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Cluster: Healthy People/Healthy Places

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

Sophomore Inquiry: Healthy People/Healthy Places

(UNST 234)

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.

Approved Cluster Courses:

Academic Year 11-12

*Courses listed below are all Approved Cluster Courses. The links beside the course titles are for documentation purposes.

ANTH 325U Culture Health and Healing
ANTH 333U The Anthropology of Food
CCJ 330U Crime Control Strategies
COMM 399U Health Communication
EC 316U Introduction to Health Care Economics
ELP 456U / USP 454U
The Urban Schools and "At Risk "Status (Crosslisted with USP 454U)
PHE 326U Drug Education
PHE 335U Human Sexuality
PHE 355U Consumer Health
PHE / WS 410U Women's Health: Social & Biological Perspectives (Crosslisted with WS 410U)
PHE 425U Nutrition for Health
PHE 443U Environmental Health
PHE 444U Global Health
PHE 446U Community Health: Principles and Practices
PHE 452U Gender, Race, Class and Health
PHE 454U
Social Gerontology
PHE 455U
Film and Health
SW 407U
Community Based Interventions
USP 313U
Urban Planning:  Environmental Issues
USP 317U
Introduction to International Development
USP 424U
Healthy Communities
USP 425U
Community and the Built Environment
USP 426U Neighborhood Conservation and Change
USP 450U
Concepts of Citizen Participation
USP 454U / ELP 456U
The Urban Schools and "At Risk" Status (Crosslisted with ELP 456U)
WS/PHE 410U
Women's Health: Social & Biological Perspectives (Crosslisted with PHE 410U)