Program Requirements
This program requires the completion of 8.0 credits, as described below.

Note: the Major/Major (Co-op) Program in Health Studies - Population Health (B.Sc.) and Major/Major (Co-op) Program in Health Studies - Health Policy (B.A.) cannot be combined.

First Year
1.0 credits

1. 1.0 credit of Introductory Health Studies courses 
HLTA02H3 Foundations of Health Studies I
HLTA03H3 Foundations of Health Studies II

Note: students may also enroll in PHLB09H3 Biomedical Ethics and [STAB22H3 Statistics I or STAB23H3 Introduction to Statistics for the Social Sciences] in year one to help balance their course load in year two

Second Year
4.5 credits

2. 3.5 credits of core second year courses
HLTB15H3 Introduction to Health Research Methodology
HLTB16H3 Introduction to Public Health
HLTB40H3 Health Policy and Health Systems
HLTB41H3 Introduction to the Social Determinants of Health
HLTB50H3 Introduction to Health Humanities
PHLB09H3 Biomedical Ethics (can be taken in year one)
[STAB22H3 Statistics I or STAB23H3 Introduction to Statistics for the Social Sciences] (can be taken in year one)

3. 0.5 credit from the following:
HLTB11H3 Basic Human Nutrition
HLTB20H3 Contemporary Human Evolution and Variation

4. 0.5 credit from the following:
GGRB28H3 Geographies of Disease
HLTB11H3 Basic Human Nutrition (if not used towards requirement 3)
HLTB20H3 Contemporary Human Evolution and Variation (if not used towards requirement 3)
HLTB30H3 Current Issues in Health
HLTB31H3 Current Issues in Health II: Synergies Among Science, Policy and Action
HLTB42H3 Perspectives of Culture, Illness and Healing
HLTB60H3 Introduction to Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
IDSB04H3 Introduction to International/Global Health*
*Note: IDSB04H3 has prerequisites that are not part of this program.

Third Year
2.0 Credits

5. 0.5 credits in Epidemiological Concepts from the following:
HLTC27H3 Community Health and Epidemiology
ANTC67H3 Foundations in Epidemiology

6. 1.5 credits at the C-level from the following:
ANTC24H3 Culture, Mental Illness, and Psychiatry
ANTC61H3 Medical Anthropology: Illness and Healing in Cultural Perspective
HLTC02H3 Gender and Health
HLTC04H3 Fieldwork Practices in Health and Society Research
HLTC16H3 Introduction to Health Information Systems
HLTC17H3 Introduction to Rehabilitation Sciences
HLTC19H3 Chronic Diseases
HLTC20H3 Global Disability Studies
HLTC22H3 Health, Aging and the Life Cycle
HLTC23H3 Issues in Child Health and Development
HLTC42H3 Emerging Health Issues and Policy Needs
HLTC43H3 Politics of Canadian Health Policy
HLTC44H3 Comparative Health Policy Systems
HLTC46H3 Globalization, Gender and Health
HLTC47H3 Institutional Ethnography: Investigating Health and Social Problems in the Everyday
HLTC48H3 Special Topics in Health Studies
HLTC49H3 Indigenous Health
HLTC50H3 The Human-Animal Interface
HLTC51H3 Special Topics in Health and Society
HLTC52H3 Special Topics in Health Humanities
HLTD11H3 Program and Policy Evaluation
HLTD46H3 Violence and Health: Critical Perspectives
HLTD80H3 Critical Health Education
IDSC11H3 Issues in Global and International Health*
*Note: IDSC11H3 has prerequisites that are not part of this program.

Fourth Year
0.5 credit

7. 0.5 credit at the D-level in HLT courses