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Human Health


The Center for the Study of Human Health is the nexus for cross-disciplinary, cross-institutional collaboration on health and provides the organizational structure to accomplish horizontal integration of Emory's extraordinary and diverse assets. The Center achieves connections and synergies in health education, research and practice fostering intellectual exchange among a community of scholars whose interests span the science of health and the social and cultural dimensions of health and humanity.

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Concentrations

Faculty

Chair
Michelle Lampl
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Amanda Freeman
Core

Courses

HLTH 100-Level Courses

It is increasingly evident that individual involvement in personal health has profound benefits. This course provides students the opportunity to become involved in a personalized approach to health and well-being with strategic approaches for the implementation of a healthy lifestyle.


Credit Hours
1
GER
HTH
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

For millennia, humans have relied on environmental resources like plants and animal products for their medicines. Some of the great scientific journeys that have contributed to the rediscovery of these important natural medicines provide a view on what it takes to find the medicines of the future


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

Seminar or lecture series on topics of interest in human health at an introductory level. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.


Credit Hours
1 - 4
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

Seminar on various human health topics.


Credit Hours
3
GER
FS
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

HLTH 200-Level Courses

A course training students to be peer health partners for the HLTH 100 course. Strong focus on health education and working as a peer partner.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

Epidemiology is the study of disease patterns, and determinants, within a population and the application of this information to mitigate public health problems. Students will learn to apply basic principles of epidemiology and biostatistics to identification and analysis of public health problems.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

This course introduces the evidence base for the science of health and emphasizes STEM educational translations to the population, clinic and individual levels. Innovative efforts are needed to drive changes in health care from a reactive, disease-focused system to a proactive health-focused one.


Credit Hours
3
GER
HSC
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
  • ANT 231

What constitutes a nutritious diet? How do we know? Lectures and activities will explore daily needs, sources, functions, and metabolism of nutrients and other dietary components. Learners will apply evidence-based dietary recommendations through personal nutrition assessment and scenario analysis.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
BIOL 141 or BIOL_OX 141 or CHEM 141 or CHEM_OX 141 or CHEM 150 or CHEM_OX 150 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed
None

The science of nutrition will be explored as it relates to individual food choice and overall health. Application topics include digestion, obesity, metabolism, sports nutrition, nutritional genomics, and predictive health. Nutritional needs will be addressed using a functional approach.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

Utilizing a transdisciplinary, lifestyle medicine perspective this course will examine the evidentiary support for promoting consistent physical activity and healthy eating patterns and the potential dose-response relationship to the risk, prevention, and recurrence of non-communicable diseases.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

Health is a fundamental human experience with multifaceted intersections in areas of humanistic inquiry.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

Health is personal, encompassing a range of physical, emotional, mental, social, spiritual and environmental influences, influenced by culture. This seminar will consider the evidentiary base for alternative and complementary approaches to health and well-being.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

Building upon what cutting-edge science tells us about how to maximize mental well-being, this course will explore a wide range of strategies for using both positive and negative emotions to build the psychological resilience and flexibility needed to thrive in challenging times.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

An introduction to the overall field of global health, its history, methods, and key principles, with case studies illustrating the burden of disease in nations with strikingly different political-economic contexts.


Credit Hours
3
GER
SS
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
  • ANT 205
  • SOC 250

We will examine how health research is covered in the news and learn to distinguish accurate reports from exaggerations. The course aims to encourage curiosity, to increase scientific perceptiveness, to raise communication awareness, and to build critical evaluation skills.


Credit Hours
2
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

Special Topics course.


Credit Hours
1 - 4
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

Special Topics course.


Credit Hours
1 - 5
GER
CW
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

Variable topics course in the study abroad program.


Credit Hours
1 - 8
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

HLTH 300-Level Courses

This course provides students the opportunity to become involved in a personalized approach to health and well-being by sharing with peers strategic approaches for the implementation of a healthy lifestyle. Offered Yearly. Repeatable for up to Twelve Semester Hours.


Credit Hours
1 - 4
GER
None
Requisites
HLTH 200 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed
None

This course explores qualitative and quantitative methodologies used in health research, as well as principles for responsible conduct of research. Through hands-on development of a research proposal, students build skills for reviewing literature, evaluating evidence, and scientific communication.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
HLTH 207 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed
None

This course covers basic epidemiologic methods used in public health research. Topics to be covered include basic study design, measures of disease frequency, measures of effect, types of bias, and options for control of co-variates with an introduction to modeling.


