The Multidisciplinary Certificate in Public Health leverages common courses and a flexible, elective-oriented selection of classes to deepen students’ engagement with public health issues using skills and knowledge drawn from the intersection of the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Students will develop fluency across relevant public health-related disciplines, analyze how public health problems are structured in various contexts, and develop skills in proposing and evaluating interventions to complex and intransigent public health problems. The 22-credit Certificate includes required courses in epidemiology and other public health approaches and methods, along with elective courses with salience for the study and practice of public health.
The requirements for this certificate are 22 credits as follows:
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Category 1 - Required Core Courses | 10 | |
| The Integrated Biological and Health Scientist | ||
or BMB 494 | Biochemistry Molecular Biology Capstone | |
or NEUR 494 | Neuroscience Capstone | |
| Introduction to Public Health 1 | ||
| Concepts in Epidemiology 1 | ||
| Category 2 - Methods and Statistics (choose 1 course) 2 | 4 | |
| Ethnographic Theory and Method | ||
| Statistics | ||
| Field Research Methods and Intercultural Orientation (This course open only to students in the Human Needs Global Resources (HNGR) certificate.) | ||
| Biostatistics | ||
| Public Health Research Theory and Methods | ||
| Introduction to Statistics | ||
| Statistics | ||
| Statistics | ||
| Social Research | ||
| Category 3 - Issues and Context (choose 8 credits) 2 | 8 | |
| Medical Anthropology | ||
| Food, Farms, and Culture | ||
| Topics in Business | ||
| Topics in Business | ||
| Bioethics | ||
| Environmental Ethics | ||
| Global Health | ||
| Introduction to Environmental Ethics | ||
| Health Economics | ||
| Poverty, Justice and Transformation | ||
| Pandemics: Ancient and Modern | ||
| Concepts in Nutrition | ||
| Behavioral Medicine | ||
| Social Determinants of Health | ||
| Race & Justice | ||
| Ethics & Society | ||
| Global Justice | ||
| Cross-Cultural Psychology | ||
| Political Ethics | ||
| Urban Politics | ||
| Violence in Minority Communities | ||
| Violence Against Women | ||
| Gender & Society | ||
| Social Class & Inequality | ||
| Social Life of Cities | ||
| Race, Poverty, and Reconciliation | ||
| Total Credits | 22 | |
- 1
Complete HS 381 and HS 311 early in the certificate.
- 2
At least 8 credits must be from departments outside the student's major.