Courses
Approved HLTH Courses
The following courses may be used to satisfy the Health and Society minor course requirements. Additional approved courses will be updated quarterly. Please use this list of courses to map out your minor.
Please note: Not all courses are offered every academic year. Visit our AY course offerings for information about which courses will be offered in the current academic year.
Courses below are listed by their parent units.
Only one methods or statistics course may be used to satisfy the minor
Course Number |
Course Title |
| ANTH 21420 | Ethnographic Methods |
| CHDV 20100 | Human Development Research Design |
| CHDV 20101 | Applied Statistics in Human Development Research |
| ECON 21010 | Statistical Methods in Economics |
| PLSC 22913 | The Practice of Social Science Research |
| SOCI 20001 | Sociological Methods |
| SOCI 20004 | Statistical Methods of Research |
| SOSC 20112 | Introductory Statistical Methods and Applications for the Social Sciences |
| SOSC 20223 | Ethnographic Research Methods |
| SOSC 20224 | Virtual Ethnographic Field Research Methods |
Course Number |
Course Title |
| ANTH 21345 | Living with Toxins |
| ANTH 23807 | Toxic: Burdens and Environmental Exposure |
| ANTH 24335 | Introduction to Medical Anthropology and Critical Studies of Global Health |
| ANTH 24341 | Topics in Medical Anthropology |
| ANTH 24352 | Health, Value, Politics |
| ANTH 25100 | Anthropology of the Body |
| BPRO 22800 | Drinking Alcohol: Social Problem or Normal Cultural Practice? |
| BPRO 23100 | Food: From Need to Want, or Ethics and Aesthetics |
| BPRO 28300 | Disability and Design |
| BPRO 28900 | Inequality: Origins, Dimensions and Policy |
| CCTS 20400 | Health Disparities in Breast Cancer |
| CCTS 21007 | Clinical and Health Services Research |
| CCTS 21011 | Clinical Research Design and Interpretation of Health Data |
| CHDV 20000 | Introduction to Human Development |
| CHDV 20399 | Trauma, Vulnerability, and the Martial Body |
| CHDV 20415 | Sexuality and Health |
| CHDV 20440 | Inequality, Health and the Life Course |
| CHDV 20805 | Body & Soul: The Anthropology of Religion, Health & Healing |
| CHDV 21500 | Darwinian Health |
| CHDV 23204 | Medical Anthropology |
| CHDV 23301 | Culture, Mental Health and Psychiatry |
| CHDV 23305 | Critical Studies of Mental Health in Higher Education |
| CHDV 23405 | Cultural Diversity, Structural Barriers, and Multilingualism in Clinical and Healing Encounters |
| CHDV 24105 | Animals, Health, and Society |
| CHDV 24599 | Historical and Contemporary Issues in US Health Inequality |
| CHDV 25250 | Disability in Local and Global Contexts |
| CHDV 27250 | Psychological Anthropology |
| CHDV 27860 | History of Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences |
| CHDV 33220 | Biology of Mental Health |
| CHSS 32000 | Introduction to Science Studies |
| CMLT 25662 | Archiving AIDS: Art, Literature, Theory |
| ECON 24450 | Inequality and the Social Safety Net: Theory, Empirics and Policies |
| ECON 27720 | Economics and Regulation of Health Care Markets: Theory and Empirics |
| ENGL 15520 | Illness and Life Writing |
| ENST 20170 | Pandemics, Urban Space, and Public Life |
| ENST 21700 | Applied Research in Environment, Development, and Health (approval contingent on the focus of the research project) |
| GNSE 12103 | Treating Trans-: Practices of Medicine, Practices of Theory |
| GNSE 20150 | Archiving AIDS: Art, Literature, Theory |
| GNSE 21301 | Global Mental Health |
| GNSE 23136 | On Being Ill: Feminist and Queer Cancer Narratives |
| HIPS 17300 | Science, Culture and Society in Western Civilization |
| HIPS 17402 | Science, Culture and Society in Western Civilization II: Early Modern Period |
| HIPS 29629 | Tutorial: Romantic Bodies: Theater in the History of Science and Medicine |
| HIPS 29635 | Tutorial: Power and Medicine |
| HPS 29641 | Tutorial: Medical Ethics in the Hospital and Clinic |
| HIPS 29643 | Tutorial: Toxic America: Pollutants, Poisons, Politics |
| HIST 20111 | History of Death |
| HIST 22207 | The Social History of Alcohol in Early Modern Europe |
