Health and Society


Faculty List
  • R. Antabe, B.A. (Ghana), M.A., Ph.D. (Western), Assistant Professor
  • A. Benoit, B.Sc. (Mount Allison), M.Sc. (Ottawa), M.Sc. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Ottawa), Assistant Professor
  • L. Bisaillon, B.A. (Bishop's), M.Pl. (McGill), Ph.D. (Ottawa), Associate Professor
  • H. Brown, B.A., M.Sc. (Queen's), Ph.D. (Western), Associate Professor
  • E. Caron-Beaudoin, B.Sc., M.Sc. (Québec à Montréal), Ph.D. (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique), Assistant Professor
  • A. Charise, B.A., B.Sc. (McMaster), M.A. (Western), Ph.D. (Toronto), Associate Professor
  • K. Colaco, B.Sc. (Waterloo), M.Sc. (McMaster), M.Sc. (Maastricht), Ph.D. (Toronto), Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
  • O. Ezezika, B.Sc. (Lagos), Ph.D. (Georgia), M. Env. Management (Yale), Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream (Status Only)
  • J. Fields, B.A. (NYU), MA, Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill), Professor
  • P. Galvez-Hernandez, B.Sc., M.H.R. (Catalonia), Ph.D. (Toronto), Assistant Professor
  • C. Hartblay, B.A. (Macalaster), M.A., Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill), Associate Professor
  • N. Massaquoi, B.A. (Western), M.S.W., Ph.D. (Toronto), Assistant Professor
  • A. Nair, B.A. (Michigan-Flint), M.S. (London School of Economics), M.P.H. (Cambridge), Ph.D. (Australian National), Assistant Professor
  • D. Schlueter, B.A. (Grand Valley State), Ph.D. (Vanderbilt), Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
  • S.R. Sicchia, M.H.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Toronto), Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
  • M. Silver, B.A., B.S., M.P.P. (California, Berkeley), Ph.D. (Chicago), Professor
  • N. Spence, B.A., Ph.D. (Western), Assistant Professor
  • W. Tavares, H.B.Sc, (Toronto) Ph.D. (McMaster), Assistant Professor
  • C. Trick, B.Sc. (Manitoba), M.Sc. (Acadia), Ph.D. (UBC), Professor
  • L.J.S. Tsuji, B.Sc., D.D.S. (Toronto), Ph.D. (York), Professor
  • C. Wong, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Toronto), Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Chair: M. Silver, Email: dhs-chair@utsc.utoronto.ca
Associate Chair, Undergraduate Email: dhs-associate-chair-undergrad@utsc.utoronto.ca
Program Coordinator: S. Ramrattan, Email: dhsadvisor.utsc@utoronto.ca
Paramedicine Program: paramedicine.utsc@utoronto.ca 
Pathways in Health Professions Certificate: health.certificate.utsc@utoronto.ca

For more information, visit the Department of Health and Society website.

The Department of Health and Society, formally known as the Interdisciplinary Centre for Health and Society (ICHS), offers two interdisciplinary Major programs that provide students with a critical and comprehensive understanding of health, the biological and social determinants of health, and the impacts of public policy on health and well-being. In the Major/Major (Co-op) Program in Population Health (B.Sc.), students focus on the biological and environmental determinants of health, epidemiology, aging and the life cycle, and the importance of social and behavioural determinants of health. In the Major/Major (Co-op) Program in Health Policy (B.A), students examine the character and consequences of different health care systems, public health policies, and governmental and civil society responses to ongoing societal issues related to health.

The Department of Health and Society also offers Canada’s first Minor Program in Health Humanities, which explores human health and illness through the methods and materials of the creative arts and interpretive social sciences, and a Minor in Aging and Society which focuses on the social, mental, and physical changes in the aging process across the life course.

Effective July 1, 2023, the (Joint) Specialist in Paramedicine (B.Sc.) is now administered in the Department of Health and Society. Note, the program requirements for 2023-24 remain unchanged; students who are presently enrolled in the program or entering in Fall 2023 will follow the program as outlined in the calendar for the year they began the program. For more details regarding this program please contact paramedicine.utsc@utoronto.ca, or refer to the Paramedicine section of the Calendar or the Joint Programs website. The Specialist (Joint) in Paramedicine is offered in collaboration with Centennial College. Completion of this unique four-year program leads to an H.B.Sc. from UTSC and an Ontario College Diploma in Paramedicine from Centennial College. Upon completion of the diploma portion from Centennial College, students are eligible to take the Ministry of Health exams required to qualify as a Primary Care Paramedic. 

In addition to pursuing a rich core curriculum, students are strongly encouraged to diversify their learning by drawing upon relevant courses in various programs including Anthropology, Arts, Culture and Media Studies, Economics, Environmental Studies, Human Biology, International Development Studies, Mental Health, Philosophy, Public Policy, Sociology, and Statistics.

Students are encouraged to contact the Program Coordinator or Associate Chair, Undergraduate to discuss program requirements and their individual course of study.

Planning a Program in Health and Society

Students are advised to take required courses in the Major programs as early as possible. HLTA02H3 and HLTA03H3 should be taken during the first year. Students interested in pursuing the Population Health Major should also enroll in BIOA01H3 or BIOA11H3 and HLTA20H3 in their first year. Failure to do so may lead to timetable conflicts and could prolong the completion of the program.

Prerequisites:
Students are not permitted to register in courses for which they have not completed the prerequisites indicated in the Calendar. Students may only enter a course for which they lack the prerequisites by obtaining the permission of the instructor prior to registration. Ineligible students will be removed from courses.

Special Topic and Advanced Topic Courses:
Themes for special topic courses will vary year to year. For more information, please visit the Department of Health and Society website.

Routes and Threads

Here, we present comprehensive frameworks for exploration within the realm of Health and Society, showcasing the robustness of our department and faculty. These frameworks, termed 'routes and threads,' act as guideposts for students in their course selection and academic journey, providing avenues for delving into specific interests. Dynamic and interwoven, these categories underscore various aspects within Health and Society, offering suggestions for thematic exploration. Students are also urged to chart their own thematic pathways tailored to their individual passions:  

Aging, Development, and the Lifespan
HLTA20H3, HLTB24H3, HLTB33H3, HLTC22H3, HLTD20H3, HLTD26H3, HLTD51H3

Allied Health and Health Education
HLTC17H3, HLTC81H3, HLTD07H3, HLTD18H3, HLTD80H3, HLTD81H3, HLTD82H3 

Body Systems
HLTA20H3, HLTB11H3, HLTB20H3, HLTB22H3, HLTB33H3, HLTB44H3, HLTC19H3, HLTC25H3, HLTC26H3, HLTC30H3, HLTC31H3, HLTD44H3 

Contemporary Issues in Health
HLTA91H3, HLTB30H3, HLTB60H3, HLTC02H3, HLTC20H3, HLTC23H3, HLTC46H3, HLTC49H3, HLTC60H3, HLTD07H3, HLTD20H3, HLTD27H3, HLTD29H3, HLTD46H3, HLTD47H3, HLTD48H3, HLTD49H3, HLTD82H3

Cultural, Social, and Sociological Perspectives in Health
HLTB41H3, HLTB42H3, HLTC47H3, HLTC49H3, HLTD06H3, HLTD29H3, HLTD46H3, HLTD47H3, HLTD49H3, HLTD82H3

Disability, Ableism, and Health Humanities
HLTB24H3, HLTB50H3, HLTB60H3, HLTC20H3, HLTC50H3, HLTC52H3, HLTC53H3, HLTC55H3, HLTC60H3, HLTD50H3, HLTD51H3, HLTD52H3, HLTD53H3, HLTD54H3, HLTD56H3

Disease Patterns
HLTA20H3, HLTB22H3, HLTB33H3, HLTB44H3, HLTC19H3, HLTC25H3, HLTC30H3, HLTC31H3, HLTD23H3, HLTD44H3

Global and Environmental Health
HLTC24H3, HLTC26H3, HLTC31H3, HLTC49H3, HLTD13H3, HLTD25H3, HLTD27H3, HLTD28H3, HLTD44H3, HLTD48H3, HLTD82H3

Policy, Healthcare, and Public Health
HLTB16H3, HLTB24H3, HLTB31H3, HLTB40H3, HLTC42H3, HLTC43H3, HLTC44H3, HLTD11H3, HLTD27H3, HLTD49H3

Research Methods and Methodologies
HLTB15H3, HLTB27H3, HLTC04H3, HLTC27H3, HLTC32H3, HLTC53H3, HLTC55H3

Statistics and Data Sciences
HLTB27H3, HLTC16H3, HLTC27H3, HLTC32H3

A more comprehensive list can be found on the DHS website.  

Program Combination Restrictions

The Major/Major (Co-op) Program in Population Health (H.B.Sc.) and Major/Major (Co-op) Program in Health Policy (H.B.A.) cannot be combined. For students that choose to pair one of the major programs with the Minor in Aging and Society (H.B.A.), please visit the Aging and Society section of the calendar for sequencing suggestions. 

Priority Pathway for Students in the Certificate in Pathways to Health Professions

Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing

The BScN program is an accelerated two-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree, that prepares students for a long and rewarding career in health care.

Applicants to the BScN program who are enrolled in, or have completed, the Certificate in Pathways to Health Professions (PHPC) are eligible for the PHPC Priority Pathway. Applicants should have completed an equivalent number of PHPC designated courses to their year of study (e.g. two courses completed by the end of Year 2 if applying in Year 2), in addition to the academic and supplementary application requirements.

Prospective BScN students are encouraged to take courses in the Complex Systems, Structures, and Settings and Cultures, Communities and Care groupings before applying to the BScN, as those are most aligned to the future study of nursing; however, specific certificate courses from those groupings are not required.

For more information, interested students should contact: connect.nursing@utoronto.ca. 

Experiential Learning and Outreach

For a community-based experiential learning opportunity in your academic field of interest, consider the course CTLB03H3, which can be found in the Teaching and Learning section of the Calendar.

Health and Society Programs

SPECIALIST (JOINT) PROGRAM IN PARAMEDICINE (SCIENCE) - SCSPEPMD

Program Supervisor: W. Tavares
Program Coordinator: Jenn Chaskavich paramedicine.utsc@utoronto.ca

The Honours Specialist (Joint) Program in Paramedicine is administered by the Department of Health and Society. Students who complete the requirements of the program will qualify for an Honours Bachelor of Science degree and an Ontario College Diploma in Paramedicine from Centennial College. This ensures students are provided with theoretical breadth related to health and society and the practical knowledge, skills, and eligibility to take the Ministry of Health exam required to qualify as a Primary Care Paramedic in Ontario.

