Area of Concentration

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AREA 1: ENVIRONMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

• HUMBIO - 111 - Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: Resilence, Vulnerability and Environmental Justice

• HUMBIO - 111M - Marine Resource Economics and Policy

• HUMBIO - 112 - Conservation Biology

• HUMBIO - 113 - The Biologies of Humans and Plants

• HUMBIO - 113S - Healthy/Sustainable Food Systems: Maximum Sustainability across Health, Economics and Environment

• HUMBIO - 114 - Environmental Change and Emerging Infectious Diseases

• HUMBIO - 117H - Human Behavioral Ecology

• HUMBIO - 118 - Theory of Environmental and Ecological Anthropology

• HUMBIO - 119 - Demography: Health, Development, Environment

• BIOHOPK - 163H - Oceanic Biology

• BIOHOPK - 172H - Marine Ecology

• BIOHOPK - 182H - Stanford at Sea

• BIO - 101 - Ecology

• BIO - 121 - Biogeography

• BIO - 145 - Ecology and Evolution of Animal Behavioral

• CEE - 166A - Watersheds and Wetlands

• CEE - 175A - California Coast:  Science, Policy and Law

• CEE - 177S - Design for a Sustainable World

• COMM - 177C - Environmental Journalism

• EARTHSYS - 103 - Understanding Energy

• EARTHSYS - 104 - The Water Course

• EARTHSYS - 111 - Biology and Global Change

• EARTHSYS - 112 - Human Society and Environmental Change

• ECON - 106 - World Food Economy

• ECON - 118 - Development Economics

• EDUC - 332 - Theory and Practice of Environmental Education

• MS&E - 152 - Introduction to Decision Analysis

• MS&E - 243 - Energy and Environmental Policy Analysis

• MS&E - 294 - Climate Policy Analysis

• POLISCI - 123 - Politics and Public Policy

• URBANST - 163 - Land Use Control

AREA 2: HEALTH AND HEALTH POLICY

• HUMBIO - 120 - Health Care in America: The Organizations and Institutions that Shape the Health Care System

• HUMBIO - 120A - Health Policy and Health Care System Design

• HUMBIO - 121 - Critical Issues in Child Health

• HUMBIO - 121E - Ethnicity and Medicine

• HUMBIO - 122 - Beyond Health Care: Seeking Health in Society

• HUMBIO - 122M - Health Challenges of Human Migration

• HUMBIO - 122S - Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, Health

• HUMBIO - 123 - Obesity in America

• HUMBIO - 124C - Global Child Health

• HUMBIO - 124E - Economics of Infectious Disease and Global Health

• HUMBIO - 125 - Current Topics and Controversies in Women's Health

• HUMBIO - 126 - Promoting Health Over the Life Course: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

