Undergraduate Courses

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4 Core Courses

Fundamentals: GLHLTH 101
Ethics: PUBPOL 330/GLHLTH 210, GLHLTH 373S, GLHLTH 341, PHIL 281/GLHLTH 241, GLHLTH 345
Research Methods: GLHLTH 371/PSY 309
1 Statistics Course (Any STA course or BIOLOGY 204/304, BME 244, ECON 204D, MATH 230 Probability, PSY 201, PSY 204L/PSY 205L, SOCIOL 333)

1 Capstone Course

GLHLTH 499 (All core courses and experiential learning activity must be completed before enrolling in this course)

3 Foundation Courses

(Select one course from three of the four categories)

Arts & Humanities in Global Health

CULANTH 424/GLHLTH 321/ICS 424 Medical Anthropology
GLHLTH 220S/CULANTH 218S Anthropology & Global Health
GLHLTH 302/ICS 295 Global Narratives of Illness & Disability
EDU 277S/ETHICS 277S/GLHLTH 277S/PUBPOL 274S/RUS 277S Medical Ethics, Aging, and End of Life Care in the US
HISTORY 203/GLHLTH 203 History of Global Health
HISTORY 369/SCISOC 369 History of Public Health in America
GLHLTH 390 Stories and Medicine
GLHLTH 278s Literature and Films of Pandemic
DOCST 331/GLHLTH 331 Documenting US Women's Health Post- Roe V. Wade
HISTORY 371/SCISOC 371 Feast and Famine: Food in Global History

Global Health Systems and Policy

GLHLTH 303 Global Health Systems
GLHLTH 306/PUBPOL 324 Global Health Policy
PUBPOL 165/SCISOC 165 Introduction to US Health Care System

Natural Science in Global Health

EVANTH 285D/GLHLTH 304D Human Health in Evolutionary Perspective
BIOLOGY 153/ENV 153/GLHTH 153 Climate, Coffee, and Coronavirus: Why Ecology Matters to Human Health
BIOLOGY 154/ICS 103/GLHLTH 154 AIDS & Other Emerging Diseases
BIOLOGY 209D Ecology for a Crowded Planet
BIOLOGY 209-1 - The Ecology of Human Health
AAAS 261D/ SCISOC 258D/GLHLTH 258D/CULANTH 261D/BIO261D/RIGHTS 261D Race, Genomics and Society
GLHLTH 301/ENVIRON 301 Climate Change & Global Health

Social Sciences in Global Health

CULANTH 211/SCISOC 211/GLHLTH 211 Anthropology of Disability
GLHLTH 215/GSF 220 Global Reproductive Health
GLHLTH 305 Beyond Health Care: Understanding How Social Drivers Impact Health Around the World
SOCIOL 361/GLHLTH 340 Social Determinants of US Health Disparities
GLHLTH 363/PSY 323S/CULANTH 323S Fundamentals of Global Mental Health
SOCIOL 257/GLHLTH 257/PSY 267 From Madness to Mental Disorders: Sociology of Mental Health
PUBPOL 524s Social Determinants of Health Disparities

3 Electives

An elective is defined as:

Any course at the 200 level or above with a GLHLTH prefix or GLHLTH cross-listing
A preapproved elective or foundation course

Please note:

Courses fulfilling the Core requirements may not be counted as electives.
Only one global health independent study may count from among GLHLTH 391*, 392, 393*, 395(T) or 396(T): *DUS preapproval required.
Courses may NOT double-count within the major.
Preapproved study abroad courses may count as electives. Students can view GLHLTH and GLHLTH cross-listed courses here.
Both majors and minors are eligible for the same elective courses

To petition a course not listed on the Major Worksheet for elective credit, please complete the request here. Courses must be approved prior to being taken.