Enrolment Requirements
This program has limited enrolment. Applicants must fill out a Paramedicine Declaration Form that outlines additional details about their enrolment. Prior to taking courses at Centennial College, students must also fill out a medical certificate and have current qualifications in CPR and Standard First Aid. Other non-academic requirements such as a vulnerable sector police check, fitness standards, F-class driving licensure, and face mask fit certification will also ultimately be required. Additional details regarding these requirements may be found at Centennial College's website. Applicants may arrange to complete some of these requirements during their first year of study at the University of Toronto Scarborough. For more information on admission and deadlines, see the Joint Programs section of the UTSC Calendar.

Program Requirements
This program requires 17.0 core credits. Additional electives and breadth courses are required as part of overall degree requirements (see the Academic Calendar page on Degree Requirements for details). Students should take 2.5 credits in each semester of their four year degree.

Note: Three PMD courses and two HLTD-level research course options are 1.0 (Y) credit.

1. 0.5 Credit of Introductory Biology Course
BIOA11H3 Introduction to the Biology of Humans

2. 1.0 Credit of Introductory Psychology Courses
PSYA01H3 Introduction to Biological and Cognitive Psychology
PSYA02H3 Introduction to Clinical, Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology

3. 0.5 Credit of B-Level Psychology Courses
PSYB32H3 Introduction to Clinical Psychology

4. 1.5 Credits of Introductory Health and Society Courses
HLTA02H3 Exploring Health and Society: Theories, Perspectives, and Patterns
HLTA03H3 Navigating Health and Society: Research, Practice, and Policy
HLTA20H3 Physiology Through the Life Course: From Birth Through Death

5. 1.0 Credit of Statistics/Data Analytics Courses
STAB23H3 Introduction to Statistics for the Social Sciences
HLTB27H3 Applied Statistics for Public Health

6. 3.0 Credits of Core Health & Society Courses
HLTB15H3 Health Research Methodology
HLTB16H3 Public Health
HLTB40H3 Health Policy and Health Systems
HLTB41H3 Social Determinants of Health
HLTB80H3 Paramedicine as a Community Based Health and Social Service
HLTC81H3 Health Professions and Practice

7. 1.0 Credit from the following C-Level HLT courses:
HLTC19H3 Chronic Diseases
HLTC22H3 Health, Aging, and the Life Cycle
HLTC27H3 Community Health and Epidemiology
HLTC42H3 Emerging Health Issues and Policy Needs

8. 1.0 credit from the following D-level HLT courses, including at least one *research-based course:
HLTD02H3 Health Research Seminar (*research-based course)
HLTD05H3 Directed Research on Health Services and Institutions (*research-based course)
HLTD71Y3 Directed Research in Health and Society (*research-based course)
HLTD80H3 Critical Health Education
HLTD81H3 Health Professions Education
HLTD82H3 Solving Black Health Disparities: Education and Promotion
HLTD96Y3 Directed Research in Paramedicine (*research-based course)

9. 7.5 Credits of Paramedicine Courses
*PMDB22H3 Pre-Hospital Care 1: Theory and Lab
*PMDB25H3 Therapeutic Approaches to Behaviour in Crisis
*PMDB30H3 Alterations of Human Body Function I
*PMDB32Y3 Pre-Hospital Care 2: Theory, Lab and Clinical
*PMDB33H3 Anatomy
*PMDB36H3 Pharmacology for Allied Health Pre-requisite
*PMDB41H3 Professional Issues, Research and Leadership
*PMDC40H3 Alterations in Human Body Function II
*PMDC42Y3 Pre-Hospital Care 3: Theory, Lab and Field
*PMDC43H3 Medical Directed Therapeutics and Paramedic Responsibilities
*PMDC54Y3 Pre-Hospital Care 4: Theory, Lab and Field
*PMDC56H3 Primary Care Practice Integration and Decision Making

Recommended Course Sequence
*Please note: We recommend that, where possible, students complete UTSC courses during Summer terms to avoid taking courses at both Centennial and UTSC during the Fall/Winter. Please consult the Program Coordinator for help with navigating your pathway through this program.

First Year
5.0 credits as follows:
BIOA11H3 Introduction to the Biology of Humans
HLTA02H3 Exploring Health and Society: Theories, Perspectives, and Patterns
HLTA03H3 Navigating Health and Society: Research, Practice, and Policy
HLTA20H3 Physiology Through the Life Course: From Birth Through Death
HLTB80H3 Paramedicine as a Community-Based Health and Social Service
PSYA01H3 Introduction to Biological and Cognitive Psychology
PSYA02H3 Introduction to Clinical, Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology
STAB23H3 Introduction to Statistics for the Social Sciences
1.0 additional elective credits

Second Year
5.0 credits as follows:
*PMDB22H3 Pre-Hospital Care 1: Theory and Lab
*PMDB25H3 Therapeutic Approaches to Behaviour in Crisis
*PMDB33H3 Anatomy
*PMDB41H3 Professional Issues, Research and Leadership
*PMDB30H3 Alterations of Human Body Function I
*PMDB32Y3 Pre-Hospital Care 2: Theory, Lab and Clinical
*PMDB36H3 Pharmacology for Allied Health Pre-requisite
HLTB15H3 Health Research Methodology
HLTB40H3 Health Policy and Health Systems

Third Year
5.0 credits as follows:
*PMDC40H3 Alterations in Human Body Function II
*PMDC42Y3 Pre-Hospital Care 3: Theory, Lab and Field
*PMDC43H3 Medical Directed Therapeutics and Paramedic Responsibilities
*PMDC54Y3 Pre-Hospital Care 4: Theory, Lab and Field
*PMDC56H3 Primary Care Practice Integration and Decision-Making
HLTB16H3 Public Health
HLTB41H3 Social Determinants of Health
0.5 elective credit

Fourth Year
5.0 credits as follows:
HLTB27H3 Applied Statistics for Public Health
HLTC81H3 Health Professions and Practice
PSYB32H3 Introduction to Clinical Psychology

1.0 credit from the following:
HLTC19H3 Chronic Diseases
HLTC22H3 Health, Aging, and the Life Cycle
HLTC27H3 Community Health and Epidemiology
HLTC42H3 Emerging Health Issues and Policy Needs

1.0 credit from the following that includes at least one *research-based course:
HLTD02H3 Health Research Seminar (*research-based course)
HLTD05H3 Directed Research on Health Services and Institutions (*research-based course)
HLTD71Y3 Directed Research in Health and Society (*research-based course)
HLTD80H3 Critical Health Education
HLTD81H3 Health Professions Education
HLTD82H3 Solving Black Health Disparities: Education and Promotion
HLTD96Y3 Directed Research in Paramedicine (*research-based course)

1.5 additional elective credits
*Students are encouraged to consider the routes and threads available through the Department (e.g., Aging, Development and the Lifespan; Body Systems; Contemporary Issues in Health; Disability, Ableism, and Health Humanities; and more). See Health and Society.

*A grade of 60% is required in PMD courses both to pass the course and to maintain standing in the program. All PMD courses are taught at Centennial College. Note, that some PMD courses require that 60% or a "pass" be achieved in all components of the course (i.e., lecture component, practical component, and clinical-placement component).

Note: To remain in the program, students must maintain a cumulative GPA of at least 2.0. Students whose cumulative GPA falls below 2.0 should consult the program supervisor to discuss their options. Please also note, space in some Centennial College courses is limited. Students who must repeat one of these courses and whose cumulative GPA has fallen below 2.0 will be allowed to register in these courses only if space permits.

Prospective students with a recognized Diploma from Centennial College or other publicly funded and approved College in Ontario can be considered for enrollment in this Specialist program. Course credit will be considered for PMD credits listed above.

MAJOR PROGRAM IN HEALTH POLICY (ARTS) - SCMAJ2086G

Grade 12 math is recommended

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

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

First Year
2.0 credits

1. 1.5 credits as follows:
HLTA02H3 Exploring Health and Society: Theories, Perspectives, and Patterns
HLTA03H3 Navigating Health and Society: Research, Practice, and Policy
PHLB09H3 Bioethics

2. 0.5 credit from the following:
STAB22H3 Statistics I
STAB23H3 Introduction to Statistics for the Social Sciences (preferred)

Second Year
3.0 credits

3. 2.0 credits as follows:
HLTB15H3 Health Research Methodology
HLTB16H3 Public Health
HLTB40H3 Health Policy and Health Systems
HLTB41H3 Social Determinants of Health

4. 0.5 credit from the following:
HLTB50H3 Introduction to Health Humanities
HLTB60H3 Introduction to Interdisciplinary Disability Studies

5. 0.5 credit from the following:
GGRB28H3 Geographies of Disease: Beyond Epidemiology
HLTB11H3 Human Nutrition
HLTB20H3 Human Biological Variation and Evolution
HLTB27H3 Applied Statistics for Public Health
HLTB42H3 Perspectives of Culture, Illness, and Healing
HLTB50H3 Introduction to Health Humanities (if not used towards requirement 4)
HLTB60H3 Introduction to Interdisciplinary Disability Studies (if not used towards requirement 4)
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

6. 0.5 credit from the following:
HLTC04H3 Qualitative Health Research
HLTC27H3 Community Health and Epidemiology

*Note: HLTC04H3 would be beneficial if the desire is to focus on social determinants of health, community work, or how policy affects the human dimension. If the goal is to analyze health systems, policies, and outcomes through measurable data, then HLTC27H3 may be a better choice. Students interested in pursuing graduate studies are encouraged to review the admissions and academic requirements for the prospective program to ensure they are making the best decision for their application.

7. 1.0 credit from the following:
HLTC42H3 Emerging Health Issues and Policy Needs
HLTC43H3 Politics of Canadian Health Policy
HLTC44H3 Comparative Health Policy Systems

8. 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 Health Research (if not used towards requirement 6)
HLTC16H3 Health Information Systems
HLTC17H3 Rehabilitation Sciences
HLTC19H3 Chronic Diseases
HLTC20H3 Global Disability Studies
HLTC22H3 Health, Aging and the Life Cycle
HLTC27H3 Community Health and Epidemiology (if not used towards requirement 6)
HLTC32H3 Biomedical Data Science
HLTC42H3 Emerging Health Issues and Policy Needs (if not used towards requirement 7)
HLTC43H3 Politics of Canadian Health Policy (if not used towards requirement 7)
HLTC44H3 Comparative Health Policy Systems (if not used towards requirement 7)
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

9. 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

MAJOR PROGRAM IN POPULATION HEALTH (SCIENCE) - SCMAJ2086H

Grade 12 math and biology are recommended

Enrolment in the program is limited. Admissions will require:

A. completion of 4.0 credits including [BIOA01H3 or BIOA11H3], HLTA02H3, HLTA03H3, HLTA20H3, and [STAB22H3 or STAB23H3], and
B. either (1) a final grade of 67% or higher in both [BIOA01H3 or BIOA11H3] and HLTA20H3, or (2) a final grade of 60% or higher in both [BIOA01H3 or BIOA11H3] and HLTA20H3, and a final grade of 72% or higher in HLTB22H3

Program Requirements
This program requires the completion of 8.5 credits, as described below.