• HUMBIO - 126A - Advanced Seminar in Health and Security

• HUMBIO - 127A - Community Health: Assessment and Planning I

• HUMBIO - 127B - Community Health: Assessment and Planning II

• HUMBIO - 128 - Community Health Psychology

• HUMBIO - 129 - Critical Issues in International Women's Health

• HUMBIO - 129S - Global Public Health

• HUMBIO - 129W - Health Care Systems Around the World

• ANTHRO - 82 - Medical Anthropology

• BIOMEDIN - 156 - Economics of Health and Medical Care

• ECON - 127 - Economics of Health Improvement in Developing Countries

• ECON - 150 - Economic Policy Analysis

• MS&E - 292 - Health Policy Modeling

• PSYCH - 141S - Health Psychology

• PUBLPOL - 156 - Health Care Policy and Reform

• PUBLPOL - 231 - Health Care Regulation, Finance and Policy

• SOC - 152 - Social and Economic Determinants of Health

• SURG - 222 - Biosecurity and Bioterrorism Response

AREA 3: HUMAN PERFORMANCE

• HUMBIO - 130 - Human Nutrition

• HUMBIO - 133 - Human Physiology

• HUMBIO - 135 - Exercise Physiology

• HUMBIO - 135S - Applied Topics in Exercise Physiology and Metabolism

• HUMBIO - 136 - Human Physiology Laboratory

• ANTHRO - 183B - Human Mobility and Adaptability

• DANCE - 156T - Movement and Digital Culture

• ME - 281 - Biomechanics of Movement

• RAD - 220 - Introduction to Imaging and Image-Based Neuro Anatomy

• SURG - 101 - Regional Study of Human Structure

AREA 4: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

• HUMBIO - 140 - Sex Differences in Human Physiology and Disease

• HUMBIO - 142 - Adolescent Development

• HUMBIO - 142M - Special Topics in Adolescent Mental Health

• HUMBIO - 143 - Adolescent Sexuality

• HUMBIO - 144 - Boys' Psychosocial Development

• HUMBIO - 145L - Biology and Evolution of Language

• HUMBIO - 146D - Developmental Disabilities: From Biology to Policy

• HUMBIO - 148W - Women, Fertility, and Work

• HUMBIO - 149 - Psychological and Educational Resilience among Children and Youth

• HUMBIO - 149L - Longevity

• BIO - 123A - Cell and Developmental Biology I

• BIO - 123B - Cell and Developmental Biology II

• HIST - 106A/B - Global Human Geography

• LINGUIST - 140 - Language Acquisition I

• MS&E - 277 - Creativity and Innovation

• PSYCH - 60 - Introduction to Developmental Psychology

• PSYCH - 131 - Language and Thought

• PSYCH - 141 - Cognitve Development

• PSYCH - 143 - Developmental Anomolies

• PSYCH - 149 - The Infant Mind: Cognitive Development Over the First Year

• PSYC - 139 - Changing Relationships: A Couples and Family Therapy Perspective

• SOC - 120 - Interpersonal Relations

• SOC - 130 - Education and Society

AREA 5: BIO-MEDICAL SCIENCE

• HUMBIO - 150A - Assisted Reproductive Technologies

• HUMBIO - 151R - Biology Research in the Age of Informatics

• HUMBIO - 152 - Viral Lifestyles

• HUMBIO - 153 - Parasites and Pestilence: Infectious Public Health Challenges

• HUMBIO - 154A - Outbreaks, Epidemics, and Disease Control Systems

• HUMBIO - 154B - Introduction to Epidemiology

• HUMBIO - 154C - Cancer Epidemiology

• HUMBIO - 155B - The Vaccine Revolution

• HUMBIO - 155H - Humans and Viruses I

• HUMBIO - 157 - The Biology of Stem Cells

• HUMBIO - 158 - The Human Genome and Disease

• HUMBIO - 159 - Genes and Environment in Disease Causation

• BIO - 104 - Advanced Molecular Biology

• BIO - 118 - Genetic Analysis of Biological Processes

• BIO - 230 - Molecular and Cellular Immunology

• CBIO - 101 - Cancer Biology

• CHEMENG - 450 - Advances in Biotechnology

• ENGR - 110 - Perspectives in Assistive Technology

• GENE - 202 - Human Genetics

• GENE - 271 - Human Molecular Genetics

• GENE - 272 - Introduction to Medical Genetics

• GENE - 284 - Medical Genetics Seminar

• GENE - 285A - Genetic Counseling Seminar

• HRP - 231 - Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases

• IMMUNOL - 275 - Tumor Immunology

• MI - 104 - Innate Immunology

• MI - 116 - The Human Virosphere

• MI - 120 - Bacteria in Health and Disease

AREA 6: BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR

• HUMBIO - 160 - Human Behavioral Biology

• HUMBIO - 161 - The Neurobiology of Sleep

• HUMBIO - 162 - The Nervous Age: Neurosis, Neurology, and Nineteenth-Century Theatre

• HUMBIO - 162H - Hysteria and Modern Culture

• HUMBIO - 164 - Autism Spectrum Disorders

• HUMBIO - 166 - Food and Society: Exploring Eating Behaviors in a Social, Environmental and Policy Context

• HUMBIO - 167 - The Art of Vision

• HUMBIO - 168 - Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Guilt

• BIO - 145 - Ecology and Evolution of Animal Behavioral

• BIO - 151 - Mechanisms of Neuron Death

• BIO - 153 - Cellular Neuroscience: Cell Signaling and Behavior

• BIO - 154 - Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology

• BIO - 158 - Developmental Neurobiology

• BIO - 222 - Exploring Neural Circuits

• COMM - 121 - Behavior and Social Media

• LAW - 333 - Problem Solving and Decision Making for Public Policy and Social Change

