Bachelor of Science in Public Health
The public health degree program provides students with a comprehensive program of study in preparation for careers and advanced degrees in public health. Public health majors take a set of core classes that span the broad scope of health promotion, disease prevention, and eliminating health disparities. Students will also complete a set of classes in one of four areas of emphasis: environmental health, social/behavioral health, epidemiology, or public health generalist. All students will complete their studies with a culminating experience of either a public health practicum or a senior thesis.
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Learning Objectives
- Gain knowledge of human cultures and the physical and natural world as it relates to individual and population health through focused engagement on big questions, both contemporary and enduring.
- Gain intellectual and practical skills practiced extensively, across the curriculum, in the context of progressively more challenging problems, projects, and standards for performance.
- Learn personal and social responsibility anchored through active involvement with diverse communities and real-world challenges.
- Experience integrative and applied learning demonstrated through the application of knowledge, skills, and responsibilities to new settings and complex problems.
Program Information
If there are no Plans of Study listed under this program, they may be listed under one of its sub-plans.
