This cluster examines the nature and state of healthy individuals in their various environments. A dynamic approach will be used to study the places in which people live and interact, such as the community, the workplace and the natural environment. Topics will focus on ways to solve and prevent problems that may affect the health and wellbeing of the individual, the local environment and/or the global community. Individual behavior change, social policies, community development and social responsibility may be emphasized.
Cluster Coordinator: Barry Messer
Office: URBN 370H
Phone: 725-5179
E-mail: messerb@pdx.edu
This sophomore inquiry will examine the nature and state of healthy individuals in their various environments. A dynamic approach will be used to study the places in which people live and interact, such as the community, the workplace and the natural environment. Topics will focus on ways to solve and prevent problems that may affect the health and wellbeing of the individual, the local environment and/or the global community. Individual behavior change, social policies, community development and social responsibility may be emphasized.
This SINQ leads to the Healthy People/Healthy Places Cluster.
AJ 330U Crime Control Strategies (Course Proposal)
ANTH 325U Culture Health and Healing (Course Proposal)
ANTH 333U The Anthropology of Food
EC 316U Introduction to Health Care Economics (Course Proposal)
ENG 308U Literature and Medicine in the Community (Course Proposal)
ENG 464U Illness and Culture (Course Proposal)
EPFA 456U The Urban Schools and "At Risk "Status (Course Proposal)
PHE 326U Drug Education (Course Proposal)
PHE 335U Human Sexuality
PHE 355U Consumer Health
PHE 410U Topics in Health Promotions Campaigns
PHE 410U Women’s Health: Social and Biological Perspectives (Course Proposal)
PHE 425U Nutrition for Health
PHE 443U Environmental Health
PHE 444U Global Health (Course Proposal)
PHE 446U Community Health: Principles and Practices (Course Proposal)
PHE 452U Gender, Race, Class and Health (Course Proposal)
PHE 454U Social Gerontology
PHE 455U Film and Health (Course Proposal)
SP 399U Health Communication (Course Proposal)
SW 407U Community Based Interventions
USP 313U Urban Planning: Environmental Issues (Course Proposal)
USP 317U Introduction to International Development (Course Proposal)
USP 424U Healthy Communities
USP 425U Community and the Built Environment (Course Proposal)
USP 426U Neighborhood Conservation and Change
USP 450U Concepts of Citizen Participation (Course Proposal)
USP 454U The Urban Schools and "At Risk" Status (Course Proposal)
WS 410U Women’s Health: Social and Biological Perspectives (Course Proposal)