• LINGUIST - 144 - Minds and Machines

• MCP - 126 - Neurons and Disease

• MUSIC - 251 - Psychophysics and Music Cognition

• NBIO - 206 - The Nervous System

• NBIO - 218 -Neural Basis of Behavior

• NBIO - 220 - Central Mechanisms in Vision-Based Cognition

• PHIL - 167B - Philosophy, Biology, and Behavior

• PHIL - 185B - Philosophy of Perception

• PHIL - 186 - Philosophy of Mind

• PSYC - 139 - Changing Relationships: A Couples and Family Therapy Perspective

• PSYCH - 50 - Intro to Cognitive Neuroscience

• PSYCH - 151 - PSYCH - 154 - Judgement and Decision Making

• PSYCH - 161 - Emotion

• PSYCH - 205 - Foundations of Cognition

• PSYCH - 232 - Brain and Decision Making

• PSYCH - 251 - Affective Neurscience

• SYMSYS - 206 - Philosophy of Neurscience

AREA 7: ETHICS AND MEDICAL HUMANITIES

• HUMBIO - 170 - Justice, Policy and Science

• HUMBIO - 170A - Sex and the Law

• HUMBIO - 172B - Children, Youth, and the Law

• HUMBIO - 173 - Science, Business and the Law: How Scientific Discovery and Innovation Are Protected and Brought to Market

• HUMBIO - 174 - Foundations of Bioethics

• HUMBIO - 175H - Literature and Human Experimentation

• HUMBIO - 175L - Literature and Global Health

• HUMBIO - 176A - Medical Anthropology

• HUMBIO - 177C - Culture, Narrative, and Medicine

• HUMBIO - 178 - Ethics and Politics of Public Service

• HUMBIO - 178T - Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal and Medical Perspectives

• HUMBIO - 178V - Violence Against Women: Theory, Issues and Prevention

• HUMBIO - 179S - Spirituality and Healing

• ANTHRO 41/AAAS 41/CSRE - 41A - Genes and Identity

• EDUC - 247 - Moral and Character Education

• HIST - 130A - In Sickness and in Health: Medicine and American Society, 1800-Present

• HIST - 201 - Introduction to Public History and Public Service

• HIST - 244C - History of the Body in Science, Medicine and Culture

• HIST - 264G - The Social History of Mental Illness in the United States

• HRP - 212 - Cross-Cultural Medicine

• INTNLREL - 140C - The U.S., U.N. Peacekeeping and Humanitarian War

• INTNLREL - 180A - Transitional Justice, Human Rights and International Criminal Tribunals

• MS&E - 197 - Ethics, Technology and Public Policy

• MS&E - 254 - The Ethical Analyst

• PEDS - 223 - Human Rights and Global Health

• PHIL - 170 - Ethical Theory

• PHIL - 171 - Justice

• PHIL - 374 - Caring and Practical Reasoning

• POLISCI - 334 - Philanthropy and Civil Society

• PSYCH - 138 - Wise Interventions

• PSYCH - 179 - The Psychology of Everyday Morality

• PUBLPOL - 353 - Science and Technology Policy

• RELIGST - 143 - Empathy

• SOC - 135 - Poverty, Inequality, and Social Policy in the United States

• SOC - 141 - Controversies about Inequality

• URBANST - 112 - The Urban Underclass

AREA 8: EVOLUTION

• HUMBIO - 180 - Human Skeletal Anatomy

• ANTHRO - 113 - Culture and Epigenetics: Towards A Non-Darwinian Synthesis

• ANTHRO - 121 - Language and Prehistory

• ANTHRO - 245A - Evolutionary of Theory in Archaeology

• ANTHRO - 163 - Conservation and Evolutionary Ecology

• BIO - 113 - Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution

• BIO - 143 - Evolution

• BIO - 180 - Microbial Physiology

• BIOHOPK - 155H - Developmental Biology and Evolution

• HIST - 240 - The History of Evolution

• HIST - 243S - Human Origins: History, Evidence and Controversy

• HIST - 342 - Darwin in the History of Life

• LINGUIST - 160 - Introduction to Language Change

• ME - 280 - Skeletal Development and Evolution