GPHS Major Requirements
Global and Public Health Sciences Major
The requirements listed below pertain to all students matriculating in August 2022 and January 2023.
In addition to college requirements , students in the GPHS Major must complete specific requirements listed here.
Supervised Experiential Learning in Global & Public Health
Supervised Experiential Learning in Global & Public Health (variable credit)
Approval required. May be completed anytime from spring semester sophomore year onward. Must be largely completed before the fall semester of senior year.
This experience may be obtained through one of several options, including (but not limited to):
- Global Health Summer Programs (India-NS 4060 , Tanzania-NS 4630 , Zambia-NS 4631 )
- Cornell in Washington (NS 4997 )
- Public Health Research and Internship (NS 4060 )
- Cornell Cooperative Extension (Tompkins County and others) (NS 4060 )
- Weill Cornell Clinical & Translational Science Center (NS 4060 )
- Study abroad programs with a public health focus/internship (NS 4060 )
Environmental Health Selective
Environmental Health Selective (3-4 credits)
Courses should cover some aspect of public health (including nutrition) from an environmental perspective. More than half of the course content must be devoted to consideration of issues of public health from an environmental perspective (e.g. entomology, design and environmental analysis, microbiology, and other related disciplines). See the Requirements for GPHS majors in CHE for regular updates to course options and information; new options are available to all class years.
Choose from the following options, must take a minimum of 3 credits:
DEA 2700 - Healthy Places: Design, Planning and Public Health (3 cr)
GDEV 3020 - [Political Ecologies of Health] (3 cr)
GDEV 3400 - Agriculture, Food, Sustainability and Social Justice (3 cr)
BIOMI 2500 - Public Health Microbiology (3 cr)
BIOMI 2950 - Biology of Infectious Disease: From Molecules to Ecosystems (3 cr)
BIOMI 4310 /BIOMS 4310 - Medical Parasitology (2 cr)
CEE 5970 /TOX 5970 - Risk Analysis and Management (3 cr)
COMM 2850 /STS 2851 - Communication, Environment, Science, and Health (3 cr)
ENTOM 2100 /BSOC 2101 - [Plagues and People] (2-3 cr)
ENTOM 3070 /TOX 3070 - Pesticides, the Environment, and Human Health (2 cr)
FDSC 3960 - Food Safety Assurance (2 cr)
PLBIO 2100 - Medical Ethnobotany (3 cr)
Health Policy and Practice Selective
Health Policy & Practice Selective (3-4 credits)
Courses should cover some aspect of public health (including nutrition) from a health policy and/or practice perspective. More than half of the course content must be devoted to consideration of issues of public health from a health policy and/or practice perspective (e.g. policy analysis and management, developmental sociology, economics, government, nutritional sciences, and other public policy and practice disciplines). See the Requirements for GPHS majors in CHE for regular updates to course options and information; new options are available to all class years.
Choose from the following options,must take a minimum of 3 credits:
NS 4450 - Toward a Sustainable Global Food System: Food Policy for Developing Countries (3 cr)
NS 4500 - Public Health Nutrition (3 cr)
NS 4570 /ECON 3910 - Health, Poverty, and Inequality: A Global Perspective (3 cr)
NS 4800 - Implementation and Impact in Global and Public Health (4 cr; restricted to students in the Cornell in Washington program)
AMST 2225 /GOVT 2225 /GDEV 2220 /ILROB 2220 /PAM 2220 /PHIL 1950 /SOC 2220 - Controversies About Inequality (4 cr)
ANTHR 4458 /EDUC 4458 /FGSS 4458 - [Girls, Women, and Education in Global Perspective: Feminist Ethnography and Praxis] (4 cr)
CRP 3430 - Affordable Housing Policy and Programs (3 cr)
DSOC 2050 - International Development (3-4 cr)
GDEV 2090 /PAM 2208 /SOC 2208 - Social Inequality (4 cr)
GDEV 3020 - [Political Ecologies of Health] (3 cr)
GDEV 3700 /SOC 3710 - Comparative Social Inequalities (3 cr)
DSOC 4230 - Gender and Health: Concepts, Data, Theories and Evidence (3 cr)
ECON 3740 /PAM 4140 - [Global Health Economics and Policy] (3 cr)
GOVT 3032 - [Politics of Public Policy in the U.S.] (4 cr)
PAM 2030 - Population and Public Policy (3-4 cr)
PAM 2350 - The U.S. Health Care System (3 cr)
PAM 3110 - Pharmaceutical Management and Policy (3 cr)
PAM 3780 - [Sick Around the World? Comparing Health Care Systems Around the World] (3 cr)
PAM 3870 /PAM 5870 - Economic Evaluations in Health Care (3 cr)
Biochemistry
Biochemistry (4-6 credits)
Choose one of the following*:
(a) NS 3200 - Introduction to Human Biochemistry (F, 4 cr)
(b) BIOMG 3300 - Principles of Biochemistry, Individualized Instruction (F/S, 4 cr)
(c) BIOMG 3310 - Principles of Biochemistry: Proteins and Metabolism (F, 3 cr) AND BIOMG 3320 - Principles of Biochemistry: Molecular Biology (S, 2 cr)
(d) BIOMG 3310 - Principles of Biochemistry: Proteins and Metabolism (F, 3 cr) AND BIOMI 2900 - General Microbiology Lectures (F/S, 3 cr)
(e) BIOMG 3330 - Principles of Biochemistry: Proteins, Metabolism, and Molecular Biology (Summer, 4 cr)
(f) BIOMG 3350 - Principles of Biochemistry: Proteins, Metabolism, and Molecular Biology (S, 4 cr)
* Students who take only one semester of introductory chemistry should talk with faculty advisors and biochemistry instructors as early as possible to determine which biochemistry course is best for them and how they may access resources for the best chance of success.
Statistics
Statistics (4 credits)
This fulfills the college distribution quantitative and analytical courses requirement.
STSCI 2100 - Introductory Statistics (F/S, 4 cr)
* Must be taken at Cornell; AP Statistics is not accepted.