Bachelor of Arts, Faculty Program in Population and Global Health

Students choose one of five available streams offered by the program:

Bachelor of Arts (Medicine and Health Sciences) - Faculty Program in Population and Global Health (90 Credits)

Offered by:听Department of Global and Public Health

Degree:听Bachelor of Arts (Medicine and Health Sciences)

Program Requirements

The B.A.: Faculty Program in Population and Global Health provides undergraduate students with flexible opportunities to explore a breadth of interdisciplinary topics and a range of career and educational pathways.

The program consists of 54 required credits, with the addition of 36 credits of electives. Students pursuing a 4-year degree will complete an additional 30 credits that consists of their Freshman/Foundation Year courses. The program includes experiential learning opportunities, bridging theoretical research on global health into community (and other organizations) practice. The structure of the program easily accommodates students pursuing medical school or prerequisite courses needed for advanced graduate training.

Freshman Program

Students whose highest level of education is high school (normally out of province) are admitted into Year 0 (U0) to complete the Freshman Program. Freshman students are required to complete 30 credits of introductory (100- or 200-level) courses of the students鈥� choice (in addition to the 90-credit program), verified by an advisor*, for a total of 120 credits. Students will not be granted permission to take first-year (U1) courses if the credits from the Freshman year have not been obtained. In consultation with the Student Affairs Officer, students may select courses from the recommended course list below or other courses. Students can refer to the Faculty of Arts Freshman Program to view the list of courses to take across the four areas of study (Social Sciences, Humanities, Languages, Mathematics and Science). Students must complete GPHL 200 Foundations in Global Health (3 Credits) during the Freshman Program. Other than GPHL 200, the department recommends that students use the opportunity to take 100- or 200-level courses that are designated as prerequisite for courses that fall under their chosen stream. Students are encouraged to explore other subject areas of interest, which may include taking courses that are required for professional school or graduate training.

Some courses of potential interest include:

Courses in the Faculty of Arts:

• ANTH 202 Socio-Cultural Anthropology (3 Credits)
• ANTH 206 Environment and Culture (3 Credits)
• ANTH 207 Ethnography Through Film (3 Credits)
• ANTH 212 Anthropology of Development (3 Credits)
• ANTH 222 Legal Anthropology (3 Credits)
• ANTH 227 Medical Anthropology (3 Credits)
• CANS 200 Understanding Canada (3 Credits)
• ECON 208 Microeconomic Analysis and Applications (3 Credits)
• ECON 209 Macroeconomic Analysis and Applications (3 Credits)
• ECON 225 Economics of the Environment (3 Credits)
• GSFS 200 Feminist and Social Justice Studies (3 Credits)
• GSFS 250 Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies (3 Credits)
• HIST 202 Survey: Canada to 1867 (3 Credits)
• HIST 203 Survey: Canada since 1867 (3 Credits)
• HIST 213 World History, 600-2000 (3 Credits)
• HIST 221 United States since 1865 (3 Credits)
• HIST 223 Indigenous Peoples and Empires (3 Credits)
• HIST 249 Health and the Healer in Western History (3 Credits)
• HIST 292 History and the Environment (3 Credits)
• INDG 200 Introduction to Indigenous Studies (3 Credits)
• INTD 200 Intro to Int鈥檒 Development (3 Credits)
• INTD 250 History of Development (3 Credits)
• PHIL 237 Contemporary Moral Issues (3 Credits)
• PHIL 240 Political Philosophy 1 (3 Credits)
• POLI 212 Introduction to Comparative Politics 鈥� Europe/North America (3 Credits)
• POLI 221 Government of Canada (3 Credits)
• POLI 222 Political Process and Behaviour in Canada (3 Credits)
• POLI 226 La vie politique qu茅b茅coise (3 Credits)
• POLI 227 Introduction to Comparative Politics 鈥� Global South (3 Credits)
• POLI 243 International Politics of Economic Relations (3 Credits)
• POLI 244 International Politics: State Behaviour (3 Credits)
• QCST 200 Introduction to the Study of Quebec (3 Credits)
• SOCI 210 Sociological Perspectives (3 Credits)
• SOCI 211 Sociological Inquiry (3 Credits)
• SOCI 222 Urban Sociology (3 Credits)
• SOCI 225 Medicine and Health in Modern Society (3 Credits)
• SOCI 234 Population and Society (3 Credits)
• SOCI 235 Technology and Society (3 Credits)
• SOCI 247 Family and Modern Society (3 Credits)
• SOCI 250 Social Problems (3 Credits)
• SOCI 254 Development and Underdevelopment (3 Credits)
• SOCI 270 Sociology of Gender (3 Credits)

