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Courses

Global and Community Health

We are pleased to share with UCSC students the news that our two new degrees – a BA and BS in Global & Community Health – are now approved and open for enrollment starting in the Fall of 2022.  Please check back here soon for the link to the advising page and catalog page for these new degrees. 

Enrollment will not begin until October 2022.

In the meantime, we recommend that students who are interested in this emergent field use the list below, being mindful to research whether any particular course is being offered during the current academic year and whether or not it has enrollment restrictions (such as prerequisites, or majors-only requirements).

UCSC Course Catalog

Suggested Courses by Department

Applied Mathematics
AM 115Stochastic Modeling in Biology
Anthropology
ANTH 1Introduction to Biological Anthropology
ANTH 2Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 97Laboratory Safety Practicum
ANTH 100History and Theory of Biological Anthropology
ANTH 101Human Evolution
ANTH 102AHuman Skeletal Biology
ANTH 103Forensic Anthropology
ANTH 104Human Variation and Adaptation
ANTH 105Human Paleopathology
ANTH 106Primate Behavior and Ecology
ANTH 107AMethods and Research in Biological Anthropology: Genetics
ANTH 110APublic Life and Contemporary Issues
ANTH 110CCalifornia Pasts
ANTH 110EAnthropology of Global Environmental Change
ANTH 110FEvolution of Human Diet
ANTH 111Human Ecology
ANTH 112Life Cycles
ANTH 125Magic, Science, and Religion
ANTH 129Other Globalizations: Cultures and Histories of Interconnection
ANTH 130HEthnography of Russia and Eastern Europe
ANTH 134Medical Anthropology: An Introduction
ANTH 136The Biology of Everyday Life
ANTH 141Anthropology of Developing Countries: Environment, Water, Entropy
ANTH 144Anthropology of Poverty and Welfare
ANTH 145XSpecial Topics in Socio-Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 146Anthropology and the Environment
ANTH 153Medicine and Colonialism
ANTH 194MMedical Anthropology
ANTH 196DFood and Medicine
ANTH 202ASkeletal Biology
ANTH 212The Human Life Cycle
ANTH 247Critical Perspectives on Nutrition
ANTH 254Medicine and Culture
Biology Ecology and Evolutionary
BIOE 19Biodiversity in the Age of Humans
BIOE 118Plants and Society: the Biology of Food, Shelter, and Medicine
BIOE 133Exercise Physiology
BIOE 149Disease Ecology
Biology Molecular Cell and Developmental
BIOL 80JBiology of Emerging and Pandemic Diseases
BIOL 88Studies in Medicine: Its Art, History, Science and Philosophy
BIOL 117Global Health and Neglected Tropical Diseases
BIOL 112Virology
BIOL 188A Life in Medicine
BIOL 189Heath Sciences Internship
Biomolecular Engineering
BME 272Precision Medicine
Community Studies
CMMU 156Politics of Food and Health
CMMU 160Intro to Public Health
CMMU 161Gender, Health and Justice
CMMU 163Health Care Inequalities
CMMU 164Health Justice in Conflict
CMMU 165Community Analysis for Global Health
Cowell College
COWL 39Brain, Mind, and Consciousness
COWL 156MMedical Ethics and Justice in Literature and Film
Computer Science and Engineering
CSE 80AUniversal Access: Disability, Technology, and Society
CSE 263Data Driven Discovery and Visualization
Economics
ECON 120Development Economics
ECON 156Health Care and Medical Economics
ECON 220ADevelopment Economics I
Education
EDUC 210Health, Safety, and Community
Environmental Studies
ENVS 135Sustainable Aquaculture
ENVS 172Environmental Risks and Public Policy
ENVS 177Teaching Environmental Education
 Environmental Sciences
ESCI 122Air Pollution
History
HIS 151AMedicine and the Body in the Colonial World
HIS 151BDrugs in World History
HIS 196FTopics in European Environmental History
Latin American and Latino Studies
LALS 55AIDS across the Americas
LALS 175Migration Gender and Health
LALS 194Extractivism & Socio-Environmental Conflicts in the Americas
Legal Studies
LGST 173Disability, Law and Politics
Literature
LIT 80KTopics in Medical Humanities
Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology
METX 101Sources and Fates of Pollutants
METX 102Cellular and Molecular Toxicology
METX 115Environmental Health Science
METX 119Microbiology
METX 135Functional Anatomy
METX 145Medical Geology
METX 170Frontiers in Drug Action and Discovery
METX 200Interdisciplinary Approaches in Environmental Toxicology
Politics
POLI 61Politics of Social Policy
POLI 186Global Health Politics
Psychology
PSYC 140FMind, Society, and Culture
PSYC 140GWomen’s Lives in Context
PSYC 140LWomen’s Bodies and Psychological Well-Being
PSYC 144Latinx Psychology
PSYC 150Social Psychology of Flimflam
PSYC 169Community Mental Health (CMH)
PSYC 172Health Psychology
Science Communication
SCIC 160Introduction to Science Writing
Sociology
SOCY 121The Sociology of Health and Medicine
SOCY 121GGenomics and Society
SOCY 125Society and Nature
SOCY 127Sociology of Drugs, Botanicals and Pharmaceuticals
SOCY 128International Law and Global Justice
SOCY 135Healing Justice
SOCY 153Sociology of Emotions
SOCY 171Exploring Global Inequality
SOCY 185Environmental Inequalities
SOCY 264Science, Technology, and Medicine
Spanish
SPAN 5MMedical Spanish
Statistics
STAT 7Statistical Methods for the Biological, Environmental, and Health Sciences
Stevenson College
STEV 16Stevenson Community Garden
STEV 33Self and Society Examined Through Ethical Dilemmas