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  "college": "uc-irvine",
  "edition": "2026-2027",
  "departmentName": "Joe C. Wen School of Population and Public Health",
  "id": "joe-c-wen-school-of-population-and-public-health--globalhealth-minor",
  "name": "Global Health",
  "award": "Minor",
  "department": "joe-c-wen-school-of-population-and-public-health",
  "sourceUrl": "https://catalogue.uci.edu/joecwenschoolofpopulationandpublichealth/globalhealth_minor/",
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      "markdown": "### Overview\n\nThe minor in Global Health, through a concentrated portfolio of courses that provide a solid foundation in the environmental, biological, socio-cultural, and ethical domains of global health scholarship, allows students to develop interdisciplinary and alternative world perspectives on health. Upon completion of the minor, students will be able to identify and define the landscape and importance of prevalent global health issues, analyze and evaluate complex texts relating to global health through close reading, critical interpretation, assignments, class-presentations and discussions. The minor concludes with each student conducting independent research and communicating independent arguments about global health in research through a hands-on capstone project.\n\nThe minor in Global Health consists of eight courses (four of them being required, the remainder being chosen from a select list), and a capstone research project (PUBHLTH 198 ). No more than two courses (eight units) can overlap between a student’s major and the global health minor. No more than eight units can be from Pass/Not Pass course work (four pass/not pass units will automatically come from PUBHLTH 198 /equivalent independent study). At least half of the courses used to meet these requirements must be upper-division courses."
    },
    {
      "kind": "text",
      "markdown": "### Requirements\n\n##### Requirements for the Minor"
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          "type": "comment",
          "text": "A. Complete:"
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "PUBHLTH 1",
          "title": "Principles of Public Health",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "PUBHLTH 170",
          "title": "Introduction to Global Health",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "PUBHLTH 172",
          "title": "Climate Change and Disaster Management",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "PUBHLTH 174",
          "title": "Global Health Ethics",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "B. Select two courses from the following:"
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ANTHRO 30A",
          "title": "Global Issues in Anthropological Perspective",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ANTHRO 41A",
          "title": "Global Cultures and Society",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ANTHRO 134A",
          "title": "Medical Anthropology",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ANTHRO 20A",
          "title": "People, Cultures, and Environmental Sustainability",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ANTHRO 134N",
          "title": "Disease, Health, and Inequality",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "INTL ST 11",
          "title": "Global Cultures and Society",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "INTL ST 115",
          "title": "Global Poverty and Inequality in the 21st Century",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "INTL ST 163",
          "title": "Global Inequalities",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "PUBHLTH 100",
          "title": "Special Topics in Public Health",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "PUBHLTH 197",
          "title": "Field Studies in Public Health",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "PUBHLTH 189",
          "title": "Special Topics in Infectious Diseases",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "UPPP 115",
          "title": "Global Poverty and Inequality in the 21st Century",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "C. Select two courses from the following:"
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BIO SCI 9K",
          "title": "Global Change Biology",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BIO SCI M124A",
          "title": "Virology",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BIO SCI M124B",
          "title": "Viral Pathogenesis and Immunity",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BIO SCI M125",
          "title": "Molecular Biology of Cancer",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BIO SCI M131",
          "title": "Innate Immunity, Infection, and Pathogenesis",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BIO SCI N131",
          "title": "Human Neurodegenerative Diseases",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BIO SCI M143",
          "title": "Human Parasitology",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "PUBHLTH 90",
          "title": "Natural Disasters",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "PUBHLTH 161",
          "title": "Environmental Geology",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "PUBHLTH 163",
          "title": "Introduction to Environmental Health Science",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "PUBHLTH 173",
          "title": "Health and Global Environmental Change",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "PUBHLTH 180",
          "title": "Epidemiology of Infectious Disease",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "D. Capstone Project:"
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "PUBHLTH 198",
          "title": "Directed Studies (4 units)",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "or equivalent course offered if faculty is in another department"
        }
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      "kind": "text",
      "markdown": "1. By each student's junior year, they must identify and secure an independent study advisor for their capstone project. Students will work with this advisor for the duration of their project (1 unit of PUBHLTH 198 or equivalent independent study per quarter). The results from the capstone project will be presented at a symposium at the end of the graduating year."
    }
  ]
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