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HLTC48H3 - Special Topics in Health and Society

An examination of a current topic relevant to health and society. The specific topic will vary from year to year. Topics may include: Social Justice and Health Activism; Climate Change and Health; Labour, Precarity, and Health.

Prerequisite: HLTB41H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

HLTC49H3 - Indigenous Health

This course will examine the health and well-being of Indigenous peoples, given historic and contemporary issues. A critical examination of the social determinants of health, including the cultural, socioeconomic and political landscape, as well as the legacy of colonialism, will be emphasized. An overview of methodologies and ethical issues working with Indigenous communities in health research and developing programs and policies will be provided. The focus will be on the Canadian context, but students will be exposed to the issues of Indigenous peoples worldwide.
Same as SOCC49H3

Prerequisite: HLTB41H3 or [[SOCB05H3 or SOCB35H3] and [0.5 credit from the following: SOCB30H3 , SOCB42H3, SOCB43H3, SOCB47H3]]
Exclusion: SOCC49H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

HLTC50H3 - The Human-Animal Interface

An intensive, interdisciplinary study of the human-animal relationship as represented through a range of literature, film, and other critical writings. Students will explore the theoretical underpinnings of “animality” as a critical lens through which human identity, health, and policy are conceptualized. Key topics include: animals in the human imagination, particularly in relation to health; animal-human mythologies; health, ethics, and the animal.

Prerequisite: HLTB50H3
Recommended Preparation: Prior experience in humanities courses at the secondary or post-secondary level.
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

HLTC51H3 - Special Topics in Health and Society

An examination of a current topic relevant to the study of health and society. The specific topic will vary from year to year.

Same as SOCC51H3

Prerequisite: HLTB41H3 or [[SOCB05H3 or SOCB35H3] and [0.5 from SOCB30H3, SOCB42H3, SOCB43H3, SOCB47H3]]
Exclusion: SOCC51H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Note: Priority will be given to students enrolled in the Major programs in Health and Society

HLTC52H3 - Special Topics in Health Humanities

An examination of a current topic in Health Humanities. The specific topic will vary from year to year.

Prerequisite: HLTB50H3
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

HLTC53H3 - Creative Research Practices in Aging

In this course, we will examine older age from an arts-based humanistic perspective, with particular focus on the representation of older age in the arts, and the role of arts-based therapies, creative engagement, and humanities-informed research initiatives involving older people and/or the aging process.

Prerequisite: HLTB50H3 or enrolment in the Minor in Aging and Society
Recommended Preparation: HLTB15H3 and HLTC55H3
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language
Course Experience: University-Based Experience

HLTC55H3 - Methods in Arts-Based Health Research

This course introduces students to the practice of arts-based health research (ABHR), which involves the formal integration of creative art forms into health research methods and outcomes. Students will learn about the conceptual foundations of ABHR and explore various methods for generating, interpreting and representing health-related research (e.g., narrative, performance, visual arts, digital storytelling, or body mapping). With reference to concrete exemplars and experiential learning in creative forms, students will examine critical issues of methodological quality, evidence, research ethics, implementation challenges, and opportunities for arts-based health research in Canada and the global context.

Prerequisite: HLTB50H3
Recommended Preparation: HLTB15H3, HLTC04H3, PHLB09H3
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

HLTC56H3 - Drawing Illness

For close to a century, comics as a medium have examined diverse topics, from the serious to the silly. Drawing Illness draws on interdisciplinary scholarship from disability studies, comics studies, comic histories, medical anthropology, history of medicine and public health to examine the ways in which graphic narratives have been utilized to tell a range of stories about illness, disability, grief, dying, death, and medicine.


Prerequisite: HLTB50H3 or [HLTB60H3 in combination with any course in Historical and Cultural Studies]
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language
Course Experience: University-Based Experience

HLTC60H3 - Disability History

This course introduces students to disability history, a subfield within both history and the interdisciplinary field of disability studies. Students will use critical perspectives from disability studies to interpret how the concept of disability has changed over time and across cultures. This course understands disability as a social and political phenomenon and seeks to understand the experiences of disabled people in the past around the world. Students enrolled in this course will read secondary and primary source texts, and draw on lectures, films, memoirs, popular culture, and art to examine the social and cultural construction and experiences of disability. Students will also gain an understanding of how historians conduct research, and the methods and problems of researching disability history. Historical themes include colonialism, industrialization, war, and bureaucracy; regions and time periods studied will be selected at the discretion of the instructor.

