Public Health (B.S.)
公共卫生专业旨在解决当地人口的健康问题, nationally and globally through an interdisciplinary education program. 这一方案将确保下一代的公共卫生从业人员, researchers and leaders possess the diverse range of knowledge, skills and values necessary to advance the field of public health.
Due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, the need for public health experts has increased in the last 12 months. 在全国范围内，有超过27万个招聘启事招聘拥有公共卫生学士学位的毕业生. The number of people employed in public health is expected to grow by 9.3% over the next 10 years.
公共卫生是一个专注于预防疾病和促进个人健康的研究领域, communities and society as a whole. Students can prepare for a career as a health care administrator, health and safety engineer, environmental specialist or health educator. Furthermore, 它为学生提供了通往公共卫生和流行病学研究生课程的途径.
Students will take courses from a core program, and are suggested to select two electives which best complement their specific area of interest in public health. 此外，可能会根据学生的特定兴趣领域推荐辅修课程.
Coursework for Public Health (B.S., 50-54 hours)
Most courses are taught in-person. Online courses are noted in the course description.
| I. Public Health Core | 20 hours |
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HHP 2250-LCMC: The History of Public Health Covid-19 has thrust public health into the spotlight, but the domain of public health includes many critical issues, including mental health, obesity and gun violence. 从最初的隔离到现代的全民医疗保健运动, public health has fundamentally shaped societies. In this course, you’ll learn the role of the state in public health, the importance of public health, and how it’s provided and practiced.
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3 hours |
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HHP 3250-LCMC: Health Services Health services—the means by which health care is provided—is a critical concept in public health that impacts all of us. This course will introduce you to the modern history of health care in high, middle and low-income countries and explore the evolution of health services. Students will evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of particular systems and policies and examine their ideal version of a health service in the context of current events.
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3 hours |
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HHP 4350-LCMC: Public Health Studies I: Current Topics and Politics This course is intended to provide students with a means of evaluating the health impact of political decisions and a broad knowledge base about the practice of public health today. 学生们将探索公共卫生领域的一系列当前主题，包括COVID-19, HIV/AIDS and the obesity epidemic. Students will also look at the impact of U.S. politics on global public health, especially in developing nations. Furthermore, 本课程将探讨世界卫生组织的千年发展目标等关键主题, the disastrous circumstances that can arise when public health policies fail, 数据和政治意愿之间的冲突推动了如此多的公共卫生政策决策. This course culminates in a project in which students must plan a health impact assessment of a current or proposed federal or state policy.
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3 hours |
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HHP 4450-LCMC: Public Health Studies II: Demo, Geo, Qual Research This course provides students with a variety of tools for understanding the impact that disease or other public health concerns may have on a population. Students will learn how to design effective surveys, analyze geographic data and use qualitative information with the ultimate goal of gaining a better understanding of how events may affect the health of a particular population. This course will also require students to participate in a mapathon in order to help them build understanding of how geographic data is used in the practice of public health.
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3 hours |
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HHP 3990: Professional Engagement This class is designed to prepare students who are entering the professional field of health and human performance. Real-life, hands on tools for career advancement will be examined and then applied including the creation of goals and objectives, a personal statement, a cover letter and a professional resume with references. An investigation into graduate schools (and the requirements for applying) or the job market for your intended career will be explored, as well as searching for alternative career paths. No Pass/Fail.
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1 hour |
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HHP 4970: Internship An on-the-job experience oriented toward the student's major interest. 学生要在一个满足教师共同利益的组织中找到一个职位, the sponsor, and the student. May be repeated for a maximum of 8 credit hours. No Pass/Fail.
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3 hours |
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HHP 4990: Capstone 这门高级顶点课程是健康与人类绩效系学位的最后一门课程. In a capstone experience, 学生将在完成定制电子作品集的同时反思你的学术成长. The ePortfolio will be used to review and reflect on previous work, carryout an assessment of their academic career, and project a future vision for an intended career in their chosen field. This ePortfolio can be used for future academic goals as well as to serve as an aid for housing acquired material. No Pass/Fail.
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1 hour |
| II. Statistics: Choose One | 3-4 hours |
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BUSAD 2100: Business Statistics |
| III. STEM Supporting Area | 15 hours |
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CHEM 1110/L: General Chemistry I 化学基本原理的研究，包括原子和分子的结构, periodicity, stoichiometry, reactions, solutions, gases and thermochemistry.
