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Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025

Public Health (B.S.)

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Student Learning Outcomes for Public Health (B.S.)

Students will be able to:

Explain the biological basis of health and disease
Using data analyses (i.e., statistical, spatial, etc.), explain how individual health and social care systems affect global health
Complete an independent research project analyzing an issue related to public health
Communicate the processes by which public health is an interdisciplinary field of health and illness in both individuals and populations

Required Courses for BS in Public Health

PBH 111 - NPS Principles of Public Health 4.00 credits.
PBH 211 - Introduction to Global Health 4.00 credits.
PBH 335 - Epidemiology 4.00 credits.
MA 250 - MA Sports Analytics 4.00 credits. or
MA 251 - MA Probability and Statistics 4.00 credits.
SO 204 - SSC Population and Global Issues 4.00 credits.
BIO 111 - Molecules, Cells, & Animal Systems 4.00 credits.
ENV 225 - Geographic Information Systems: Fundamentals and Applications 4.00 credits.
PH 235 - HUM Bioethics 4.00 credits. or
PH 255B - Advanced Ethics: Medicine 4.00 credits.
MA 252 - Statistical Methods in Research 4.00 credits.
HE 210 - Global Health Care Systems 4.00 credits.
COM 282 - Health Communication 4.00 credits.
PBH 474 - Public Health Field Instruction Variable (0.00 - 4.00 credits).
PBH 495 - Public Health Senior Seminar 4.00 credits.

One Course in Social or Behavioral Science

PBH 330 - Determinants of Health and Health Equity 4.00 credits.
PSY 105 - SSC Introduction to Psychology 4.00 credits.
PSY 220 - Health Psychology 4.00 credits.
PSY 235 - Social Psychology 4.00 credits.
PSY 250 - Psychopathology 4.00 credits.
BIO 328 - Behavioral Endocrinology 3.00 credits.
CSC 315 - Cognitive Neuroscience (PH 315) 4.00 credits.
NEU 125 - NPS Introduction to Neuroscience 4.00 credits.

Two Courses in Science Electives

BIO 112 - Principles of Evolution, Ecology, and Diversity of Life 4.00 credits.
BIO 200 - NPS Human Anatomy and Physiology: The Basics 4.00 credits.
BIO 211 - Genetics 4.00 credits.
BIO 220 - Nutrition 3.00 credits.
BIO 235 - General Microbiology 4.00 credits.
BIO 324 - General Physiology 3.00 credits.
BIO 336 - Pathogenic Microbiology 3.00 credits.
BIO 352 - Developmental Biology 3.00 credits.
BIO 362 - Ecotoxicology 4.00 credits.
CH 105 - NPS Fundamentals of Chemistry: Introduction to Molecular Science 4.00 credits.
ENV 113 - NPS Introduction to Environmental Science 4.00 credits.

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