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  • 3.00 Credits

    Provides students with an understanding of population health on a global basis. Focuses mostly on health issues in developing countries. Helps students identify disease patterns while exploring how culture affects illness and learning about behavior change, health systems, and policy development. Uses epidemiology, demography, sociology, and anthropology throughout the course.
  • 2.00 - 6.00 Credits

    Students enrolled in this course will travel abroad to work on public health projects aimed at improving health. Students will team with local public health workers to establish and assess ongoing public health resources in that region. Preparation for this work will take place the semester prior to traveling.
  • 3.00 - 5.00 Credits

    Students enrolled in this course will travel abroad to work on public health projects aimed at improving health. Students will team with local public health workers to establish and assess ongoing public health resources in that region.
  • 4.00 Credits

    This course introduces students to the problems and solutions to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene/Health (WASH) in both LMICs and HICs. Students will learn about processes for producing clean drinking water, onsite and offsite wastewater treatment and the relationship between water, environment and health as well as strategies to prevent transmission of diseases through water and wastewater to human populations. There is a required lab portion of this course where students will get hands-on experience in onsite technologies for water and wastewater treatment including potential visits to water and wastewater treatment plants.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will take an interdisciplinary examination of the effects of artificial light on a wide variety of health and wellness outcomes. The course will consist of lectures and discussions including speakers from a variety of departments such as City & Metropolitan Planning, Atmospheric Sciences Mechanical Engineering and Biology. The course will include fieldwork gathering light pollution data, analysis labs to interpret these data and individual research papers or policy briefs focusing on a specific aspect of light pollution or adverse health outcome.
  • 1.00 - 6.00 Credits

    Topics vary. Taught by members of the University Statistics Committee. Check current class schedule for cross-listings.
  • 3.00 Credits

    The course is designed as an interdisciplinary introduction to peace and conflict studies. The purpose of the course is to expose students to negotiation theory and practice or exposure to social diversity and cultural understanding theory and practice, ranging from micro to macro contexts, encouraging students to make connections between different levels of analysis. The course includes practical as well as theoretical elements, promoting bridges between the two.
  • 1.00 - 6.00 Credits

    Formally approved internship in a Peace & Conflict studies field. May be taken two times for credit a total of six credits.
  • 1.00 - 3.00 Credits

    Variable subject matter. Repeatable when topics vary.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is required for all Peace and Conflict Studies majors and minors. Students will have the opportunity to integrate the knowledge, skills, and values they have learned in their multidisciplinary courses, through in-class discussion and dialogue and the development of individualized integrative projects. Prerequisites: Senior year for PCS students.