessary for solving complex individual and societal health problems. Biomedical engineering can also be paired with IHS as a way to combine the analytical skills associated with engineering with the ethical and interpersonal skills of IHS. IHS is a way to explore passions related to science, people and ethics alongside any major of choosing.

Integrated Health Studies is intended to supplement primary major requirements to provide students with a foundation in:

  1. Interpersonal skills grounded in humanistic and social scientific understanding of health.
  2. Ethical and scientific reasoning skills necessary for solving complex individual and societal health problems.
  3. Multicultural competence critical for dealing with diverse patient populations in the U.S.
  4. Integrated learning culminating in a capstone experience.

Declare Integrated Health Studies

Please fill out this Qualtrics survey if you would like to add or drop the secondary major in Integrated Health Studies.

For information, contact:

UrquhartKaela Urquhart, Program Administrator
Email kaelaurquhart@ksu.edu

785-532-6904