Updated September 2007

A SAMPLING OF CONCENTRATIONS

The following samples of Areas of Concentrations for each Area of Emphasis are drawn from individual, current Areas of Concentration composed by Hum Bio majors.

AREA 1 – ENVIRONMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

Area of Concentration: Ecology

BIOSCI 175 Tropical Ecology and Conservation

HUMBIO 112 Conservation Biology (Essential)

BIOSCI 101 Ecology (Essential)

LAW 280 Toxic Harms

ANTH SCI 163 Human Behavioral Ecology

BIOSCI 125 Ecosystems of California

Area of Concentration: Environmental Economics and Policy

ANTHSCI 167 Social Policy for Sustainable Resource Use (Essential)

ECON 155 Environmental Economics and Policy (Essential)

HUMBIO 119 Demography: Health, Development, Environment

ECON 118 Development Economics

BIOSCI 147 Controlling Climate Change in the 21st Century

POLISCI 143 Non-Governmental Organizations and Development in Poor Countries

Area of Concentration: Environmental Science

EARTHSYS 111 Biology and Global Change

BIOSCI 121 Biogeography (Essential)

GES 102 Earth Materials

BIOSCI 120 General Botany

GES 130 Environmental Earth Sciences (Essential)

LAW 514 Law and Science of California Coastal Policy

Area of Concentration: Culture, the Environment and Economic Growth

ANTHSCI 160B Conservation Anthropology (Essential)

ECON 118 Development Economics

LAW 282 Environmental Ethics

EARTHSYS 112 Environmental Economics and Policy (Essential)

POLISCI 143 Non-Governmental Organizations and Development in Poor Countries (Essential)

BIOSCI 180 Fundamentals of Sustainable Agriculture

Area of Concentration: Conservation Anthropology

ANTHSCI 160B Conservation Anthropology (Essential)

EARTHSYS 164A Ethnoecology (Essential)

HUMBIO 117 Human Behavioral Ecology

BIOSCI 102 Demography: Health, Development, Environment

ANTHSCI 164 Ecological Anthropology

HUMBIO 113 Environmental Performance: Measuring Nature’s Benefits

Area of Concentration: Environmental Policy and Law

LAW 282 Environmental Ethics (Essential)

EARTHSYS 167C Managing the Commons

LAW 338 Land use

EARTHSYS 124 Environmental Justice (Essential)

CEE 175A California Coast: Science, Policy, and Law

ANTHSCI 168C Environmental Politics in Latin America

Area of Concentration: Environmental Change and Global Health

ANTHSCI 179 Environmental Change and Emerging Infectious Diseases (Essential)

HUMBIO 119 Demography: Health, Development, Environment

LAW 282 Environmental Ethics

HUMBIO 121 Economics of Health Improvement in Developing Countries (Essential)

GES138 Urbanization, Global Change, and Sustainability

HUMBIO 111 21st Century Environmental Problems, Policies, Conflict, and Progress

Area of Concentration: Sustainable Resource Use and Environmental Conservation

ECON 106 World Food Economy

HUMBIO 111 21st-Century Environmental Problems, Policies, Conflict and Progress

BIOSCI 180 Fundamentals of Sustainable Agriculture (Essential)

HUMBIO 112 Conservation Biology (Essential)

HUMBIO 119 Demography, Health, Development, Environment

ANTHSCI 167 Social Policy for Sustainable Resource Use

AREA 2 – HEALTH AND HEALTH POLICY

Area of Concentration: National Health Policy

HUMBIO 120 Health Care in America (Essential)

HUMBIO 120A American Health Policy (Essential)

ECON 126 Economics of Health and Medical Care (Essential)

HUMBIO 122 International Health Policy: Comparative National Health Care Systems

PUBLPOL 231 Political Economy of Health Care in the United States

HUMBIO 123 Obesity in America

Area of Concentration: Health Status and Health Care of Under-Served Communities

HUMBIO 122S Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, Health (Essential)

HUMBIO 121 Economics of Health Improvement in Developing Countries (Essential)

SOC 149 The Urban Underclass

ANTHSCI 170 Medical Anthropology (Essential)

HUMBIO 123 Obesity in America

INDE 253 Rural Health with a Global Perspective

Area of Concentration: Health Law and Economics

ECON 126 Economics of Health and Medical Care

MGTECON 392 Analysis of Costs, Risks and Benefits of Health Care (Essential)

