Public Health Concentration
Students majoring in public health are required to define a Concentration for their chosen electives, in consultation with their advisor in the major. This is part of identifying the area in public health in which a student plans to pursue future graduate study and a career.
Students identify an area of public health that interests them (such as rural public health, community health education, healthcare administration, diet and nutrition, environmental health, global health) and the electives that will help them acquire relevant knowledge and methodologies in this area. Students may count no more than two courses from a single department in their electives for public health.
The list of approved courses from other academic departments that can be combined to form a Concentration will be reviewed and revised periodically by the Public Health Steering Committee to reflect course and seat availability, as well as the creation of new courses. Some of these courses may have pre-requisites, yet students coming to the public health major from other majors may already have completed those pre-requisites, and professors may also choose to waive pre-requisites at their discretion.