Social, Cultural, and Historical Analysis
At least one elective course must be chosen from this list for students pursuing a minor, and at least two for those pursuing a major. Why? Our health is deeply interwoven with the fabric of society, influenced by social, cultural, and historical contexts. These courses will round out your education by providing a comprehensive understanding of the societal factors that shape health behaviors and outcomes, preparing you to address complex health issues in a holistic manner.
To find courses offered this semester, go the A&S Course Explorer and use the filters for "Filter by Academic Requirements" and "Filter by Academic Period."
For "Filter by Academic Requirements," choose one of these options:
- Public Health and Society Major_Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis of Health, Illness, and Wellness Electives
- Public Health and Society Second Major_Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis of Health, Illness, and Wellness Electives
- Public Health and Society Minor_Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis of Health, Illness, and Wellness
AFAS 1175 - Confronting the Past: Transformative Justice in STL and Beyond
AFAS 2160 - Free the Land: Black Lives and Environmental (In)justice
AFAS 3304 - Race and Global Health Inequities: Social determinants and Intersectionality
ANTHRO 3105 - Topics in Anthropology: Anthropology of Drugs
ANTHRO 3151 - Evolution of the Human Diet
ANTHRO 3201 - Gender, Culture and Madness
ANTHRO 3280 - Anthropology of Infectious Diseases
ANTHRO 3310 - Health, Healing and Ethics: Intro to Medical Anthropology
ANTHRO 3320 - Disability Anthropology
ANTHRO 3361 - The American Melting Pot: Migration in the United States
ANTHRO 3602 - Environmental Inequality: Toxicity, Health, and Justice
ANTHRO 3612 - Population and Society
ANTHRO 3621 - Anthropology of Human Birth
ANTHRO 3875 - Pharmaceutical Personhood
ANTHRO 3885 - Global Mental Health: Medical Pluralism Cross-Cultural Care
ANTHRO 4104 - Topics in Anthropology: Tech and Health: Minds, Bodies, Societies
ANTHRO 4110 - Pushing Daisies: The Anthropology of Death and Dying
ANTHRO 4134 - The AIDS Epidemic: Inequalities, Ethnography, and Ethics
ANTHRO 4250 - Aging in Cross-Cultural Perspective
ANTHRO 4610 - Queer Medicine: Theories, Methods, Provocations
BIOL 2444 - The Language of Cancer
CLASSICS 3800 - Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine
CLASSICS 4701 - Ancient Greek and Roman Gynecology
ELIT 3504 - Literature and Medicine
ENGR 4506 - Engineers in the Community (Engineering Ethics, Leadership and Conflict Management)
ENST 1540 - Beyond Boundaries: Environmental Racism and the Health of Everyone
ENST 3310 - Beyond the Evidence
ENST 3540 - Environmental Justice
FRENCH 3220 - Topics II: Contagions
FRENCH 3600 - Thinking-It-Through: Well-Being
FRENCH 3750 - In Depth: Medical Narratives, Narrative Medicine
FRENCH 4680 - Topics in French Literature: Disability Studies, Before "Disability"*
GENST 2750 - Images of Disability in Film and Literature
GENST 3750 - Disability, Quality of Life & Community Responsibility
GLOBAL 3006 - Global Health and Language
HISTORY 1151 - Health and Disease in World History
HISTORY 3017 - Humors, Pox and Plague: Medieval and Early Modern Medicine
HISTORY 3027 - Topics in the History of Medicine: History of Madness
HISTORY 4057 - Advanced Seminar: Medicine, Disease and Empire
HISTORY 4889 - Advanced Seminar: History of the Body
ITAL 4080 - Disease, Madness and Death Italian Style
LATAM 3160 - Cultures of Health in Latin America
MEC 3550 - Health Insurance in the US
MEC 3630 - Olin Grand Rounds: The Business and Practice of Medicine
MEDH 3000 - What is Medical Humanities?
PHEL 6014 - Bullet Related Injury and Policy in St. Louis and the United States
PHIL 3000 - Philosophy of Medicine
PHTPS 6005 - Eliminating Health Disparities
PHTPS 6011 - TPS: Gender, Poverty & Global Health
POLSCI 4271 - Topics in Politics: Trust and Public Health
PSYCH 3150 - Introduction to Social Psychology
PSYCH 4270 - Social Gerontology
PUBHLTHSOC 1011 - Environmental Justice as Public Health
PUBHLTHSOC 3210 - History of Public Health
PUBHLTHSOC 3280 - Infectious Disease and Society
PUBHLTHSOC 4010 - Topics in PH&S: Animals, Insects, and the Making of Modern Public Health
PUBHLTHSOC 4011 - Water and Health in the Colonial and Postcolonial World
PUBHLTHSOC 4012 - Global Hunger, Malnutrition and Obesity
PUBHLTHSOC 4020 - Topics in Public Health & Society: Food, Public Health, and Culture
PUBHLTHSOC 4020 - Topics in Public Health & Society (Race: Science, Power, and Health)
SOC 2050 - Inequality By Design: Understanding Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities
SOC 3210 - Foundations of Population Dynamics
SOC 4111 - Sick Society: Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities in the United States
WGSS 3055 - Making Sex and Gender: Understanding the History of the Body
WGSS 3081 - From Hysteria to Hysterectomy: Women's Health Care in America
WGSS 3135 - The Racial and Sexual Politics of Public Health
WGSS 3155 - Gender, Health, and Society
WGSS 3215 - Bodies Out of Bounds: Feminist and Queer Disability Studies
WGSS 3622 - Women, Health, and Media
