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Requirements for the Major

Requirements for the Public Health Major (44 semester hours)

Core Courses (20 semester hours)

  • PHEAL201 Introduction to Public Health (4)

  • PHEAL214 Public Health Epidemiology (4)

  • PHEAL301 Public Health Ethics (4)

  • One Quantitative and/or Spatial Methods, chosen from:

    • BIOL213 Disease Epidemics (4)

    • BIOL342 Biostatistics (4)

    • ECON230 Economic Statistics (4)

    • ENVS250 Geographic Information Systems (4)

    • EXHS256W Research Design and Analysis (4)

    • IDS138 Introduction to Applied Statistics (4)

    • MATH138 Introduction to Applied Statistics: Statistics and Applications (4)

    • PSYC 253 Research Methods & Analysis (4)

  • PHEAL499W Senior Seminar in Public Health (4)
    (Course substitution, from select contributing departments such as ANTH, and EXHS, requires program approval.)

Part A: Health (8 semester hours)

These courses focus sustainability on facets of public health.

Complete eight semester hours of the following courses; no more than four semester hours from any discipline:

  • ANTH344 Medical Anthropology (4)

  • BIOL246 Human Anatomy (4)

  • BIOL260 Human Physiology (4)

  • ENVS328 Health & Global Environment (4)

  • ENVS360 Environmental Health Geography (4)

  • HIST239 The Social History of Health (4)

  • IDS214 Food Justice (4)

  • IDS224 Disease Prevention (4) or EXHS358 Special Topics in Exercise and Health Science: Disease Prevention (topic dependent) (4)

  • IDS353 Inner Life of Activism (4)

  • PHEAL120 Global Health through Film (4)

  • PPLE318 Death in America (4)

  • SOC355 Health and Society (4)

  • LW248 Health Care Law & Policy (4)

  • LW397 Public Health Law (3)

Part B: Public Engagement (4 semester hours)

These courses emphasize various active modes of public advocacy, communication, leadership, participation, and/or service in the community.

Complete 4 semester hours from the following:

  • CCM101 Public Speaking (4)

  • CCM201 Arguing About the Right Thing to Do (4)

  • CCM202 Designing Persuasive Campaigns (4)

  • EXHS358 Special Topics in Exercise and Health Science: Aging, Health, and Functional Assessment (topic dependent) (4)

  • HIST202 Public History Practicum: History in the News (2)

  • HIST306 History Through Biography (4)

  • IDS107X Willamette Emergency Medical Service (1)

  • IDS180 Perspectives in Health Careers I (1)

  • IDS202 Convocation: Reflecting on Campus, Community and Cosmos (2)

  • IDS205 Chemawa Indian School Partnership Program (2)

  • IDS214 Food Justice (4)

  • IDS215 Willamette Academy Service Learning (2)

  • IDS240 Science Communication and Outreach (2)

  • PPLE338W Reforming Criminal Justice (4)

  • RHET242 Rhetoric & Leadership (4)

  • BUS2101 Introduction to Management (4)

  • BUS2102 Organizations--Design, Management, and Change (4)

  • Any credit-bearing internship with a health-related agency or organization, currently awarded credit through:

    • EXHS394 Internship (2-4)

    • HIST394 Internship (2-4)

    • IDS194 Insight Internship (1)

    • IDS396 Chemawa Program Internship (2)

    • PPLE398 Legislative Internship (4)

    • SOC 495W Internship in Sociology (4)

    • WGS394 Internship in Women's & Gender Studies (2-4)

Allied Concentrations (8 semester hours)

These courses cover various general descriptive and prescriptive disciplinary approaches in the humanities, social sciences, and natural and clinical sciences that enrich a holistic view of public health but do not necessarily address health directly.

Complete 8 semester hours from the following categories; no more than four semester hours in any category:

Global and Area Studies

  • ANTH232 Peoples and Cultures of Africa (4)

  • ANTH235 Cultures of Mexico & Ecuador (4)

  • ECON351 Comparative Economic Systems (4)

  • ECON352 The Economics of Developing Countries (4)

  • GCS250W Narratives of Migration: From Islamic Spain to the US/Mexico Border (4)

  • INTST 218 Politics in the Developing World (4)

  • INTST380 Asian Politics & Development (4)

  • SOC382 Human Rights: Research & Advocacy (4)

Ethics, Inequality, and Social Analysis

  • AES150 Introduction to American Ethnic Studies (4)

  • ECON 132 Introduction to Economic Inquiry (4)

  • ECON320 Discourse on Income Inequality (4)

  • ECON344 The Economics of Race & Gender (4)

  • ENVS120 Social Systems and the Environment (4)

  • ENVS304W Politics of Environmental Ethics (4)

  • ENVS334 Political Ecology (4)

  • ENVS360 Research in Environmental Health Geography (4)

  • PHIL235W Philosophical Ethics (4)

  • PPLE220 Politics & Ethics (4)

  • PPLE319 U.S. Welfare Policy (4)

  • RHET362W Telling News: Framing Reality (4)

  • SOC182 Racism & White Supremacy in the U.S. (4)

  • SOC186 Navigating Social Worlds (4)

  • SOC303 Sociological Theory (4)

  • SOC386 Special Topics in Sociology: Black Lives Matter (topic dependent) (4)

  • WGS245 Feminism, Gender, and Society (4)

  • LW268 Healthcare Law: The Affordable Care Act (3)

  • LW270 Medical Malpractice (3)

  • LW394 Biomedical Research (3)

  • LW3014 Health Care Transactions (3)

Clinical Sciences

  • BIOL120 Introduction to Biological Inquiry (4)

  • BIOL453W Research in Behavioral Ecology (4)

  • CHEM115 General Chemistry I (4)

  • CHEM116 General Chemistry II (4)

  • CHEM230 Environmental Chemistry (4)

  • ENVS381 Research in Spatial Science (4)

  • EXHS230 Community Health: Principles of Applied Nutrition (4)

  • EXHS340 Clinical Healthcare: Theory and Application (4)

  • EXHS347 Biomechanics (4)

  • IDS222 Fundamentals of Neuroscience (4)

  • MATH 239 Statistical Learning with R (4)

  • PSYC252W Research Methods & Analysis I (4)

  • PSYC337 Diagnosis of "Abnormal" Child and Adolescent Behavior (4)

  • PSYC345 Biopsychology (4)

Additional Elective (4 semester hours)

  • Four additional semester hours from any of the Part A: Health, Part B: Public Engagement, or Allied Concentration lists.

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