PUB-240
PUB-250
Human Disease and Human Prevention
Health Communication Strategies
In this course, students will examine common diseases affecting human populations around the globe and the biological processes that contribute to those diseases. Students will explore strategies to prevent common diseases. This course introduces concepts that will be explored in more depth in PUB 310 Introduction to Epidemiology.
This course will provide students with an introduction to health communications. Students will learn how to develop and implement effective, accessible, ethical, and culturally appropriate health communications.
PUB-299 |
Selected Topic in Public Health |
This course focuses on exploration of a topic selected by the instructor. It is |
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course may be repeated for credit if the topic changes. |
PUB-300
Managing Public Health Organizations
In this course, students will review key public health organizations and compare systems of healthcare in the US and other countries. Public health management and leadership skills will be introduced, including those needed for implementing health interventions.
PUB-310 |
Introduction to Epidemiology |
In this course, students will develop an understanding of the field and methods of epidemiology. Students will examine disease surveillance systems around the world and explore strategies used to understand disease cause and spread and to improve population health. |
PUB-320
PUB-330
Research Methods for Public Health
Planning / Eval Pub Hlth Interventions
Students in this course will examine quantitative and qualitative research methods commonly used in public health. Students will learn to critique and design public health research. An emphasis will be placed on ethics in research design and implementation.
In this course, students will integrate their understanding of human health, determinants of health, health data, research, and strategies to affect health into the development of health education and promotion interventions designed to meet the needs of communities. Students will learn how to develop an effective intervention to address the identified need, and how to design and implement an evaluation and use evaluation results to improve health.
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