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PUBH 3202 - What is Public Health?

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Overview of public health: what it is, its origins, evolution, how it is structured/administered in the U.S. Mission, concepts, principles, and practices of population-based public health. Case studies. Career opportunities.

PUBH 3001 - Personal and Community Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 3001/PubH 3004/PubH 3005
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Fundamental principles of health conservation and disease prevention.

PUBH 3351 - Epidemiology: People, Places, and Disease

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

How diseases are distributed among us. Epidemiology terminology, methods, critical thinking, and analysis. Intended for students interested in a health science career or in a career that may need to evaluate epidemiologic evidence such as health journalism or public policy or litigation. prereq: Undergrad statistics course is recommended

PUBH 3106 - Making Sense of Health Studies

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 3106/PubH 6106
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

How to critically evaluate health news (and the health research reports on which they are based) to make good, well informed decisions about your health and well-being.

ANTH 3306W - Medical Anthropology (GP, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Relations among human affliction, health, healing, social institutions, and cultural representations cross-culturally. Human health/affliction. Medical knowledge/power. Healing. Body, international health, colonialism, and emerging diseases. Reproduction. Aging in a range of geographical settings. prereq: 1003 or 1005 or entry level soc sci course recommended

ANTH 4075 - Cultural Histories of Healing (SOCS, GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

Introduction to historically informed anthropology of healing practice. Shift to biologically based medicine in Europe, colonialist dissemination of biomedicine, political/cultural collisions between biomedicine and "ethnomedicines," traffic of healing practices in a transnationalist world.

CSCL 3351W - The Body and the Politics of Representation (HIS, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Western representation of the human body, 1500 to present. Body's appearance as a site and sight for production of social and cultural difference (race, ethnicity, class, gender). Visual arts, literature, music, medical treatises, courtesy literature, erotica. (previously 3458W)

CNRC 3535 - Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient World (AH)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CNES 3535/CNES 5535/RelS 3535/
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors related to death and the afterlife found in the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Literature, funerary art/epitaphs. Archaeological evidence for burial practices and care of dead.

GEOG 3401W - Geography of Environmental Systems and Global Change (ENV, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Geog 3401W/5401W
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Geographic patterns, dynamics, and interactions of atmospheric, hydrospheric, geomorphic, pedologic, and biologic systems as context for human population, development, and resource use patterns.

GEOG 3411W - Geography of Health and Health Care (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Application of human ecology, spatial analysis, political economy, and other geographical approaches to analyze problems of health and health care. Topics include distribution and diffusion of disease; impact of environmental, demographic, and social change on health; distribution, accessibility, and utilization of health practitioners and facilities.

GWSS 3203W - Blood, Bodies and Science (TS, SOCS, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

This course examines the contemporary politics of health and medicine from a critical race theory, disability-oriented, and feminist/queer/trans perspective. Who is understood to be deserving of health and medical care? Who should decide how to govern the provision of care? Who, if anyone should profit from life-saving medical treatment or medicines? How did we come to have the health system we have now? How have Black, Indigenous, immigrant, and people of color communities fought for access to equitable health care in the context of the racial history of medicine and health? Struggles for justice and equity in health and medicine are integrally related to the question of how society treats people who are in need of care. Topics include the history of DIY health movements; trans health care bans; the science and history of pandemics, including Covid and HIV; the history of health insurance; struggles for global equity in vaccines and pharmaceuticals; disability; reproductive justice movements; and the history of eugenics.

JOUR 5541 - Mass Communication and Public Health

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Jour 5541/PubH 6074
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course provides an overview of theory and research that lies at the intersection of mass communication and public health. We examine the potential for media exposure to influence public health outcomes, both as a product of people's everyday interactions with media and the strategic use of media messages to accomplish public health goals. To this end, we will explore large-scale public health campaigns in the context of tobacco, obesity, and cancer screening. We also will explore news media coverage of controversial health issues, such as the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, and health information in entertainment media, such as smoking in movies. This course seeks to understand whether media messages have had intended and/or unintended effects on public attitudes and behavior. Although our focus is on mass media, interpersonal, medical, and digital media sources will be considered as well. prereq: JOUR 3005 or JOUR 3757 or Mass Communication grad

