Non-prerequisite courses and Connections
Wheaton offers a variety of courses outside of the health careers pre-requisites that can enhance a student's understanding of health and medicine. Also, through Wheaton's innovated Connections curriculum, there are many Connections that pre-health careers students may consider taking to get a sense of the multi-dimensional ways that one can view the nature of the body, health, nutrition, drugs, and medicine.
Non-prerequisite courses to consider:
- Bio-ethics
- Childhood Behavior Disorders
- Cultural Anthropology
- Developmental Psychology
- Drugs and Behavior
- Edible Chemicals (for non-science majors)
- Ethics
- Feast or Famine: The Ecology and Politics of Food
- Health Economics
- Health and Medicine
- Health Psychology
- Medical Anthropology
- Medical Ethics
- Mind, Brain, Behavior
- Nutrition
- Perspectives on Death and Dying
- The Body in Human Experience
Connections to Consider:
- Biopharma
- Body and Mind
- Body, Form, and Motion
- Food
- Genes in Context
- Genetics of the Autism Spectrum
- Human Biology and Movement
- Living Architecture
- Microbes and Health
- Psychoactive Sacramentals
- Structure and Function of Drugs
