Spring 2025 Course Highlight
Discover a variety of courses for Spring 2025 that explore different aspects of healthy living, including nutrition, physical well-being, mental health, and overall lifestyle balance. These courses highlight the importance of daily prioritizing health, providing you with the knowledge and tools needed to make informed choices and develop a healthier, more balanced life.
HLTH 318-1 Sights and Sounds of Health
Freeman, Amanda
Monday/Wednesday 2:30pm - 3:45pm
This course will explore our perception of sights and sounds. Through examination of the physiology underlying these sensory systems, mechanisms of disruption, treatment methods, and impact on health and well-being, this course integrates the two components of the Human Health major, science and human experience. How do visual and auditory stimuli contribute to, or disrupt, our health and well-being? Join us to learn about both how their processing pathways may be disrupted, and potential interventions available and emerging to restore these critical sensory modalities.
HLTH 352-1 Advancing Global Health Equity
Cranmer, John
Tuesday/Thursday, 2:30pm – 3:45pm
Interested in health equity? Go back to the beginning of health as this class applies community-based primary health care methods to advance more equitable solutions for a maternal-newborn global health challenges. Teams will measure the disparity and look "back" to identify causes before looking "forward" to propose more equitable solutions for future change. Prerequisite: HLTH 250
HLTH 353-1 Global Health: Players, Politics, & Powers
McFarland, Deborah
Monday/Wednesday, 8:30am - 9:45am
For a first-hand look at global health in action, join this seminar style course focused on the interplay of major global health actors/players, the politics of global health, and the power dynamics that infuse the interplay. The course concentrates on how key global health players over the last 25 years have changed, froma post-World War 2 set of organizations and institutions, to include public, multilateral, private and philanthropic players. Since the millennium, the landscape has fundamentally changed. This course will explore the dynamics of this change, the influence of respective global health players in crafting the global health agenda and the relative power of each player over time.
A key focus of this course will interrogate the question of whether and how the priorities and politics of the big global health players influence decisions taken at community, sub-national and national levels in low and middle income countries. The course will require a significant amount of reading, critique, discussion and analysis. Prerequisite: HLTH 250
HLTH 385-5 Pain, Treatment, & Impacts
Woodbury, Anna; Singh, Vinita
Friday, 8:30am – 11:15am
Pain has profound personal and societal impacts. This course provides undergraduate students an expansive view of pain, exploring how it influences both individuals and communities, including the role of culture and psychology in pain perception and management, and the broader economic and social implications. Students will gain foundational knowledge of pain mechanisms and management strategies, with insights into how pain is experienced and addressed across different contexts. Students will also pursue a community project related to pain and present their results at the end of the course. There are no pre-requisites.
HLTH 385-9/THEA 385-2 Empathy, Theater, & Social Change
Paulsen, Lisa; Ozawa-de Silva, Brendan
Tuesday/Thursday, 11:30am - 12:45pm
This course will explore empathy and its applications for social change in an interdisciplinary and embodied way that combines research in psychology, neuroscience, anthropology and theater studies with active and engaged learning techniques for skills building from theater studies and embodied pedagogy. In this theory-practice-learning course, students will engage in in-class activities including acting, improvisation and role play; individual, paired and group reflective practices; journaling; and critical analysis of social issues and the role empathy and theater can play in addressing them.
HLTH 411-1 Many Diseases, Few Causes
Freeman, Amanda
Monday/Wednesday, 11:30am - 12:45pm
Improve Health and Preempt Disease: This seminar course may be the most important course anyone interested in health could take. The class is an Advanced Predictive Health discussion, examining the evidence documenting how the fundamental processes of the immune system, inflammation, regenerative potential and oxygen status underlie and determine human health. While modern medicine focuses on organ-specific diseases, a changing paradigm led by Emory's Predictive Health scholars identifies that most common chronic diseases are outcomes of processes that are active every day, and identifies specific interventions that can lead to pre-emption of chronic diseases. Prerequisite: HLTH 210 and BIOL 142