JOUR 5543 - Programs for Social Good: Design and Evaluation

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Despite the amount of money spent on (and the faith placed in) campaigns and other programs for social good, we often cannot answer basic questions about how these programs worked and the impact they had. There are methodological, programmatic, practical, and political reasons for this?all of which we will address in this course. In so doing, we will identify the key components of program design and evaluation, drawing on examples from domains including the environment, public health, and social justice. The overarching goal of this course is to give students the skills they need to understand and assess the effectiveness of campaigns and other programs for social good, whether as consumers or producers of such content. prereq: [JOUR 3004 or 3004H], JOUR 3201, any 32xx skills course, Strat Comm major

PHIL 3305 - Medical Ethics

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Moral problems confronting physicians, patients, and others concerned with medical treatment, research, and public health policy. Topics include abortion, living wills, euthanasia, genetic engineering, informed consent, proxy decision-making, and allocation of medical resources.

PSY 3206 - Introduction to Health Psychology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Madr 3206/Psy 3206
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Theories/research in health psychology. Bi-directional relationships between psychological factors and physical health. Stress/coping, adjustment to chronic illness. Psychological factors in etiology/course of disease. Health behavior change. prereq: 1001

PSY 5205 - Applied Social Psychology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

Applications of social psychology research/theory to domains such as physical/mental health, education, the media, desegregation, the legal system, energy conservation, public policy. prereq: 3201 or grad student or instr consent

SOC 3501 - Sociology of Families (SOCS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Fall Odd, Spring Even Year

Family has long been a significant experience in human societies; much of what we understand ourselves to be, arises in family life. But family also varies widely in composition across time and place. We will learn how sociologists study and understand families theoretically, as social institutions, as well as sites and sources of social problems. prereq: 1001 recommended; soc majors/minors must register A-F

SOC 4246 - Sociology of Health and Illness

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

This course is an introduction to the importance of health and illness in people�s lives, how social structures impact who gets sick, how they are treated, and how the delivery of health care is organized. By the end of the course you will be familiar with the major issues in the sociology of health and illness, and understand that health and illness are not just biological processes, but profoundly shaped by the organization of society. prereq: One sociology course recommended; soph or above; soc majors/minors must register A-F

GEOG 3379 - Environment and Development in the Third World (SOCS, ENV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Geog 3379/GloS 3303
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Inequality in the form of extreme wealth and poverty in our world are major causes of environmental degradation. In addition, development failure as well as certain forms of economic growth always led to environment disasters. This course examines how our world?s economic and political systems and the livelihoods they engender have produced catastrophic local and global environmental conditions. Beyond this, the course explores alternative approaches of achieving sustainable environment and equitable development. prereq: Soph or jr or sr

GEOG 3381W - Population in an Interacting World (SOCS, GP, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Geog 3381W/GLOS 3701W
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Comparative analysis and explanation of trends in fertility, mortality, internal and international migration in different parts of the world; world population problems; population policies; theories of population growth; impact of population growth on food supply and the environment.

GLOS 3613W - Stuffed and Starved: The Politics of Eating (SOCS, GP, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GloS 3613W/GloS 3613V/Soc 3613
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This course takes a cross-cultural, historical, and transnational perspective to the study of the global food system. Themes explored include: different cultural and social meanings attached to food; social class and consumption; the global food economy; global food chains; work in the food sector; the alternative food movement; food justice; environmental consequences of food production.

SOC 3613W - Stuffed and Starved: The Politics of Eating (SOCS, GP, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GloS 3613W/GloS 3613V/Soc 3613
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This course takes a cross-cultural, historical, and transnational perspective to the study of the global food system. Themes explored include: different cultural and social meanings attached to food; social class and consumption; the global food economy; global food chains; work in the food sector; the alternative food movement; food justice; environmental consequences of food production. prereq: Soc majors/minors must register A-F

SOC 3511 - World Population Problems (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Soc 3511/Soc 3511H
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This class is an introduction to the contemporary issues that accompany such dramatic population change, including fertility change, disease experiences, migration as opportunity and challenge and human-environment conflict. Further, we will examine the roles of global organizations, national governments, and culture in shaping and reshaping populations. prereq: [SOC 1001] recommended, Sociology majors/minors must register A-F

