Public Health & Society Major
Program Requirements
- Total Units Required: 34 units
- Grade Requirement: C
Required Courses
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| PUBHLTHSOC 1000 | Foundations in Public Health: Ethics, Policy and Power | 3 |
| PUBHLTHSOC 2000 | Introduction to Public and Global Health | 3 |
| PUBHLTHSOC 3000 | Public Health Theories, Models, and Frameworks | 3 |
| PUBHLTHSOC 3100 | Research Methods in Understanding Health and Society | 3 |
APEX: Advanced Practical Experience in Public Health
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| PUBHLTHSOC 4000 | APEX: Advanced Practical Experience in Public Health Seminar | 1 |
or PUBHLTHSOC 4002 | APEX: Advanced Practical Experience in Public Health Study Abroad Seminar | |
| PUBHLTHSOC 4001 | APEX: Advanced Practical Experience in Public Health Practicum | 3 |
Elective Courses
Students complete 18 credits of elective courses (6 courses) from the lists below. At least two courses (6 credits) must be from the "Social, Cultural, and Historical Analysis of Health, Illness, and Wellness" category:
Social, Cultural, and Historical Analysis of Health, Illness, and Wellness (SCH) Electives
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| AFAS 1175 | Confronting the Past: Transformative Justice in STL and Beyond | 3 |
| AMCS 3755 | Disability, Quality of Life & Community | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3090 | Cultures of Health in Latin America | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3151 | Evolution of the Human Diet | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3105 | Topics in Anthropology: Anthropology of Drugs | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3201 | Gender, Culture, and Madness | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3280 | Anthropology of Infectious Diseases | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3310 | Health, Healing and Ethics: Introduction to Medical Anthropology | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3361 | The American Melting Pot: Migration in the United States | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3602 | Environmental Inequality: Toxicity, Health, and Justice | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3612 | Population and Society | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3621 | Anthropology of Human Birth | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3875 | Pharmaceutical Personhood | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3885 | Global Mental Health | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4003 | Interrogating Health, Race, and Inequalities: Public Health, Mecial Anthropology, and History | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4110 | Pushing Daisies: The Anthropology of Death and Dying | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4134 | The AIDS Epidemic: Inequalities, Ethnography, and Ethics | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4250 | Aging in Cross-Cultural Perspective | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4610 | Queer Medicine: Theories, Methods, Provocations | 3 |
| BIOL 2444 | The Language of Cancer | 3 |
| CLASSICS 3800 | Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine | 3 |
| CLASSICS 4701 | Ancient Greek and Roman Gynecology | 3 |
| ECON 3320 | Health Economics | 3 |
| ELIT 3504 | Literature and Medicine | 3 |
| ENGR 4506 | Engineers in the Community (Engineering, Ethics, Leadership and Conflict Management) | 3 |
| ENST 3310 | Beyond the Evidence | 3 |
| ENST 3540 | Environmental Justice | 3 |
| GENST 2750 | Images of Disability in Film and Literature | 3 |
| GENST 3750 | Disability, Quality of Life & Community | 3 |
| GLOBAL 3006 | Global Health and Language | 3 |
| HISTORY 1151 | Health and Disease in World History | 3 |
| HISTORY 3017 | Humors, Pox and Plague: Medieval and Early Modern Medicine | 3 |
| HISTORY 3715 | Unruly Populations: Biopolitics in 20th-Century Europe | 3 |
| HISTORY 4057 | Advanced Seminar: Medicine, Disease and Empire | 3 |
