HLEQ

Term:

Subject

HLEQ

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.rhodes.edu

Credits: This course introduces the foundational concepts and methods of epidemiology and biostatistics used to study health and disease in populations. The first half of the course covers epidemiology concepts including measures of disease occurrence, study designs, measures of association, and causal inference. The second half covers biostatistics concepts ranging from probability and distributions to hypothesis testing and regression, with R programming introduced to analyze real public health data. No prior statistics or programming background is required. Students should leave this course able to interpret health data critically and understand how epidemiologic reasoning informs decisions in medicine, public health, and policy.

Subject

HLEQ

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.rhodes.edu

Credits: This course examines health, illness, and healing across Latin America and U.S. Latinx communities through the interdisciplinary frameworks of the medical humanities, bioethics, and health equity. Drawing on literary narratives, testimonial writing, visual culture, ethnography, and public health discourse, students analyze how bodies, suffering, disability, and care are represented, experienced, and contested in diverse cultural and political contexts. The course foregrounds how histories of colonialism, racialization, structural violence, gender, migration, and economic inequality shape medical knowledge and lived experiences of health and illness. At the same time, it highlights community-based, culturally grounded, and Indigenous healing practices that challenge dominant biomedical paradigms and advance more just and inclusive models of care. Through case studies from Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and U.S. Latinx communities, students engage ethical questions surrounding global health, reproductive justice, mental health, environmental health, medical authority, and the politics of care. Emphasizing close reading, ethical reasoning, reflective writing, and collaborative dialogue, the course centers the human dimensions of illness and care while framing health as a site of struggle, creativity, and resistance.

Subject

HLEQ

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.rhodes.edu

Credits: This course explores the intrinsic connection that exists between environmental conditions and human health. Moreover, this course will discuss the critical role public policy plays in shaping not only population health outcomes, but the very environmental conditions that inform them. Students will examine how critical environmental issues such as air and water pollution, climate change, toxic exposures, and land use decisions influence health outcomes across communities. The course introduces key environmental laws, regulatory agencies, and public health frameworks that guide efforts to protect population health. Through case studies and applied policy analysis, students will consider how science, governance, and social factors intersect to address environmental health challenges with special attention being given to environmental justice and the unequal distribution of environmental risks and protections.

Subject

HLEQ

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.rhodes.edu

Subject

HLEQ

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.rhodes.edu

Credits: This course explores the nexus of community health and creativity. The course meets during five full-day Saturday workshops. Between in-person meetings, students are required to attend virtual chats with experts in the field. Through project-based learning and artistic mediums, students will learn how to craft policies, amplify community narratives, and foster spaces of belonging. Participants dive deep into the synergy of public health, grassroots organizing, and creative advocacy to champion transformative community change.

Subject

HLEQ

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.rhodes.edu

Prerequisite

HLEQ 210 or URBN 235 or permission of instructor

Credits: HLEQ 350 is a lab course introducing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and their application to public health research. We will explore spatial data addressing social determinants of health (SDOH) and potentially related health outcomes. R programming skills will be introduced to import and spatially combine data sets, analyze relationships among variables, and display findings in tables, figures, and maps. Topics addressed include public health vocabulary, coordinate reference systems, spatial analyses, mapping, and relevant data sources. The course will introduce statistical analysis techniques to use with data combined at the area level. Students should leave this course with spatial analysis skills to explore relationships between SDOH and health outcomes.

Subject

HLEQ

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.rhodes.edu

Credits: This course explores ethical issues in the practice of pediatric medicine. We explore issues such as the role and limits of parental decision-making authority, the right to an open future, informed consent and assent, healthcare provider conscientious objection, end-of-life care, moral distress, organ donation, genetic testing, research ethics, and best practices for conducting an ethics consultation. Throughout the semester we take up a series of case studies that provide the opportunity to identify, analyze, and potentially resolve ethical issues that emerge in the care of children. Students will have the opportunity to practice conducting ethic consultations.

Subject

HLEQ

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.rhodes.edu

Credits: This course explores ethical issues in the practice of public health. We begin with an exploration of moral and political frameworks, then note important differences in how those frameworks function in clinical and public health contexts. Finally, we take up a series of case studies that provide the opportunity to identify, analyze, and potentially resolve ethical issues that emerge in public health practice.

Subject

HLEQ

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.rhodes.edu

Term:

Subject

HLEQ

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.rhodes.edu

Term:

Subject

HLEQ

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.rhodes.edu

Term:

Subject

HLEQ

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.rhodes.edu

Term:

Subject

HLEQ

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.rhodes.edu

Term:

Subject

HLEQ

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.rhodes.edu

Credits: This course examines a variety of qualitative and quantitative approaches to research on health disparities. Students will learn to link substantive research questions to appropriate research methods and will develop an understanding of critical questions and ethics in research approaches.

Subject

HLEQ

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.rhodes.edu

Term:

Subject

HLEQ

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.rhodes.edu

Credits: In this course students explore healthcare ethics with a special emphasis on how social inequality affects ethical deliberation and ethics consultations. The course reviews major ethical traditions, ideas, and frameworks that have shaped contemporary approaches to healthcare ethics in morally pluralistic contexts. Topics include prominent frameworks in healthcare ethics (such as virtue, principlist, narrative, and consequentialist approaches) that emphasize multiple aspects of ethical decision making (social context, medical indications, patient preference, and quality of life). Through exploration of case studies, students identify relevant ethical considerations, apply ethical theory to concrete challenges in clinical practice, and learn skills necessary to effectively conduct an ethics consultation.

Subject

HLEQ

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.rhodes.edu

Term:

Subject

HLEQ

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.rhodes.edu