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Interdisciplinary Studies: Introduction to the scope of medical and dental practice, from the molecular to global health. Basic principles of pathology and pharmacology, concepts of disease, and the role of the physician and dentist in the Canadian health care system.

Offered by: Medicine and Health Sciences

• Restriction(s): Open to students in the M.D.,C.M. and D.M.D. programs only.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

African Studies: The African experience and current approaches to African studies, through adopting multidisciplinary perspectives on topics that include political conflict, governance and democratization, environment and conservation, economic development, rural life and urbanism, health and illness, gender, social change, popular culture, literature, film, and the arts.

Offered by: Islamic Studies

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Milka Nyariro

Agricultural Economics: The course deals with economic aspects of international development with emphasis on the role of food, agriculture and the resource sector in the economy of developing countries. Topics will include world food analysis, development project analysis and policies for sustainable development. Development case studies will be used.

Offered by: Agricultural Economics

• Winter
• 3 lectures
• Prerequisites: AGEC 200 or AGEC 201 or equivalent

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Aurelie P Harou

Agriculture: Travel and exposure to a foreign agricultural sector where sustainable agricultural practices (e.g., organic farm production, ecological management of pests and weeds, crop rotation, water conservation, etc.), regulations, and policies are examined within the context of land use, local economies, and food security issues.

Offered by: Animal Science

• Prerequisite: AGEC 200 or equivalent or permission of instructor
• Lectures and visits will be jointly delivered by local experts and ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ Staff. Lectures (25%) and field visits (75%). Final year students should note that graduation may be delayed.
• This course has a fee of $1,720.00, a small portion of which is tax receiptable on the T2202A; it includes internal travel (by coach), accommodation, most of the meals for the duration of the course, as well as instructor costs.
• **The instructor’s approval is required.
• **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the third lecture day and withdrawal is the sixth lecture day.

• Terms
  • Summer 2025
• Instructors
  • Julie Major, Simon Brault

Agriculture: International development and world food security and challenges in developing countries. Soil and water management, climate change, demographic issues, plant and animal resources conservation, bio-products and biofuels, economic and environmental issues specially in tropical and sub-tropical regions. Globalization, sustainable development, technology transfer and human resources needs for rural development.

Offered by: Animal Science

• Winter
• Two 2-hour conferences

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Elsa Vasseur

Animal Science: An introduction to the pathogenesis and control of diseases in farm animals. Immune response and other protective mechanisms. Implications of animal diseases and drug therapy for product safety and public health.

Offered by: Animal Science

• Winter
• 3 lectures and one 2-hour conference
• Prerequisite(s): ANSC 250 or ANSC 323 or PHGY 209

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Vilceu Bordignon

Animal Science: The basic principles of molecular biology and the underlying molecular basis for various methodologies in molecular biology are covered. The molecular genetic basis for viral infections and tumorigenesis will be covered as examples of the use of molecular genetic approaches to address biological problems.

Offered by: Animal Science

• Prerequisite: LSCI 204

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Matthias Klein

Anthropology: Processes of developmental change, as they affect small communities in the Third World and in unindustrialized parts of developed countries. Problems of technological change, political integration, population growth, industrialization, urban growth, social services, infrastructure and economic dependency.

Offered by: Anthropology

• Winter

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Cyntia Kraichati

Anthropology: Beliefs and practices concerning sickness and healing are examined in a variety of Western and non-Western settings. Special attention is given to cultural constructions of the body and to theories of disease causation and healing efficacy. Topics include international health, medical pluralism, transcultural psychiatry, and demography.

Offered by: Anthropology

• Fall

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Todd E Meyers

Anthropology: Using recent ethnographies as textual material, this course will cover theoretical and methodological developments in medical anthropology since the early 1990's. Topics include a reconsideration of the relationship between culture and biology, medical pluralism revisited, globalization and health and disease, and social implications of new biomedical technologies.

Offered by: Anthropology

• Winter
• Prerequisite: ANTH 227
• Restriction: Anthropology program students.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Anthropology: Introduction to Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS) as a means of critically engaging with the discipline of anthropology.

Offered by: Anthropology

• Winter
• Prerequisite: ANTH 202, or ANTH 204, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 209, or ANTH 212, or permission of the instructor.

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Leslie James Sabiston

Anthropology: This course will survey theoretical approaches used over the past 100 years, and then focus on contemporary debates using case studies. The nature/culture mind/ body, subject/object, self/other dichotomies central to most work of the body will be problematized.

