心理健康与成瘾专业为学生提供了深入了解心理健康，成瘾与社会之间关系的机会。它涉及检查心理健康与更广泛的社会过程之间的联系，包括边缘化，偏差的形成以及健康的社会决定因素。通过探索基于生活经验的医疗保健叙述和第一手资料，学生应该开始欣赏心理健康领域内各种观点的多样性。学生还将对精神疾病以及利用社会变革和其他非生物医学干预手段来解决与精神健康和成瘾有关的问题并促进幸福的一些方法有深刻的了解。通过完成专业化，学生将有能力从多种理论和实践角度讨论心理健康和疾病。
Our Health, Aging & Society programs allow students to explore a variety of courses on topics including the social determinants of health, healthy aging, mental health and addiction, and social gerontology, among others. Our undergraduate Health, Aging & Society programs equip students to approach issues such as health care access, positive cultures of aging, and mental health and addictions through the critical and constructive social sciences lens.<br><br> <br><br>Students completing a degree with the Health, Aging & Society Department can expect to gain skills in critical analysis, writing, oral discussion and presentations, and, more specifically, critical analysis and understanding of health and aging from a social sciences perspective. This knowledge includes theories that explain health inequalities, how health systems are organized and how they impact health, social systems and how they affect our aging populations, and the social aspects of aging.<br><br> <br><br>The Department of Health, Aging & Society also offers field experience opportunities where students work closely with professionals in an area of interest during their third year of study. The Aging and Society or Health and Society degrees may be combined with another subject within Social Sciences or Humanities. The Department of Health, Aging & Society also offers a specialization in Mental Health and Addiction with either degree.<br>These degrees may be complemented with a minor in one of many different subjects or with a certificate from Mohawk College. Enrolment in Health, Aging & Society programs is limited and possession of the published minimum requirements does not guarantee admission. Students can apply directly to Health & Society I from high school or apply at the end of their first year to major in Aging and Society and/or Health and Society starting in Level II.