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American University Catalog 2015-2016

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Public Health (BA)

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Offered by the Department of Health Studies , College of Arts and Sciences .

Admission to the Program

Admission is through formal declaration of major.

University Requirements

120 credit hours with a cumulative GPA of 2.00 or better
Completion of college writing requirement
Completion of university mathematics requirement

General Education Requirements

A total of ten courses, consisting of two courses from each of the five foundational areas
At least one course from Area Five: The Natural and Mathematical Sciences must include a laboratory science component
No more than two courses may be taken in the same discipline

Major Requirements

47 credit hours with grades of C or better

Course Requirements

Core Courses (26 credit hours)

Elective Courses (21 credit hours)

Complete 21 credit hours from at least three of the four clusters below, with no more than 3 credit hours total from the 200-level. Note: Some courses may have additional prerequisites.

Global Health

Health Science

BIO-501 Mechanisms of Pathogenesis (3)
or
BIO-541 Cellular Immunology (3)
CHEM-465 Biochemistry I (3)
or
CHEM-470 Principles of Biochemistry (3)
ENVS-324 Environmental Health: Environmental Issues in Public Health (3)
PSYC-320 Women and Mental Health (3)
PSYC-425 Psychology of Eating Disorders and Obesity (3)
PSYC-430 Human Sexual Behavior (3)
PUBH-320 Introduction to Infectious Disease (4)
STAT-320 Biostatistics (3)
STAT-405 Introduction to Survey Sampling (3)
or
STAT-517 Special Topics in Statistical Methodology (3) : Advanced Biostatistics (3)

Policy, Program Planning, and Evaluation

COMM-540 Social Marketing (3)
or
MKTG-250 Fundamentals of Marketing and Business for Communications (3)
COMM-580 Strategic Health Communication (3)
or
HPRM-441 Health Communication (3)
or
SISU-350 Topics in Environmental Sustainability and Global Health (3) : Health Communication Across Borders (3)
ECON-373 Labor Economics (3)
ENVS-465 Environmental Risk Assessment (3)
or
JLC-352 Psychiatry and the Law (3)
or
JLC-451 Drugs, Crime, and Public Policy (3)
HPRM-335 Heath Promotion Program Planning (3)
HPRM-410 Health Promotion Management (3)
PSYC-497 Topics in Psychology (3) : Community Interventions (3)
PSYC-555 Improving Human Services (3)

Social and Community Health

ANTH-334 Environmental Justice (3)
ANTH-350 Special Topics (3) : Medical Anthropology (3)
HIST-469 History of Medicine in the United States: from Smallpox to AIDS (3)
HPRM-245 Multicultural Health FA4 (3)
HPRM-480 Health Policy and Behavior Change (3)
JLC-426 Domestic Violence (3)
or
PSYC-497 Topics in Psychology (3) : Stress and Coping
PHIL-485 Selected Topics in Philosophy (3) : Critical Bioethics (3)
PSYC-333 Health Psychology (3)
PSYC-345 Community Psychology (3)
PUBH-330 Community Public Health (3)
SOCY-335 Sociology of Birth and Death (3)

Combined Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees

American University offers students the opportunity to earn both undergraduate and graduate degrees through its combined bachelor’s/master’s programs. See Combined Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees for more information.

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