HRP 391 Political Economy of Health Care in the US

HRP 210 Health Law I (Essential)

HUMBIO 122 International Health Policy: Competitive National Health Systems

GSBGEN 351 Innovation and Management in Health Care

Area of Concentration: Health Care and Health Promotion

HUMBIO 130 Human Nutrition

HUMBIO 127A/B Community Health: Assessment and Planning (Essential)

HUMBIO 126 Promoting Health over the Life Course (Essential)

MED 279Y Interdisciplinary Design for Agile Aging

MS&E 292 Health Policy Modeling (Essential)

HUMBIO 123 Obesity in America

Area of Concentration: Public Health and Access to Health Care

HUMBIO 127A/B Community Health: Assessment and Planning (Essential)

HUMBIO 120 Health Care in America

HUMBIO 122S Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, Health (Essential

HUMBIO 123 Obesity in America

MI 103 Parasites and Pestilence

HUMBIO 126 Promoting Health over the Life Course

Area of Concentration: International Health

POLISCI 141 Global Politics of Human Rights

INDE 253 Rural Health with a Global Perspective

HUMBIO 129 Critical Issues in International Women’s Health

MI 103 Parasites and Pestilence, Infectious Public Health Challenges (Essential)

POLISCI 143 NGO’s in the Developing World

HUMBIO 129S International Health (Essential)

Area of Concentration: Health in Developing Countries

HUMBIO 129S International Health (Essential)

HUMBIO 129 Critical Issues in International Women’s Health

MI 103 Parasites and Pestilence, Infectious Public Health Challenges

CEE 265D Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries (Essential)

PUBPOL 184 Poverty and Policies in Developing Countries (Essential)

Area of Concentration: Women’s Health

HUMBIO 125 Current Topics and Controversies in Women’s Health (Essential)

HUMBIO 126 Promoting Health over the Live Course

HUMBIO 129 Critical Issues in International Women’s Health (Essential)

FS 260 Seminar in Women’s Health: Women and Disabilities

ANTHSCI 172 Evolution of Human Disease

HUMBIO 162 Neuroscience and Psychology of Women’s Health

AREA 3 – HUMAN PERFORMANCE

Area of Concentration: Analysis of Human Movement

ME 281 Biomechanics of Movement (Essential)

HUMBIO 135 Exercise Physiology (Essential)

BIOSCI 150 Human Behavioral Biology

HUMBIO 133 Human Physiology

ME 280 Skeletal Development and Evolution

HUMBIO 132 Functional Anatomy of Exercise

Area of Concentration: Biological Basis of Human Performance

HUMBIO 135 Exercise Physiology (Essential)

BIOSCI 150 Human Behavioral Biology

HUMBIO 132 Functional Anatomy of Exercise (Essential)

RAD 220 Image-Based Human Anatomy

SURG 101 Regional Study of Human Structure

HUMBIO 130 Human Nutrition

Area of Concentration: Sports Physiology and Rehabilitation

HUMBIO 139 Sports Medicine (Essential)

BIOSCI 112 Human Physiology

HUMBIO 135 Exercise Physiology (Essential)

ME 281 Biomechanics of Movement (Essential)

HUMBIO 130 Human Nutrition

HUMBIO 132 Functional Anatomy of Exercise

ORTHO 239 Sports Medicine (Essential)

HUMBIO 132 Functional Anatomy of Exercise

HUMBIO 135 Exercise Physiology (Essential)

BIOSCI 112 Human Physiology (Essential)

HUMBIO 124 Fat Nutrition and Current Health Concerns

HUMBIO 120 Health Care in America

Area of Concentration: Exercise Science

RAD 220 Image-Based Human Anatomy

HUMBIO 132 Functional Anatomy of Exercise (Essential)

HUMBIO 135 Exercise Physiology (Essential)

BIOSCI 112 Human Physiology

HUMBIO 135S Applied Topics in Exercise Physiology

ORTHO 239 Sports Medicine (Essential)

Area of Concentration: Fitness and Health

HUMBIO 126 Promoting Health over the Life Course (Essential)

HUMBIO 135 Exercise Physiology

MED 279Y Interdisciplinary Design for Agile Aging

HUMBIO 124 Fat Nutrition and Current Health Concerns

HUMBIO 130 Human Nutrition

BIOSCI 112 Human Physiology (Essential)

Area of Concentration: Health and Human Performance

HUMBIO 132 Functional Anatomy of Exercise

BIOSCI 112 Human Physiology

HUMBIO 126 Promoting Health over the Life Course (Essential)