Courses in the Faculty of Science:

• ATOC 182 Introduction to Oceanic Sciences (3 Credits)
• ATOC 183 Climate and Climate Change (3 Credits)
• ATOC 184 Science of Storms (3 Credits)
• ATOC 185 Natural Disasters (3 Credits)
• CHEM 181 World of Chemistry: Food (3 Credits)
• CHEM 183 World of Chemistry: Drugs (3 Credits)
• COMP 189 Computers and Society (3 Credits)
• EPSC 181 Environmental Geology (3 Credits)
• EPSC 185 Natural Disasters (3 Credits)
• EPSC 201 Understanding Planet Earth (3 Credits)
• EPSC 233 Earth and Life Through Time (3 Credits)
• ESYS 104 The Earth System (3 Credits)
• FSCI 198 Climate Crisis and Climate Actions (3 Credits)
• GEOG 205 Global Change: Past, Present and Future (3 Credits)
• GEOG 216 Geography of the World Economy (3 Credits)
• GEOG 217 Cities in the Modern World (3 Credits)
• GEOG 272 Earth鈥檚 Changing Surface (3 Credits)

Courses in the Faculty of Science (recommendations for medical school prospects)*:

• BIOL 111 Principles: Organismal Biology (3 Credits)
• BIOL 112 Cell and Molecular Biology (3 Credits)
• CHEM 110 General Chemistry 1 (4 Credits)
• CHEM 120 General Chemistry 2 (4 Credits)
• CHEM 212 Introductory Organic Chemistry 1 (4 Credits)
• PHYS 101 Introductory Physics 鈥� Mechanics (4 Credits)
• PHYS 102 Introductory Physics 鈥� Electromagnetism (4 Credits)
• PHGY 209 Mammalian Physiology (3 Credits)
• BIOL 200 Molecular Biology (3 Credits)
• BIOL 201 Cell Biology & Metabolism (3 Credits)

*Note that these are prerequisite courses for prospective medical school applicants.

Courses from the French Language Centre:

(Placement tests may be required)

• FRSL 101 Beginners French 1 (3 Credits)
• FRSL 102 Beginners French 2 (3 Credits)
• FRSL 105 Intensive Beginners French (6 Credits)
• FRSL 206 Elementary French (3 Credits)
• FRSL 207 Elementary French 01 (6 Credits)
• FRSL 208 Intensive Elementary French (6 Credits)
• FRSL 211 Oral and Written French 1 (6 Credits)
• FRSL 212 Oral and Written French 1 (3 Credits)
• FRSL 215 Oral & Written French 1-Intensive (6 Credits)

If you are admitted into 91黑料网 with advanced standing (International Baccalaureate, Advanced Placement, etc.), those credits may be used to fulfill some of your Freshman requirements.

*Freshman Advising:

All Freshman students must have their Fall and Winter course selections verified prior to the start of classes. This can be done by email or by attending the group advising session in late August. To verify your course selection by email, send a message to studentaffairsofficer.dgph [at] mcgill.ca with the subject 鈥淏.A.(Medicine and Health Sciences) Freshman Course Selection鈥� including your student ID.

Required Courses (33 Credits)

• GPHL 200 Foundations in Global Health (3 Credits)
• GPHL 201 Ethics and Equity (3 Credits)
• GPHL 300 Data Literacy (3 Credits)
• GPHL 301 Research Methods (3 Credits)
• GPHL 302 Knowledge Translation (3 Credits)
• GPHL 303 Community Engaged Learning (3 Credits)
• GPHL 401 Experiential Learning (12 Credits)
• GPHL 500 Critical Perspectives in Global Health (3 Credits)

Complementary Courses (21 Credits)

Students pursue one of five streams equivalent to seven 3-credit complementary courses, for a total of 21 credits. Other courses on these streams across Faculties may be selected subject to approval by the Student Affairs Officer.

