Requirements and Curriculum

The undergraduate major in public health consists of 41 credit hours of coursework in public health, plus an additional 19 credit hours of coursework from other disciplines.

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Public Health Coursework (41 credits)

All courses are 3 credit hours unless otherwise indicated.

  • PUB 101 Introduction to Public Health
  • PUB 102 Historical and Contemporary Public Health Problems
  • PUB 200-level
    • Select two (2) 200-level PUB courses numbered 200-279
      (total of 6 credit hours minimum)
  • PUB 310 Health and Disease: Biological, Personal, and Environmental Influences
  • PUB 315 Asking and Answering Scientific Questions in Public Health (4 credits)
  • PUB 320 Models and Mechanisms for Understanding Public Health
  • PUB 325 Interventions to Address Public Health Problems
  • PUB 330 Public Health Systems and Policies
  • PUB 300/400
    • Select three (3) 300/400-level PUB courses numbered 340-379 or 400-479 (total of 9 credit hours minimum)
  • PUB 494 Capstone: Modern Public Health Problems and Solutions (4 credits)

Additional Coursework

Students entering the major take a Communication Literacy II course, ENG 358 Writing in the Health Sciences.

Courses from other disciplines (19 credits)

  • PGY 300 Human Physiology (4 credits)
  • CHE 101 General Chemistry (4 credits) AND, CHE 113 General Chemistry Lab (1 credit); EFFECTIVE FALL 2019
  • PSC 101 Introduction to American Politics
  • PSY 101/SOC 101: Select either PSY 101 Introductory Psychology or SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology
  • STA 119 Statistical Methods (4 credits)