Global Health

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Description
The concentration in global health is an transdisciplinary 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 Health 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)

Upper-Division Core Electives (choose three) -- 9 credit hours

ASB 300 / SSH 300: Food and Culture ((L or SB) & C) (3)

ASB 301 / HST 301 / SSH 301: Global History of Health (SB & G & H) (3)

ASB 305: Poverty and Global Health ((L or SB) & G) (3)

ASB 316: Money and Culture (L or SB) (3)

ASB 327: Disaster! ((L or SB) & C) (3)

ASB 355: Traditional Medicine and Healing (HU or SB) (3)

ASB 357: Society, Drugs and Health (SB & G) (3)

ASB 370: Ethics of Eating (L or SB) (3)

ASB 376: Global Health Policy (3)

ASB 378 / TCL 378: Globalization: Migration, Mass Media, McDonald's ((L or SB) & C) (3)

ASB 462: Medical Anthropology: Culture and Health (SB & C) (3)

ASM 345: Disease and Human Evolution (3)

ASM 401: Health and Human Biology (3)

ASM 414 / SOS 414: Urban and Environmental Health (SB) (3)

SSH 314 / MIC 314: HIV/AIDS: Science, Behavior, and Society (3)


Study Abroad Experience -- 6 credit hours

SSH 403: Cross-Cultural Studies in Global Health ((L or SB) & G) or students choose another approved global health study abroad experience (summer session, six credits minimum) (6)

For additional core course options students may refer to the global health course lists found here: shesc.asu.edu/undergraduate/scheduling-courses-curricula.

 

YEAR

2019-20

CAMPUS

Tempe

ADVISING

Interdisciplinary Studies Advising
cisa.asu.edu/advising
All appointments:
480-965-4464

Downtown Phoenix
Arizona Center, Suite 380

Polytechnic
Santa Catalina Hall

Tempe
Urban Systems Engineering

Online
480-965-4464

DARS CODE

LASSHEMPH

COLLEGE/SCHOOL

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

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