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

First Year
2.5 credits

1. 0.5 credit from the following:
BIOA01H3 Life on Earth: Unifying Principles
BIOA11H3 Introduction to the Biology of Humans

2. 0.5 credit from the following:
STAB22H3 Statistics I
STAB23H3 Introduction to Statistics for the Social Sciences (preferred)

3. 1.5 credits as follows:
HLTA02H3 Exploring Health and Society: Theories, Perspectives, and Patterns
HLTA03H3 Navigating Health and Society: Research, Practice, and Policy
HLTA20H3 Physiology Through the Life Course: From Birth Through Death

Second Year
3.5 credits

4. 2.5 credits as follows:
HLTB15H3 Health Research Methodology
HLTB16H3 Public Health
HLTB22H3 Biological Determinants of Health
HLTB27H3 Applied Statistics for Public Health
HLTB41H3 Social Determinants of Health

5. 0.5 credit from the following:
BIOB35H3 Essentials of Human Physiology
HLTB33H3 Human Development and Anatomy
HLTB44H3 Pathophysiology and Etiology of Disease

6. 0.5 credit from the following:
BIOB35H3 Essentials of Human Physiology (if not used towards requirement 5)
GGRB28H3 Geographies of Disease: Beyond Epidemiology
HLTB11H3 Human Nutrition
HLTB20H3 Human Biological Variation and Evolution
HLTB33H3 Human Development and Anatomy (if not used towards requirement 5)
HLTB40H3 Health Policy and Health Systems
HLTB42H3 Perspectives of Culture, Illness, and Healing
HLTB44H3 Pathophysiology and Etiology of Disease (if not used towards requirement 5)
HLTB50H3 Introduction to Health Humanities
HLTB60H3 Introduction to Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
PHLB09H3 Bioethics
STAB27H3 Statistics II

The following courses may be used as a program requirement if the content is science-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
2.0 credits

7. 0.5 credit as follows:
HLTC27H3 Community Health and Epidemiology

8. 0.5 credit from the following:
HLTC19H3 Chronic Diseases
HLTC25H3 Infectious Diseases

9. 1.0 credit from the following:
ANTC47H3 Human Skeletal Anatomy and Biology
ANTC48H3 Advanced Topics in Human Osteology
ANTC68H3 Deconstructing Epidemics
BIOC70H3 An Introduction to Bias in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine)
HLTC04H3 Qualitative Health Research
HLTC16H3 Health Information Systems
HLTC17H3 Rehabilitation Sciences
HLTC19H3 Chronic Diseases (if not used towards requirement 8)
HLTC22H3 Health, Aging and the Life Cycle
HLTC23H3 Child Health and Development
HLTC24H3 Environment and Health
HLTC25H3 Infectious Diseases (if not used towards requirement 8)
HLTC26H3 Global Health and Human Biology
HLTC28H3 Special Topics in Health Sciences
HLTC29H3 Special Topics in Health Sciences
HLTC30H3 Understanding Cancer: From Cells to Communities
HLTC31H3 Pick Your Poison! Toxicology and Risk Assessment
HLTC32H3 Biomedical Data Science
HLTC46H3 Globalization, Gender, and Health
HLTC49H3 Indigenous Health
HLTC81H3 Health Professions and Practice

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

HLTC48H3 Special Topics in Health and Society
HLTC51H3 Special Topics in Health and Society

Fourth Year
0.5 credits

10. 0.5 credit from the following:

HLTD07H3 Advanced Rehabilitation Sciences: Disability Studies and Lived Experiences of 'Normalcy'
HLTD08H3 Advanced Topics in Health Sciences
HLTD09H3 Population Perspectives on Reproductive Health
HLTD13H3 Advanced Topics in Global Health and Human Biology
HLTD18H3 Dental Sciences
HLTD20H3 Advanced Topics in Sex, Gender, and the Life Course
HLTD23H3 Indigenous Peoples: Pandemics, Epidemics, and Outbreaks
HLTD25H3 Advanced Topics in Environmental Health
HLTD26H3 Embodiment Across the Life Course
HLTD27H3 Food Security, Food Sovereignty, and Health
HLTD28H3 Innovations for Global Health
HLTD29H3 Advanced Topics in Inequality, Inequity, and Health
HLTD40H3 The Politics of Care, Self-Care, and Mutual Aid
HLTD44H3 Environmental Contaminants, Vulnerability, and Toxicity
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
HLTD80H3 Critical Health Education
HLTD81H3 Health Professions Education

The following courses may be used as a program requirement if the content is science-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 Advanced Topics in Health and Society
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

MAJOR (CO-OPERATIVE) PROGRAM IN HEALTH POLICY (ARTS) - SCMAJ2086J

Program Supervisor of Study: E. Caron-Beaudoin and R. Antabe
Academic Program Advisor: dhsadvisor.utsc@utoronto.ca
Co-op Program Coordinator: coopsuccess.utsc@utoronto.ca

The Major (Co-op) Program in Health Policy is a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) program that combines academic studies with paid work terms in the public, private, and/or non-profit sectors. The program provides students with the opportunity to develop the academic and professional skills required to pursue employment in these areas, or to continue on to graduate training in an academic field related to Health Policy upon graduation.

In addition to their academic course requirements, students must successfully complete the additive Arts & Science Co-op Work Term and Course requirements.

Enrolment Requirements
The minimum qualifications for entry are 4.0 credits, including HLTA02H3 and HLTA03H3, plus a cumulative GPA of at least 2.5.

Note: Co-op students who started in Co-op prior to Fall 2025 are allowed to follow the calendar requirements in effect at that time.

Prospective Co-op Students
Students who have not yet been admitted into a Co-op Degree POSt must submit a co-op program request through ACORN and ensure they meet the minimum enrolment requirements as noted above. These qualifications may include a higher CGPA specific to the co-op program.

Deadlines follow the Limited Enrolment Program Application Deadlines set by the Office of the Registrar each year. Failure to submit the program request on ACORN will result in the student's application/request not being considered.

Please note that meeting the minimum qualifications does not guarantee enrolment in the Co-op Program of Study or Degree POSt. The required CGPA may be higher than the minimum threshold and depends on the applicant pool and number of spaces available.

Minimum Qualifications for Prospective Co-op Students:
Credits: Minimum of 4.0 credits to a maximum of 10.0 credits
Required Courses: As noted in the Enrolment Requirements above
Cumulative GPA: 2.50

Current Co-op Students
Students admitted to a Co-op Degree POSt must also request a Co-op Program of Study through ACORN upon completion of 4.0 credits and meet the minimum qualifications for entry as noted below.

Minimum Qualifications for Current Co-op Students:
Credits: 4.0 credits
Required Courses: Program-specific courses described in the Enrolment Requirements above
Cumulative GPA: 2.50 across all attempted courses


Academic Program Requirements
Students must complete the program requirements as described in the Major Program in Health Policy.

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

Planning Your Co-op Work Terms & Academics
Enrollment in a Co-op program requires careful planning of both academics and work terms. Students should consult their Co-op Program Coordinator and Academic Program Advisors, as well as review the standard co-op sequences and course maps available on the Arts & Science Co-op website and Arts and Science Co-op Compass for guidance.

Co-op Work Term Requirements
Students must successfully complete three Co-op work terms, totaling 12 months in duration, which can be fulfilled through the following options:

  • Three 4-month work terms, or
  • One 4-month work term and one 8-month work term, or
  • One 12-month work term.

Students must be available for work terms during the Fall, Winter, and Summer semesters, and are required to complete at least one of their work terms in either the Fall or Winter semester. As a result, students must also take courses during the Summer semesters.

To be eligible for their first work term, students must be enrolled in the program, have completed at least 7.0 credits, and maintain a CGPA of 2.50 or higher. In addition to their academic courses, students must also complete the required Co-op preparation courses.

Co-op Course Requirements
Co-op students complete the following Co-op-specific courses as part of their degree:

Co-op Preparation Courses (Completed in First Year):

Work Term Search Courses:

  • COPB59H3/​(COPB52H3) - Completed in the semester prior to the first work term
  • COPC98H3 - Taken in the semester prior to the second work term
  • COPC99H3 - Taken in the semester prior to the third work term

Co-op Work Term Courses:

Additional Work Term Courses: After successful completion of three required work terms, students interested in additional work terms will require approval from the Arts & Science Co-op Office. Additional coursework will also be required:

Note: Co-op courses are taken alongside a full course load and are recorded on transcripts as Credit/No Credit (CR/NCR). These courses have no credit weight and are considered additional credits beyond the 20.0 required degree credits. No additional course fee is charged, as registration is included in the Co-op Program fee.

For information on course codes, fees, status in Co-op programs, and certification of completion of Co-op programs, see the Co-operative Programs section and the Arts and Science Co-op section in the UTSC Calendar.

MAJOR (CO-OPERATIVE) PROGRAM IN POPULATION HEALTH (SCIENCE) - SCMAJ2086K

Program Supervisor of Study: E. Caron-Beaudoin and R. Antabe
Academic Program Advisor: dhsadvisor.utsc@utoronto.ca
Co-op Program Coordinator: coopsuccess.utsc@utoronto.ca

The Major (Co-op) Program in Population Health is a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) program that combines academic studies with paid work terms in the public, private, and/or non-profit sectors. The program provides students with the opportunity to develop the academic and professional skills required to pursue employment in these areas, or to continue on to graduate training in an academic field related to Population Health upon graduation.

In addition to their academic course requirements, students must successfully complete the additive Arts & Science Co-op Work Term and Course requirements.


Grade 12 math and biology are recommended

Enrolment Requirements
The minimum qualifications for entry are as follows:

A. completion of 4.0 credits including [BIOA01H3 or BIOA11H3], HLTA02H3, HLTA03H3, HLTA20H3, and STAB23H3, and
B. either (1) a final grade of 67% or higher in both [BIOA01H3 or BIOA11H3] and HLTA20H3, or (2) a final grade of 60% or higher in both [BIOA01H3 or BIOA11H3] and HLTA20H3, and a final grade of 72% or higher in HLTB22H3

Note: Co-op students who started in Co-op prior to Fall 2025 are allowed to follow the calendar requirements in effect at that time.

