This page is to be used as a planning tool. Your degree audit is the official record of degree requirements. Updated August 2022.
Global Health Studies BA Requirements
| foundation (10 sh) |
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| GHS:2000 Introduction to Global Health Studies |
| GHS:3720 Contemporary Issues in Global Health |
| GHS:4003 Case Studies in Global Health |
| One of the following: |
| GHS:3030 Global Health Today |
| GHS:3034 Doing Harm By Doing Good: the Ethics of Studying, Volunteering, and Working in Global Communities |
| GHS:3035 Engaging in Global Health |
| Global Perspectives & Practices (18 sh) |
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| Choose a minimum of 18 sh, with at least 12 sh numbered 3000 or above. |
| A list of approved classes is available in the UI General Catalog |
| A minimum of 6 sh must be chosen from a list available on the General Catalog page linked above |
| WORLD LANGUAGE AND CULTURE (minimum of 6 sh)—Choose Option A or B |
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| Option A: Complete two semesters of language study beyond that required by the CLAS General Education Core |
| Option B: Complete two courses approved for one of the following geographic tracks found on the IS website: African Studies; Caribbean Studies; East Asian Studies; Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies; Latin American Studies; Russian, East European, Eurasian Studies; South Asian Studies |
| Capstone Experience (3-4 sh) |
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| Choose one of the following: |
| GHS:3010 Identifying/ Developing Global Health Project |
| GHS:3012 Community-Based Global Health Research |
| GHS:4000 Global Health Studies Service Learning: Local Health is Global Health |
| GHS:4001 Social Entrepreneurship and Global Health (when topic is student team projects with community health initiative, Haiti) |
| GHS:4002 Working in Global Health |
Global Health Studies B.S. Requirements
| foundation (10 sh) |
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| GHS:2000 Introduction to Global Health Studies |
| GHS:3720 Contemporary Issues in Global Health |
| GHS:4003 Case Studies in Global Health |
| One of the following: |
| GHS:3030 Global Health Today |
| GHS:3034 Doing Harm By Doing Good: the Ethics of Studying, Volunteering, and Working in Global Communities |
| GHS:3035 Engaging in Global Health |
| Global Perspectives & Practices (18 sh) |
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| Choose a minimum of 18 sh, with at least 12 sh numbered 3000 or above. |
| A list of approved classes is available in the UI General Catalog |
| A minimum of 6 sh must be chosen from a list available on the General Catalog page linked above |
| WORLD LANGUAGE AND CULTURE (minimum of 6 sh)—Choose Option A or B |
|---|
| Option A: Complete two semesters of language study beyond that required by the CLAS General Education Core |
| Option B: Complete two courses approved for one of the following geographic tracks found on the IS website: African Studies; Caribbean Studies; East Asian Studies; Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies; Latin American Studies; Russian, East European, Eurasian Studies; South Asian Studies |
| NATURAL SCIENCES & MATH/STATS (minimum of 10 sh) |
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| Complete one of the following sequences--with at least one lab (7–8 sh): |
| CHEM:1070 and BIOL:1141 or PHYS:1400 (must choose lab version of PHYS:1400) |
| CHEM:1110 and BIOL:1141 or BIOL:1411 or BIOL:1412 or CHEM:1120 or PHYS:1511 |
| PHYS:1511 and PHYS:1512 |
| Complete one course from the following (3–4 sh): |
| MATH:1380 Calc for Business |
| MATH:1460 Calc for Biological Sciences |
| MATH:1550 Engineering Math I |
| MATH:1850 Calc I |
| STAT:1020 Elementary Stats (or any higher-level statistics course) |
| Capstone Experience (3 sh) |
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| Choose one of the following: |
| GHS:3010 Identifying / Developing Global Health Project |
| GHS:3012 Community-Based Global Health Research |