Public Health-Global Health majors choose a minimum of 20 credits of 300- and 400-level courses in order to deepen public health competencies in a range of areas. Below is a list of approved Electives, effective for students entering the Major in AUT/20 and beyond. For Majors who entered prior to AUT/19, refer to your degree audit (DARS).
Students are encouraged to select courses from within the School of Public Health first in order to develop and master the public health domains introduced in the Integrated Core Sequence.
Electives from within the School of Public Health
| Course Number | Course Title | Credits |
| BIOST 302 | Forensic Genetics | 3 |
| BIOST 311 | Regression Methods in the Health Sciences | 4 |
| BIOST 401 | Computational and Applied Genetic Epidemiology | 5 |
| BIOST 405 | Introduction to Health Data Analytics | 3 |
| BIOST 425 | Introduction to Nonparametric Statistics | 3 |
| ENV H 305 | Environmental Poisons and Public Health | 3 |
| ENV H 306 | Health and Sustainability | 3 |
| ENV H 310 | Green Chemicals, Green Products, Green Processes: Crafting a Less Toxic World | 3 |
| ENV H 311 | Introduction to Environmental Health | 3 |
| ENV H 320 | Introduction to Technical Communication in Environmental Health | 5 |
| ENV H 405 | Toxic Chemicals and Human Health | 4 |
| ENV H 406 | Disasters and Public Health | 3 |
| ENV H 409 | Microbiome and Environmental Health | 3 |
| ENV H 417 | Case Studies in Children’s Environmental Health Disparities | 3 |
| ENV H 418 | Understanding and Managing the Health Risks of Climate Change | 3 |
| ENV H 431 | Environmental and Occupational Sampling and Analysis I | 3 |
| ENV H 439 | One Health: Human and Animal Health in a Changing Environment | 3 |
| ENV H 440 | Water, Wastewater, and Health | 3 |
| ENV H 441 | Food Protection | 3/4 |
| ENV H 442 | Zoonotic Diseases and Their Control | 3 |
| ENV H 443 | Housing and Health | 3 |
| ENV H 444 | Antimicrobial Resistance Impact on the Environment and Public Health | 4 |
| ENV H 445 | Solid Waste Management | 3 |
| ENV H 446 | Hazardous Waste and Public Health | 3 |
| ENV H 447 | Environmental Change and Infectious Disease | 3 |
| ENV H 448 | Community Air Pollution | 3 |
| ENV H 451 | Ecology of Environmentally Transmitted Microbiological Hazards | 3 |
| ENV H 452 | Detection and Control of Environmentally Transmitted Microbiological Hazards | 3 |
| ENV H 453 | Industrial Hygiene | 3 |
| ENV H 460 | Occupational Safety Management | 3 |
| ENV H 461 | Air-Pollution Control | 4 |
| ENV H 462 | Technical Aspects of Occupational Safety | 3 |
| ENV H 465 | Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Public Health | 3 |
| ENV H 472 | Environmental Risk and Society | 3 |
| ENV H 473 | Environmental Health Policy and Practice | 4 |
| ENV H 475 | Environmental Justice and Population Health | 3 |
| ENV H 479 | Climate Change and Public Health Practice | 3 |
| EPI 330 | Analyzing Epidemiologic Data: Basic Methods | 4 |
| EPI 360 | Exploring the HIV/AIDS Pandemic | 5 |
| EPI 410 | Computational and Applied Genetic Epidemiology | 5 |
| G H 305 | Global Health and Justice | 3 |
| G H 306 | Introduction to Collaborative Approaches and Respectful Partnerships in Global Health | 5 |
| G H 307 | Introduction to Implementation Science: From Knowing to Doing | 5 |
| G H 308 | Contemporary Issues in Non-Communicable Diseases | 5 |
| G H 345 | Global Health Economics | 5 |
| G H 360 | Exploring the HIV/AIDS Pandemic | 5 |
| G H 401 | Core Topics in Global Health | 1/3 |
| G H 402 | Current Research and Programs in Global Health | 1/3 |
| G H 407 | Bioengineering Nepal: Technology Assessment for Community and Global Health | 5 |
| G H 410 | Advanced Biologic Principles of Global Diseases | 3 |
| G H 415 | War and Health | 4 |
| G H 418 | Understanding and Managing the Health Risks of Climate Change | 3 |
| G H 419 | Global Perspectives in Bioethics | 3 |
| G H 420 | Climate Change and Public Health Practice | 3 |
| G H 446 | Global Perspectives on Reproductive Health | 3 |
| G H 454 | Bioengineering Solutions to Improve the Health of Families Worldwide | 1 |
| G H 456 | Global Mental Health | 3 |
| G H 458 | Global Violence and Health | 3 |
| G H 482 | The Health of Populations | 4 |