ORTHO 239 Sports Medicine

HUMBIO 130 Human Nutrition

BIOSCI 150 Human Behavioral Biology (Essential)

AREA 4 – HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Area of Concentration: Human Systems

BIOSCI 160 Developmental Biology (Essential)

BIOSCI 150 Human Behavioral Biology

SURG 101 Regional Study of Human Structure

HUMBIO 133 Human Physiology (Essential)

HUMBIO126S Sex Differences in Human Physiology and Disease

Area of Concentration: Psychosocial Development

SOC 121 The Individual in Social Structure (Essential)

HUMBIO 144 Boy’s Psychosocial Development

PSYCH 168 EmotionRegulation

SOC 120 Interpersonal Relations

HUMBIO 142 Adolescent Development (Essential)

CASA 126 Mediating Desire

Area of Concentration: Language and Cognition

PSYCH 131 Language and Thought (Essential)

HUMBIO 145 Birds to Words: Cognition, Communication and Language (Essential)

PSYCH 130 Introduction to Cognitive Science (Essential)

LINGUIST 150 Language in Society

PSYCH 141 Cognitive Development

LINQUIST 140 Language Acquisition

Area of Concentration: Child Development (Biological Emphasis)

HUMBIO 141 Human Developmental Biology and Medicine

BIOSCI 158 Developmental Neurobiology (Essential)

PSYCH 149 The Infant Mind: Cognitive Development Over the First Year (Essential)

EDUC 255 Human Abilities

LINGUIST 140 Language Acquisition

PSYCH 141 Cognitive Development

Area of Concentration: Child Development (Social Emphasis)

PSYCH 149 The Infant Mind: Cognitive Development Over the First Year (Essential)

COMM 170 Communication and Children I

POLISCI 131 Children's Citizenship: Justice Across Generations

HUMBIO 144 Boys’ Psychosocial Development

SOC 121 The Individual in Social Structure

LINQUIST 140 Language Acquisition (Essential)

Area of Concentration: Adolescent Development

PSYCH 133 Human Cognitive Abilities (Essential)

HUMBIO 142 Adolescent Development (Essential)

SOC 120 Interpersonal Relations

HUMBIO 144 Boys’ Psychosocial Development

HUMBIO 142A Seminar on Problem Behavior in Adolescence

HUMBIO 130 Human Nutrition

AREA 5 – BIO-MEDICAL SCIENCE

Area of Concentration: Infectious Diseases

HUMBIO 155H/V Humans and Viruses (Essential)

HUMBIO 153 Parasites and Pestilence (Essential)

ANTHSCI 179 Environmental Change and Emerging Infectious Diseases

HUMBIO 155B The Vaccine Revolution

BIOSCI 230 Molecular and Cellular Immunology

HUMBIO 156 Global HIV/AIDS

Area of Concentration: Genetics and Disease

HUMBIO 158 Human Genome and Disease (Essential)

BIOMEDIN 234 Biomedical Genomics (Essential)

HUMBIO 157 The Stem Cell: Science, Ethics, and Politics

BIOSCI 118 Genetic Analysis of Biological Processes

ANTHSCI 180 Introduction to Anthropological Genetics

BIOSCI 162 Advanced Microbial Genetics and Genomics

Area of Concentration: Biochemical Threats

POLISCI 114S International Security in a Changing World (Essential)

MS&E 293 Technology in National Security (Essential)

BIOSCI 187 Biochemistry

PSYCH 167 Seminar on Aggression

HUMBIO 155H/V Humans and Viruses (Essential)

SOC 109 Sociology of Terrorism

Area of Concentration: Molecular Biology, Biotechnology and Disease

HUMBIO 155H/V Humans and Viruses (Essential)

BIOSCI 230 Molecular and Cellular Immunology (Essential)

BIOSCI 126 Cell Biology (Essential)

SBIO 228 Computational Structural Biology

BIOMEDIN 210 Introduction to Biomedical Informatics: Fundamental Methods

DBIO 203 Advanced Genetics

Area of Concentration: Epidemiology and Human Disease

HUMBIO 153 Parasites and Pestilence

HRP 231 Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases (Essential)

HUMBIO 154 Cancer Epidemiology

ANTHSCI 179 Environmental Change and Emerging Infectious Disease

HUMBIO 123 Obesity in America

BIO SCI 230 Molecular and Cellular Immunology (Essential)

