Health Studies (B.A./B.Sc.)
Faculty List
J. Miron, B.A. (Queen's), M.A. (Penn.), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Toronto),
Professor
A. E. Birn, B.A. (Harvard), M.A. (University of Canterbury), Sc.D. (Johns Hopkins),
Associate Professor
K. Duncan, B.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Edinburgh),
Assistant Professor
B. Gamble, Ph.D. (Toronto),
Assistant Professor
M. Hunter, B.A., (Sussex), M.A. (Univ. of Natal), Ph.D. (Univ California, Berkeley),
Assistant Professor
Undergraduate Counsellor: J. Roopnarinesingh Email: social-sciences-counsellor@utsc.utoronto.ca
Health is an extremely important area of study, both from the perspective of science and social and behavioural sciences. Social scientists consider a wide range of questions, such as: how can health systems and public policy be designed so as to promote health? How does individual behaviour affect health? How do health and health needs vary over the lifecycle and between men and women? What can be learned from large scale survey data about health patterns? These Programs group together relevant courses from a range of disciplines, of interest to students who may apply to graduate Programs in health or work in health and related professions. The Programs are intended to be combined with a major in a relevant discipline.
Guidelines for 1st year course selection
Students intending to complete a program in Health Studies should take one of the following sets of courses in first year: [ANTA01H & ANTA02H ] or [BGYA01H & BGYA02H ] or [ECMA01H & ECMA05H ] or [GGRA02H & GGRA03H ] or [PSYA01H & PSYA02H ] or [SOCA01H & SOCA01H ].
Note: It is Department policy that students without the prerequisite(s) will be removed from the course. Students should check carefully the prerequisites required for particular B- and C-level courses. Note that some courses (e.g., BGY, ECM & SOC) are part of limited enrolment programs, with first preference in these courses going to students enrolled in those programs.
MAJOR (CO-OPERATIVE) PROGRAM IN HEALTH STUDIES
Co-op Contact: askcoop@utsc.utoronto.ca
Program Admission:
This is a limited enrolment program, which must be completed in conjunction with another Major as part of a 4-year degree. For information on admissions, fees, work terms, and standing in the program, please see the Co-operative Programs section of this Calendar.
Minimum qualifications for entry following first year: 4.0 credits, including 1.0 from [ANTA01H & ANTA02H ] or [ECMA01H & ECMA05H ] or [GGRA02H & GGRA03H ] or [PSYA01H & PSYA02H ] or [SOCA01H & SOCA02H ], plus a cumulative GPA of at least 2.5.
Program Requirements:
Work terms will be in the health and health-related sectors, and may be in public institutions, in research institutions, and in the private sector. There are two work terms, each of 4 months. In order to be eligible for the first work term, students must complete at least 9 full credits, including the requirement in sections 1 and 2 plus any 1.0 credit from among requirements 3 and 4 below. In addition, they must complete the non-credit Arts & Science Work Term Preparation course.
Course Requirements
See requirements for Major Program in Health Studies. In addition, students are required to include HLTD02H , Health Research Seminar.
MAJOR PROGRAM IN HEALTH STUDIES (B.A./B.SC.)
Program Requirements:
This program requires a minimum of 7.0 full credits as follows:
- Methodology.
1.5 credits from one of the following groups:
[ANTA01H & ANTA02H & ANTC60H ]
or
[BGYA01H & BGYA02H & BGYB10H ]
or
[ECMA01H & ECMA05H & ECMB01H ]
or
[GGRA02H & GGRA03H & GGRB05H ]
or
[PSYA01H & PSYA02H & PSYB01H ]
or
[SOCA01H & SOCA02H & SOCB05H ]
- Quantitative Methods.
0.5 credit from:
ANTC35H Quantitative Methods in Anthropology
ECMB11H Quantitative Methods in Economics I
GGRA30H GIS and Empirical Reasoning
PSYB07H Data Analysis in Psychology
SOCB06H Social Statistics
STAB22H Statistics I
- Introduction to Health.
At least 3 credits from:
ANTB14H Biological Anthropology: Beginnings
ANTB15H Contemporary Human Evolution and Variation
ANTB19H Varieties of Social Life
ANTB20H Culture, Politics and Globalization
ANTB56H Health and the Urban Environment
EESA10H Human Health and the Environment
GGRB28H Geographies of Disease
HLTA01H Plagues and Peoples
HLTB01H Health, Aging and the Life Cycle
HLTB02H Issues in Child Health and Development
IDSB04H International Health Policy Analysis
PHLB09H Biomedical Ethics
PSYB32H Abnormal Psychology
PSYB65H Human Brain and Behaviour
- Advanced Health Courses.
At least 1.5 credits from:
ANTC61H Medical Anthropology: Illness and Healing in Cultural Perspective
ANTC62H Medical Anthropology: Biological and Demographic Perspectives
ANTC63H The Anthropology of Food: Human Needs
ANTC64H The Anthropology of Food: Consuming Passions
ANTC67H Foundations of Epidemiology
ANTC68H Deconstructing Epidemics
ANTD01H The Body in Culture and Society
ANTD17H Medical Osteology: Public Health Perspectives on Human Skeletal Health
ANTD23H Ethnomedicine
ANTD25H Primatology: Public Health Perspectives on Zoonotic Diseases
BGYC17H Microbiology I: The Bacterial Cell
BGYC21H Vertebrate Histology: Cells and Tissues
BGYC22H Vertebrate Histology: Organs
ECMC34H Economics of Health Care
GGRD10H Health and Sexuality
HLTC01H Directed Research on Health Services and Institutions
HLTC02H Women and Health: Past and Present
HLTD01H Directed Readings in Health Studies
HLTD02H Health Research Seminar
IDSC11H Issues in International Health
NROD67H Psychobiology of Aging
POLC55H The Politics of Canadian Health Policy
WSTC30H Special Topics in Women's Studies/Gender Issues (if offered as Women and Health)
- 0.5 additional credit from the courses listed in Requirements 3 (Introduction to Health) or 4 (Advanced Health courses).