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4 hours |
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BIO 1400: Biological Inquiry 本课程是为生物学专业学生设计的，用以取代传统的生物学导论课程. The overarching goal is to introduce students to collegiate biology by teaching them how to carry out scientific research. Across all sections of this course, students will pose scientific questions, design and critique experiments, run those experiments, evaluate experimental outcomes, and communicate those outcomes. Within this framework of investigative inquiry, 学生将学习介绍性内容，这些内容不仅对当前课程有意义, but will allow for a smoother transition to their sophomore year. Content areas include ecology, genetics, evolution, biodiversity, reproduction, development, and cellular/molecular mechanisms.
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4 hours |
| Additional Natural Sciences | 7 hours |
| IV. Public Health Electives | 9-12 hours |
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Students are required to take 9-12 elective credit hours. A minimum of 3 credit hours must come from each area listed below in Section V.
| V. Additional Electives | 6 hours |
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An additional 6 elective credit hours are required. Courses options may Include: IDS-1500-2, HHP-1260-2, HHP-2040-2, HHP-2500-2
Area A: Policies and Systems
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ECON 1530: Macroeconomic Principles An examination of the macroeconomic theories, problems and policies of the U.S. economy. Topics include supply and demand, a description of the main sectors of the economy and the role of government in stabilizing the economy with monetary and fiscal policies.
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3 hours |
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ECON 1540: Microeconomic Principles An examination of the microeconomic theories, problems and policies of the U.S. economy. Topics include the theory of the firm, market structures and current economic issues such as income distribution, antitrust policy, poverty, the farm problem and international trade.
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3 hours |
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HHP 2020: Consumer Health Issues A course designed to develop and expand information about the environment, the informed health consumer, healthful aging and community health. The course will acquaint students with the process of aging, consumer protection, the environment, and community from a health perspective.
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3 hours |
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HHP 3350-LCMC: Health Economics 公共卫生领域既受流行病学的影响，也受经济学的影响. This course will teach you about health economics, which is the application of economic principles and techniques of analysis to health care in support of the public good. By the end of this course you will learn how to analyze the effectiveness of health policy outcomes through an economic lens, and how to use available resources to improve the quality of health care. This online class has optional live sessions.
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3 hours |
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POLSC 2090: Introduction to Public Policy This course examines the development and implementation of public policy. We will consider the actors, institutions and rules that create and influence the policy making process and the consequences these choices produce. There are many puzzles this course attempts to address, including why some laws pass and others fail, why some policy ideas move more quickly than others, and why some strategies for causing policy change are successful. 我们将学习评估公共政策的方法以及公民可以在其中工作的方式, and outside of, government to affect change.
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4 hours |
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POLSC 2720: Global Environmental Politics This seminar provides an introduction to global environmental politics. Many of the environmental problems of the twenty-first century, 从气候变化到粮食不安全，再到保护生物多样性和濒危物种, are global in nature, and addressing them requires international cooperation. 课程的第一部分提供评估环境问题的分析基础. The second part of the semester will apply these analytic and policy tools to an evaluation of actors and solutions. We will look at the state and non-state actors, such as transnational social movements, civil society, NGOs and IOs, businesses and multinational corporations, and nation-states.
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4 hours |
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RELIG 2250: Religion, Peace, and Social Justice This course explores religious responses to social justice issues, such as conflict, poverty, oppression,discrimination, and the environment. Particular focus is lent to the distribution of resources, gender and racial discrimination, war and other forms of violent behavior and the historical, philosophical, religious, economic, cultural influences therein. The course will also show some implications that theories and implementations of justice have that could aid in framing public policy and social justice activism around particular issues.
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3 hours |
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SOCWK 3450: Social Work in Health Care The course surveys the field of social work in the health care arena. 一个通才的社会工作的观点将被用来解决社会工作的角色评估, intervention, advocacy and policy analysis in the health care environment. 将讨论个人、团体和组织/社区层面的社会工作角色.
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3 hours |
Area B: Social and Environmental Health
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HHP 2030: Human Sexuality 这门课程旨在以实用的方式发展和扩展当前关于人类性行为的信息. The course will present facts and statistics about anatomy and physiology, gender, sexual orientation, reproduction, sexually transmitted infections, contraception, sexual growth and development, relationships and sexual communication, sexual health, commercialization of sex and sexual coercion.
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3 hours |
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HHP 3450-LCMC: Epidemiology Epidemiology is the branch of medicine which deals with the incidence, distribution and control of a disease. In this course, 学生将学习并将流行病学的关键概念应用于公共卫生的多个领域. Students will learn how to use epidemiology to better understand, characterize, and promote health at a population level. This online class has optional live sessions.
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3 hours |
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NURS 3040: Global Health This course explores health with an emphasis on global issues. Health will be examined using the influence of social, political, economic, cultural and geographical factors. Students will examine the basic health needs of all people and compare the availability of and types of services in different parts of the world. Cross listed with GEND-3040.
