Program Requirements

  • Total Units Required: 18
  • Grade Requirement: All courses must be letter-graded and completed with a grade of C or higher. 

Required Courses

PUBHLTHSOC 1000Foundations in Public Health3
PUBHLTHSOC 2000Introduction to Global Health3
PUBHLTHSOC 3000Public Health Theories, Models, and Frameworks3
Total Units9

Elective Courses

  • Students pursuing a Public Health & Society minor must complete three elective courses for a total of 9 credits. At least 6 elective credits must be taken at the 3000 level or above. 
    • At least one elective course (3 credits) must be selected from the Social, Cultural, and Historical Analysis of Health, Illness, and Wellness (SCH) Electives List.
    • The remaining two electives (6 credits) must be selected from the Complete Electives List.

Social, Cultural, and Historical Analysis of Health, Illness, and Wellness (SCH) Electives List

AFAS 1175Confronting the Past: Transformative Justice in St. Louis and Beyond3
AFAS 2160Free the Land: Black Lives and Environmental (In)justice3
AFAS 3304Race and Global Health Inequities: Social determinants and Intersectionality3
ANTHRO 3151Evolution of the Human Diet3
ANTHRO 3201Gender, Culture, and Madness3
ANTHRO 3280Anthropology of Infectious Diseases3
ANTHRO 3310Health, Healing and Ethics: Introduction to Medical Anthropology3
ANTHRO 3320Disability Anthropology3
ANTHRO 3361The American Melting Pot: Migration in the United States3
ANTHRO 3602Environmental Inequality: Toxicity, Health, and Justice3
ANTHRO 3612Population and Society3
ANTHRO 3621Anthropology of Human Birth3
ANTHRO 3875Pharmaceutical Personhood3
ANTHRO 3885Global Mental Health3
ANTHRO 4110Pushing Daisies: The Anthropology of Death and Dying3
ANTHRO 4134The AIDS Epidemic: Inequalities, Ethnography, and Ethics3
ANTHRO 4250Aging in Cross-Cultural Perspective3
ANTHRO 4610Queer Medicine: Theories, Methods, Provocations3
BIOL 2444The Language of Cancer3
CLASSICS 3800Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine3
CLASSICS 4701Ancient Greek and Roman Gynecology3
ECON 3320Health Economics3
ELIT 3504Literature and Medicine3
ENGR 4506Engineers in the Community (Engineering Ethics, Leadership and Conflict Management)3
ENST 1540Beyond Boundaries: Environmental Racism and the Health of Everyone3
ENST 3310Beyond the Evidence3
ENST 3540Environmental Justice3
GENST 2750Images of Disability in Film and Literature3
GENST 3750Disability, Quality of Life & Community Responsibility3
GLOBAL 3006Global Health and Language3
HISTORY 1151Health and Disease in World History3
HISTORY 3017Humors, Pox and Plague: Medieval and Early Modern Medicine3
HISTORY 4057Advanced Seminar: Medicine, Disease and Empire3
HISTORY 4889Advanced Seminar: History of the Body3
ITAL 4080Disease, Madness, and Death Italian Style3
ITAL 4100Mamma Mia! Motherhood, Maternity, & the Female Reproductive Body in the Italian Cultural Context3
LATAM 3160Cultures of Health in Latin America3
MEC 3550Health Insurance in the US1.5
MEC 3630Olin Grand Rounds: The Business and Practice of Medicine3
MEDH 3000What is Medical Humanities?3
PHEL 6014Bullet Related Injury and Policy in St. Louis and the United States 3
PHIL 2060Biomedical Ethics3
PHIL 3000Philosophy of Medicine3
PHTPS 6005Eliminating Health Disparities3
PHTPS 6011Gender, Poverty & Global Health3
PSYCH 3150Introduction to Social Psychology3
PSYCH 4270Social Gerontology3
PUBHLTHSOC 1011Environmental Justice as Public Health3
PUBHLTHSOC 3210History of Public Health3
PUBHLTHSOC 3280Infectious Disease and Society3
PUBHLTHSOC 4011Water and Health in the Colonial and Postcolonial World3
PUBHLTHSOC 4012Global Hunger, Malnutrition , and Obesity3
SOC 2050Inequality By Design: Understanding Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities3
SOC 3210Foundations of Population Dynamics3
SOC 3211Medical Sociology3
SOC 4111Sick Society: Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities in the United States3
WGSS 3055Making Sex and Gender: Understanding the History of the Body3
WGSS 3081From Hysteria to Hysterectomy: Women's Health Care in America3
WGSS 3135The Racial and Sexual Politics of Public Health3
WGSS 3155Gender, Health, and Society3
WGSS 3215Bodies Out of Bounds: Feminist and Queer Disability Studies3
WGSS 3500Trans Studies3
WGSS 3622Women, Health, and Media3
WGSS 4115Gender, Religion, Medicine and Science3
WRITING 3004Writing and Medicine3

