Suggested Courses

Suggested Courses

When considering classes for a graduate health profession program, students are encouraged to demonstrate a well rounded academic education by completing courses in the social sciences and the humanities.

In addition to the recommended science classes: Genetics, Microbiology, and Evolution, students are also advised to study such courses which improve language arts and critical thinking.

Please see the course descriptions on the Department webpages:

  • BIOL 286 – Cell Biology
  • PHIL 104 – Ethics
  • SOC 205 or PSYCH 107 – Statistics

Sociology – Requires SOC 101

  • SOC 212W – Sociological Analysis (Writing Intensive)
  • SOC 222 – Social Welfare as a Social Institution
  • SOC 227 – Sociology of Medicine
  • SOC 229 – Sociology of Health and Illness
  • SOC 289 – Sociology of Death and Dying

Urban Studies – Requires URBST 101*

  • URBST 101 – Urban Poverty and Affluence
  • URBST 103 – Urban Diversity
  • URBST 132 – The US Health System*
  • URBST 202 – Race, Ethnicity and Immigration*
  • URBST 220 – Public Health Policy and Practice *
  • URBST 230 – Environmental and Public Health Policy and Practice *
  • URBST 231 – Cities and Social Medicine*
  • URBST 232 – Health and Policy-Making *
  • URBST 235 – Urban Epidemics: TB to AIDs*
  • URBST 238 – Women and Health*
  • URBST 252 – The Changing Urban Environment*
  • URBST 265 – Special topics: Urban Waste Systems, Urban Food Systems*

Anthropology – Requires ANTHRO 101

  • ANTHRO 101 – Introduction to Anthropology
  • ANTHRO 225 – Medical Anthropology*
  • ANTHRO 270 – Human Disease*
  • ANTHRO 272 – The Human Skeleton*
  • ANTHRO 275 – Disease in the Past*
  • ANTHRO 276, 276W – Evolution of the Human Life Cycle*
  • ANTHRO 279 – Topics in Biological Anthropology*
  • ANTHRO 363 – Interpreting the Human Skeleton*
  • ANTHRO 371 – Nutritional Anthropology*