This course is designed to assist students in acquiring knowledge and skills necessary to develop and implement marketing plans and advertising strategies in global markets. Students learn about a range of issues, challenges, and opportunities that exist in international advertising as they study comparative cultural, economic, legal, political, and social conditions in various countries and regions around the world.  

This course is a basic introduction to the most devastating disease outbreaks in human and animal history. We will explore the long-lasting social implications of disease and evaluate control methods. We will use the geographical spread of these historic pandemics to predict where the next pandemic will strike.

Course work will consist of lectures, activities, discussions, case studies, and games. There are no pre-reqs, and no required textbooks for this freshman level course.

As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, global education is crucial to prepare students with knowledge and critical thinking skills to navigate our complex world. Global education aims to infuse regional content across disciplines to enable students to analyze information from diverse perspectives as we seek solutions to resolve issues that affect humanity at the local and global levels. In this course, students will gain an understanding of ways to teach global studies, foster global competence, and integrate global education concepts into the curriculum. 

 Occupation is what we routinely do, incorporating activities that are life sustaining, purposeful and meaningful. The influence of occupation on health of persons with disabilities across cultures will be analyzed throughout the lifespan. Occupation can be used to facilitate improved health outcomes in people with disease and chronic conditions. Students will acquire an understanding and appreciation of the use of occupation to facilitate life task completion. Participation is an outcome concept involving engagement in activities like school, work and social life.

Please email Carolyn Hanson at carolynhanson@phhp.ufl.edu to be enrolled in this course. 

Social + Cultural Aspects of Sustainability and the Built Environment explores the importance of considering the human users of the built environment when searching for sustainable solutions. The course examines social, behavioral and multicultural perspectives related to social sustainability.

In September 2015, world political, religious and thought leaders gathered in New York to adopt an agenda that represented unprecedented global consensus around sustainability. The ensuing 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were not merely a continuation of the 8 Millennium Development Goals that preceded this effort, nor did they represent “business as usual” for the design, implementation, and evaluation of programs and strategies to address contemporary global issues. Rather, the SDGs represent a systems-based approach to humanize today’s global grand challenges and do so by placing primacy on the social and cultural dimensions of sustainability. Sustainability has become less about sector-based solutions for a world that divides itself between haves and halve-nots, and more a call to action around leveraging finite resources against the infinite global capacity to innovate, energize, mobilize, and engage an emerging global mindset and behavior-pattern toward “our common future.”
Internationalizing Social + Cultural Aspects of Sustainability and the Built Environment will capitalize on the timeliness and relevance of these new-found dimensions of sustainability paramount to the SDGs by:
→ Integrating emerging principles behind this global shift
→ Highlighting comparative regional case studies that illustrate the inherent power behind engaging social and cultural dimensions of sustainability
→ Grounding the student experience in sustainability literacy by developing skills and communication tools that have global application toward sustainable, systems-based solutions