Public Health (HPU)
Core Course
ONE of these courses is required.
HSOC 150 American Health Policy
HSOC XXX Foundations of Public Health (new, Fall 2010)
PUBH 505 Public Health Policy and Administration
SOCI 134 Health and Social Policy
URBS 201 Urban Health Systems
Topical Courses
Five of these electives are required. Students may petition to substitute other courses for these pre-approved courses. Download elective petition
ANTH 152 Fat in Society OR NURS 313 Obesity and Society
ANTH 154 Med Anthro of Alcohol Use (HSOC 154)
ANTH 312 Health Urban Commun (HSOC 321, URBS 312))
ANTH 359 Nutritional Anthropology (HSOC 359)
ANTH 441 Cross Cultural Approaches (HSOC 441)
BFMD 073 Infectious Diseases
ENVS 404 Urban Environments (HSOC 404)
ENVS 405 Urban Environments II (HSOC 405)
ENVS 406 Community Based Env Health (HSOC 406)
ENVS 407 Prev Tobacco Use Adolescents (HSOC 407)
ENVS 408 Urban Asthma Epidemic (HSOC 408)
HSOC 230 Epidemiology
HSOC 232 Social Epidemiology
HSOC 260 Social Determinants of Health
HSOC 381 Nonstranger Violence
HSOC 428 Genetics and Social Policy (STSC 428)
HSOC 430 Disease and Society (STSC 430)
HSOC 471 Guns and Health
NURS 318 Race/Class/Gender in Hlth Care ( HSOC 341)
PSCI 135 Politics of Food (HSOC 135)
PSCI 139 Politics of Poverty and Development (HSOC 139)
PSCI 335 Healthy Schools (HSOC 335)
SOCI 111 Health of Populations (HSOC 111)
SOCI 277 Mental Illness (HSOC 277)
STSC 311 Science, Medicine and Media (HSOC 311)
(updated 10/09)
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
