Public Health

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Featured Courses

PSYC 259 / AMST 259 / STS 259 – Discovering the Person

This course surveys major developments in psychology and psychiatry from 1860 to the present. Through readings and lectures, the course…

CIS 101 – Success in STEM Seminar

This weekly seminar series will provide participants with tools and skills helpful in the pursuit of STEM studies, especially with…

AMST117F Social Norms / Social Power: Queer Readings of “Difference” in America (FYS)

This American Studies First Year Seminar is an interdisciplinary exploration of the privileges and penalties associated with “the normal” in…

COL 205 – Writing About Healthcare

Writing About Healthcare is a seminar which introduces students to models of writing about illness and health systems designed to…

STS 201 – Critical Global Health

This course explores the medical, social, political, and economic dimensions of the global health enterprise. Topics covered include (1) the…

STS 383 / PHIL 383 – Mind, Body, and World

This seminar in the metaphysics of mind and meaning begins with the philosophical and scientific background to cognitivist conceptions of…

QAC 231 – Introduction to (Geo)Spatial Data Analysis and Visualization

Geographic information systems (GIS) provide researchers, policy makers, and citizens with a powerful analytical framework for spatial pattern recognition, decision…

BIOL 106 – The Biology of Sex

This course is featured as a general education course within the Department of Biology. Serving to complement courses currently offered…

STS 262 / SOCS 259 – Cultural Studies of Health

Nothing is more fundamental to the human condition than our most basic right–the right to healthy life. Tragically, this right…

QAC 201 – Applied Data Analysis

In this project-based course, you will have the opportunity to answer questions that you feel passionately about through independent research…

GOVT 308 / CEAS 308 / ENVS 308 / IDEA 308 – Comparative Urban Policy

Cities are home to more than half of the world’s population, generate more than 80% of world GDP, and are…

SOC 259 / STS 262 – Cultural Studies of Health

Nothing is more fundamental to the human condition than our most basic right–the right to healthy life. Tragically, this right…

CSPL 493 – Internship

This course may be repeated for credit. Wesleyan has established a credit/uncredit internship course, CSPL 493, for students to receive…

ANTH 312 – Eat, Grow, Heal: The Anthropology of Food and Justice

This course uses the lens of justice to examine the politics of food. We will look at the cultural and…

PSYC 330 – Engaging Antiracist Psychological Science: From History and Theory to Practice

Responding to calls for antiracist psychological science, this seminar explores what it means to design and conduct that science. What…

CSPL 235 / FGSS 236 / AFAM 235 / IDEA 235 – Activism and Theories of Change

In this course we will explore strategies and theories of change that shape social justice movements, with particular reference to…

ECON 308 – Healthcare Economics

In this course, we examine the United States healthcare system in some detail, with some attention to useful international comparisons.…
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Alumni Spotlights

Sydney Engel ’13 (she/her)

Alumni
  • Psychology
  • Family Nurse Practitioner Community Health Center
Meet Sydney

Jennifer Freeman ’92 (she/her)

  • Sociology
  • Professor (Research), Alpert Medical School of Brown University; Director of Pediatric Anxiety Research Center Brown University Health
Meet Jennifer

Selena Gonzalez ’17 (she/her)

Alumni
  • Neuroscience and Behavior, Psychology
  • Medical Student Harvard Medical School
Meet Selena

Noah Nattell ’04 M.D., M.S.

Alumni
  • Physics
  • Chief Medical Officer Planned Parenthood and LA County
Meet Noah

Cayetana Navarro ’96 (she/her)

  • French Studies, Government
  • Diversity & Inclusion Program Manager Yale School of Medicine
Meet Cayetana

Alex Rothman ’86 (he/him)

Alumni
  • Government, Psychology
  • Professor of Psychology University of Minnesota
Meet Alex

Shantel Sosa ’21 (she/her)

  • Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Science in Society
  • Medical Student Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Meet Shantel

Dawid ’07 (he/him) Wiacek

Alumni
  • Psychology
  • Owner / Executive Leadership & Communication Coach Career Fixer
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