Credit Hours
1
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

This course covers basic epidemiologic methods used in public health research. Topics to be covered include basic study design, measures of disease frequency, measures of effect, types of bias, and options for control of covariates with an introduction to modeling


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

How paradigms of health-focused beliefs and systems develop, are maintained, and change reflect history, society, and technology. We interrogate the scientific basis for present biomedical concepts that have co-opted concepts of the human body's health and well-being.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
  • ANT 339

This is a research seminar exploring the intersection of genomics, the environment, and lifestyle/behavior as it pertains to human health from a developmental perspective with the aim of understanding human health over the lifespan.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
  • ANT 318

Getting a good night's sleep is critical in promoting health and well-being. To better understand this link, we will examine how inadequate sleep may contribute to a range of disorders and examine current research efforts to understand why we need sleep and how the body regulates sleep.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
This course requires BIOL 141 and BIOL 142 as pre-requisite
Cross-Listed
None

Trillions of symbiotic microbes composing the human microbiota are crucial for our health. We will examine the vital functions provided by the human microbiome, as well as its association with disease states, including obesity, insulin resistance, inflammatory bowel disease, asthma, and more.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
BIOL 142 or BIOL_OX 142 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed
None

Through examination of the physiology underlying these sensory systems, mechanisms of disruption, treatment methods, and impact on health and well-being, this course integrates the two components of the Human Health major, science and human experience.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

Nutrition and Chronic Disease provides an overview of the role of nutrition in chronic disease prevention, development and treatment.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
HLTH 220 or equivalent transfer credit as a prerequisite
Cross-Listed
None

This course examines the physiological basis for changing nutrient needs throughout the life cycle. Topics may include growth and development, nutrition assessment, age-specific dietary recommendations for optimal health and disease prevention, and sociocultural influences on dietary patterns.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
HLTH 220 or HLTH 221 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite. Used for: HLTH 321
Cross-Listed
None

This course addresses how nutrition helps individuals meet exercise goals, promote health, and achieve optimal performance through examination of the physiological roles of nutrients and dietary components, basic principles of exercise science, and conventional and contemporary fueling strategies.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

Performing artists are subject to nutrition myths, making it difficult for them to manage the interaction between nutrient utilization and provision to assure a successful career. This course covers nutritional factors for helping performing artists achieve the desired performance outcomes.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
HLTH 220 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed
None

We will cover the history, trends, and prevalence of obesity and undernutrition in high-, middle- and low-income countries. We will critique interventions designed to improve each type of malnutrition and will examine options for reducing both simultaneously.  


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

What determines if a person's diet meets their needs, or if it promotes a nutritional imbalance that affects their health? This course explores the various indicators used to characterize nutrition status and the approaches, techniques, and considerations for collecting and interpreting these data.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
HLTH 220 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed
None

We will examine the evidence for potential benefits of a plant-based diet and apply the findings through hands-on cooking experiences, group projects and community engagement. We will consider the potential influence of science, culture, sociology, economics, and sustainability on dietary choices.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

We will explore the integrated functions of the neuromuscular, musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory, and other body systems in regulating and supporting human movement. This includes how the body behaves at rest and in response to challenges, such as routine physical activity and disease.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

In this class, we will focus on health concerns associated with two types of institutions: disability related residential institutions and prisons and jails. We will look at health concerns that both lead to institutionalization/incarceration and those that emerge because of this experience.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

This course explores bioethical issues related to disability. Focuses on foundational theories of bioethics, disability, and disability studies and apply these to contemporary concerns. Examines traditional biomedical and bioethical perspectives, as well as those from disability studies literature.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

This course will examine various human rights theories and apply them to issues related to population and individual health. The course will focus on human health as a human rights issue and relationships between health and other human rights issues, and environmental impacts on health/health care.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

The goal of this course is to better understand and articulate our ethical views on the American healthcare system. The class includes an overview of classic ethical theories and principles, but focuses on the application of these theories and principles to a variety of healthcare contexts.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

We will cover cultural and clinical ideas about war and trauma from WWI to the present, including health conditions caused by combat, sexual violence, and traumatic injury. Discussions will include the expanding sense of trauma today through popular notions of triggeredness and microaggressions.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

Clinical Bioethics will explore basic bioethics principles (autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice) overlaid onto real-life settings and cases. We will explore how life and death decisions are made across emergencies, every-day hospital settings, and unique scenarios to save lives.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

