Every semester, we offer courses that approach global health through the lens of diverse disciplines and perspectives

• The humanities
• Social sciences
• Natural sciences
• Engineering

Watch the Registrar's course offerings list for these past and recurring courses. 

Recently Offered & Recurring Courses

GHP pre-approved electives:

• AAS 302 / SOC 303 / ANT 378 The Social Anatomy of Power & Difference
• AAS 303 / GSS 406 / HUM 347 Topics in Global Race and Ethnicity: Scientific Racism: Then and Now
• AAS 306 / HIS 312 Topics in Race and Public Policy: History of Anti-Black Racism in Medicine
• AAS 331 / HIS 382 Beyond Tuskegee: Race and Human Subjects Research in US History
• AFS 470 Health, Race, and Power in Africa in the Digital Age
• AMS 304 / LAS 312 / ENV 324 Environmental Racism
• AMS 306 / GHP 411 Issues in American Public Health
• AMS 312 / GSS 462 / URB 316 / ENV 314 Race, Gender, and the Urban Environment
• AMS 335 American Jews and Sexual Freedom
• AMS 338 The Invention of the Promised Land: American Jewish History
• AMS 379 / GSS 349 Race and Living Laboratories
• AMS 398 / DAN 312 / GSS 346 "Fat": The F-Word and the Public Body
• AMS 419 / ENV 419 American Agrarians: Ideas of Land, Labor, and Food
• ANT 206 / AFS 206 Human Evolution
• ANT 219 Catastrophes across Cultures: The Anthropology of Disaster
• ANT 235 / HUM 235 Medical Humanities
• ANT 240 Medical Anthropology
• ANT 305 Psychological Anthropology
• ANT 311 Food, Culture, and Society     
• ANT 316 / ASA 315 Asian American Perils: Virus, Vermin, Machine
• ANT 331 Sensory Anthropology
• ANT 335 Medical Anthropology
• ANT 344 Science, Technology & Culture
• ANT 390 Histories of Anthropological Theory
• ANT 403 / AAS 403 / GHP 403 Race and Medicine
• ANT 405 Topics in Anthropology
• ANT 428 Myth-busting Race and Sex: Anthropology, Biology, and 'Human Natures'
• ANT 431 Biomedical Anthropology
• ANT 442 Death, Aging, and Mortality: Cultural and Biosocial Perspectives
• ANT 446 Nuclear Things and Toxic Colonization
• ANT 461 / GHP 461 Disability, Difference, and Race
• ARC 492 / URB 492 / ENV 492 Topics in the Formal Analysis of the Urban Structure: Environmental Challenges of Urban Sprawl
• ART 329 / ARC 318 / HIS 330 Architecture of Confinement, from the Hospice to the Era of Mass Incarceration
• ART 395 The Ancient Egyptian Body
• ART 483 / AAS 482 / HUM 483 Pathologies of Difference: Art, Medicine and Race in the British Empire
• CBE 411 / MOL 411 Antibiotics: From Cradle to Grave
• CBE 427 Environmental Biotechnology
• CBE 430 / MAE 430 / MSE 430 Squishy Engineering: Using Soft Materials to Solve Hard Problems
• CBE 438 / MOL 438 Biomolecular Engineering
• CBE 439 Quantitative Physiology & Tissue Design
• CBE 440 / GHP 450 / MOL 440 The Physical Basis of Human Disease
• CBE 447 / GHP 457 Metabolic Engineering
• CEE 304 Environmental Engineering and Energy
• CEE 311 Global Air Pollution
• CEE 344 / ENV 344 Water, Engineering, and Civilization
• CEE 401 / ENV 401 Zero Carbon, Resilient, Equitable Cities: Infrastructure Innovations and Systems Analysis
• CEE 471 Introduction to Water Pollution Technology
• CGS 310 The Philosophy and Science of Consciousness
• CGS 316 / PHI 348 Philosophy and Psychopathology
• CHM 440 Drug Discovery in the Genomics Era 
• CHV 305 / PHI 405 Racial Justice in Healthcare
• CHV 308 Perfecting Life: Designing Children, Designing Memories, Designing Death
• CHV 331 / SPI 372 Ethics and Public Health
• CHV 332 / PHI 347 Ethics and Pathologies of Attachment
• CHV 333 /  PHI 344 Bioethics: Clinical and Population-Level
