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)
Updated September ‘07
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
Updated September ‘07
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
Updated September ‘07
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)
Updated September ‘07
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 Emotion Regulation
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
Updated September ‘07
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)
Updated September ‘07
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
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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
Updated September ‘07
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)
Updated September ‘07
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
Updated September ‘07
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
Updated September ‘07