Students develop a theological framework with which to engage those who experience pain and hardship. The course addresses the importance of holistic mission through caring for the pastoral, spiritual, medical, and health-related needs of those experiencing illnesses, disabilities, cancer, etc. Assessment items include reading, lectures, case-study projects, discussion forums, and service projects pointed to a global area of interest.

This course provides the foundational concepts and practical skills for designing and implementing surveillance systems, for using surveillance data for the conduct and evaluation of public health programs and research. Topics covered in this course include historical development of surveillance; planning a surveillance system, sources of health related information, collecting surveillance data, analyzing and interpreting surveillance data, and the use of surveillance data for public health action. Students design a proto-type surveillance system for a specific global area of interest.

An advanced course to demographic analysis using various techniques (rates, ratio, proportion, life tables etc.) The course will utilize different demographic measures (fertility rate, mortality rate, birth rate) and will utilize publically available data to analyze and describe demographic data.

This course will build on the introductory course and will be intended for graduate students. It will explore sources of demographic data, collection, and evaluation. It will utilize publically available data to examine population characteristics and common health status measures.

This course introduces students to the concept of assessing data, and analysis of survey and population data. Student will be able to do simple analysis, provide graphical representations of analysis and interpret results of analyses.

In order to understand and relate to people we need to consider the 'populations' that they come from. This course will provide an indepth reflection of contemporary population trends in developed and developing countries and enable students to critically examine the causes and consequences of population change.