Faculty Program in Population and Global Health (B.A.)

54 credits · Faculty of Arts · 2026-2027 catalogue

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Required Courses (33 credits)

  • GPHL 200 Foundations in Population and Global Health (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GPHL 201 Population and Global Health Ethics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GPHL 300 Data Literacy (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GPHL 301 Introduction to Research Methods (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GPHL 302 Knowledge Translation (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GPHL 303 Community Engaged Learning (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GPHL 401 Experiential Learning (12 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GPHL 500 Critical Perspectives in Global Health (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Complementary Courses (21 credits)

21 credits are chosen from one of the following five streams, among which a maximum of 9 credits from the 200 level, and a minimum of 12 credits at the 300 level or above should be selected. Other courses may be used to fulfil each stream with permission of the program advisor:

Stream 1: Environment and Health*

  • AGRI 411 Global Issues on Development, Food and Agriculture (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVR 200 The Global Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • ENVR 201 Society, Environment and Sustainability (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVR 202 The Evolving Earth (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVR 203 Knowledge, Ethics and Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • ENVR 400 Environmental Thought (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • ENVR 401 Environmental Research (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 221 Environment and Health (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 303 Health Geography (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 310 Development and Livelihoods (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 408 Geography of Development (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 409 Geographies of Developing Asia (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 503 Advanced Topics in Health Geography (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • NRSC 515 Water and Health (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • PARA 410 Environment and Infection (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 331 Population and Environment (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

Stream 2: Culture, Society and Health

  • ANSC 555 The Use and Welfare of Animals (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ANTH 202 Socio-Cultural Anthropology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ANTH 206 Environment and Culture (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ANTH 209 Anthropology of Religion (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ANTH 227 Medical Anthropology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ANTH 302 New Horizons in Medical Anthropology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ANTH 314 Psychological Anthropology 01 (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ANTH 322 Social Change in Modern Africa (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ANTH 325 Anthropology of the Self (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ANTH 407 Anthropology of the Body (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ECON 208 Microeconomic Analysis and Applications (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • ECON 313 Economic Development 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • EDEC 233 Indigenous Education (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • EDEC 248 Equity and Education (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • EDEC 249 Global Education and Social Justice (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • HIST 238 Histories of Science (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • HIST 249 Health and the Healer in Western History (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • HIST 292 History and the Environment (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • HIST 319 The Scientific Revolution (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • HIST 335 Science and Medicine in Canada (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • HIST 350 Science and the Enlightenment (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • HIST 356 Medicine in the Medieval West (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • HIST 374 History of Sexuality in Canada (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • HIST 412 Women and Gender in Modern Britain (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • HIST 420 Gender and Sexuality in Modern China (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • HIST 424 Gender, Sexuality and Medicine (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • HIST 425 Global Food History (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • HIST 430 Topics in Modern Medicine (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • HSEL 308 Issues in Women's Health (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • HSEL 309 Women's Reproductive Health (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ISLA 200 Islamic Civilization (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ISLA 210 Muslim Societies (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • ISLA 310 Women in Islam (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ISLA 355 Modern History of the Middle East (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ISLA 360 Islam and Politics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ISLA 421 Islamic Culture - Indian Subcontinent (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 234 Population and Society (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 270 Sociology of Gender (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Winter
  • SOCI 309 Health and Illness (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 310 Sociology of Mental Health (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 331 Population and Environment (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 335 Sociology of Aging and the Life Course (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 365 Health and Development (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 370 Sociology: Gender and Development (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 385 Sociology of Human Sexuality (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 405 Families over the Life Course (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 502 Sociology of Childbearing (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 519 Gender and Globalization (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 545 Sociology of Population (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Stream 3: Diet, Lifestyle and the Life Course