| HSERV 343 | Health Behavior and Health Promotion | 5 |
| HSERV 344 | Public Health and Health Systems Management | 5 |
| HSERV 345 | Community Health Assessment | 5 |
| HSERV 346 | Using Economics to Solve Today's Healthcare Problems | 4 |
| HSERV 415 | War and Health | 4 |
| HSERV 454 | Homelessness in Seattle: Destitute Poverty in a City of Affluence | 1/3 |
| HSERV 473 | Topics in Indigenous Health | 2/3 |
| HSERV 475 | Perspectives in Medical Anthropology | 5 |
| HSERV 476 | Introduction to Applied Qualitative Methods in Public Health | 4 |
| HSERV 479 | Black Lives and Police Violence: Racism and the Public's Health | 4 |
| HSERV 482 | The Health of Populations | 4 |
| HSERV 488 | Dark Empire: Race, Health, and British Society | 6 |
| NUTR 302 | Food Systems: Harvest to Health | 5 |
| NUTR 303 | Food Systems: Individual to Population Health | 5 |
| NUTR 310 | Nutrition and the Life Course | 4 |
| NUTR 312 | Food System Sustainability and Resilience | 3 |
| NUTR 390 | Food Seminar | 1 |
| NUTR 400 | Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health Seminar | 1 |
| NUTR 402 | Food Systems Modeling and Analysis | 5 |
| NUTR 405 | Physical Activity in Health and Disease | 3 |
| NUTR 406 | Sports Nutrition | 3 |
| NUTR 411 | Introduction to Nutritional Epidemiology | 3 |
| NUTR 412 | United States Food Systems Policy | 5 |
| NUTR 413 | Sustainable Food Systems in Italy | 5 |
| NUTR 415 | Body Weight and Size Inclusivity: Clinical, Behavioral, and Societal Perspectives | 3 |
| NUTR 420 | Global Nutrition: Challenges and Opportunities | 3 |
| NUTR 446 | Food Safety and Health | 3 |
| NUTR 465 | Nutritional Anthropology | 3 |
| PHG 301 | Introduction to Genetic Epidemiology | 5 |
| PHG 302 | Forensic Genetics | 3 |
| PHG 303 | Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: Uses and Issues | 5 |
| PHG 401 | Computational and Applied Genetic Epidemiology | 5 |
| SPH 490* | Selected Topics in Public Health | 1-5 |
| SPH 495* | Public Health Internship | 1-5 |
| SPH 497* | Public Health Special Electives | 1-5 |
| SPH 499* | Undergraduate Research | 1-5 |
*There are limitations to the number of internship, study abroad, and research credits which can be applied towards the Major. Please consult with advisers.
Electives from outside the School of Public Health
Course Number | Course Title | Credits |
| AES 450 | Socio-Cultural and Environmental Effects on Am. Eth. Groups | 5 |
| AIS 380 | Indigenous Food Sovereignty | 5 |
| ANTH 302 | Body and Soul: Introduction to Medical Anthropology and Global Health as Social Justice Praxis | 5 |
| ANTH 303 | Technologies of Health | 5 |
| ANTH 308 | The Anthropology of Gender, Women's Health, and Reproduction | 5 |
| ANTH 311 | The Cultural Politics of Diet and Nutrition | 5 |
| ANTH 322 | Comparative Study of Death | 5 |
| ANTH 324 | Current Issues in Medical Anthropology and Global Health | 2 |
| ANTH 325 | Indigenous Knowledge and Public Health in Mexican and Latinx Origin Communities | 5 |
| ANTH 361 | Anthropology of Food | 5 |
| ANTH 373 | Labor, Identity, and Knowledge in Healthcare | 5 |
| ANTH 374 | Narrative, Literature, and Medical Anthropology | 5 |
| ANTH 375 | Comparative Systems of Healing | 5 |
| ANTH 376 | Anthropology of Disability | 5 |
| ANTH 377 | Anthropology and International Health | 5 |
| ANTH 405 | Urban Health Methodologies: Ethnography of the Invisible in search of New Urban Commons | 5 |
| ANTH 409 | Queer Health | 5 |
| ANTH 411 | The Culture and Politics of Food: Study Abroad in Italy | 5 |
| ANTH 420 | The Social Life of Psychiatry | 5 |
| ANTH 453 | Culture, Controversy, and Change: The Case of Female Circumcision | 3 |
| ANTH 468 | Anthropology of Care | 5 |
| ANTH 474 | Social Difference and Medical Knowledge | 5 |
| ANTH 475 | Perspectives in Medical Anthropology | 5 |
| ANTH 476 | Culture, Medicine, and the Body | 5 |
| ANTH 477 | Medicine in America: Conflicts and Contradictions | 3 |
| ANTH 483 | Africa Living with HIV/AIDS | 5 |
| ANTH 484 | Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood | 5 |
| ANTH 490 | Healthcare and Aging | 5 |
| B H 311 | Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine | 3 |
| B H 409 | Ethics and the Social Determinants of Health | 3 |
| B H 440 | Philosophy of Medicine | 5 |