Offered by: Anthropology

• Winter
• Prerequisites: ANTH 227 and (1) 300-level anthropology course, and Honours/Major/Minor status in Anthropology or Social Studies of Medicine, or permission of instructor.
• Restriction: U3 status or permission of instructor

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Sandra T Hyde

Anthropology: Conceptions of health and illness and the form and meaning that illness take are reflections of a particular social and cultural context. Examination of the metaphoric use of the body, comparative approaches to healing, and the relationship of healing systems to the political and economic order and to development.

Offered by: Anthropology

• Fall
• Prerequisite(s): ANTH 227 and Honours/Major/Minor status in Anthropology or Minor Concentration in Social Studies of Medicine or permission of instructor.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Economics (Arts): Microeconomic theories of economic development and empirical evidence on population, labour, firms, poverty. Inequality and environment.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 208 and either ECON 209 or one development course.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
  • Summer 2025
• Instructors
  • Franque Grimard
  • Nicolas Ajzenman

Geography: Introduction to key themes in human geography. Maps and the making, interpretation and contestation of landscapes, 'place', and territory. Investigation of globalization and the spatial organization of human geo-politics, and urban and rural environments.

Offered by: Geography

• Winter
• 3 hours

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Geography: The course introduces the geography of the world economic system. It describes the spatial distribution of economic activities and examines the factors which influence their changing location. Case studies from both "developed" and "developing" countries will test the different geographical theories presented in lectures.

Offered by: Geography

• Fall
• 3 hours

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Oliver T Coomes, Sébastien Breau

Geography: This course introduced physical and social environments as factors in human health, with emphasis on the physical properties of the atmospheric environment as they interact with diverse human populations in urban settings.

Offered by: Geography

• 3 hours
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking NRSC 221.
• In Fall 2019, GEOG 221 will be taught at Macdonald campus. This course is also offered as NRSC 221. Students enrolled in downtown campus programs register in GEOG 221; students enrolled in Macdonald campus programs register in NRSC 221.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Geography: An introduction to the physical and cultural geography of Canada's newest territory. The course will emphasize the bio-physical heterogeneity of the natural environment and the cultural and political ecology of the human population.

Offered by: Geography

• Fall
• 3 hours

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Geography: Discussion of the research questions and methods of health geography. Particular emphasis on health inequalities at multiple geographic scales and the theoretical links between characteristics of places and the health of people.

Offered by: Geography

• Winter
• Prerequisite: One of the following: ENVR 201; GEOG 201, GEOG 203, GEOG 210, GEOG 216, GEOG 217; or permission of the instructor.

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Mylene Riva

Geography: Examines the geographical dimensions of development policy, specifically the relationships between the process of development and human-induced environmental change. Focuses on environmental sustainability, struggles over resource control, population and poverty, and levels of governance (the role of the state, non-governmental organizations, and local communities).

Offered by: Geography

• Fall
• 3 hours
• Prerequisite: GEOG 210 or GEOG 216 or permission of instructor

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Jon D Unruh

Geography: Africa seems beset by development problems. Some of these appear to have no clear answer. Such dilemmas present significant barriers to moving forward with durable, effective development in Africa. This course will examine two primary and frequently interlocked dilemmas in East Africa with wide ranging impact - food security, and conflict.

Offered by: Geography

• Prerequisite: GEOG 310 or GEOG 408 or GEOG 410, or equivalent
• Restriction: Open to students in the African Field Study Semester (AFSS) only

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Jon D Unruh

Geography: Exploration of key diseases of development, as well as patterns and determinants of health and disease in East Africa. Topics will focus on population and environmental health.

Offered by: Geography

• Prerequisite: GEOG 221, GEOG 303 or permission of instructor
• Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken GEOG 403. Open to students in the African Field Study Semester (AFSS) only.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Global and Population Health: Exploration of global policies, politics, industry and institutions and their neo-colonial underpinnings, and their influence on current global health theory, research and practice, with a special focus on the health of Indigenous peoples in Canada and other racialized groups. The environmental and social determinants of health and health inequities, with attention to women and children’s health, communicable and non-communicable disease, and the complexities of disasters and humanitarian crises. Global health governance,systems, and innovations and social entrepreneurship in health.

Offered by: Global & Public Health

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Timothy G Evans, Jura Augustinavicius

Global and Population Health: An introduction to the concepts of ethics and equity, in a broad range of applications, including power, privilege and positionality. Exploration of foundations of ethics as they apply to population and global health practice. Concepts of human rights, anti-racism, ethics and equity, informed by an understanding of the legacy of colonization, as they pertain to a wide array of global health issues.

