This information is part of the Colgate University catalog, 2026-27.
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
One course on Methodological Perspectives
Courses fulfilling this requirement have an attribute of GPMP in the course offerings.
- ANTH 211 - Ethnographic Methods
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- BIOL 310 - Epidemiology
- BIOL 316 - Bioinformatics
- BIOL 320 - Biostatistics
- CORE S143 - Statistics in Real Life
- ENST 250 - Environmental Policy Analysis
- GEOG 245 - Geographic Information Systems
- GEOG 250 - Research Methods
- GPEH 301 - Community Health
- MATH 105 - Introduction to Statistics
- PSYC 309 - Quantitative Methods in Behavioral Research
- SOCI 250 - Sociological Research Design and Methods
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
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- BIOL 330 - Conservation Biology
- BIOL 336 - Advanced Ecology
- BIOL 337 - Cancer Biology
- BIOL 373 - Virology
- BIOL 374 - Immunology
- CORE S162 - Foodwise
- CORE S172 - The Biology of Women: Sex, Gender, Reproduction, and Disease
- CORE S177 - Critical Analysis of Health Issues
- GPEH 315 - Advanced Topics in Global Public and Environmental Health: Scientific Perspectives
- 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
- CHEM 477 - Environmental Chemistry
- CORE S128 - Global Change and You
- ENST 233 - Global Environmental Health Issues
- ENST 341 - Nature-Based Solutions to Environmental Challenges
- 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
- GPEH 301 - Community Health
Social Perspectives
Courses fulfilling this requirement have an attribute of GPSO in the course offerings.
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- ALST 371 - Medicine, Health and Healing in African History
- ANTH 102 - Culture, Diversity, and Inequality
- ANTH 226 - Critical Global Health
- ANTH 245 - Nature, Culture & Politics
- ANTH 222 - Medical Anthropology: Culture, Health, and Social Justice
- ECON 348 - Health Economics
- GPEH 205 - Diet & Disease: Gender, Health, and Nutrition in Society
- GPEH 253 - The History of Global Health
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- HIST 253 - The History of Global Health
- HIST 371 - Medicine, Health and Healing in African History
- LGBT 230 - LGBTQ Health
- 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 245 - Nature, Culture & Politics
- SOCI 310 - Sociology of the Body
- 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.
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- ENST 202 - Environmental Ethics
- HIST 210 - The History of Health, Disease and Empire
- HIST 250 - Introduction to the History of Modern Medicine
- HIST 302 - Global Toxic History
- HIST 304 - Sex and Sexualities in U.S. History
- HIST 387 - Epidemic Histories
- HIST 389 - Reproductive Technologies in the 20th Century
- LGBT 340 - Rural Sexualities and Genders
- PHIL 202 - Environmental Ethics
- PHIL 214 - Medical Ethics
- RELG 232 - Health and Healing in Ancient Mediterranean Religions
- RELG 249 - Apollo's Arrow: Global Medical Racism(s) and Religion
- 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 catalog program page.