AAAS 312/PUBPOL 333/CULANTH 312 War and Public Health in Africa
AAAS 343/CULANTH 342/LATAMER 343/SOC 343 Migration and Human Trafficking
AMES 409S/ICS 404S/VMS 238S/AMI 215S Discourse of Disease
BIOLOGY 262/ENVIRON 274 People, Plants and Pollution
BIOLOGY 263 Biological Responses to Climate Change
BIOLOGY 421/NEUROSCI 421S/PSY 477S Biology of Nervous System Diseases
BIOLOGY 452S Genes and Development
BME 230L/GLHLTH 230L Global Women’s Health Technologies
BME 462L Design for the Developing World
CEE 315 Engineering Sustainable Design and the Global Community
COMPSCI 260 Introduction to Computational Genomics
CULANTH 216s/Ethics 262s Global Migration and Ethics
CULANTH 271/ICS 203/GSF 217 Gender and Culture
CULANTH 341 Life and Death: Global Perspectives
DANCE 371/VMS 374/MUSIC 371/THEATRST 371 Artists in Healthcare: Collaborations and Complexities
ECON 334/PUBPOL 331 Health Economics
ECON 335/GLHLTH 335 Economics of Global Health
ECON 490 Economics of Health Care Markets
ENVIRON 360 Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology
ENVIRON 501 Environmental Toxicology
ENVIRON 537 Environmental Health
ENVIRON 538/GLHLTH 538/PUBPOL 582 Global Environmental Health: Economics and Policy
EVANTH 385D/GLHLTH315D Primate Disease Ecology and Global Health
GLHLTH 220S/CULANTH 218S Anthropology and Global Health
GLHLTH 226S/CULANTH 229S/ICS 226S/SCISOC 226S Politics of Pandemics
GLHLTH 310S/ETHICS 250S Governance and Healthcare
GLHLTH 325S Global Displacement: Voix Francophones
GSF 275/GLHLTH 225/ENVIRON 209 Food, Farming and Feminism
GSF 369s/ICS 208 Transnational Feminism
GSF 401/LIT 430/PUBPOL 315 Gender and the Law
HISTORY 235/GLHLTH 235/ICS 237 Drugs, Chemicals, and Health
HISTORY 239/AMES 142/GLHLTH 142 History of Chinese Medicine
HISTORY 265 Madness and Society in Historical Perspective
HISTORY 345/Pubpol 278/ICS 340 North American Environmental History
HISTORY 370 Twentieth-Century American Medicine
HISTORY 548S/GLHLTH 548S Global History of Medicine
I&E 263S/GLHLTH 273S Entrepreneurial Problem Solving in Global Health
IMMUNOL 544/ BIOLOGY 515 Principles of Immunology
NEUROSCI 380L/PSY 375 Functional Anatomy of the Human Brain
PHARM 360/PSY 274/NEUROSCI 360 Drugs, Brain and Behavior
PSY 206 Alcohol: Brain, Individual, and Society
PSY 207 Child Clinical Psychology
PSY 220 The Psychology of Gender
PSY 211/GLHLTH 261/ICS 211 Psychology of Health Behavior Change
PSY 273/NEUROSCI 363 Behavior and Neurochemistry
PSY 276/NEUROSCI 211D Brain and Behavior
PSY 277/NEUROSCI 277 Looking Inside the Disordered Brain
PSY 306 Research Methods Clinical Psychology
PSY 316S/GSF 235S Clinical Considerations with the LGBTQ+ Community
PSY 410S Community-Based Interventions
PUBPOL 580S/GLHLTH 533S/ENVIRON 543S/ICS 580S Water, Cooperation and Conflict
PUBPOL 642S/GLHLTH 642S Designing Innovation for Global Health: From Philanthropy to People
SOCIOL 250 Medical Sociology
SOCIOL 255 Sociology of Immigration and Health
SOCIOL 257S Sociology of Mental Health
SOCIOL 265 Drug Use and Abuse: Getting High in the United States
SOCIOL 263 Aging and Health
SPANISH 306/LSGS 306/GLHLTH 326 Health, Culture and the Latino Community