Full List of Electives

Full List of Electives

All of the Public Health & Society elective and required courses, listed alphabetically by course number.


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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 3070 - Human Variation

ANTHRO 3105 - Topics in Anthropology: Anthropology of Drugs

ANTHRO 3151 - Evolution of the Human Diet

ANTHRO 3201 - Gender, Culture and Madness

ANTHRO 3240 - Human Growth and Development

ANTHRO 3275 - Introduction to GIS for Anthropologists

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 3610 - Culture and Environment

ANTHRO 3612 - Population and Society

ANTHRO 3618 - Urban Ecological Anthropology

ANTHRO 3621 - Anthropology of Human Birth

ANTHRO 3875 - Pharmaceutical Personhood

ANTHRO 3876 - Darwin and Doctors: Evolutionary Medicine and Health

ANTHRO 3880 - Multispecies Worlds: Animals, Global Health, and Environment

ANTHRO 3885 - Global Mental Health: Medical Pluralism Cross-Cultural Care

ANTHRO 4005 - The Evolutionary and Health Impacts of Human Parasite Infection

ANTHRO 4100 - Humanitarian Interventions

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

ANTHRO 4110 - Pushing Daisies: The Anthropology of Death and Dying

ANTHRO 4123 - Argumentation Through Ethnography

ANTHRO 4134 - The AIDS Epidemic: Inequalities, Ethnography, and Ethics

ANTHRO 4194 - Primate Ecoimmunology

ANTHRO 4202 - Anthropological Genetics

ANTHRO 4215 - Anthropology of Food

ANTHRO 4250 - Aging in Cross-Cultural Perspective

ANTHRO 4285 - Environmental Archaeology

ANTHRO 4312 - Environmental Interactions and Human Health

ANTHRO 4323 - Life at the Extremes

ANTHRO 4452 - In the Field: Ethnographic and Qualitative Methods

ANTHRO 4481 - Writing Culture

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

ANTHRO 4803 - Advanced GIS Modeling and Landscape Analysis

BEYOND 1003 - Beyond Boundaries: When I'm 64: Preparing Ourselves and Society for a Good Long Life

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

CLASSICS 3800 - Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine

CLASSICS 4701 - Ancient Greek and Roman Gynecology

ECON 3320 - Health Economics

ECON 3350 - Environmental Policy

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 2220 - One Health: Linking the Health of Humans, Animals, and the Environment

ENST 3060 - Community Based Conservation: Madagascar Sustainability Initiative

ENST 3310 - Beyond the Evidence

ENST 3540 - Environmental Justice

ENST 3710 - Introduction in GIS

ENST 4350 - Foundations of Research: Building a Literature Review

ENST 4710 - Advanced GIS

ENST 4730 - Introduction to Spatial Epidemiology

FRENCH 2140 - Medical French

FRENCH 3220 - Topics II: Contagions

FRENCH 3600 - Thinking-It-Through: Well-Being

FRENCH 3750 - In Depth: Medical Narratives, Narrative Medicine

FRENCH 3760 - Cinema and Society: (Screening Health)

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

ITAL 4100 - Mamma Mia! Motherhood, Maternity, & the Female Reproductive Body in the Italian Cultural Context

LATAM 3160 - Cultures of Health in Latin America

MEC 3210 - Health Economics and Policy

MEC 3220 - Health Care Management

MEC 3550 - Health Insurance in the US

MEC 3630 - Olin Grand Rounds: The Business and Practice of Medicine

MEC 4660 - Health Analytics

MEDH 3000 - What is Medical Humanities?

PHCC 6002 - Global Health

PHCC 6004 - Health Economics

PHCC 6007 - Fundamentals of Mental Health for Public Health

PHEL 6003 - Translating Epidemiology into Policy

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

PHFN 5000 - Epidemiology

PHFN 5001 - Biostatistics

PHFN 5002 - Environmental Health

PHIL 2060 - Biomedical Ethics

PHIL 3000 - Philosophy of Medicine

PHTPS 6001 - Global Mental Health

PHTPS 6005 - Eliminating Health Disparities

PHTPS 6006 - TPS: Global Nutrition and the Environment

PHTPS 6008 - TPS: Climate Change & Public Health

PHTPS 6009 - TPS: From the Inside Out: PH and the Built Environment

PHTPS 6011 - TPS: Gender, Poverty & Global Health

PHTPS 6012 - TPS: Global Reproductive Health

PHTPS 6014 - TPS: Climate Crisis: Understanding Complexity & Advocacy for Global Health Professionals

POLSCI 2400 - Data Science for Politics

POLSCI 4271 - Topics in Politics: Trust and Public Health

PSYCH 3000 - Introduction to Psychological Statistics

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 3890 - Advanced Psychological Statistics: The General Linear Model and Beyond

PSYCH 4175 - Applied Statistical Analysis with R

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 1000 - Foundations in Public Health

PUBHLTHSOC 1010 - Topics in Public Health & Society

PUBHLTHSOC 1011 - Environmental Justice as Public Health

PUBHLTHSOC 2000 - Introduction to Global Health (formerly Introduction to Public and Global Health)

PUBHLTHSOC 3000 - Public Health Theories, Models, and Frameworks

PUBHLTHSOC 3010 - Topics in PH&S: Climate for All: A Solutions-Based Investigation of the Climate Crisis and PH Impact

PUBHLTHSOC 3010 - Topics in Public Health & Society: Health Communication and the Misinformation Crisis

PUBHLTHSOC 3010 - Topics in Public Health & Society (Food Policy)

PUBHLTHSOC 3100 - Research Methods in Understanding Health and Society

PUBHLTHSOC 3210 - History of Public Health

PUBHLTHSOC 3280 - Infectious Disease and Society

PUBHLTHSOC 3700 - Introduction to Epidemiology

PUBHLTHSOC 3900 - Intermediate Independent Study

PUBHLTHSOC 4000 - APEX: Advanced Practical Experience in Public Health Seminar

PUBHLTHSOC 4001 - APEX: Advanced Practical Experience in Public Health Internship

PUBHLTHSOC 4002 - APEX: Advanced Practical Experience in Public Health Seminar-- Study Abroad

PUBHLTHSOC 4010 - Topics in Public Health & Society (Careers in Public Health)

PUBHLTHSOC 4010 - Topics in PH&S: Animals, Insects, and the Making of Modern Public Health

PUBHLTHSOC 4010 - Topics in Public Health & Society (Epidemics, Pandemics, and Society)

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)

PUBHLTHSOC 4030 - Topics in Public Health & Society (Health, Human Rights, and International Justice)

PUBHLTHSOC 4120 - Public Health and Medicine: Health Decision Making

PUBHLTHSOC 4900 - Advanced Independent Study

SDS 3030 - Statistics for Data Science I

SDS 3110 - Biostatistics

SDS 3111 - Applied Linear Modeling

SDS 4030 - Statistics for Data Science II

SDS 4130 - Linear Statistical Models

SDS 4140 - Advanced Linear Statistical Models

SOC 2050 - Inequality By Design: Understanding Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities

SOC 3030 - Introduction to Research Methods

SOC 3040 - Statistics for Sociology

SOC 3210 - Foundations of Population Dynamics

SOC 3211 - Medical Sociology

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

SPAN 3530 - Medical Spanish

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 3500 - Trans Studies

WGSS 3622 - Women, Health, and Media

WGSS 4115 - Gender, Religion, Medicine and Science

WRITING 3004 - Writing and Medicine