Prerequisite: HLTB60H3 or [HLTB50H3 and any course in Historical and Cultural Studies]
Recommended Preparation: An A-level course in Health and Society or Historical and Cultural Studies
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies
Course Experience: University-Based Experience

HLTC81H3 - Health Professions and Practice

This course introduces students to health professions and practice with a focus on understanding the roles and responsibilities of health professionals, their scope of practices, and the key issues and challenges they face. The course will explore the evolution of healthcare delivery systems, the regulatory environment, and the ethical and professional considerations that impact the delivery of health care services through the lens of various health professions. Topics will also include the history and development of health professions and the interprofessional nature of health care delivery. The course will also examine, from the lens of various health professions, key issues and challenges facing health professionals such as health care disparities, health care reform, the use of technology, and other contemporary issues in healthcare.

Throughout the course students will engage in critical thinking, analysis, and discussion of current issues in health professions and practice. The course will also provide opportunities for students to explore potential career paths within the healthcare field and to develop skills necessary for success in health professions such as communication, teamwork and cultural competence.

Prerequisite: HLTB40H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Course Experience: University-Based Experience

HLTD01H3 - Directed Readings in Health and Society

This is an advanced reading course in special topics for upper level students who have completed the available basic courses in Health and Society and who wish to pursue further intensive study on a relevant topic. Topic selection and approval will depend on the supervising instructor.

Prerequisite: Completion of at least 6.0 credits, including at least 1.5 credits at the C-level from the program requirements from one of the Major/Major Co-op programs in Health and Society; students must also have achieved a minimum CGPA of 2.5 and have permission of an instructor for enrollment.

HLTD02H3 - Health Research Seminar

Provides senior students with the opportunity to apply methodological skills to a health research problem. Students will give presentations of their research proposals, and there may be a guest seminar on health research projects.

Prerequisite: Completion of at least 1.5 credits at the C-Level in HLT courses from the program requirements from one of the Major/Major Co-op programs in Health and Society
Course Experience: University-Based Experience

HLTD04H3 - Advanced Topics in Health and Society

The topics presented in this course will represent a range of contemporary issues in health research. Topics will vary by instructor and term.

Prerequisite: Completion of at least 1.5 credits at the C-Level in HLT courses from the program requirements from one of the Major/Major Co-op programs in Health and Society

HLTD05H3 - Directed Research on Health Services and Institutions

Provides students with the opportunity to analyze work of health institutions. Students taking this course will arrange, in consultation with the instructor, to work as a volunteer in a health institution. They will write a major research paper related to some aspect of their experience.

Prerequisite: Completion of at least 1.5 credits at the C-Level in HLT courses from the program requirements from one of the Major/Major Co-op programs in Health and Society and a minimum cGPA of 2.5 and permission of the instructor
Exclusion: (HLTC01H3)
Course Experience: Partnership-Based Experience

HLTD06H3 - Migration, Medicine, and the Law

How does cultural representation and social construction shape understandings of persons with chronic illness, disability and genetic difference? Engaging with history and the present cross-culturally, students learn about language and framing; lay and medical knowledge; family memory and public secrets; the professions and immigration medicine; front-line bureaucracy and public health authority; asymptomatic disease and stigmatized illness; and dual loyalty dilemmas and institutionalized medicine.

Prerequisite: HLTB42H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

HLTD07H3 - Advanced Rehabilitation Sciences: Disability Studies and Lived Experiences of 'Normalcy'

This course builds on HLTC17H3 by examining rehabilitation from the perspectives of researchers, clinicians, and clients. The course focuses on the historical role of rehabilitation, not only in improving health, but also in perpetuating the goal of 'normalcy'. Students will examine how rehabilitation impacts people, both at an individual and societal level, and explore the field of disability studies and its critical engagement with the message that disabled people “need to be repaired.”

