Minor Requirements
To earn a minor in Global Health Studies, students must:
- Complete seven courses, including four core courses and three elective courses.
- Students may elect to study abroad as part of their Global Health Studies curriculum.
Course requirements
Two GBL_HLTH core courses
- GBL_HLTH 201 Introduction to Global Health (formerly GBL_HLTH 301: Introduction to International Public Health, which counts for this requirement if taken prior to Fall 2022)
- One of the following:
- GBL_HLTH 302 Global Bioethics
- GBL_HLTH 320 Qualitative Research Methods
- GBL_HLTH 303 (Re)Mixing Qualitative Methods (formerly GBL_HLTH 390
- GBL_HLTH 318 Community Based Participatory Research (formerly GBL_HLTH 390)
- GBL_HLTH 390 Quantitative Methods: Turning Numbers into a Story
Two additional GBL_HLTH courses
- Select courses listed on our Course Descriptions page.
Three elective courses
- Up to two elective courses can be taken abroad.
- Approved elective courses offered by a wide variety of departments are shared before pre-registration each quarter, and are posted with each quarter's schedule.
- Up to one approved 200-level course can count towards this requirement.
- Additional 300-level courses may also be considered as electives with approval from the Global Health Studies program.
- Global Health Studies classes can no longer be used towards the elective requirement.
- Please note that Global Health Studies does not permit double-counting classes, but some units within WCAS and other colleges do allow it. Speak with your standalone major advisor to see what is permissible before contacting the Director of Undergraduate Studies to have a class double-counted.
Study abroad
You may elect to participate in a substantial public health experience abroad. Most GHS students choose to complete one of Northwestern's public health programs, offered in China, France, Mexico, Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and South Africa. Two of your Global Health Studies elective requirements can be completed on a public health study abroad program. Students who elect to study abroad more than once may earn more elective credits.
You may also participate in a non-Northwestern public health program (either affiliated with the university or not).