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(B.A./B.Sc.)
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? This Program groups 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 Program is intended to be combined with a major in a relevant discipline.
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 placements, and standing in the program, please see the Calendar section Co-operative Programs General Information, page 65.
Placements 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 placements, each of 4 months. In order to be eligible for the first placement, students must complete at least 9 F.C.E., including the Methodology requirements in section I, HLTA01H, and one other course from the program requirements. In addition, they must complete the Introduction to Humanities and Social Sciences Co-op Tutorial.
Course Requirements
See requirements for Major Program in Health Studies. In addition, students are required to include HLTD02H, Health Research Seminar.
Section I: Methodology
Students must choose one of the five groups of courses
below:
Either
[ANTA01Y and ANTC35H and ANTC60H]
or
[BGYA01Y and BGYB10Y]
or
[ECMA02Y and ECMB02H and ECMB11H]
or
[PSYA01Y and PSYB01H and PSYB07H]
or
[SOCA01Y and SOCB01Y and SOCB06H]
Note that STAB22H may be taken in place of ANTC35H,
ECMB11H and SOCB06H.
Section II: Core Courses
1.5 F.C.E. as follows:
HLTA01H Plagues and Peoples
IDSB04H International Health Policy Analysis
POLC55H Canadian Health Policy
Section III:
3.5 F.C.E. from the following, which must include
at least 1.5 F.C.E. at the C- or D-level.
ANTB15Y Biological Anthropology
ANTB20Y Social and Cultural Anthropology
ANTB56H Health and the Urban Environment
ANTC01H The Anthropology of the Body
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
ANTD23H Ethnomedicine
BGYC17H Microbiology I: The Bacterial Cell
BGYC18H Microbiology II: Perspectives on the Microbiology
World
BGYC21H Vertebrate Histology: Cells and Tissues
BGYC22H Vertebrate Histology: Organs
BGYC50H Foundations of Epidemiology
ECMC34H Economics of Health Care
HLTB01H Health and the Urban Environment
HLTC01H Directed Research on Health Services and
Institutions
HLTD01H Readings in Health Studies
HLTD02H Health Research Seminar
IDSC11H Topics in International Health Policy
LSCA05H Human Biology
(BGYA01Y is an exclusion for this course)
PSYB32H Abnormal Psychology
PSYB65H Human Brain and Behaviour
PSYD67H Psychobiology of Aging
WSTC30H Special Topics in Women's Studies and Gender
issues (if offered as women and health)
HLTA01H Plagues and Peoples
IDSB04H International Health Policy Analysis
POLC55H Canadian Health Policy
And 2.5 F.C.E. chosen from the following list (which
must include at least 0.5 F.C.E. at the C- or D-level):
ANTB15Y Biological Anthropology
ANTB20Y Social and Cultural Anthropology
ANTB56H Health and the Urban Environment
ANTC01H The Anthropology of the Body
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
ANTD23H Ethnomedicine
BGYC50H Foundations of Epidemiology
HLTC01H Directed Readings on Health Services and
Institutions
HLTD01H Directed Readings in Health Studies
LSCA05H Human Biology
WSTC30H Special Topics in Women's Studies and Gender
Issues (if offered as women and health)
HLTD01H Directed Readings in Health Studies (reading
course)
Considers the origins, antiquity and impact of plagues on human societies (e.g., the Black Death, Tuberculosis and poverty complex, Cholera and sanitary movement, Black Vomit Fever and the price of trade, the 'quiet' epidemics of sexually transmitted diseases). Such epidemics of infectious disease have dramatically influenced the course of human history and continue to exact a huge toll on human life. The course will embrace cultural, evolutionary, epidemiological and ecological themes. An exploration of models and general principles of infectious disease or "plagues" will be followed by an examination of specific "plagues" as a means of examining the bio-social and environmental contexts within which epidemics arise and the ways in which they transform societies. 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.
Two hours of lectures per week.
L. Sawchuk
Provides students with the opportunity to analyze work of health institutions.
Students taking this course will arrange, in consultation
with the instructor, to work (usually 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
Co-requisite: POLC55H is recommended
Members of Faculty
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 at the College. Students must obtain consent from the
Supervisor of Studies and supervising instructor before registering
for this course.
Prerequisite: HLTA01H & IDSB04H & POLC55H
& permission of the instructor
Members of Faculty
| HLTB01H3 | Health
and Urban Environment
|
| HLTD02H3 | Health
Research Seminar Full Listing of Courses Not Offered |
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