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GCH 195Global and Community Health Communication

5 creditsUndergraduateStudent Option

Focuses on enabling students to assess and communicate their learning in global and community health (GCH) using an iterative process of writing, review, and website development. The e-portfolio webpages students complete by the end of the course will together comprise their capstone ''GCH e-Record'' designed to communicate their disciplinary and interdisciplinary learning in their degree to a specific audience beyond the university. These written reflections, in turn, involve meta-learning about how expert knowledge moves between different communities, and about how audience expectations and writing conventions condition communications about health expertise in particular.

Prerequisites

Prerequisite(s): GCH 1, and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to seniors majoring in global and community health.

  • All students - If you met the prerquisites or request an expception to the restriction, please reach out to GCH Advising, gchbaadv@ucsc.edu.
  • From the Instructor: This course will be split between weekly synchronous zoom meetings (attendance required for all) and asynchronous lectures online.

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When it runs

Winter 2027Open Winter 2027

SectionTypeWhenWhereInstructorSeats
01Seminar
Tue Thu 11:40am–1:15pm
OnlineC. KlusmeierOpen 0/60

Fall 2026Open Fall 2026

SectionTypeWhenWhereInstructorSeats
01Seminar
Tue Thu 1:30pm–3:05pm
PhysSciences 130L. BuggWait List 35/35

Summer 2026Open Summer 2026

SectionTypeWhenWhereInstructorSeats
01Seminar
Thu 9:00am–12:30pm
OnlineL. BuggOpen 36/48

Spring 2026Open Spring 2026

SectionTypeWhenWhereInstructorSeats
01Seminar
Tue Thu 9:50am–11:25am
Engineer 2 194L. BuggClosed 45/35
02Seminar
Tue Thu 8:00am–9:35am
OnlineC. KlusmeierClosed 46/35

Winter 2026Open Winter 2026

SectionTypeWhenWhereInstructorSeats
01Seminar
Tue Thu 9:50am–11:25am
Thim Lecture 001L. BuggClosed 47/30
02Seminar
Tue Thu 8:00am–9:35am
OnlineC. KlusmeierClosed 43/30

Who teaches it

InstructorRatingDifficultyWould take againReviews
Cathryn Klusmeier5.0 / 51.3 / 5100%9
Laura Bugg5.0 / 52.0 / 5100%1

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