Curriculum
Required Courses
PubHlth 1
Principles in Public Health
4 UNITS
Introduces the major concepts and principles of public health and the determinants of health status in communities. Emphasizes the ecological model that focuses on the linkages and relationships among multiple natural and social determinants affecting health.
PubHlth 170
Introduction to Global Health
4 UNITS
Provides a foundational interdisciplinary understanding of global health issues and their importance to various societal goals, including poverty reduction, economic productivity, and peace promotion. Covers major communicable and non-communicable diseases and demographic patterns of disease burden.
PubHlth 172
Climate Change & Disaster Management
4 UNITS
Examines the social, economic, environmental, and health impacts of anthropogenic climate change through engaged learning that integrates practice and theory.
PubHlth 174
Global Health Ethics
4 UNITS
Provides a foundation for understanding and application of key issues.
Select two courses from the following:
Anthro 30A
Global Issues in Anthropological Perspective
4 UNITS
Explores anthropological perspectives on issues of importance in an increasingly global society. Topics include emphases on ethnic conflict; identity; immigration and citizenship; religion and religious diversity; medical anthropology; legal anthropology; development and economic change; gender.
Anthro 41A
Global Cultures and Society
4 UNITS
Offers a general overview of the rise of global interdependence in political, economic, demographic, and cultural terms. Considers what drove people from relative isolation into intensified intercourse with one another, and investigates the consequences of this shift.
Anthro 134A
Medical Anthropology
4 UNITS
Introduces students to cross-cultural perspectives and critical theories in anthropological studies of medicine. Special attention is given to diverse ways of understanding bodies, illnesses, and therapeutic practices in our changing world.
Anthro 20A
People, Cultures, and Environmental Sustainability
4 UNITS
Anthropological consideration of global environmental sustainability from the perspective of human cultures and communities. Causes and consequences of population growth, natural resource management, environmental law, environmental ethics. Case studies emphasize tropical rain forests, arid lands of Africa and North America.
Anthro 134G
HIV/AIDS in a Global Context
4 UNITS
Anthro 134N
Disease, Health, and Inequality
4 UNITS
Examines the relationships among disease, health, and social inequality in the U.S. and globally. Topics include infectious and chronic disease case studies, health policy, and strategies for promoting health equity.
INTL ST 11
Global Cultures and Society
4 UNITS
Offers a general overview of the rise of global interdependence in political, economic, demographic, and cultural terms. Considers what drove people from relative isolation into intensified intercourse with one another, and investigates the consequences of this shift.
INTL ST 115
Global Poverty and Inequality in the 21st Century
4 UNITS
Explores a multidisciplinary understanding of poverty and inequality in the 21st century and assesses impact of education, health, technology, and other interventions. Course offered online only.
INTL ST 147CW
International Humanitarianism
4 UNITS
Examines, analyzes, and evaluates the humanitarian phenomenon, the actors involved in it (including states, international organizations (IOs), and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)), the rise of a body of international humanitarian law, and the problems and debates associated with international humanitarianism today.
INTL ST 163
Global Inequalities
4 UNITS
An examination of various forms of social, economic, and political inequality within and between nations. Different approaches to understanding inequality and the intersections of poverty, race, ethnicity, class, gender, nationality, health, and violence.
PUBHLTH 100
Special Topics in Public Health
4 UNITS
Studies in selected areas of public health. Topics addressed vary each quarter. Course may be offered online when topic is Public Health in the Corporate World.
PubHlth 197
Field Studies in Public Healt
UNITS
For students who may either accompany faculty members on field trips or engage in post-practicum work at a field agency.
PubHlth 189
Special Topics in Infectious Diseases
4 UNITS
Studies in selected areas of infectious diseases. Topics addressed vary each quarter.
UPPP 115
Global Poverty and Inequality in the 21st Century
4 UNITS
Explores a multidisciplinary understanding of poverty and inequality in the 21st century and assesses impact of education, health, technology, and other interventions. Course offered online only.
Select two courses from the following:
Bio Sci 9K
Global Change Biology
4 UNITS
Field trips and lectures that address ways in which humans are altering the global environment, with consequences for the ecology of animals, plants, and microbes.
Bio Sci 10
The Biology of Human Diseases
4 UNITS
Introduction to concepts of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of major human infectious diseases. Covers some aspects of epidemiology. Scope and impact of infectious diseases in the present and past experiences in controlling infectious disease. Reviews biology of human organ systems.