Area of Concentration: Biotechnological Solutions to Human Disease

CHEME 150 Biochemical Engineering (Essential)

BIOSCI 109A/B The Human Genome and Disease

HUMBIO 157: The Stem Cell: Science, Ethics, and Politics (Essential)

BIOSCI 230 Molecular and Cellular Immunology

CBIO 101 Cancer Biology

HRP 231 Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases

AREA 6 – BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR

Area of Concentration: Cognitive Neuroscience and Impairment

PSYCH 130 Cellular Neuroscience

BIOSCI 158 Developmental Neurobiology (Essential)

PSYCH 143 Developmental Anomalies

NBIO 218 Neural Basis of Behavior

HUMBIO 162 The Neuroscience and Psychology of Women’s Health

BIOSCI 151 Mechanisms of Neuron Death (Essential)

Area of Concentration: Psychological and Biological Foundations for Behavior

PSYCH 163 Interpersonal Basis of Abnormal Behavior (Essential)

BIOSCI 153 Cellular Neuroscience

PSYCH 158 Emotions: History, Theory and Research

HUMBIO 160 Human Behavioral Biology (Essential)

PSYCH 90 Introduction to Clinical Psychology

PSYCH 95 Introduction to Abnormal Psychology

Area of Concentration: Human Behavior and Diplomacy

PSYCH 70 Introduction to Social Psychology

HUMBIO 160 Human Behavioral Biology

PSYCH 185 Contemporary Issues in Peace Studies

SOC 127 Bargaining, Power and Influence in Social Interactions

POLISCI 110B Strategy, War and Politics

MS&E 180 Organizations: Theory and Management

Area of Concentration: Neurobiology and Psychobiology

HUMBIO 160 Human Behavioral Biology

BIOSCI 163 Neural Systems and Behavior (Essential)

PSYCH 120 Cellular Neuroscience: Cell Signaling and Behavior (Essential)

BIOSCI 154 Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology

PSYCH 55 Introduction to Cognition and the Brain

Area of Concentration: Neuroscience and Behavior

PSYCH 120 Cellular Neuroscience: Cell Signaling and Behavior (Essential)

BIOSCI 158 Developmental Neurobiology

HUMBIO 163 Neural Systems and Behavior (Essential)

BIOSCI 154 Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

BIOSCI 151 Mechanisms of Neuron Death

PSYCH 141 Cognitive Development

Area of Concentration: Neurophilosophy

HUMBIO 160 Human Behavioral Biology

PHIL 189 Philosophical Applications of Cognitive Science (Essential)

NBIO 218 Neural Basis of Behavior (Essential)

PHIL 186 Philosophy of Mind

NBIO 254 Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology

SYMBSYS 100 Introduction to Cognitive Science

Area of Concentration: Biology of Behavioral Development

PSYCH 55 Introduction to Cognition and the Brain

PSYCH 251 Affective Neuroscience

HUMBIO 160 Human Behavioral Biology

HUMBIO 163 Neural Systems and Behavior (Essential)

BIOSCI 158 Developmental Neurobiology (Essential)

PSYCH 141 Cognitive Development

Area of Concentration: Psychophysiology and Emotion Regulation

HUMBIO 160 Human Behavioral Biology

HUMBIO 163 Neural Systems and Behavior (Essential)

PSYCH 120 Cellular Neuroscience: Cell Signaling and Behavior (Essential)

PSYCH 161 Emotion

PSYCH 168 Emotion Regulation (Essential)

NBIO 206 The Nervous System

AREA 7 – ETHICS AND MEDICAL HUMANITIES

Area of Concentration: History of Medicine and Disease

HUMBIO 175 Health Care Seen through Medical History, Literature, Art (Essential)

HIST 243G Tobacco and Health in World History

HUMBIO 178 Medical Anthropology (Essential)

ANTH SCI 178A Past and Present Pestilence: An Interdisciplinary Examination of the Impact of Zoonotic Diseases

HPS 156 History of Women and Medicine in the United States

STS 134 History of the Senses

Area of Concentration: Cultural Context of Illness

HIST 244C History of the Body in Science, Medicine and Culture

CASA 174 Cultures of Disease: Cancer (Essential)

HUMBIO 175 Health Care Seen through Medical History, Literature, Art (Essential)

CASA 82 Medical Anthropology (Essential)