Prospective Co-op Students
Students who have not yet been admitted into a Co-op Degree POSt must submit a co-op program request through ACORN and ensure they meet the minimum enrolment requirements as noted above. These qualifications may include a higher CGPA specific to the co-op program.

Deadlines follow the Limited Enrolment Program Application Deadlines set by the Office of the Registrar each year. Failure to submit the program request on ACORN will result in the student's application/request not being considered.

Please note that meeting the minimum qualifications does not guarantee enrolment in the Co-op Program of Study or Degree POSt. The required CGPA may be higher than the minimum threshold and is dependent on the applicant pool and number of spaces available.

Minimum Qualifications for Prospective Co-op Students:
Credits: Minimum of 4.0 credits to a maximum of 10.0 credits
Required Courses: As noted in the Enrolment Requirements above
Cumulative GPA: 2.50

Current Co-op Students
Students admitted to a Co-op Degree POSt must also request a Co-op Program of Study through ACORN upon completion of 4.0 credits and meet the minimum qualifications for entry as noted below.

Minimum Qualifications for Current Co-op Students:
Credits: 4.0 credits
Required Courses: Program-specific courses described in the Enrolment Requirements above
Cumulative GPA: 2.50 across all attempted courses


Academic Program Requirements
Students must complete the program requirements as described in the Major Program in Population Health.

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

Planning Your Co-op Work Terms & Academics
Enrollment in a Co-op program requires careful planning of both academics and work terms. Students should consult their Co-op Program Coordinator and Academic Program Advisors, as well as review the standard co-op sequences and course maps available on the Arts & Science Co-op website and Arts and Science Co-op Compass for guidance.

Co-op Work Term Requirements
Students must successfully complete three Co-op work terms, totaling 12 months in duration, which can be fulfilled through the following options:

  • Three 4-month work terms, or
  • One 4-month work term and one 8-month work term, or
  • One 12-month work term.

Students must be available for work terms during the Fall, Winter, and Summer semesters, and are required to complete at least one of their work terms in either the Fall or Winter semester. As a result, students must also take courses during the Summer semesters.

To be eligible for their first work term, students must be enrolled in the program, have completed at least 7.0 credits, and maintain a CGPA of 2.50 or higher. In addition to their academic courses, students must also complete the required Co-op preparation courses.

Co-op Course Requirements
Co-op students complete the following Co-op-specific courses as part of their degree:

Co-op Preparation Courses (Completed in First Year):

Work Term Search Courses:

  • COPB55H3/​(COPB52H3) - Completed in the semester prior to the first work term
  • COPC98H3 - Taken in the semester prior to the second work term
  • COPC99H3 - Taken in the semester prior to the third work term

Co-op Work Term Courses:

Additional Work Term Courses: After successful completion of three required work terms, students interested in additional work terms will require approval from the Arts & Science Co-op Office. Additional coursework will also be required:

Note: Co-op courses are taken alongside a full course load and are recorded on transcripts as Credit/No Credit (CR/NCR). These courses have no credit weight and are considered additional credits beyond the 20.0 required degree credits. No additional course fee is charged, as registration is included in the Co-op Program fee.

For information on course codes, fees, status in Co-op programs, and certification of completion of Co-op programs, see the Co-operative Programs section and the Arts and Science Co-op section in the UTSC Calendar.

MINOR PROGRAM IN AGING AND SOCIETY (ARTS) - SCMINAGS

The Minor in Aging and Society provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the aging process and individuals across the life course. This includes the study of social, mental, and physical changes in people as they age, the investigation of changes in society resulting from our aging population, and the application of this knowledge to policies and programs. This interdisciplinary Minor program is open to all undergraduate students regardless of major or disciplinary backgrounds.

Students who choose to combine this Minor with a Major in Health Policy (BA) or Population Health (BSc) must take care to ensure that no more than 2.0 credits are used to satisfy the requirements of both this Minor and their Major. Additional course guidance for these students is provided below.

Note: Relevant aging-related courses selected from other academic units and disciplines not listed below, may be approved for the Minor in Aging and Society on a case-by-case basis. Please contact DHS Undergraduate Advising to request approval for such courses prior to registering in them.

Program Requirements
This program requires the completion of 4.5 credits, as follows:

1. 1.5 credits in Foundations as follows:
HLTA02H3 Exploring Health and Society: Theories, Perspectives, and Patterns
HLTA03H3 Navigating Health and Society: Research, Practice, and Policy

and one of the following:

HLTA20H3 Physiology Through the Life Course: From Birth Through Death*
HLTB15H3 Health Research Methodology

2. 1.5 credits in Core Concepts as follows:
HLTB24H3 Aging with Agility
HLTB40H3 Health Policy and Health Systems

and one of the following:

HLTB22H3 Biological Determinants of Health*
HLTB41H3 Social Determinants of Health

3. 1.5 credits in Aging and Society in Practice as follows:
HLTC22H3 Health, Aging, and the Life Cycle

and two of the following:

HLTC19H3 Chronic Diseases*
HLTC42H3 Emerging Health Issues and Policy Needs*
HLTC43H3 Politics of Canadian Health Policy*
HLTC44H3 Comparative Health Policy Systems*
HLTC53H3 Creative Research Practices in Aging*
HLTC81H3 Health Professions and Practice*
HLTD26H3 Embodiment Across the Life Course*

* Students who choose to combine the Minor in Aging and Society with either the Major/Major Co-op in Health Policy or the Major/Major Co-op in Population Health are cautioned that, in accordance with degree regulations, they must ensure that the combination of programs used to meet the degree requirement include a minimum of 12.0 distinct credits.

In particular:

Students who combine the Minor with the Major/Major Co-op in Health Policy:

Students who combine the Minor with the Major/Major Co-op in Population Health may apply the following courses to the completion of either the Major OR the Minor, but not both: HLTC19H3, HLTC81H3, and/or HLTD26H3.


MINOR PROGRAM IN HEALTH HUMANITIES (ARTS) - SCMIN2088

The Minor in Health Humanities provides an interdisciplinary exploration of human health and illness through the methods and materials of the creative arts, humanities, and critical social sciences. Students’ understanding of the humanistic, philosophical, historical, and artistic study of health—past and present—will be developed by attending closely to how literature, philosophy, history, and critical social sciences reveal the aesthetic, ethical, and multicultural contexts of health, disability, medical research and policy. This interdisciplinary Minor program is open to all undergraduates regardless of major or disciplinary backgrounds. See the following website for more information.
Students will note that some courses at the B-, C-, and D-levels may have additional prerequisites; therefore, students selecting the Minor as a Subject POSt must choose their courses carefully to ensure that they have the necessary prerequisites. Permission to count courses indicated by an asterisk (*) towards the Minor in Health Humanities must be received from the Program Supervisor, and will be granted in cases where the student’s work demonstrably engages Health Humanities-related content and/or research methods.

Note: Relevant Health Humanities-related courses selected from other academic units and disciplines, not already listed below, may be approved for the Minor in Health Humanities on a case-by-case basis. Please consult the Program Supervisor to determine the potential eligibility of relevant courses that are not listed below.

Program Requirements
This program requires the completion of 4.0 credits, as follows:

1. 1.5 credit in Core Concepts in Health Humanities
HLTB50H3 Introduction to Health Humanities
HLTC55H3 Methods in Arts-Based Research
PHLB09H3 Bioethics

2. 0.5 credit in Critical Writing to be chosen from:
ENGA02H3 Critical Writing about Literature
ENGB02H3 Effective Writing in the Sciences

3. At least 0.5 credit at the C-level to be chosen from the following*:
ANTC24H3 Culture, Mental Illness, and Psychiatry
ANTC61H3 Medical Anthropology: Illness and Healing in Cultural Perspective
HLTC20H3 Global Disability Studies
HLTC50H3 The Human-Animal Interface
HLTC52H3 Special Topics in Health Humanities
HLTC53H3 Creative Research Practices in Aging
HLTC56H3 Drawing Illness
HLTC60H3 Disability History
MUZC02H3/​(VPMC02H3) Music and Health in the Community
WSTC12H3 Writing the Self: Global Women's Autobiographies
WSTC40H3 Gender and Disability

4. 0.5 credit at the D-level to be chosen from the following*:
ANTD10H3 The Anthropology of 'Life' Itself
ENGD12H3 Topics in Life Writing
HLTD07H3 Advanced Rehabilitation Sciences: Disability Studies and Lived Experiences of 'Normalcy'
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 & Memoir
HLTD80H3 Critical Health Education

5. 1.0 credits to be chosen from the following*:
ANTB01H3 The Body in Culture and Society
ANTC24H3 Culture, Mental Illness, and Psychiatry (if not used to complete Requirement 3)
ANTC61H3 Medical Anthropology: Illness and Healing in Cultural Perspective (if not used to complete Requirement 3)
ANTD10H3 The Anthropology of 'Life' Itself (if not used to complete Requirement 3)
CTLB03H3 Introduction to Service Learning
ENGA02H3 Critical Writing about Literature (if not used to complete Requirement 2)
ENGB02H3 Effective Writing in the Sciences (if not used to complete Requirement 2)
ENGB12H3 Life Writing
ENGB52H3 Literature and Science
ENGB74H3 The Body in Literature and Film
ENGD12H3 Topics in Life Writing (if not used to complete Requirement 4)
FLMC44H3 Self and Other in Literature and Film
HLTB30H3 Current Issues in Health
HLTB42H3 Perspectives of Culture, Illness and Healing
HLTB60H3 Introduction to Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
HLTC04H3 Qualitative Research in Action
HLTC20H3 Global Disability Studies (if not used to complete Requirement 3)
HLTC47H3 Institutional Ethnography in Action
HLTC50H3 The Human-Animal Interface (if not used to complete Requirement 3)
HLTC52H3 Special Topics in Health Humanities (if not used to complete Requirement 3)
HLTC53H3 Creative Research Practices in Aging (if not used to complete Requirement 3)
HLTC56H3 Drawing Illness (if not used to complete Requirement 3)
HLTC60H3 Disability History (if not used to complete Requirement 3)
HLTD01H3 Directed Readings in Health and Society**
HLTD06H3 Migration, Medicine, and the Law
HLTD07H3 Advanced Rehabilitation Sciences: Disability Studies and Lived Experiences of 'Normalcy' (if not used to complete Requirement 4)
HLTD50H3 Advanced Topics in Health Humanities (if not used to complete Requirement 4)
HLTD51H3 Aging and the Arts (if not used to complete Requirement 4)
HLTD52H3 Health Histories (if not used to complete Requirement 4)
HLTD53H3 Advanced Topics in Health Humanities (if not used to complete Requirement 4)
HLTD54H3 Toronto’s Stories of Health and Illness (if not used to complete Requirement 4)
HLTD56H3 Health Humanities Workshop: Documentary & Memoir (if not used to complete Requirement 4)
HLTD71Y3 Directed Research in Health and Society **
HLTD80H3 Critical Health Education (if not used to complete Requirement 4)
MUZC02H3/​(VPMC02H3) Music, Health and Wellness
WSTC12H3 Writing the Self: Global Women's Autobiographies (if not used to complete Requirement 3)
WSTC40H3 Gender and Disability (if not used to complete Requirement 3)

Notes:
1. The courses listed in requirements 3, 4, and 5 (designated with a *) engage methods, content, and/or issues relevant to arts and humanities-based approaches to health. They provide students with the opportunity to explore more specialized topics related to Health Humanities based on their academic interests and professional aspirations.
2. 0.5 credit can be earned by taking for-credit fine arts classes (e.g., music performance, visual arts, creative writing, etc).
3. Permission to count CLTB03H3 (**), HLTB30H3 (**), HLTD01H3, (**) or HLTD71Y3 (**) towards the Minor in Health Humanities must be received from the Program Supervisor. Permission will be granted only in cases where the student’s work demonstrably engages Health Humanities-related content and/or research methods.

