Advisor: begins Fall 2023
Contact: Beth Good
Degree: Bachelor of Science
Semester Hours: 59-62 SH
Required Courses: Foundational Public Health and Science Courses (31 SH)
BIOL 145 Nutrition - (4)
BIOL 173/174 Concepts in Biology - (5)
BIOL 205 Microbiology (3) OR *BIOL 327 Advanced Microbiology - 3 (3)
CHEM 105 Chemistry for Life Sciences (2) AND BIOCH 152 Human Biochemistry - (2) OR CHEM 223 General Chemistry I - 4 (4)
NRSL 350 Health Care Policy - (4) OR NURS 515 The Health Care Delivery System - (3) OR HCML 220 Healthcare Policy - (3)
NURS 432 Community Health - 3 (3)
NURS 436 Population Health Colloquium - (2)
PH 175 Introduction to Public Health - (3)
*PH 231 Foundations of Public Health Immunology - (3)
*PH 356 Epidemiology - (3)
Required Courses: Statistics and Research Design (9 SH)
SOC 336 Methods of Social Research - (3)
STAT 120 Descriptive Statistics (2) OR or *STAT 150 Data Visualization - (2)
STAT 220 Inferential Statistics - (2)
STAT 230 Regression and ANOVA - (2)
Required Courses: Social Justice and Ethics (11 SH)
BIOL 485 Faith, Science and Ethics (2) OR *ENVS 325 Environmental Ethics - (2)
PXD 375 Globalization and Justice - (3)
Choose 2 two courses from the followingthis list:
*PSYC 382 Health Psychology - (3)
SOC 201 Sociology of Health - (3)
*SOC 430 Environmental Justice - (3)
Required Courses: Environmental Health (7 SH)
*BIOL 364 Entomology: Vector Biology Control - (3)
*ENVS 365 Environmental Risk and Policy - (2)
*ENVS 372 Toxicology for Public Health - (2)
Required Courses: Data Analytics (10 SH)
CS 145 Introduction to Programming - (2)
CS 155 Programming in Python - (2)
CS 265 Databases and Information Management - (2)
*CS 460 Big Data Analytics - (4)
Required Courses: Practicum (1+ SH)
Choose one of the following:
Computer Science internship
Biology internship
WCSC semesterBIOL 429 Biology Internship (1-3 SH)
CS 488 Computer Science Internship (1-3 SH)
WCSC 385 WCSC Internship (6 SH)
* indicates the course is offered in alternate years