2022-23 Global & Public Health Sciences Curriculum Sheet

The requirements listed below pertain to all students matriculating in August 2022 and January 2023.

All of the following sections are required to be completed to graduate.

Courses in areas 1-16 must be taken for a letter grade.

Overall Required Credits (120 credits)

• Total: 120 Credits
• Human Ecology: 43 credits - courses from DEA, FSAD, HD, NS, PAM at any level or HE at the 3000/4000 level.
• Human Ecology, outside the major: 9 credits from DEA, FSAD, HD, PAM any level, or HE at the 3000/4000 level

1. Global and Public Health Core Courses (14 credits)

• NS 1600 Introduction to Public Health (3 cr)
• NS 2060 Preparation for Engaged Learning (2 cr)
• NS 2600 Introduction to Global Health (3 cr)
• NS 3600 Epidemiology (3 cr)
• NS 4600 Explorations in Global and Public Health (3 cr)

2. Supervised Experiential Learning in Global and Public Health (variable credits)

Approval required. May be completed anytime from spring semester sophomore year onward.

Must be largely completed before the fall semester of senior year.

This experience may be obtained through one of several options, including (but not limited to):

• Global Health Summer Programs (India - NS 4060, Tanzania - NS 4630, Zambia - NS 4631)
• Cornell in Washington (NS 4997)
• Public Health Research and Internship (NS 4060)
• Cornell Cooperative Extension - Tompkins County and others (NS 4060)
• Weill Cornell Clinical and Translational Science Center (NS 4060)
• Study abroad programs with a public health focus/internship (NS 4060)

3. Social and Behavioral Health Selective (3-4 credits)

Course should cover some aspect of public health (including nutrition) from a social and/or behavioral health perspective. More than half of the course content must be devoted to consideration of issues of public health from a social science perspective (e.g. sociology, anthropology, psychology, economics, communication, and other social science disciplines). See the Requirements for GPHS majors in CHE for regular updates to course options and information; new options are available to all class years.

Choose from the following options, must take a minimum of 3 credits:

• NS 2450 Social Science Perspectives on Food and Nutrition (3 cr)
• ANTHR 2021, BSOC / FGSS / LGBT / STS 2841 Viruses–Humans–Viral Politics (Social History and Cultural Politics of HIV and AIDS) (4 cr)
• ANTHR 2468 Medicine, Culture, and Society (3 cr)
• COMM 4760 Population Health Communication (3 cr)
• GDEV / LSP 2200 Sociology of Health and Ethnic Minorities (3 cr) (GDEV formerly DSOC)
• GDEV 3020 Political Ecologies of Health (3 cr) (GDEV formerly DSOC)
• PAM / SOC 3180 Health Disparities (3 cr)
• PAM 3280 / GDEV 3280 Fundamentals of Population Health (3 cr)
• PAM 4280 / ECON 3710 The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors (3 cr)
• SOC 4120 Health and Social Context (4 cr)

4. Biological Aspects of Public Health Selective (3-4 credits)

Courses should cover some aspect of public health (including nutrition) from a biological perspective. More than half of the course content must be devoted to consideration of issues of public health from a biological perspective (e.g. biochemistry, molecular biology, physiology, neuroscience, and other biological sciences disciplines). See the Requirements for GPHS majors in CHE for regular updates to course options and information; new options are available to all class years.

Choose from the following options, must take a minimum of 3 credits:

• NS 3030 Nutrition, Health and Vegetarian Diets (3 cr)
• NS 3060 Nutrition and Global Health (3 cr)
• NS 3150 Obesity and the Regulation of Body Weight (3 cr)
• NS 4200 Diet and the Microbiome (3 cr)
• NS 4300 Proteins, Transcripts, and Metabolism: Big Data in Molecular Nutrition (3 cr)
• NS 4410 Nutrition and Disease (4 cr)
• BIOMG 4390 Molecular Basis of Disease (3 cr)
• BIOMG 4870 Human Genomics (3 cr)
• BIOMI 2600 Microbiology of Human Contagious Diseases (3 cr)
• BIOMI 2950 Biology of Infectious Disease: From Molecules to Ecosystems (3 cr)
• BIOMI 3210 Human Microbes and Health (3 cr)
• PLBIO 2100 Medical Ethnobotany (3 cr)

5. Environmental Health Selective (3-4 credits)

Courses should cover some aspect of public health (including nutrition) from an environmental perspective. More than half of the course content must be devoted to consideration of issues of public health from an environmental perspective (e.g. entomology, design and environmental analysis, microbiology, and other related disciplines). See the Requirements for GPHS majors in CHE for regular updates to course options and information; new options are available to all class years.