| HIST 25218 | American Epidemics, Past and Present |
| HIST 25308 | Lab, Field and Clinic: History and Anthropology of Medicine in the Life |
| HIST 25507 | Make Love, Not Babies: A History of Population Control |
| HIST 29678 | History Colloquium: Medicine and Society |
| HLTH 17000 | Introduction to Health and Society (Required) |
| HLTH 17001 91 | Introduction to Health and Society II (Summer offering) |
| HMRT 21400 | Health and Human Rights |
| HMRT 21403 | Health in a Changing America: Social Context and Human Rights |
| HMRT 23000 | Encountering AIDS: Queer Representations, Loss and Memory |
| HMRT 24108 | Reproductive Justice Beyond Rights |
| HMRT 24506 | Disability in East Asia: Past and Present |
| HMRT 27205 | Reproductive Rights as Human Rights |
| HMRT 27312 | Pain and Representation |
| HUMA 25207 | Mindfulness: Experience and Media |
| IRHU 27000 | Race in Science and Medicine from 1800 to Present |
| IRHU 27001 | The Human Body in Extremes |
| IRHU 27006 | Research in Archives: Human Bodies in History |
| IRHU 27009 | Normal People |
| KNOW 21408 | History of Medicine |
| KNOW 27015 | Graphic Medicine |
| KNOW 29901 | XCap: The Experimental Capstone— The Art of Healing: Medical Aesthetics in Russia and the US |
| KNOW 29971 | XCAP: The Experimental Capstone—What is an Intervention (for Mental Health) |
| KNOW 29976 | The Narratives and Aesthetics of Contagion: Knowledge Formation and the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| KNOW 37017 | [Re] Framing Graphic Medicine |
| LLSO 29507 | Politics of Healthcare Policy in the US 1900-2020 |
| MAPS 32800 | Experiencing Madness: Emphatic Methods in Cultural Psychology |
| MAPS 36900 | Anthropology of Disability |
| PBHS 23700 | Sexual health: Identity, Behavior, and Outcomes |
| PBHS 30910 | Epidemiology and Population Health |
| PBHS 31450 | Social Inequalities in Health: Race/Ethnicity and Class |
| PBHS 31900 | Global Health Metrics |
| PBHS 35100 | Health Services Research Methods |
| PBHS 35500 | Introduction to US Health Policy and Politics |
| PBHS 38010 | Economic Analysis of Health Policies |
| PBPL 28335 | Health Care Markets and Regulation |
| PBPL 28925 | Health Impacts of Transportation Policies |
| PHIL 21609 | Medical Ethics: Central Topics |
| PPHA 38300 | Health Economics and Public Policy |
| PPHA 38310 | Healthcare and Healthcare Reform |
| PSYC 21750 | Biological Clocks and Behavior |
| PSYC 22350 | Social Neuroscience |
| RLST 24103 | Bioethics |
| RLST 26302 | Religion, Medicine, and the Experience of Illness |
| RLST 26316 | Medical Innovation and Religious Reform in Early Modernity |
| RLST 28900 | Magic, Science and Religion |
| SOCI 20107 | Sociology of Human Sexuality |
| SOCI 20215 | Urban Health |
| SOCI 20275 | Sociology of Health and Aging |
| SOCI 20537 | Gender, Health, and Medicine |
| SOCI 28080 | Sociology of Medicine |
| SOSC 18100 | Topics in Behavioral and Social Sciences Relevant to Medicine |
| SSAD 41412 | Global Mental Health |
| SSAD 46622 | Key Issues in Healthcare: Interdisciplinary Case Studies Approach |
| SSAD 49032 | Health and Aging Policy |
| SSAD 60100 | Drugs: Culture and Context |
The following courses will not likely be offered in the future but may still be counted toward the minor by students who took them when they were last offered.
| ANTH 21333 | The Lived Body: Anthropology, Materiality, Meaningful Practice |
| ANTH 21351 | Proximity: An Anthropology of Social Distance |
| ANTH 24309 | Reproductive Worlds |
| BPRO 22610 | Medical Ethics: Who Decides and on what Basis? |
| CCTS 21007 | Clinical and Health Services Research |
| CCTS 21008 | Health Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries |
| CCTS 21009 | Justice, Solidarity, and Global Health |
| CCTS 21010 | Intersectionality in American Medical Ethics |
| CHDV 23440 | Health, Medicine, and Human Rights |
| HIST 23400 | Sex in Twentieth-Century Europe |
| HIST 29318 | Modern Disability Histories: Gender, Race, and Disability |
| PBPL 26690 | The Politics of Health Care |
| SOCI 20505 | Medical Sociology |