Area of Concentration Course List

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AREA 1: ENVIRONMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
AREA 2: HEALTH AND HEALTH POLICY
AREA 3: HUMAN PERFORMANCE
AREA 4: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
AREA 5: BIO-MEDICAL SCIENCE
AREA 6: BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR
AREA 7: ETHICS AND MEDICAL HUMANITIES
AREA 8: EVOLUTION


This is not a complete list; it is designed to stimulate your thinking as you craft your own Area of Concentration. If you would like to recommend a course, please contact Student Services ([email protected]) - your feedback is very welcome.

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AREA 1: ENVIRONMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
   
  HUMBIO 110   Building a Sustainable Society: New Approaches for Integrating Human and Environmental Priorities    
  HUMBIO 111   Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: Resilence, Vulnerability and Environmental Justice    
  HUMBIO 111M   Marine Resource Economics and Policy    
  HUMBIO 112   Conservation Biology    
  HUMBIO 113   The Biologies of Humans and Plants    
  HUMBIO 113S   Healthy/Sustainable Food Systems: Maximum Sustainability across Health, Economics and Environment    
  HUMBIO 114   Environmental Change and Emerging Infectious Diseases    
  HUMBIO 116   Controlling Climate Change in the 21st Century    
  HUMBIO 117H   Human Behavioral Ecology    
  HUMBIO 118   Theory of Environmental and Ecological Anthropology    
  BIOHOPK 163H   Oceanic Biology    
  BIOHOPK 172H   Marine Ecology    
  BIOHOPK 182H   Stanford at Sea    
  BIO 101   Ecology    
  BIO 121   Biogeography    
  BIO 145   Ecology and Evolution of Animal Behavioral    
  BIO 164   Biosphere - Atmosphere Interactions    
  CEE 115   Goals and Methods of Sustainable Building Projects    
  CEE 142A   Negotiating Sustainable Development    
  CEE 175A   California Coast:  Science, Policy and Law    
  CLASSICS 121   Ecology in Philosophy and Literature    
  COMM 177C   Environmental Journalism    
  EARTHSYS 103   Energy Resources    
  EARTHSYS 104   The Water Course    
  EARTHSYS 108   Coastal Wetlands    
  EARTHSYS 111   Biology and Global Change    
  EARTHSYS 112   Human Society and Environmental Change    
  ECON 106   World Food Economy    
  ECON 118   Development Economics    
  EDUC 332   Theory and Practice of Environmental Education    
  MS&E 152   Introduction to Decision Analysis    
  MS&E 243   Energy and Environmental Policy Analysis    
  MS&E 294   Climate Policy Analysis    
  POLISCI 123   Politics and Public Policy    
  URBANST 163   Land Use Control    
 
             
AREA 2: HEALTH AND HEALTH POLICY
  HUMBIO 120   Health Care in America: The Organizations and Institutions that Shape the Health Care System    
  HUMBIO 120A   Health Policy and Health Care System Design    
  HUMBIO 121   Critical Issues in Child Health    
  HUMBIO 121E   Ethnicity and Medicine    
  HUMBIO 122   Beyond Health Care: Seeking Health in Society    
  HUMBIO 122M   Health Challenges of Human Migration    
  HUMBIO 122S   Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, Health  

 
  HUMBIO 123   Obesity in America    
  HUMBIO 124C   Global Child Health    
  HUMBIO 124E   Economics of Infectious Disease and Global Health    
  HUMBIO 125   Current Topics and Controversies in Women's Health    
  HUMBIO 126   Promoting Health Over the Life Course: Multidisciplinary Perspectives    
  HUMBIO 127A   Community Health: Assessment and Planning I    
  HUMBIO 127B   Community Health: Assessment and Planning II    
  HUMBIO 128   Community Health Psychology    
  HUMBIO 129   Critical Issues in International Women's Health    
  HUMBIO 129M   Measuring Global Health    
  HUMBIO 129S   Global Public Health    
  HUMBIO 129W   Health Care Systems Around the World    
  ANTHRO 82   Medical Anthropology    
  BIOMEDIN 156   Economics of Health and Medical Care    
  ECON 127   Economics of Health Improvement in Developing Countries    
  ECON 150   Economic Policy Analysis    
  MS&E 292   Health Policy Modeling    
  PSYCH 141S   Health Psychology    
  PUBLPOL 156   Health Care Policy and Reform    
  PUBLPOL 231   Health Care Regulation, Finance and Policy    
  SOC 152   Social and Economic Determinants of Health    
  SURG 222   Biosecurity and Bioterrorism Response    
 
