Academic Calendar - 2026
Western University Academic Calendar. - 2026
HONOURS SPECIALIZATION IN GLOBAL HEALTH STUDIES
Centre for Global Social Innovation - Faculty of Arts and Social Science
Admission Requirements
Completion of first-year requirements with no failures.
Students must take 3.0 principal courses, achieving an average of at least 70% across them and with no final grade of less than 60% in any of them. These principal courses must include:
1.0 course: Health Sciences 1001A/B, Health Sciences 1002A/B with a minimum of 70% in each of these two courses;
1.0 essay course, satisfied with either two half–year courses or one full–year course.
The remaining 1.0 principal course and the other 2.0 first-year courses may be taken from across the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences. Geography and Environment 1400F/G, Geography and Environment 1500F/G, and Sociology 1020 or Sociology 1025A/B and Sociology 1027A/B are recommended to satisfy prerequisites needed in the module. Anthropology, Centre for Global Social Innovation, History, Indigenous Studies, Political Science, and Social Justice and Peace Studies are also recommended as first year courses.
Students should note the Diversality Requirement for graduation in this module when selecting first-year courses.
Module/Program Information
Module
9.0 courses:
5.0 courses: GSI 2002F/G, GSI 3220F/G (or the former Centre for Global Studies 3520F/G), GSI 3519F/G, GSI 3532F/G, GSI 3533F/G; Geography and Environment 2411F/G or Indigenous Studies 2601F/G; Health Sciences 2244 or GSWS 2244; Health Sciences 2250A/B, Health Sciences 3250F/G.
0.5 course from: GSI 2003F/G, GSI 2004F/G.
0.5 course from: GSI 3001F/G, GSI 3006F/G.
1.0 course from: GSI 3509F/G, GSI 3512F/G, GSI 3513F/G, GSI 3514F/G, GSI 3517F/G, GSI 3518F/G, GSI 3525F/G, GSI 3526F/G, GSI 3527F/G, GSI 3528F/G, GSI 3530F/G; and with permission: GSI 3100E, GSI 3101F/G, GSI 3201F/G, GSI 3202F/G, GSI 3203F/G, GSI 3206F/G.
0.5 course from: Geography and Environment 2430A/B, Geography and Environment 3431A/B, Geography and Environment 3432A/B.
0.5 course from: Health Sciences 3010F/G, Health Sciences 3025A/B, Health Sciences 3042A/B, Health Sciences 3071A/B, Health Sciences 3262F/G, Health Sciences 3624A/B, Health Sciences 3630F/G, Health Sciences 3704A/B, Law 3101A/B, and with permission: Health Sciences 3090A/B, Health Sciences 3091A/B, Health Sciences 3092A/B, Health Sciences 3093F/G, the former Health Sciences 3290A/B, Sociology 3370F/G, Sociology 3371F/G.
0.5 course from: GSI 4000-level.
0.5 course from: Health Sciences 4044A/B, Health Sciences 4200F/G, Health Sciences 4205A/B, Health Sciences 4220F/G, Health Sciences 4250A/B, Health Sciences 4505F/G, and with permission: Health Sciences 4090A/B, Health Sciences 4091A/B, Health Sciences 4092F/G, Sociology 4472F/G.
Diversality Requirement
Students must include within or with their undergraduate program identifiable forms of academic study and/or experiences that enhance their abilities to appreciate, affirm, and gain practice in acknowledging the richly diverse ways in which persons and communities in the world know and orient themselves to one another and the cycles of life that sustain their communities.
The Diversality Requirement may be fulfilled by students in any one or combination of the following manners (not exceeding 2.0 courses, when combining course–based options), as approved by the Centre for Global Social Innovation:
- demonstration of working knowledge in a language other than English, either through: verifiable existing knowledge; significant studies in a language other than English prior to or external to their undergraduate program; or completing up to 2.0 university courses in one or two languages other than English;
- up to 2.0 of GSI 3200-level courses or community-based learning courses offered by other academic units in which students engage with diversity in knowing and community experiences, as approved by the Centre for Global Social Innovation;
- substantial non-academic community-based experiences (such as placements with community groups or internships), either prior to or during their undergraduate studies, in which students engage with diversity in knowing and community experiences, as approved by the Centre for Global Social Innovation.
Where a student is fulfilling their Diversality Requirements with language courses, GSI 3200-level courses, or other community–based university courses, these courses may be either those already serving as credit within the course requirements of the student's degree module or taken outside of the requirements for their module.