Global Health Minor Proposal

Kinesiology Department

Academic Senate, September 2016

(20 units)

Westmont’s Global Health minor allows students to develop an interdisciplinary understanding of health issues in a global context. Through select core courses and a variety of elective courses across the college, students will examine the institutional, economic, cultural political, and social challenges facing global health solutions and gain strategies for addressing issues of social justice and development, which are crucial to understanding the determinants of health issues around the world.Entrance prerequisite: CHM 5 Chemistry or KNS 012 Physiology.

Through completing the Global Health Minor, students will:

  • Examine the fundamental issues that affect health equity and healthcare around the world;
  • Investigate how cultural, social and environmental factors and issues of health equity influence the patterns of disease among people and populations, with particular emphasis on health in low-resource settings for local, regional or international contexts;
  • Recognize ways to be culturally sensitive, curious, and understanding of other cultures.
  • Engage and encounter global health delivery in real-world context.

CORE COURSE REQUIREMENT: 16 units

(2) IS 150 Introductions to Global Health

(2) IS XX Global Health Capstone

(4)KNS/BIO 040 Human Nutrition

(4)KNS/AN 140 Food Systems, Global Health, and Social Justice (4)

(4)Experiential/Field Component Choose One: (4)

  • KNS 190 Internship (Must be approved by minor director)
  • USP 300 Cross Cultural Practicum in Global Health (taught in Uganda)
  • SOC 106 Research methods

ELECTIVE REQUIREMENT: 4 units

  • AN 001 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (4)
  • KNS 350 Infectious Diseases and Global Health in Uganda (4)
  • BIO 110 Microbiology in Uganda (4)*
  • BIO/CHM 113 Biochemistry (4)
  • BIO 102 Physiology (4)
  • CHM 005 General Chemistry (4) *Not an approved elective for biology majors
  • KNS/BIO 012 Human Physiology (4) **
  • KNS 150 Introduction to Public Health (2)
  • KNS 181 Special Populations (4) **
  • COM 133 Conflict and Resolution (4)
  • POL 020 International Politics (4)
  • POL 124 International Development (4)
  • POL 126 Sex, Gender and Power (4)
  • BIO 124 Biology, Values, and Developing World
  • MA 003, Statistics for Public Health (3)
  • SOC/AN 135 Gender and Sex Roles in Cross-Cultural Perspective (4)

*Not an approved elective for biology majors

**Not an approved elective for kinesiology majors