Prerequisite: HLTC17H3 and an additional 1.5 credits at the C-Level in HLT courses from the program requirements from one of the Major/Major Co-op in Health and Society
Exclusion: HLTD47H3 if taken before Summer 2018
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

HLTD08H3 - Advanced Topics in Health Sciences

An examination of a current health sciences topic. The specific topic will vary from year to year, and may include: clinical epidemiology, an advanced nutrition topic, or the biology and population health impacts of a specific disease or illness condition.

Prerequisite: [HLTC27H3] and an additional [1.5 credits at the C-Level from the program requirements from the Major/Major Co-op program in Health Studies- Population Health]

Recommended Preparation: HLTC19H3 or HLTC25H3
Breadth Requirements: Natural Sciences

HLTD09H3 - Population Perspectives on Reproductive Health

Reproductive health is defined by the World Health Organization as physical, mental, and social wellbeing across the life course in all domains related to the reproductive system. This course will draw on theories and methods from demography, epidemiology, medicine, and public health to examine the determinants and components of reproductive health. A particular emphasis will be placed on sexual health, family planning, preconception health, and perinatal health and on how these are understood in the context of a growing global population.

Prerequisite: HLTC27H3 and 1.5 credits at the C-level in HLT courses from the requirements of the Major/Major Co-op program in Health Studies- Population Health 
Breadth Requirements: Natural Sciences

HLTD11H3 - Program and Policy Evaluation

This course provides an introduction to the field of program and policy evaluation. Evaluation plays an important role in evidence based decision making in all aspects of society. Students will gain insight into the theoretical, methodological, practical, and ethical aspects of evaluation across different settings. The relative strengths and weaknesses of various designs used in applied social research to examine programs and policies will be covered.

Same as SOCD11H3

Prerequisite: [[STAB22H3 or STAB23H3] and [0.5 credit from HLTC42H3, HLTC43H3, HLTC44H3] and [an additional 1.0 credit at the C-Level from courses from the Major/Major Coop in Health Studies- Health Policy]] or [10.0 credits and [SOCB05H3 and SOCB35H3] and [1.0 credit from the following: SOCB30H3, SOCB42H3, SOCB43H3, or SOCB47H3]]
Exclusion: SOCD11H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Course Experience: Partnership-Based Experience

HLTD12H3 - Advanced Topics in Health and Society

The topics presented in this course will represent a range of contemporary issues in health research. Topics will vary by instructor and term.


Prerequisite: Completion of 1.5 credits at the C-Level in HLT courses from the program requirements from one of the Major/Major Co-op programs in Health and Society
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

HLTD13H3 - Advanced Topics in Global Health and Human Biology

An examination of a current topic relevant to global health, especially diseases or conditions that predominately affect populations in low-income countries. The specific topics will vary from year to year, and may include: HIV/AIDS; insect-borne diseases; the biology of poverty and precarity. The course will provide students with relevant information about social context and health policy, but will focus on the processes of disease transmission and its biological impact on human health.

Prerequisite: HLTC26H3 and an additional 1.0 credits at the C-level from the program requirements from the Major/Major Co-op programs in Health Studies- Population Health 
Breadth Requirements: Natural Sciences

HLTD18H3 - Dental Sciences

Dentistry is one of the oldest branches of medicine responsible for the treatment of diseases of oral cavity. This course will introduce students to the key concepts as well as the latest research in the dental sciences, including but not limited to craniofacial structures, bone physiology, odontogenesis, pathogenesis of oral diseases, and technology in dental sciences.

Prerequisite: HLTB44H3, HLTC19H3, HLTC23H3 and 0.5 credit in any Physiology course
Exclusion: HMB474H1
Recommended Preparation: ANTC47H3, ANTC48H3, BIOB33H3 and a working background in chemistry, biochemistry, genetics, and principles of inheritance would be beneficial
Breadth Requirements: Natural Sciences
Note: Priority will be given to students in the Population Health Major Program

HLTD20H3 - Advanced Topics in Sex, Gender, and the Life Course

An examination of a current health topic relevant to sex, gender, and the life course. The specific topic will vary from year to year, and topics may include: reproductive health; the biology and health impacts of aging; infant feeding, weaning, and nutrition; sexual health among youth. The course will provide students with relevant information about social context and health policy, but will focus on biological processes at specific life stages.

