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Health and Societies
Graduate, Undergraduate | BA
The Health and Societies program responds to the worldwide nature of modern health problems and the steadily expanding reliance on a multidisciplinary team approach to their solution. Students explore serious intellectual questions in health, the social sciences, and the humanities while acquiring the skills necessary to participate in modern globalized health care and decision-making. The Health and Societies major provides an exciting, intellectually-coherent yet practical education for undergraduates preparing for careers in the health professions or for a health care specialization in fields such as law, government, journalism, and business.

Health Care Management - MBA
Graduate | MBA
The health care industry is the U.S.'s second largest employer. Health Care Management is the most popular major with an industry focus within the Wharton curriculum. It appeals to those interested in the pharmaceuticals sector, the emerging biotech area, health services, government agencies, insurance organizations, and health maintenance organizations (HMOs). There are also consulting companies that specialize in the health care sector. Health Care Management differs from any other major at Wharton as it blends specific coursework and professional development opportunities; candidates are required to select the major at the time of application.

Health Care Management and Policy - Undergraduate
Undergraduate | BS
Wharton's concentration in health care systems focuses on the management, financing and economics of the health services sector. Students learn about those factors that significantly influence a health care system, including government regulation and the changing role of health professionals. Students are provided with a variety of tools and perspectives to understand and analyze significant policy and management issues in this complex, socially important industry. Students planning a career in health care management or policy, clinical medicine, nursing or dentistry have found the concentration to be very useful preparation.

Health Care Systems - Doctoral
Graduate | PHD
Wharton's doctoral program in health care systems prepares scholars to contribute to multidisciplinary research while interacting in a research team setting. The program combines intensive graduate level training in health care systems and health services research combined with advanced training in a traditional business discipline. Students include physicians, future physicians, clinically trained professionals and those from a business, math, or social science background. The goal is to gain an interdisciplinary health-services research focus that is applicable across private and public sectors.

Higher Education Management
Graduate | EDD, MS, PHD
This program is dedicated to training the future managers and leaders of higher education, both in the United States and abroad.

Hispanic Studies
Undergraduate
The demographic, economic and political realities of the United States, the articulation of a mainstream English culture with an ever-increasing diversity of Hispanic and Latino cultures, and the ongoing forging of strong cultural and economic ties throughout the Americas, have moved Spanish out of the bounds of the category of “foreign” language and culture in the United States. Culture is the controlling category in this field; the program is orientated to the knowledge generated by new disciplines such as cultural studies, new historicism, ethics and postcolonial studies. The major in Hispanic Studies orients itself to the types of knowledge generated by new disciplines such as cultural studies, new historicism, ethics, and postcolonial studies. In order to reflect these changing realities, the Department of Romance Languages has changed the name of its Spanish concentration from "Spanish" to "Hispanic Studies."

Hispanic Studies
Graduate
A total of at least 20 course units in courses numbered above 500, at least 12 of which must be earned at PENN. Two course units in graduate courses other than Spanish, normally in another Romance language or in another field pertinent to the student's area of specialization

Historic Preservation
Graduate | MS
Academic study through the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation provides an integrated approach for architects, landscape architects, planners, historians, archaeologists, conservators, curators, managers and other professionals to understand, sustain, and transform the existing environment.

History
Graduate, Undergraduate | AM, BA, PHD
The Department of History offers a variety of courses dealing with the political, social, diplomatic, intellectual, economic and cultural history of the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa, from the early medieval period to the present. The department seeks to give undergraduates both specific mastery of particular times, places and aspects of the human condition and the critical skills to think historically about both long-term and modern phenomena, emphasizing the dynamics of change and continuity over time. The History Department at the University of Pennsylvania has a long tradition of distinction. Beginning as one of the first programs in the United States to offer doctoral study in history, the department continues to pioneer new areas of scholarship. In the last twenty years, faculty members of the departments in American, European, and World history have assumed a leading role in introducing and promoting new varieties of historical research and writing. Today, no other institution surpasses the Penn history department's coverage of social history or equals the distinction of its faculty in that field.

History and Sociology of Science
Graduate, Undergraduate | BA, PHD
The History and Sociology of Science explores the social and humanistic aspects of science and the technical professions: the shaping of their activity by values, economics and politics; the role of concrete practice in technical work; the role of science in technology and clinical medicine; the growth of institutions; and problems of management and public policy. This approach allows students to study both the content of science and its real-world circumstances, using tools of the humanities and social sciences.

History of Art
Graduate, Undergraduate | AM, BA, PHD
The Department of the History of Art invites students to explore the connections between visual creativity and the history of human civilization. The history of art is the study of form and meaning in the visual arts from their beginnings to the present. As a humanistic discipline, it emphasizes scholarly investigation of the arts rather than technical training and provides a solid foundation for a general liberal arts education and excellent preparation for work in communications, public relations and any field where the interface of image and text is paramount.

Human Resource and Organizational Management - MBA
Graduate | MBA
The Wharton School's Human Resource and Organizational Management major prepares students for senior leadership roles in the field or for those interested in working for consultants specializing in human resources. The major is also applicable for students interested in organizational change issues (change management) and those entering Wharton with a very technical skill set, who want to broaden their skills and gain a better understanding of the behavioral side of an organization.

Human Resource Management Certificate - Wharton Programs for Working Professionals
Graduate
The Wharton School's Human Resource Management Certificate Program (HRCP) is a four-course, post-baccalaureate program covering the essential skills needed for effective management of human capital within today's complex organizations. The program provides in-depth coverage of such topical areas as labor-management relations, diversity in the workplace, human resource management, and organizational behavior and psychology. This program is designed for college graduates who hold a bachelor degree and who have little, if any, previous background in the field of human resource management. With proper planning, a student can complete the HRCP program in as little as two semesters. All courses earn University of Pennsylvania credits. Upon completion of the program, students receive a certificate awarded by Wharton's Aresty Institute for Executive Education.

Huntsman Program in International Studies & Business
Undergraduate
This unique, four-year undergraduate program integrates business studies, advanced language training and a liberal arts education. Students specialize in the area of the world and graduate with a professional education and an understanding of the political, economic and cultural complexities in the world. Graduates simultaneously earn a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from the School of Arts and Sciences and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School. Students apply to the Program when they apply to Penn, and admission is highly competitive.