- Community health
- Epidemiology
- Health administration
- Health communication and education
- Law
- Public policy
- Social work
Complete all courses listed below unless otherwise indicated. Also complete any corequisite labs, recitations, clinicals, or tools courses where specified and complete any additional courses needed beyond specific college and major requirements to satisfy graduation credit requirements.
Universitywide Requirements
All undergraduate students are required to complete the Universitywide Requirements.
BA Language Requirements
All BA students are required to complete the BA degree language requirements, for a total of 12 semester hours of language study or demonstrated equivalent proficiency, as described in Additional Requirements for BA students. Successful demonstration of proficiency does not reduce total minimum semester hours of study required to earn the BA degree.
NUpath Requirements
All undergraduate students are required to complete the NUpath Requirements.
Public Health Core
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| PHTH 1260 | The American Healthcare System | 4 |
| or PHTH 1261 | Comparative Healthcare Systems | |
| PHTH 2210 | Foundations of Biostatistics | 4 |
| PHTH 2300 | Communication Skills for the Health Professions | 4 |
| or PHTH 2301 | Communication Skills for the Health Professions—Global | |
| PHTH 2350 | Community and Public Health | 4 |
| or PHTH 2351 | Community and Public Health - Global | |
| PHTH 2515 | Healthcare Policy and Administration | 4 |
| PHTH 4120 | Global Perspectives on Discrimination and Health | 4 |
| PHTH 4202 | Principles of Epidemiology in Medicine and Public Health | 4 |
| PHTH 4540 | Health Education and Program Planning | 4 |
Science Requirement
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | ||
| PSYC 1101 | Foundations of Psychology | 4 |
| Biology | ||
| Complete one of the following options: | 8–10 | |
| Option 1 | ||
| Biology and Society | ||
or BIOL 1141 | Microbes and Society | |
| The Human Organism | ||
| Option 2 | ||
| General Biology 1 and Lab for BIOL 1111 | ||
| General Biology 2 and Lab for BIOL 1113 | ||
Public Health Social Science Requirement
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Introductory Course | ||
| Complete three of the following: | 12 | |
| Peoples and Cultures | ||
| Communication Theory | ||
| Principles of Macroeconomics and Recitation for ECON 1115 | ||
| Principles of Microeconomics and Recitation for ECON 1116 | ||
| Introduction to Health and Humanities | ||
| Social Change and Human Services | ||
| Globalization and International Affairs | ||
| Introduction to Philosophy | ||
| International Relations | ||
| Introduction to Sociology | ||
| Upper-Level Course | ||
| Complete three of the following (two must be at the 3000 level or above and from the same area): | 9–12 | |
| Society and Behavior | ||
| Gender, Race, and Medicine | ||
or HIST 1225 | Gender, Race, and Medicine | |
or WMNS 1225 | Gender, Race, and Medicine | |
| Race, Identity, Social Change, and Empowerment | ||
| Issues in Race, Science, and Technology | ||
| Medical Anthropology | ||
| Mapping and Building Health | ||
| Introduction to Asian American Studies | ||
| Personal Behavior Change | ||
| Behavioral Assessment and Treatment of Health Problems in the 21st Century | ||
| Social Networks | ||
| Health Communication | ||
| Health Communication Campaigns | ||
| Psychology of Crime | ||
| The Archives of Public Health | ||
| Interprofessional Ethics for Individual and Population Health | ||
| The (in)Visibility of (dis)Ability in Society | ||
| Moral and Social Problems in Healthcare | ||
| Rural Health: An Interdisciplinary Seminar | ||
| Health Advocacy | ||
| The Moral Mind: The Science Underlying Ethical Decision-Making and Virtuous Character | ||
| Social Psychology | ||
| Developmental Psychology | ||
| Learning and Motivation | ||
| Gender and Reproductive Justice | ||
| Current Issues in Cities and Suburbs | ||
| Violence and Society | ||
| Sociology of Health and Illness | ||
| Race, Class, and Gender | ||
| Sex, Gender, and Popular Culture | ||
| Globalization and Global Health | ||
| Introduction to Global Health | ||
or PHTH 1270 | Introduction to Global Health | |
| Epidemiology of Pandemic Diseases and Health Disparities in the African Diaspora | ||
| International Food Policy | ||
| The History of Medicine in North America | ||
| Global Social Enterprise | ||
| Cities in a Global Context | ||
| International Conflict and Negotiation | ||
| Politics of Developing Nations | ||
| Environmental Health and Climate Change | ||
| Environmental Issues, Communication, and the Media | ||
| Environmental Economics | ||
| Global Climate Change | ||
| Climate Change, Health, and Resilience | ||
| Climate and Development | ||
or PPUA 5100 | Climate and Development | |
| Environmental Health | ||
| Climate Change and Global Urbanization | ||
| Environment and Society | ||
| Environment, Technology, and Society | ||
| Law, Policy, and Human Rights | ||
| Human Trafficking | ||
| Law and Economics | ||
| Uses and Abuses of History: Historical Reasoning in U.S. Global and Domestic Policy | ||
| The History of Western Public Health | ||
| Race, Public Health, and Storytelling | ||
| Women and World Politics | ||
| Introduction to Law, Policy, and Society | ||
| Human Rights | ||
| Philosophical Problems of Law and Justice | ||
| Social and Political Philosophy | ||
| Ancient Philosophy and Political Thought | ||
| Bioethics in the Age of Big Data | ||
| Global Justice | ||
| Ethics and Public Policy | ||
| Urban Policies and Politics | ||
| Public Policy and Administration | ||
| Healthcare Administration and Management | ||
| Healthcare and Medical Economics | ||
| Development Economics | ||
| Health Economics and Healthcare Policy | ||
| Healthcare Management, Innovation, and Design | ||
| Organizational Behavior | ||
| Healthcare Management | ||
| Evaluating Healthcare Quality | ||
| Economic Perspectives on Health Policy | ||
Capstone
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Complete one of the following: | 3–4 | |
| Evaluating Health Technologies | ||
| Health Science Capstone—Service 1 | ||
| Health Science Capstone—Research 1 | ||
| Health Science Capstone Seminar | ||
| Junior/Senior Honors Project 1 and Junior/Senior Honors Project 2 2 | ||
| Critical Issues in Health and Public Health Policy | ||
| Private Guns, Public Health | ||
| Addressing Rural Health Inequities | ||
| Advancing Health Justice Through the Law | ||
| Environmental Health | ||
| Global Health | ||
| Food, Nutrition, and Health | ||
| Qualitative Methods | ||
- 1
Must complete 0-semester-hour Health Science Capstone Introduction (HSCI 4700) as prerequisite.
