Public Health Studies Concentration

Course Requirements

Concentration Requirements

• HLTH 194 HUMAN PATHOGENS AND DEFENSE
• HLTH 195 HUMAN FORM AND FUNCTION 
• HLTH 250 HEALTH CARE POLICY IN THE UNITED STATES  or SOC 221 INTRODUCTION TO THE U.S HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
  
• HLTH 310 FUNDAMENTALS OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
• HLTH 335 COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSESSMENT
• HLTH 336 PROGRAM EVALUATION
  
• SOC 351 HEALTH DISPARITIES
• CMNS 315 HEALTH COMMUNICATION
• ANT 272 INTRODUCTION TO MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
• PSY 354 COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY
• ANT 361 GLOBAL ISSUES IN WOMEN'S HEALTH or ANT 362 GLOBAL HISTORY OF HEALTH or SOC 365 HEALTH AND GLOBALIZATION
• One Statistics course selected from
• BIO 206 BIOSTATISTICS
  
• MAT 242 ELEMENTS OF STATISTICS
  
• PSY 240 STATISTICS I
  
• SOC 279 INTRO STATS FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
  

Concentration Electives

Students in the Public Health Sciences concentration select four (4) electives from the following list to provide additional focus to their studies.

• HLTH 229 ETHICS FOR HEALTH SCIENCES
• HLTH 230 FUNDAMENTALS OF HEALTH EDUCATION
• HLTH 236 GAY MEN'S HEALTH MATTERS
• HLTH 315 MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH
• HLTH 329 HEALTH HUMANITIES
• HLTH 330 HEALTH LEADERSHIP
• HLTH 339 BIOETHICS IN SOCIETY CAPSTONE SEMINAR
• HLTH 341 DEATH AND DYING
• HLTH 380 TOPICS IN HEALTH SCIENCES
• HLTH 399 INDEPENDENT STUDY
• ENV 355 INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
• PE 273 HEALTH AND NUTRITION or SOC 370 PEOPLE, PLACES, AND FOOD
• PRAD 338 HEALTH AND PUBLIC RELATIONS
• PSY 215 HUMAN SEXUALITY
• SOC 223 SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS
• SOC 321 HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS
• PSY 302 PERSONAL ADJUSTMENT AND MENTAL HEALTH or PSY 353 ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY or SOC 353 SOCIOLOGY OF MENTAL ILLNESS
• SOC 307 SOCIOLOGY OF SUBSTANCE USE AND ABUSE  or PSY 363 ALCOHOLISM, DRUG ADDICTION AND RECOVERY
• PSY 345 CULTURAL ISSUES IN PSYCHOLOGY
• ORGC 212 SMALL GROUP COMMUNICATION or ORGC 251 ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION or PSY 355 GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS or SOC 342 ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS
• SOC 373 PUBLIC HEALTH AND HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR
  

Open Electives

Open elective credit also is required to meet the minimum graduation requirement of 192 hours.

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