
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.