Human health is intrinsically linked to dietary practices. The pharmacological properties of foods will be examined and case studies of dietary complexes will be examined in order to better understand the food-medicine continuum as a determinant of health and well-being.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
  • ANT 349
  • BIOL 344

We will discuss vaccine discovery, dissemination, and health impacts across the globe from a historical and present-day perspective. Special consideration will be given to the mechanisms different vaccines employ to confer efficacy, safety across populations, and preparedness for future diseases.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

This course explores the convergence of conventional medical therapies and complementary and alternative practices in therapeutic care models focused on the whole person: body, mind, and spirit. Discussions will explore physical, mental, social, spiritual and environmental determinants of health.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
HLTH 210 or ANT 231 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed
None

This course explores why depression evolved, why the modern world tends to promote distress rather than satisfaction, and how ancient and holistic healing practices - including hyperthermia , connection to place, exercise, meditation, purpose and psychedelics - can enhance our emotional well-being.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

This interdisciplinary course surveys research in psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, and religious studies to investigate the role of compassion and empathy in human health and how practices for cultivating compassion are secularized and implemented in schools, prisons, and other settings.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
  • ANT 348

This course emphasizes core issues in global health, explores the identification of global health priorities, the nature of global health organizations and the challenges to finding and implementing solutions. The focus changes with the instructor


Credit Hours
3
GER
HSC
Requisites
ANT205 or HLTH250 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed
None

This course emphasizes core issues in global health, explores the identification of global health priorities, the nature of global health organizations and the challenges to finding and implementing solutions. The focus changes with the instructor


Credit Hours
4
GER
HSCW
Requisites
ANT205 or HLTH250 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed
None

This course aims to explore the issues that arise when placing Western concepts of mental health and disorder in non-Western cultures, psychiatric diagnoses as they are represented in various cultural environments and how people experience and interact within various psychiatric healing systems.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

We will apply community-based primary health care methods to advance more equitable solutions for a maternal-newborn global health challenges. Teams will measure the disparity and look "back" to identify causes before looking "forward" to propose more equitable solutions for future change.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
HLTH 250 or HLTH_OX 250 or ANT 205 or ANTH_OX 205 or SOC 250 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed
None

We will examine the interplay of key global health players, the politics of global health, and the power dynamics that influence decisions at community, sub-national, and national levels in low- and middle-income countries. We will focus on events that have shifted this landscape the past 25 years.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
HLTH 250 or HLTH_OX 250 or ANT 205 or ANTH_OX 205 or SOC 250 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed
None

Not only is France pivotal in the scientific history of public health and modern medicine, but concepts of health are embodied in French life styles that are only now seeking articulation in modern health discourse. The class explores these cultural influences on health and health policy.


Credit Hours
4
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

France is the site of historically significant issues and discoveries in health. Students are offered the opportunity to focus on a topic of thei choice to pursue under faculty guidance while taking benefit of the environment that Paris offers for hands-on experiences.


Credit Hours
2
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

Obesity is a growing health burden in low- and middle-income countries, such as Peru. The purpose of this course is to study the distribution, determinants, and consequences of obesity in the Peruvian context, as well as the strategies implemented to control and reduce it.


Credit Hours
4
GER
None
Requisites
HLTH 250 or HLTH_OX 250 or ANT 205 or ANTH_OX 205 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed
None

This course will introduce autobiographical, self-revelatory, and autoethnographic styles of therapeutic theater. Students will create an original autobiographical therapeutic performance using drama therapy techniques.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
  • THEA 367

An introduction to the field of drama therapy and the theories/principles involved in its practice. An overview of the history of drama therapy, main approaches/theories, and ethical considerations are also included. Students will also engage in experiential drama therapy exercises and reflection.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
  • THEA 368

This course is designed for dancers, movers, and aspiring movement practitioners to develop a deeper anatomical understanding of the body and to explore anatomical relationships through movement, somatic practices, and neuromuscular exercises.


Credit Hours
3
GER
HAP
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
  • DANC 336

The course covers the US health care system, including the factors responsible for increasing health care spending, the purpose of regulation in the individual insurance market, the role of Medicare and Medicaid, and pros and cons of horizontal and vertical integration among providers and hospitals.


Credit Hours
2
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

This course employs multiple perspectives, including organizational theory, business, and economics, to examine the structure, financing, and performance of the US health care system and its ability to deliver health. Mental health, long-term care, and public health sectors are explored in depth.