Offered by: Global & Public Health

• Prerequisite: GPHL 200

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Timothy G Evans, Shashika Bandara

Health Science Electives: Exploration of a wide range of topics on the health of women. Topics include use of health care system, poverty, roles, immigration, body image, lesbian health, and violence against women. Additional topics vary by year. A Health Science elective open to students in the Faculties of Arts, Science, and Medicine.

Offered by: Ingram School of Nursing

• Fall
• Prerequisite: Introductory Psychology or Sociology or permission of the instructor
• Complementary course for the Women's Studies Concentration

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Cheryl Armistead

Health Science Electives: Concepts of health and medicalization. Canadian and international perspectives. Topics include contraception, abortion, infertility, menstruation, menopause, new reproductive technologies, prenatal care, childbirth. Additional topics vary by year. A Health Science elective open to students in the Faculties of Arts, Science, and Medicine.

Offered by: Ingram School of Nursing

• Winter
• Prerequisite: Introductory Psychology or Sociology or permission of the instructor
• Restriction: not open for credit to students who have taken HSEL 308 prior to September 1997
• Complementary course for the Women's Studies and Social Studies of Medicine Concentrations

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Cheryl Armistead

History: Selected topics in the history of medicine in the 19th, 20th and/or 21st centuries will be explored through discussion of primary and secondary historical sources.

Offered by: History and Classical Studies

• Prerequisites: HIST 249 (or HIST 349 prior to Winter 2006) or permission of the instructor.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • George Weisz

Indigenous Studies: Drawing upon and introducing the burgeoning field of Indigenous Studies, this course is designed to be an introduction to selected themes and topics in Indigenous Studies. Possible examples: Indigenous health, Haudenosaunne culture etc. Topics vary from year to year.

Offered by: Institute for Study of Canada

• Supplementary Calendar Info: INDG 202 and INDG 300 are NOT a sequence of courses.

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

International Development: An interdisciplinary introduction to the field of International Development Studies focusing on the theory and practice of development. It examines various approaches to international development, including past and present relationships between developed and underdeveloped societies, and pays particular attention to power and resource distribution globally and within nations.

Offered by: Inst for the St of Development

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Kazue Takamura
  • Kazue Takamura

Microbiology and Immun (Sci): A study of the fundamental properties of viruses and their interactions with host cells. Bacteriophages, DNA- and RNA-containing animal viruses, and retroviruses are covered. Emphasis will be on phenomena occurring at the molecular level and on the regulated control of gene expression in virus-infected cells.

Offered by: Microbiology & Immunology

• Fall
• 3 hours of lecture
• Prerequisites: MIMM 211, BIOL 200, BIOL 201 or BIOC 212

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Jose Guerreiro Teodoro, Chen Liang, George Kukolj, Dalius J Briedis, Andrew J Mouland, Jacques Archambault, Qian Liu, Leo Liu

Microbiology and Immun (Sci): A study of the biology, immunological aspects of host-parasite interactions, pathogenicity, epidemiology and molecular biological aspects of selected parasites of medical importance. Laboratory will consist of a lecture on techniques, demonstrations and practical work.

Offered by: Microbiology & Immunology

• Winter
• Prerequisite: MIMM 314 or equivalent - ANAT 261 is strongly recommended

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Greg J Matlashewski, Momar Ndao

Natural Resource Sciences: Introduction to physical and social environments as factors contributing to the production of human health, with emphasis on the physical properties of the atmospheric environment as they interact with diverse human populations in urban settings.

Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences

• Restriction: Not open to students who are taking or have taken GEOG 221.
• Note: This course is also offered as GEOG 221. Students enrolled in main campus programs register as GEOG 221; students enrolled in Macdonald campus programs register as NRSC 221.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Nutrition and Dietetics: Food insecurity is one of the most critical issues humanity has faced in history. The magnitude of this phenomenon, reflected in its worldwide presence and in the number of individuals affected, makes it an imperative component of all nations' and of all internaltional agencies' agendas. Its complexity of determinants and its numerous consequences require the involvement of multipe disciplines and sectors. ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ undergraduate students as future professionals tackling global issues require an integrated and multidisciplinary training on food security.

Offered by: Human Nutrition

• Corequisite(s): NUTR 207 or permission of Instructor

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Hugo R Melgar-Quiñonez
  • Hugo R Melgar-Quiñonez

Political Science: An introduction to politics across the Global South. A comparative examination of the legacies of colonialism, the achievement of independence, and political and socio-economic development in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Topics include modernization, dependency, state-building, political violence, revolution, the role of the military, authoritarianism, and democratization.

