EE BIOL 158Introduction to Diversity, Health Disparities, and Environment
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Exploration of how environmental and social conditions can combine and lead to disproportionate negative health outcomes in disadvantaged communities. Exploration of the ways in which people are working to understand and remedy these issues. Introduction to environmental drivers of health disparities. Exposure to the diversity of careers and career trajectories of individuals (clinicians, researchers, public health officials, etc.) focused on promoting health equity, at times by addressing problems in the environments where different communities live and work.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: Life Sciences 7B.
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confidence 1.00 · from UCLA’s structured dataRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
EE BIOL 158
- LIFESCI 7BGenetics, Evolution, and Ecology
- LIFESCI 7ACell and Molecular Biology
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 2 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
EE BIOL 158
- EE BIOL C179Communicating Science to Informal Audiences
- EE BIOL C237Communicating Science to Informal Audiences
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.