GOHA Course Offerings
The Global One Health Academy is proud to offer multiple interdisciplinary courses in one health for both undergraduate and graduate students.
Undergraduate Courses
GOH 201: Foundations of Global One Health (3 credits)
Offered in Fall & Spring
Instructor: Kristen Sullivan
Schedule: Tuesday/Thursday, 8:30-9:45 a.m.
Location: Fox Science Teaching Laboratory, Rm 104
Description: This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of Global One Health, emphasizing the interconnectedness of human, animal, plant, and environmental health. Students will engage with critical topics like emerging infectious diseases, sustainable food and water sources, and the intertwined issues of climate change and health disparities, using interdisciplinary approaches to tackle real-world challenges. The course will equip students with the foundational knowledge and skills to apply a One Health approach, utilizing systems thinking and interdisciplinary perspectives to address and manage health challenges at the global level.
GOH 302: Global One Health Applications (3 credits)
Offered in Spring and Summer II
Instructor: Kristen Sullivan
Schedule: Wednesday/Friday, 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Location: Burlington Laboratory, Rm 3108
Description: Global One Health Applications provides a comprehensive examination of key One Health issues through an interdisciplinary lens. The course delves into topics which may include antimicrobial resistance, emerging zoonotic diseases, climate change and vector-borne diseases, and the health impacts of environmental pollution. Topics are explored through intensive case studies, emphasizing collaborative analysis and problem-solving. The course culminates with students creating and presenting their own case studies, integrating interdisciplinary approaches learned throughout the course. This course is offered in the Spring semester, and as a study abroad course in Prague during Summer II
Graduate Courses
PSC/GOH 551: Citizen Science Engagement Practicum (1 credit)
Offered in Spring
Instructor: Caren Cooper
Schedule: Monday, 4:30-5:20 p.m.
Location: Williams Hall, Rm 2112
Description: Students in this course gain hands-on experience in project management by organizing, implementing, analyzing, and assessing a citizen science event. With NC State Libraries as a partner in shaping the theme for an annual event to engage the student body, student work individually and in teams to facilitate engagement in an existing citizen science project. Activities might include recruitment presentations in residential villages, undergraduate courses, and public events, tabling and project demonstrations during the event, preparing data visualizations for individual report-backs and collective data summaries, and assessing measurable outcomes. The annual events will help NC State become a data-rich campus.
CBS 586/GOH 586/VMP 986: One Health: From Philosophy to Practice (2 credits)
Offered in Fall
Instructors: Michael Reiskind and Kristen Sullivan
Schedule: Monday, 5-7 p.m.
Location: NC Biotechnology Center, RTP
Description: This course explores the intersection of human, animal, and environmental health and facilitates the understanding of health as an inexorably linked system requiring multidisciplinary collaborative efforts. The One Health concept demonstrates the importance of a holistic approach to disease prevention and the maintenance of human, animal, and environmental health. Co-listed at Duke and UNC to promote cross-campus and cross-discipline interactions, this discussion-based seminar course is taught through a mix of guest lectures by experts in One Health and global health, panel discussions, and collaborative case studies. Graduate and professional students from any discipline interested in interconnected health challenges are encouraged to enroll.
GOH 811: Seminar in One Health Problem Solving (1 credit)
Offered in Fall
Instructor: Michael Reiskind
Description: This is a special topic, 1 credit discussion course that will explore the interdisciplinary origins and interdisciplinary foundations of Global One Health, as well as delve into its utility as a framework for analyzing emergent issues in our modern world. The format of the course is faculty and student led discussions with the goal of reviewing a topic in One Health with a written product at the end of the course.
PSC/GOH 550: Fundamentals of Citizen Science and Other Participatory Research Methods (3 credits)
Offered in Fall
Instructor: Caren Cooper
Description: Citizen science involves collective efforts that produce discoveries that scientists cannot achieve alone. Through project-based learning, students will become familiar with academic and gray literature across disciplines about citizen science and other forms of participatory research such as community mapping, volunteer monitoring, crowdsourcing, participatory sensing, and community-driven science. Students will critically examine ethical, legal, and emergent issues, and analyze theory and practice with particular attention to data quality, informal science learning, and democratization of science in society.