Electives

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 may petition for the use of individual courses not on the approved list by way of the Course Substitution Form. Please include a thoughtful justification which links course content to the Public Health-Global Health Major competencies/learning objectives.

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

3

ENV H 406

Disasters and Public Health

3

ENV H 409

Microbiome and Environmental Health

3

ENV H 417

Children’s Environmental Health

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

3

ENV H 440

Water, Wastewater, and Health

3

ENV H 441

Food Protection

3

ENV H 442

Zoonotic Diseases and Their Control

3

ENV H 443

Housing and Health

3

ENV H 444

Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria/Genes Impact on the Environment and Public Health

4

ENV H 445

Solid Waste Management

3

ENV H 446

Hazardous Waste Management

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

EPI 330

Analyzing Epidemiologic Data

4

EPI 360

Exploring the HIV/AIDS Pandemic

5

EPI 410

Computational and Applied Genetic Epidemiology

5

G H 305

Introduction to Global Health

3

G H 306

Introduction to Collaborative Approaches and Respectful Partnerships in Global Health

5

G H 307

Introduction to Implementation Science for Global Health

5

G H 308

Contemporary Issues in Non-Communicable Diseases

5

G H 345

Global Health Economics

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 406

International Climate Negotiations within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

1

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 446

Global Perspectives on Reproductive Health

3

G H 454

Bioengineering Solutions to Improve the Health of Women, Adolescents and Children

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 475

Perspectives in Medical Anthropology

5

HSERV 476

Introduction to Applied Ethnographic 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

5

NUTR 302

Food Studies: Harvest to Health

5

NUTR 303

Food Systems: Individual to Population Health

5

NUTR 310

Nutrition and the Life Course

4

NUTR 390

Food Seminar

1

NUTR 400

Nutrition 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

Diet in Health and Disease

3

NUTR 412

United States Food and Nutrition Policy

3

NUTR 420

Global Nutrition

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*

PH Internship

1-5

SPH 497*

Public Health Special Electives

1-5

SPH 499*

Undergrad 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

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 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

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

CHST 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

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

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: June 2022