SOC 3511H - Honors: World Population Problems (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Soc 3511/Soc 3511H
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This class is an introduction to the contemporary issues that accompany such dramatic population change, including fertility change, disease experiences, migration as opportunity and challenge and human-environment conflict. Further, we will examine the roles of global organizations, national governments, and culture in shaping and reshaping populations. Additional special assignments will be discussed with honors participants who seek to earn honors credit toward the end of our first class session. Students will also be expected to meet as a group and individually with the professor four times during the course semester. Examples of additional requirements may include: � Sign up and prepare 3-4 discussion questions in advance of at least one class session. � Work with professor and TA on other small leadership tasks (class discussion, paper exchange, tour). � Write two brief (1-page) reflection papers on current news, or a two-page critique of a class reading � Attend a presentation, workshop, or seminar on a related topic for this class and write a 2-page maximum reflective paper. � Interview a current Sociology graduate student and present briefly in class or write a reflective piece, not more than 2 pages in length, to be submitted to the Professor. prereq: [SOC 1001] recommended, Sociology majors/minors must register A-F

GLOS 3681 - Gender and the Family in the Islamic World

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GloS 3681/GWSS 3681/RelS 3716/
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

This course explores the experiences of Muslim women and Muslim families from a historical and comparative perspective. Expanding the discussion on Muslim women's lives and experiences beyond the Middle East, by also centralizing on the experiences of Muslim women and families outside of this geographical area highlights the complex and diverse everyday experiences of Muslim women around the world. This wider lens exposes the limitations intrinsic in the stereotypical representation of Muslims in general and Muslim women in particular. We will explore the intricate web of gender and family power relations, and how these are contested and negotiated in these societies. Some of the themes the course explores include the debates on Muslim women and colonial representations, sexual politics, family, education and health, women and paid work, gender and human rights, and Islamic feminisms debates. prereq: At least soph; 1001 recommended

GWSS 3681 - Gender and the Family in the Islamic World

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GloS 3681/GWSS 3681/RelS 3716/
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

This course explores the experiences of Muslim women and Muslim families from a historical and comparative perspective. Expanding the discussion on Muslim women's lives and experiences beyond the Middle East, by also centralizing on the experiences of Muslim women and families outside of this geographical area highlights the complex and diverse everyday experiences of Muslim women around the world. This wider lens exposes the limitations intrinsic in the stereotypical representation of Muslims in general and Muslim women in particular. We will explore the intricate web of gender and family power relations, and how these are contested and negotiated in these societies. Some of the themes the course explores include the debates on Muslim women and colonial representations, sexual politics, family, education and health, women and paid work, gender and human rights, and Islamic feminisms debates. prereq: At least soph; 1001 recommended

SOC 3681 - Gender and the Family in the Islamic World

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GloS 3681/GWSS 3681/RelS 3716/
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

This course explores the experiences of Muslim women and Muslim families from a historical and comparative perspective. Expanding the discussion on Muslim women's lives and experiences beyond the Middle East, by also centralizing on the experiences of Muslim women and families outside of this geographical area highlights the complex and diverse everyday experiences of Muslim women around the world. This wider lens exposes the limitations intrinsic in the stereotypical representation of Muslims in general and Muslim women in particular. We will explore the intricate web of gender and family power relations, and how these are contested and negotiated in these societies. Some of the themes the course explores include the debates on Muslim women and colonial representations, sexual politics, family, education and health, women and paid work, gender and human rights, and Islamic feminisms debates. prereq: At least soph; 1001 recommended

AAS 4231 - Color of Public Policy: African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans & Chicanos in the U.S.

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 4231/Afro 4231/AmIn 4231/C
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Structural or institutional conditions through which people of color have been marginalized in public policy. Critical evaluation of social theory in addressing the problem of contemporary communities of color in the United States.

AFRO 4231 - Color of Public Policy: African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans & Chicanos in the U.S.

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 4231/Afro 4231/AmIn 4231/C
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Examination of structural or institutional conditions through which people of color have been marginalized in public policy. Critical evaluation of social theory in addressing the problem of contemporary communities of color in the United States.

AMIN 4231 - Color of Public Policy: African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, & Chicanos in the U.S.

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 4231/Afro 4231/AmIn 4231/C
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Structural or institutional conditions through which people of color have been marginalized in public policy. Critical evaluation of social theory in addressing the problem of contemporary communities of color in the United States.

CHIC 4231 - Color of Public Policy: African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans & Chicanos in the U.S.

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AAS 4231/Afro 4231/AmIn 4231/C
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Examination of the structural or institutional conditions through which people of color have been marginalized in public policy. Critical evaluation of social theory in addressing the problem of contemporary communities of color in the United States.

