Undergraduate Health Policy Certificate

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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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