Spring 2021

Health Disparities in Society Courses, Spring 2021

NOTE: Please consult with the Women’s Studies undergraduate coordinator if there is a question about a particular course or your track in this minor. Click on this link to view the requirements of this minor. Please note that course offerings are subject to change. Some courses for the minor may be limited to students within the department or major that offers them or may have mandatory prerequisites. If these constraints prevent you from enrolling in a course, please contact the instructor of that course to discuss options for your enrollment.

Please remember that you may only have two courses in the minor at the 2000-level, and one of those must be WST 2322, Introduction to Health Disparities.

Other courses may be considered for Health Disparities in Society credit via petition (PDF).

The classes below follow the “old” system of electives. They pertain to students with a catalog year of 2018 or earlier. Hint: your catalog year is generally the year in which you started at UF.

Tier I: Health or Social Science of Minority/Cultural Groups in the U.S.

AFA 3920 Black Women’s Activism
AFA 3930 Black Psychology
ANT 3930 African American Archaeology
ANT 4462 Culture and Medicine (or tier III; email Dr. Zucker if you want it to count for tier III)
EEX 2000 Impact of Disabilities: Home, Community, and Workplace
EEX 3097 Social Perspectives on Disability
EEX 4280 Disabilities in Community and Employment
GEO 3454 People and Plagues (or tier III; email Dr. Zucker if you want it to count for tier III)
ISS 2160 Cultural Diversity in the United States

Note: Students outside of the College of Health and Human Performance cannot register directly for Health Education and Behavior classes. Instead, you must email HHP Academic Advisor Ms. Erica Alexander and ask to be enrolled. State that you are enrolled in the HDS minor and tell her your UF ID number and the course number for which you wish to be enrolled

HSC 3201 Community and Environmental Health
HSC 4558 Survey of Diseases and Disabilities 2
HSC 4579 Women’s Health Issues
HSC 4623 Minority Health Issues

AFH 3931 Race, Gender, and Sport
POS 4932 Native American Politics
PCO 4272 Psychology of Women
PCO 4930 Black Psychology
PCO 4931 Latin/x Psychology
SOP 4777 Psychology of Human Sexuality

Note: Students outside of the College of Public Health cannot register directly for Public Health classes. Instead, you must email PHHP Academic Advising and ask to be enrolled. State that you are a Health Disparities minor, and give your UF ID number and the name and course number for which you wish to be enrolled. Enrollment is strictly on a space available basis.

PHC 4101 Public Health Concepts

SYA 4930 Mental Health and Illness
SYD 3700 Minorities in American Society
SYO 4400 Medical Sociology note this class is restricted to Sociology majors only during advanced registration, but opens up after that
SPA 3475 Deaf Culture in America
WST 3930 Women’s Health and Well-Being
WST 4704 Discrimination and Health
WST 4930 Psychology of Human Sexuality
SYD 4808 Reproduction and Gender

Tier II: Social Inequality and Related Theory

AFA 3110 Black Atlantic Thought
AFA 3323 Black Feminist and Womanist Theory
AFA 3354 Race, Religion, and Rebellion
AFA 3930 American Civil Liberties
AFA 3930/AML 4453/AMH 3931 Race and Disability US History and Literature
AFA 3930 Race Law and Constitution
AMH 3931 The Long Civil Rights Movement
ANT 4930 Whiteness
AML 4311 Langston Hughes and Critical Race Theory
ANG 3011/ REL 4936 JST 4936 The Theorists: Critical Theory and the Jew
AMH 3931 Race and Crime
IDS 2935 #sayhername (note, this class is restricted to first year students needing a Quest 1 course)
LAS 4936 Black Radical Tradition in the Americas
PHM 3127 Race and Philosophy
POS 4624 Race, Law, and the Constitution
SYA 4930 Race and Ethnicity
SYO 4530 Social Inequality
WST 3015 Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Women’s Studies
WST 3349 Ecofeminism
WST 3603 Sexualities Studies
WST 3930 Sexual Ethics

Tier III: International or Global Studies

AFA 3930 Jamaican Reggae Rasta
AFS 2002 An Introduction to African Studies
AFS 4935 China and Africa: Politics, Economy, and Culture
AFS 4935 Islam in Africa
ANT 2301 Human Sexuality and Culture
ANT 2402 Anthropology of Sustainability
ANT 3241 Anthropology of Religion
ANT 3302 Global Gender Issues
ANT 3467 Food and Culture
ANT 3930 Modern Shamanism
ANT 3930 REL 2388 Indigenous Religions of the Americas
ANT 3930 Haitian Culture and Sociology
ANT 3930 African Experience
ANT 3930 Archeology of the Jewish Diaspora
ANT 4930 Indigenous Amazon
ARH 2000 American Diversity and Global Arts
ARH 2930 Introduction to African Art
HUM 2592 Introduction to the Arts in Medicine in a Global Context
HUM 2420 African Humanities
CLA 3930 The Balkans: History and Culture
CCJ 4934 Law Politics and Society in China
MHS 3930 Human Sexuality and Culture
LIT 3383 SSW 4713 African Women Writers
ENC 2305 Analytical Writing and Thinking: Global Medical Narratives
EUS 3930 INR 4931 Refugee studies
EUS 3930 Human Rights in International Law
EUS 3930 JST 3930 REL 3938 Jews and Muslims in Modern Istanbul
GEO 2410 Social Geography
GEO 23427 Plants, Health, and Spirituality
GEO 3452 Introduction to Medical Geography

