Exploratory Courses
Consult with your Academic Advisor when registering for courses to ensure your progress toward the completion of degree requirements.
Autumn 2025 Course Offerings
Consider these courses when building your schedule to further explore health and healthcare as a field of study and vocation.
Consult with your Academic Advisor when registering for courses to ensure your progress toward the completion of degree requirements.
If you’re considering a career in clinical patient care (medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, etc.), consider starting with courses in Biology and/or Chemistry depending on your placement in those courses. These sequenced courses are prerequisites for many professional health programs.
Visit our Pre-Health Advising page on Coursework for more on program prerequisites.
If you’re considering a career in health, but not sure exactly what or where, consider Health Studies or Health Elective courses.
- B HLTH 435 – Principles of Health Education & Communication (5 cr)
- This is the first course in our HEP minor, but it’s also open to anyone interested in the topic who wants to build their digital content creation skills as well as gain experience working on a project for a community partner (Forefront Center for Suicide Prevention). This year, students will be creating digital video reels (of 30 seconds -1 min) for a campaign called, “The Power of Connection.” Students need not have extensive media or video production prior to taking the course.
UW Seattle courses require cross-campus enrollment.
ENV H 111 Exploring Environment and Health Connections (3) SSc/NSc .
This course examines events that illustrate the relationship between the environment and health. It emphasizes the connection to public health practice, environmental justice, and the role environmental public health professionals play in keeping communities safe.
GRDSCH 200: Preparing for Graduate Education
Credits: 2 CR/NC
Fridays, 12:30 – 2:20 p.m.
EXED 110 (Bank of America Executive Education Center), UW Seattle
SLN: 16147
Instructor: Maxine K. Wright
Send questions to: mkw1208@uw.edu
GRDSCH 200 offers an overview of the structure and organization of graduate education and focuses on helping students learn the skills to find resources, build a network, and make decisions about continuing their studies beyond the baccalaureate. This 10-week course is for UW juniors and seniors who will be reflecting on their next educational journey. Open to all majors and disciplines.
PHARM 301 Medications and Health: It’s Not All About Drugs (3) SSc/NSc
Covers personal health promotion, treatment of illness, and health care. Explores several medication-related topics, provides insight on drug development and efficacy, and serves as an introduction to students contemplating careers in health sciences, especially pharmacy.
- Instructor Dr. Steve White
- SLN 20224
- MWF 330-420
- HSEB 325
PHRMSC 313 Drug Disposition and Delivery (3) NSc
Introduces the principles of pharmaceutics, drug disposition, drug delivery, and related concepts in the pharmaceutical sciences. Prerequisite: MEDCH 327/PHRMSC 312. Offered: A.
- Instructor Dr. Swayam Prabha
- SLN 23162
- T TH 0230-0350
- HSEB 325
PHRMSC 401 / PHARM 401: Principles of Pharmacology (2) NSc
Dive into the world of pharmacology in this small-group, hands-on course where you’ll uncover how therapeutics work in the body and apply that knowledge to real clinical cases and research problems. With active learning at its core, you’ll sharpen your critical thinking skills as you explore therapeutic exposures, drug interactions, and mechanisms of action across a wide range of real-world disease states and treatment strategies. Prerequisite: either CHEM 223, CHEM 237, or CHEM 257. Recommended: BIOC 405 and 406; or BIOC 440, 441, and 442; or BIOL 355; or cell biology
- Instructor Dr. Michelle Guignet
- 23349
- Th 9:30 – 11:20
- HSEB 125
PHG 200: Implications of Public Health Genomics for the Modern World (3) SS NSc
The Institute for Public Health Genetics has a seats available for the Autumn 2025 course PHG 200: Implications of Public Health Genomics for the Modern World. This introductory, 3-credit course, fulfills Social Sciences and Natural Sciences general education requirements.
Winter 2026 Course Offerings
Consider these courses when building your schedule to further explore health and healthcare as a field of study and vocation.
Consult with your Academic Advisor when registering for courses to ensure your progress toward the completion of degree requirements.
B CORE 233 Special Topics in Pre-Health Professional Pathways (2, max. 6)
Explores pathways to a career in health and prepares students for professional roles in healthcare. Students ready to apply to graduate and professional health programs will receive additional instruction and support in applying to those programs. Course overlaps with: GEN ST 151. Credit/no-credit only. Offered: W.
If you’re considering a career in clinical patient care (medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, etc.), consider starting with courses in Biology and/or Chemistry depending on your placement in those courses. These sequenced courses are prerequisites for many professional health programs.
Visit our Pre-Health Advising page on Coursework for more on program prerequisites.
If you’re considering a career in health, but not sure exactly what or where, consider Health Studies or Health Elective courses.
UW Seattle courses require cross-campus enrollment.
REHAB 200 Introduction to Rehabilitation Science and Professions (2)
Introduction to rehabilitation science and the professions of occupational therapy, physical therapy, prosthetics and orthotics, and speech-language pathology. Also provides introduction to bio-psychosocial models of disability and implications for rehabilitation. Credit/no-credit only. Offered: W.
REHAB 300 Introduction to Occupational Therapy (1)
Provides an introduction to the occupational therapy profession with theoretical foundations and overviews of clinical practices in various settings. Credit/no-credit only. Offered: W.