Department: Public Health

Code Name Description
PUBH301 Introduction to Public Health Designed to examine the current constructs of contemporary public health, students will survey the field of public health, identify stakeholder groups, what determines health, how public health is communicated and the approaches to understanding publ...
PUBH302 Public Health Program Planning Designed to expose public health undergraduate students to fundamental concepts and features of project implementation, including the concepts of population health and the basic processes, approaches, intervention that identify and address the major...
PUBH310 Public Health Evaluation Methods Designed to examine a systematic way to conduct an effective public health evaluation plan. Understanding and applying elements of an evaluation plan framwork allows students to view the program's context, procedures that are useful, feasible and eth...
PUBH311 Public Health Research Designed to provide an overview of research methods specific to public health. Course includes purpose, foundations, development of the research topic and research question, ethics, populations, study design, evaluation instrument development, data c...
PUBH410 Health, Wellness and Disease Prevention I Designed to expand beyond the basic science of public health and to include models, approaches, resources, tools and programs that intersect human health, disease and wellness for population health. Clinical presentation and epidemiology of diseases...
PUBH411 Health, Wellness and Disease Prevention II Designed to expand beyond the models, strategies, theories and programming found in PUBH 410. This is an applied course that provides opportunities to review and analyze various scenarios of population health and outcomes. Students will review the id...
PUBH420 Disaster Response Planning and Crisis Management I Designed to expand beyond the basic science of public health to include models, approaches, resources, tools, programs, and stakeholders that support the preparing, assessing, responding and managing disasters and other crisis-based situations. Disas...
PUBH421 Disaster Response Planning and Crisis Management II Designed to expand beyond the basic science of public health to include models, approaches, resources, tools, programs and stakeholders that support the preparing, assessing, responding, managing disaster and other crisis-based situations found in PU...
PUBH450 Integrative Public Health Experiential Capstone Designed to provide an opportunity to integrate, synthesize and apply public health knowledge through comulative and experiential activies. Demonstration of summative learning requires completion of a cumulative, integrative and applied experience or...
PUBH501 Community and Public Health Designed to examine the current theory and research about contemporary public health. Students will utilize qualitative and quantitative approaches to access population level public health topics by describing the major causes and trends of morbidity...
PUBH502 Cultural Diversity of Health Designed to examine the social and cultural determinants of health and illness in which students will explore the various principles and models of equitable health, analyzing the conditions and environments where people are born, live, work, recreate...
PUBH503 Health Communication Examines the research, information and data needed to plan, manage and assess health programs and to promote community health education. Students will learn core concepts for planning a communication framework as well as key strategies for educating...
PUBH520 Global Health Examines how to identify and improve public health outcomes in various global populations and cultures by analyzing the effec of cultural norms on socioeconomic inequalities. Students examine global regulatory issues and address emerging global publi...
PUBH530 Disaster Planning Examines the various perspectives and research that informs disaster planning. Student will evaluate the strength of disaster plans and analyze how the strength of the plan affects disaster preparedness, disaster response, management and community re...
PUBH540 PH Crisis Management Examines the complexities of confronting public health critical incidents and crisis management. The role of leadership, how decisions are made and implemented, information communication formats and distribution and stateholder input are examined. St...
PUBH550 Public Health Practicum An application of public health experiences through utilization of knowledge and skills obtained in the PUBH program and previous experiences. The student will work individually to define and develop a public health project from project scoping, form...
PUBH560 Capstone Students will synthesize program learning with a particular focus on public health scenarios. Students work as small teams to analyze public health scenarios and case studies that are situational to a military, first responder or a health care profes...