AFRC343 - Global Health Seminar: Environmental Health Issues and Global Implications

This course will be a broad overview on current health, culture and development topics in Ghana. The health segment will focus on the experience, treatment and impact of sickle cell anemia. The course will cover basic principles of Ghanaian culture as it relates to health and development. The first part of the class will be taught through lectures, case studies, discussions on campus and a local field trip in the Philadelphia area. The second part of the course will involve a field trip to Ghana during spring break to help students gain a global perspective on a health and development topics that impact Africans across the diaspora. For more information: https://global.upenn.edu/pennabroad/pgs.