Global Public and Environmental Health Minor

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

Courses fulfilling this requirement have an attribute of GPMP in the course offerings.

• ANTH 211 - Ethnographic Methods
• 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
• 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

Courses fulfilling this requirement have an attribute of GPSP in the course offerings.

• BIOL 301 - Parasitology and BIOL 301L 
• BIOL 313 - Microbiology and BIOL 313L 
• BIOL 318 - Human 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

Courses fulfilling this requirement have an attribute of GPEP in the course offerings.

• 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

Courses fulfilling this requirement have an attribute of GPSO in the course offerings.

• ALST 219/MUSE 219 - Healing Arts: The Idea of Africa in Medicine and Museums  
• ALST 334/GPEH 334 - Public Health in Africa  
• ALST 371 - 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 & Politics
• ANTH 222 - Medical Anthropology: Culture, Health, and Social Justice
• ECON 348 - Health Economics
• LGBT 321 - Gay's Anatomy
• 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

Humanities Perspectives

Courses fulfilling this requirement have an attribute of GPHP in the course offerings.

• 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

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.