Elective Track University of South East Norway
Full course description
In addition to the core courses offered at Maastricht students will have the opportunity to enhance their knowledge about specific topics through a choice of one of eleven elective tracks. These eleven tracks are carefully selected to avoid overlap with the core programme, yet ensuring relevant contribution to the core programme.
The elective track at the University of South Eastern Norway deals with relationships between humans, animals, and technology. The different global crises that the world is facing are interconnected, and many are determined by the way that we have used the earth’s resources, coexisted with animals, encountered each other across cultural and national boarders, and prioritised technology, development, and growth.
The study programme examines these factors and looks at ways in which redesigning, connecting, and leveraging the interdependent health, environment and technology systems could offer new global solutions. The challenge is how we can do this in a socially, technological, anthrozoological and environmentally empathetic manner. This interdisciplinary study has been developed with expertise from across the departments of the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences. It equips students with the critical gaze required to understand and design solutions for global crises. In particular at the intersection of the future health and wellbeing of people, animals, and our planet. The study consists of 15 ECTS, divided into three optional courses of 5 ECTS each, based on current challenges and possibilities in Global Health (WHO).
- Delivering health in conflict and crisis and to people with different cultures and prejudice by offering Human-Meeting Competence: Placing peoples’ confidence and trust at the Heart of the Health Services.
- Elevating health in the interface between humans and animals, by offering Animal Assisted Intervention (AAI)/One Health/One Welfare: Placing Human, Animal, and Environmental Issues at the Heart of the Health Services.
- Making healthcare fairer and equally distributed: Reducing the growing gap between the haves and have-nots, especially in terms of access to healthcare, by Health Technology: Elevate Equality and Health Through use of Health Technology.
Course objectives
Upon successful completion of the course, the student/candidate has advanced knowledge of:
- The person’s dependence of others and of its local and global environment.
- Advanced knowledge of Animal Assisted Intervention (AAI) and contribution to health promotion, rehabilitation, and therapy for different client groups.
- Scientific excellence in the multidisciplinary field of eHealth, in which the various participating disciplines have different research orientations.