NS 4630

Global Health, Development, and Policy Issues in Tanzania

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2017-2018 Catalog.

Engages Global Health minors, IARD majors, and Tanzanian medical students in problembased learning in a cross-cultural small group context in Tanzania. Develop and justify policy recommendations to address a current issue related to global health, nutrition, food safety, or agriculture. Students will work in assigned teams of three to four, designed to mix Cornell and Tanzanian students.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: NS 4620.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: students in the Global Health and IARD Summer Session and Internship Program in Tanzania.

Course Attribute (CU-CEL) 

Outcomes

• Gain cross-cultural competence.
• Gain broad knowledge about global health and development issues in Tanzania.
• Learn how to use tools to analyze a policy issue, including stakeholder analysis, problem trees, and policy criteria.
• Gain in-depth knowledge about a health dilemma relevant to Tanzania.
• Work in a cross-cultural team to research a health policy dilemma of their own choosing, and to develop, negotiate, write and present their ideas as a policy case study.

When Offered Summer.

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