CERTIFICATE IN PATHWAYS TO HEALTH PROFESSIONS - SCCER1110

Students will be admitted to the Certificate directly from high school. Students will select the Certificate in combination with specified science (HBSc) programs at the time of application to UTSC and will be enrolled directly into the Certificate in their first year of study after accepting their offer to UTSC and will need to be admitted to and maintain good standing in one of the programs below to remain in the certificate. Only students entering UTSC directly from high school in September 2024 and after are eligible for enrolment in this certificate.

The Certificate must be taken in conjunction with a Major/Major (Co-op) or Specialist/Specialist (Co-op) in one of the following programs:

  • Biochemistry
  • Biology
  • Chemistry
  • Conservation & Biodiversity
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Environmental Geoscience
  • Environmental Science
  • Evolutionary Anthropology
  • Global Environmental Change
  • Population Health
  • Human Biology
  • Integrative Biology
  • Medicinal & Biological Chemistry
  • Mental Health Studies
  • Molecular Biology & Biotechnology
  • Molecular Biology, Immunology & Disease
  • Neuroscience
  • Plant Biology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Psychology

Students must complete a minimum of 2.0 credits, including at least 0.5 credit at the C- or D-level, as follows:

1. 0.5 credit from Complex Systems, Structures and Settings:

  • ANTA02H3: Introduction to Anthropology: Society, Culture and Language
  • ANTB02H3: The Body in Culture and Society
  • ANTC24H3: Culture, Mental Illness, and Psychiatry
  • ANTC47H3: Human Skeletal Anatomy and Biology
  • ANTC65H3: Anthropology of Science, Medicine, and Technology
  • ANTD16H3: Biomedical Anthropology
  • ANTD17H3: Medical Osteology: Public Health Perspectives on Human Skeletal Health
  • EESA06H3: Introduction to Planet Earth
  • EESA10H3: Human Health and Environment
  • EESA11H3: Environmental Pollution
  • EESB16H3: Feeding Humans – The Cost to the Planet
  • EESC04H3: Biodiversity and Biogeography
  • ESTC34H3: Sustainability in Practice
  • ESTC35H3: Environmental Science and Technology in Society
  • ESTD18H3: Environmental Studies Seminar Series
  • IDSB04H3: Introduction to International/Global Health
  • FSTA01H3: Foods That Changed the World
  • FSTA02H3: Food Futures: Confronting Crises, Improving Lives
  • GGRB28H3: Geographies of Disease: Beyond Epidemiology
  • HISB59H3: Science, Technology, Medicine and Empire
  • HISC76H3: Dirt and Disease in the Global City
  • HLTB16H3: Public Health
  • HLTB40H3: Health Policy and Health Systems
  • HLTC42H3: Emerging Health Issues and Policy Needs
  • HLTC43H3: Politics of Canadian Health Policy
  • HLTC44H3: Comparative Health Policy Systems
  • HLTD04H3: Advanced Topics in Health and Society
  • HLTD40H3: The Politics of Care, Self-Care and Mutual Aid
  • HLTD81H3: Health Professions Education
  • MUZA02H3: Introduction to Music and Health
  • MDSA10H3: Media Foundations
  • MGTA01H3: Introduction to Business
  • POLD59H3: Politics of Disability
  • VPAA10H3: Introduction to Arts and Media Management
  • WSTB09H3: Gender, Race, and Colonialism
  • WSTB12H3: Gender-Based Violence and Resistance

2. 0.5 credit from Cultures, Communities and Care:

  • ACMB10H3: Equity and Diversity in the Arts
  • ANTA01H3: Introduction to Anthropology, Becoming Human
  • ANTB64H3: Are You What You Eat? The Anthropology of Food
  • ANTC15H3: Genders and Sexualities
  • ANTC61H3: Medical Anthropology: Illness and Healing in Cultural Perspective
  • ANTD10H3: The Anthropology of Life Itself
  • ANTD25H3: Medical Primatology: Public Health Perspectives on Zoonotic Diseases
  • ANTD26H3: Caveman, Farmer, Herder, Trader: Evolution of Diet in Society
  • CITB03H3: Social Planning and Community Development
  • FSTC13H3: Food Policy and Nutritional Health
  • FSTC15H3: Food Justice
  • GGRD10H3: Health & Sexuality
  • HISA01H3: Drugs: A History
  • HISC27H3: The History of European Sexuality: From Antiquity to the Present
  • HLTA91H3: A Healthy Campus for Students: Prioritizing Mental Health and Wellness
  • HLTB24H3: Aging with Agility
  • HLTB41H3: Social Determinants of Health
  • HLTB42H3: Perspectives of Culture, Illness and Healing
  • HLTB60H3: Introduction to Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
  • HLTC22H3: Health, Aging, and the Life Cycle
  • HLTC56H3: Drawing Illness
  • HLTD18H3: Dental Sciences
  • HLTD47H3: Advanced Topics in Health and Wellness
  • PHLB12H3: Philosophy of Sexuality
  • PHLC07H3: Death and Dying
  • POLC43H3: Prejudice and Racism
  • PSYB32H3: Introduction to Clinical Psychology
  • PSYC14H3: Cross-Cultural Social Psychology
  • PSYC15H3: Foundations in Community Psychology
  • PSYC18H3: Psychology of Emotion
  • PSYC19H3: Psychology of Self Control
  • PSYC34H3: Psychology of Happiness and Meaning
  • PSYD10H3: Community and Applied Social Psychology
  • PSYD13H3: The Psychology of Emotion Regulation
  • SOCB22H3: Sociology of Gender
  • SOCB47H3: Social Inequality
  • SOCB49H3: Sociology of Family
  • SOCC49H3/​HLTC49H3: Indigenous Health
  • WSTB11H3: Intersections of Inequality

3. 0.5 credit from Critical and Creative Thinking:

  • ANTB14H3: Evolutionary Anthropology
  • ANTB15H3: Human Biological Variation and Evolution
  • ANTC42H3: Human Growth, Development, and Adaptability
  • ANTC62H3: Medical Anthropology: Biological and Population Perspectives
  • ANTC67H3: Foundations in Epidemiology
  • ANTC68H3: Deconstructing Epidemics
  • BIOB20H3: Introduction to Computational Biology
  • BIOC70H3: An Introduction to Bias in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine)
  • BIOD59H3: Models in Ecology, Epidemiology, and Conservation
  • CHMD89H3: Introduction to Green Chemistry
  • CSCB20H3: Introduction to Web Development and Applications
  • ESTB01H3: Introduction to Environmental Studies
  • ESTD19H3: Risk
  • ENGB52H3: Literature and Science
  • FSTB01H3: Methodologies in Food Studies
  • HISA02H3: Rise of the Machines: How Technology Remakes the World
  • HISB05H3: How We Became Digital: Introduction to our Information Age
  • HLTB15H3: Health Research Methodologies
  • HLTB50H3: Introduction to Health Humanities
  • HLTC53H3: Creative Research Practices in Aging
  • HLTC55H3: Methods in Arts-Based Health Research
  • HLTC81H3: Health Professions and Practice
  • JOUA01H3: Introduction to Journalism and News Literacy I
  • LINB30H3: Programming for Linguists
  • MATA02H3: The Magic of Numbers
  • PHLA10H3: Reason and Truth
  • PHLA11H3: Introduction to Ethics
  • PHLB09H3: Bioethics
  • PHLC10H3: Topics in Bioethics
  • PHLD09H3: Advanced Seminar in Bioethics
  • PSYB03H3: Introduction to Computers in Psychological Research
  • PSYB80H3: Psychology in Context
  • PSYC13H3: Social Cognition: Understanding Ourselves and Others
  • STAB52H3: An Introduction to Probability
  • STAB53H3: Introduction to Applied Probability

4. 0.5 credit from Communication and Leadership:

  • ECTB71H3: Medical Terminology, Translation and Interpretation I
  • ENGB02H3: Effective Writing in the Sciences
  • HLTD49H3: Global Health Governance: Thinking Alongside the World's Leaders
  • MGEB32H3: Economic Aspects of Public Policy
  • MGTA02H3: Managing the Business Organization
  • PHLB06H3: Business Ethics
  • PHLB58H3: Reasoning and Uncertainty
  • POLC13H3: Program Evaluation
  • PSYB38H3: Introduction to Behaviour Modification
  • PSYC02H3: Scientific Communication in Psychology
  • PSYC10H3: Judgment and Decision-Making
  • PSYD19H3: The Science of Behaviour Change

Additional course options may be added in future years.

In addition to the formal curricular components, students are encouraged to participate in at least one of each of the following areas to complement their work in the certificate and build a cohort experience:

  • participation in a community of practice or service activity recognized on the Co-curricular Record;
  • professional development workshop or learning module offered by at UofT Scarborough or tri-campus office;
  • annual program events, including a capstone event upon completion of the certificate.

 

Health and Society Courses

HLTA02H3 - Exploring Health and Society: Theories, Perspectives, and Patterns

This course is dedicated to the exploration of theories, contemporary themes, and analytical methodologies associated with the study of health-related matters. Areas of focus encompass the social and biological determinants of health, globalization and international health issues, health technology and information systems, and fundamentals of epidemiology.