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4 hours |
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PSYCH 2350: Lifespan Development This class will provide a perspective on the changes that take place during an individual's life from infancy to old age/death. 参与者将研究和描述在生命的不同时期发展中的人. The processes of growth and change taking place in early, middle and late adulthood will be considered as well as the more traditional concern with development in childhood.
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4 hours |
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SOCWK 2410: Loss, Death, and Grief This course will focus on helping participants identify the numerous losses suffered in their own lives and in the lives of others. We will address the relevant methods, 为丧亲者提供社会工作干预所需的理论和技能基础. 对悲伤反应的评估和促进哀悼的社会工作角色和任务将被提出. The concepts of companioning and hospice care will be addressed. Finally, 学生将提高他们面对死亡的能力，并表现出更高的敏感度, awareness, and skills in coping with grief and death.
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3 hours |
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SOC 2530: Population and Environment This course examines the demographic and social dynamics of population size, composition and distribution. 它处理人口、人类健康、发展和环境之间的关系. Strong cross cultural emphasis. A major focus is the development of a semester research paper contrasting the status of the Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals, environmental status, and health in a more- and less-developed country.
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4 hours |
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BIO 4700: Pathophysiology 疾病的机制和各器官系统的基本疾病过程的调查. Special topics related to the study of diseases will be assigned.
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3 hours |
Area C: Health Promotion and Communication
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COMM 1510: Intercultural Communication The study of cultural differences that influence the exchange of meaning between individuals and groups of different cultural and/or racial backgrounds. The course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the uniqueness of cultures and the resulting variations in communication styles and preferences, 并为跨越文化障碍的成功沟通提供策略和技巧. Students will spend at least 20 hours during the semester working with community agencies serving clients from different cultures.
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4 hours |
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COMM 2550: Health Communications Health communication is the study and use of communication strategies to inform and influence individual and community decisions that enhance health. 我们将在健康维护和促进的背景下探索广泛的信息和媒体, disease prevention, treatment and advocacy. Through readings, discussion, written assignments, along with shadowing and interviewing a variety of health care professionals, 您将学习的理论侧重于沟通模式和实践，塑造医疗保健在美国.S. as well as in other cultures.
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4 hours |
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COMM 3300: Public Relations The course in Public Relations is a study of the nature of public relations, the persons involved, its relationship to public opinion, and the channels of communication that are used. Special attention is given to the application of public relations strategies for particular events or organizations.
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3 hours |
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HHP 3100: Worksite Health Promotion 一门旨在向学生介绍有关促进工作场所健康的概念和做法的课程. 学生将学习如何发展，实施和评估健康促进计划. Students will complete a 20-hour field experience in an assigned worksite in the community to provide invaluable experience.
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3 hours |
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HHP 3550: Health Methods 一门旨在指导学生如何在学校环境中教授健康教育的课程. 本课程将帮助学生为所有年级的健康教学做好准备. 主题包括课程开发，规划，CSPAP，评估和技术. 学生们将有很多机会互相创造和教授健康课程. 对于健康和体育专业的学生，需要在当地学校的健康课上有10小时的实习经历. For non-majors, a final project will be required.
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3 hours |
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PSYCH 2450: Health Psychology An introduction to the field of health psychology, which is devoted to understanding how people stay healthy, why they become ill, and how they respond to illness and disease. Topics will be discussed from local, national and global perspectives, and will include the behavioral aspects of the health care system, exercise and nutrition, health-compromising behaviors, stress, AIDS and the etiology and correlates of health, disease and dysfunction.
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4 hours |
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PSYCH 3370: Adult Development and Aging This course will examine theories, research, and applications of development in the adult years, gaining perspective and appreciation for the developmental and aging processes that occur in this time period. In particular, 该课程将遵循生物心理社会的观点，重点关注成人发展的多样性, 研究各种因素对不同人的发展有何不同影响. These factors will include, but are not limited to, mental health status, socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, cultural influences, sexual identity, gender identity, ability, and developmental history.
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4 hours |
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SOCWK 2270: Human Behavior and the Social Environment I 一门综合和检验关于个体如何发展的知识体系的课程, group, family and community systems interrelate with each other and the larger social context from the lifespan stages of birth through adolescence. Content will be drawn from the biological, psychological, sociological, eco-political and cultural-environmental systems. 在评估过程中的职业道德的重要性也进行了审查.
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4 hours |
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SOCWK 2280: Human Behavior and the Social Environment II 一门综合和检验关于个体如何发展的知识体系的课程, group, family, and community systems interrelate with each other and the larger social context from the lifespan stages of early adulthood through aging and death. Content will be drawn from the biological, psychological, sociological, eco-political and cultural environmental systems. 在评估过程中的职业道德的重要性也进行了审查.
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4 hours |