I. Core Courses (36 credits)

• PH 101 - Principles of Public Health OR
• PH 201 - Public Health (Gateway Course)

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• MATH 117 - Introductory Statistics

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• BIOL 120 - Human Health and Disease OR
• BIOL 103 - Microbes in Health and Disease OR
• BIOL 252 - Microbiology (prereq: BIOL 160 , BIOL 250 , CHEM 150 , CHEM 160 )

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• PH 340 - Epidemiology (prereq MATH 117 )
• PH 341 - Research Methods in Population Health (prereq. MATH 117 , PH 101  or PH 201 )
• PH 352 - Global and International Health

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• PH 360 - Health Policy OR
• PH 320 - Environmental Health OR
• BIOL 220 - Nutrition (prereq. one course in BIOL, CHEM, PH or NEUR)

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• ANTH 301 - Medical Anthropology (prereq. ANTH 104  or PH 201  or PH 101  or permission of Instructor) OR
• SOC 311 - Sociology of Health and Illness (prereq. SOC 101  or permission of instructor)

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• PH 400 - Capstone in Public Health

II. Foundational Electives (20 credits)

Proper training in population health necessitates a broad understanding of the life and social sciences.  Public Health majors must, therefore, choose from 20 elective credits.  These courses will provide them with foundational knowledge about the biophysical environment and the sociocultural environment.  Specifically, PH majors are required to take at least one elective course in the sciences category and two elective courses in the sociocultural category.  An additional requirement is that PH majors must take a minimum of two elective courses that carry the PH designation.  These two PH elective courses may be taken from either biosceinces category or the sociocultural category.