CSCL 3350W - Sexuality and Culture (DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CSCL 3350W/GLBT 3456W
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.

GLBT 3456W - Sexuality and Culture (DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CSCL 3350W/GLBT 3456W
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.

PUBH 3003 - Fundamentals of Alcohol and Drug Abuse

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 3003/PubH 3004/PubH 3005/
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Scientific, sociocultural, and attitudinal aspects of alcohol and other drug abuse problems. Emphasizes incidence, high-risk populations, prevention, and intervention.

PUBH 3011 - Public Health Approaches to HIV/AIDS

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 3011/6011
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. Community responses to HIV/AIDS in Minnesota. Medical, social service, and political responses.

HSM 3040 - Dying and Death in Contemporary Society: Implications for Intervention

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	HSM 3040/PubH 5040/6040
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course provides basic background information on concepts, attitudes, ethics, and lifestyle management related to dying, death, grief, and bereavement. The emphasis is on preparing teachers, community health professionals, and other helping professionals for educational activities in this area. Prerequisite: sophomore

PUBH 3102 - Issues in Environmental and Occupational Health

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course is an introduction to the field of Environmental and Occupational Health (EOH), the impact of environmental and occupational hazards on individuals and communities, the approaches taken to address EOH issues at the community level,and the challenges that must be overcome to ensure success in dealing with EOH issues. Students will review scientific literature to learn about interventions for environmental health problems, and practice identifying environmental health problems and interventions in their communities. The focus of this course will be on the interaction between humans and the environment and how this interaction affects human health. Online Course.

PUBH 3104 - Environmental Health Effects: Introduction to Toxicology

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 3104/PubH 6104
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course is designed for students who are interested in public health and environmental issues. Toxicology is a multidisciplinary experimental science that combines chemistry, biology, and physiology to determine whether substances we are exposed to in the environment are likely to harm our health. Students will learn how toxicology is used to understand how humans respond to chemicals in the environment. In addition, students will learn how toxicology is applied to protect human health through safety evaluation. prereq: Previous coursework in biology and chemistry; biochemistry is recommended. Ability to analyze data, and understand the basic functions of DNA, enzymes and other proteins, and lipids.

PUBH 3415 - Introduction to Clinical Trials - Online

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 3415/PubH 7415
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

Phases of trials, hypotheses/endpoints, choice of intervention/control, ethical considerations, blinding/randomization, data collection/monitoring, sample size, analysis strategies. Protocol development/implementation, interactive discussion boards. prereq: PUBH 3415 enrollees must have one semester of undergraduate level introductory biostatistics or statistics (STAT 3011, EPSY 3264, SOC 3811, BIOL 3272, or instr consent) AND junior or senior standing or instr consent.

PUBH 3801 - Health Economics and Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ApEc 3801/PubH 3801
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Economics of health care markets. Problems faced by consumers/health care services. Builds on principles of supply/demand for health, health care/insurance, and role of government. Theoretical/empirical models/applications. prereq: Course on microeconomics, course on basic statistics

PUBH 3954 - Personal, Social, and Environmental Influences on the Weight-Related Health of Pediatric Populations

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Public health strategies for prevention of pediatric obesity. Includes overview of epidemiology of child/adolescent obesity focusing on social-ecological risk factors. Discussion of implications of risk factors for developing environmentally-focused interventions/programs. prereq: Students should have completed one basic, introductory nutrition course or equivalent or permission by instructor

PUBH 3107 - Global Public Health and the Environment

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Environmental determinants of health and or well-being of populations. Role of environment in public health. Population burden of disease. Variation of environmental public health determinants across globe. Interconnectedness of activities and actions of people in different countries. prereq: public health minor, instr consent

PUBH 3601 - Global Public Health Issues

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This is a global impact course designed for public health minors providing an introduction to key global health history, concepts, structures, and stakeholders. The course content articulates a myriad of population health determinants and explores risk and protective factors shaping global health. Students will explore global health equity and engage with inequity and disparity in health access and outcomes as well as relevant research, policy, and programmatic solutions. Evidence, perspectives, and application opportunities related to critical issues and solutions in the organization and delivery of global public health are examined and offered. prereq: Public Health minor requirements or instr consent, [3202 or 3001 or 3004], [3351 or 3106]

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