HSC 4624 Trends in International Health

AFH 3200 Africa since 1800
AFH 3342 History of West Africa
ASH 3931 QOH 3931 Global History of Prostitution
ASH 3931 Islam and Turkey
ASH 4930 Asia: Pacific Empires and Migrations
EUH 3033 JST 3930 History of the Holocaust
EUH 3931 Jewish Life Revolution Russia
HIS 3942 Conquest of Mexico
LAH 3300 Contemporary Latin America
LAH 3931 Afro- Latin America
LAH 4630 Brazil after 1750
LAH 4930 WHO 4930 Atlantic Revolution
IDS 2935 Asian Martial Arts
IDS 2935 War Games, US & South Africa
IDS 2935 The Next Pandemic
IDS 4930 Human Rights in Asia
IDS 4930 Middle East Political Economy
JST 2930 REL 2600 Jews and Jewishness
JST 3930 Jewish Studies; Law, Literature, Film
JST 3930 Women and Politics Middle East
JST 3930 Holocaust Memory in Israel
JPT 3521 Monsters and Horror in Japan
SSA 4930 African Film and Media
CHI 4930 Special Topics in Chinese Studies: Women in Literature
CHT 3500 Chinese Culture
HAT 3564 Haitian Culture and Society
JMT 3500 LAS 3930 Jamaican Creole, Reggae, and Rastafari
VTT 3500 Vietnamese Culture
LAS 2001 Introduction to Latin American Studies
LAS 3930 Introduction to Latinx Studies
LAS 3930 Haitian Creole Culture and Society
LAS 4935 Ethnographies of the State in Latin America
LAS 4935 Identity and Culture in Brazilian Music
LAS 4935 POS 4933 Gender, Politics and Rights Latin America
LAS 4935 Food and Gastronomy in Latin America
LAS 4935 Global Hip Hop and Social Change
LAS 4937 Latin American Area Seminar: Intersectionality in Conservation
LAS 4938 Gender and Violence
CPO 3713 Women and Politics in the Modern Middle East
POS 4931 Citizenship and Migration
POS 4934 REL 4369 Global Islam
POR 3930 Topics in Brazilian Culture and Civilization

Note: Students outside of the College of Public Health cannot register directly for Public Health classes. Instead, you must email PHHP Academic Advisor Ms. Dominic Walker and ask to be enrolled. State that you are a Health Disparities minor, and give your UF ID number and the name and course number for which you wish to be enrolled. Enrollment is strictly on a space available basis.

- PHC 3440 Global Public Health

REL 3191 Death and Afterlife: Perspectives from World Religions
REL 3938 Buddhist Philosophy
REL 3938 Shamanism
REL 4382 Religions and Politics in Latin America
REL 4936 Islam Media and Pop Culture
SYA 4930 Law Politics and Society in China
WST 3415 Transnational Feminism
WST 3930 Violence Against Women (or Tier II)
WST 4930 Latina Children’s Literature

The classes below follow the “new” system of electives. They pertain to students with a catalog year of 2019 or later. Hint: your catalog year is generally the year in which you started at UF.

Category A: Theories of Social Inequality, Difference, and Power

AFA 3323 Black Feminist and Womanist Theory
AFA 3354 Race, Religion, and Rebellion
AFA 3930 American Civil Liberties
AFA 3920 Black Women’s Activism
AFA 3930/AML 4453/AMH 3931 Race and Disability US History and Literature
AFA 3930 Race Law and Constitution
ANT 3302 Global Gender Issues
ANT 4930 Whiteness
EEX 3097 Social Perspectives on Disability
EEX 4280 Disabilities in Community and Employment
EEX 4520 Disabilities: Legal Aspects and Policies
EEX 4810 Seminar on Disability
AML 4311 Langston Hughes and Critical Race Theory
ANG 3011/REL 4936/JST 4936 The Theorists: Critical Theory and the Jew
AMH 3562 Women in Modern U.S.
AMH 3931 Race and Crime
EUH 3931 Society and the Sexes
AMH 3931 The Long Civil Rights Movement
LAS 4936 Black Radical Tradition in the Americas
LAS 4937 Latin American Area Seminar: Intersectionality in Conservation
LAS 4938 Gender and Violence
PHM 3127 Race and Philosophy
POS 4624 Race, Law, and the Constitution
POS 4931 Citizenship and Migration
POS 4932 Native American Politics
SYA 4930 Race and Ethnicity
SYD 3700 Minorities in American Society
SYO 4530 Social Inequality
WST 3015 Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Women’s Studies
WST 3415 Transnational Feminism
WST 3349 Ecofeminism
WST 3603 Sexualities Studies
WST 3930 Sexual Ethics
WST 3930 Violence Against Women (can also count for Category B)

Category B: Health Systems and Social Justice Mission

AFA 3930/PCO 4930 Black Psychology
ANT 4930 Hospital Ethnography
GEO 3430 Population Geography
GEO 3452 Introduction to Medical Geography
GEO 3454/SYA 4933 People and Plagues

Note: Students outside of the College of Public Health cannot register directly for Public Health (PHC) classes. Instead, you must email PHHP Academic Advisor Ms. Dominic Walker and ask to be enrolled. State that you are a Health Disparities minor, and give your UF ID number and the name and course number for which you wish to be enrolled. Enrollment is strictly on a space available basis.

PHC 3440 Global Public Health

PHC 4101 Public Health Concepts

PCO 4272 Psychology of Women
PCO 4931 Latin/x Psychology
SOP 4777 Psychology of Human Sexuality
SYA 4930 Mental Health and Illness
SYO 4400 Medical Sociology note this class is restricted to Sociology majors only during advanced registration, but opens up after that
WST 3930 Women’s Health and Well-Being
GEO 3452 Introduction to Medical Geography
WST 3930 Violence Against Women (can also count for Category A)
WST 4704 Discrimination and Health

Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies