Those who have health have hope. Those who have hope have everything.
Coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin, Dr. Thomas E. Dobbs, and Shannon Cohn speak at a private screening of Below The Belt, a documentary film on endometriosis and women's health.
Public health is an exciting field dedicated to protecting and improving the health of people and their communities. This work is achieved by promoting healthy lifestyles, researching disease and injury prevention, eliminating health disparities, and responding to environmental threats.
The B.S. in Public Health offers two unique emphasis areas to choose from:
Public Health majors get hands-on experience designing health programs to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities across the country.
B.S. in Public Health
Community Health ;
Health Science
120
Major
Minor
4 years
Public Health isn’t just a bachelor’s degree. Students can choose to focus on a specific emphasis, pick Public Health as a minor, or take the fast track into a graduate degree.
In addition to the 33-hour Public Health core curriculum, public health majors who select the community health emphasis must complete 43-44 hours of coursework.
In addition to the 33 hours of Public Health core curriculum, public health majors who select the health science emphasis must complete 43-44 hours of coursework.
Undergraduate students interested in graduate study in Public Health can get a head start in earning a graduate degree through the Accelerated Master's Degree Program for Public Health.
Here are some of the courses you'll take to earn your Public Health degree.
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3 credits
A comprehensive personal health course, including principles and practices of healthful living for the individual. The course focuses on practices for individual health-related behaviors and outlines how to improve overall health through nutrition, fitness, stress management, and maintaining an overall healthy lifestyle.
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3 credits
Designed to promote the acquisition of environmental health knowledge and skills for application in community/public health education settings. Course content will address human environmental factors that affect ecological health and environmental health education and promotion strategies.
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3 credits
An introduction to the public health systems and policy issues. An overview of public health policy interventions, theoretical motivations, influence of the political, bureaucratic, and social environments in which policy decisions are made, and population health consequences of such decisions.
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