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APPLICATION for
HUMAN BIOLOGY AND SOCIETY, B.A.
due for CLASS OF 2016, by 5PM, Friday, April 18, 2014
Email your completed application or any questions to:
RMOUSHEG@socgen.ucla.edu
Rich Moushegian, Student Affairs Officer, Institute for Society and Genetics, 1308 Rolfe Hall
Confirmation of receipt will be provided by email.
Only Class of 2016 (sophomores) may apply at this time. (Any Class of 2016 application received after April 18,
2014, will be considered in Fall 2014; NOTE: there may be very little, if any, space available in this major program in
Fall 2014.) An admissions committee of our ISG faculty will review and decide your application and inform you of the
result by about mid-Spring 2014. ISG faculty will access and examine your entire transcript; you need not supply a
copy. Premajor status is not required at time of application. Apply for either HBS B.A. or HBS B.S., but not both.
Applicants for HBS B.A. may not subsequently switch to HBS B.S., or vice versa.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Yes
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No
Have you taken SOCIETY AND GENETICS 5 and received a letter grade of
B- or better?
Will you have completed all of your HBS BA premajor courses by the end of
Spring 2014?
Is your cumulative HBS BA premajor GPA 2.90 or better? (i.e., GPA for just
your HBS BA premajor courses… find your premajor GPA on your DARS or
DPR transcript in the section dealing with your premajor courses; ask our
Student Affairs Officer if you still can’t locate it.)
If you answered “NO” to any of the above criteria, you must complete PARTS 1-6.
All others should stop at PART 5.
PART 1. PERSONAL INFORMATION
Your Name:
Email:
University ID#:
Expected Quarter of Graduation:
Your overall GPA:
Your premajor GPA:
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PART 2. PREMAJOR COURSEWORK
Indicate when this premajor course will be done:
During
By end of
Fall 2014
Summer
Spring 2014
or later
2014
Indicate grade.
SOCIETY AND
GENETICS 5
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ANTHROPOLOGY 7
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One normative social
theory course*
One empirical social
theory course**
Indicate social
theory courses
taken.
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CHEM 14A or 20A
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LIFE SCIENCE 1
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LIFE SCIENCE 2
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STATISTICS 10 or 13
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* Normative social theory courses include GENDER STDS 10, MCD BIO 60, PHILOSOPHY 4, 6, 8, 22, 22W, and SOCIOLOGY M5.
If our student affairs officer has approved another course for you, please indicate that course.
** Empirical social theory courses include AMER IND STDS M10, ANTHRO 9, ASIAN AMER STDS 20, GEOG 3, HIST 3C, Honors
Collegium 70A, MCD BIO 40, 50, MIMG 12, Public Policy 10A, and SOCIOLOGY 1. If our student affairs officer has approved
another course for you, please indicate that course.
List any UCLA upper division courses you have
completed (or currently in progress)
Does this course likely credit toward any HBS BA
major requirements? If in doubt, ask our undergrad
counselor, RMOUSHEG@socgen.ucla.edu
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Yes
If anything in Part 2 needs further explanation, please briefly comment here:
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PART 3. MAJOR ELECTIVE SPECIALIZATION
Checkmark only ONE of these specialization areas, which will be the focus of your upper division elective
coursework in the major. Consult UCLA Catalog for description of approved electives in each category.
NOTE: you may in future change your specialization.
Bioethics and Public Science Policy
Evolutionary Biology, Culture and Behavior
Historical and Social Studies of Science
Medicine and Public Health
Population Genetics and History
PART 4. SHORT ANSWERS
This is a competitive admissions major program, so all applicants should have an alternative major in
mind. If you are not admitted to this major, what other major would you pursue?
Answer:
What is your career direction, at this time?
Answer:
Do you have any experience working with faculty on project-based research at UCLA (e.g., Student
Research Program (SRP) 99 or other)? NOTE: such experience is not required for admission to this
major. You can read about undergraduate research opportunities here,
http://www.ucla.edu/research/undergraduate-research
Answer:
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ACTIVITIES/AWARDS: Indicate any honors, awards, recognitions, groups/clubs, publications, community
service, campus jobs, affiliations with any other academic programs (such as Study Abroad, Honors
Program, PEERS, Academic Advancement Program (AAP) or other), athletics, etc.
List (up to 15)
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Description, if needed
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PART 5. PERSONAL STATEMENT
Please address one or both of the following questions (A and/or B) using a combined total of 300
words or less. (There is no “correct” way to split the difference between A and B. If what you want to
say about yourself is best delivered in 300 words responding to B alone, then terrific! Also fine is A=250
and B=50; or A=150 and B=150, etc.)
A. Help our faculty know you better and understand why you are drawn to this major. What themes
are you interested in exploring further in Human Biology and Society? How did your education,
training, or work experience lead you to this major?
Response to A (textbox limit=300 words/2000 characters):
B. In what ways do you feel that your voice will contribute to and enhance the conversation in the
Human Biology and Society major? How does your life experience, including challenges you’ve
faced in your life, impact your interest in the intersections of human biology and society?
Examples might include extraordinary or defining experiences, or challenges in your family or
community that may have placed barriers in your path to college, economic hardships, or
disabilities, differences, or discrimination you’ve had to overcome.
Response to B (textbox limit=300 words/2000 characters):
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IF YOU HAVE MET THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS LISTED ON THE COVER PAGE, THEN DO NOT
COMPLETE PART 6.
PART 6. PETITION FOR EXCEPTION TO MINIMUM
REQUIREMENTS
Any member of the Class of 2016 who has not met the minimum requirements, must supply a succinct
explanation of the exceptional circumstance(s) which have kept you from meeting the minimum
requirements. Our admissions committee will consider your explanation, and if they think it has merit,
they will then decide your application.
Please checkmark any and all that apply:
You either haven’t taken SOCIETY AND GENETICS 5 or haven’t received a grade of Bor better.
You won’t be done with all premajor courses for HBS BA by end of Spring 2014.
Your cumulative HBS BA premajor GPA is less than 2.90.
EXPLANATION OF EXCEPTIONAL CIRCUMSTANCE(S)
Respond here (textbox limit=150 words/1000 characters):