Sign-in Links
DEVS 275 Global Health and Development Units: 3.00
This course examines the nexus between global health and development with a focus on preparing students for work on contemporary health and well-being issues. It takes a multidisciplinary perspective to analyze current global challenges including environmental and social transformations and changing disease burden. Using case studies, students will learn important concepts and principles in global health and development. The course also focuses on exploring innovative approaches that bridge the global health and development divide and help in addressing difficult global health challenges.
Learning Hours: 120 (24 Lecture, 12 Tutorial, 84 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite (Level 2 or above and [DEVS 100/6.0 or DEVS 101/3.0 or DEVS 105/3.0*]) or permission of the Department.
Exclusion DEVS 293/3.0 (Topic Title: Global Health and Development - Fall 2022).
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Define global health, development, and their intersections from the perspectives of social science.
- Demonstrate knowledge of key principles, concepts, and controversies in Global Health and Development.
- Explain major frameworks and measures of Global Health, and Development and their limits to understanding contemporary global challenges.
- Identify major global institutions and actors involved in Global Heath and Development.
- Examine contemporary Global Health Challenges from the perspective of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
- Propose alternative strategies for addressing current and future global health and development challenges.