| HISTORY 4990 | Advanced Seminar: History of the Body | 3 |
| ITAL 4080 | Disease, Madness and Death Italian Style | 3 |
| MEC 3550 | Health Insurance in the US | 3 |
| MEC 3630 | Olin Grand Rounds: The Business and Practice of Medicine | 3 |
| MEDH 3000 | What is Medical Humanities? | 3 |
| PHIL 2060 | Biomedical Ethics | 3 |
| PHIL 3000 | Philosophy of Medicine | 3 |
| PHTPS 6005 | Eliminating Health Disparities* | 3 |
| PHTPS 6011 | Gender, Poverty, and Global Health* | 3 |
| PSYCH 3150 | Introduction to Social Psychology | 3 |
| POLSCI 4271 | Topics in Politics: Trust and Public Health | 3 |
| PSYCH 4270 | Social Gerontology | 3 |
| PUBHLTHSOC 1011 | FYS: Environmental Justice as Public Health | 3 |
| PUBHLTHSOC 3010 | Topics in Public Health & Society: Climate for All | 3 |
| PUBHLTHSOC 3280 | Infectious Disease and Society | 3 |
| PUBHLTHSOC 4011 | Water and Health in the Colonial and Postcolonial World | 3 |
| SOC 2520 | Inequality By Design | 3 |
| SOC 3210 | Fundamentals of Population of Dynamics | 3 |
| SOC 4511 | Sick Society: Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities in the United States | 3 |
| WGSS 3055 | Making Sex and Gender: Understanding the History of the Body | 3 |
| WGSS 3081 | From Hysteria to Hysterectomy; Women's Health Care in America | 3 |
| WGSS 3135 | The Racial and Sexual Politics of Public Health | 3 |
| WGSS 3155 | Gender, Health, and Society | 3 |
| WGSS 3215 | Bodies Out of Bounds: Feminist and Queer Disability Studies | 3 |
| WGSS 3500 | Trans Studies | 3 |
| WGSS 3622 | Women, Health, and Media | 3 |
| WGSS 4115 | Gender, Religion, Medicine and Science | 3 |
| WRITING 3004 | Writing and Medicine | 3 |
The remaining four courses (12 credits) must be from the complete electives list:
Complete Electives List
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| AFAS 1175 | Confronting the Past: Transformative Justice in STL and Beyond | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3070 | Human Variation | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3090 | Cultures of Health in Latin America | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3151 | Evolution of the Human Diet | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3201 | Gender, Culture, and Madness | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3240 | Human Growth and Development | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3275 | Introduction to GIS for Anthropologists | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3280 | Anthropology of Infectious Disease | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3310 | Health, Healing and Ethics: Intro to Medical Anthropology | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3361 | The American Melting Pot: Migration in the United States | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3602 | Environmental Inequality: Toxicity, Health, and Justice | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3610 | Culture and Environment | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3612 | Population and Society | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3618 | Urban Ecological Anthropology | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3621 | Anthropology of Human Birth | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3875 | Pharmaceutical Personhood | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3876 | Darwin and Doctors | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3880 | Multispecies World | 3 |
