Health Science, BS (Boston)

Undergraduatemajor2027 catalogHealth SciencesBoston128 semester hours totalunverified parse — check the source

Public Health Core

One of:
- PHTH 1260 — The U.S. Healthcare System
- PHTH 1261 — Comparative Healthcare Systems
PHTH 2210 — Foundations of Biostatistics
One of:
- PHTH 2300 — Communication Skills for the Health Professions
- PHTH 2301 — Communication Skills for the Health Professions—Global
One of:
- PHTH 2350 — Community and Public Health
- PHTH 2351 — Community and Public Health - Global
PHTH 2515 — Healthcare Policy and Administration
PHTH 4120 — Global Perspectives on Discrimination and Health
PHTH 4202 — Principles of Epidemiology in Medicine and Public Health
PHTH 4540 — Health Education and Program Planning

Science Requirement

All of:
- BIOL 1111 — General Biology 1
- BIOL 1112 — Lab for BIOL 1111
All of:
- BIOL 1113 — General Biology 2
- BIOL 1114 — Lab for BIOL 1113
All of:
- CHEM 1161 — General Chemistry for Science Majors
- CHEM 1162 — Lab for CHEM 1161
- CHEM 1163 — Recitation for CHEM 1161
MATH 1241 — Calculus 1
PSYC 1101 — Foundations of Psychology

Selectives

From the catalog
Complete at least three courses from the groups listed below with at least two in one category. At least one of the courses must be at the 2000 level or higher. Students may complete additional courses to fulfill a minor, such as global health, nutrition, and exercise science.

Choose 9 semester hours from:
- Society and Health
  - ANTH 3441 — Medical Anthropology
  - CRIM 3040 — Psychology of Crime
  - HLTH 5280 — The (in)Visibility of (dis)Ability in Society
  - INSH 1300 — Introduction to Health and Humanities
  - PHTH 1270 — Introduction to Global Health
  - AFCS 1270 — Introduction to Global Health
  - PHTH 2414 — Environmental Health
  - PHTH 2616 — Rural Health: An Interdisciplinary Seminar
  - PHTH 3717 — Infectious Disease: Past, Present, Future
  - PHTH 5222 — Health Advocacy
  - PHTH 5234 — Economic Perspectives on Health Policy
  - SOCL 1245 — Sociology of Poverty
  - SOCL 1246 — Environment and Society
  - SOCL 1260 — Sociology of Gender
  - SOCL 1295 — Drugs and Society
  - SOCL 2303 — Gender and Reproductive Justice
  - SOCL 2485 — Environment, Technology, and Society
  - SOCL 3441 — Sociology of Health and Illness
  - SOCL 4522 — Environmental Justice
  - SUST 2820 — Climate Change, Health, and Resilience
  - WMNS 1225 — Gender, Race, and Medicine
- Policy and Administration
  - ECON 1230 — Healthcare and Medical Economics
  - ECON 3404 — International Food Policy
  - HUSV 2800 — Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression
  - HUSV 3900 — Social Policy
  - INMI 1877 — Race, Public Health, and Storytelling
  - INNO 2206 — Global Social Enterprise
  - LPSC 2301 — Introduction to Law, Policy, and Society
  - MGMT 3340 — Healthcare Management, Innovation, and Design
  - ORGB 3201 — Organizational Behavior
  - PHTH 4511 — Healthcare Management
  - PHTH 5232 — Evaluating Healthcare Quality
  - PHTH 5234 — Economic Perspectives on Health Policy
  - POLS 2395 — Environmental Politics and Policy
  - POLS 3309 — Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues in Public Policy
  - SOCL 3241 — Violence and Society
- Nutrition and Wellness
  - CAEP 1280 — Introduction to Mindfulness
  - CAEP 1290 — Personal Behavior Change
  - CAEP 2012 — Health Psychology: An Introduction
  - CAEP 2101 — Behavioral Assessment and Treatment of Health Problems in the 21st Century
  - COMM 2555 — Games for Change
  - COMM 3201 — Health Communication
  - EXSC 1120 — Introduction to Exercise, Fitness, and Health
  - EXSC 4500 — Exercise Physiology 1
  - EXSC 5200 — Cardiopulmonary Physiology
  - EXSC 5220 — Advanced Exercise Physiology
  - HLTH 5002 — Mindfulness: Theory and Practice
  - HSCI 1105 — Human Nutrition
  - HSCI 1106 — Contemporary Issues in Nutrition
  - HSCI 2350 — Advanced Nutrition in Health and Disease
  - HSCI 2500 — Public Health Nutrition in the Community
  - PSYC 1250 — Drugs and Behavior
- Digital Health
  - CS 2000 — Introduction to Program Design and Implementation
  - CS 2001 — Lab for CS 2000
  - CS 4350 — Empirical Research Methods
  - DS 4200 — Information Presentation and Visualization
  - HINF 5101 — Introduction to Health Informatics and Health Information Systems
  - HINF 5200 — Theoretical Foundations in Personal Health Informatics
  - HINF 5300 — Personal Health Interface Design and Development
- Health Data Science
  - ANTH 3410 — Ethnographic Field Experience
  - ARCH 5312 — Mapping and Building Health
  - PHIL 3065 — Bioethics in the Age of Big Data
  - POLS 2399 — Research Methods in Political Science

Capstone Requirement

From the catalog
Complete one of the following:

One of:
- HINF 5301 — Evaluating Health Technologies
- HSCI 4720 — Health Science Capstone—Service
- HSCI 4730 — Health Science Capstone—Research
- HSCI 4740 — Health Science Capstone Seminar
- All of:
  - HSCI 4970 — Junior/Senior Honors Project 1
  - HSCI 4971 — Junior/Senior Honors Project 2
- PHTH 4515 — Critical Issues in Health and Public Health Policy
- PHTH 4602 — Private Guns, Public Health
- PHTH 4616 — Addressing Rural Health Inequities
- PHTH 4717 — Advancing Health Justice Through the Law
- PHTH 4818 — Let’s Talk About Sex: Exploring Key Topics and Current Issues in Sexual and Reproductive Health
- PHTH 5214 — Environmental Health
- PHTH 5230 — Global Health
- PHTH 5236 — Food, Nutrition, and Health
- PHTH 5560 — Public and Community Health Program Evaluation
- PHTH 5603 — Qualitative Methods

Other Major Requirements

HSCI 1000 — College: An Introduction
HSCI 2000 — Professional Development for Bouvé Co-op
ENGW 1111 — First-Year Writing
ENGW 3306 — Advanced Writing in the Health Professions
PHIL 1165 — Moral and Social Problems in Healthcare

Substitutions

Stated by the catalog on this program's requirements:

Must complete 0SH Capstone Project Design and Planning (HSCI 4700) as pre-requisite.
Junior/Senior Honors Project 1 (HSCI 4970) counts as 4 semester hours general elective.

Parsed from the catalog by NU Map; the structured machine copy is in this college's JSON for the 2027 catalog, under health-science-bs-boston, and the official page is the authority.