Population health in a global context minor
Overview
The population health in a global context minor expands the undergraduate content area to provide opportunities for students to more fully explore global health through a variety of courses and a required field experience. The purpose of this minor is to provide students the opportunity to examine health care processes and systems at the global level.
Objectives
Understand the global burden of disease
Describe the health implications of migration, travel, and displacement
Explain the social and environmental determinants of health
Analyze how globalization is affecting disease patterns and the availability of health care workers globally
Articulate the impact of low resources on access to and provision of health care
Describe the relationship between human rights and health
Credits required
15 credits focused on global health. Field experience that results in U-M credit can be included in the 15-credit allotment. Students may also choose a non-credit co-curricular for their field experience, such as an internship, in which case they would need to earn the 15 credits through coursework.
Criteria for approval of global field placement
Field experience can be completed in the U.S. or abroad, domestic field placements must be in a community that differs substantially from the student's own (by ethnicity, dominant language, socioeconomic status, etc.) Likewise, international students may not fulfill the requirement in their home countries.
Field experience options include:
Nursing or other U-M study abroad program
Work, internship, or volunteer program for which U-M credit is awarded
Research on a U-M faculty-led project
Approved non-U-M study abroad, research, work, internship, or volunteer program (for approval, students must submit a proposal to a faculty committee)
Prerequisites, corequisites, required cognates if applicable:
Good academic standing based on an earned U-M GPA (minimum 2.0)
First-year students should wait until their second semester to declare
Transfer students are eligible to declare during their first semester at U-M
Interested students should contact an academic advisor.
