Health and Environment
View example modules you can take under the Health and Environment pathway below.
The modules listed below are designated as best encapsulating the conception of the Health and Environment pathway and are chosen to allow progression to the most number of higher level courses. Whilst every effort has been made to timetable these modules so that there are no clashes between any of them, we cannot guarantee that every combination is 100% clash-free.
Please note: module availability and content may be subject to change.
A list of modules available under the Health and Environment pathway each year can be found below. Please check the module catalogue for any specific subject requirements.
Note: Module titles marked with an asterisk in the final year list below are classified as Level 7 courses. BASc students are able to take these but will need to bear in mind that the pass rate for a Level 7 module is 50%, as opposed to 40% for modules at Levels 4-6. Approval from both your Personal Tutor and the Chair of the UASc UG Exam Board is required to take Level 7 module.
Year 1
Optional modules:
- ANAT0001 Introduction to Anatomy and Development
- ANTH0009 Introduction to Biological Anthropology I A
- BASC0079 Environmental Change and Disease
- BIOC0001 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- BIOL0003 Introduction to Genetics
- BIOL0004 Life on Earth
- CHEM0005 Chemical Foundations
- CHEM0008 Basic Organic Chemistry
- CHEM0009 Basic Physical Chemistry
- GEOL0003 History of Life
- HPSC0007 Investigating Sociology and Politics of Science (Students majoring in Health and Environment can only take one HPSC-coded module as part of their major pathway. HPSC-coded modules cannot count as a Health and Environment minor choice)
- HPSC0008 Sceince Communication and Public Engagement (Students majoring in Health and Environment can only take one HPSC-coded module as part of their major pathway. HPSC-coded modules cannot count as a Health and Environment minor choice)
- HPSC0009 Introduction to History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (Students majoring in Health and Environment can only take one HPSC-coded module as part of their major pathway. HPSC-coded modules cannot count as a Health and Environment minor choice)
- IEHC0079 Perspectives on Global Health
- IRDR0020 Climate and Natural Hazard Risks
- IRDR0024 Technology for Humanitarian Action
- IRDR0027 Global Health Introduction
- PALS0009 Introduction to Speech Science
- PALS0011 Neural Basis of Perception, Memory and Language
- PHAR0002 An Introduction to the Mechanisms of Drug Action
- PLIN0011 Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics B
- PSYC0038 Introduction to Social and Business Psychology
- PSYC0039 Introduction to Psychology
- STAT0021 Introductory Statistical Methods and Computing (students interested in taking this module must check the prerequisites and registration procedure on the Statistics webpages)
Year 2
Example optional modules:
- Please also refer to the module spreadsheet on Moodle for the full list of modules available
- ANAT0003 Human Neuroanatomy
- ANAT0005 Human Anatomy and Embryology (Thorax, Abdomen and Pelvis) (students can only take one of ANAT0005 or ANAT0006 in the same year)
- ANAT0006 Human Anatomy and Embryology (Head and Limbs) (students can only take one of ANAT0005 or ANAT0006 in the same year)
- BENG0011 Manufacturing Regenerative Medicines: from Lab Bench to Industry
- BIOC0006 Essential Protein Structure and Function
- BIOC0007 Essential Molecular Biology
- BIOL0010 Introduction to Human Genetics
- BIOL0011 Evolutionary Genetics
- BIOL0014 Fundamentals of Ecology
- GEOG0028 Urban Geography
- GEOL0009 Vertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution
- HPSC**** Any one of the Level 5 modules available (Students majoring in Health and Environment can only take one HPSC-coded module as part of their major pathway. HPSC-coded modules cannot count as a Health and Environment minor choice)
- IEHC**** Any of the Level 5 modules available
- INIM0005 Immunology
- INIM0007 Infection
- IRDR0042 Humanitarian Engineering in Data Science
- PHOL0005 Structure and Function of Nervous Systems
- PSYC0014 Brain and Behaviour
- PSYC0015 Health and Clinical Psychology
- PSYC0016 Developmental Psychology
- PSYC0266 Social Psychology and Individual Differences
- SECU0001 Psychology and Crime
- SOCS0033 Sociological Perspectives on Public Health (available as a Health and Environment choice to students majoring in this pathway only)
Final Year
Example optional modules:
- Please also refer to the module spreadsheet on Moodle for the full list of modules available
- ANAT0014 Neuroesthetics (not running in 2026/27)
- ANTH0044 Human Behavioural Ecology
- ANTH0182 Medical Anthropology
- BASC0055 The Art and Science of Public Health
- BASC0056 Quantitative Methods 3: Models and Inference
- BENG0032 Advanced Materials, Devices and Manufacturing Processes for Regenerative Medicine
- BENG0085 Design and Manufacture of Regenerative Medicine Drug Products
- BIOL0020 Sex, Genes and Evolution
- BIOL0021 Advanced Human Genetics
- BIOL0022 Biology of Ageing
- BIOL0032 Species Conservation and Biodiversity
- BIOL0034 Applications in Human Genetics *
- BIOL0035 Vertebrate Life and Evolution *
- EDPS0251 Families and Children: Professionals and the State (available as a Health and Environment choice to students majoring in this pathway only)
- GLBH0004 Conflict, Humanitarianism and Health (available as a Health and Environment choice to students majoring in this pathway only)
- GLBH0005 Global Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases
- GLBH0007 Anthropological Perspectives on Global Health
- HPSC**** Any one of the Level 6 modules available (Students majoring in Health and Environment can only take one HPSC-coded module as part of their major pathway. HPSC-coded modules cannot count as a Health and Environment minor choice)
- IEHC**** Any of the Level 6 modules available
- INIM0013 Mircobial Pathogeneses
- PSYC0002 Behaviour Change: An Interdisciplinary Approach
- PSYC0010 Social Psychology
- PSYC0022 Psychology and Education
- PSYC0024 Organisational Psychology
- PSYC0026 Topics in Developmental Psychology
- PSYC0029 Speech
- PSYC0030 Human Learning and Memory
- PSYC0031 Cognitive Neuroscience
- PSYC0032 The Brain in Action
- PSYC0036 Genes and Behaviour