Complete Electives List

AFAS 1175Confronting the Past: Transformative Justice in St. Louis and Beyond3
AFAS 2160Free the Land: Black Lives and Environmental (In)justice3
AFAS 3304Race and Global Health Inequities: Social determinants and Intersectionality3
ANTHRO 3070Human Variation3
ANTHRO 3151Evolution of the Human Diet3
ANTHRO 3201Gender, Culture, and Madness3
ANTHRO 3240Human Growth and Development3
ANTHRO 3275Introduction to GIS for Anthropologists3
ANTHRO 3280Anthropology of Infectious Diseases3
ANTHRO 3320Disability Anthropology3
ANTHRO 3310Health, Healing and Ethics: Introduction to Medical Anthropology3
ANTHRO 3361The American Melting Pot: Migration in the United States3
ANTHRO 3602Environmental Inequality: Toxicity, Health, and Justice3
ANTHRO 3610Culture and Environment3
ANTHRO 3612Population and Society3
ANTHRO 3618Urban Ecological Anthropology3
ANTHRO 3621Anthropology of Human Birth3
ANTHRO 3875Pharmaceutical Personhood3
ANTHRO 3876Darwin and Doctors: Evolutionary Medicine and Health3
ANTHRO 3880Multispecies Worlds: Animals, Global Health, and Environment3
ANTHRO 3885Global Mental Health3
ANTHRO 4005The Evolutionary and Health Impacts of Human Parasite Infection3
ANTHRO 4100Humanitarian Interventions3
ANTHRO 4110Pushing Daisies: The Anthropology of Death and Dying3
ANTHRO 4123Argumentation Through Ethnography3
ANTHRO 4134The AIDS Epidemic: Inequalities, Ethnography, and Ethics3
ANTHRO 4194Primate Ecoimmunology3
ANTHRO 4202Anthropological Genetics3
ANTHRO 4215Anthropology of Food3
ANTHRO 4250Aging in Cross-Cultural Perspective3
ANTHRO 4285Environmental Archaeology3
ANTHRO 4312Environmental Interactions and Human Health3
ANTHRO 4323Life At the Extremes3
ANTHRO 4452In the Field: Ethnographic and Qualitative Methods3
ANTHRO 4481Writing Culture3
ANTHRO 4581Principles of Human Anatomy and Development3
ANTHRO 4590Human Osteology3
ANTHRO 4591Human Functional Morphology3
ANTHRO 4595Developmental Plasticity and Human Health3
ANTHRO 4598Biomarkers: Measuring Population Health, Reproductive, and Social Endocrinology3
ANTHRO 4610Queer Medicine: Theories, Methods, Provocations3
ANTHRO 4803Advanced GIS Modeling and Landscape Analysis3
BEYOND 1003Beyond Boundaries: When I'm 64: Preparing Ourselves and Society for a Good Long Life3
BIOL 1210Ampersand: The Science of Biotechnology3
BIOL 1442Ampersand: The Biology of Cancer Part I4
BIOL 1443Ampersand: The Biology of Cancer Part II4
BIOL 2444The Language of Cancer3
BIOL 3151Endocrinology3
BIOL 3172Biology for Climate Change Solutions3
BIOL 3240Human Genetics3
BIOL 3280Principles in Human Physiology4
BIOL 3422Genes, Brains, and Behavior3
BIOL 3481Parasitology3
BIOL 4027Viruses and the Diseases They Cause3
BIOL 4195Disease Ecology4
BIOL 4240Immunology4
BIOL 4242Virology3
BIOL 4310Biology of Aging3
BIOL 4492Infectious Diseases: History, Pathology, and Prevention3
BIOL 4715Basic Cancer Biology3
BIOL 4716Advanced Cancer Biology3
CLASSICS 3800Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine3
CLASSICS 4701Ancient Greek and Roman Gynecology3
ECON 3320Health Economics3
ECON 3350Environmental Policy3
ELIT 3504Literature and Medicine3
ENGR 4506Engineers in the Community (Engineering Ethics, Leadership and Conflict Management)3
ENST 1540Beyond Boundaries: Environmental Racism and the Health of Everyone3
ENST 2220One Health: Linking the Health of Humans, Animals, and the Environment3
ENST 3060Community Based Conservation: Madagascar Sustainability Initiative3
ENST 3310Beyond the Evidence3
ENST 3540Environmental Justice3
ENST 3710Introduction in GIS3
ENST 4710Advanced GIS3
ENST 4350Foundations of Research: Building a Literature Review3
ENST 4730Introduction to Spatial Epidemiology3
FRENCH 2140Medical French3
GENST 2750Images of Disability in Film and Literature3
GENST 3750Disability, Quality of Life & Community Responsibility3
GLOBAL 3006Global Health and Language3
HISTORY 1151Health and Disease in World History3
HISTORY 3017Humors, Pox and Plague: Medieval and Early Modern Medicine3
HISTORY 4057Advanced Seminar: Medicine, Disease and Empire3
HISTORY 4889Advanced Seminar: History of the Body3
ITAL 4080Disease, Madness, and Death Italian Style3
ITAL 4100Mamma Mia! Motherhood, Maternity, & the Female Reproductive Body in the Italian Cultural Context3
LATAM 3160Cultures of Health in Latin America3
MEC 3210Health Economics and Policy3
