Student Learning Outcomes
Public Health Core Learning Outcomes
1. Communicate public health information, in both oral and written forms and through a variety of media, to diverse audiences
2. Locate, use, evaluate, and synthesize public health information
3. Apply basic principles of project implementation
4. Use concepts of population health and models from social and behavioral disciplines to promote health and address health related needs and concerns of groups and communities across the life course
5. Relate biology, health behavior, social determinants, and environmental contexts to human health, disease, and the expression of health disparities
6. Outline the organizational structure, function and delivery modalities for U.S. and global healthcare systems
7. Act according to professional values and ethics in public health practice, research and education
8. Describe how community forces, economic factors, and research shape health practices and policies
Concentration Competencies
Addiction Prevention
- Explain theoretical underpinnings of addiction in individuals and communities.
- Apply public health prevention theory, ethical principles, and findings from current scientific literature in addiction prevention programming
- Examine substance use and substance use disorders in the context of social and environmental influences
Community Health Education
- Apply a conceptual framework when planning community health education
- Develop an advocacy plan
- Identify factors that influence health behavior
Health and Society - enrollment suspended; concentration under revision
- Elucidate challenges populations may face in regards to human rights, access to services, financial strain, and social stigma
- State the basic theories and concepts of behavioral neuroscience
- Describe nutrition-related approaches to promote health
Healthcare Management
- Examine the role of ethics and policy in the delivery of healthcare
- Use fundamental concepts and processes relevant to quality improvement within healthcare systems
- Describe the complex issues impacting health care delivery, currently or in the future
- Apply leadership and management principes to the strategic management of healthcare employees
Program Requirements
Students must complete an approved health ethics course. An approved course list is available on the Public Health department web page. In addition, students must complete a life science course with lab (BIO 121 and 122 or BIO 123 and 124) and a statistics course (MAT 121 or MAT 221).