| ANTHRO 3885 | Global Mental Health: Medical Pluralism Cross-Cultural Care | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4003 | Interrogating Health, Race, and Inequalities: Public Health, Medical Anthropology, and History | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4005 | The Evolutionary and Health Impacts of Human Parasite Infection | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4110 | Pushing Daisies: The Anthropology of Death and Dying | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4123 | Argumentation Through Ethnography | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4134 | The AIDS Epidemic | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4194 | Primate Eco Immunology | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4202 | Anthropological Genetics | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4215 | Anthropology of Food | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4250 | Aging in Cross-Cultural Perspective | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4285 | Environmental Archaeology | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4312 | Environmental Interactions and Human Health | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4323 | Life at the Extremes | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4452 | In the Field | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4481 | Writing Culture | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4581 | Principles of Human Anatomy and Development | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4590 | Human Osteology | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4591 | Human Functional Morphology | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4595 | Developmental Plasticity and Human Health | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4598 | Biomarkers | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4610 | Queer Medicine: Theories, Methods, Provocations | 3 |
| ANTHRO 4803 | Advanced GIS Modeling and Landscape Analysis | 3 |
| BIOL 1210 | Ampersand: The Science of Biotechnology | 3 |
| BIOL 1442 | Ampersand: The Biology of Cancer | 4 |
| BIOL 1443 | Ampersand: The Biology of Cancer 2 | 4 |
| BIOL 2111 | Nutrition | 3 |
| BIOL 2444 | The Language of Cancer | 3 |
| BIOL 3151 | Endocrinology | 3 |
| BIOL 3172 | Biology for Climate Change Solutions | 3 |
| BIOL 3240 | Human Genetics | 3 |
| BIOL 3280 | Principles of Human Physiology | 4 |
| BIOL 3422 | Genes, Brains, Behavior | 3 |
| BIOL 3481 | Parasitology | 3 |
| BIOL 4027 | Viruses and the Diseases they Cause | 3 |
| BIOL 4195 | Disease Ecology | 4 |
| BIOL 4240 | Immunology | 4 |
| BIOL 4242 | Virology | 3 |
| BIOL 4310 | Biology of Aging | 3 |
| BIOL 4492 | Infectious Diseases: History, Pathology, and Prevention | 3 |
| BIOL 4715 | Basic Cancer Biology | 3 |
| BIOL 4716 | Advanced Cancer Biology | 3 |
| CLASSICS 3800 | Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine | 3 |
| CLASSICS 4701 | Ancient Greek and Roman Gynecology | 3 |
| ECON 3320 | Health Economics | 3 |
| ECON 3350 | Environmental Policy | 3 |
| ELIT 3504 | Literature and Medicine | 3 |
| ENGR 4506 | Engineers in the Community (Engineering, Ethics, Leadership and Conflict Management) | 3 |
| ENST 3310 | Beyond the Evidence | 3 |
| ENST 3540 | Environmental Justice | 3 |
| ENST 3710 | Applications in GIS | 3 |
| ENST 4710 | Advanced GIS | 3 |
| ENST 4995 | Foundations of Research: Building a Literature Review | 3 |
| ENST 5730 | Introduction to Spatial Epidemiology | 3 |
| FRENCH 2140 | Medical French | 3 |
| FRENCH 3015 | Advanced Medical French | 3 |
| GENST 2750 | Images of Disability in Film and Literature | 3 |
| GENST 3750 | Disability, Quality of Life & Community Responsibility | 3 |
| GLOBAL 3006 | Global Health and Language | 3 |
| HISTORY 1151 | Health and Disease in World History | 3 |
| HISTORY 3017 | Humors Pox and Plague | 3 |
| HISTORY 3715 | Unruly Populations: Biopolitics in 20th Century Europe | 3 |
| HISTORY 4057 | Advanced Seminar: Medicine, Disease and Empire | 3 |
| HISTORY 4990 | Advanced Seminar: History of the Body | 3 |
| ITAL 4080 | Disease, Madness and Death Italian Style | 3 |
| MEC 3210 | Health Economics and Policy | 3 |
| MEC 3220 | Healthcare Management | 3 |
| MEC 3550 | Health Insurance in the US | 1.5 |
| MEC 3630 | Olin Grand Rounds: The Business and Practice of Medicine | 3 |
| MEDH 3000 | What is Medical Humanities? | 3 |
| PHCC 6002 | Global Health | 3 |
| PHCC 6004 | Health Economics | 3 |
| PHCC 6007 | Fundamentals of Mental Health for Public Health | 3 |
| PHEL 6003 | Translating Epidemiology into Policy | 3 |
| PHFN 5000 | Epidemiology | 3 |