Stream 1: Environment and Health*

• AGRI 411 Global Issues on Development, Food and Agriculture (3 credits)
• ENVR 200 The Global Environment (3 credits)
• ENVR 201 Society, Environment and Sustainability (3 credits)
• ENVR 202 The Evolving Earth (3 credits)
• ENVR 203 Knowledge, Ethics and Environment (3 credits)
• ENVR 400 Environmental Thought (3 credits)
• ENVR 401 Environmental Research (3 credits)
• GEOG 221 Environment and Health (3 credits)
• GEOG 303 Health Geography (3 credits)
• GEOG 310 Development and Livelihoods (3 credits)
• GEOG 408 Geography of Development (3 credits)
• GEOG 409 Geographies of Developing Asia (3 credits)
• GEOG 410 Geography of Underdevelopment: Current Problems (3 credits)
• GEOG 503 Advanced Topics in Health Geography (3 credits)
• PARA 410 Environment and Infection (3 credits)
• PARA 515 Water, Health and Sanitation (3 credits)
• SOCI 331 Population and Environment (3 credits)

*Note that some courses have prerequisites and/or limited seating for Population and Global Health students.

Stream 2: Culture, Society and Health*

• ANSC 555 The Use and Welfare of Animals (3 credits)
• ANTH 202 Socio-Cultural Anthropology (3 credits)
• ANTH 206 Environment and Culture (3 credits)
• ANTH 209 Anthropology of Religion (3 credits)
• ANTH 227 Medical Anthropology (3 credits)
• ANTH 302 New Horizons in Medical Anthropology (3 credits)
• ANTH 314 Psychological Anthropology 01 (3 credits)
• ANTH 322 Social Change in Modern Africa (3 credits)
• ANTH 325 Anthropology of the Self (3 credits)
• ANTH 407 Anthropology of the Body (3 credits)
• ECON 208 Microeconomic Analysis and Applications (3 credits)
• ECON 313 Economic Development 1 (3 credits)
• EDEC 233 Indigenous Education (3 credits)
• EDEC 248 Equity and Education (3 credits)
• EDEC 249 Global Education and Social Justice (3 credits)
• HIST 238 Histories of Science (3 credits)
• HIST 249 Health and the Healer in Western History (3 credits)
• HIST 292 History and the Environment (3 credits)
• HIST 319 The Scientific Revolution (3 credits)
• HIST 335 Science and Medicine in Canada (3 credits)
• HIST 350 Science and the Enlightenment (3 credits)
• HIST 356 Medicine in the Medieval West (3 credits)
• HIST 374 History of Sexuality in Canada (3 credits)
• HIST 412 Women and Gender in Modern Britain (3 credits)
• HIST 420 Gender and Sexuality in Modern China (3 credits)
• HIST 424 Gender, Sexuality, and Medicine (3 credits)
• HIST 425 Global Food History (3 credits)
• HIST 430 Topics in Modern Medicine (3 credits)
• HIST 449 Medicine in the Ancient World (3 credits)
• HSEL 308 Issues in Women's Health (3 credits)
• HSEL 309 Women's Reproductive Health (3 credits)
• ISLA 200 Islamic Civilization (3 credits)
• ISLA 210 Muslim Societies (3 credits)
• ISLA 310 Women in Islam (3 credits)
• ISLA 345 Science and Civilization in Islam (3 credits)
• ISLA 355 Modern History of the Middle East (3 credits)
• ISLA 360 Islam and Politics (3 credits)
• ISLA 421 Islamic Culture - Indian Subcontinent (3 credits)
• SOCI 234 Population and Society (3 credits)
• SOCI 270 Sociology of Gender (3 credits)
• SOCI 309 Health and Illness (3 credits)
• SOCI 310 Sociology of Mental Disorder (3 credits)
• SOCI 331 Population and Environment (3 credits)
• SOCI 335 Sociology of Aging and the Life Course (3 credits)
• SOCI 365 Health and Development (3 credits)
• SOCI 370 Sociology: Gender and Development (3 credits)
• SOCI 385 Sociology of Human Sexuality (3 credits)
• SOCI 390 Gender and Health (3 credits)
• SOCI 405 Families over the Life Course (3 credits)
• SOCI 502 Sociology of Fertility (3 credits)
• SOCI 519 Gender and Globalization (3 credits)
• SOCI 545 Sociology of Population (3 credits)

*Note that some courses have prerequisites and/or limited seating for Population and Global Health students.