Exclusion: HST209H1
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

HLTA03H3 - Navigating Health and Society: Research, Practice, and Policy

This course seeks to provide an understanding of inquiry and analysis, practical applications, and policy formulation as it pertains to the study of health-related matters. Areas of focus encompass foundational concepts in research methodology, the Canadian health care system and practical approaches, international comparisons, political systems, and ethical considerations.

Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

HLTA20H3 - Physiology Through the Life Course: From Birth Through Death

An introduction to human functional processes will be presented through the various stages of the life cycle. Focusing on the body’s complex interacting systems, the physiology of all stages of human development, from prenatal development to adolescence to death, will be covered. Students will also develop a working scientific vocabulary in order to communicate effectively across health disciplines.

This course is intended for students who have not previously taken a course in Physiology. 

Prerequisite: Grade 12 Biology
Exclusion: Any course in Physiology across the campuses.
Breadth Requirements: Natural Sciences
Course Experience: University-Based Experience
Note: Students that have not taken Grade 12 Biology must enroll and successfully pass BIOA11H3 before enrolling in HLTA20H3.

HLTA91H3 - A Healthy Campus for Students: Prioritizing Mental Health and Wellness

Students need to be and feel part of a community that allows them to flourish and thrive. This course focuses on creating a healthy campus community by equipping students with practical knowledge, theoretical frameworks, and skills to prioritize their mental health, physical health, and self-care activities. Emphasis is placed on examining theoretical frameworks and practical activities that ameliorate mental health and self care practices, particularly those included in UTSC’s Healthy Campus Initiative Pillars (i.e. Arts & Culture, Equity & Diversity, Food & Nutrition, Mental Health, Physical Activity, and Physical Space). Drawing on theoretical frameworks and current peer-reviewed research from fields including medicine, psychology, nutrition, exercise and fitness, as well as social and cultural studies, students will learn to debate and integrate theoretical and practical concepts relevant to contemporary understandings of what it means to be healthy. In addition, students will engage in experiential learning activities that will expose them to campus resources in ways that they can apply to creating healthy communities.

Exclusion: (CTLA10H3)
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Course Experience: University-Based Experience
Note: Note: This is an experiential learning course and active participation may be required

HLTB11H3 - Human Nutrition

An introductory course to provide the fundamentals of human nutrition to enable students to understand and think critically about the complex interrelationships between food, nutrition, health, and environment.

Prerequisite: HLTA02H3 and HLTA03H3
Exclusion: NFS284H1
Recommended Preparation: BIOA01H3 or BIOA11H3
Breadth Requirements: Natural Sciences

HLTB15H3 - Health Research Methodology

The objective of this course is to introduce students to the main principles that are needed to undertake health-related research. Students will be introduced to the concepts and approaches to health research, the nature of scientific inquiry, the role of empirical research, and epidemiological research designs.

Prerequisite: [HLTA02H3 and HLTA03H3] or [any 4.0 credits, including SOCB60H3]
Exclusion: (HLTA10H3)
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

HLTB16H3 - Public Health

This course will present a brief history about the origins and development of the public health system and its role in health prevention. Using a case study approach, the course will focus on core functions, public health practices, and the relationship of public health with the overall health system.

Prerequisite: HLTA02H3 and HLTA03H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

HLTB20H3 - Human Biological Variation and Evolution

This course will explore biological variation in the genus Homo from evolutionary and anthropological perspectives. Topics such as human adaptability, genetic variation and evolution,
the non-existence of biological race, and the ecogeographic patterning of human phenotypic variation will be covered.
Science credit
Same as ANTB15H3

Prerequisite: ANTA01H3 or [HLTA02H3 and HLTA03H3]
Exclusion: ANTB15H3, ANT203Y
Breadth Requirements: Natural Sciences

HLTB22H3 - Biological Determinants of Health

This course is an introduction to the basic biological principles underlying the origins and development of both infectious and non-infectious diseases in human populations. It covers population genetics and principles of inheritance.

Prerequisite: HLTA02H3 and HLTA03H3 and [BIOA11H3 or BIOA01H3]
Breadth Requirements: Natural Sciences

HLTB24H3 - Aging with Agility

This course uses a life-course perspective, considering diversity among mature adults and accounting for the influence of cultural and economic inequity on access to resources, to examine what it means to sustain an age-friendly community. Sample topics covered include: environmental gerontology, global aging, demographies of aging, aging in place, and sustainable aging.

Prerequisite: HLTA02H3 and HLTA03H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Course Experience: University-Based Experience

HLTB27H3 - Applied Statistics for Public Health

This is a survey course in population health numeracy. This course will build upon foundational statistical knowledge and offers students the opportunity to both understand and apply a range of techniques to public health research. Topics include hypothesis testing, sensitivity/specificity, regression (e.g., logistic regression), diagnostics and model sitting, time-to-event analysis, basic probability theory including discrete and continuous random variables, sampling, and conditional probability and their use and application in public health.

Prerequisite: HLTA03H3 and STAB23H3
Recommended Preparation: HLTB15H3 and introductory programming

Breadth Requirements: Quantitative Reasoning
Course Experience: University-Based Experience

HLTB30H3 - Current Issues in Health and Society

An interdisciplinary consideration of current and pressing issues in health, including health crises, care, education, policy, research, and knowledge mobilization and translation. The course will focus on emerging questions and research, with attention to local and global experts from a range of disciplines and sectors.

Recommended Preparation: HLTA02H3 and HLTA03H3
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language, Social and Behavioural Sciences

HLTB31H3 - Synergies Among Science, Policy, and Action

An interdisciplinary examination of a case study of a major contemporary health issue--the biological, physiological, social, economic, epidemiological, and environmental contexts of current and pressing issues in health, including health crises, care, education, policy, research, and knowledge mobilization and translation. This course will explore the science that underpins policy responses and actions and the policy and social change agendas that inform science, with attention to local and global experts from a range of disciplines and sectors.

Recommended Preparation: HLTA02H3 and HLTA03H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

HLTB33H3 - Human Development and Anatomy

A lecture based course with online learning modules which deals with the functional morphology of the human organism. The subject matter extends from early embryo-genesis through puberty to late adult life.

Prerequisite: [BIOA01H3 and BIOA02H3] or [HLTA03H3 and HLTA20H3]
Exclusion: ANA300Y, ANA301H, BIOB33H3, PMDB33H3
Breadth Requirements: Natural Sciences

HLTB40H3 - Health Policy and Health Systems

This course focuses on public and private financing mechanisms for health care in Canada, emphasizing provincial differences and discussing the systems in place in other developed nations. Topics will include the forces of market competition and government regulation as well as the impact of health policy on key stakeholders. Students will also learn how to apply simple economic reasoning to examine health policy issues.

Prerequisite: HLTA02H3 and HLTA03H3
Exclusion: HST211H1
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Course Experience: University-Based Experience

HLTB41H3 - Social Determinants of Health

This course introduces students to Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) approaches to reducing health inequities, and improving individual and population health. Students will critically explore the social, political, economic, and historic conditions that shape the everyday lives, and influence the health of people.

Prerequisite: HLTA02H3 and HLTA03H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

HLTB42H3 - Perspectives of Culture, Illness, and Healing

This course introduces students to anthropological perspectives of culture, society, and language, to foster understanding of the ways that health intersects with political, economic, religious and kinship systems. Topics will include ethnographic theory and practice, cultural relivatism, and social and symbolic meanings and practices regarding the body.

Prerequisite: HLTA02H3 and HLTA03H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Course Experience: University-Based Experience

HLTB44H3 - Pathophysiology and Etiology of Disease

This course focuses on functional changes in the body that result from the disruption of the normal balance of selected systems of the human body. Building on the knowledge of human biology, students will learn the biological basis, etiopathology and clinical manifestations of selected diseases and other perturbations, with a focus on cellular and tissue alterations in children.

Prerequisite: [HLTA02H3 and HLTA03H3 and HLTA20H3] and [BIOA11H3 or BIOA01H3]
Recommended Preparation: Grade 12 Biology
Breadth Requirements: Natural Sciences

HLTB50H3 - Introduction to Health Humanities

An introduction to human health through literature, narrative, and the visual arts. Students will develop strong critical skills in text-centered methods of analysis (i.e., the written word, visual images) through topics including representations of health, illness narratives, death and dying, patient-professional relationships, technoscience, and the human body.

Prerequisite: Any 4.0 credits
Recommended Preparation: Prior experience in humanities courses at the secondary or post-secondary level.
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language
Note: Preference will be given to students enrolled in a Health and Society program

HLTB60H3 - Introduction to Interdisciplinary Disability Studies

An introduction to interdisciplinary disability studies through humanities, social science, and fine arts, with a strong basis in a social justice orientation that understands disability as a relational, social, and historical symbolic category, and ableism as a form of oppression. Students will develop strong critical skills in interpretation and analysis of artworks (i.e., the written word, visual images, performance) and theoretical texts. Topics including representations of disability in media, including literature and film; medicalization and tropes of disability; disability activism; and intersectional analysis of disability in relation to gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity, and class.

Prerequisite: Completion of 2.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies
Note: Students considering a Major Program in Health and Society should complete HLTA02H3 and HLTA03H3 prior to enrolling in this course.
Preference will be given to students enrolled in a Health and Society program.

HLTB80H3 - Paramedicine as a Community Based Health and Social Service

This course introduces students to the foundational principles shaping paramedicine in Canada. Emphasizing patient-centered care, integration within healthcare systems, and the continuum of health and social services, the course explores the evolving healthcare and professional landscape and paramedicine’s role within it. Students will also learn about the guiding principles for effective paramedicine, including professional autonomy, community health prioritization, evidence-informed practice, social responsiveness, prioritizing the health professionals and how quality is determined. The course aims to provide an understanding of paramedicine as it exists and how it is evolving in several areas. Designed for paramedic students (and other 2nd year students), this course emphasizes evolving paramedicine to meet modern healthcare challenges effectively and prepares learners for future studies by establishing a strong foundation in the values and direction of modern paramedicine.

Prerequisite: HLTA02H3 and HLTA03H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Note: This course is designed for paramedicine students and therefore priority should be given to students enrolled in the Joint Paramedicine Specialist degree program with Centennial College. However, other students in health policy, population health or health humanities streams can enroll in this course. Understanding how health professions exist in the healthcare system, provides a mechanism (of many) for how health is achieved. Students in all streams will be given an opportunity to understand why and how paramedicine as a community-based health and social service can contribute to broader health system goals, including attending to disparities. This will assist students (and future graduates) to explore various strategies when navigating change in the health care system.

