Requirements
A minor in Predictive Health requires a total of 20 credits, chosen from two or more departments or schools. Only one course may also count toward the major; this includes cross-listed courses. Three required courses and other elective courses are required to complete the minor. The three required courses are:
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HLTH 210/ANT 231 – Introduction to Predictive Health and Society
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One of the following 300/400 level courses:
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HLTH 310/ANT 339 – Defining Health: Biocultural Perspectives
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HLTH 312/ANT 318 – Predicting Life Span Health
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HLTH 411/ ANT 431 – Many Diseases, Few Causes
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HLTH 410 – Predictive Health Challenges
Elective Courses
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Predictive Health Minor Elective Courses |
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Dept |
Course # |
Title |
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AAS |
247 |
Racial and Ethnic Relations |
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AAS |
260 |
Afro-Centric Human Health Care Systems |
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AAS |
360 |
Black Child Development |
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AAS |
360 |
Ethnic Minority Families |
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AAS |
371 |
Anthropology of African Americans |
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AFS |
311 |
Nutritional Anthropology |
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AMST |
348 |
Ethnic Experience in America |
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ANT |
105 |
Introduction to Global Health |
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ANT |
210 |
Human Biology: Life Cycle Approach |
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ANT |
213 |
Anthropology and Human Sexuality |
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ANT |
230 |
Medical Anthropology |
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ANT |
231 |
Predictive Health and Society |
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ANT |
250 |
Anthropology of Today’s World: Fast Food/Slow Food |
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ANT |
305 |
The Human Brain |
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ANT |
311 |
Nutritional Anthropology |
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ANT |
312 |
Human Skeletal Biology |
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ANT |
313 |
Human Development in Biocultural Perspective |
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ANT |
314 |
Behavioral Ecology of Child Care |
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ANT |
317 |
Human Social Neuroscience |
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ANT |
318 |
Predicting Lifespan Health |
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ANT |
321 |
Anthropology of Human Reproduction |
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ANT |
331 |
Cross-Cultural Issues in Mental Health |
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ANT |
332 |
International Health: Anthropological Perspectives |
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ANT |
333 |
Disease and Human Behavior |
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ANT |
334 |
Evolutionary Medicine |
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ANT |
335 |
Women’s Health: Anthropological and Feminist Perspectives |
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ANT |
336 |
Anthropology of Emerging Diseases |
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ANT |
337 |
Religion, Health and Healing |
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ANT |
338 |
Global Health: Biosocial Model |
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ANT |
339 |
Defining Health: Biocultural Perspectives |
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ANT |
371 |
Anthropology of African Americans |
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ANT |
385 |
Special Topics: Advanced Seminar in Predictive Health and Society |
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ANT |
385 |
Special Topics: Birth and Global Health |
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ANT |
585 |
Anthropology and Global Health |
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ASIA |
358R |
Religion and Healing |
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BIOL |
190 |
Freshman Seminar: The Biology and Sociology of Aging |
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BIOL |
190 |
Freshman Seminar: The Science, Politics and Economics of Health and Disease in the Developed and Underdeveloped Worlds |
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BIOL |
223 |
Developmental Biology |
|
BIOL |
247 |
Ecology |
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BIOL |
250 |
Cell Biology |
|
BIOL |
264 |
Genetics: A Human Perspective |
|
BIOL |
336 |
Human Physiology |
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BIOL |
353 |
Genetics of Complex Traits |
|
BIOL |
354 |
Origin and Evolution of the Immune System |
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BIOL |
360 |
Introduction to Neurobiology |
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BIOL |
415 |
Cancer Biology and Oncogenes |
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BIOL |
430 |
Human Genome Project and Disease |
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BIOL |
441 |
Molecular Biology and Evolutionary Genetics |
|
BIOL |
455 |
Immunology and Disease |
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BIOL |
460 |
Building Brains |
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BIOL |
463 |
Population Biology and Evolution of Disease |
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BIOL |
470 |
Special Topics in Biology: Evolution and Emerging Diseases |
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BIOL |
475 |
Biology of the Eye |
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BIOL |
480 |
Modeling of Biological Systems |
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BIOL |
497 |
History and Biology of Addiction and Depression |
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BUS |
539 |
Healthcare Management and Markets |
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CBSC |
370B |
Planning Community Initiatives |
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CE |
516 |
Health-Ministry |
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CE |
623 |
Church’s Mission with Impoverished Children |
|
CE |
650 |
Faith and Health: Transforming Communities |
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CL |
308 |
Gynecology in Ancient World |
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CPLT |
389 |
Special Topics: Literature and the Senses |
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DANC |
190 |
Freshman Seminar: Dance |
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DANC |
229 |
Introduction to Dance |
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ECON |
221 |
Empirical Methods in Economics |