Choose from the following options, must take a minimum of 3 credits:

• DEA 2700 Healthy Places: Design, Planning and Public Health (3 cr)
• GDEV 3020 Political Ecologies of Health (3 cr) (GDEV formerly DSOC)
• GDEV 3400 Agriculture, Food Systems and Society (3 cr) (GDEV formerly DSOC)
• BIOMI 2500 Public Health Microbiology (3 cr)
• BIOMI 2950 Biology of Infectious Disease: From Molecules to Ecosystems (3 cr)
• BIOMI 4310 / BIOMS 4310 Medical Parasitology (2 cr)
• CEE 5970 / TOX 5970 Risk Analysis and Management (3 cr)
• COMM 2850 / STS 2851 Communication, Environment, Science and Health (3 cr)
• ENTOM 2100 / BSOC 2101 Plagues and People (2-3 cr)
• ENTOM 3070 / TOX 3070 Pesticides, the Environment, and Human Health (2 cr)
• ENTOM 3520 Medical and Veterinary Entomology (3 cr)
• FDSC 3960 Food Safety Assurance (2 cr)
• PLBIO 2100 Medical Ethnobotany (3 cr)

6. Health Policy and Practice Selective (3-4 credits)

Courses should cover some aspect of public health (including nutrition) from a health policy and/or practice perspective. More than half of the course content must be devoted to consideration of issues of public health from a health policy and/or practice perspective (e.g. policy analysis and management, developmental sociology, economics, government, nutritional sciences, and other public policy and practice disciplines). See the Requirements for GPHS majors in CHE for regular updates to course options and information; new options are available to all class years.

Choose from the following options, must take a minimum of 3 credits:

• NS 4450 / 6450 Toward a Sustainable Global Food System: Food Policy for Developing Countries (3 cr)
• NS 4500 Public Health Nutrition (3 cr)
• NS 4570 / ECON 3910 Health, Poverty and Inequality (3 cr)
• NS 4800 Implementation and Impact in Global and Public Health (4 cr; restricted to students in the Cornell in Washington program)
• AMST / GOVT 2225, GDEV / ILROB / PAM / SOC 2220, PHIL 1950 Controversies about Inequality (4 cr)
• ANTHR / EDUC / FGSS 4458 Women, Girls and Gender in Education (4 cr)
• CRP 3430 Affordable Housing Policy and Programs (3 cr)
• GDEV 2050 International Development (3-4 cr) (GDEV formerly DSOC)
• GDEV 2090 / PAM / SOC 2208 Social Inequality (4 cr) (PUBPOL formerly PAM) (GDEV formerly DSOC)
• GDEV 3020 Political Ecologies of Health (3 cr) (GDEV formerly DSOC)
• GDEV 3700 / SOC 3710 Comparative Social Inequalities (3 cr) (GDEV formerly DSOC)
• GDEV 4230 Gender and Health: Concepts, Data, Theories and Evidence (3 cr) (GDEV formerly DSOC)
• ECON 3740 / PAM 4140 Global Health Economics and Policy (3 cr)
• GOVT 3032 Politics of Public Policy in the U.S. (4 cr)
• PAM 2030 Population and Public Policy (3-4 cr)
• PAM 2350 The US Health Care System (3 cr)
• PAM 3110 Pharmaceutical Management and Policy (3 cr)
• PAM 3780 Sick Around the World? Comparing Health Care Systems Around the World (3 cr)
• PAM 3870 / 5870 Economic Evaluations in Health Care (3 cr)

7. Introductory Chemistry (4+ credits)

Choose one of the following:

• CHEM 2070 General Chemistry I (4 cr)^{1, 2} AND CHEM 2080 General Chemistry II (4 cr) (two-course sequence required for pre-health)
• CHEM 2070 General Chemistry I (4 cr)^{1, 2} (single course not adequate for pre-health)
• CHEM 1560 Introduction to General Chemistry¹ (4 cr) (not for pre-health)
• CHEM 2150 Honors General and Inorganic Chemistry^{2, 3} (4 cr) (not for pre-health)

¹Students may use an AP Chemistry score of 5 to place out of CHEM 2070. However, GPHS students must take at least one semester of general chemistry at Cornell—i.e., students who use AP credit toward their general chemistry requirement must take an additional chemistry course (i.e., CHEM 2080, CHEM 2150, or other, but not CHEM 1560). Students interested in the pre-health track should take two semesters of general chemistry at Cornell.

²Students who take CHEM 2070 forfeit AP credit. Students who take CHEM 2150 may keep AP credit.

³Students should only select CHEM 2150 if they are very strong in chemistry and are not considering a pre-health (e.g. pre-med) track.

8. Introductory Biology (8 credits)

Choose one of the following labs:

• BIOG 1500 Investigative Lab (2 cr) OR
• BIOSM 1500 Investigative Marine Biology Lab (3 cr)

AND choose two out of the three lecture options¹:

• BIOMG 1350 Cell and Development (3 cr)
• BIOG 1440 Comparative Physiology (3 cr) OR²
• BIOG 1445 Comparative Physiology (autotutorial) (4 cr)
• BIOEE 1610 Ecology and the Environment (3 cr) OR²
• BIOEE 1780 Evolution and Diversity (3 cr)

¹Students may use an AP Biology score of 5 or IB HL Biology score of 7 to place out of one introductory biology lecture. Pre-health (e.g. pre-med) students should not use AP scores to fulfill biology requirements.