Stream 3: Diet, Lifestyle and Life Course*

• ECON 208 Microeconomic Analysis and Applications (3 credits)
• ECON 310 Introduction to Behavioural Economics (3 credits)
• EDKP 261 Motor Development (3 credits)
• EDKP 292 Nutrition and Wellness (3 credits)
• EDKP 330 Physical Activity and Public Health (3 credits)
• EDKP 395 Exercise Physiology (3 credits)
• EDKP 405 Sport in Society (3 credits)
• EDKP 448 Exercise and Health Psychology (3 credits)
• ENVB 305 Population and Community Ecology (3 credits)
• ENVR 202 The Evolving Earth (3 credits)
• ENVR 203 Knowledge, Ethics and Environment (3 credits)
• NUTR 307 Metabolism and Human Nutrition (3 credits)
• NUTR 337 Nutrition Through Life (3 credits)
• NUTR 341 Global Food Security (3 credits)
• NUTR 450 Research Methods: Human Nutrition (3 credits)
• NUTR 501 Nutrition in Developing Countries (3 credits)
• NUTR 505 Public Health Nutrition (3 credits)
• NUTR 512 Herbs, Foods and Phytochemicals (3 credits)
• PARA 410 Environment and Infection (3 credits)
• PARA 515 Water, Health and Sanitation (3 credits)
• SOCI 335 Sociology of Aging and the Life Course (3 credits)
• SOCI 405 Families over the Life Course (3 credits)
• SOCI 588 Biosociology/Biodemography (3 credits)

*Note that some courses have prerequisites and/or limited seating for Population and Global Health students.

Stream 4: Systems, Policy and Government*

• ECON 208 Microeconomic Analysis and Application (3 credits)
• ECON 223 Political Economy of Trade Policy (3 credits)
• ENVR 201 Society, Environment and Sustainability (3 credits)
• GEOG 210 Global Places and Peoples (3 credits)
• GEOG 216 Geography of the World Economy (3 credits)
• GEOG 310 Development and Livelihoods (3 credits)
• GEOG 403 Global Health and Environmental Change (3 credits)
• GEOG 408 Geography of Development (3 credits)
• GEOG 409 Geographies of Developing Asia (3 credits)
• HIST 201 Modern African History (3 credits)
• HIST 202 Survey: Canada to 1867 (3 credits)
• HIST 203 Survey: Canada since 1867 (3 credits)
• HIST 211 American History to 1865 (3 credits)
• HIST 215 Modern Europe (3 credits)
• HIST 218 Modern East Asian History (3 credits)
• HIST 221 United States since 1865 (3 credits)
• HIST 223 Indigenous Peoples and Empires (3 credits)
• HIST 309 History of Latin America to 1825 (3 credits)
• HIST 326 History of the Soviet Union (3 credits)
• HIST 338 Twentieth-Century China (3 credits)
• HIST 360 Latin America Since 1825 (3 credits)
• HIST 361 Topics in Canadian Regional History (3 credits)
• HIST 363 Canada 1870-1914 (3 credits)
• POLI 212 Government and Politics - Developed World (3 credits)
• POLI 221 Government of Canada (3 credits)
• POLI 222 Political Process and Behaviour in Canada (3 credits)
• POLI 227 Developing Areas/Introduction (3 credits)
• POLI 243 International Politics of Economic Relations (3 credits)
• POLI 244 International Politics: State Behaviour (3 credits)
• POLI 319 Politics of Latin America (3 credits)
• POLI 322 Political Change in South Asia (3 credits)
• POLI 324 Developing Areas/Africa (3 credits)
• POLI 340 Developing Areas/Middle East (3 credits)
• POLI 341 Foreign Policy: The Middle East (3 credits)
• POLI 345 International Organizations (3 credits)
• POLI 347 Arab-Israel Conflict, Crisis, Peace (3 credits)
• POLI 349 Foreign Policy: Asia (3 credits)
• POLI 359 Topics in International Politics 1 (3 credits)
• POLI 369 Politics of Southeast Asia (3 credits)
• POLI 372 Indigenous Peoples and the Canadian State (3 credits)
• POLI 422 Developing Areas/Topics 2 (3 credits)
• POLI 423 Politics of Ethno-Nationalism (3 credits)
• POLI 435 Identity and Inequality (3 credits)
• POLI 441 IPE: Trade (3 credits)
• POLI 445 International Political Economy: Monetary Relations (3 credits)
• POLI 450 Peacebuilding (3 credits)
• POLI 474 Inequality and Development (3 credits)
• SOCI 254 Development and Underdevelopment (3 credits)
• SOCI 307 Globalization (3 credits)
• SOCI 515 Medicine and Society (3 credits)
• SOCI 526 Indigenous Women's Health and Healthcare (3 credits)