Offered by: Political Science

• Note: The field is Comparative Politics.

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Daniel Douek

Sociology (Arts): Introduction to the reciprocal linkages in the social world between population size, structure and dynamics on the one hand, social structure, action and change on the other. An examination of population processes and their relation to the social world.

Offered by: Sociology

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Sociology (Arts): Competing theories about the causes of underdevelopment in the poor countries. Topics include the impact of geography, the population explosion, culture and national character, economic and sexual inequalities, democracy and dictatorship. Western imperialism and multi-national corporations, reliance on the market, and development through local participation, cooperation, and appropriate technology.

Offered by: Sociology

• Summer

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Isabel Pike

Sociology (Arts): Socio-economic, political and cultural dynamics related to processes of globalization. An examination of the following: key theoretical foundations of the globalization debate; the extent and implications of economic globalization; global governance and the continuing relevance of nation-states; instances of transnational activism; the diffusion of cultural practices; patterns and management of global migration and mobility.

Offered by: Sociology

• Prerequisite: SOCI 210 or Permission of Instructor

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Ina Filkobski

Sociology (Arts): Health and illness as social rather than purely bio-medical phenomena. Topics include: studies of ill persons, health care occupations and organizations; poverty and health; inequalities in access to and use of health services; recent policies, ideologies, and problems in reform of health services organization.

Offered by: Sociology

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Mehri Ghazanjani

Sociology (Arts): Main topics and controversies linking population processes and the environment. Topics include how population processes influence the environment, population responses to changing environments, policies related to these effects, variation across and within developed and developing countries.

Offered by: Sociology

• Prerequisite(s): SOCI 210 or SOCI 211 or SOCI 234 or SOCI 254

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Sociology (Arts): Main concepts and controversies linking health to broader social and economic conditions in low income countries. Topics include the demographic and epidemiological transitions, the health and wealth conundrum, the social determinants of health, health as an economic development strategy, and the impact of the AIDS pandemic.

Offered by: Sociology

• Prerequisite: SOCI 234 or SOCI 254

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Sociology (Arts): Exploration of the main development theories and discussion of how gender is placed within them, analysis of the practical application of development projects and discussion of how they affect gender dynamics, and examination of power relations between development agencies and developing countries. Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America are used.

Offered by: Sociology

• Prerequisite: SOCI 210

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Isabel Pike

Social Work: Refugee-generating conflicts, international and national responses are considered. Canadian policy, history and response to refugees are analyzed. Theory-grounded practice with refugees is examined, including community organizing and direct service delivery to individuals and families.

Offered by: Social Work

• Restrictions: Open to U3 students or by permission of the instructor.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Rodney B Nkrumah

Parasitology: Infectious pathogens of humans and animals and their impact on the global environment are considered. The central tenet is that infectious pathogens are environmental risk factors. The course considers their impact on the human condition and juxtaposes the impact of control and treatment measures and environmental change.

Offered by: Parasitology

• 2 lectures per week
• Prerequisite: one of LSCI 230, AEBI 211, ENVR 202, ENVB 305

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Lucienne Tritten

Bioresource Engineering: Water and society and the ramifications at the local, national and international scales with respect to legal and public policy issues related to, for example, drinking water quality, transboundary water management, public involvement, First Nations, agriculture, governance, and institutions relevant to the management of water resources.

Offered by: Bioresource Engineering

• Fall
• Restriction: Open to students in the M.Sc. Bioresource Engineering (Non-Thesis): Integrated Water Resources Management program or other graduate students by permission of the instructor.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Murray Clamen

Curriculum and Instruction: In-depth study of current topic(s) in the field of education.

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

• Restrictions: Open only to higher-level Undergraduate students and Master's students.

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Elizabeth Patitsas

Environmental Biology: Exploring the impact of environmental chemicals on biological organisms in an ecological context. Basic topics in ecotoxicology, such as source and fate, routes of exposure, bioavailability, dose-response, biomarkers, and risk assessment will be covered from both theoretical and applied perspectives. The processes by which pollutants are tested, regulated, and monitored will be critically examined.

Offered by: Natural Resource Sciences

• Prerequisite(s): LSCI 211 and AEBI 211 and one of NRSC 333 or ANSC 323, or permission of the instructor

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Jessica Head

Family Medicine: Research seminars on various topics relevant to family medicine research.

