Global Health Studies, Minor

Learning Outcomes

The minor in global health studies equips students to:

• apply interdisciplinary perspectives drawn from the social sciences and humanities to local and global health issues;
• analyze health and disease from biomedical, sociocultural, and environmental perspectives;
• understand how health issues affect domestic and international communities;
• recognize the ethical challenges involved in interventions designed to improve health and health equity across cultural and geographical boundaries.

The undergraduate minor in global health studies requires a minimum of 15 s.h., including 12 s.h. in courses completed at the University of Iowa. Students must maintain a grade-point average of at least 2.00 in all courses for the minor and in all UI courses for the minor. Coursework in the minor may not be taken pass/nonpass.

The minor is interdisciplinary and designed for students who wish to study the complex factors influencing health and disease locally and around the world.

A maximum of 6 s.h. of coursework used to satisfy requirements for another major, minor, or certificate may be applied toward the minor. This includes second areas, concentrations, and cognates, with the exception of the B.A. in journalism and mass communication, for which no overlap is assessed. Students may earn either the minor or the certificate in global health studies, but not both. Undergraduates who earn the minor in global health studies may not earn the major in global health studies.

The minor in global health studies requires the following coursework.