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
2.0 credits

1. 2.0 credits as follows:
HLTA02H3 Exploring Health and Society: Theories, Perspectives, and Patterns
HLTA03H3 Navigating Health and Society: Research, Practice, and Policy
PHLB09H3 Biomedical Ethics
STAB23H3 Introduction to Statistics for the Social Sciences

Second Year
3.0 credits

2. 2.0 credits as follows:
HLTB15H3 Health Research Methodology
HLTB16H3 Public Health
HLTB40H3 Health Policy and Health Systems
HLTB41H3 Social Determinants of Health

3. 0.5 credit from the following:
HLTB50H3 Introduction to Health Humanities
HLTB60H3 Introduction to Interdisciplinary Disability Studies

4. 0.5 credit from the following:
GGRB28H3 Geographies of Disease
HLTB11H3 Human Nutrition
HLTB20H3 Contemporary Human Evolution and Variation
HLTB42H3 Perspectives of Culture, Illness, and Healing
HLTB50H3 Introduction to Health Humanities (if not used towards requirement 3)
HLTB60H3 Introduction to Interdisciplinary Disability Studies (if not used towards requirement 3)
IDSB04H3 Introduction to International/Global Health*
*Note: IDSB04H3 has prerequisites that are not part of this program.

The following courses may be used as a program requirement if the content is arts or policy focused; please consult with the Program Coordinator to have the topic assessed for program usage:

HLTB30H3 Current Issues in Health
HLTB31H3 Synergies Among Science, Policy, and Action

Third Year
2.5 Credits

5. 0.5 credit as follows:
HLTC27H3 Community Health and Epidemiology

6. 1.0 credit from the following:
HLTC42H3 Emerging Health Issues and Policy Needs
HLTC43H3 Politics of Canadian Health Policy
HLTC44H3 Comparative Health Policy Systems

7. 1.0 credit from the following:
ANTC24H3 Culture, Mental Illness, and Psychiatry
ANTC61H3 Medical Anthropology: Illness and Healing in Cultural Perspective
HLTC02H3 Gender and Health
HLTC04H3 Qualitative Research in Action
HLTC16H3 Health Information Systems
HLTC17H3 Rehabilitation Sciences
HLTC19H3 Chronic Diseases
HLTC20H3 Global Disability Studies
HLTC22H3 Health, Aging and the Life Cycle
HLTC42H3 Emerging Health Issues and Policy Needs (if not used towards requirement 6)
HLTC43H3 Politics of Canadian Health Policy (if not used towards requirement 6)
HLTC44H3 Comparative Health Policy Systems (if not used towards requirement 6)
HLTC46H3 Globalization, Gender, and Health
HLTC47H3 Institutional Ethnography in Action
HLTC48H3 Special Topics in Health and Society
HLTC49H3 Indigenous Health
HLTC50H3 The Human-Animal Interface
HLTC51H3 Special Topics in Health and Society
HLTC52H3 Special Topics in Health Humanities
HLTC53H3 Creative Research Practices in Aging
HLTC56H3 Drawing Illness
HLTC81H3 Health Professions and Practice
IDSC11H3 Issues in Global and International Health*
*Note: IDSC11H3 has prerequisites that are not part of this program.

Fourth Year
0.5 credit

8. 0.5 credit from the following:

HLTD06H3 Migration, Medicine, and the Law
HLTD07H3 Advanced Rehabilitation Sciences: Disability Studies and Lived Experiences of 'Normalcy'
HLTD11H3 Program and Policy Evaluation
HLTD20H3 Advanced Topics in Sex, Gender, and the Life Course
HLTD26H3 Embodiment Across the Life Course
HLTD29H3 Advanced Topics in Inequality, Inequity, and Health
HLTD40H3 The Politics of Care, Self-Care, and Mutual Aid
HLTD46H3 Violence and Health: Critical Perspectives
HLTD47H3 Advanced Topics in Health and Wellness
HLTD48H3 Advanced Topics in Global Health
HLTD49H3 Global Health Governance: Thinking Alongside the World's Leaders
HLTD50H3 Advanced Topics in Health Humanities
HLTD51H3 Aging and the Arts
HLTD52H3 Health Histories
HLTD53H3 Advanced Topics in Health Humanities
HLTD54H3 Toronto's Stories of Health and Illness
HLTD56H3 Health Humanities Workshop: Documentary and Memoir
HLTD80H3 Critical Health Education
HLTD81H3 Health Professions Education
HLTD82H3 Black Health Disparities: Education and Promotion

The following courses may be used as a program requirement if the content is arts or policy focused; please consult with the Program Coordinator to have the topic assessed for program usage:

HLTD01H3 Directed Readings in Health and Society
HLTD02H3 Health Research Seminar
HLTD04H3 Special Topics in Health
HLTD05H3 Directed Research on Health Services and Institutions
HLTD12H3 Advanced Topics in Health and Society
HLTD21H3 Advanced Topics in Health and Society
HLTD22H3 Advanced Topics in Health and Society
HLTD71Y3 Directed Research in Health and Society