Credit Hours
2
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

Drug discovery will be explored across bench to bedside discovery processes. We will learn about small molecule synthesis, repurposing of existing agents, preclinical validation, and the pathway to human studies and eventual FDA approval.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

We will analyze current news stories and podcasts to understand the shared tenets identifying and outlining a story, conducting research and interviews, crafting an argument, organizing a narrative, and gathering quality audio. Students will apply these techniques in both written and audio pieces.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

We examine the language around health and health care as a type of intercultural discourse, including communication between doctors and patients, between health care providers, and discussions of health in the media. We also examine language as a diagnostic tool.


Credit Hours
3
GER
HSC
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
  • LING 350

Seminar of lecture series of topics in human health. May be repeated for credit when topic varies. Credit varies from one to four hours.


Credit Hours
1 - 4
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

Seminar of lecture series of topics in human health. May be repeated for credit when topic varies. Credit varies from one to five hours.


Credit Hours
1 - 5
GER
CW
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

Variable topics course in the study abroad program.


Credit Hours
1 - 8
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

Variable Credit. Registration by permission of faculty supervisor and health program educational director.


Credit Hours
1 - 12
GER
None
Requisites
HLTH 210 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed
None

Variable Credit. Registration by permission of faculty supervisor and health program educational director.


Credit Hours
1 - 12
GER
XA
Requisites
HLTH 210 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed
None

HLTH 400-Level Courses

This course enables students to translate classroom knowledge into professional settings to support novel populations in Atlanta and at Emory. Students learn skills and approaches used in community health education and coaching including session planning and design in support of existing programs.


Credit Hours
1
GER
None
Requisites
ANT 205 or ANTH_OX 205 or ANT 231 or HLTH 200 or HLTH 210 or HLTH 250 or HLTH_OX 250 or SOC 250 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed
None

Students who complete Health 300 initiate science-based health projects while further developing mentoring skills. Projects are selected by faculty from proposals submitted in prior semester. Project teams may include students who successfully complete Health 100 with faculty guidance.


Credit Hours
2 - 4
GER
HAP
Requisites
HLTH 210 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed
None

Stress is an interface between health and disease/ Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) is the study of the interface between the brain, behavior, and immunity. This course will provide an overview of current theories, empirical findings, and "hot topics" in the growing field of PNI


Credit Hours
2
GER
None
Requisites
This course requires BIOL 141 and BIOL 142 as pre-requisite
Cross-Listed
None

Acute stress can have protective properties while chronic stress can have detrimental effects on our health. This course will explore the physiological response to real and perceived stress to understand the mechanisms underlying these responses.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

Health problems have many complex causes. After mapping the causes of a problem from a specific context (with research, theory & epidemiology), learners will create a proposal with real-world solutions. The proposal will be converted into a persuasive presentation to request funding for the work.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
HLTH 207 & HLTH 306 or equivalent transfer credits as prerequisites.
Cross-Listed
None

This interdisciplinary course provides an overview of the key issues involved in the introduction of low-cost, sustainable healthcare technology in resource-constrained settings. Working with partner organizations, student teams develop low-cost solutions to a real-world health problem.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

Predictive health is a paradigm change in the science of health. This class focuses on the challenges posed by this changing perspective, and involves critical analysis and consideration of solutions to present day health issues


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
ANT 231 or HLTH 210 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed
None

A new science of health is emerging. The evolutionary background for generic processes will be discussed and the challenges posed by modern lifestyles will be the focus of this class.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
ANT 231 or HLTH 210 and BIOL 141 and BIOL 142 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed
  • ANT 431

Internship by application only. Credit Variable.


Credit Hours
1 - 12
GER
None
Requisites
Add HLTH 210 and HLTH 310 as prerequisites
Cross-Listed
None

This seminar presentes data supporting developmental processes as an important basis for health and well being and addresses a way forward with which to confront the challenge of chronic diseases increasing globally.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
Add HLTH 312 or HLTH 411 as prerequisite
Cross-Listed
None

This is the required capstone course for the Human Health major, to be taken in the final year. Students will be expected to undertake a focused project that will demonstrate proficiency from problem solving approaches to multidisciplinary aspects of health.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
HLTH 210 & HLTH 230 & HLTH 250 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite. Used for: HLTH 415
Cross-Listed
None

This course aims to introduce students to emerging concepts and approaches for understanding human health and disease in terms of interactions between the genome and the exposome. Methodological aspects will be emphasized and a systems biology view will be presented.