Offered by: Family Medicine

• Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
• Restriction: Priority will be given to students registered in the MSc in Experimental Medicine Family Medicine program.
• Topic Winter 2024: Foundations of Global Primary Health Care

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Alayne Mary Adams, Kathleen Rice

Family Medicine: An examination and reflection of traditional Indigenous world view and ways of knowing; the Canadian colonization and assimilation experience and their outcomes and impacts; and the contemporary Indigenous health research landscape bringing Indigenous ways of knowing and practice into the field and to future studies.

Offered by: Family Medicine

• Language of Instruction: English

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Alex M McComber, Brittany A Jock

Family Medicine: Exploration of the cultural roots of Inuit health prior to the arrival of Europeans; the risks to health introduced by imported disease and colonial institutions; the complexity of navigating modern health systems; and the paths to regain better health. Particular focus on the Nunavik region of Quebec.

Offered by: Family Medicine

• Restrictions: Open to students enrolled in a ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ graduate program or permission of the instructor.

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Richard Budgell

Family Medicine: Communicating qualitative health research for diverse audiences, covering the personal, epistemological, and pragmatic challenges inherent in producing qualitative research for clinical and policy-oriented audiences. Reflection on what is produced and obscured through scholarly efforts to produce peer-reviewed research that meets the standards of rigour across disciplines. Examination of alternative forms of dissemination including commentary, podcast, graphic medicine, ethnographic monograph, and arts-based approaches. How intended audience shapes how research findings are framed, and applying this to research.

Offered by: Family Medicine

• Pre/Co-Requisites: FMED 625 or permission of the instructor.
• Corequisite: FMED 625
• Contact hours: 3 hours/week for 13 weeks.
• Language of instruction: English
• Sufficient background in qualitative methodology is required.

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Kathleen Rice

Geography: A critical review of current themes and trends in health geography, with emphasis on geographical perspectives in public health research. Topics include the social and environmental determinants of chronic and infectious disease, health and health-related behaviours. Seminars focus on critical appraisal of conceptual and methodological approaches in health geography research.

Offered by: Geography

• Fall
• 3 hours
• Prerequisite: GEOG 303 or GEOG 403 or permission of instructor
• Restrictions: Course open to U3 undergraduate students and graduate students in the Department of Geography OR others with permission of instructor. Not open to students who took GEOG 503 in Winter 2009.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Mylene Riva

Geography: Linkage of physical processes (hydrology and ecosystems) with issues of societal and socio-economic relevance (land, food, and water use appropriation for human well-being). Application of a holistic perspective on land, food and water issues in an international setting, highlighting linkages, feedbacks and trade-offs in an Earth system context.

Offered by: Geography

• Prerequisite(s): GEOG 203 or ESYS 200 or ENVR 200 or equivalent; GEOG 322 or BREE 217 or equivalent; or permission of instructor.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

History: The emergence of scientific medicine, medical professionalization, the development of public health and the process of medical specialization since 1700.

Offered by: History and Classical Studies

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Interdisciplinary Field Course: Intensive field course that focuses on First Nations, Métis and Inuit cultures and worldviews, with particular emphasis on linkages to practice areas and integration across disciplinary silos. Attention is given to the effects of Canadian legal, health and social welfare policies on contemporary First Nations, Métis and Inuit societies.

Offered by: Social Work

• Restrictions: The course is only open to students in Social Work, Anthropology, Law and Medicine or by permission of the instructor. Not open to students who have taken IDFC 380.
• This intensive course includes 1 week where students live in the field. The field portion of the course may involve rugged field conditions and varying weather for which students must be prepared and equipped.
• A fee of $434.21 is charged to all students registered in IDFC 500 delivered in Montreal. The fee covers food, activities, land use, and other site expenses.
• **This course will be held on May 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and June 2nd.

• Terms
  • Summer 2025
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Law General: An intensive study of a particular topic in public or private law.

Offered by: Law

• Prerequisite: Completion of first year of legal studies.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Nursing: This clinical nursing experience offers students an opportunity to consolidate their knowledge and assessment skills in either community nursing or critical care in clinical settings outside the ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ.

Offered by: Ingram School of Nursing

• Corequisite: NUR1 423
• Prerequisite: NUR1 432
• Restricion(s): Only open to B.Sc.(N.) students and permission of the instructor.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Nursing: An overview of the main issues in global health studies, approaches by which to understand these issues, and the importance of making reasoned links between the key global health studies concepts.

Offered by: Ingram School of Nursing

• Restriction: Open to students registered in the M.Sc. (Applied) in Nursing (Global Health area of study) and to Direct-Entry Qualifying year students or with permission from the instructor

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Jodi Tuck

Nutrition and Dietetics: Current nutrition-related issues in the Majority World, emphasizing young children and other vulnerable groups. The integration of a life science and social science perspective. The multiple causes, consequences, policies, and interventions related to current nutrition.

