Public Health, BA (Oakland)

Undergraduatemajor2027 catalogHealth SciencesOakland128 semester hours totalunverified parse — check the source

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 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

Psychology

PSYC 1101 — Foundations of Psychology

Biology

From the catalog
Complete one of the following options:

One of:
- Option 1 — all of:
  - One of:
    - BIOL 1143 — Biology and Society
    - BIOL 1141 — Microbes and Society
  - BIOL 1147 — The Human Organism
- Option 2 — all of:
  - 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

Introductory Course

From the catalog
Complete three of the following:

Choose 12 semester hours from:
- ANTH 1101 — Peoples and Cultures
- COMM 1225 — Communication Theory
- ECON 1115 — Principles of Macroeconomics
- ECON 1116 — Principles of Microeconomics
- HUSV 1101 — Social Change and Human Services
- INTL 1101 — Globalization and International Affairs
- PHIL 1101 — Introduction to Philosophy
- POLS 1160 — International Relations
- SOCL 1101 — Introduction to Sociology

Upper-Level Course

From the catalog
Complete three of the following (two must be at the 3000 level or above and from the same area):

Choose 9 semester hours from:
- Society and Behavior
  - One of:
    - AFCS 1225 — Gender, Race, and Medicine
    - HIST 1225 — Gender, Race, and Medicine
    - WMNS 1225 — Gender, Race, and Medicine
  - AFCS 2355 — Race, Identity, Social Change, and Empowerment
  - AFCS 2600 — Issues in Race, Science, and Technology
  - ANTH 3441 — Medical Anthropology
  - ARCH 5312 — Mapping and Building Health
  - ASNS 2245 — Introduction to Asian American Studies
  - CAEP 1290 — Personal Behavior Change
  - CAEP 2101 — Behavioral Assessment and Treatment of Health Problems in the 21st Century
  - COMM 2105 — Social Networks
  - COMM 3201 — Health Communication
  - COMM 4102 — Health Communication Campaigns
  - CRIM 3040 — Psychology of Crime
  - ENGL 3460 — The Archives of Public Health
  - HLTH 2100 — Interprofessional Ethics for Individual and Population Health
  - HLTH 5280 — The (in)Visibility of (dis)Ability in Society
  - PHIL 1165 — Moral and Social Problems in Healthcare
  - PHTH 2616 — Rural Health: An Interdisciplinary Seminar
  - PHTH 5222 — Health Advocacy
  - PSYC 1214 — The Moral Mind: The Science Underlying Ethical Decision-Making and Virtuous Character
  - PSYC 3402 — Social Psychology
  - PSYC 3404 — Developmental Psychology
  - PSYC 3450 — Learning and Motivation
  - SOCL 2303 — Gender and Reproductive Justice
  - SOCL 2358 — Current Issues in Cities and Suburbs
  - SOCL 3241 — Violence and Society
  - SOCL 3441 — Sociology of Health and Illness
  - SOCL 4520 — Race, Class, and Gender
  - WMNS 1101 — Sex, Gender, and Popular Culture
- Globalization and Global Health
  - One of:
    - AFCS 1270 — Introduction to Global Health
    - PHTH 1270 — Introduction to Global Health
  - AFCS 3424 — Epidemiology of Pandemic Diseases and Health Disparities in the African Diaspora
  - ECON 3404 — International Food Policy
  - HIST 2233 — The History of Medicine in North America
  - INNO 2206 — Global Social Enterprise
  - INTL 3200 — Cities in a Global Context
  - INTL 3400 — International Conflict and Negotiation
  - PHTH 3717 — Infectious Disease: Past, Present, Future
  - POLS 3487 — Politics of Developing Nations
- Environmental Health and Climate Change
  - COMM 3500 — Environmental Issues, Communication, and the Media
  - ECON 3423 — Environmental Economics
  - ENVR 1110 — Global Climate Change
  - One of:
    - INTL 5100 — Climate and Development
    - PPUA 5100 — Climate and Development
  - PHTH 2414 — Environmental Health
  - PPUA 5238 — Climate Change and Global Urbanization
  - SOCL 1246 — Environment and Society
  - SOCL 2485 — Environment, Technology, and Society
  - SUST 2820 — Climate Change, Health, and Resilience
- Law, Policy, and Human Rights
  - CRIM 1400 — Human Trafficking
  - ECON 3424 — Law and Economics
  - HIST 3344 — The History of Western Public Health
  - INMI 1877 — Race, Public Health, and Storytelling
  - INTL 2480 — Women and World Politics
  - LPSC 2301 — Introduction to Law, Policy, and Society
  - PHIL 2155 — Human Rights
  - PHIL 2301 — Philosophical Problems of Law and Justice
  - PHIL 2303 — Social and Political Philosophy
  - PHIL 2325 — Ancient Philosophy and Political Thought
  - PHIL 3065 — Bioethics in the Age of Big Data
  - PHIL 5001 — Global Justice
  - PHIL 5002 — Ethics and Public Policy
  - POLS 2345 — Urban Policies and Politics
  - POLS 3307 — Public Policy and Administration
- Healthcare Administration and Management
  - ECON 1230 — Healthcare and Medical Economics
  - ECON 3291 — Development Economics
  - ECON 3413 — Health Economics and Healthcare Policy
  - 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

Capstone

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

ENGW 1111 — First-Year Writing
ENGW 3306 — Advanced Writing in the Health Professions
HSCI 1000 — College: An Introduction
HSCI 2000 — Professional Development for Bouvé Co-op

Substitutions

Stated by the catalog on this program's requirements:

Must complete 0-semester-hour Capstone Project Design and Planning (HSCI 4700) as prerequisite.
Junior/Senior Honors Project 1 (HSCI 4970) will count as 4-semester-hour 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:

AFCS 1225 ↔ HIST 1225 (tier B)
AFCS 1225 ↔ WMNS 1225 (tier B)
HIST 1225 ↔ WMNS 1225 (tier B)
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-ba-oakland, and the official page is the authority.