Public Health (C065)
GEC Coordinator: Heidi Taylor
This concentration explores public and community health from interdisciplinary perspectives, looking at such issues as medical practice; public policy concerning health care; sociology of race, class, and gender; and cultural constructions of health and sickness. It aims to expose students to public health issues at global, national, and local levels. It may include community-engaged learning, courses from abroad, community-based research, and internships.
Complete four credits designated with the (C065) GEC attribute, including at least one from List A (foregrounding science) and at least one from List B (foregrounding the social sciences and the humanities). No more than two credits can come from any single department or program. Up to two non-Bates credits may be counted if judged equivalent to the courses listed below, or if they contain substantial public health content and have been approved beforehand by the concentration coordinator. One independent study, pre-approved by the coordinator, may also count towards the concentration. A co-curricular experience may substitute for one concentration requirement when the experience has a significant academic component, is supervised by the concentration coordinator, and is pre-approved by the concentration coordinator and the Harward Center for Community Partnerships. Students declaring this concentration may not also declare concentration C027 (The Human Body).
List A: Science
| Code | Title |
|---|---|
| BIO 129 | Human Nutrition |
| BIO 195K | Lab-Based Biological Inquiry: Poisons |
| BIO 255A | Mathematical Models in Biology |
| BIO 301 | Pathophysiology |
| BIO 315 | Microbiology/Lab |
| BIO 321 | Cellular Biochemistry |
| BIO 331 | Molecular Biology |
| CHEM 125 | Bioenergetics and Nutrition |
| CHEM 304 | Biochemistry of Virus Replication and Host Cell Defense Systems |
| CHEM 321 | Biological Chemistry I/Lab |
| ENVR 203 | Scientific Approaches to Environmental Issues/Lab |
| MATH 255A | Mathematical Models in Biology |
List B: Social Sciences and Humanities
| Code | Title |
|---|---|
| AFR 236 | Race Matters: Tobacco in North America |
| AFR 267 | Blood, Genes, and American Culture |
| AFR 303 | Birthing while Black |
| AMST 236 | Race Matters: Tobacco in North America |
| AMST 267 | Blood, Genes, and American Culture |
| ANTH 108 | Medical Anthropology |
| ECON 325 | Prices, Property, and the Problem of the Commons |
| ENG 263 | Literature, Medicine, Empathy |
| EXDS 120 | Designing Behavioral Interventions with Public Health Frameworks |
| GSS 267 | Blood, Genes, and American Culture |
| GSS 303 | Birthing while Black |
| GSS 400C | Understanding Disease |
| HIST 236 | Race Matters: Tobacco in North America |
| HIST 267 | Blood, Genes, and American Culture |
| NRSC 363 | Physiological Psychology/Lab |
| PHIL 213 | Biomedical Ethics |
| PSYC 303 | Health Psychology |
| PSYC 363 | Physiological Psychology/Lab |
| SOC 230 | Sociology of Health and Illness |
| SOC 235 | Global Health: Sociological Perspectives |
| SOC 330 | Sociology of Health Professions |