             
AREA 3: HUMAN PERFORMANCE
  HUMBIO 130   Human Nutrition    
  HUMBIO 133   Human Physiology    
  HUMBIO 135   Exercise Physiology    
  HUMBIO 135S   Applied Topics in Exercise Physiology and Metabolism    
  HUMBIO 136   Human Physiology Laboratory    
  ME 281   Biomechanics of Movement    
  RAD 220   Introduction to Imaging and Image-Based Neuro Anatomy    
  SURG 101   Regional Study of Human Structure    
  WELLNESS 187   Analysis of Human Movement    
 
             
AREA 4: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
  HUMBIO 140   Sex Differences in Human Physiology and Disease    
  HUMBIO 141   Disability, Gender. & Identity    
  HUMBIO 142   Adolescent Development    
  HUMBIO 142M   Special Topics in Adolescent Mental Health    
  HUMBIO 143   Adolescent Sexuality    
  HUMBIO 144   Boys' Psychosocial Development    
  HUMBIO 145L   Biology and Evolution of Language    
  HUMBIO 146   Culture and Madness: Anthropological Approaches to Psychological Illness    
  HUMBIO 146D   Developmental Disabilities: From Biology to Policy    
  HUMBIO 149   Psychological and Educational Resilience among Children and Youth    
  HUMBIO 149L   Longevity    
  BIO 160A   Developmental Biology I    
  EDUC 348X   Policy and Practice in Science Education    
  HIST 106A/B   Global Human Geography    
  LINGUIST 140   Language Acquisition I    
  MS&E 277   Creativity and Innovation    
  PSYCH 60   Introduction to Developmental Psychology    
  PSYCH 131   Language and Thought    
  PSYCH 141   Cognitve Development    
  PSYCH 143   Developmental Anomolies    
  PSYCH 149   The Infant Mind: Cognitive Development Over the First Year    
  PSYC 139   Changing Relationships: A Couples and Family Therapy Perspective    
  SOC 120   Interpersonal Relations    
  SOC 130   Education and Society    
 
             
AREA 5: BIO-MEDICAL SCIENCE
  HUMBIO 150A   Assisted Reproductive Technologies    
  HUMBIO 151R   Biology Research in the Age of Informatics    
  HUMBIO 152   Viral Lifestyles    
  HUMBIO 153   Parasites and Pestilence: Infectious Public Health Challenges    
  HUMBIO 154A   Outbreaks, Epidemics, and Disease Control Systems    
  HUMBIO 154B   Introduction to Epidemiology    
  HUMBIO 154C   Cancer Epidemiology    
  HUMBIO 155B   The Vaccine Revolution    
  HUMBIO 155H   Humans and Viruses I    
  HUMBIO 157   The Biology of Stem Cells    
  HUMBIO 158   The Human Genome and Disease    
  HUMBIO 158G   Genomics, Bioinformatics and Medicine    
  HUMBIO 159   Genes and Environment in Disease Causation    
  BIO 104   Advanced Molecular Biology    
  BIO 118   Genetic Analysis of Biological Processes    
  BIO 230   Molecular and Cellular Immunology    
  CBIO 101   Cancer Biology    
  CHEMENG 450   Advances in Biotechnology    
  ENGR 110   Perspectives in Assistive Technology    
  GENE 202   Human Genetics    
  GENE 271   Human Molecular Genetics    
  GENE 272   Introduction to Medical Genetics    
  GENE 284   Medical Genetics Seminar    
  GENE 285A   Genetic Counseling Seminar    
  HRP 231   Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases    
  IMMUNOL 275   Tumor Immunology    
  MI 104   Innate Immunology    
  MI 116   The Human Virosphere    
  MI 120   Bacteria in Health and Disease    
 