Offered by: Human Nutrition

• Fall
• One 3-hr lecture
• Prerequisite: A course in nutrition across the lifespan at the intermediate undergraduate level such as NUTR 337, or permission of the instructor.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Grace S Marquis

Parasitology: The origin and types of water contaminants including live organisms, infectious agents and chemicals of agricultural and industrial origins. Conventional and new technological developments to eliminate water pollutants. Comparisons of water, health and sanitation between industrialized and developing countries.

Offered by: Parasitology

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Niladri Basu

Population&Pub Health Sciences: This course presents concepts and methods of epidemiology at the introductory level. The use of epidemiologic methods for population and public health research and practice will be illustrated. A review of selected population health questions such as the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the cardiovascular disease epidemic, cigarette smoking, or screening for disease will be presented.

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

• Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken EPIB 501.
• Course not open to students enrolled in Epidemiology or Public Health programs.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Ananya Banerjee

Population&Pub Health Sciences: This exciting and interactive course aims to give students the opportunity to broaden their understanding and knowledge of global health issues, including global burden of diseases, determinants of health, transition in health and drivers of such transition, challenges in healthcare delivery in resource-limited settings, and the variety of agencies and actors engaged in addressing global health challenges. The course consists of lectures, case studies, debates, discussions and small group work.

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Madhukar Pai

Population&Pub Health Sciences: Comparative perspective to illustrate processes involved in the development and evolution of health care systems around the world. Countries examined will represent different welfare state regimes, health care system typologies, levels of development and wealth.

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

• Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
• Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken EPIB 525. Not open to students who are taking or have taken SOCI 525.
• Note: This course is cross-listed in Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and in Sociology

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Amélie Quesnel Vallée

Population&Pub Health Sciences: This course presents the grand challenges in global health from environmental and occupational risks along with the multi-disciplinary methods used to identify, control, and prevent them. It will introduce students to knowledge and skills in core disciplines of environmental health and approaches to environmental risk recognition, control and prevention in a global context.

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

• Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken EPIB 529.
• 1. Permission of instructor required for undergraduate students.
• 2.This course is open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates from all departments.
• 3. Previous coursework in statistics and environmental science is useful, though not required.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Scott Andrew Weichenthal

Population&Pub Health Sciences: Study, through lectures, guided reading, practicals, assignments etc., of an elected and approved topic of population and public health importance.

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Samiruddin Syed Hussain

Sociology (Arts): The sociology of health and illness. Reading in areas of interest, such as: the sociology of illness, health services occupations, organizational settings of health care, the politics of change in national health service systems, and contemporary ethical issues in medical care and research.

Offered by: Sociology

• Prerequisite: Undergraduate students require permission of instructor

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Sociology (Arts): Comparative perspective to illustrate processes involved in the development and evolution of health care systems around the world. Countries examined will represent different welfare state regimes, health care system typologies, levels of development and wealth.

Offered by: Sociology

• Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
• Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken EPIB 525. Not open to students who are taking or have taken PPHS 525.
• Note: This course is cross-listed in Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and in Sociology.

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Amélie Quesnel Vallée

Sociology (Arts): The classic literature of sociology of population. Drawing reciprocal linkages between social and population processes: Historical, family and labour force demography, demographic and fertility transitions, mortality, ethnic and race relations, gender, macro-structural interaction theory, and the relation of population and the environment.

Offered by: Sociology

• Prerequisite: SOCI 234 or equivalent

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Orsola Torrisi

Sociology (Arts): Comparison of alternative explanations of underdevelopment: the impact of social stratification, relations of domination and subordination between countries, state interference with the market. Alternative strategies of change: revolution, structural adjustment, community development and cooperatives. Students will write and present a research paper, and participate extensively in class discussion.

Offered by: Sociology

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Sociology (Arts): This course will explore linkages between social and biological systems, their influence on health and well-being over the life course, and on health disparities. Topics include classical sociological approaches to biosocial processes, sociobiology (reductionist, but population-based), and newer demographic studies on gen-environment, epigenetic, and stress-metabolic/allostatic processes.

Offered by: Sociology

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Comparative Law: The study of legal and ethical issues raised in medicine and healthcare with a particular focus upon the relationship between patient and healthcare professionals.

Offered by: Comparative Law

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Curriculum and Instruction: Explores important current issues in the field of Educational Studies. (Content varies from year to year).