HLTC02H3 - Women and Health: Past and Present

This course uses historical, anthropological, philosophical approaches to further understand the relationships intertwining women, health and society. Women's interactions with the health sector will be examined. Particular attention will be devoted to the social and gender construction of disease and the politics of women's health.

Prerequisite: HLTB41H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

HLTC04H3 - Qualitative Health Research

This course explores qualitative research methodologies and methods in health research. From an interpretive lens, students will examine different qualitative research approaches (such as phenomenology, grounded theory or ethnography), learn data collection methods (such as focus groups, interviews, observational methods and document analysis), gain skills with data interpretation, and other aspects of ethical research practices in qualitative health research.

Prerequisite: HLTB15H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

HLTC16H3 - Health Information Systems

An introduction to the fundamental concepts in health informatics (HI) and the relevance of HI to current and future Canadian and international health systems. Students will be introduced to traditional hospital-based/clinician-based HI systems, as well as present and emerging applications in consumer and public HI, including global applications.

Prerequisite: HLTB16H3
Breadth Requirements: Natural Sciences

HLTC17H3 - Rehabilitation Sciences

This course will provide students with an introduction to the rehabilitation sciences in the Canadian context. Students will gain knowledge regarding the pressing demographic needs for rehabilitation services and research, as well as the issues affecting the delivery of those services.

Prerequisite: HLTB16H3
Breadth Requirements: Natural Sciences

HLTC19H3 - Chronic Diseases

This course will introduce students to the regional, national, and global patterns of chronic disease and demonstrate how demography, behaviour, socio-economic status, and genetics impact patterns of chronic disease in human populations. Using epidemiological studies we will examine these patterns, assess their complex causes, and discuss strategies for broad-based preventative action.

Prerequisite: HLTB22H3 or HLTB41H3
Exclusion: (HLTC07H3), (HLTC21H3)
Breadth Requirements: Natural Sciences

HLTC20H3 - Global Disability Studies

This course considers how the category of disability works globally across geographic locations and cultural settings. Combining an interdisciplinary social justice-oriented disability studies perspective with a critical decolonial approach, students continue to develop an understanding of disability as a relational, social, and historical symbolic category, and ableism. Students will develop strong critical skills in interpretation and analysis of both social science texts, works of theory, and artworks (i.e., the written word, visual images, performance). Topics including representations of disability in global and diasporic media, including literature and film; medicalization and tropes of disability across cultures; human rights and disability activism around the world; and intersectional analysis of disability in relation to gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity, and class in diverse global contexts.

Prerequisite: HLTB60H3
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies

HLTC22H3 - Health, Aging, and the Life Cycle

This course focuses on the transition from birth to old age and changes in health status. Topics to be covered include: socio-cultural perspectives on aging, the aging process, chronic and degenerative diseases, caring for the elderly.

Prerequisite: HLTB22H3 or HLTB41H3
Exclusion: (HLTB01H3), HST308H1
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

HLTC23H3 - Child Health and Development

This course will explore bio-social aspects of health and development in children. Topics for discussion include genetics and development, growth and development, childhood diseases, the immune system, and nutrition during the early years.

Prerequisite: HLTB22H3 or HLTB41H3
Exclusion: (HLTB02H3)
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

HLTC24H3 - Environment and Health

Environmental issues are often complex and require a holistic approach where the lines between different disciplines are often obscured. The environment, as defined in this course, includes the natural (biological) and built (social, cultural, political) settings. Health is broadly defined to include the concept of well-being. Case studies will be used to illustrate environment and health issues using an ecosystem approach that includes humans as part of the ecosystem.

Prerequisite: HLTB22H3
Exclusion: (ANTB56H3), (HLTB04H3)
Breadth Requirements: Natural Sciences

HLTC25H3 - Infectious Diseases

Adopting ecological, epidemiological, and social approaches, this course examines the impact of infectious disease on human populations. Topics covered include disease ecology, zoonoses, and the role of humans in disease occurrence. The aim is to understand why infectious diseases emerge and how their occurrence is intimately linked to human behaviours.

Prerequisite: HLTB22H3
Exclusion: (HLTB21H3)
Breadth Requirements: Natural Sciences

HLTC26H3 - Global Health and Human Biology

This course will apply students' knowledge of health, society, and human biology to solving real-life cases in global health, such as the Ebola outbreaks in Africa or the acute toxic encephalopathy mystery illness among children in India. This case-study-oriented course will focus on the application of human biology principles in addressing current cases in global health.

Prerequisite: HLTB22H3
Exclusion: HLTC28H3 if taken in the Winter 2018 or the Winter 2019 semester
Breadth Requirements: Natural Sciences

HLTC27H3 - Community Health and Epidemiology

Epidemiology is the study of the pattern and causes of health-related outcomes and the application of findings to improve public health. This course will examine the history of epidemiology and its principles and terminology, measures of disease occurrence, study design, and application of concepts to specific research areas.

Prerequisite: [HLTB15H3 and HLTB16H3 and HLTB27H3] or [enrolment in the Certificate in Computational Social Science]
Exclusion: ANTC67H3
Breadth Requirements: Quantitative Reasoning
Course Experience: University-Based Experience

HLTC28H3 - Special Topics in Health Sciences

An examination of a current topic relevant to health sciences. The specific topic will vary from year to year, and may include: Ecosystem Approaches to Zoonotic Disease; Climate Change and Health; Food Insecurity, Nutrition, and Health; Health and the Human-Insect Interface.

Prerequisite: HLTB22H3
Breadth Requirements: Natural Sciences

HLTC29H3 - Special Topics in Health Sciences

An examination of a current topic relevant to health sciences. The specific topic will vary from year to year, and may include: Ecosystem Approaches to Zoonotic Disease; Climate Change and Health; Food Insecurity, Nutrition, and Health; Health and the Human-Insect Interface.

Prerequisite: HLTB22H3
Breadth Requirements: Natural Sciences

HLTC30H3 - Understanding Cancer: From Cells to Communities

This course introduces students to the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying cancer and how these overlap with social and environmental determinants of health. This will allow for a wider exploration of risk factors and public health approaches to individual and population health. The social impact of cancer and the importance of patient advocacy and support will also be examined. This course will also delve into evolving concepts of cancer and breakthroughs in cancer therapies.

Prerequisite: HLTB22H3
Exclusion: BIO477H5, LMP420H1
Recommended Preparation: HLTB44H3
Breadth Requirements: Natural Sciences
Course Experience: Partnership-Based Experience

HLTC31H3 - Pick Your Poison: Toxicology and Risk Assessment

This course explores several topics in toxicology with emphasis on exposure pathways, mechanisms of toxicity and effects of chemicals on human health. Through lectures, case studies and a semester-long project, this course covers principles of toxicology, models and methodologies used to investigate the toxicity of environmental chemicals, the mechanisms of toxicity of selected environmental chemicals, and the applications of toxicology in risk assessment.

Prerequisite: [HLTA20H3 and HLTB22H3] or HLTB44H3 or BIOB10H3
Exclusion: HLTC28H3 if taken in Fall 2024
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

HLTC32H3 - Biomedical Data Science

A technical introduction to the methodology and practice of biomedical data science. This course introduces core concepts for analyzing health and biomedical data, including electronic health data, large datasets, phenotyping algorithms, and association studies.

Prerequisite: HLTB27H3 or STAC33H3
Recommended Preparation: Extra programming experience is highly recommended
Breadth Requirements: Quantitative Reasoning

HLTC42H3 - Emerging Health Issues and Policy Needs

This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to helping students prepare to tackle complex emerging health issues and to explore ways of addressing these issues through public policy. A range of contemporary and newly-emerging health issues are discussed and analyzed in the context of existing policy constraints within Canada and worldwide.

Prerequisite: HLTB40H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

HLTC43H3 - Politics of Canadian Health Policy

This course examines the role of all levels of Canadian government in health and health care. The impact of public policies, health care policy, and access to health care services on the health of populations is considered. The course also examines the role of political parties and social movements in the policy change process.

Prerequisite: HLTB40H3
Exclusion: (POLC55H3), (HLTC03H3)
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

HLTC44H3 - Comparative Health Policy Systems

This course surveys a selection of health care systems worldwide in relation to financing, reimbursement, delivery systems and adoption of new technologies. In this course students will explore questions such as: which systems and which public/private sector mixes are better at achieving efficiency and equity? How do these different systems deal with tough choices, such as decisions about new technologies? The set of international health care systems we focus on are likely to vary by term but will include a subset of OECD countries as well as countries with large populations that are heavily represented in Toronto such as China and India.

Prerequisite: HLTB40H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

HLTC46H3 - Globalization, Gender, and Health

This interdisciplinary course draws on diverse theoretical and analytical approaches that span the humanities, social sciences and life sciences to critically explore the diverse relationships between gender and health, in local and global contexts. Particular attention is given to intersections between sex, gender and other social locations and processes that impact health and health inequities across the lifespan, including the impacts of ableism, colonialism, hetero-normativity, poverty, racialization, and sexism on women's and men's health, and related health research and practice. Through course readings, case studies, group discussions, class activities, and course assignments, students will apply these theoretical lenses and develop analytical skills that : (1) advance a more contextualized understanding of gender and health across the lifespan, (2) provide important insights into gendered health inequities, and (3) speak to strategies and social movements that begin to address these challenges.

Prerequisite: HLTB41H3 or IDSB04H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

HLTC47H3 - Institutional Ethnography in Action

How can we empirically research and understand the powers shaping the social organization of daily life? Engaging with the theory and methods pioneered by Canadian feminist sociologist Dorothy Smith, students learn to analyze and document how health care, social services, education, financial, pharmaceutical, psychiatry, labor, legal aid, criminal justice, emergency, and immigration systems frame and shape their everyday lives.

Prerequisite: HLTB42H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

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/Specialist programs in Health and Society
Course Experience: Partnership-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] or [completion of at least 1.0 credits at the C-Level in HLT courses and enrolment in the Specialist program in Paramedicine] 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: 1.5 credits from the following: ANTC24H3, ANTC61H3, HLTC02H3, HLTC20H3, HLTC46H3, or IDSC11H3
Recommended Preparation: 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 1.0 credit at the C-level in HLT courses from the program requirements from one of the Major/Major Co-op programs 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 1.0 credit at the C-Level from the program requirements from the Major/Major Co-op programs in 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 1.0 credit at the C-level in HLT courses from the requirements of the Major/Major Co-op programs in 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 programs in 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 credit at the C-level from the programs requirements from the Major/Major Co-op programs in 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] or [BIOC32H3 and BIOC34H3]
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

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 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 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 health and equity.