  • ECON 208 Microeconomic Analysis and Applications (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • ECON 310 Introduction to Behavioural Economics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • EDKP 261 Motor Development (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EDKP 292 Nutrition and Wellness (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EDKP 330 Physical Activity and Public Health (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EDKP 395 Exercise Physiology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EDKP 405 Sport in Society (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • EDKP 448 Exercise and Health Psychology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVB 305 Population and Community Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVR 202 The Evolving Earth (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVR 203 Knowledge, Ethics and Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • NRSC 515 Water and Health (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • NUTR 307 Metabolism and Human Nutrition (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • NUTR 337 Nutrition Through Life (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • NUTR 341 Global Food Security (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • NUTR 450 Research Methods: Human Nutrition (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • NUTR 501 Nutrition in the Majority World (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • NUTR 505 Public Health Nutrition (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • NUTR 512 Herbs, Foods and Phytochemicals (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PARA 410 Environment and Infection (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 335 Sociology of Aging and the Life Course (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 405 Families over the Life Course (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 588 Biosociology/Biodemography (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

Stream 4: Systems, Policy and Government

  • ECON 208 Microeconomic Analysis and Applications (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • ECON 223 Political Economy of Trade Policy (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ENVR 201 Society, Environment and Sustainability (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 210 Global Places and Peoples (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 216 Geography of the World Economy (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 310 Development and Livelihoods (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 403 Global Health and Environmental Change (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 408 Geography of Development (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 409 Geographies of Developing Asia (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • HIST 201 Modern African History (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • HIST 202 Survey: Canada to 1867 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • HIST 203 Survey: Canada since 1867 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • HIST 211 American History to 1865 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • HIST 215 Modern Europe (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • HIST 218 Modern East Asian History (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • HIST 221 United States since 1865 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • HIST 223 Indigenous Peoples and Empires (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • HIST 326 History of the Soviet Union (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • HIST 338 Twentieth-Century China (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • HIST 360 Latin America since 1825 (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • HIST 361 Topics in Canadian Regional History (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • HIST 363 Canada 1870-1914 (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • POLI 212 Introduction to Comparative Politics – Europe/North America (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • POLI 221 Government of Canada (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall
  • POLI 222 Political Process and Behaviour in Canada (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • POLI 227 Introduction to Comparative Politics - Global South (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • POLI 243 International Politics of Economic Relations (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Winter
  • POLI 244 International Politics: State Behaviour (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • POLI 319 Politics of Latin America (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • POLI 322 Political Change in South Asia (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • POLI 324 Comparative Politics of Africa (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • POLI 340 Comparative Politics of the Middle East (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • POLI 341 Foreign Policy: The Middle East (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • POLI 345 International Organizations (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • POLI 347 Arab-Israel Conflict, Crisis, Peace (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • POLI 349 Foreign Policy: Asia (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • POLI 359 Topics in International Politics 1 (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • POLI 369 Politics of Southeast Asia (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • POLI 372 Indigenous Peoples and the Canadian State (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • POLI 422 Advanced Topics in Comparative Politics 1 (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • POLI 423 Politics of Ethno-Nationalism (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • POLI 435 Identity and Inequality (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • POLI 441 International Political Economy: Trade (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • POLI 445 International Political Economy: Monetary Relations (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • POLI 450 Peacebuilding (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 254 Development and Underdevelopment (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 307 Globalization (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 515 Medicine and Society (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 526 Indigenous Women's Health and Healthcare (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

Stream 5: Innovation and Leadership

  • ECON 209 Macroeconomic Analysis and Applications (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • ECON 230D1 Microeconomic Theory (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ECON 230D2 Microeconomic Theory (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ECON 310 Introduction to Behavioural Economics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ECON 447 Economics of Information and Uncertainty (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • MGCR 211 Introduction to Financial Accounting (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • MGCR 352 Principles of Marketing (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • MGCR 382 International Business (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • MGCR 423 Strategic Management (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • MGPO 362 Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • MGPO 364 Entrepreneurship in Practice (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • MGPO 383 International Business Policy (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • MGPO 435 The Origins of Capitalism (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • MGPO 438 Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • MGPO 440 Strategies for Sustainability (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • MGPO 445 Industry Analysis and Competitive Strategy (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • MGPO 460 Managing Innovation (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • MGPO 469 Managing Globalization (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • MGPO 475 Strategies for Developing Countries (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • MSUS 402 Systems Thinking and Sustainability (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

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