• CHV 334 / PHI 334 Death
• CHV 390 / PHI 390 / GSS 391 The Ethics of Love and Sex
• CHV 391 / PHI 391 Morals, Markets, and Health
• CHV 395 / PHI 399 The Ethics of Eating
• CLA 231 / HLS 231 / GHP 331 / HIS 231 Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine: Bodies, Physicians, and Patients
• CLA 345 / HLS 344 Ancient Greco-Roman Medicine: From Hippocrates to Galen
• COS 343 Algorithms for Computational Biology
• COS 495 Special Topics in Computer Science
• CWR 312 / GSS 452 / HUM 319 Vital Signs: Writing on and about the Body
• DAN 208 / THR 208 / GHP 338 Body and Language 
• DAN 306 / GSS 367 / THR 367 Introduction to Radical Access: Disability Justice in the Arts
• DAN 393 / THR 393 Dramaturgies of Care in Contemporary Performance
• DAN 402 Anatomical Approaches to Contemporary Dance
• EAS 306 / ANT 386 / GSS 317 Sexuality, Public Culture and Medicine in East Asia
• EAS 312 / ANT 312 Mind, Body, and Bioethics in Japan and Beyond
• ECO 332 Economics of Health and Health Care
• ECO 355 Economics of Food and Agriculture
• ECE 452 Biomedical Imaging
• ECS 311 / FRE 316 / COM 399 From Black Bile to Digital Depression: Melancholy in Theory, Art, and Media
• ECS 376 / ARC 376 / ART 386 The Body in Space: Art, Architecture, and Performance
• EEB 308 / ENV 365 Conservation Biology
• EEB 325 Mathematical Modeling in Biology and Medicine
• EEB 327 / MOL 327 Immune Systems: From Molecules to Populations  
• EEB 328 / GHP 328 Ecology and Epidemiology of Parasites and Infectious Diseases
• EEB 386 Vector Biology
• EEB 414 Genetics of Human Populations
• EGR 488 / ENT 488 Designing Ventures To Change the World
• EEB 495 Disease Dynamics: Data, Theory, and Policy
• EGR 498 / GHP 498 Special Topics in Social Entrepreneurship - Ventures to Address Global Challenges
• ELE 404 Electronic Circuits for Biomedical Application
• ELE 452 Biomedical Engineering
• ELE / CEE  / MAE / MSE 455 Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment
• ELE 480 - fMRI Decoding: Reading Minds Using Brain Scans
• ENE 202 Designing Sustainable Systems: Responding to the Pandemic in the Information Age
• ENE 321 Resource Recovery for a Circular Economy
• ENG 384 / ENV 383 Environmental Justice Through Literature and Film
• ENG 395 / AMS 428 / GSS 301 Literature, Food, and the American Racial Diet
• ENG 398 / GSS 403 The Disabled Body
• ENG 428 / AMS 428 / THR 428 Sex, Violence, and Other Entertainments for Kids: Challenging Drama for Youth
• ENV 302 / CEE 302 / EEB 302 Practical Models for Environmental Systems
• ENV 303 / URB 302 Topics in Environmental Studies- Agriculture, Human Diets and the Environment
• ENV 304 / ECO 328 / EEB 304 / SPI 455 Disease Ecology, Economics, and Policy
• ENV 305 Topics in Environmental Studies: Hormone-Disrupting Pollutants
• ENV 327 Investigating an Ethos of Sustainability at Princeton
• ENV 329 Global History of Plague
• ENV 343 Inequality in India: An Interdisciplinary and Global Perspective
• ENV 401 Environmental Policy Workshop
• ENV 405 The Land Crisis for Food, Climate, and Wildlife
• ENV 407 / AFS 407 / GHP 427  Africa's Food and Conservation Challenge
• ENV 428 / ANT 488 The Body in Rain: Embodiment and Planetary Change
• FRE 338 / ENV 338 / COM 367 The Literature of Environmental Disaster
• GEO 360 / ENV 356 Geochemistry of the Human Environment
• GHP 300 / ANT 386 / GSS 347 Gender and Illness Experience in the United States Today
• GHP 301 You Are What You Eat: Bio-Cultural Explorations of Food and Health
• GHP 303 / URB 302 Grassroots Power: Health and Social Change through Collective Action
