Public Health Practice Concentration, Public Health Science, B.S

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The Public Health Practice concentration focuses on the socioeconomic determinants of health, promotes human health, and fosters healthy and safe communities. Students learn fundamental concepts of public health, epidemiology, and research methods for public health, along with methods to map, analyze, and predict public health concerns. Students develop the knowledge and skills needed to shape public health policy and interventions from socioeconomic perspective.

Student Learning Outcomes

Students will:

discuss the history and philosophy of public health.
use appropriate methods and tools to analyze public health data and will discuss the importance of evidence based approaches.
explain the science of human health and disease, and discuss opportunities for promoting health.
describe the socioeconomic, behavioral, biological, and environmental factors that affect human health.
describe the characteristics of health systems in the US as well as other countries
explain the basic concepts of, and responsibilities of government in, the legal, ethical, economic, and regulatory dimensions of public health policy
describe fundamental scientific principles related to environmental health
explain how the built environment influences human health and contributes to health disparities

Program Curriculum Requirements

Core Requirements (11 courses, 35 credits)

PHS 2000 - Public Health in the United States 3 cr.
PHS 2010 - Fundamentals of Epidemiology 3 cr.
PHS 3000 - Environmental Health 3 cr.
PHS 3050 - Evaluation Methods in Public Health 3 cr.
PHS 4500 - Public Health Internship 3 cr.
GEOG 2400 - Introduction to Geospatial Technologies 3 cr.
BIOL 1200 - Anatomy and Physiology I 4 cr.
BIOL 1300 - Anatomy and Physiology II 4 cr.
PSY 1100 - Introduction to Psychological Science 3 cr.
SOC 2720 - Medical Sociology 3 cr.
EXSS 2400 - Health Promotion 3 cr. or
NURS 2300 - Health Assessment 3 cr.

Required General Education Courses

(8 courses, 24-25 cr)

MATH 1700 - Applied Statistics 3 cr.
EXSS 1000 - Health and Fitness 3 cr. or
EXSS 2060 - Exercise, Nutrition, and Heart Disease 3 cr.
HIST 2056 - Climate Change and Human History 3 cr. or
HIST 2021 - Reading Historical Landscapes 3 cr. or
HIST 2650 - Young America 1815-1848 3 cr. or
HIST 3900 - Frontier in American History 3 cr. or
HIST 2022 - Constructing History 3 cr. or
HIST 2140 - U.S. Economic History 3 cr. or
HIST 3710 - Urban America 3 cr.
POLS 1000 - United States Government 3 cr.
SOC 1100 - Introduction to Sociology 3 cr.
PHIL 2001 - Medical Ethics 3 cr. or
PHIL 2500 - Contemporary Ethical Problems 3 cr.
ECON 1100 - Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics 3 cr.
GEOG 1000 - Earth Systems Science 3 cr. or
CHEM 1200 - Chemistry for the Health Sciences 4 cr.

Public Health Practice Concentration

(7 courses)

PHS 4050 - Public Health Strategies 3 cr.
Choose six courses from:
SOC 2250 - Cultural Anthropology 3 cr.
SOC 2300 - Sociology of Aging 3 cr.
SOC 2440 - Urban Sociology 3 cr.
SOC 2500 - Race and Ethnic Relations 3 cr.
SOC 2510 - Peoples and Cultures of Africa 3 cr.
SOC 2520 - Drugs and Alcohol 3 cr.
PSY 1200 - Lifespan Development 3 cr.
PSY 2500 - Social Psychology 3 cr.
PSY 2665 - Health Psychology 3 cr.
POLS 1500 - State and Urban Government 3 cr.
POLS 3000 - Public Policy Analysis: Case Studies in American Politics 3 cr.
ECON 2010 - Political Economy of Gender 3 cr.
ECON 2140 - U.S. Economic History 3 cr.
ECON 2500 - Economic Development 3 cr.
ECON 2550 - Urban Economics 3 cr.
ECON 3001 - Economics of Inequality 3 cr.
GEOG 2006 - Water Resources and Society 3 cr.
GEOG 3000 - Economic Geography 3 cr.
GEOG 3006 - Environmental Policy 3 cr.
GEOG 3300 - Urban Geography 3 cr.