Coordinator, Allison Ruark

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:

Category 1 - Required Core Courses10
PHP 311
Introduction to Public Health 1
PHP 381
Concepts in Epidemiology 1
PHP 492
Public Health Senior Seminar
Category 2 - Electives (choose 12 credits) 212
ANTH 116
Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 353
Culture and Difference *
ANTH 361
Medical Anthropology
ANTH 451
African Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 482
Ethnographic Theory and Method *
B EC 382
Topics in Business (U.S. Health Insurance Market) 3
B EC 384
Topics in Business (Business of Health) 3
BIOL/PHIL 304
Bioethics
BIOL/PHIL/ENVR 305
Environmental Ethics
BIOL 318
Global Health
BIOL 334
Parasitology
BIOL 345
Disease Ecology
BIOL 346
Ecosystem Health
CORE 311
AIS: The Good in the Great Plagues 4
CORE 323
AIS: Humanitarian Disasters and Recovery 4
CORE 344
AIS: Gender and Global Health 4
ECON 321
Statistics *
ECON 362
Wealth & Poverty of Nations
ECON 364
Health Economics
ECON 365
Development Economics
HNGR 114
Poverty, Justice and Transformation
HNGR 385
Field Research Methods *
HS 368
Concepts in Nutrition
HS 382
Biostatistics *
IR 378
U.S. Foreign Policy
MATH 263
Introduction to Statistics *
PHIL 105
Race & Justice
PHIL 251
Global Justice
PHP 312
Pandemics: Ancient and Modern
PHP 373
Behavioral Medicine
PHP 374
Social Determinants of Health
PHP 495
Independent Study
PHP 496
Internship
PSCI 343
Political Ethics
PSCI 363
Race and Politics in the United States
PSCI 386
Congress & Policy Process
PSYC 235
Cross-Cultural Psychology
PSYC 268
Statistics *
SOC 337
Racial and Ethnic Relations
SOC 347
Gender & Society
SOC 355
Social Class & Inequality
SOC 364
Urban Sociology
SOC 383
Statistics *
SOC 482
Social Research *
URBN 114
Social Life of Cities
Total Credits22
1

Complete PHP 311 and PHP 381 early in the certificate.

2

At least 8 credits must be from departments outside the student's major.

3

Only B EC 382-3 (U.S. Health Insurance Market) and B EC 384-0 (Business of Health) may count towards this certificate.

4

Optional elective. Per college-wide policy, students may only take one AIS course total while at Wheaton.

*

Methods and statistics courses are marked with an asterisk, and only one may count as an elective.

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