B.S. Public Health


Curriculum

 

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Year 1

  Fall Semester
Credits
 Spring Semester
Credits
HUM 101 Pre-Modern World 3 HUM 102 Modern World 3
BIO 111 General Biology I+Lab 4 BIO 121 General Biology II+Lab 4
COM 101 Academic Reading and Writing 3 COM 120 Public Speaking 3
PSY 101 Psychology 3 SOC 101 Intro to Sociology  3
PBH 120 Intro to Public Health 3 ECN 101 Economics  3
PBH 102 First Year Experience 1      
  Total 17   Total  16

Year 2

Fall Semester
Credits
Spring Semester
Credits

HUM 201 or HUM 220

Contemporary World or Medical Humanities   3 PBH 2XX Intro to Health Systems 3
PBH 230 Statistics for Public Health  3

PBH 210/PBH 211

Intro to Data+Lab 4
MAT 121 Calculus I 4 COM 250 Persuasion 3
SOC 335 Global Health  3 PBH 220 Environmental Health 3
  Elective 3 PBH 201 Seminar in Health Professions 1
       
Biological Sciences Selective
3
  Total 16   Total  17

year 3

Fall Semester
Credits
Spring Semester
Credits
ETH 310 Bioethics 3 PBH 320 The Geography of Health 3

SOC 301/ETH 320

Research Methods & Ethics  4  
Research Methods/Data Selective
3
PBH 350 Epidemiology  3  
Health Care Systems Selective
3
PBH 365 Service Learning Experience 1 COM 312 or PSY 321 Health Promotion or Health Psychology 3
PBH 335 Determinants of Health 3

PBH 365

Service Learning Experience 

1
        Elective  3
  Total 14   Total  16

year 4

Fall Semester
Credits
Spring Semester
Credits
SOC 420 Health and Public Policy 3 HHS 401 Capstone or Elective 3
COM 315 Health Campaigns 3 PBH 345 Community Health Practice 3

 

Culture and Communication Selective
3  
Critical Reflection in Health Selective
3
 

Capstone or Elective

3   Elective 3
  Elective 3   Elective 3
  Total 15   Total 15

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BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES SELECTIVES   RESEARCH METHODS/DATA SELECTIVES  
BHS 360 Clinical Anatomy   PBH 340 Survey Research Methods  
BIO 210 Microbiology   PBH 360 Field Epidemiology    
BIO 213 Anatomy & Physiology I   COM 350 Qualitative Research Methods  
BIO 215 Anatomy & Physiology II   PBH 310 Medical Anthropology  
BIO 225 Genetics            
BIO 260 Public Health Toxicology   CULTURE & COMMUNICATION SELECTIVES  
      COM 320 Patient-Provider Communication  
HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS SELECTIVES   COM 330 Intercultural Communication in Health Care
SOC 325 Medical Sociology   SOC 330 Culture of Disability    
COM 320 Patient-Provider Communication   PBH 318 Health Teamwork    
HIS 330 History of Public Health & Medicine   PHI 350 Nature & Wellness    
ECN 317  Health Economics   HUM 320 Graphic Medicine    
               
CRITICAL REFLECTION IN HEALTH SELECTIVES            
PSY 440 Death and Dying            
SOC 325 Medical Sociology            
HIS 330 History of Public Health & Medicine            
ETH 315 Health, Disease, & Authority            
LIT 220 Suicide and Madness            
               
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