Environment and Health (HEE)

Core Courses
HSOC ONE of these core courses is required:

BIOL 140 Humans and the Environment
BIOL 240 Ecology
ENVS 301 Environmental Case Studies
STSC 179 Environmental History


Pre-approved electives
HSOC FIVE of these electives are required, and students may petition to substitute courses for these pre-approved courses. Download petition

BFMD 073 Infectious Diseases
BIOL 011 Humans in a Microbial World
BIOL 140 Humans and the Environment
BIOL 231 Animal Behavior
BIOL 240 Ecology
ENVS 200 Introduction to Environmental Analysis
ENVS 301 Environmental Case Studies
ENVS 404 Urban Environment I (HSOC 404)
ENVS 405 Urban Environment II (HSOC 405)
ENVS 406 Community Based Env Health (HSOC 406)
ENVS 407 Tobacco Addition (HSOC 407)
ENVS 408 Urban Asthma Epidemic (HSOC 408)
HSOC 150 American Health Policy
HSOC 430 Disease and Society (STSC 430)
LGST 215 Environmental Law and Policy
PHIL 079 Environmental Ethics
PSCI 135 Politics of Food (HSOC 135)
PUBH 503 Environmental and Occupational Health
PUBH 530 Environmental Toxicology
STSC 001 Emergence of Modern Science (HSOC 001)
STSC 003 Technology and Society (HSOC 003, SOCI 033)
STSC 179 Environmental History
STSC 271 Law, Technology and Environment
URBS 206 Public Environment of Cities

(updated 11/09)
Courses that were previously approved but are no longer on this list still count toward the major if taken before Dec. 2009.
Former Lists of Pre-Approved Courses 2007 and 2008