Center For Health Policy

Undergraduate Health Policy Certificate

Course Listings by Health Policy Area

Our extensive list of course offerings may make it difficult to decide what to take. For those wishing to specialize in a particular area of health policy, here are some suggested course offerings you might consider.

Aging Health

  • LS 290.57: Death and Dying
  • PUBPOL 160: Long Term Care Policy
  • PUBPOL 264S: Policy Challenges of the New Demography
  • SOCIOL 163: Aging and Health
  • SOCIOL 112: American Demographics

    Child Health

  • POLSCI 101: Children and Adolescents in the Health Care System: Bioethics and Law
  • POLSCI 176A&B: Perspectives on Food and Hunger
  • PSY 102: Alcohol: Brain, Individual and Society
  • PUBPOL 251S: Regulation of Vice and Substance Abuse
  • SOCIOL 112: American Demographics

    Chronic Diseases

  • BIO 46D: AIDS/Emerging Diseases
  • HIST 104: 20th Century Epidemics
  • HIST 195S: Epidemic Diseases in America: 1492-2000
  • WS 108/PUBPOL 108: AIDS: Ethics and Policy

    Environmental Health

  • ECON 164: Economics of the Environment
  • ENV 149/PUBPOL: U.S. Environmental Policy
  • ENV 270L: Resource and Environmental Economics
  • POLSCI 107: Environmental Politics and Policies in the Industrial World
  • PUBPOL 264S: Resource and Environmental Policy

    Genomics

  • HIST 105S: Medical Technology/Its Control
  • PPS 264: Social and Political History of Genetics
  • PUBPOL 264S.65: Responsible Genomics
  • PUBPOL 264.01: Ethics and Biotechnology Policy

    Global Health

  • CA 185: Canadian Health System
  • POLSCI 176A&B: Perspectives on Food and Hunger
  • PUBPOL 178/SOCIOL 171: Comparative Health Policy
  • PUBPOL 264S: Health Care Policy in Developing Countries
  • PUBPOL 266: Comparative Social Policy

    Health Inequalities

  • PSY 262: Minority Mental Health
  • PUBPOL 196S: U.S. Racial and Health Disparities
  • PUBPOL 264S.68: Poverty, Inequality and Health

    Medical Ethics

  • HIST 105S: Medical Ethics in the 20th Century
  • PHIL 118: Philosophical Issues in Medical Ethics
  • POLSCI 101: Children and Adolescents in the Health Care System: Bioethics and Law
  • PUBPOL 195: Health, Science and Human Rights
  • PUBPOL 264.01: Ethics and Biotechnology Policy
  • PUBPOL 264S.32: Matters of Life and Death
  • PUBPOL 264S.65: Responsible Genomics
  • WS 108/PUBPOL 108: AIDS: Ethics and Policy
  • WS 109: Genetic and Reproductive Technologies

    Medical History

  • HIST 104: 20th Century Epidemics
  • HIST 105S: Medical Ethics in the 20th Century
  • HIST 105S: Medical Technology/Its Control
  • HIST 189: Medicine in the West
  • HIST 189B: History of Public Health in America
  • HIST 190: History of Women in Science and Medicine
  • HIST 195S: Epidemic Diseases in America: 1492-2000
  • HIST 279, 280: Health, Healing and History

    Medical Sociology

  • SOCIOL 123: Social Aspects of Mental Illness
  • SOCIOL 162: Health & Illness in Society
  • SOCIOL 163: Aging and Health
  • SOCIOL 227S, B: Social Behavior and Health
  • SOCIOL 227S, D: Health in Life Course

    Mental Health

  • LS 290.52 Madness and Society in Historical Perspective
  • PSY 102: Alcohol: Brain, Individual and Society
  • PSY 109: Psychology and the Law
  • SOCIOL 123: Social Aspects of Mental Illness

    Public Health

  • HIST 189B: History of Public Health in America
  • PUBPOL 263S: Public Health Issues: Prevention and Management

    Women’s Health

  • HIST 190: History of Women in Science and Medicine
  • SOCIOL 112: American Demographics
  • SOCIOL 227S A: Health in the Life Course
  • WS 108/PUBPOL 108: AIDS: Ethics and Policy
  • WS 109: Genetic and Reproductive Technologies

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