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) |
