Health & Societies

2026–2027

86 courses

HSOC 0000Free Elective Transfer or Away Credit
HSOC 0100Emergence of Modern Science
HSOC 0228Studying Sex
HSOC 0283Medicine, Magic and Miracles
HSOC 0311Addiction: Understanding how we get hooked and how we recover
HSOC 0313Cane and Able: Disability in America
HSOC 0331Autism Epidemic
HSOC 0343Why Medical Interventions Work or Fail: A Search for Answers
HSOC 0361From Medical Missionaries to Community Partners
HSOC 0362First Year Seminar - Bacteria, Bodies, and Empires: A Global History of Medicine and Healing
HSOC 0387Epidemics in History
HSOC 0400Medicine in History
HSOC 0480Health and Societies
HSOC 0490Comparative Medicine
HSOC 0600Technology & Society
HSOC 0644Minds Bodies and Machines
HSOC 0823Sport Science in the World
HSOC 0883Climate and Change
HSOC 1120Science Technology and War
HSOC 1222Medical Sociology
HSOC 1312Mental Illness
HSOC 1330Bioethics
HSOC 1362Bacteria, Bodies, and Empires: Medicine and Healing in the Eastern Mediterranean (15th-21st c.)
HSOC 1382Introduction to Medical Anthropology
HSOC 1401The Peoples Health
HSOC 1411American Health Policy
HSOC 1880Environment and Society
HSOC 2002Sociological Research Methods
HSOC 2012Introduction to Data Analytics
HSOC 2202Health of Populations
HSOC 2211Sex, Sexuality and Sexual Science in South Asia: Perspectives from the Past and Present
HSOC 2227Trauma and Healing in Historical Perspective
HSOC 2254American Medicine and Technology in War and Peace
HSOC 2293From Madness to Mental Health: The History of Psychiatry
HSOC 2304Insect Epidemiology Pests, Pollinators and Disease Vectors
HSOC 2312Healthy Schools
HSOC 2317Slavery and Disease: Medical Knowledge in the Atlantic World
HSOC 2347Autism, Past and Present
HSOC 2362Bacteria, Bodies, and Empires: Medicine and Healing in the Eastern Mediterranean (15th-21st c.)
HSOC 2382Global Health: Anthropological Perspectives
HSOC 2401Social Determinants of Health
HSOC 2418Engineering Cultures
HSOC 2457History of Bioethics
HSOC 2483Health, Politics, and Social Movements
HSOC 2511Foundations of Public Health
HSOC 2523Technology and Medicine in Modern America
HSOC 2537Gender and Health
HSOC 2999Independent Study
HSOC 3017Biology and Society
HSOC 3028Normal People
HSOC 3097Indigeneity in Health, Science, and Technology
HSOC 3185Global Radiation History: Living in the Atomic Age 1945- Present
HSOC 3209The Freudian Century
HSOC 3210Health in Philly, Past and Present (SNF Paideia Program Course)
HSOC 3217Weird Science
HSOC 3279Nutritional Modernities: Food, Science, and Health in Global Context
HSOC 3305From Tropical Medicine to Planetary Health: Understanding Global Health
HSOC 3326Medicine and Healing in China
HSOC 3327Birth Culture and Medical Technology
HSOC 3343Race Science/Race Medicine
HSOC 3389Care: A Research Seminar
HSOC 3417The Racial Dimensions of Public Health: Historical Perspectives
HSOC 3524Medical Mestizaje: Health and Development in Contemporary Latin America
HSOC 3644Minds, Bodies, and Machines
HSOC 3803Bodies and Borders: Health, Place, and Displacement
HSOC 3889Trans Method
HSOC 4028Stories, Science, and Medicine
HSOC 4114Sports Science Medicine Technology
HSOC 4247Why Not Magic? Magic, Esoterica, and the Occult in the History of Science
HSOC 4303Disease & Society
HSOC 4317Slavery and Disease: Medical Knowledge in the Atlantic World
HSOC 4324Medical Activism and the Politics of Health
HSOC 4326Medicine and the Criminal Justice System
HSOC 4356Imperfect Epistemologies: Bioethics and Lived Experience (SNF Paideia Program Course)
HSOC 4389Care/Work: Care Workers and Care Economies at and Beyond the University
HSOC 4392Centering the Impaired Mind: Topics in Intellectual and Developmental Disability
HSOC 4400Research Seminar Health and Society
HSOC 4427Technology and Medicine
HSOC 4437Remembering Epidemics
HSOC 4488Fitness Measures: Meanings, Marginality, and Norms in Health History