• GHP 304 / GSS 352 / ANT 376 Reproduction Technologies and the Politics of Life
• GHP 400 / SPI 382 / MOL 499 / EEB 400 Seminar in Global Health and Health Policy
• GHP 401 Global Health in Africa
• GHP 402 Health Innovation and Policy
• GHP 403 Health and the Social Markers of Difference
• GHP 404 Science, Society, and Health Policy
• GHP 405 / ANT 481 Energy and Health: From Exhausted Bodies to Energy Crises
• GHP 408 Public Health, Politics & Public Policy
• GHP 409 / AAS 410 Mortality at the Margins: Race, Inequality and Health Policy in the United States
• GHP 410 / ECO 439 Population Economics & Population Health
• GHP 412 / ENV 412 Planetary Health: Human Health in the Anthropocene
• GHP 413 / ENV 413 Planetary Health: A Critical History
• GHP 498 / EGR 498 Special Topics in Social Entrepreneurship - Ventures to Address Global Challenges
• GSS 211 / GHP 311 The Sociology of Human Reproduction
• GSS 299 Foucault, Power, and Knowledge
• GSS 337 Reproductive Politics in the United States and Abroad since 1945
• GSS 339 Queer Sexualities: Biopsychosocial and LGBT Perspectives
• GSS 420 / SOC 420 Born in the U.S.A.: Culture and Reproduction in Modern America
• HIS 294 / ECS 388 / GHP 394 Science and Medicine in the Early Modern World
• HIS 390 History of Science, Technology, and Medicine: Ideas and Methods
• HIS 393 / AAS 364 / SPI 389 Race, Drugs, and Drug Policy in America
• HIS 394 The Rise of Modern Biomedicine: Global trends in Health and Healing, 1500-2000
• HIS 395 History of Medicine and the Body
• HIS 397 Medicine and the Mind: A History of Psychiatry from the Asylum to Zoloft
• HIS 415 Healing in the Black Atlantic
• HIS 424 Disease and Social Change in Modern China
• HIS 452 Magic, Matter, Medicine: Science in the Medieval World
• HIS 472 / EAS 472 Medicine and Society in China: Past and Present
• HIS 488 / GHP 488 / AAS 488 Law, Social Difference, and the Substance of Health
• HIS 491 / GSS 491 / HUM 491 Fertile Bodies: A Cultural History of Reproduction from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
• HIS 492 The Therapeutic Persuasion: Psychotherapy and American Life
• HIS 494 Broken Brains, Shattered Minds: Disease and Experience in the History of Neuroscience
• HIS 495 Alchemy: Art and Science
• HIS 496 Africa, Medical Pluralism, and the History of Health and Disease
• HUM 302 / SLA 302 / GSS 333 / AMS 302 Medical Story-Worlds
• ISC 326 / EEB 326 / MOL 326 / GHP 326 Human Genomics: Past, Present, Future
• ITA 319 The literature of Gastronomy
• LAS 308 / GHP 308 Health, Education and Work in Latin America
• LAS 322 / GHP 322 Public Health in Latin America
• LAS 363 / ANT 387 Medicine and Society in Contemporary Cuba
• LAS 372 / SPA 373 / GHP 372 Public Health and Private Healing in the Atlantic World 
• LAS 390 / ANT 392 / GHP 390 Multispecies Worlding and Global Health Policies
• LAS 405 Latin American Studies Seminar
• LIN 215 / AMS 214 / GHP 315 American Deaf Culture
• MAE 344 Introduction to Bioengineering and Medical Devices
• MAE 416 / EEB 416 Bioinspired Design
• MOL 250 / GHP 360 Food, Drugs and Society
• MOL 328 U.S. Medical Research and Researchers
• MOL 340 Molecular and Cellular Immunology
• MOL 380 Modern Microbiology
• MOL 405 The Biology of Reproduction
• MOL 423 / GHP423 Molecular Basis of Cancer
• MOL 425 / SPI 355 / GHP 425 Infection Biology, Burden, Policy
• MOL 430 The Power and Peril of Cycling Cells
• MOL 433 / CBE 434 Biotechnology
• MOL 434 Macromolecular Structure and Mechanism in Disease
• MOL 435 Pathogenesis and Bacterial Diversity
