Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Global Challenges I

KHC HC 301

  • Critical Thinking
  • Ethical Reasoning
  • Historical Consciousness

In this course, students will develop an understanding of global public health from interdisciplinary perspectives. Specifically, the course will foster students’ ability to critically consider key contemporary issues in global public health with a lens on ethical considerations, and in turn make links to policy and practice implications. Students will take on a range of issues that go well beyond the study of public health itself, raising questions such as those around identity, childhood, mental health, historical legacies of colonialism, and contemporary inequalities. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking.