The Global Health Equity (GHE) minor introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of Global Health and to innovative approaches that recognize the central importance of ethnographic methodologies and social theories to better understand the local contours of global disease patterns and consider health equity and social justice as foundational in Global Health.
Global Health Equity Minor requirements (18 credits):
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Foundations in Global Health | ||
| Each of the following courses required: | ||
| ANT 113 | Introduction to Anthropology: Social and Cultural Determinants of Health | 3 |
| ANT 301 | Social and Cultural Theory | 3 |
| ANT 316 | Qualitative Methods, Ethnography, and Engagement | 3 |
| ANT 317 | Global Health: A Biosocial and Justice-Oriented Approach | 3 |
| Moral Reasoning | 3 | |
| Three credits from the following courses: | ||
| Seminar In Health Administration | ||
| Healthcare Ethics: Public Health, Administration, and Clinical Care | ||
| Controversies in Science and Medicine (1900-1990) | ||
| Moral Philosophy | ||
| Philosophy Of The Human Sciences | ||
| Environmental Ethics | ||
| Bioethics and Society | ||
| Sciences, Ethics & Society | ||
| Health Care, Society, And Values | ||
| Public Health Ethics | ||
| Biomedical Ethics: Philosophical and Theological Approaches | ||
| Social Justice in Selected Global Faith Traditions | ||
| Introduction to Liberation Theology | ||
| Seminar in Christian Anthropology | ||
| Catholic Social Teaching | ||
| Gender, Race and Morality | ||
| Sociocultural Context | 3 | |
| Three credits from the following courses: | ||
| Nutritional Anthropology: Introduction to Foodways and Food Studies | ||
| Global Citizenship | ||
| Encountering Africa: Experiencing our Shared Humanity | ||
| Medical Anthropology | ||
| Demography: World Population Issues | ||
| Native American Cultures and Health | ||
| Peoples and Cultures of Latin America | ||
| Cultural Epidemiology: Global Perspectives | ||
| Social Inequality and Stratification | ||
| Public Health and Social Justice in Haiti | ||
| What's for Dinner, Honey?: Food, Culture, Gender, and Health | ||
| Violent Environments and Sustainability | ||
| Food, Society, and Environment | ||
| Definitions of Health-Implications for Care: Austria, Hungary and the United States | ||
| Communicating Health Narratives | ||
| Dominican Republic in Context | ||
| The Essentials of Public Health | ||
| Essentials of Epidemiology | ||
| Public Policy And Health Care | ||
| Global Perspectives in History: History of Science and Medicine | ||
| Total Credits | 18 | |