- 2
Junior/Senior Honors Project 1 (HSCI 4970) will count as 4-semester-hour general elective.
Other Major Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| ENGW 1111 | First-Year Writing | 4 |
| ENGW 3306 | Advanced Writing in the Health Professions | 4 |
| HSCI 1000 | College: An Introduction | 1 |
| HSCI 2000 | Professional Development for Bouvé Co-op | 1 |
General Electives
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Complete remaining semester hours to meet minimum by taking general electives. | ||
Public Health Major Requirement
A grade of C or higher is required for the public health core, science requirement, public health social science requirement, and capstone. Students who take College: An Introduction (HSCI 1000) and Professional Development for Bouvé Co-op (HSCI 2000) must achieve a C or higher.
Program Requirements
Minimum of 128 semester hours required
Sample Plans of Study
Four Years, Two Co-ops in Spring/Summer First-Half (Option 1 of Science Requirement)
| Year 1 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| BIOL 1143 | 4 | BIOL 1147 | 4 | PHTH core course | 4 | Vacation | |
| HSCI 1000 | 1 | ENGW 1111 | 4 | General elective | 4 | ||
| PHTH 1260 | 4 | Elementary language course | 4 | ||||
| PSYC 1101 | 4 | PHTH core course | 4 | ||||
| Introductory language course | 4 | ||||||
| 17 | 16 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| Year 2 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| HSCI 2000 | 1 | Co-op | 0 | Co-op | 0 | General elective | 4 |
| PHTH 2210 | 4 | General elective* | 4 | General elective | 4 | ||
| PHTH core course | 4 | ||||||
| PH social science course—introductory (1) | 4 | ||||||
| Intermediate language course | 4 | ||||||
| 17 | 4 | 0 | 8 | ||||
| Year 3 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| ENGW 3306 | 4 | Co-op | 0 | Co-op | 0 | PHTH core course | 4 |
| PHTH core course | 4 | General elective* | 4 | General elective | 4 | ||
| PH social science course—introductory (2) | 4 | ||||||
| PH social science course—introductory (3) | 4 | ||||||
| 16 | 4 | 0 | 8 | ||||
| Year 4 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||||
| PHTH core course | 4 | General electives | 8 | ||||
| General elective | 4 | PH social science course—upper level (2) | 4 | ||||
| PH social science course—upper level (1) | 4 | PH social science course—upper level (3) | 3-4 | ||||
| Capstone | 3-4 | ||||||
| 15-16 | 15-16 | ||||||
| Total Hours: 128-130 | |||||||
- *
Students must fulfill two electives during co-op or vacation.
Four Years, Two Co-ops in Summer Second-Half/Fall (Option 2 of Science Requirement)
| Year 1 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| BIOL 1111 and BIOL 1112 | 5 | BIOL 1113 and BIOL 1114 | 5 | General elective | 4 | Vacation | |
| ENGW 1111 | 4 | PSYC 1101 | 4 | PHTH core course | 4 | ||
| HSCI 1000 | 1 | PHTH core course | 4 | ||||
| PHTH 1260 | 4 | Elementary language course | 4 | ||||
| Introductory language course | 4 | ||||||
| 18 | 17 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| Year 2 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| Intermediate language course | 4 | HSCI 2000 | 1 | General electives | 8 | Co-op | 0 |
| PHTH core course | 4 | PHTH 2210 | 4 | ||||
| PH social science course—introductory (1) | 4 | PH social science course—introductory (3) | 4 | ||||
| PH social science course—introductory (2) | 4 | General electives | 8 | ||||
| 16 | 17 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| Year 3 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| Co-op | 0 | ENGW 3306 | 4 | PHTH core course | 4 | Co-op | 0 |
| General elective | 4 | PHTH core course | 4 | PH social science course—upper level (2) | 4 | ||
| PH social science course—upper level (1) | 4 | ||||||
| General elective | 4 | ||||||
| 4 | 16 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| Year 4 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||||
| Co-op | 0 | PHTH core course | 4 | ||||
| General elective | 4 | Capstone | 3-4 | ||||
| PH social science course—upper level (3) | 3-4 | ||||||
| General elective | 4 | ||||||
| 4 | 14-16 | ||||||
| Total Hours: 130-132 | |||||||