Offered by: Integrated Studies in Ed

• Winter

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Philip S S Howard
  • Janine E Metallic

Epidemiology & Biostatistics: Designed to give students an overview of major disease or health problem, disease or substantive area. The students will develop their knowledge of the topic regarding 1) The key definition, concepts and indicators useful in the study of the problem; 2) The epidemiology of the problem; and 3) Major studies of interventions designed to address the problems.

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Epidemiology & Biostatistics: Study, through lectures, guided reading, practicals, assignments etc., of an elected and approved topic of epidemiologic importance.

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Nicole E Basta

Epidemiology & Biostatistics: A review of selected epidemiological research focussing on global health and disease topics. Research will be mostly from developing countries and research methods will be highlighted. Case studies will be used to illustrate specific applications and challenges.

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

• Prerequisite: With permission of instructor.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Experimental Medicine: Advanced innovative thinking, knowledge and skills that will aid in the development of innovative digital health solutions. It will integrate mind mapping strategies, design thinking, and usability evaluations that form the core of developing and refining an innovative digital health solution aimed to solve a well-defined clinical/public health problem.

Offered by: Medicine

• Restriction: Permission of the instructor

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Nitika Pai

Family Medicine: Scientific communication; curriculum design and development; professional development; and setting appropriate goals for a successful academic research program in family medicine and primary care.

Offered by: Family Medicine

• Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor if graduate student is outside the department
• Restriction(s): Open to graduate students in the Department of Family Medicine

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Tamara E Carver, Kathleen Rice, Alayne Mary Adams

Family Medicine: Principles and main applications of modern participatory research in health organizations.

Offered by: Family Medicine

• Prerequisite: Permission of instructor if graduate student is outside the department.
• Restriction: Only open to graduate students in the Department of Family Medicine.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Neil Andersson

Family Medicine: Overview of participatory research with community, clinical, and organisational stakeholders. Content focuses on participatory engagement and data collection methods, while students have an opportunity to work through aspects of their participatory project with the help of group discussions, small group work, roleplay, and guest presentations from actual participatory projects.

Offered by: Family Medicine

• Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor if graduate student is outside the department
• Restriction(s): Open to graduate students in the Department of Family Medicine.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Neil Andersson

Family Medicine: A critical review of healthcare systems, especially primary care systems, focuses on Quebec and indicative global settings. Explores options and approaches for using evidence to influence policy and to improve primary healthcare systems, and addresses methods for evaluating performance of healthcare services.

Offered by: Family Medicine

• Prerequisite: Permission of instructor if graduate student is outside the department.
• Restriction(s): Open to graduate students in the Department of Family Medicine.
• Language of Instruction: English.

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Alayne Mary Adams, Enis Baris

Family Medicine: Intended for health care practitioners, planners, and researchers, especially in resource-poor settings in Canada and internationally, students will be exposed to behaviour change models; techniques for critical evaluation of existing evidence; accountability in health services; and scientific writing and presenting, using a blended learning approach.

Offered by: Family Medicine

• Prerequisite: Permission of instructor if graduate student is outside the department
• Language of instruction: English
• Restriction: Open to graduate students in the Department of Family Medicine
• **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the first lecture day and withdrawal is the second lecture day.
• **This course will be held on June 3, 10, 20, 27 & 28.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Family Medicine: Program management design, theory, methods and practical applications in both domestic and global health settings, with a focus on primary health care in order to achieve rapid scale-up of effective health interventions towards universal coverage while strengthening health systems for sustained impact.

Offered by: Family Medicine

• Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor if graduate student is outside the department
• Restriction(s): Open to graduate students in the Department of Family Medicine

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Family Medicine: Introduction, discussion, and practice of qualitative methodologies and methods for conducting rigorous and reflective qualitative research projects in health, with particular focus on family medicine education and health professions education.

Offered by: Family Medicine

• Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor if graduate student is outside of the Department of Family Medicine or the Institute of Health Sciences Education.
• Course will be given in English. Course work may be submitted in English or French.
• Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking HSED 625 or PSYT 625.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Charo Rodriguez

Family Medicine: Exploration of how to write a mixed methods research protocol or manuscript and some more advanced mixed methods data analysis applications.

Offered by: Family Medicine

• Prerequisite: Permission of instructor if graduate student is outside the department.
• Contact hours: Monday to Friday from 9am to 4:30pm (Faculty of Dentistry: 514-3987203 extensions 096455 & 00059; language of instruction: English).
• Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking DENT 672. Only open to graduate students in the Department of Family Medicine.
• Only open to students who have had prior graduate training in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Family Medicine: Research seminars on various topics relevant to advanced family medicine and primary care research.

