SOC-180: Introduction to Global Health

This course is designed to introduce students to the multidisciplinary field that examines physical and mental health from a global perspective. Students will analyze, explore, develop, and understand the world's cultures and their impacts on health and illness for individuals and society. This course examines both patterns of disease and disorder around the world as well as the systemic and cultural roots of health inequalities and inequities. The course focuses on explaining historical and current trends in global health issues as well as how global health activities can promote solutions to pressing social problems in the Eastern Kentucky region, nationally, and globally. This course fulfills the Cultural and Global Place requirement in the General Education Curriculum.