*Note that some courses have prerequisites and/or limited seating for Population and Global Health students.

Stream 5: Innovation and Leadership*

• ECON 209 Macroeconomic Analysis and Applications (3 credits)
• ECON 230D1 Microeconomic Theory (3 credits)**
• ECON 230D2 Microeconomic Theory (3 credits)**
• ECON 310 Introduction to Behavioural Economics (3 credits)
• ECON 447 Economics of Information and Uncertainty (3 credits)
• INTG 201 Integrated Management Essentials 1 (3 credits)+
• INTG 202 Integrated Management Essentials 2 (3 credits)+
• MGCR 211 Introduction to Financial Accounting (3 credits)
• MGCR 352 Principles of Marketing (3 credits)***
• MGCR 382 International Business (3 credits)
• MGCR 423 Strategic Management (3 credits)***
• MGPO 362 Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship (3 credits)
• MGPO 364 Entrepreneurship in Practice (3 credits)
• MGPO 383 International Business Policy (3 credits)
• MSUS 402 Systems Thinking and Sustainability (3 credits)
• MGPO 435 The Origins of Capitalism (3 credits)
• MGPO 438 Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation (3 credits)
• MGPO 440 Strategies for Sustainability (3 credits)
• MGPO 445 Industry Analysis and Competitive Strategy (3 credits)
• MGPO 460 Managing Innovation (3 credits)
• MGPO 469 Managing Globalization (3 credits)
• MGPO 475 Strategies for Developing Countries (3 credits)

*Note that some courses have prerequisites and/or limited seating for Population and Global Health students.

**Students must take both ECON 230D1 and ECON 230D2.

***Students may choose only one ofMGCR 352 orMGCR 423 if taking INTG 202.

+INTG 201 and 202 have a maximum of 10 seats for Population and Global Health students.

• Courses offered by the Desautels Faculty of Management are capped, and the students from this program will not have priority registration. Thus, students should allow for at least four terms to complete Stream 5: Innovation and Leadership.

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Additional Requirements

Beyond minimum Faculty of Arts GPA requirements (cGPA of 3.0 or more), students are required to complete the following documents:

1. List of non-academic activities
2. Essay
   1. Please answer the following three questions (250-300 words each):
      1. Question 1:
         1. There are many global health challenges facing the world today. Pick one and tell us what concerns you most about it and how you envisage contributing to its solution
      2. Question 2:
         1. Describe how your extra-curricular activities, background or life experience have shaped your interests in this program
      3. Question 3:
         1. CHOOSE and respond to one of the following:
            1. The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. Recount a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?
            2. Reflect on a time when you questioned or challenged a belief or idea. What prompted your thinking? What was the outcome?
            3. Describe a problem you've solved or a problem you'd like to solve. It can be an intellectual challenge, a research query, an ethical dilemma鈥攁nything that is of personal importance, no matter the scale. Explain its significance to you and what steps you took or could be taken to identify a solution.
            4. Discuss an accomplishment, event or realization that sparked a period of personal growth and a new understanding of yourself or others.
            5. Describe a topic, idea or concept you find so engaging that it makes you lose track of time. Why does it captivate you? What or who do you turn to when you want to learn more?

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• Quebec CEGEP or high school applicant
• Ontario high school applicant
• Canadian high school applicant (outside Quebec and Ontario)
• U.S. high school applicant (in the U.S. and other countries)
• High school applicant outside Canada and the U.S.
• Homeschooled applicant
• University applicant (transfer, second degree, special & visiting)
• Mature student applicant

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