Offered by: Family Medicine

• Restriction(s): Restricted to students enrolled in the PhD in Family Medicine and Primary Care and the ad hoc PhD in Family Medicine programs.
• Topic Summer 2024: "Introduction to Machine Learning".
• **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the third lecture day.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Brittany A Jock
  • Amy Shawanda

History: Research paper on a theme in the history of Western European medicine since 1700.

Offered by: History and Classical Studies

• Winter
• Prerequisite: HIST 640

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • George Weisz
  • Sebestian Kroupa

Nursing: This course offers students in the Global Health concentrations an opportunity to integrate knowledge and clinical competencies acquired thus far in the program in collaboration with an on-site mentor. Students may choose to focus the clinical experience in either community nursing or an acute care setting to further develop and strengthen advanced clinical judgment as well as the ability to respond more purposefully to complex health concerns of individuals, families, and/or communities.

Offered by: Ingram School of Nursing

• Prerequisite(s): NUR2 609 and NUR2 610 OR NUR2 617 and NUR2 618 Minimum Grade or Test Scores : B-
• Restriction(s): Only open to students in the MSc(A) Nursing - Global Health Direct Entry concentration and MSc(A) Nursing - Global Health concentration. Not open to students who have taken NUR2 625.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Jodi Tuck

Oncology: Identification of the challenges and strategies for addressing cancer prevention, diagnosis and care, as well as cancer research and education from an international perspective.

Offered by: Gerald Bronfman Dept Oncology

• Restrictions: Open to students in the Graduate Diploma in Oncology. It is also open to graduate students in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences; however, permission from the instructor is required for the latter students.
• English is the language of instruction but students may present in either of the official languages

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Phys & Occ Therapy: Examination of and emphasis on features of the policy process, including knowledge generation and translation in the context of complex policy processes. These topics will be oriented to the use of policy as a tool to protect and promote the health of populations.

Offered by: Phys and Occ Therapy

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Raphael Lencucha, Keiko Shikako

Population&Pub Health Sciences: Introduction to population health and the conceptual basis of the population health approach to measuring disease occurrence and to prevention. Fundamentals of, and methods for, studying burden of disease in population, and how these differ across time, space, and groups. Topics include population dynamics, denominators, occurrence of events, time, person and place, health indicators, standardization, life tables, age, cohort and period effects, disease surveillance and vital statistics. Introduction to the concepts and principles of measurement including measurement error, validity, reliability, and accuracy.

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

• Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken EPIB 602 or EPIB 614.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Jill Baumgartner

Population&Pub Health Sciences: Introduction to core competencies in the practice of global health, including historical, colonial roots of global health, project planning and implementation, equitable and ethical conduct, building partnerships, working within interdisciplinary teams, effective communication and personal-social skills.

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Charles Palmer Larson, Marilyn N Ahun

Population&Pub Health Sciences: An examination of knowledge translation in public health, including synthesis, dissemination, exchange, and ethically-sound application of knowledge to policy and programming. Overview of knowledge translation processes for effective evidence-informed public health leadership.

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

• Prerequisite: PPHS 612 or permission of instructor
• Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken EPIB 678 when topic was ‘Knowledge Translation, Communications, and Evidence-Informed Public Health Leadership’.

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Madhukar Pai, Christopher Labos

Population&Pub Health Sciences: Introduction to the field of infectious disease epidemiology taught from a public health perspective. Topics include analytic methods, study design, outbreak investigations, surveillance, vaccine development and evaluations, screening, modelling, and infectious causes of cancer or chronic diseases.

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

• Prerequisite: EPIB 601 or Permission of Instructor.
• Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken EPIB 615.
• Note: An undergraduate level biology course is highly recommended.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Joanna-Trees M Merckx

Population&Pub Health Sciences: Study, through lectures, guided reading, practicals, assignments etc., of an elected and approved topic of population and public health importance.

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Population&Pub Health Sciences: Study, through lectures, guided reading, practicals, assignments etc., of an elected and approved topic of population and public health importance.

Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Ananya Banerjee

Psychiatry: Topics covered: cross-national epidemiological and ethnographic research of major and minor psychiatric disorders; culture-bound syndromes and idioms of distress; culture, emotion and social interaction; psychological and symbolic healing; mental health of immigrants and refugees; psychiatric theory and practice as cultural constructions; methods of cross-cultural research.

Offered by: Psychiatry

• Prerequisites: Knowledge of psychiatry and anthropology
• **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fourth lecture day.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year