SPHU 2810: Pandemics and Public Health – This is a Public Health elective
Pandemics have shifted social norms, devasted economies, and transformed society throughout history. This lecture and discussion-based course investigates how culture, society, politics, and the environment influence the development and control of pandemics; and describes how scientists and public health officials integrate data and information to inform public health pandemic policy. In this transdisciplinary course students will learn 1) how science, economics, and social tensions influence control practices and policy, using examples from the Spanish Flu, cholera, HIV, SARS-CoV-2, and the plague; and 2) provide a foundation for more specialized classes that can be applied to prevent and control future pandemics.
Open to any major
SPHU 3350: Lifecycle Nutrition
This course is designed to build on the basic principles of nutrition and explores nutrition through each major life stage including, but not limited to, pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, infancy, early childhood, childhood, adolescence/teenage years, adulthood, and older adulthood. During this course, students will apply basic nutrition knowledge to evaluate the rationale for nutritional needs of normal growth and development, eating habits, and dietary cautions for each life stage. Consequences of under-or over-nutrition at critical life stages and policies, programs, and interventions that have been implemented to address these consequences will also be examined. The role of the social determinants of health and other lifestyle factors in meeting suggested nutritional requirements and guidelines at various life stages will also be discussed.
Pre-Requisite: SPHU:2300
The course has an optional Tier 2 Service Learning section, SPHU 3890-01