Prerequisite: HLTC26H3 and an additional 1.0 credit at the C-level from the program requirements from the Major/Major Co-op programs in 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

HLTD29H3 - Advanced Topics in Inequality, Inequity, and Health

An examination of a current topic in inequality, inequity, marginalization, social exclusion, and health outcomes. Topics may include: health and homelessness, poverty and sexual health, political conflict and refugee health. The course will provide students with relevant information about social context and health policy, but will focus on the physical and mental health impacts of various forms of inequity.

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: Natural Sciences

HLTD40H3 - The Politics of Care, Self-Care, and Mutual Aid

Drawing on insights from critical social theory and on the experience of community partners, this course critically explores the ethics, economics, and politics of care and mutual aid. The course begins with a focus on informal care in our everyday lives, including self-care. We then move on to interrogate theories of care and care work in a variety of settings including schools, community health centres, hospitals, and long-term care facilities. The course is interdisciplinary, drawing on insights from scholarship across the humanities, social sciences, medicine, and public health.

Prerequisite: 1.5 credits at the C-level from the program requirements from the Major/Major Co-op programs in Health Policy
Recommended Preparation: Interest in the Social Sciences or prior coursework in the Social Sciences.
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Course Experience: Partnership-Based Experience

HLTD44H3 - Environmental Contaminants, Vulnerability, and Toxicity

This course is designed to provide an in-depth understanding of the potential effects on human health of exposure to environmental contaminants, with special attention to population groups particularly vulnerable to toxic insults.

Prerequisite: [ANTC67H3 or HLTC27H3] and BIOB10H3 or HLTB22H3
Breadth Requirements: Natural Sciences

HLTD46H3 - Violence and Health: Critical Perspectives

Violence is a significant public health, human rights, and human development problem that impacts millions of people worldwide. Relying on a critical public health perspective, critical social theories, and local and global case studies on anti-oppression, this course explores structural (causes of) violence, the impact violence has on (public) health and human development, and societal responses to treatment, prevention, and social transformation.

Prerequisite: 1.5 credits at the C-level from the program requirements from the Major/Major Co-op programs in Health Policy
Recommended Preparation: HLTC02H3 and HLTC46H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

HLTD47H3 - Advanced Topics in Health and Wellness

An examination of a current topic in health and wellness. Topics may include: disability, addiction, psychosocial wellbeing, social activism around health issues, Wellness Indices, Community Needs and Assets Appraisals. The course will focus on the contributing historical, social, and/or cultural factors, as well as relevant health policies.

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

HLTD48H3 - Advanced Topics in Global Health

An examination of a current topic in global health, especially a disease or condition that predominantly impacts populations in low-income countries. The specific topic will vary from year to year. Topics may include: HIV/AIDS; war and violence, insect-borne diseases; policies and politics of water and sanitation; reproductive health and population policies, etc. The course will focus on historical factors, socio-political contexts, and health policies.

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
Course Experience: University-Based Experience

HLTD49H3 - Global Health Governance: Thinking Alongside the World's Leaders

This advanced seminar course explores contemporary topics in global health governance as they are being discussed and debated by world leaders at key international summits, such as the World Health Summit. After developing an understanding of the historical and political economy context of the main actors and instruments involved in global health governance, contemporary global health challenges are explored. Topics and cases change based on global priorities and student interests, but can include: the impact of international trade regimes on global health inequities; the role transnational corporations and non-governmental organizations play in shaping the global health agenda; the impact globalization has had on universal health care and health human resources in low-income countries; and health care during complex humanitarian crises.

Prerequisite: 0.5 credit from [HLTC02H3 or HLTC43H3 or HLTC46H3] and an additional 1.0 credit at the C-level from the program requirements from the Major/Major Co-op program in Health Policy
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

HLTD50H3 - Advanced Topics in Health Humanities

This advanced seminar will provide intensive study of a selected topic in and/or theoretical questions about the health humanities. Topics will vary by instructor and term but may include narrative medicine, stories of illness and healing, representations of older age and aging in literature and film, AIDS and/or cancer writing, representations of death and dying in literature and film, and the role of creative arts in health.

Prerequisite: HLTB50H3 and an additional 1.5 credits at the C-level from the program requirements from the Minor program in Health Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

HLTD51H3 - Aging and the Arts

In this advanced seminar students will examine older age using the methods and materials of the humanities, with particular focus on: 1) the representation of aging and older age in the arts; and 2) the role of arts-based therapies and research initiatives involving older people and/or the aging process.

Prerequisite: HLTB50H3 and an additional 1.5 credits at the C-level from the program requirements from the Minor program in Health Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

HLTD52H3 - Health Histories

An examination of a health topic in historical perspective. The specific topics will vary from year to year, and may include: histories of race, racialization, and health policy; history of a specific medical tradition; or histories of specific health conditions, their medical and popular representations, and their treatment (e.g. historical changes in the understanding and representation of leprosy or depression).

Prerequisite: HLTB50H3 and an additional 1.5 credits at the C-level from the program requirements from the Minor program in Health Humanities
Breadth Requirements: History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies

HLTD53H3 - Advanced Topics in Health Humanities

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

Prerequisite: HLTB50H3 and an additional 1.5 credits at the C-level from the program requirements from the Minor program in Health Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

HLTD54H3 - Toronto's Stories of Health and Illness

This seminar course explores stories of health, illness, and disability that are in some way tied to the City of Toronto. It asks how the Canadian healthcare setting impacts the creation of illness narratives. Topics will include major theorizations of illness storytelling (“restitution”, “chaos,” and “quest” narratives); narrative medicine; ethics and digital health storytelling.


Prerequisite: HLTB50H3 and an additional 1.5 credits at the C-level from the program requirements from the Minor program in Health Humanities
Exclusion: HLTD50H3 if taken in the Winter 2018 semester.
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language
Course Experience: University-Based Experience

HLTD56H3 - Health Humanities Workshop: Documentary and Memoir

Advanced students of Health Humanities already know that creative work about important contemporary issues in health can help doctors, patients, and the public understand and live through complex experiences. But now, as health humanities practitioners, do we go about making new creative works and putting them out into the world? This upper-level seminar explores Documentary and Memoir as a political practice and supports students already versed in the principles and methods of health humanities in developing their own original work. Through a workshop format, students encounter artistic and compositional practices of documentary and memoir writing, film, and theatre to draw conclusions about what makes a documentary voice compelling, and consider the impact of works as a modality for communicating human experiences of health, illness, and disability through these mediated expressions.

Prerequisite: 1.5 credits at the C-level from the program requirements from the Minor program in Health Humanities
Recommended Preparation: HLTB60H3 and HLTC55H3
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

HLTD71Y3 - Directed Research in Health and Society

In this year-long directed research course, the student will work with a faculty supervisor to complete an original undergraduate research project. During fall term the student will prepare the research proposal and ethics protocol, and begin data collection. In the winter term the student will complete data collection, analysis, and write-up.

Prerequisite: HLTB15H3 and STAB23H3 and a minimum CGPA of 3.0 and permission of the faculty supervisor
Recommended Preparation: HLTB27H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Course Experience: University-Based Experience

HLTD80H3 - Critical Health Education

This course will investigate school- and community-based health education efforts that approach health as a complex social, biological, and cultural experience; critique and challenge prevailing understandings of health; and offer alternative theoretical, pedagogical, and curricular approaches to health and illness. Issues such as sexuality, gender, nation, race, social class, age, ability, and indigeneity will be central concerns in this study of health pedagogy, curriculum, and promotion.

Prerequisite: HLTB41H3 and [an additional 1.5 credits at the C-level from the program requirements from the Major/Major Co-op programs in Health and Society] or [an additional 1.0 credits at the C-level in HLT courses and enrolment in the Specialist program in Paramedicine]
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences

HLTD81H3 - Health Professions Education

The quality of our health care system is dependent on initial and ongoing education supporting our health professionals. In response to ongoing and new challenges in health care, governments and institutions respond with novel ideas of enacting health care in improved ways. Health care institutions, policy makers, and the public have expectations of highly skilled, knowledgeable, and prepared individuals. As our understanding of health and health systems change, these expectations also change. Keeping up is in part the work of health professions education. Preparing individuals for these dynamic, complex, in some cases unpredictable, and everchanging health care service demands is necessary and complex. In this course, we explore the role and governance, structure, and contemporary multidisciplinary scientific advances of initial and continuing health professions education as a means of supporting the practice and quality of health care. We also explore the future of health professions and how health professions education is working to keep up.

Prerequisite: 0.5 credit from [HLTC42H3 or HLTC43H3 or HLTC44H3 or HLTC81H3] 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 [an additional 0.5 credit at the C-level in HLT courses and enrolment in the Specialist program in Paramedicine]
Recommended Preparation: HLTC43H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Course Experience: University-Based Experience
Note: Whether students are in Health Policy, Population Health Sciences or Health Humanities streams, education of health professions/professionals provides a mechanism (of many) for how health is achieved. Students in all streams will be given an opportunity to understand why and how health professions education (a specialized branch of education) can contribute. This will assist students (and future graduates) explore the role education may play in their contributions to the health care system.

HLTD82H3 - Black Community Health: Education and Promotion

This course will delve into health promotion's inequities, notably those impacting Black communities. We examine how social determinants intersect with anti-Black racism, particularly during pandemics like HIV/AIDS and COVID-19. The Toronto Board of Health's 2020 declaration of anti-Black racism as a public health crisis underscores the urgency of addressing this issue, as Black Canadians continue to face disproportionate health disparities in areas such as life expectancy and chronic diseases.

Prerequisite: HLTB41H3 and [completion of 1.5 credits at the C-level in HLT courses from the program requirements from one of the Major/Major Co-operative programs in Health and Society] or [completion of 1.0 credits at the C-level in HLT courses and enrolment in the Specialist program in Paramedicine]
Recommended Preparation: HLTC27H3 and HLTC42H3
Breadth Requirements: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Course Experience: University-Based Experience

HLTD96Y3 - Directed Research in Paramedicine

This course is designed to permit critical analysis of current topics relevant to the broad topic of paramedicine. Students will work independently but under the supervision of an industry leader, practitioner and/or researcher involved in paramedicine, who will guide the in-depth study/research. Students report to the course instructor and paramedicine program supervisor to complete course information and their formal registration.

Prerequisite: Minimum of 14.0 credits including PMDC54Y3 and PMDC56H3 and STAB23H3
Exclusion: (BIOD96Y3)

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