Economics and Human HealthMajor

Foundational (5 courses required, 15 CU)

• Econ 101: Principles of Microeconomics
• Econ 112: Principles of Macroeconomics
• Econ 201: Intermediate Microeconomics
• HLTH 210: Introduction to Predictive Health and Society
• HLTH 250: Foundations of Global Health

Biomedical or health ethics (1 course required, 3 CU)

• HLTH 331: Disability & Bioethics
• HLTH 333: American Healthcare Ethics)

Methods (3 courses required, 11 CU)

• Econ 220: Probability and Statistics for Economists with lab (4 CU)
• Econ 320: Econometrics with lab (4 CU)
• HLTH 385: Designing Health Research

Health Care Organization and Policy (Select 2 courses, minimum 5CU)

• Econ 371: Health Economics
• Econ 372: Health Care Markets
• HLTH 370: Health Policy (2 CU)

Electives: Context and Applications of Health (Select 3 courses, minimum 8CU)

Three electives to include, but not limited to, the following:

• HLTH 310: Defining Health: Biocultural Perspectives
• HLTH 312: Predicting Lifespan Health or HLTH 411 The Origins of Health
• HLTH 314: The Science of Sleep
• HLTH 340: Food, Health, & Society or HLTH 440: Botanical Medicine and Health
• HLTH 385: Delivering Health (2CU)
• HLTH 397, 399, 497, or 499: Approved independent study or internship (1-4 CU, at least 3CU required to fulfill 1 Elective requirement)
• Econ 405: Industrial Organization
• Econ 421: Microeconometrics
• Econ 442: Law and Economics

Research Capstone (1 course required, 3CU)

• ECON 470/HLTH 470: Research in Health Economics