PHTH 4120 — Global Perspectives on Discrimination and Health

4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath DDNUpath ICNUpath WIusually offered: fall, spring, summerBostonTraditional

Explores how discrimination can lead to population-level health disparities among marginalized groups globally. Topics include constructions of social categories, such as race and gender; differences in patterns of disease across populations, both intra- and internationally; how work from various disciplines, such as anthropology, medicine, and public health, inform understanding about how discrimination relates to health; and theoretical models from different disciplines that explain public health disparities.

Prerequisites

Offering history

TermSectionsEnrolledCapacityFullOpen seats/section
Summer B 20231222588%3.0
Fall 2023610711494%1.2
Spring 2024512112795%1.2
Summer A 20242405178%5.5
Summer B 20241202580%5.0
Fall 2024715417688%3.1
Spring 2025716217692%2.0
Summer A 20251222588%3.0
Summer B 20252315062%9.5
Fall 2025610215068%8.0
Spring 2026713914497%0.7

Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.

Meeting times

Share of recent sections by weekday: M 48% · T 44% · W 24% · Th 43% · F 34%

Common patterns: MR (32% of sections), TF (23% of sections), T (13% of sections), MW (11% of sections), WF (8% of sections), MTWR (5% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

Professors

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Spring

Summer A

Summer B

Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.

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