Prerequisite: 1.5 credits at the C-level from the program requirements from the Major/Major Co-op programs in Health Studies- Population Health
Breadth Requirements: Natural Sciences

HLTD21H3 - Advanced Topics in Health and Society

The topics presented in this course will represent a range of contemporary issues in health research. Topics will vary by instructor and term.

Prerequisite: 1.5 credits at the C-level from the program requirements from the Major/Major Co-op programs in Health and Society
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

HLTD22H3 - Advanced Topics in Health and Society

The topics presented in this course will represent a range of contemporary issues in health research. Topics will vary by instructor and term.

Prerequisite: 1.5 credits at the C-level from the program requirements from the Major/Major Co-op programs in Health and Society
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

HLTD23H3 - Indigenous Peoples: Pandemics, Epidemics, and Outbreaks

This course will examine pandemics, epidemics, and outbreaks of contagious infectious diseases, specifically viruses (i.e. HIV, Ebola, SARS, hantavirus, smallpox, influenza) among Indigenous Peoples. Students will learn about the social, cultural, and historical impacts of the virus on Indigenous peoples and their communities with regards to transmission, treatment and prevention, public health measures and strategies, as well as ethical issues.

Prerequisite: HLTC25H3 and 1.0 credit at the C-level from the program requirements from the Major/Major Co-op programs in Health Studies- Population Health
Corequisite: HLTC27H3
Recommended Preparation: HLTC49H3/SOCC49H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

HLTD25H3 - Advanced Topics in Environmental Health

The didactic portion of this course will examine emerging environmental health issues using case studies. In the hands-on portion of the course, students will learn a range of research skills - how to use the Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines, evidence-based health and best practices, and the different elements of a successful grant proposal - while honing their researching, writing, and presenting skills.

Prerequisite: HLTC24H3 with a minimum GPA of 2.7 (B-)
Breadth Requirements: Natural Sciences
Course Experience: University-Based Experience

HLTD26H3 - Embodiment Across the Life Course

This course will introduce students to key conceptual and methodological approaches to studying experiences of embodiment at different points in the life course. It draws on range of social and cultural perspectives on bodily activity, exercise, disability, and representations of the body to encourage students to critically examine relationships between sociocultural dynamics and health.

Prerequisite: HLTB15H3 and HLTC22H3 and an additional 1.0 credit at the C-level from the program requirements from the Major/Major Co-op programs in Health and Society or enrolment in the Minor in Aging and Society
Exclusion: HLTD12H3 if taken in the Winter 2019 semester
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Note: Priority will be given to students enrolled in Health Studies programs offered by the Department of Health and Society

HLTD27H3 - Food Security, Food Sovereignty, and Health

Food security is an important determinant of health and well being, and yet in many areas of the world there are profound challenges to achieving it. Food sovereignty – the right of peoples to self-determined food production – has an important and complex relationship with food security. This course will examine the implications of food security and food sovereignty for health equity in the context of sub Saharan Africa.

Prerequisite: HLTC26H3 and an additional 1.0 credit at the C-level from the program requirements from the Major/Major Co-op programs in Health Studies- Population Health 
Exclusion: HLTD22H3 if taken in Winter 2018 or Fall 2018 semester
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Course Experience: Partnership-Based Experience

HLTD28H3 - Innovations for Global Health

This course is designed to provide students with an in-depth knowledge of the role of technological and social innovations in global health. Through lectures, case studies, group projects and exciting guest lectures, students will gain an understanding of the process of developing and scaling technological and social innovations in low- and middle-income countries, taking into account the unique socio-cultural, financial and logistical constraints that are present in such settings.

Prerequisite: HLTC26H3 and an additional 1.0 credit at the C-level from the program requirements from the Major/Major Co-op programs in Health and Society
Exclusion: [HLTC47H3 if taken in Fall 2017 semester], [HLTD04H3 if taken in Winter 2019 semester]
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Course Experience: Partnership-Based Experience