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Economics and Human HealthMajor


Degree AwardedBA
Hours To Complete45
Courses Required15
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Requirements

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