Program Overview
Overview of the Public Health Certificate Program
The undergraduate certificate in public health encourages students to extend the breadth of their undergraduate education to include elements of public health. Students are encouraged to take courses from a variety of participating departments to develop an appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of public health.
Requirements
The certificate requirements include a minimum of 22 credit hours of coursework, including at least 9 upper-division credit hours. A maximum of 6 semester credit hours from other institutions will be accepted.
Required Courses and Credit Hours
- Foundations in Public Health: GEOG/IPHY 2692
- Introduction to Global Public Health: GEOG 3692
- Introduction to Epidemiology: IPHY 3490
- Required biology course: 3 credit hours
- EBIO 1100: Biology and Society
- EBIO 1210: General Biology 1
- MCDB 1030
- MCDB 1150: Introduction to Cellular and Molecular Biology
- Statistics course: 3-4 credit hours
- ANTH 4000: Quantitative Methods in Anthropology
- BCOR 1025: Statistical Analysis in Business
- CHEN 3010: Applied Data Analysis
- EBIO 1010: Introduction to Statistics and Quantitative Thinking for Biologists
- EBIO 4410: Biological Statistics
- ECON 3818: Introduction to Statistics with Computer Applications
- GEOG 3023: Statistics and Geographic Data
- MATH 2510: Introduction to Statistics
- PSCI 2075: Quantitative Research Methods
- PSYC 2111: Psychological Science I: Statistics
- SOCY 2061: Introduction to Social Statistics
- STAT 2600: Introduction to Data Science
- Electives: 6 credit hours of public health electives, with at least one course (at least 3 credits) at the upper-division level and at least one course (at least 3 credits) from outside the student's major.
Elective Courses
- Biomedicine and Health:
- EBIO 3400: Microbiology
- EBIO 3630: Parasitology
- IPHY 2420: Introduction to Nutrition
- IPHY 3440: Clinical Nutrition
- MCDB 3160: Infectious Disease
- MCDB 4201: From Bench to Bedside: The Role of Science in Medicine
- SLHS 3014: Hearing Loss Epidemiology
- Global, Population and Environmental Health:
- ECON 4646: Topics in Health Economics
- ENVS 3525: Intermediate Environmental Problem Analysis: Topical Cornerstones
- ENVS 4800: Capstone: Critical Thinking in Environmental Studies
- GEOG 3682: International Development: Economics, Power, and Place
- GEOG 4732: Population Geography
- GEOG 4852: Health and Medical Geography
- IAFS 3000: Special Topics in International Affairs
- PSCI 4012: Global Development
- SLHS 1010: Disabilities in Contemporary American Society
- SOCY 4007: Global Human Ecology
- Medical Humanities:
- HIST 4326: Epidemic Disease in US History
- MUEL 3862: Music and Global Health
- PHIL 1160: Introduction to Medical Ethics
- PHIL 3160: Bioethics
- SPAN 3080: Spanish Health Professions
- WGST 3510: Gender, Sexuality and Global Health
- WRTG 3020: Topics in Writing
- Social, Cultural and Behavioral Health:
- ANTH 4060: Nutrition and Anthropology
- ANTH 4610: Medical Anthropology
- PSYC 3102: Behavioral Genetics
- PSYC 4263: Psychological Treatment: An Evidence-Based Approach
- PSYC 4443: Research Methods in Clinical Psychology
- PSYC 4606: Advanced Topics in Social Psychology
- SOCY 1022: Ethics and Social Issues in U.S. Health and Medicine
- SOCY 3032: Social Epidemiology
- SOCY 3042: Topics in Population and Health
- SOCY 3045: Sociology of Death and Dying
- SOCY 3052: Medical Sociology
- SOCY 4052: Social Inequalities in Health
- SOCY 4062: Suffering and Care in Society
Total Credit Hours
The total credit hours required for the Public Health Certificate is 22-23 credit hours.
Global Public Health Track
Global Public Health is an unofficial track of the Public Health Certificate designed specifically for IAFS students. Students interested in pursuing the Global Public Health track of the Public Health Certificate can find additional information on the International Affairs Program website.