Global Health Minor
For information, contact the Department of Anthropology, 120 Upham Hall, 513-529-8399.
This transdisciplinary minor is for students interested in better understanding the complexities of global health and developing the foundational knowledge and skills necessary in addressing global health problems. It is designed to complement a variety of majors and the minor can be completed in two years.
Program Requirements
(18 semester hours)
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Gateway Course: | ||
| GHS 101 | Introduction to Global Health | 3 |
| Select one methods course from the following: | 3-4 | |
| Ethnographic Field Methods | ||
| Examining Economic Data and Models | ||
| Fundamentals of Epidemiology | ||
| Introduction to Psychological Statistics | ||
| Research Methods | ||
| Applied Statistics | ||
| Special Topics (to be taken 3 times): | 3 | |
| Seminar in Global Health 1 | ||
| Off Campus Global Health Experience (submit an application to the Global Health advisor for supervision): | 2 | |
| Global Health Experience | ||
| Culminating Global Health Experience: | 4 | |
| Developing Solutions in Global Health and Global Health Leadership | ||
| Independent Studies 2 | ||
| Related hours (to equal 18 total hours) 3 | 2-3 | |
- 1
Students may petition to submit a second related hours course for 1 of these 3 seminars.
- 2
This is a thesis option to conduct original global health research and must be pre-approved and supervised by a faculty member affiliated with the Global Health minor.
- 3
An up-to-date list of related hours courses is available on the GHS website (http://miamioh.edu/cas/academics/programs/ghs/), or any language course TAUGHT IN THE TARGET LANGUAGE at the 200 level or above from the following: American Sign Language, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish.