Public Health Ethics, Advocacy, and Leadership (BA)
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Requirements for the Public Health Major (44 semester hours)
Core Courses (20 semester hours)
course Introduction to Public Health (4)
course Public Health Epidemiology (4)
course Public Health Ethics (4)
One Quantitative and/or Spatial Methods, chosen from:
course Disease Epidemics (4)
course Biostatistics (4)
course Economic Statistics (4)
course Geographic Information Systems (4)
course Research Design and Analysis (4)
course Introduction to Applied Statistics (4)
course Introduction to Applied Statistics: Statistics and Applications (4)
course Research Methods & Analysis 2(4)
course Senior Seminar in Public Health (4)
(Course substitution, from select contributing departments such as ANTH, and EXHS, requires program approval.)
Part A: Health (8 semester hours)
These courses focus sustainability on facets of public health.
Complete eight semester hours of the following courses; no more than four semester hours from any discipline:
course Medical Anthropology (4)
course Human Anatomy (4)
course Human Physiology (4)
course Health & Global Environment (4)
course Environmental Health Geography (4)
course The Social History of Health (4)
course Food Justice (4)
course Disease Prevention (4) or course Special Topics in Exercise and Health Science: Disease Prevention (topic dependent) (4)
course Inner Life of Activism (4)
course Global Health through Film (4)
course Death in America (4)
course Health and Society (4)
course Health Care Law & Policy (4)
course Public Health Law (3)
Part B: Public Engagement (4 semester hours)
These courses emphasize various active modes of public advocacy, communication, leadership, participation, and/or service in the community.
Complete 4 semester hours from the following:
course Public Speaking (4)
course Arguing About the Right Thing to Do (4)
course Designing Persuasive Campaigns (4)
course Special Topics in Exercise and Health Science: Aging, Health, and Functional Assessment (topic dependent) (4)
course Public History Practicum: History in the News (2)
course History Through Biography (4)
course Willamette Emergency Medical Service (1)
course Perspectives in Health Careers I (1)
course Convocation: Reflecting on Campus, Community and Cosmos (2)
course Chemawa Indian School Partnership Program (2)
course Food Justice (4)
course Willamette Academy Service Learning (2)
course Science Communication and Outreach (2)
course Reforming Criminal Justice (4)
course Rhetoric & Leadership (4)
course Introduction to Management (4)
course Organizations--Design, Management, and Change (4)
Any credit-bearing internship with a health-related agency or organization, currently awarded credit through:
Allied Concentrations (8 semester hours)
These courses cover various general descriptive and prescriptive disciplinary approaches in the humanities, social sciences, and natural and clinical sciences that enrich a holistic view of public health but do not necessarily address health directly.
Complete 8 semester hours from the following categories; no more than four semester hours in any category:
Global and Area Studies
course Peoples and Cultures of Africa (4)
course Cultures of Mexico & Ecuador (4)
course Comparative Economic Systems (4)
course The Economics of Developing Countries (4)
course Narratives of Migration: From Islamic Spain to the US/Mexico Border (4)
course Politics in the Developing World
course Asian Politics & Development (4)
course Human Rights: Research & Advocacy (4)
Ethics, Inequality, and Social Analysis
course Introduction to American Ethnic Studies (4)
course Discourse on Income Inequality (4)
course The Economics of Race & Gender (4)
course Social Systems and the Environment (4)
course Politics of Environmental Ethics (4)
course Political Ecology (4)
course Research in Environmental Health Geography (4)
course Philosophical Ethics (4)
course Politics & Ethics (4)
course U.S. Welfare Policy (4)
course Telling News: Framing Reality (4)
course Racism & White Supremacy in the U.S. (4)
course Navigating Social Worlds (4)
course Sociological Theory (4)
course Special Topics in Sociology: Black Lives Matter (topic dependent) (4)
course Feminism, Gender, and Society (4)
course Health Law and Policy 2 (3)
course Medical Malpractice (3)
course Biomedical Research (3)
course Health Care Transactions (3)
Clinical Sciences
course Introduction to Biological Inquiry (4)
course Research in Behavioral Ecology (4)
course General Chemistry I (4)
course General Chemistry II (4)
course Environmental Chemistry (4)
course Research in Spatial Science (4)
course Community Health: Principles of Applied Nutrition (4)
course Clinical Healthcare: Theory and Application (4)
course Biomechanics (4)
course Fundamentals of Neuroscience (4)
course Research Methods & Analysis I (4)
course Diagnosis of "Abnormal" Child and Adolescent Behavior (4)
course Biopsychology (4)
Additional Elective (4 semester hours)
Four additional semester hours from any of the Part A: Health, Part B: Public Engagement, or Allied Concentration lists.