Healthy People/Healthy Places Cluster

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

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 08-09

AJ 330U Crime Control Strategies
ANTH 325U Culture Health and Healing
ANTH 333U The Anthropology of Food
EC 316U Introduction to Health Care Economics
ENG 308U Literature and Medicine in the Community
ENG 464U Illness and Culture
EPFA 456U The Urban Schools and "At Risk "Status
PHE 326U Drug Education
PHE 335U Human Sexuality
PHE 355U Consumer Health
PHE 410U Topics in Health Promotions Campaigns
PHE 410U Women’s Health: Social and Biological Perspectives
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
SP 399U Health Communication
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 The Urban Schools and "At Risk" Status
WS 410U Women’s Health: Social and Biological Perspectives