Public Health Electives

Global and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Health

  • AFS 3045/ ENG 3064/ FR 3047 - Zombies, Epidemics, & Illnesses in the Francophone World
  • AFS 3058/PH 3012/SOC 3118 - Health & Healing: Social Determinants in East Africa (Kenya)
  • ANTH 243 (3072) - Medicines & Meanings 
  • BIOL/GS 412 - Cross-Cultural Healing
  • CLAS 303 - Gender & Health among Latinx
  • CNS 3002/GNDR 3092/GS 3058 - Gender, Race & Class in Health Policy in the US & CAN
  • GS 264 - Global Public Health: Critical Approaches
  • GS 268 - Global Health & Justice
  • GS 365 - Rethinking Population, Health, & Environment
  • HIST 3117 - The History of Sports in Latin America - From the Aztec Ball Game to Esports
  • PH 3017 - The Global HIV Epidemic

Critical Humanistic Perspectives on Health 

  • ANTH 4020 - Anthropology of the Body
  • EDUC/GNDR 325 - Sexuality Education
  • EDUC 4014 - Great (S)expectations
  • ENG/DMF 3076 - LS: Cyborg in Literature & Film
  • ENG 3085 - Narrative Medicine, Medical Narratives
  • FRPG 2181 - Health, Disease, & Death
  • FRPG 2222 - The Plate & the Planet: Stories About Eating & the Environment
  • PCA/GNDR 335 - Sex Talk
  • PCA/GNDR 343 - Taboo Performances
  • PCA 370 - Against Health: Rhetoric & the Health Humanities
  • PCA 375 - Theatre, Sustainability and the Natural World 
  • PCA 3074 - Science Communication
  • PH/AFS/FR 226 - Health Humanities: Francophone Care
  • PH 310 (4001) - Social Determinants of Health
  • PH 3016 - Experiential Learning in Public Health w/ CBL
  • PH 3020 - Health, Culture, & Society 
  • PH 3021 - Rural Public Health
  • PH/SSES 3024 - SophSem: Somatic Transformation: From Self to Social Justice
  • PH/ENG 3086 - Health Humanities: Narratives of the Body
  • PHIL/CBL 354 - Bioethics w/CBL and w/out CBL
  • PHIL 4016 - Philosophy of Psychiatry
  • PHIL 4025 - Philosophy of the Health & Social Sciences
  • REL 3024/GNDR 3025 - Women, Religion, & Food
  • SOC 225 - Women's Health & Aging
  • SOC 246 - Aging & Society w/ CBL (Also SOC 246CBL)
  • SOC 275 - Medical Sociology

Scientific Perspectives on Health 

  • ANTH 270 - Plagues & Peoples
  • ANTH 4024 - Paleoepidemiology
  • BIOL 230 - Food from the Sea
  • BIOL 231 - Microbiology w/Lab
  • BIOL/ANTH/ASIA/ENVS/GS 258 - Ethnobotany (w/Lab or w/out Lab)
  • BIOL 315 - Human Nutrition
  • BIOL 370 - Hormones, Disease & Development
  • BIOL/NRSCI 388 - Drugs & the Brain w/Lab
  • CHEM/ENVS 306WL - Environmental Chemistry & Toxicology w/Lab
  • CHEM 324 - Synthesis of Pharmaceutical Substances
  • ENVS/GEOL 110 - Environmental Geology (w/Lab or w/out Lab)
  • MATH 230 - Differential Equations (with a PH focused project)
  • PH/ENVS 269ONL - Environmental and Occupational Health (Online Summer course)
  • PH/ENVS 309 (4042) - Taming Trash
  • PH/ENVS 311 (4041) - Issues of Environmental Health
  • PH/ENVS 3079 - Our Stressed Seas N/S
  • PSYC/GNDR 237 - Psychology of Gender
  • PSYC 322 - Positive Psychology w/Lab
  • PSYC 413 - Community Psychology w/CBL
  • PSYC 465 - Applied Behavior Analysis Seminar
  • PSYC 412 (4021) - Determinants of Well-Being

Additional courses may be approved by Chair of the Public Health Department.