Pre-Med Focus

Pre-Med Focus

Courses in this category are ideal for students planning to attend medical school. These electives focus on medicine, clinical practice, and research, providing a strong foundation for future physicians and healthcare professionals. Explore how public health intersects with medical science to enhance your preparation for a career in medicine.


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ANTHRO 3070 - Human Variation

ANTHRO 3280 - Anthropology of Infectious Diseases

ANTHRO 3310 - Health, Healing and Ethics: Intro to Medical Anthropology

ANTHRO 4104 - Topics in Anthropology: Tech and Health: Minds, Bodies, Societies

ANTHRO 4581 - Principles of Human Anatomy and Development

ANTHRO 4590 - Human Osteology

ANTHRO 4591 - Human Functional Morphology

ANTHRO 4595 - Developmental Plasticity and Human Health

ANTHRO 4598 - Biomarkers: Measuring Population Health, Reproductive, and Social Endocrinology

ANTHRO 4610 - Queer Medicine: Theories, Methods, Provocations

BIOL 1210 - Ampersand: The Science of Biotechnology

BIOL 1442 - Ampersand: The Biology of Cancer Part I

BIOL 1443 - Ampersand: The Biology of Cancer Part II

BIOL 2444 - The Language of Cancer

BIOL 3151 - Endocrinology

BIOL 3172 - Biology for Climate Change Solutions

BIOL 3240 - Human Genetics

BIOL 3280 - Principles of Human Physiology

BIOL 3422 - Genes, Brains, Behavior

BIOL 3481 - Parasitology

BIOL 4027 - Viruses and the Diseases they Cause

BIOL 4195 - Disease Ecology

BIOL 4240 - Immunology

BIOL 4242 - Virology

BIOL 4310 - Biology of Aging

BIOL 4492 - Infectious Diseases: History, Pathology, and Prevention

BIOL 4715 - Basic Cancer Biology

BIOL 4716 - Advanced Cancer Biology

PHEL 6014 - Bullet Related Injury and Policy in St. Louis and the United States

PHIL 2060 - Biomedical Ethics

PSYCH 3050 - Health Psychology

PSYCH 3150 - Introduction to Social Psychology

PSYCH 3210 - Developmental Psychology

PSYCH 3250 - Psychology of Adolescence

PSYCH 3260 - Introduction to Psychology of Aging

PSYCH 3450 - Genes, Environment and Human Behavior

PSYCH 3540 - Psychopathology and Mental Health

PSYCH 3866 - Community Psychology

PSYCH 4270 - Social Gerontology

PSYCH 4557 - Biopsychosocial Aspects of Eating Disorders and Obesity

PSYCH 4765 - Inside the Disordered Brain: Biological Bases of the Major Mental Disorders

PUBHLTHSOC 3280 - Infectious Disease and Society

PUBHLTHSOC 3700 - Introduction to Epidemiology

PUBHLTHSOC 4120 - Public Health and Medicine: Health Decision Making

SOC 3211 - Medical Sociology

SOC 4111 - Sick Society: Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities in the United States

WRITING 3004 - Writing and Medicine