Bio Sci 12
Molecular Basis of Human Disease
4 UNITS
Describes the cause and treatment of human diseases at the cutting edge of modern molecular understanding for non-science majors, including history, interviews, and stories.
Bio Sci E124
Infectious Disease Dynamics
4 UNITS
Learn how the immune system interacts with infectious diseases, in particular with viral infections. An introduction to basic virology and immunology, it concentrates on the way in which the immune system is critical to the prevention of infections.
BIO SCI M124A
Virology
4 UNITS
Replication of viruses in populations, animals, and the host cell. The effects of viral infection on populations, individuals, and specific molecular effects on the target cell. Role of viral infections in cancer and degenerative diseases.
BIO SCI M124B
Viral Pathogenesis and Immunity
4 UNITS
The mechanisms of viral pathogenesis and of host resistance to viruses are explored in detail. HIV-1 and Influenza-A are used as examples. In each case, viral replication, cytopathic effects, immune response, and viral evasion are discussed.
BIO SCI M125
Molecular Biology of Cancer
4 UNITS
Molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis. Consideration of transformation by DNA tumor viruses, RNA tumor viruses, and chemical carcinogens
BIO SCI M131
Innate Immunity, Infection, and Pathogenesis
4 UNITS
Role of the innate immune system in health and disease. Molecular pathways of innate immune recognition, expression, and regulation of immune receptors, signal transduction, pathogen sensors, and detection of microbial ligands. Lecture and discussion of primary research articles.
BIO SCI N131
Human Neurodegenerative Diseases
4 UNITS
Clinical and epidemiological aspects of neurodegenerative diseases causing dementia are reviewed, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, and Frontotemporal Dementia. Seminar format includes student presentation and group discussion.
BIO SCI M143
Human Parasitology
4 UNITS
Introduction to human animal-parasitic diseases including worms and protozoan infections.
CHEM 12
Chemistry Around Us
4 UNITS
Addresses ways in which chemistry affects everyday life. Topics include pollution, global warming, water supply/demands, biodiesel fuels, foods we eat, natural/synthetic materials, common drugs, drug design. Learn and apply basic chemistry concepts. Use risk/benefit analysis for optimal solutions.
PubHlth 90
Natural Disasters
4 UNITS
Natural disasters are natural Earth processes that adversely affect humans. Topics include tectonics, earthquakes, tsunami, volcanoes, landslides, severe weather, flooding, coastal processes, wildfire, related topics, and use of GIS for hazard and risk assessment.
PubHlth 161
Environmental Geology
4 UNITS
Introduction to geologic principles and applications to environmental problems. Topics include: tectonic processes, earth materials, soils, river processes, groundwater, the coastal environment, slope failures, seismic hazards, mineral resources, and land-use evaluation based on geologic conditions. Examples from case studies.
PubHlth 163
Introduction to Environmental Health Science
4 UNITS
Focuses on processes of exposure to environmental toxins/agents and their impact to human health and the environment. Media transport, exposure assessment, susceptibility, behavior, and health effect of several toxins are discussed.
PubHlth 173
Health and Global Environmental Change
4 UNITS
Overview of scientific underpinnings of global environmental change and human health consequences. Provides an understanding of the fundamental dependency of human health on global environmental integrity. Encourages disciplinary cross-fertilization through interaction of students in environmental, health, and policy sciences.
PubHlth 180
Epidemiology of Infectious Disease
4 UNITS
Examines the distribution of infectious disease and the health and disease risk among human populations. Introduces basic methods for infectious disease epidemiology. Case studies of important diseases, including HIV and malaria, are conducted.
Capstone Project
PubHlth 198
Directed Studies
4 UNITS
Student participation in a series of research-related activities performed in an individual or small-group setting under the guidance of a faculty advisor.
OR
An equivalent course offered if faculty is in another department.
Please Note:
- Students must have identified and secured an independent study advisor for their capstone project by the (start/end) of their junior year.
- Students will work with their advisor for the duration of their project (1 unit of PubHlth 198 or equivalent independent study course).
- The capstone project can be: Research with the selected advisor, independent report on topic of interest, informational presentation, etc.
- The advisor you select does not need to be from the Program in Public Health.
If you have questions about your progress in the minor, please visit our Office of Student Affairs to reach out to your academic advisor. For specific questions pertaining to the Global Health Minor, you can reach out to Theodore Gideonse, PhD, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Affairs, at t.gideonse@uci.edu.
