Minor Requirements

Global Health Minor Requirements

The Undergraduate Minor in Global Health was officially approved in January 2011. Relevant coursework taken prior to winter quarter 2011 may be applied to the minor requirements.

Required Coursework

Introductory Courses (6-7 credits, minimum grade of 2.0)
One of the following:

G H 101 Introduction to Global Health: Disparities, Determinants, Policies & Outcomes (I&S) 5 credits / Winter
G H 415 Global Health Challenges (4 credits / Fall)

And

G H 201 Newly Emerging Infectious Diseases in Public Health (NW) 2 credits / Autumn

Perspectives in Global Health Series* (3 credits)

G H 401 Introductory Topics in Global Health (1 credit / Autumn)
G H 402 Contemporary Issues in Global Health (1 credit / Winter)
G H 403 Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Global Health (1 credit / Spring)

* G H 401, 402, and 403 are a course series and do not need to be taken sequentially.

Elective Coursework (to total 30 credits, minimum grade of 2.0 required)

Students must complete at least one course from each of the following content areas:

(A) Understanding Human Health and Disease – Micro to Macro

The classes in category A provide foundational training in biological, biomedical, and epidemiological science. From the molecular focus of microbiology to the whole body and population level concerns of physiology, nutrition and health statistics, they explore the determinants of global health across a wide range of scales.

BIOL 118 Survey of Physiology (5 credits, NW)
BIOL 180 Introductory Biology (5 credits, NW)
EPI 420 Introduction to Epidemiology (3 credits, NW)
HONORS 222 Science for Honors Students III (5 credits, NW)
MICROM 101 Microbes and Society (5 credits, NW)
MICROM 301 General Microbiology (3 credits, NW)
NUTR 302 Food Studies: Harvest to Health (3 credits, I&S/NW)
NUTR 300 Nutrition for Today (3 credits, NW)

(B) The Environment & Global Health

The classes in category B address environmental influences on health and disease globally. They vary in disciplinary specialization from the microbiology of environmental hazards to the anthropology, geography and environmental science of nature-society interrelations.

AES/ANTH 487 Cultures and Politics of Environmental Justice (5 credits, I&S)
ANTH 210 Introduction to Environmental Anthropology (5 credits, I&S)
ATM S 111 Global Warming: Understanding the Issues (5 credits,NW)
ATM S 211 Climate and Climate Change (5 credits, NW)
BIO A 387 Ecological Perspectives on Environmental Stress, Adaptation, and Health (5 credits, NW)
CEE 250 Environmental Pollution: Energy and Materials Balance (2 credits, NW)
ENV H 311 Introduction to Environmental Health (3 credits, NW)
ENV H 451 Ecology of Environmentally Transmitted Microbiological Hazards (3 credits)
ENVIR 100 Environmental Studies: Interdisciplinary Foundations (5 credits, I&S/NW)
ENVIR 360/SCAND/SIS 350 Environmental Norms in International Politics (5 credits, I&S)
ENVIR/M E 415/CEE 495 Sustainability and Design for Environment (3 credits)
ENVIR/POL S 384 Global Environmental Politics (5 credits, I&S)
ENVIR/SIS/SMA 433 Environmental Degradation in the Tropics (5 credits, I&S/NW)
GEOG 270 Geographies and Int’l Development and Environmental Change (5 credits, I&S)
GEOG 271 Geography of Food and Eating (5 credits, I&S)
GEOG 371 World Hunger and Resource Development (5 credits, I&S)
GEOG 380 Geographical Patterns of Health and Disease (5 credits, I&S)
GEOG 480 Environmental Geography, Climate, and Health (5 credits, I&S)

The classes in category C enable students to compare and contrast how different health systems and cultural influences vary and shape health outcomes around the world. They introduce ethical, legal and ethnographic insights into care and healing, as well as into health services targeted at particular populations and diseases.

ANTH 215 Introduction to Medical Anthropology and Global Health (5 credits)
ANTH 375 Comparative Systems of Healing (3 credits, I&S)
ANTH 472 Case Studies in Medical Anthropology (3 credits, I&S)
ANTH 474 Social Difference and Medical Knowledge (5 credits, I&S)
ANTH/HSERV 475 Perspectives in Medical Anthropology (5 credits, I&S)
ANTH 483 Africa Living with HIV/AIDS (5 credits, I&S)
B H 411 Introduction to Bioethics (3 credits, I&S)
B H 440 Philosophy of Medicine (5 credits, I&S)
B H 474/PHIL 411 Justice in Health Care (5 credits, I&S/VLPA)
BIO A/NUTR 465 Nutritional Anthropology (3 credits, I&S/NW)
BIOEN 215 Introduction to Bioengineering Problem Solving (3 credits)
GEOG 280 The Geography of Health and Health Care (5 credits, I&S)
GEOG 331 Global Poverty and Care (5 credits, I&S)
HONORS 222/253 HIV and AIDS: Issues and Challenges (5 credits)
HSERV 480 Issues in Public Health (3 credits)
HSERV 482 The Health of Populations (3 credits)

(D) Sociocultural Ecology of Health

The classes in category D analyze the social, political and economic determinants of health, thereby putting local experiences of affliction in the context of more global structural forces. Neoliberal globalization, global inequalities, global migration patterns, and global justice are all examined in this way in terms of how they become embodied in diverse ecologies of sickness and health.

