Courses

A list of recommended courses for students interested in global health. View PDF

Each term, faculty and other campus visitors may offer special topics or mini-courses relevant to global health. Such courses will be posted here as they are announced.

WINTER 2008:

SW735, Health and Development: An International Perspective on Social Progress. Meets Wed. 2-5pm. Instructor: José A. Tapia, BMBCh, MPH, PhD (Econ). This course provides a survey of issues related to socioeconomic development and health progress from a multidisciplinary and international perspective.

CICS Graduate Seminar on Global Transformations: 2008-2009 call for applications Deadline: March 21, 2008 by 5:00pm
The Center for International and Comparative Studies (CICS) announces a not-for-credit seminar for master's students and doctoral students at the pre-candidacy level intending to pursue field-based research outside the United States.
This seminar is open to students in the early stages of graduate training with interests in international and area studies who can demonstrate goals of completing training and research through the doctorate. Graduate students from across disciplines are invited to apply. The Graduate Seminar on Global Transformations offers students the opportunity to develop theses projects, pre-dissertation proposals, and dissertation prospectuses with their peers, in an interdisciplinary setting. The goals of the seminar include: Increasing students' capacity for understanding research designs and systems of evidence developed in other professions and disciplines ·Examining issues of ethics and values in the development and conduct of cross-cultural and cross-national research · Encouraging high-level critical discussion of methodology and epistemology · Discussing different qualities and characteristics of data in international research. The seminar will explore epistemological connections and dissonance among disciplines and professions involved in global transformations. It will meet approximately seven times a term for two-hour sessions, which will be organized around the discussion of presentations by participating students.  Several sessions will also be devoted to the discussion of papers, research proposals, and faculty and visitor presentations. Each student admitted to GSGT will have access to a restricted research fund of up to $4,500, to be used for a preliminary visit to the prospective foreign research site and for specialized language training necessary for dissertation research. (for admission to the seminar in September 2008) Contact Folake Graves for application requirement information at Tel: 734.764.3149 Email: fograves@umich.edu

FALL 2007:

• NRE/UP 576: Ecological Design Approaches to Brownfield Redevelopment. The Graham Institute is pleased to announce an applied, interdisciplinary course offered by SNRE Professor, Joan Nassauer. More details
  
• EPID 663: Health, Evidence and Human Rights. Instructor Sioban Harlow, Professor of Epidemiology, teaches this course on how population research can contribute to developing evidence relevant to advancing human rights. Prerequisite: Graduate Standing. View PDF
  
• Seminar on Malaria Epidemiology. This 3-credit seminar will meet from 3pm-6pm each Thursday. The goal is to work together in defining, synthesizing and analyzing problems and processes in malaria epidemiology in particular, and more generally vector-borne diseases (VBDs), in developing countries. Pre-requisites:  Students should have successfully completed Epid 602, Epid 605 or equivalent, EHS 513 or equivalent, and obtained permission of instructor, Professor Mark Wilson.

OTHER COURSES TO NOTE:

• **New Course Winter 2007** CEE 592 Biological Processes in Environmental Engineering. The purpose of this course is to study the fundamental concepts of microbiological processes used for environmental protection and improvement. View PDF
• SOC 495.003 “Health and Population in South Africa”
  Discusses the historical roots of the health and population situation in South Africa, with comparisons to China and countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union.
• Women's Studies 483: "Special Topics - International Reproductive Health Policy"
  Focuses on global reproductive and maternity health policy and how it shapes the local provision of women's health care services in developing countries, with an emphasis on Latin America. For those students who are interested and who have Spanish language speaking skills, there is a service learning study abroad component to this course where two weeks (June 17-June30) are spent in a rural Honduras community focused providing reproductive and maternity health care education and services.
• NURS 854/Women's Studies 698 Section 003, Special Seminar "Globalization, Culture and Women's Health". This graduate seminar will examine global perspectives on women's health, with an emphasis on the interaction of personal with structural (e.g., social, political, economic, cultural) factors. Personal factors include both biological and psychosocial conditions; systemic factors include social, economic and political structures. Particular attention will be devoted to understudied issues and the effects of gender based assumptions and traditions for women at high risk for poor health. Analysis of women’s health issues within a global context will draw on feminist, social justice and human rights traditions. During the academic term, we will discuss the role of women as recipients, active participants in, and providers of care with a goal of critiquing and developing theories about the state of women's health worldwide. Prerequisite: One Graduate course in Women's Studies and Graduate standing. Taught by Professor K Low.