MEC 3220Health Care Management3
MEC 3550Health Insurance in the US1.5
MEC 3630Olin Grand Rounds: The Business and Practice of Medicine3
MEC 4660Health Analytics3
MEDH 3000What is Medical Humanities?3
PHCC 6002Global Health3
PHCC 6004Health Economics3
PHCC 6007Fundamentals of Mental Health for Public Health3
PHEL 6003Translating Epidemiology Into Policy3
PHEL 6014Bullet Related Injury and Policy in St. Louis and the United States 3
PHFN 5000Epidemiology3
PHFN 5001Biostatistics3
PHFN 5002Environmental Health3
PHIL 2060Biomedical Ethics3
PHIL 3000Philosophy of Medicine3
PHTPS 6001Global Mental Health3
PHTPS 6005Eliminating Health Disparities3
PHTPS 6006Global Nutrition and the Environment: Foods Systems in a Changing World3
PHTPS 6008Climate Change & Public Health3
PHTPS 6009From the inside-Out: Public Health & The Built Environment3
PHTPS 6011Gender, Poverty & Global Health3
PHTPS 6012Global Reproductive Health3
PHTPS 6014Climate Crisis: Understanding Complexity & Advocacy for Global Health Professionals3
POLSCI 2400Data Science for Politics3
PSYCH 3000Introduction to Psychological Statistics3
PSYCH 3050Health Psychology3
PSYCH 3150Introduction to Social Psychology3
PSYCH 3210Developmental Psychology3
PSYCH 3250Psychology of Adolescence3
PSYCH 3260Introduction to the Psychology of Aging3
PSYCH 3450Genes, Environment, and Human Behavior3
PSYCH 3540Psychopathology and Mental Health3
PSYCH 3866Community Psychology3
PSYCH 3890Advanced Psychological Statistics: The General Linear Model and Beyond3
PSYCH 4175Applied Statistical Analysis With R3
PSYCH 4270Social Gerontology3
PSYCH 4557Biopsychosocial Aspects of Eating Disorders and Obesity3
PSYCH 4765Inside the Disordered Brain: Biological Bases of the Major Mental Disorders3
PUBHLTHSOC 1010Topics in Public Health & Society3
PUBHLTHSOC 1011Environmental Justice as Public Health3
PUBHLTHSOC 3010Topics in Public Health & Society3
PUBHLTHSOC 3011Food, Culture, and Public Health3
PUBHLTHSOC 3020Topics in Public Health & Society3
PUBHLTHSOC 3100Research Methods in Understanding Health and Society3
PUBHLTHSOC 3280Infectious Disease and Society3
PUBHLTHSOC 4010Topics in Public Health & Society3
PUBHLTHSOC 4011Water and Health in the Colonial and Postcolonial World3
PUBHLTHSOC 4012Global Hunger, Malnutrition , and Obesity3
PUBHLTHSOC 4020Topics in Public Health & Society3
PUBHLTHSOC 4120Public Health and Medicine: Health Decision Making3
PUBHLTHSOC 3210History of Public Health3
PUBHLTHSOC 3700Introduction to Epidemiology3
PUBHLTHSOC 3900Intermediate Independent Study1-3
PUBHLTHSOC 4030Topics in Public Health & Society3
PUBHLTHSOC 4900Advanced Independent Study1-3
SDS 3030Statistics for Data Science I3
SDS 3110Biostatistics3
SDS 3111Applied Linear Modeling3
SDS 4030Statistics for Data Science II3
SDS 4130Linear Statistical Models3
SDS 4140Advanced Linear Statistical Models3
SOC 2050Inequality By Design: Understanding Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities3
SOC 3030Introduction to Research Methods3
SOC 3040Statistics for Sociology3
SOC 3210Foundations of Population Dynamics3
SOC 4111Sick Society: Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities in the United States3
SOC 3211Medical Sociology3
SPAN 3530Medical Spanish3
WGSS 3055Making Sex and Gender: Understanding the History of the Body3
WGSS 3081From Hysteria to Hysterectomy: Women's Health Care in America3
WGSS 3135The Racial and Sexual Politics of Public Health3
WGSS 3155Gender, Health, and Society3
WGSS 3215Bodies Out of Bounds: Feminist and Queer Disability Studies3
WGSS 3500Trans Studies3
WGSS 3622Women, Health, and Media3
WGSS 4115Gender, Religion, Medicine and Science3
WRITING 3004Writing and Medicine3

Note: Graduate-level elective courses at the Brown School and the School of Public Health have limited seat capacity. Instructor permission is required to take these courses, and graduate students have priority.

Additional Information

Study Abroad

  • One preapproved course (3 credits) from an approved study abroad program may be counted toward the elective credit requirements for the minor.

Transfer Credit 

  • One approved course (3 credits) from another institution may be counted as transfer credit toward the elective credit requirements for the minor.

Contact Info

Contact:Kirsten Jacobsen
Email:kjacobsen@wustl.edu
Website:https://publichealthandsociety.wustl.edu/