Bachelor of Science in Public Health

Major in Public Health
Major Requirements: Core = 14 units, Collateral = 0 units, Total = 14 units 

Course List

Code	Title	Units
General Education Requirements
The student must complete the General Education Requirements of the College of Arts & Sciences.		9
Major Requirements
Scientific Foundation
BIOL 141P	Introductory Biology: Biochemistry, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics	1
BIOL 142P	Introductory Biology: Animal and Plant Physiology	1
Public Health Core
PUBH 140V	Introduction to Public Health	1
PUBH 284Q	Introduction to Epidemiology	1
PUBH 301P	Foundations of Environmental Health Science	1
PUBH 303	Global Health	1
BIOL 243Q	Biostatistics 1	1
or ENSS 345Q	Statistics for Environmental Professionals
PUBH 498	Senior Research Proposal 2	1
PUBH 499	Senior Project 2	1
Experiential Learning
Select one of the following courses:		1
PUBH 305V	Food Insecurity Challenges and Solutions
PUBH 306V	Food Safety and Public Health
PUBH 486	Planning for Healthy Cities
PUBH 397	Public Health Internship
Language Requirement
Proficiency in a foreign language at or above 202L		1
Major Electives 1
Choose three units from the following list (2 of the 3 should have a different prefix):		3
BIOL 301	Microbiology *
BIOL 302	Genetics *
BIOL 425	Cell Biology *
CHEM 201	Organic Chemistry I *
CHEM 204	Biochemistry I *
CHEM 301	Organic Chemistry II *
COMM 327V	Health Communication
ECON 366V	Health Economics
ENSS 201	Introduction to Maps and Geographic Information Systems *
FOOD 230P	Growing Food in Cities
FOOD 226V	School Food: Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat
FOOD 318V	Seeds of Equity
HLSC 201	Anatomy & Physiology I *
HLSC 202	Anatomy and Physiology II *
HLSC 200V	Introduction to Nutrition Science
HLSC 301	Theories and Methods of Health Behavior Change
HLSC 343	Virology of Spillover
PHIL 316V	Bio-Medical Ethics
POLI 315	American Health Care Policy
POLI 326V	Politics, Policy, and Public Health (Junior Seminar)
PSYC 313V	Drugs, Mind and Behavior
PSYC 352V	Health Psychology
PSYC 452V	Human Sexuality
PUBH 305V	Food Insecurity Challenges and Solutions
PUBH 306V	Food Safety and Public Health
PUBH 486	Planning for Healthy Cities
SOCI 375	Medicine and Health in Society
SOCI 338V	Examining a Pandemic: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Tuberculosis
General Electives		9
Total Units		32

*

Course has a lab requirement.

¹

Courses outside this list should seek program approval.

²

Double major students who wish to satisfy PUBH 498 and/or PUBH 499 through another program or department must:

1. seek prior approval from the Public Health program; and
2. take at least 1 unit with a PUBH prefix in the place of PUBH 498 / PUBH 499. This unit cannot be internship or Independent study.