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.
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
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
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
HISTORY 3027 Topics in the History of Medicine: History of Madness
HISTORY 3715 - European Population Politics, 1900-2000
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
PUBHLTHSOC 1011 FYS: Environmental Justice as 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 3511 Sick Society: Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities in the United States
WGSS 3055 Making Sex and Gender
WGSS 3081 From Hysteria to Hysterectomy
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
