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Global Public and Environmental Health Minor

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Minor Requirements

The minor consists of six courses. Courses cannot be double counted within the minor. Only one of the five elective courses for the minor can be at the 100-level.

Required Course

GPEH 100 - Introduction to Global Public and Environmental Health

One course on Methodological Perspectives

ANTH 211 - Investigating Contemporary Cultures
BIOL 302 - Systems Biology
CORE S143 - Statistics in Real Life
BIOL 310 - Epidemiology
BIOL 316 - Bioinformatics
BIOL 320 - Biostatistics
ENST 250 - Environmental Policy Analysis
GEOG 245 - Geographic Information Systems
GEOG 250 - Research Methods
PSYC 309 - Quantitative Methods in Behavioral Research
SOCI 250 - Sociological Research Design and Methods
MATH 105 - Introduction to Statistics

One course from at least three of the four disciplinary groups

Scientific Perspectives

BIOL 301 - Parasitology and
BIOL 301L
BIOL 313 - Microbiology and
BIOL 313L
BIOL 318 - Vertebrate Physiology and
BIOL 318L
BIOL 330 - Conservation Biology
BIOL 336 - Advanced Ecology
BIOL 337 - Cancer Biology
BIOL 373 - Virology
BIOL 374 - Immunology
CORE S172 - The Biology of Women: Sex, Gender, Reproduction, and Disease
CORE S177 - Critical Analysis of Health Issues
PSYC 275 - Biological Psychology

Environmental Perspectives

BIOL 330 - Conservation Biology
BIOL 336 - Advanced Ecology
CORE S128 - Global Change and You
ENST 234 - Case Studies in Global Environmental Health
ENST 450 - Community-based Study of Environmental Issues
GEOG 105 - Climate and Society
GEOG 319 - Population and Environment
GEOG 321 - Transnational Feminist Geography
GEOG 326 - Environmental Hazards
GEOL 101 - Environmental Geology

Social Perspectives

ALST 219
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MUSE 219 - Healing Arts: The Idea of Africa in Medicine and Museums
ALST 334
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GPEH 334 - Public Health in Africa
ALST 351 - Medicine, Health and Healing in Africa
ANTH 102 - Culture, Diversity, and Inequality
ANTH 226 - Critical Global Health
ANTH 244 - Who Owns Culture?
ANTH 245 - Nature, Culture, and Politics
ANTH 222 - Medical Anthropology
ECON 348 - Health Economics
POSC 361 - Humanitarian Interventions
PSYC 363 - Developmental Psychopathology
PSYC 365 - Cross-Cultural Human Development
SOCI 212 - Power, Racism, and Privilege
SOCI 310 - Sociology of the Body
SOCI 312 - Social Inequality
SOCI 324 - Medical Sociology
SOCI 335 - Sociology of Death, Dying and Grieving (RI)

Humanities Perspectives

ARTS 260 - Social Practice Art
HIST 210 - The History of Health, Disease and Empire
HIST 302 - Global Toxic History
HIST 304 - Sex and Sexualities in U.S. History
HIST 387 - Epidemic Histories
LGBT 340 - Rural Sexualities and Genders
PHIL 202 - Environmental Ethics
PHIL 214 - Medical Ethics
RELG 252 - Religion, Plagues, Pandemics
RELG 265 - Global Public Health Ethics, Bioethics and Religion (GE)

Global Public and Environmental Health Program

For more information about the program, including Faculty, transfer credit, awards, etc., please visit the Global Public and Environmental Health catalog program page.

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