GHP Electives
Past and current pre-approved GHP electives are listed below, separated out by fall courses and spring courses.
Please note the following:
- One elective course may be taken with the P/D/F grading option.
- One elective may be taken during the freshman or sophomore year; all other electives must be completed in the junior and senior years.
- At least one elective must be outside of the home department.
- The semester in which courses are offered may change periodically.
- Courses listed as "Fall/Spring" may be offered in either semester, but not necessarily both.
- Not all courses listed below are offered every year.
Students are advised to check the Registrar's listing of current course offerings or the Undergraduate Announcement for information on current and future offerings.
In addition to these pre-approved courses, GHP students may request permission to fulfill their elective requirement through completion of other health-related courses at or above the 300-level. If you wish to seek credit for a course that is not on the pre-approved list, please send the following information to Kristina Graff, Associate Director of the GHP program:
- Course name & number
- Course description
- Link to full course details on the Registrar's Course Offerings Page
- Syllabus (if available)
Fall courses
ANT 335 Medical Anthropology (Fall/Spring)
ANT 431 Biomedical Anthropology (Fall/Spring)
CBE 439 Quantitative Physiology & Tissue Design
CBE 440 The Physical Basis of Human Disease
CHM 440 Drug Discovery in the Genomics Era
CHV/PHI 308 Perfecting Life: Designing Children, Designing Memories, Designing Death
CLA 345 Ancient Greco-Roman Medicine: From Hippocrates to Galen (Fall/Spring)
ECO 332 Economics of Health and Health Care
EEB 327 / MOL 327 Immune Systems: From Molecules to Populations
EEB/WWS 495 Disease Dynamics: Data, Theory, and Policy
ELE/CEE/MAE/MSE 455 Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment (Fall/Spring)
ENV 304 / ECO 328 / EEB 304 / WWS 496 Disease Ecology, Economics, and Policy (Fall/Spring)
ENV 401 Environmental Policy Workshop
HIS 394 The Rise of Modern Biomedicine: Global Trends in Health and Healing, 1500-2000 (Fall/Spring)
HIS 494 Broken Brains, Shattered Minds: Disease and Experience in the History of Neuroscience
HIS 496 Africa, Medical Pluralism, and the History of Health and Disease
LAS 405 / HIS 401 Health and Society in Latin America During the 20th Century
MAE 344 Introduction to Bioengineering and Medical Devices (Fall/Spring)
MOL 380A Modern Microbiology and Disease (Fall/Spring)
MOL 380B Modern Microbiology and Disease (Fall/Spring)
MOL 440 Genome Integrity and Human Disease
MOL 459 Viruses: Strategy and Tactics
MOL/STC 460 Diseases in Children: Causes, Costs, and Choices (Fall/Spring)
MOL 470 Advanced Topics in Genetic Analysis
POL 334 / AAS 335 The Politics of Race and Health in America
PSY 402 Introduction to Clinical Neuropsychology: Case Studies in Cognitive Neuroscience (Fall/Spring)
PSY 410 Depression: From Neuron to Clinic (Fall/Spring)
PSY 420 Controversies in Clinical Psychology (Fall/Spring)
STC 349 / JRN 349 Science Journalism (Fall/Spring)
STC 398 Health and Human Rights in the World Community
WWS 315 Bioethics and Public Policy
WWS 316 Health and the Environment
WWS 327 / CHM 443 (Special Topics) Pharmaceutical Research and Health Policy
WWS 354 Modern Genetics and Public Policy
WWS 401E Child Health and Nutrition in the Developing World - credit for WWS certificate students only
WWS 476 / ECO 354 Special Topics in Public Affairs: The Economics of Health Policy in Developing Countries (Fall/Spring)
Spring courses
AAS/ANT 403 Race and Medicine
ANT 335 Medical Anthropology (Fall/Spring)
ANT 405 Topics in Anthropology: Global Pharmaceuticals: Science, Political Economy, Ethics
ANT 431 Biomedical Anthropology (Fall/Spring)
CLA 345 Ancient Greco-Roman Medicine (Fall/Spring)
CHV 391 / PHI 391 Morals, Markets, and Health
COS 495 Special Topics in Computer Science: Medical Informatics
EAS 312 / ANT 312 Mind, Body, and Bioethics in Japan and Beyond
ECO 332 Economics of Health and Health Care
EEB 328 Ecology and Epidemiology of Parasites and Infectious Diseases
EEB 414 / MOL 414 Genetics of Human Populations
ELE 404 Electronic Circuits for Biomedical Application
ELE/CEE/MAE/MSE 455 Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment (Fall/Spring)
ENV 304 / ECO 328 / EEB 304 / WWS 496 Disease Ecology, Economics, and Policy (Fall/Spring)
GHP 400 / WWS 499 / MOL 499 / EEB 400 Seminar in Global Health and Health Policy
GSS 420 / SOC 420 Born in the U.S.A.: Culture and Reproduction in Modern America
HIS 394 The Rise of Modern Biomedicine: Global Trends in Health and Healing, 1500-2000 (Fall/Spring)
HIS 395 History of Medicine and the Body
HIS 424 Disease and Social Change in Modern China
MAE 344 Introduction to Bioengineering and Medical Devices (Fall/Spring)
MOL 328 / WWS 399 U.S. Medical Research and Researchers: Health, Hope, Hubris
MOL 340 Molecular and Cellular Immunology
MOL 380A,B Modern Microbiology and Disease (Fall/Spring)
MOL 425 / WWS 474 Infection: Biology, Burden, Policy
MOL 430 The Power and Peril of Cycling Cells
MOL 433 Biotechnology
MOL 434 Macromolecular Structure and Mechanism of Disease
MOL 435 Pathogenesis and Bacterial Diversity
MOL/STC 460 Diseases in Children: Causes, Costs, and Choices (Fall/Spring)
PSY 317 Health Psychology
PSY 319 Childhood Psychopathology
PSY 320 Theories of Psychotherapy
PSY 402 Introduction to Clinical Neuropsychology: Case Studies in Cognitive Neuroscience (Fall/Spring)
PSY 410 Depression: From Neuron to Clinic (Fall/Spring)
PSY 420 Controversies in Clinical Psychology (Fall/Spring)
SOC/CHV 364 Sociology of Medicine
STC 349 Science Journalism (Fall/Spring)
WWS/MOL 320 Human Genetics, Reproduction, and Public Policy
WWS 402C Health Care Reform and Medicaid Expansion - credit for WWS certificate students only
WWS/STC 458 Special Topics in Public Affairs: Decision-Making on Environmental and Medical Risks
WWS/URB/SOC 469 Special Topics in Public Affairs: Health, Housing, Employment: What Works for the Poor in Small Cities?
WWS 476 / ECO 354 Special Topics in Public Affairs: The Economics of Health Policy in Developing Countries (Fall/Spring)