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ECON |
371 |
Health Economics |
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ECON |
372 |
Health Policy and Economics |
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ENG |
386 |
Literature and Science |
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ENVS |
215 |
Human Ecology |
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ENVS |
247 |
Ecology |
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ENVS |
321 |
Geology and Human Health |
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ENVS |
359 |
Ecology and Evolution of Disease |
|
ENVS |
483 |
Spatial Analysis in Disease Ecology |
|
GH |
590R |
Religion and Healing: Religious Literacy/Healthcare |
|
GHCS |
102 |
Introduction to Global Health |
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GHCS |
300R |
Core Issues in Global Health: Social Ethical Perspectives |
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GHCS |
300R |
Core Issues in Global Health: Cultural Disparities and Health in South Asia |
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GHCS |
300R |
Core Issues in Global Health: Birth and Global Health |
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HIST |
324 |
Witchcraft/Magic/Alchemy in Western Civilization |
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HIST |
348 |
Ethnic Experience in America |
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IDS |
201 |
Interdisciplinary Problems: Bioethics in an Interdisciplinary Perspective |
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IDS |
205 |
Science and the Nature of Evidence |
|
IDS |
206 |
Foundations of Sustainability |
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IDS |
303 |
Science as a Modern Cultural Ideal |
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IDS |
350 |
Freud and Dreams |
|
IDS |
385 |
Special Topics: Disability |
|
IDS |
385 |
Special Topics: Madness, the Brain and Culture |
|
IDS |
385 |
Special Topics: Addiction, the Brain, History and Culture |
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IH |
557 |
International Health: Anthropological Perspectives |
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ILA |
702 |
Various Topics |
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ILA |
715 |
Various Topics |
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ILA |
790 |
Disease, History and Culture |
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JRNL |
380 |
Health and Science Writing |
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JS |
354R |
Ethics |
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LAW |
687 |
Bioethics and Public Health Law |
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LAW |
736A |
Law in Public Health |
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LAW |
736L |
Health Law |
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LAW |
744 |
Regulation/Healthcare Providers |
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LING |
309 |
Brain and Language |
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MBC |
501 |
Core Course in Multi-disciplinary Approaches to Mind, Brain, and Culture |
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MUS |
309 |
The Musical Brain |
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NBB |
120 |
From Botox to Behavior |
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NBB |
300 |
The Musical Brain |
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NBB |
301 |
Introduction to Neurobiology |
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NBB |
302 |
Behavioral Neuroscience |
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NBB |
317 |
Human Social Neuroscience |
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NBB |
321 |
Behavioral Neuroendocrinology of Sex |
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NBB |
414 |
Brain and Cognitive Development |
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NBB |
424 |
Medical Neuropathology |
|
NBB |
425 |
Brain Imaging |
|
NBB |
426 |
Drug Development |
|
NBB |
460 |
Building Brains |
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PHIL |
116 |
Introduction to Bioethics |
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PHIL |
124 |
Philosophy of Race and Ethnicity |
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PHIL |
125 |
Introduction to the Philosophy of Science |
|
PHIL |
316 |
Bioethics |
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PHIL |
482 |
Special Topics: Philosophy of Medicine |
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POLS |
317 |
Global Human Rights |
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POLS |
349 |
Politics of Race in the US |
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POLS |
370B |
Planning Community Initiatives |
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PSY |
103 |
Brain and Behavior |
|
PSY |
205 |
Child Development |
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PSY |
215 |
Cognition |
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PSY |
216 |
Stress, Coping and Disorder |
|
PSY |
218 |
Infancy |
|
PSY |
220 |
Sensory Processes |
|
PSY |
221 |
Human Sexuality |
|
PSY |
302 |
Human Learning and Memory |
|
PSY |
309 |
Brain and Language |
|
PSY |
310 |
Cognitive Development |
|
PSY |
313 |
Neuropsychology: Child Disabilities |
|
PSY |
315 |
Psychology of Family Relationships |
|
PSY |
321 |
Behavioral Neuroendocrinology of Sex |
|
PSY |
323 |
Drugs and Behavior |
|
PSY |
335 |
Cognitive Neuroscience |
|
PSY |
350 |
Behavior Modification |
|
PSY |
353 |
Behavioral Neuroscience |
|
PSY |
370 |
Black Child Development |
|
PSY |
383 |
Neuropsychology and Cognition |
|
PSY |
414 |
Brain and Cognitive Development |
|
PSY |
415 |
Sleep and Dreaming |
|
PSY |
420 |
Psychobiology of Visual Perception |
|
PSY |
474 |
Seminar: Developmental Psychology: Infant & Child Development in the South Pacific |
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REL |
322 |
Religion and Sexuality |
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REL |
323 |
Death and Dying |
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REL |
333 |
Religion and the Body |
|
REL |
334 |
Dance and Embodied Knowledge |
|
REL |
354R |
Ethics |
|
REL |
358R |
Religion and Healing |
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SOC |
213 |
Sociology of the Family |
|
SOC |
214 |
Class/Status/Power |
|
SOC |
225 |
Sociology of Sex and Gender |
|
SOC |
230 |
Sociologic Aspects Health/Illness |
|
SOC |
247 |
Racial and Ethnic Relations |
|
SOC |
330 |
Mental Health and Well-Being |
|
SOC |
347 |
Gender and Global Health |
|
SOC |
348 |
Aging in Society |
|
SOC |
352 |
Sociology of Happiness |
|
SOC |
360 |
Ethnic Minority Families |
|
SOC |
370B |
Planning Community Initiatives |
|
SOC |
390 |
Study Abroad: Health Care/Society Seminar |
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SPAN |
520 |
The Hispanic Body |
|
SR |
536 |
Religion and Health in Context: HIV |
|
SR |
650 |
Faith and Health: Transforming Communities |
|
SR |
698 |
Religion and Healing: Religious Literacy/Healthcare |
|
THEA |
101 |
Introduction to the Theater |
|
THEA |
121 |
Acting: Fundamentals |
|
WS |
231 |
Sociology of Sex and Gender |
|
WS |
335 |
Women’s Health: Anthropological and Feminist Perspectives |
|
WS |
347 |
Gender and Global Health |
