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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.
- Academic Department Website
- http://humanhealth.emory.edu
Concentrations
Faculty
- Director
- Michelle Lampl
- Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Amanda Freeman
Courses
Human Health Program 100-Level Courses
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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
- GERs
- HTH
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Seminar on various human health topics.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- FSEM
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Human Health Program 200-Level Courses
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ANT 231
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This class focuses on the science of nutrition, with emphases on functions and interactions of micronutrients and how they affect human physiology, how dietary requirements for individuals and specific populations are developed, issues of food safety and policy are considered.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- BIOL 141orCHEM141orCHEM 150
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Health is a fundamental human experience with multifaceted intersections in areas of humanistic inquiry.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ANT 205
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Special Topics course.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 4
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Special Topics course.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- WRT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Variable topics course in the study abroad program.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 8
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Human Health Program 300-Level Courses
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- HLTH 200 as prerequisite
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- HLTH 207 as prerequisite
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Evolutionary perspectives provide a background for understanding the limitations imposed by biomedical frameworks in our understanding of human biological variability. Flexibility in gene expression and human phenotypes reflect the importance of biocultural influences on health.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ANT 339
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ANT 318
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- BIOL 141 and 142 as Pre-Req
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- BIOL 142 as prerequisite
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Nutrition and Chronic Disease provides an overview of the role of nutrition in chronic disease prevention, development and treatment.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- HLTH 220 as prerequisite
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- HLTH 220 or HLTH 221 as prereq
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- HLTH 220 as prerequisite
- Cross-Listed
- None
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We will cover the history, evolution, and prevalence of obesity and under-nutrition problems 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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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We will explore the scientific basis and potential application for the five domains of nutrition assessment with particular focus on the anthropometric, biochemical, and dietary markers and methodologies used in the determination of nutrition status in individuals and populations.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- HLTH 220 as prerequisite
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- BIOL 340
- ANT 349
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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
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- ANT205/HLTH250 prerequisite
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- HSCW
- Requisites
- ANT205/HLTH250 prerequisite
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- DANC 336
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LING 350
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- WRT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Variable topics course in the study abroad program.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 8
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Variable Credit. Registration by permission of faculty supervisor and health program educational director.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 12
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- HLTH 210 as prerequisite
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Variable Credit. Registration by permission of faculty supervisor and health program educational director.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 12
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- HLTH 210 as prerequisite
- Cross-Listed
- None
Human Health Program 400-Level Courses
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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
- GERs
- HAP
- Requisites
- HLTH 210 as prerequisite
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- BIOL 141 and 142 as Pre-Req
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- HLTH 207 & HLTH 306 prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- ANT 231 or HLTH 210 as prereq
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- ANT 231/HLTH 210+BIOL 141/142
- Cross-Listed
- ANT 431
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Internship by application only. Credit Variable.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 12
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- Add HLTH 210 and HLTH 310 prer
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- Add HLTH 312 or HLTH 411 prer
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- HLTH 210 & HLTH 230 & HLTH 250
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- HLTH210/ANT231+HLTH230+QTM100
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- HLTH220 & BIOL141/CHEM141/150
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- HLTH210/ANT231+HLTH230+HLTH310
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- BIOL 442
- ANT 440
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- HLTH210/ANT231+HLTH250+HLTH310
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- SPAN 425
- LACS 425
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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
- GERs
- WRT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- SPAN 425W
- LACS 425W
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This course examines how narratives about the body, health, medicine, and well-being are constructed, naturalized, and circulated in Latin America.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LACS 409
- SPAN 409
- LING 409
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- ECON 320 & 371/372/HLth370
- Cross-Listed
- ECON 470
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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An advanced seminar or lecture course on selected topics in health. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 5
- GERs
- WRT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- HLTH 210 & HLTH 230 & HLTH 250
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- WRT
- Requisites
- HLTH 210 & HLTH 230 & HLTH 250
- Cross-Listed
- None
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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
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- HLTH 210 as prerequisite
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Variable Credit. Registration by permission of faculty supervisor and health program educational director
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 12
- GERs
- None
- Requisites
- HLTH 210 as prerequisite
- Cross-Listed
- None