| B H 456 | Social Justice and Health | 5 |
| B H 474 | Justice in Health Care | 5 |
| BIME 300 | Transformational Technologies for Biology, Medicine, and Health | 5 |
| BIME 435 | Informatics in Healthcare | 5 |
| BIO A 300 | Evolutionary Biology of Women | 5 |
| BIO A 350 | Men's Health across the Lifespan | 5 |
| BIO A 351 | Principles of Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health | 5 |
| BIO A 355 | Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health | 3 |
| BIO A 382 | Human Population Biology | 3 |
| BIO A 387 | Ecological Perspectives on Environmental Stress, Adaptation, and Health | 5 |
| BIO A 420 | Anthropological Research on Health Disparities | 5 |
| BIO A 423 | Social Networks and Health | 5 |
| BIO A 450 | Biodemography Seminar | 5 |
| BIO A 465 | Nutritional Anthropology | 3 |
| BIO A 468 | Human Reproductive Ecology | 5 |
| BIO A 473 | Biological Adaptability of Human Populations | 5 |
| BIO A 476 | Sociocultural Ecology and Health | 3 |
| BIO A 482 | Human Population Genetics | 5 |
| BIO A 483 | Human Genetics, Disease, and Culture | 5 |
| BIOEN 407 | Bioengineering Nepal: Technology Assessment for Community and Global Health | 5 |
| BIOL 380 | Biomedical Advances and Society | 3 |
| BIOL 385 | Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health | 3 |
| CHID 332 | Disability and Society | 5 |
| CHID 433 | Disability Law, Policy, and the Community | 5 |
| CHID 434 | Civil and Human Rights Law for Disabled People | 5 |
| CHSTU 320 | Food Sovereignty Movements in Mexico and the United States | 5 |
| CHSTU 322 | Indigenous Knowledge and Public Health in Mexican and Latinx Origin Communities | 5 |
| CHSTU 354 | Unions, Labor, and Civil Rights in California and Pacific Northwest Agriculture | 5 |
DIS ST 332 | Disability and Society | 5 |
DIS ST 433 | Disability Law, Policy, and the Community | 5 |
DIS ST 434 | Civil and Human Rights Law for Disabled People | 5 |
| ECON 345 | Global Health Economics | 5 |
| ECON 346 | Using Economics to Solve Today's Healthcare Problems | 4 |
| ENTRE 445 | Health Innovation Challenge Practicum | 2 |
| GEOG 331 | Global Poverty and Care | 5 |
| GEOG 371 | World Hunger and Resource Development | 5 |
| GEOG 373 | Food and Community: Cultural Practices in the Hispanic World | 5 |
| GEOG 380 | Geographical Patterns of Health and Disease | 5 |
| GEOG 381 | Maps and Health | 5 |
| GEOG 470 | The Cultural Politics of Food | 5 |
| GEOG 480 | Environmental Geography, Climate, and Health | 5 |
| GWSS 315 | Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Medicine: From the Plantation to the Clinic | 5 |
| GWSS 357 | Psychobiology of Women | 5 |
| GWSS 374 | Introduction to Transgender Studies | 5 |
GWSS 409 | Queer Health | 5 |
GWSS 458 | Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood | 5 |
| GWSS 487 | Advanced Psychobiology of Women | 5 |
| HSTAFM453 | Health and Illness in Africa | 5 |
| HSTCMP410 | Medicine, History, and Society | 5 |
| IECMH 432 | Introductions in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health | 5 |
JEW ST 362 | Food and Community: Cultural Practices in the Hispanic World | 5 |
JSIS A 431 | Demographic Issues in Asia | 3-5 |
LSJ 332 | Disability and Society | 5 |
| LSJ 376 | Drugs and Society | 5 |
| LSJ 433 | Disability Law, Policy, and the Community | 5 |
| LSJ 434 | Civil and Human Rights Law for Disabled People | 5 |
| NURS 407 | Culture, Diversity, and Nursing Practice | 3 |
| NURS 412 | Healthcare Systems | 3 |
| PHIL 411 | Justice in Health Care | 5 |
| PHIL 441 | Public Health Ethics | 5 |
| PHIL 459 | Philosophy of Medicine | 5 |
| PSYCH 322 | Introduction to Drugs and Behavior | 3 |
| PSYCH 357 | Psychobiology of Women | 5 |
| PSYCH 420 | Drugs and Behavior | 3 |
| PSYCH 451 | Health Psychology | 5 |
| PSYCH 487 | Advanced Psychobiology of Women | 5 |
| RELIG 320 | Comparative Study of Death | 5 |
| SOC 331 | Population and Society | 5 |
| SOC 376 | Drugs and Society | 5 |
| SOC 430 | Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities | 5 |
| SOC 434 | Demographic Issues in Asia | 3-5 |
| SPAN 362 | Food and Community: Cultural Practices in the Hispanic World | 5 |
*Please consult with advisers if a jointly offered courses is not listed above.
revised: October 2024