# Global Health (Certificate of Achievement)

MiraCosta College · 2026-2027 Catalog · Department: Anthropology

Source: https://catalog.miracosta.edu/disciplines/anthropology/

Global health aims to improve human health and global health equity by promoting the development of innovative, interdisciplinary solutions to contemporary health challenges. Global health topics range from acute threats posed by pandemic-prone infectious diseases and unequal access to medical care and technology, to emerging crises arising from climate change and non-communicable diseases.

Students earning a certificate in global health develop a critical understanding of contemporary health challenges and inequities. Students will be able to explain how these challenges are rooted in historical experiences, global political-economic forces, and complex biological, ecological, and sociocultural circumstances. This knowledge will prepare students to propose, design, and develop innovative and equitable solutions to the most pressing health problems facing our modern world. To be effective, these solutions must extend across disciplines to everything from access to healthcare and biotechnologies to local, national, and international policy-making.

Students are strongly encouraged to work with a MiraCosta counselor to ensure that this pathway certificate is incorporated into their selected general education pattern.

##### Program Student Learning Outcome

Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to assess the myriad causes and consequences of contemporary global health challenges and inequities, including pandemics, maternal/child health, and non-communicable diseases.

**Course Requirements**

| Course | Title | Units |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Required course:** | |  |
| ANTH 120 | Global Health | 3 |
| **Select one course (3 units).** | | 3 |
| ANTH C1001 | Introduction to Biological Anthropology |  |
| or ANTH C1001H | Introduction to Biological Anthropology - Honors |  |
| NUTR 100 | Nutrition Today |  |
| PSYC 260 | Physiological Psychology |  |
| **Select one course (3 units).** | | 3 |
| ANTH 102 | Cultural Anthropology |  |
| CSIT 160 | Technology, the Individual, and Society |  |
| GEOG 104 | World Geography |  |
| **Select one course (4-5 units).** | | 4-5 |
| BTEC 180 | Biostatistics |  |
| PSYC 104 | Statistics for Behavioral Science |  |
| PSYC 104H | Statistics for Behavioral Science (Honors) |  |
| SOCI 125 | Introduction to Statistics in Sociology |  |
| STAT C1000 | Introduction to Statistics |  |
| STAT C1000E | Introduction to Statistics (Embedded Support) |  |
| STAT C1000H | Introduction to Statistics (Honors) |  |
| **Total Units** | | **13-14** |