Undergraduate Health Policy Certificate Courses


Introductory Course (required for students matriculating after Fall 2003)
Public Policy Studies 111: Introduction to US Health Care System. Offered in Fall (will be offered in Spring 2005). Taylor
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Methods Courses (any 1 course)

Economics 55D: Competition, Monopoly and Welfare. Always offered in Fall and Spring. Nechyba

Economics 215S: Applied Cost Benefit Analysis. Prerequisite: Economics 149. Currently Unscheduled. Staff

Public Policy Studies 55: Introduction to Policy Analysis. Always offered in Fall and Spring. Vigdor

Public Policy Studies 261: Evaluation of Public Expenditures. Conrad

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Core Courses (any 2 courses)

Economics 156: Health Economics. Prerequisite: Economics 149 or Public Policy Studies 110. Typically offered every Fall and Spring. Sloan

Public Policy Studies 157: Health Policy. Consent of instructor required. (May not be counted as a core course by students who have taken Public Policy Studies 253.) Always offered every Spring. Whetten

Public Policy Studies 253: Politics of Health Care. Offered every other Fall in odd-numbered years. Conover

Public Policy Studies 263S: Public Health Issues: Prevention/Management. Offered every Fall. Whetten

Public Policy Studies 264S: Research Seminar. Topics in Public Policy.

Public Policy Studies 264S.07 Getting Value for Money in Health Care. Vigdor

Public Policy Studies 264S.30: Comparative Health in Developing Countries. Offered every Fall. Martin-Staple

Sociology 171: Comparative Health Care Systems. (May not be counted toward Certificate if Sociology 227C is counted.) Cross-listed as PUBPOL 178. Offered every Spring. Taylor Note that the Bulletin listing of this course as a methods course is incorrect. It is only a core course.


Sociology 227S, B: Social Behavior and Health. George

Sociology 227S, C: Organization and Financing of Health Care. (May not be counted toward Certificate if Sociology 171 is counted.) Currently unscheduled. Staff

PHYSASST 450: Introduction to Health Care Policy. Offered every Fall. Must enroll manually (see course schedule). Staff


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Elective Courses

Biology 46D: AIDS/Emerging Diseases. One course. Consent of instructor required. Broverman

Cultural Anthropology 185S: The Canadian Health Care System. Currently unscheduled. Staff

Economics 163: Economics of the Environment. Prerequisite: Economics 2 or 52. One course. Timmins

Economics 196S.80: Applied Methods in Health Care. Prerequisite: Statistics 101 or 103. One course. Curtis and Reed

Environment 149: United States Environmental Policy. Consent of instuctor required. Cross-listed as PubPol 149. Clark

Environment 270L: Resource and Environmental Economics. Prerequisite: Economics 2 or 52. Bennear

History 104: 20th Century Medicine. English


History 105S: Medical Ethics in the 20th Century. Currently Unscheduled. Staff

History 105S: Medical Technology/Its Control. Currently Unscheduled. Staff


History 123S: Madness and Society in Historical Perspective. Offered periodically. Staff

History 189A: Medicine in the West. Green

History 189B: History of Public Health in America. Humphreys

History 190: The History of Women in Science & Medicine. Currently Unscheduled. Staff

History 195S: Epidemic Diseases in America: 1492-2000. Fenn

History 196S: Junior-Senior Seminars: Abortion in American Culture. Offered periodically. Staff

History 279, 280: Health, Healing & History. Currently Unscheduled. Staff

History 299S: Race/Medicine: Historical Perspective. Offered periodically. Cook-Deegan

Philosophy 118: Philosophical Issues in Medical Ethics. Prerequisites: for freshmen, previous philosophy course and consent of instructor. One course. Golding

Political Science 101: Children and Adolescents in the Health Care System: Bioethics and Law. Currently Unscheduled. Staff

Political Science 107: Environmental Politics and Policies in the Industrial World. Currently Unscheduled. Staff

Political Science 147: Environmental Politics in the Developing World. McKean

Political Science 176A & B: Perspectives on Food and Hunger. Currently Unscheduled. Staff

Psychology 109A: Health Psychology. Not open to students who have taken Psychology 98. Keefe

Psychology 129: Psychology and the Law. Prerequisite: Psychology 99 or 108 or Psychology 116. C Hahnurrently Unscheduled. Staff

Public Policy Studies 49S: Evolution of US Health Care. Freshman Seminar. Taylor

Public Policy Studies 149: United States Environmental Policy. Consent of instructor required. Cross-listed as Environ 149. Clark

Public Policy Studies 160S: Long-Term Care Policy. Taylor

Public Policy Studies 195S.03* (FOCUS): Health, Science, and Human Rights. Offered periodically. Cook-Deegan

Public Policy Studies 196S.66: Health Genetic Age. Hahn

Public Policy Studies 196.68: US Racial and Health Disparities. Offered periodically. .James

Public Policy Studies 196.84: Health Policy and the Uninsured. Vigdor

Public Policy Studies 251S: Regulation of Vice and Substance Abuse. Prerequisite: Economics 149 or Public Policy Studies 110. Cook

Public Policy Studies 264.01: Poverty and Health. James


Public Policy Studies 264.05: Ethics and Biotechnology Policy. Buchanan

Public Policy Studies 264S.05: Policy Challenges of the New Demography. Doblhammer

Public Policy Studies 264S.30: Health Care Policy in Developing Countries. Offered periodically. Martin-Staple

Public Policy Studies 264.31: Globalization Health. Staff

Public Policy Studies 264S.32: Matters of Life and Death. Currently unscheduled

Public Policy Studies 264.51: Alcohol Policy. Cook

Public Policy Studies 264S.65: Responsible Genomics. Offered periodically. Cook-Deegan

Public Policy Studies 264S.68: Poverty, Inequality and Health. Offered periodically. James

Public Policy Studies 264S.70: Social Policy Implementation. A. Lin

Public Policy Studies 350.01: Comparative Social Policy. Darity

Public Policy Studies 274: Resource and Environmental Policy. Prerequisite: Environment 270L, Public Policy Studies 272, or consent of instructor. Staff

Sociology 112: American Demographics. Currently Unscheduled.

Sociology 123: Social Aspects of Mental Illness. Currently Unscheduled. Staff

Sociology 162: Health & Illness in Society. Currently Unscheduled. Staff

Sociology 163: Aging and Health. Gold

Sociology 227S, D: Medical Sociology. Lin

Women's Studies 108: AIDS-Ethics/Policy/Repre. Rudy

Women's Studies 119: Genetic and Reproductive Technologies. Rudy

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CAPSTONE COURSE (required)
Public Policy Studies 255: Health Policy Analysis. A group project designed for candidates seeking the undergraduate certificate in health policy. Consent of instructor required. Offered every Spring. Registered certificate students are guaranteed a slot in this seminar. Conover