Credit Hours
2
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

This courses considers the meaning and nature of risk in health from the viewpoints of epidemiology, society, and culture, in historical perspective. Discussion will focus on the definitions of risk, disease, and health and how the categorization of a behavior as a risk factor is determined.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
HLTH 210/ANT231 and HLTH 230 and QTM 100 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed
None

Nutrition is at the center of a cultural dialogue about health. The line between scientific knowledge and cultural ideology is increasingly unclear. This course will systematically cover many misnomers, myths and fads in our society in contrast to the science of nutrition.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
HLTH 220 and (BIOL 141 or BIOL_OX 141 or CHEM 141 or CHEM_OX 141 or CHEM 151 or CHEM_OX 151) or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed
None

The nature of evidence, cases studies for clinical trials, informs classification and determination of mental health and mental illness. Psychological, neurological, historical, and cultural perspectives are considered in the context of an increasing public health concern with mental health


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
HLTH210/ANT231 and HLTH 230 and HLTH 310?ANT 339 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed
None

This course explores stigma as a social construct that shapes many different health conditions and illness experiences. Focus areas include non-normative body appearance, impaired mobility, chronic disease, mental health, and reproductive health. Various anti-stigma interventions are also examined.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

Mankind has long recognized that plants are extremely useful as source of medicine. Medical traditions based on botanical sources are found in all human cultures and date back to prehistory. In this course both ancient and modern day botanical traditions across many cultures will be examined.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
  • ANT 440
  • BIOL 442

We examine issues affecting population health across time and place with tools from public and predictive health, and identify the influence of economics, politics, culture, and society on biomedical and epidemiological criteria of disease causality.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
HLTH210/ANT231 and HLTH250/ANT205/GHCS250 and HLTH 310/ANT 339 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed
None

In this course, you will develop concrete skills to promote human health for a defined global health problem. We will apply collaboration skills to 1) recruit diverse stakeholders, 2) synthesize their insights, 3) generate practical solutions, and 4) mobilize broad support for the solution.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
HLTH 250 or HLTH_OX 250 or ANT 205 or ANTH_OX 205 or SOC 250 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed
None

This course explores a range of topics and texts related to the theory, practice and experience of medical matters in the Hispanic world of colonial-imperial medicine. Topics may include epidemics; gender and medicine; indigenous medical knowledge; diet and food; and doctors and curander@s.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
  • SPAN 425
  • LACS 425

This course explores a range of topics and texts related to the theory, practice and experience of medical matters in the Hispanic world of colonial-imperial medicine. Topics may include epidemics; gender and medicine; indigenous medical knowledge; diet and food; and doctors and curander@s.


Credit Hours
4
GER
CW
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
  • SPAN 425W
  • LACS 425W

This course examines how narratives about the body, health, medicine, and well-being are constructed, naturalized, and circulated in Latin America.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
  • SPAN 409
  • LACS 409
  • LING 409

This is a capstone course that combines health economics and human health content with data science. You will complete an empirical research project using raw data and employ econometric methods to analyze a research question relevant to contemporary health care issues and/or health.


Credit Hours
3
GER
None
Requisites
ECON 320 and (ECON 371 or ECON 372 or ECON 372W or HLTH 370) or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed
  • ECON 470

Seminar or lecture in various topics on human health. May be repeated for credit (up to 9 hours) when topic varies.


Credit Hours
1 - 4
GER
None
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

An advanced seminar or lecture course on selected topics in health. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.


Credit Hours
1 - 5
GER
CW
Requisites
None
Cross-Listed
None

This class is a requirement for students invited into the honors program during which they focus on their independent honors' research under the guidance of faculty.


Credit Hours
3 - 4
GER
XA
Requisites
HLTH 210 and HLTH 230 and HLTH 250 or equivalent transfer credit as a prerequisite. Used for: HLTH 415
Cross-Listed
None

This class is a requirement for students invited into the honors program during which they focus on their independent honors' research under the guidance of faculty.


Credit Hours
3 - 6
GER
CW
Requisites
HLTH 210 and HLTH 230 and HLTH 250 or equivalent transfer credit as a prerequisite. Used for: HLTH 415
Cross-Listed
None

Under faculty mentorship, students propose a focused research question and design a reading plan to explore the available evidence in depth through independent study. Students will write a semester paper which describes our current understanding of the topic and critiques the available evidence.


Credit Hours
1 - 12
GER
None
Requisites
HLTH 210 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed
None

Variable Credit. Registration by permission of faculty supervisor and health program educational director


Credit Hours
1 - 12
GER
XA
Requisites
HLTH 210 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed
None