²Students cannot take both courses within one category to fulfill this requirement.

9. Organic Chemistry Lecture (3+ credits)

Choose one of the following:

• CHEM 1570 Elementary Organic Chemistry (S only, 3 cr, not for pre-health) OR
• CHEM 3530 Principles of Organic Chemistry (F only, 4 cr) OR
• CHEM 3570 Organic Chemistry for the Life Sciences I (3 cr) AND CHEM 3580 Organic Chemistry for the Life Sciences II (3 cr) OR¹
• CHEM 3590 Honors Organic Chemistry I (4 cr) AND CHEM 3600 Honors Organic Chemistry II (4 cr)²

¹Students interested in pre-health tracks should take a two-course sequence of organic chemistry lectures (one of the last two options above).

²Students who select one of the last two options above must take both courses in sequence; one course alone will not fulfill requirement.

10. Physiology (3-4 credits)

Choose one of the following:

• NS 3410 Human Anatomy and Physiology (4 cr) OR¹
• [BIOG 1440 Comparative Physiology (3 cr) OR BIOG 1445 Comparative Physiology (autotutorial) (4 cr)]² OR
• NS 1150 Nutrition, Health, and Society (3 cr)
• NS 1220 Nutrition and the Life Cycle (3 cr)

¹Pre-health students might also consider taking NS 3420 Human Anatomy and Physiology Lab (S, 2 cr).

²Can only be used to fulfill physiology requirement if not used to fulfill introductory biology requirement.

11. Biochemistry (4-6 credits)

Choose one of the following*:

• NS 3200 Introduction to Human Biochemistry (4 cr)
• BIOMG 3300 Principles of Biochemistry (4 cr)
• BIOMG 3310 Principles of Biochemistry: Proteins and Metabolism (3 cr) AND BIOMG 3320 Principles of Biochemistry: Molecular Biology (2 cr)
• BIOMG 3310 Principles of Biochemistry: Proteins and Metabolism (3 cr) AND BIOMI 2900 General Microbiology (3 cr)
• BIOMG 3330 Principles of Biochemistry: Proteins, Metabolism, and Molecular Biology (4 cr)
• BIOMG 3350 Principles of Biochemistry: Proteins, Metabolism, and Molecular Biology (4 cr)

* Students who take only one semester of introductory chemistry should talk with faculty advisors and biochemistry instructors as early as possible to determine which biochemistry course is best for them and how they may access resources for the best chance of success.

12. First Year Writing Seminars (6 credits)

Two first year writing seminar classes

Note: These two classes must be completed during the first two semesters at Cornell.

13. Social Sciences (6 credits)

Choose one course in any two of the follow four areas:

Anthropology

• ANTHR 1400 The Comparison of Cultures (3 cr)

Economics

• ECON 1110 Introductory Microeconomics (3 cr)
• ECON 1120 Introductory Macroeconomics (3 cr)

Psychology

• HD 1120 People in Perspective: Brain, Mind, and Society OR PSYCH 1101 Introduction to Psychology (3 cr)
• HD 1150 Human Development: Infancy and Childhood (3 cr)
• HD 1170 Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood (3 cr)

Sociology

• SOC 1101 Introduction to Sociology (3 cr)

14. Humanities (3 credits)

Choose any course with the Course Distribution Historical Analysis (HA), Literature and the Arts (LA), or Cultural Analysis (CA).

15. Statistics (4 credits)

Choose one of the following:  

• STSCI 2150 Introductory Statistics for Biology (4 cr)

* Must be taken at Cornell; AP Statistics is not accepted.

16. Additional Distribution Coursework (10-12 credits)

Any course with the Course Distribution PBS, SBA, KCM, MQR, LA, CA, or HA. Language courses may count here.

For example, students interested in pre-health tracks or graduate study in pre-physical therapy/exercise sciences could fulfill this requirement by taking:

• CHEM 2080 General Chemistry II
• CHEM 3570 AND 3580 Organic Chemistry (full year sequence)
• CHEM 2510 Organic Chemistry Lab
• PHYS 1101 and 1102 General Physics I and II (auto-tutorial) OR
• PHYS 2207 and 2208 Fundamentals of Physics I and II

17. Electives (Variable)

Any courses that are not taken in Areas 1-16 above, count as Electives.  

18. Physical Education Requirement (2 courses)

Physical Education must be completed in order to graduate. However, physical education does not count toward college and university minimum credit requirements for full-time status, nor does it count towards the 120 credits required for graduation.

19. Swim Test Requirement

A successful swim test must be completed in order to graduate.