• MOL 440 Genome Integrity and Human Disease
• MOL 445 Pathogens, Pandemics, and Technologies
• MOL 451 / NEU 451 Genes, Brain, and the Human Mind
• MOL 458 / GHP 458 Psychopharmacology
• MOL 459 / GHP 459 Viruses: Strategy and Tactics 
• MOL / STC 460 / GHP 460  Diseases in Children: Causes, Costs, and Choices 
• MOL 470 Advanced Topics in Genetic Analysis
• NES 361/ GSS 366 Bioethics, Sex, and Society in Muslim Communities
• NEU 331 / PSY 331 Introduction to Clinical Neuropsychology
• NEU 385 Circuits for Survival: The Neuroscience of Innate Behaviors
• NEU 413 / PSY 413 The Neurobiology of Stress
• NEU 428 / PSY 428 Neurodevelopment Disorders: Nerual Basis, Clinic, and Interventions
• NEU 430 Epigenetics in Neuroscience and Behavior
• NEU 447 / MOL 447 / GHP 447 Neuroimmunology: Immune Molecules in Normal Brain Function and Neuropathology
• NEU 475 Basal Ganglia in Health and Disease
• NEU 490 / PSY 490 Brain Plasticity in Health and Disease
• PHI 311 Personal Identity
• PHI 351 / CHV 351 Environmental Ethics  
• POL 334 The Politics of Race and Health in America
• PSY 207 Psychopathology
• PSY 317 / GHP 317 Health Psychology
• PSY 319 Childhood Psychopathology 
• PSY 320 Theories of Psychotherapy
• PSY 331 / NEU 331 Introduction to Clinical Neuropsychology: Case Studies in Cognitive Neuroscience
• PSY 332 Sex and Gender Diversity
• PSY 340 / NEU 340 Neuroeconomics
• PSY 385 Mind, Body, Culture: Clinical Psychology
• PSY 400 Topics in Social an Personality Psychology * Topic: Being Different: The Psychology of Social Stigmas
• PSY 402 Introduction to Clinical Neuropsychology: Case Studies in Cognitive Neuroscience
• PSY 409 Cyborg Psychology
• PSY 410 Depression: From Neuron to Clinic
• PSY 413 / NEU 413 Stress, Resilience and Illness
• PSY 418 Neuroethics
• QCB 408 Foundations of Statistical Genomics
• QCB 455 / MOL 455 / COS 455 Introduction to Genomics and Computational Molecular Biology
• QCB 490 / MOL 490 Molecular Mechanisms of Longevity: The Genetics, Genomics, and Cell Biology of Aging
• REL 394 Madness and the Medicalization of Religious Experience
• SLA 368 / HUM 368 / RES 368 Literature and Medicine
• SOC 311 Sexuality in Global Contexts
• SOC 364 Sociology of Medicine
• SOC 366 Social and Economic Determinants of Health
• SOC 371 Genomics and Society
• SPA 205 Medical Spanish
• SPA 314 Bodies of Evidence - Premodern Iberia and the New World
• SPI 302 / ECO 359 International Development
• SPI 316 Health and the Environment
• SPI / MOL 320 Human Genetics, Reproduction, and Public Policy
• SPI 330 / SOC 328 Population, Society and Public Policy
• SPI 335 Economic Evaluation of Global Health Policy
• SPI 354 / GHP 354 Modern Genetics and Public Policy
• SPI 364 Making Post-Pandemic Worlds: Epidemic History and the Future
• SPI 375 / GHP 375 / ANT 388 Gender and Public Health: Disparities, Pathways, and Policies
• SPI 393 / GHP 406 Health Reform in the US: The Affordable Care Act's Origins, Impact and Implementation Challenges
• SPI 394 Inequities in Health
• SPI 401E Child Health and Nutrition in the Developing World*
• SPI 402C Health Care Reform and Medicaid Expansion* 
• SPI 403(3) Maternal and Child Health in the US
• SPI 405 / ENV 405 The Land Crisis for Food, Climate, Wildlife
• SPI 407 The Economics of Health Policy in Developing Countries
• SPI 453 / GHP 407 Health and Human Rights
• STC 398 Health and Human Rights in the World Community
• THR 220 /COM 246 /ENG 226 /GHP 320 Theater and the Plague

*GHP elective credit for non-SPI students who take these courses.