Global Health Technologies Minor

Undergraduate students wishing to pursue the GLHT minor need to submit i) two (2) completed copies of the Minor Declaration Form (available on Esther) and ii) a completed Undergraduate Student Fact Sheet to the Beyond Traditional Borders office in BRC174D. These documents will be filed with BTB and a copy of the signed Minor Declaration Form will be submitted to the Office of the Registrar.

Most GLHT minor courses are open to all Rice students, including those not pursing the GLHT minor, with the exception of GLHT 360 and the capstone course GLHT 451/452 which is restricted to students completing the GLHT minor.

In addition for GLHT 360, students are required to submit an application statement of 250-word statement explaining their interests in and reasons for taking the course. Application statements can be submitted via email to beyondtraditionalborders@rice.edu to gain instructor permission to register for the course. Preferential admission to GLHT 360 will be given to students who indicate they are seeking to complete the GLHT minor course of studies.

Each semester, during the class registration and advising period, students pursuing the GLHT minor will need to meet with an Undergraduate Advisor (listed below) and fill out a GLHT Advising Form (corresponding to the year the minor was declared). The signed and completed GLHT Advising Form is to be returned to the Beyond Traditional Borders office (BRC174D), where it will be kept on file. Throughout the year, students may also meet with the Minor Advisor (listed below) for additional information and feedback regarding completion of the GLHT minor.

Minor Director and  Undergraduate Advisor	Rebecca Richards-Kortum
Undergraduate Advisors	Elias K. Bongmba
	Maria Oden
	Kirsten Ostherr
Minor Advisor	Veronica Leautaud

Fall of your junior year

Yes!

Yes, you really do work with bioengineering students all year, and it's wonderful.

Though GLT minor students might not have the same background as the seniors in bioengineering, the projects are such that every team member has plenty to contribute. Knowledge about disparities in international healthcare is just as valuable as experience with milling machines or tissue engineering. Most bioengineering students haven't worked on a design team before, either, so the playing field is much more level than it appears at first. Because the entire team learns new things together as the year progresses, the final design is truly a collaboration of everyone's efforts - my senior design project was by far the most challenging and rewarding experience of my time at Rice.

(Contributed by Katy Miller, B.A. History & English, Rice '09)

GLHT201 must be successfully completed before applying to enroll in GLHT360.

GLHT451/GLHT452 must be taken in succession, after completion of all other GLHT minor core course, and can only be taken within the senior year.

Students must complete two elective courses from the list of approved courses found on the BTB website and on the GLHT Advising Form. Students are to take one Science/Engineering elective and one Humanities/Social Science elective to complete the GLHT minor elective requirements. Designation of an elective course as “Science/Engineering” or “Humanities/Social Science” is based upon which school is offering the course; e.g. a statistics class offered through the sociology department is considered a Humanities/Social Science elective.

Students can petition the GLHT minor advisory committee to include a new elective on the approved list by emailing their request, with a course syllabus attached, to beyondtraditionalborders@rice.edu. Please allow 2-4 weeks for the committee to render a decision and for the change to be reflected within the GLHT minor.

Students can mentor teams working on future iterations of a project they have worked on in GLHT courses.   Students may also prepare a continuing project proposal and apply for GLHT 400 (Independent Study).  In either case, you should contact the GLHT minor advisor and Dr. Rebecca Richards-Kortum to explore these options.

Fall of your junior year, if the minor sequence was started prior to that, or during any summer semester.

We discourage students from pursing a Global Health Technologies independent area major.  These students are encouraged to pursue an existing area major and the GLHT minor instead.  Only in extraordinary cases will the GLHT minor advising committee consider supporting a proposal for an independent area major in Global Health Technologies, i.e. when a student cannot achieve their educational objectives by pursing an existing major and the minor.