| PHFN 5001 | Biostatistics | 3 |
| PHFN 5002 | Environmental Health | 3 |
| PHIL 2060 | Biomedical Ethics | 3 |
| PHIL 3000 | Philosophy of Medicine | 3 |
| POLSCI 2400 | Data Science for Politics | 3 |
| PSYCH 3000 | Introduction to Psychological Statistics | 3 |
| PSYCH 3050 | Health Psychology | 3 |
| PSYCH 3150 | Introduction to Social Psychology | 3 |
| PSYCH 3210 | Developmental Psychology | 3 |
| PSYCH 3250 | Psychology of Adolescence | 3 |
| PSYCH 3260 | Introduction to Psychology of Aging | 3 |
| PSYCH 3450 | Genes, Environment and Human Behavior | 3 |
| PSYCH 3540 | Psychopathology and Mental Health | 3 |
| PSYCH 3866 | Community Psychology | 3 |
| PSYCH 3890 | Advanced Psychological Statistics: The General Linear Model and Beyond | 3 |
| PSYCH 4175 | Applied Statistical Analysis with R | 3 |
| PSYCH 4270 | Social Gerontology | 3 |
| PSYCH 4557 | Biopsychosocial Aspects of Eating Disorders and Obesity | 3 |
| PSYCH 4765 | Inside the Disordered Brain | 3 |
| PUBHLTHSOC 3280 | Infectious Disease and Society | 3 |
| PUBHLTHSOC 4011 | Water and Health in the Colonial and Postcolonial World | 3 |
| SDS 3030 | Statistics for Data Science | 3 |
| SDS 3110 | Biostatistics | 3 |
| SDS 3111 | Applied Linear Modeling | 3 |
| SDS 4030 | Statistics for Data Science II | 3 |
| SDS 4130 | Linear Statistical Models | 3 |
| SDS 4140 | Advanced Linear Statistical Models | 3 |
| SOC 2520 | Inequality By Design | 3 |
| SOC 3030 | Introduction to Research Methods | 3 |
| SOC 3040 | Statistics for Sociology | 3 |
| SOC 3210 | Fundamentals of Population of Dynamics | 3 |
| SOC 3511 | Sick Society: Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities in the United States | 3 |
| SPAN 3530 | Medical Spanish | 3 |
| WGSS 3055 | Making Sex and Gender | 3 |
| WGSS 3081 | From Hysteria to Hysterectomy | 3 |
| WGSS 3135 | The Racial and Sexual Politics of Public Health | 3 |
| WGSS 3155 | Gender, Health, and Society | 3 |
| WGSS 3215 | Bodies Out of Bounds: Feminist and Queer Disability Studies | 3 |
| WGSS 3500 | Trans Studies | 3 |
| WGSS 3622 | Women, Health, and Media | 3 |
| WGSS 4115 | Gender, Religion, Medicine and Science | 3 |
| WRITING 3004 | Writing and Medicine | 3 |
Additionally, 15 elective credits must be at the advanced level (3000/4000), 6 units of which must be at the 4000 level.
Note: Graduate-level elective courses at the Brown School and School of Public Health have limited seat capacity. Instructor permission is required, and graduate students have priority.
Additional Information
- All courses must be letter-graded and completed with a grade of C or better.
- PUBHLTHSOC 1000, PUBHLTHSOC 2000, and PUBHLTHSOC 3000 have no prerequisites and need not be taken sequentially.
- PUBHLTHSOC 3100 has a prerequisite or corequisite of PUBHLTHSOC 2000.
- PUBHLTHSOC APEX courses may only be taken by PH&S majors, and the following rules apply:
- It is strongly recommended that PUBHLTHSOC 3100 be completed prior to enrolling in PUBHLTHSOC 4000, PUBHLTHSOC 4001, or PUBHLTHSOC 4002.
- PUBHLTHSOC 4000 and PUBHLTHSOC 4001 must be taken concurrently.
- Students choosing to complete an approved study abroad program for the practicum portion of their APEX course will enroll in a supervised research course at the home institution or through SIT or equivalent; 3 credits from that supervised course will be transferred back as the practicum portion of the APEX course and counted as equivalent to PUBHLTHSOC 4001.
- Study abroad students will enroll in the 1-credit seminar portion of the APEX course (PUBHLTHSOC 4002) in the semester following their practicum.
Study Abroad
Two preapproved courses (6 credits) from an approved study abroad program may be counted toward the elective credit requirements for the major (neither course may double-count for APEX).
Transfer Credit
Two approved courses (6 credits) from another institution may be counted as transfer credit toward the elective credit requirements for the major.
Contact Info
| Contact: | Kirsten Jacobsen |
| Email: | kjacobsen@wustl.edu |
| Website: | https://publichealthandsociety.wustl.edu/ |