Global Health

Description
The concentration in global health is an interdisciplinary program designed for students who seek a broad and flexible set of skills for understanding contemporary health challenges and thinking about how they might best be solved. "Global" is understood in the anthropological sense, meaning ways of understanding and addressing disease, health and well-being that can incorporate all cultures, places and time, and that can integrate knowledge of health's social, historical, biological and ecological dimensions.

Requirements

• Student must complete a minimum of 18 credit hours for this concentration including 12 upper division hours.
• A minimum of six upper division hours must be taken in courses offered in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
• All courses must be completed with a grade of “C” (2.00) or higher.
• * Course prerequisite: SSH 100 or ASB 100 with a C or better.
• ** Students must participate in a summer study abroad program: 6 hours minimum of a 3-week approved program to countries such as: Australia & Fiji, China, London, Guatemala, New Zealand, and more. Please go to: shesc.asu.edu/global for more information.
• Additional course options may be available through the School of Human Evolution and Social Change. For additional options, please contact your academic advisor.
  

Introductory Core 3 hours

SSH/ASB 100 Introduction to Global Health (3) (this course is a prerequisite for most upper division courses in this concentration)

Three upper-division global health core courses (9) chosen from:

ASB 316 Money and Culture, L or SB (3)
ASB 327 Disaster!, L or SB, C (3)
ASB 355/SSH 355 Traditional Medicine and Healing, HU or SB (3)
ASB 371 OR SOS 371 Inequality and Sustainability, L (3)
ASB 378 McGlobalization: Migration, Mass Media and McDonald's, (L or SB) & C (3)
ASB 395 Society and Drugs
ASB 395 Social Net Health
ASB 462 OR SSH 404 Medical Anthropology: Culture and Health, SB, C (3)
ASM 345 Disease and Human Evolution (3)
SSH OR ASB 300 Food and Culture, (L or SB) & C (3)
SSH 301 OR ASB 301 OR HST 301 Global History of Health, SB, G, H (3)
SSH 314 OR MIC 314 HIV/AIDS: Science, Behavior, and Society (3)
SSH 370 OR ASB 370 OR SOC 370 Production, People, and Environments, L or SB (3)*
SSH 400 OR ASB 410 OR WST 410 Poverty, Social Justice and Global Health, L or SB, G (3)*
SSH 401 OR ASM 401 Health and the Human Biology (3-4)* (Credit is allowed for only ASM or SSH 401)
SSH 414 OR ASM 414 OR MIC 414 OR SOS 414 Urban and Environmental Health, SB (3)* (Prerequisites: ASM 104; AML 100 or SSH 100 with C or better; Min 45 hours)

Study Abroad Program 6 hours**
Choose course from the following:

SSH 403 Cross-Cultural Studies in Global Health (3-6)