Public Health and Journalism, BA (Boston)

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BA Language Requirements

12 semester hours.

From the catalog
All BA students are required to complete the BA degree language requirements, for a total of 12 semester hours of language study or demonstrated equivalent proficiency, as described in Additional Requirements for BA students. Successful demonstration of proficiency does not reduce total minimum semester hours of study required to earn the BA degree.

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 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

PSYC 1101 — Foundations of Psychology
From the catalog
Biology
Complete one of the following options:
Option 1
Option 2
One of:
- One of:
  - BIOL 1141 — Microbes and Society
  - BIOL 1143 — Biology and Society
- BIOL 1147 — The Human Organism
- 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

Public Health Social Science Requirement

From the catalog
Introductory
Complete one of the following:

One of:
- ANTH 1101 — Peoples and Cultures
- COMM 1225 — Communication Theory
- ECON 1115 — Principles of Macroeconomics
- ECON 1116 — Principles of Microeconomics
- ENGL 1300 — Introduction to Health and Humanities
- HUSV 1101 — Social Change and Human Services
- PHIL 1101 — Introduction to Philosophy
- POLS 1160 — International Relations
- SOCL 1101 — Introduction to Sociology
From the catalog
Upper Level
Complete one of the following:
One of:
- AFCS 3424 — Epidemiology of Pandemic Diseases and Health Disparities in the African Diaspora
- ANTH 3441 — Medical Anthropology
- COMM 3201 — Health Communication
- COMM 3500 — Environmental Issues, Communication, and the Media
- COMM 4102 — Health Communication Campaigns
- CRIM 3040 — Psychology of Crime
- ECON 3404 — International Food Policy
- ECON 3413 — Health Economics and Healthcare Policy
- ECON 3423 — Environmental Economics
- ECON 3424 — Law and Economics
- HLTH 5280 — The (in)Visibility of (dis)Ability in Society
- One of:
  - INTL 3200 — Cities in a Global Context
  - INTL 3201 — Cities in a Global Context (Abroad)
- INTL 3400 — International Conflict and Negotiation
- ORGB 3201 — Organizational Behavior
- PHIL 5001 — Global Justice
- PHIL 5002 — Ethics and Public Policy
- PHTH 3717 — Infectious Disease: Past, Present, Future
- PHTH 4511 — Healthcare Management
- PHTH 5222 — Health Advocacy
- PHTH 5232 — Evaluating Healthcare Quality
- PHTH 5234 — Economic Perspectives on Health Policy
- POLS 3307 — Public Policy and Administration
- POLS 3487 — Politics of Developing Nations
- One of:
  - PPUA 5100 — Climate and Development
  - INTL 5100 — Climate and Development
- PPUA 5238 — Climate Change and Global Urbanization
- PSYC 3402 — Social Psychology
- PSYC 3450 — Learning and Motivation
- SOCL 3241 — Violence and Society
- SOCL 3441 — Sociology of Health and Illness
- SOCL 4520 — Race, Class, and Gender

Journalism Foundation

All of:
- JRNL 1101 — Journalism 1: Fundamentals of Reporting and Writing
- JRNL 1102 — Journalist’s Toolbox
JRNL 1150 — Understanding Today’s News
JRNL 2201 — Journalism 2: Intermediate Reporting

Visual Storytelling

From the catalog
Complete one of the following:

One of:
- JRNL 2301 — Visual Storytelling in Journalism
- JRNL 5309 — News Documentary Production
- JRNL 5310 — Photojournalism
- JRNL 5314 — Video News Reporting and Producing

Law and Ethics

From the catalog
Complete one of the following:

One of:
- JRNL 3550 — The First Amendment and the Media
- JRNL 4650 — Ethics and Diversity in the News Media

Journalism Electives

16 semester hours.

From the catalog
Complete any four JRNL electives (two must be at the 3000 level or above).

Intro to College

One of:
- HSCI 1000 — College: An Introduction
- JRNL 1000 — Journalism at Northeastern

Intro to Co-op

One of:
- HSCI 2000 — Professional Development for Bouvé Co-op
- EEAM 2000 — Professional Development for Co-op

Integrative Course

From the catalog
Complete one of the following:

One of:
- JRNL 3650 — Science Writing
- JRNL 3700 — Data Storytelling

Writing Requirement

ENGW 1111 — First-Year Writing
One of:
- ENGW 3306 — Advanced Writing in the Health Professions
- ENGW 3314 — Advanced Writing in the Arts, Media, and Design
- ENGW 3303 — Advanced Writing in the Environmental Professions

Capstone

From the catalog
Choose 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

Substitutions

Stated by the catalog on this program's requirements:

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

Possible equivalents for this program beyond the above — dashed means a suggestion, not a rule, and every substitution needs your advisor's approval:

INTL 5100 ↔ PPUA 5100 (tier B)

What the tiers mean

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