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Spring 2024

HEALTH DISPARITIES IN SOCIETY COURSES, SPRING 2024

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).

CATEGORY A: THEORIES OF SOCIAL INEQUALITY, DIFFERENCE, AND POWER

  • AFA 3100 – Key Issues in African-American and Black-Atlantic Thought
  • AMH4316- Violence and Social Conflict in American History
  • Gender, Pol & Human Rts Lat Am
  • POS4624 – Race, Law and the Constitution
  • SOP4704 – Advanced Social Psychology : PREJUDICE & STEREOTYP
  • SYD3700 – Sociology of Race and Racism in the U.S.
  • SYO 4530 – Social Inequality
  • WST 3015 – Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Women’s Studies
  • WST 3415 – Transnational Feminism
  • WST 4930 – Feminist Political Thought
  • WST 4704 – Discrimination and Health (can count as A or B)

CATEGORY B: HEALTH SYSTEMS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE MISSION

  • AFA3930 – African Diaspora Women and Medicine
  • ANT 3478 – Global Health Culture
  • COM3225 – Global and Cultural Issues in Health Communication
  • EEX2000 – Impact of Disabilities: Home, Community and Workplace
  • EEX3097 – Social Perspectives on Disability
  • EEX4280 – Disabilities in Community and Employment
  • EEX4520 – Disabilities: Legal Aspects and Policies
  • GEO 3430 – Population Geography
  • GEO 3452 – Introduction to Medical Geography
  • GEO 3454 – Peoples and Plagues
  • HSC3201 – Community and Environmental Health

Note: Students outside of the College of Health and Human Performance cannot register directly for Health Education and Behavior classes. Instead, please request a spot using this form.

  • HSC4579 – Women’s Health Issues
  • HSC4623 – Minority Health Issues
  • HSC4950 – Current Topics in Health Education: LGBTQIA+

 

  • PCO4270 – LATIN/X Psychology
  • PCO4404 – Black Psychology

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 3440 – Global Public Health
  • PHC 4101 – Public Health Concepts

 

  • REL3098 – Relgion, Medicine, and Healing
  • SOP 4777 – Psychology of Human Sexuality
  • SYD3805 – Gender and Health
  • SYO 4400 – Medical Sociology (note, this class is restricted to Sociology majors during advanced registration)
  • WST 3703 – History of American Medicine: Race, Class, Gender, and Science
  • WST 4704 – Discrimination and Health (can count as A or B)