HUMBIO 122S Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, Health

HRP 212 Cross-Cultural Medicine

Area of Concentration: Biological Ethics and Applications

ETHICSOC 170 Ethical Theory (Essential)

HUMBIO 157 The Stem Cell: Science, Ethics and Politics (Essential)

PHIL 187 Philosophy of Action

MS&E 254 The Ethical Analyst

PSYCH 102 Longevity

STS 210 Ethics, Science and Technology

Area of Concentration: Social Transformation through Public Service

POLISCI 133 Ethics and Politics of Public Service (Essential)

PUBPOL 183 Philanthropy and Social Innovation

URBST 126 Spirituality and Nonviolent Social Transformation (Essential)

HIST 259A/B Poverty and Homelessness in America

HUMBIO 122S Social Class, Race, Ethnicity and Health

SOC 130 Education and Society

Area of Concentration: Healing and the Body

ANTHSCI 170 Medical Anthropology (Essential)

HUMBIO 126 Promoting Health over the Life Course (Essential)

RELIGST 270 Science and Religion

HUMBIO 175 Health Care Seen through Medical History, Literature, Art

ANTHSCI 175 Anthropology of Death and Dying

HUMBIO 130 Human Nutrition

Area of Concentration: Human Rationality and Decision Making

STS 163 Risk in Contemporary Culture

MS&E 254 The Ethical Analyst (Essential)

ECON 179 Experimental Economics

MS&E 179 Ethics and Public Policy

PHIL 150 Mathematical Logic (Essential)

COMM 172 Psychological Processing of Media

Area of Concentration: Philosophy, Psychology and Public Policy

PHIL 374 Valuing

PHIL 186 Philosophy of Mind

HUMBIO 128 Community Health Psychology

PUBPOL 180 Social Innovation

PUBPOL 123B Ethics in Public Policy (Essential)

PSYCH 184 Applied Social Psychology (Essential)

AREA 8 – EVOLUTION

Area of Concentration: Evolution

BIOSCI 143 Evolution (Essential)

ME 280 Skeletal Development and Evolution

BIOSCI 113 Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution

ANTHSCI 169 Conservation and Evolutionary Ecology

PHIL 167A Philosophy of Biology (Essential)

BIOSCI 136 Evolutionary Paleobiology

Area of Concentration: Human Evolution

BIOSCI 143 Evolution (Essential)

HUMBIO 180 Human Osteology (Essential)

HIST 243S Human Origins: History, Evidence and Controversy

HUMBIO 160 Human Behavioral Biology

COMPMED 106 A Primate Perspective on Brain Evolution

Area of Concentration: Evolution of Human Health and Wellbeing

HUMBIO 160 Human Behavioral Biology (Essential)

HUMBIO 186 Biological Clocks

HUMBIO 178 Medical Anthropology

PHIL 167B Philosophy, Biology, and Behavior (Essential)

COMPMED 106 A Primate Perspective on Brain Evolution

Area of Concentration: Evolution of Variation between Racial and Cultural Communities

BIOSCI 143 Evolution

BIOSCI 113 Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution

ANTHSCI 145B Evolution of Civilizations (Essential)

HUMBIO 187 Human Diversity: A Linguistic Perspective (Essential)

ANTHSCI 187 The Genetic Structure of Populations

Area of Concentration: Physical and Behavioral Human Evolution

HUMBIO 180 Human Osteology

COMPMED 106 A Primate Perspective on Brain Evolution

ME 280 Skeletal Development and Evolution (Essential)

HUMBIO 160 Human Behavioral Biology (Essential)

PSYCH 137 Birds to Words: Cognition, Communication and Language (Essential)

Area of Concentration: Evolution and Development of the Nervous System

BIOSCI 113 Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution

COMPMED 106 A Primate Perspective on Brain Evolution

HUMBIO 160 Human Behavioral Biology

BIOSCI 158 Developmental Neurobiology (Essential)

HUMBIO 163 Neural Systems and Behavior

NBIO 206 The Nervous System (Essential)

Area of Concentration: Human Genetic, Physical and Cultural Evolution

ANTHSCI 187 The Genetic Structure of Populations (Essential)

HUMBIO 180 Human Osteology (Essential)

ME 280 Skeletal Development and Evolution

HUMBIO 187 Human Diversity: A Linguistic Perspective (Essential)

BIOSCI 215 Biochemical Evolution

PSYCH 137 Birds to Words: Cognition, Communication and Language

Updated September ‘07