BA Public Health
Course Overview
This interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts in Public Health, offered by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Colorado School of Public Health, equips students with a unique social science perspective on population health. Graduates are prepared for immediate careers or advanced study in a wide range of fields, from public health practice and policy to law and social work. The program focuses on understanding the social and behavioral factors that influence community well-being and developing effective interventions.
Key Program Highlights
- An interdisciplinary curriculum blending social sciences and public health fundamentals
- Direct collaboration with the renowned Colorado School of Public Health
- Preparation for diverse graduate programs or careers in health policy and administration
- Focus on social and behavioral interventions to promote community health
- Personalized academic advising to tailor the degree to individual career goals
Course Overview
This interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts in Public Health, offered by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Colorado School of Public Health, equips students with a unique social science perspective on population health. Graduates are prepared for immediate careers or advanced study in a wide range of fields, from public health practice and policy to law and social work. The program focuses on understanding the social and behavioral factors that influence community well-being and developing effective interventions.
Key Program Highlights
- An interdisciplinary curriculum blending social sciences and public health fundamentals
- Direct collaboration with the renowned Colorado School of Public Health
- Preparation for diverse graduate programs or careers in health policy and administration
- Focus on social and behavioral interventions to promote community health
- Personalized academic advising to tailor the degree to individual career goals
Requirements
Modules
- Introduction to Public Health
- Introduction to Epidemiology
- Introduction to Environmental Health
- Health Policy
- Perspectives in Global Health
- Social Determinants of Health
- Capstone Experience in Public Health
- Quantitative Methods in Anthropology
- Introductory Statistics
- Applied Statistics
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Medical Anthropology: Global Health
- Global Health Practice
- Psychedelic Anthropology
- Anthropology and Public Health
- Medical Anthropology
- Health Communication
- Health Communication and Community
- Rhetorics of Medicine & Health
- Designing Health Messages
- Health Risk Communication
- Health Economics
- Environment, Society and Sustainability
- Ethnicity, Health and Social Justice
- Geography of Health
- Hazard Mitigation and Vulnerability Assessment
- GIS Applications in the Health Sciences
- Foundations of Health Humanities
- Death & Dying: Social & Medical Perspectives
- Gender, Science, and Medicine: 1600 to the Present
- Medicine, Health Care, and Justice: Bioethics
- Women's Rights, Human Rights: Global Perspectives
- U.S. Health Policy
- Health Psychology
- Drugs, Brain and Behavior
- Psychopathology
- Aging, Brain and Behavior
- Medical Sociology
- Sociology of Health Care
- Population Change and Analysis
- Basic Biology: Ecology and the Diversity of Life
- Basic Biology: From Cells to Organisms
- Introduction to Biological Anthropology
- Organisms to Ecosystems (Gen Bio)
- Honors Organisms to Ecosystems (Gen Bio)
- Organisms to Ecosystems Lab (Gen Bio)
- Honors Organisms to Ecosystems Lab (Gen Bio)
- Molecules to Cells (Gen Bio)
- Honors Molecules to Cells (Gen Bio)
- Molecules to Cells Lab (Gen Bio)
- Honors Molecules to Cells Lab (Gen Bio)
