Degree Requirements-Starting Fall 2022

The GPH minor requires completion of 21 credits, at least 9 of which must be at the upper-division (300+) level. Students must complete one required social-science course (PSCI 377, Global Health Issues) and one required public health course (PUBH 155, Re-imagining Global Health: Biosocial Perspectives). Students must complete a minimum of 9 credits or 3 additional Core Electives; 3 credits each from these categories: Public Health and Community Health Perspectives, Sociocultural, Communication, and Economic Perspectives, and Biomedical Perspectives,. Additionally, students must complete a minimum of 6 credits or 2 Content Electives from either the Core electives or the Content electives lists.

Students must take all core electives from the University of Montana’s curriculum, but can receive content credit for practicum and internships experience and courses taken at other universities if approved by the program director.

To enroll, please contact the program director. One semester prior to graduation, the program director must approve and sign the student’s graduation plan.

REQUIRED COURSES (6 credits/2 required classes)

PSCI 377: Issues in Global Public Health

PUBH 155: Re-imagining Global Health: Biosocial Perspectives

CORE ELECTIVES (9 credits /3 classes required; choose one from each of the sub areas below)

Core Public Health and Community Health Perspectives

CHTH 414 Health and Culture: A Global Perspective

CHTH 440 Epidemiology

CHTH 445: Program Planning for Community Health

PUBH 101: Introduction to Public Health

PUBH 155 Re-imagining Global Health: Biosocial Perspectives

PUBH 225: Public Health Policy

PUBH 475: Issues in Medical and Public Health Ethics

PUBH 491: Community Development in Rural Morocco: A Global Health Engagement Program

Core Sociocultural, Communication, and Economic Perspectives

ANTY 433: Indigenous Health and Healing

COMX 425: Communication in Health Organizations

COMX 483 (IDS 497) Social and Behavior Change Communication

ECNS 310: Intro to Health Economics (may substitute ECNS 491Adv. Topics in Health Economics)

HSTA 391 COVID-19 and History: Disease & Disaster (renamed HSTR 391: Plaque, People, and the Environment

PSCI 431: Politics of Global Migration

PSCI 463: Development Administration

Core Biomedical Perspectives

AHHS 430: Health Aspects of Aging

BIOM 327: Vector-Borne Diseases: Public Health Perspectives

BIOM 427/428: General Parasitology/Lab

BIOM 460: Ecology of Infectious Diseases

PHARM 320: American Indian Health Issues

PHIL 321E: Philosophy and Biomedical Ethics

CONTENT ELECTIVES (6 credits /2 classes required; may take additional Core Electives instead)

ANTY 422 - Mind, Culture and Society

BIOH 112 - Human Form and Function I

BIOH 113 - Human Form and Function II

BIOH 462 - Principles of Medical Physiology

BIOM 402 -Medical Bacteriology and Mycology

BIOM 435 - Virology

COMX 204X - International and Development Communication

COMX 415 - Intercultural Communication

COMM 485 - Communication and Health

ECNS 217X - Issues in Economic Development

ECNS 320 - Public Finance

ECNS 450 - Advanced Economic Development

GPHY 121 - Human Geography

GPHY 468/469 - Community and Regional Analysis

HTH 430 - Health and the Mind, Body, Spirit Relationship

NUTR 221N - Basic Human Nutrition

PSCI 348 - Multicultural Politics in the United States

PSCI 428 Sustainable Climate Policy: China and the USA

PSCI 448 - Health Care Policy

PSYX 362 -Multicultural Psychology

PUBH 498 - Global Public Health Internship- 1 to 6 credits

SW 300 - Human Behavior and the Social Environment

SW 410E - Social Work Ethics

SW 423 - SUDS and Recovery (Addiction Studies)

SW 455S - Social Gerontology

SW 475 - Death, Dying and Grief

Required Courses