- For this program, no more that 4.0 credits can be counted from any single course prefix (e.g., ANT) other than HLT
- For the Major in Health Studies alone to qualify for B.Sc. Major, at least 5.0 credits taken to complete the program must carry science credit. These include HLTB01H , HLTB02H , any Anthropology option listed as a science credit in the Anthropology section of the Calendar and any option in Biology, Environmental Science, Neuroscience, Psychology, and Statistics.
Note: Students should check carefully the prerequisites required for particular B- and C-level courses/ Note that some courses (e.g., BGY, ECM & SOC) are part of limited enrolment programs, with first preference in these courses going to students enrolled in those programs.
MINOR PROGRAM IN HEALTH STUDIES (B.A.)
Program Requirements:
This program requires 4 full credits as follows:
- Introduction to Health
2.5 full credits from:
ANTB14H Biological Anthropology: Beginnings
ANTB15H Contemporary Human Evolution and Variation
ANTB56H Health and the Urban Environment
GGRB28H Geographies of Disease
HLTA01H Plagues and Peoples
HLTB01H Health, Aging and the Life Cycle
HLTB02H Issues in Child Health and Development
IDSB04H International Health Policy Analysis
- Advanced Health
1.5 full credits from:
ANTC61H Medical Anthropology: Illness and Healing in Cultural Perspective
ANTC62H Medical Anthropology: Biological and Demographic Perspectives
ANTC63H The Anthropology of Food: Human Needs
ANTC64H The Anthropology of Food: Consuming Passions
ANTC67H Foundations of Epidemiology
ANTC68H Deconstructing Epidemics
ANTD01H The Body in Culture and Society
ANTD17H Medical Osteology: Public Health Perspectives on Human Skeletal Health
ANTD23H Ethnomedicine
ANTD25H Primatology: Public Health Perspectives on Zoonotic Diseases
ECMC34H Economics of Health Care
GGRD10H Health and Sexuality
HLTC01H Directed Research on Health Services and Institutions
HLTC02H Women and Health: Past and Present
HLTD01H Directed Readings in Health Studies
IDSC11H Issues in International Health
POLC55H The Politics of Canadian Health Policy
- For this program, no more that 2.0 full credits can be counted from any single course prefix (e.g., ANT) other than HLT
HLTA01H3 Plagues and Peoples
Considers the origins, antiquity and impact of plagues on human societies. The course will embrace cultural, evolutionary, epidemiological and ecological themes. Consideration will be given to historic, contemporary and newly-emerging infectious epidemics, with a view to understanding why "plagues" emerge and how their occurrence is intimately linked to human behaviour.
HLTB01H3 Health, Aging and the Life Cycle
This course focuses on the transition from birth to old age and changes in health status. Topics to be covered include: socio-cultural perspectives on aging, the aging process, chronic and degenerative diseases, caring for the elderly.
Prerequisite: HLTA01H or [ANTA01H & ANTA02H ] or [BGYA01H & BGYA02H ] or [PSYA01H & PSYA02H ]
HLTB02H3 Issues in Child Health and Development
This course will explore bio-social aspects of health and development in children. Topics for discussion include genetics and development, growth and development, childhood diseases, the immune system, and nutrition during the early years.
Prerequisite: HLTA01H or [ANTA01H & ANTA02H ] or [BGYA01H & BGYA02H ] or [PSYA01H & PSYA02H ]
HLTC01H3 Directed Research on Health Services and Institutions
Provides students with the opportunity to analyze work of health institutions.
Students taking this course will arrange, in consultation with the instructor, to work as a volunteer in a health institution. They will write a major research paper related to some aspect of their experience. They will build on material learned in IDSB04H and complement work in POLC55H . Students must obtain consent from the Supervisor of Studies and supervising instructor before registering for this course.
Prerequisite: HLTA01H & IDSB04H & permission of the instructor & a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0.
HLTC02H3 Women and Health: Past and Present
This course uses historical, anthropological, philosophical approaches to further understand the relationships intertwining women, health and society. Women's interactions with the health sector will be examined. Particular attention will be devoted to the social and gender construction of disease and the politics of women's health.
Prerequisite: ANTC61H or IDSB04H or B-level course on women's studies/gender
HLTD01H3 Directed Readings in Health Studies
For upper level students whose interests are not covered in one of the other courses normally offered. Courses will normally only be available to students in their final year of study. Students must obtain consent from the supervising instructor before registering for this course.
Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor
HLTD02H3 Health Research Seminar
Provides senior students with the opportunity to apply methodological skills to a health research problem. Students will give presentations of their research proposals, and there may be a guest seminar on health research projects.
Limited enrolment: Limited to students in the Major (Co-operative) Program in Health Studies. Students who are non-coop majors in Health Studies may take the course with permission of the instructor
Prerequisite: Students must have completed 6.0 credits from the requirements of the Major Program in Health Studies, including completing the methodology requirements from Requirements 1 and 2.
Published Wednesday July 23rd, 2008 Section last updated Fri Feb 15, 2008