             
AREA 6: BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR
  HUMBIO 160   Human Behavioral Biology    
  HUMBIO 161   The Neurobiology of Sleep    
  HUMBIO 162   The Nervous Age: Neurosis, Neurology, and Nineteenth-Century Theatre    
  HUMBIO 162H   Hysteria and Modern Culture    
  HUMBIO 164   Autism Spectrum Disorders    
  HUMBIO 165   How Social, Psychological, and Biological Factors Affect Human Behavior and Human Well-Being    
  HUMBIO 166   Food and Society: Exploring Eating Behaviors in a Social, Environmental and Policy Context    
  HUMBIO 167   The Art of Vision    
  BIO 145   Ecology and Evolution of Animal Behavioral    
  BIO 151   Mechanisms of Neuron Death    
  BIO 153   Cellular Neuroscience: Cell Signaling and Behavior    
  BIO 154   Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology    
  BIO 158   Developmental Neurobiology    
  BIO 222   Exploring Neural Circuits    
  LAW 333   Problem Solving and Policy Analysis: Rational Choices and Behavioral Insights    
  MCP 126   Neurons and Disease    
  MUSIC 251   Psychophysics and Music Cognition    
  NBIO 206   The Nervous System    
  NBIO 218   Neural Basis of Behavior    
  NBIO 220   Central Mechanisms in Vision-Based Cognition    
  PHIL 167B   Philosophy, Biology, and Behavior    
  PHIL 185B   Philosophy of Perception    
  PHIL 186   Philosophy of Mind    
  PSYC 139   Changing Relationships: A Couples and Family Therapy Perspective    
  PSYCH 50   Intro to Cognitive Neuroscience    
  PSYCH 151   Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology    
  PSYCH 154   Judgement and Decision Making    
  PSYCH 161   Emotion    
  PSYCH 205   Foundations of Cognition    
  PSYCH 232   Brain and Decision Making    
  PSYCH 251   Affective Neurscience    
  SYMSYS 206   Philosophy of Neurscience    
 
             
AREA 7: ETHICS AND MEDICAL HUMANITIES
  HUMBIO 170   Justice, Policy and Science    
  HUMBIO 170A   Sex and the Law    
  HUMBIO 172B   Children, Youth, and the Law    
  HUMBIO 173   Science, Business and the Law: How Scientific Discovery and Innovation Are Protected and Brought to Market    
  HUMBIO 174   Foundations of Bioethics    
  HUMBIO 175L   Literature of Global Health    
  HUMBIO 176   The Impact of Infectious Diseases on Human History    
  HUMBIO 176A   Medical Anthropology    
  HUMBIO 177C   Culture, Narrative, and Medicine    
  HUMBIO 178   Ethics and Politics of Public Service    
  HUMBIO 178T   Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal and Medical Perspectives    
  HUMBIO 178V   Violence Against Women: Theory, Issues and Prevention    
  HUMBIO 179S   Spirituality and Healing    
  EDUC 247   Moral and Character Education    
  HIST 130A   In Sickness and in Health: Medicine and American Society, 1800-Present    
  HIST 201   Introduction to Public History in the U.S., 19th Century to the Present    
  HIST 244C   History of the Body in Science, Medicine and Culture    
  HIST 264G   The Social History of Mental Illness    
  HRP 212   Crosscultural Medicine    
  INTNLREL 140C   The U.S., U.N. Peacekeeping and Humanitarian War    
  INTNLREL 180A   Transitional Justice, Human Rights and International Criminal Tribunals    
  MS&E 197   Ethics and Public Policy    
  MS&E 254   The Ethical Analyst    
  PEDS 223   Human Rights and Global Health    
  PHIL 170   Ethical Theory    
  PHIL 171   Justice    
  PHIL 374   Caring and Practical Reasoning    
  POLISCI 334   Philanthropy and Civil Society    
  PSYCH 138   Wise Interventions    
  PSYCH 179   The Psychology of Everyday Morality    
  PUBLPOL 353   Science and Technology Policy    
  RELIGST 143   Empathy    
  SOC 135   Poverty, Inequality, and Social Policy in the United States    
  SOC 141   Controversies about Inequality    
  STS 210   Ethics, Science and Technology    
  SURG 150   Global Humanitarian Medicine    
  URBANST 112   The Urban Underclass    
 
             
AREA 8: EVOLUTION
  HUMBIO 180   Human Skeletal Anatomy    
  HUMBIO 186   Biological Clocks    
  HUMBIO 187   Human Diversity: A Linguistic Perspective    
  ANTHRO 121   Language and Prehistory    
  ANTHRO 245A   Evolutionary of Theory in Archaeology    
  ANTHRO 163   Conservation and Evolutionary Ecology    
  BIO 113   Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution    
  BIO 143   Evolution    
  BIO 215   Biochemical Evolution    
  HIST 342   Darwin in the History of Life    
  HIST 243S   Human Origins: History, Evidence and Controversy    
  LINGUIST 160   Introduction to Language Change    
  ME 280   Skeletal Development and Evolution    
 

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