Students must also complete the Undergraduate Registration Requirement and the degree requirements of their home school.

NOTE: This Catalog describes Weinberg College BA requirements that pertain to students who matriculated at Northwestern after spring quarter 2023. Refer to the Archives if you are following BA requirements described in the 2018-2019 through 2022-2023 editions.

Adjunct Major Requirements (10 units)

• Courses are chosen from the list of Eligible Courses or the approved list on the program website and generally relate to a theme developed with the program director.
• 3 must be core courses, including at least 1 from each of the following lists:

  Course List

  Course	Title
  History core courses
  HISTORY 251-0	The Politics of Disaster: A Global Environmental History
  HISTORY 275-1	History of Early Modern Science and Medicine
  HISTORY 275-2	History of Modern Science and Medicine
  HISTORY 325-0	History of American Technology
  HISTORY 378-0	History of Law and Science
  HISTORY 379-0	Biomedicine and World History

  Course List

  Course	Title
  Other core courses
  HUM 220-0	Health, Biomedicine, Culture, and Society
  PHIL 268-0	Ethics and the Environment
  PHIL 269-0	Bioethics
  PHIL 326-0	Topics in Philosophy of Medicine
  SOCIOL 220-0	Health, Biomedicine, Culture, and Society
  SOCIOL 319-0	Sociology of Science

• At least 6 of the 10 courses must be at the 300 level.
• Course substitutions may be allowed with the consent of the program director.
• All adjunct majors require completion of a stand-alone major as well. Up to 2 courses for the science in human culture adjunct major may be counted toward another major.

Honors in Science in Human Culture

Majors with strong academic records and an interest in pursuing honors should submit a proposal to the program director by the end of the sixth week of spring quarter of junior year. To graduate with honors, students must take 9 courses toward the major (not counting the honors sequence) and must satisfy the core course requirements. In addition, they must write a senior thesis of sufficiently high quality while enrolled in the 3-quarter honors sequence:

Students whose theses and grades meet program criteria are recommended to the college for graduation with honors. For more information see the detailed explanation on the program website, contact the program director, and see Honors in the Major.