Overview
The undergraduate minor in Global Health (GHS) is designed for students who have an interest in the interdisciplinary perspectives of global health but may not have the flexibility to pursue a major.
The minor requires 15 credits and is ideal for students who wish to understand how issues surrounding global health relate to the greater impacts on society, culture, and the environment.
Curriculum Requirements
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses | ||
| GHS 201 | Introduction to Global Health | 3 |
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| People, Plagues, and Pandemics | ||
or GEG 312 | People, Plagues Pandemics | |
| Health and Medical Geography | ||
| Medical Anthropology | ||
| Medical Sociology | ||
| Elective Courses 1 | 9 | |
| Select up to three of the following: | ||
| HIV: Sex, Science, and Society | ||
| Medicine and Health Care in Society | ||
| Medical Anthropology | ||
| Bioarchaeology-Peopling the past | ||
| Paleopathology: Health and disease in ancient peoples | ||
| Advanced Medical Anthropology | ||
| Health and Medical Geography | ||
| Geographic Research Methods | ||
| People, Plagues Pandemics | ||
| Sustainable Food Systems | ||
| Population, Health, and Environment | ||
| Population, Sustainability, and the Media | ||
| Global Water Security Sustainability | ||
| Immigrant and Refugee Health | ||
| Climate Change and Public Health | ||
| GIS for Health and Environment | ||
| Health Economics | ||
| Sociocultural Foundations of Global Health | ||
| Hospital Ethnography | ||
| People, Plagues, and Pandemics | ||
| Topics in Global Health Studies: Social Sciences | ||
| Advanced Seminar in Global Health Studies: Social Sciences | ||
| Global Health Response to Disasters: From Management to Recovery and Reconstruction | ||
| International Migration and the Health Care System | ||
| Globalization and Health | ||
| Global Health and International Development | ||
| Global Health Policy and Ethics | ||
| Disasters, Terrorism and Global Public Health | ||
| U.S. Health Care Crisis: Politics and Policies | ||
| Social Epidemiology: Illness and Death in Society | ||
| Applied Health Policy | ||
| Violence in America | ||
| Population and Society | ||
| Sociology of Mental Health and Illness | ||
| Sociology of Drug Abuse | ||
| Aging in Society | ||
| Medical Sociology | ||
| Health Disparities in the U.S. | ||
| Relationships and Health | ||
| Health Psychology | ||
| Designing Games for Impact | ||
| Health Communication | ||
| Communication in Health Organization | ||
| Patient-Provider Communication | ||
| Health Behavior and Risk | ||
| Introduction to Public Health | ||
| Introductory Epidemiology | ||
| Human Sexuality and Vulnerable Populations | ||
| Issues in Health Disparities | ||
| Health and Environment | ||
| Global Health | ||
| Theories in Growth and Development | ||
| Health Promotion and Disease Prevention | ||
| Introduction to Health Policy | ||
| Introduction to Health Management and Policy | ||
| Population Health | ||
| Population Health | ||
| Total Credit Hours | 15 | |
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- Courses offered as Special Topics or Independent Research may be applied toward the minor with approval by the program advisor.
- At least 6 credit hours must be taken at the 300 level or higher.
- Courses that are required may not be double-counted within the major as electives.
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Students must earn a grade of C- or better in each course and maintain a cumulative GPA of at least 2.0 in all courses counting toward the minor.
