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- Global Public and Environmental Health Minor
This information is part of the Colgate University catalog, 2024-25.
Minor Requirements
The minor consists of six courses. Courses cannot be double counted within the minor. Only one of the five elective courses for the minor can be at the 100-level.
Required Course
One course on Methodological Perspectives
- ANTH 211 - Investigating Contemporary Cultures
- BIOL 302 - Systems Biology
- CORE S143 - Statistics in Real Life
- BIOL 310 - Epidemiology
- BIOL 316 - Bioinformatics
- BIOL 320 - Biostatistics
- ENST 250 - Environmental Policy Analysis
- GEOG 245 - Geographic Information Systems
- GEOG 250 - Research Methods
- PSYC 309 - Quantitative Methods in Behavioral Research
- SOCI 250 - Sociological Research Design and Methods
- MATH 105 - Introduction to Statistics
One course from at least three of the four disciplinary groups
Scientific Perspectives
- BIOL 301 - Parasitology and BIOL 301L
- BIOL 313 - Microbiology and BIOL 313L
- BIOL 318 - Vertebrate Physiology and BIOL 318L
- BIOL 330 - Conservation Biology
- BIOL 336 - Advanced Ecology
- BIOL 337 - Cancer Biology
- BIOL 373 - Virology
- BIOL 374 - Immunology
- CORE S172 - The Biology of Women: Sex, Gender, Reproduction, and Disease
- CORE S177 - Critical Analysis of Health Issues
- PSYC 275 - Biological Psychology
Environmental Perspectives
- BIOL 330 - Conservation Biology
- BIOL 336 - Advanced Ecology
- CORE S128 - Global Change and You
- ENST 234 - Case Studies in Global Environmental Health
- ENST 450 - Community-based Study of Environmental Issues
- GEOG 105 - Climate and Society
- GEOG 319 - Population and Environment
- GEOG 321 - Transnational Feminist Geography
- GEOG 326 - Environmental Hazards
- GEOL 101 - Environmental Geology
Social Perspectives
- ALST 219/MUSE 219 - Healing Arts: The Idea of Africa in Medicine and Museums
- ALST 334/GPEH 334 - Public Health in Africa
- ALST 351 - Medicine, Health and Healing in Africa
- ANTH 102 - Culture, Diversity, and Inequality
- ANTH 226 - Critical Global Health
- ANTH 244 - Who Owns Culture?
- ANTH 245 - Nature, Culture, and Politics
- ANTH 222 - Medical Anthropology
- ECON 348 - Health Economics
- POSC 361 - Humanitarian Interventions
- PSYC 363 - Developmental Psychopathology
- PSYC 365 - Cross-Cultural Human Development
- SOCI 212 - Power, Racism, and Privilege
- SOCI 310 - Sociology of the Body
- SOCI 312 - Social Inequality
- SOCI 324 - Medical Sociology
- SOCI 335 - Sociology of Death, Dying and Grieving (RI)
Humanities Perspectives
- ARTS 260 - Social Practice Art
- HIST 210 - The History of Health, Disease and Empire
- HIST 302 - Global Toxic History
- HIST 304 - Sex and Sexualities in U.S. History
- HIST 387 - Epidemic Histories
- LGBT 340 - Rural Sexualities and Genders
- PHIL 202 - Environmental Ethics
- PHIL 214 - Medical Ethics
- RELG 252 - Religion, Plagues, Pandemics
- RELG 265 - Global Public Health Ethics, Bioethics and Religion (GE)
Global Public and Environmental Health Program
For more information about the program, including Faculty, transfer credit, awards, etc., please visit the Global Public and Environmental Health catalog program page.