ANTH 101 Exploring Sociocultural Anthropology (5 credits, I&S)
ANTH 323/LSJ 321 Human Rights Law in Culture and Practice (5 credits, I&S)
ANTH/SIS/WOMEN 345 Women and International Economic Development (5 credits, I&S)
ANTH/ENVIR 371 Anthropology of Development (5 credits, I&S)
ANTH 415 Anthropology and International Health (5 credits, I&S)
ANTH 474 Social Difference and Medical Knowledge (5 credits, I&S)
BIO A/NUTR 465 Nutritional Anthropology (3 credits, I&S/NW)
BIO A 476 Sociocultural Ecology and Health (3 credits, NW)
CHID 222 BioFutures (5 credits, I&S/NW)
COM 458 Reporting Global Health (5 credits, I&S)
GEOG/SIS 123 Introduction to Globalization (5 credits, I&S)
GEOG 230 Urbanization and Development: Geographies of Global Inequality (5 credits, I&S)
GEOG/SIS 344 Migration in the Global Economy (5 credits, I&S)
HUM 211 Justice and Global Health (5 credits, I&S)
LSJ 320/POL S 368 The Politics and Law of International Human Rights (5 credits, I&S)
SIS 201 The Making of the 21st Century (5 credits, I&S)
SIS 330 Political Economy of Development (5 credits, I&S)
SOC 331 Population and Society (5 credits, I&S)

(E) Regional and Area Studies

The classes in category E introduce the insights of international and area studies into the Global Health Minor. Since global health policies and practices have to be developed with a robust recognition of regional particularities and context-contingent experiences of global ties, the classes in this category enable students to develop expertise in particular world regions, countries and continents.

Students must select at least one course from the lists below:

General

ANTH 471 Colonialism and Culture (5 credits, I&S)

Africa

ANTH 313 Peoples of Africa (5 credits, I&S)
ANTH 324 Culture and Politics of Africa (5 credits, I&S)
ANTH 401 West African Societies (3 credits, I&S)
ANTH 402 Societies of Eastern and Southern Africa (5 credits, I&S)
HIST 151 Introduction to African History, c. 1000-1880 (5 credits, I&S)
HIST 152 Introduction to African History, c. 1880-Present (5 credits, I&S)
HIST 453 Health and Illness in Africa (5 credits, I&S)

Asia

ANTH/SISA/WOMEN 339 Social Movements in Contemporary India (5 credits)
ANTH/SISA 442/WOMEN 446 Global Asia (5 credits, I&S)
ANTH/SISEA 406 China’s Environment (5 credits, I&S)
ANTH/SISSA 316 Modern South Asia (5 credits, I&S)
GEOG 336 Development and Challenge in China (5 credits, I&S)
HSTAS/SISA 245 Human Rights in Asia (5 credits, I&S)
HSTAS 404 History of Twentieth-Century India (5 credits, I&S)
HSTAS 463 Southeast Asian History, 1800 to Present (5 credits)
SISA/SOC 265 Globalization & Transformation Economy & Society in Asia (5 credits, I&S)
SISEA/SOC 434 Demographic Issues in Asia (3-5 credits, I&S)
SISSA 200 South Asia Today (5 credits, I&S)
SOC 470 Contemporary Southeast Asia (5 credits, I&S)

The Americas

ANTH 404 South America (5 credits, I&S)
HSTAA/SISLA 480 Labor & Popular Movements in Latin America (5 credits)
POL S/SISLA 322 International Political Economy of Latin America (5 credits, I&S)
POL S/SISLA 342 Government and Politics of Latin America (5 credits, I&S)
SISLA/SOC 355 Social Change in Latin America (5 credits, I&S)

Middle East

ANTH 318 Peoples and Cultures of the Islamic Middle East (3 credits, I&S)
HIST 263 The Modern Middle East (5 credits, I&S)
SISME 400 The Middle East in the Modern World (5 credits, I&S)
SISME 430 Economic Development of the Middle East (5 credits, I&S)
SISME 432 The Middle East and the World Economy (5 credits, I&S)

Note: The Department of Global Health will revise the list of elective courses according to course availability, new course offerings, etc. Students are encouraged to check the website quarterly for the most up-to-date list of elective course offerings.

Requesting Exceptions to the GH Minor Curriculum

Please complete the relevant Catalyst survey(s) below to submit your Global Health Minor curriculum exception request. Please note that exception requests will not be accepted for introductory required coursework (e.g. GH 101).

Requesting that study abroad credits apply to the Minor.
Requesting additional UW credits be counted towards GH Minor.

Freshman Interest Groups

The Department of Global Health offers course options through Freshmen Interest Groups (FIGs) each year. These FIGs are described on the UW First Year Programs website. On the website, search for: LOCAL GLOBAL HEALTH FIG and/or PERSPECTIVES IN HEALTH FIG. If interested in either of these FIGs, please enroll during your orientation.

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