Public Health, BS
General Requirements
To earn a degree, students must satisfy all requirements in each of the three areas below, in addition to their individual major requirements.
- CU Denver General Degree Requirements
- CU Denver Core Curriculum
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Program Requirements
- Students must complete a total of 73 credit hours from approved courses.
- Students must complete a minimum of 16 upper-division (3000-level and above) credit hours from approved courses.
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Students must earn a minimum grade of C- (1.7) in all courses that apply to the major and must achieve a minimum cumulative major GPA of 2.0. Courses taken using P+/P/F or S/U grading cannot apply to major requirements.
- Students must complete a minimum of 26 PBHL credit hours with CU Denver faculty, including a minimum of 5 of the following PBHL 2001 Introduction to Public Health , PBHL 3001 Introduction to Epidemiology , PBHL 3020 Introduction to Environmental Health , PBHL 3030 Health Policy, PBHL 3070 Perspectives in Global Health, PBHL 4040 Social Determinants of Health or PBHL 4099 Capstone Experience in Public Health.
Program Restrictions, Allowances and Recommendations
- PHYS 2321 Intro Experimental Phys Lab I and PHYS 2341 Intro Experimental Phys Lab II are specifically designed for students in non-Physics majors and can be paired with either PHYS 2010 College Physics I and PHYS 2020 College Physics II or PHYS 2311 General Physics I: Calculus-Based and PHYS 2331 General Physics II: Calculus-Based lectures. Students pursuing a second major in Physics should complete PHYS 2311 General Physics I: Calculus-Based and PHYS 2331 General Physics II: Calculus-Based and PHYS 2351 Applied Physics Lab I and PHYS 2361 Applied Physics Lab II.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Complete the following program requirements: | 73 | |
| Complete all of the following required courses: | 23 | |
A minimum of five must be taken at the University of Colorado Denver. | ||
| Introduction to Public Health | ||
| Introduction to Epidemiology | ||
| Introduction to Environmental Health | ||
| Health Policy | ||
| Perspectives in Global Health | ||
| Social Determinants of Health | ||
| Capstone Experience in Public Health | ||
| Complete one of the following Quantitative Methods courses, or another statistics course that has been approved by the undergraduate program director/advisor in advance: | 3 | |
| Quantitative Methods in Anthropology | ||
| Biostatistics | ||
| Introductory Statistics | ||
| Applied Statistics | ||
| Statistics and Research Methods | ||
| Complete the following Biological and Physical Sciences requirements: | 41 | |
| Organisms to Ecosystems (Gen Bio) | ||
or BIOL 2030 | Honors Organisms to Ecosystems (Gen Bio) | |
| Organisms to Ecosystems Lab (Gen Bio) | ||
or BIOL 2031 | Honors Organisms to Ecosystems Lab (Gen Bio) | |
| Molecules to Cells (Gen Bio) | ||
or BIOL 2040 | Honors Molecules to Cells (Gen Bio) | |
| Molecules to Cells Lab (Gen Bio) | ||
or BIOL 2041 | Honors Molecules to Cells Lab (Gen Bio) | |
| General Chemistry I | ||
or CHEM 2081 | Honors General Chemistry I | |
| General Chemistry Laboratory I | ||
or CHEM 2088 | Honors General Chemistry I Laboratory | |
| General Chemistry II | ||
or CHEM 2091 | Honors General Chemistry II Lecture | |
| General Chemistry Laboratory II | ||
or CHEM 2098 | Honors General Chemistry II Laboratory | |
| Organic Chemistry I | ||
or CHEM 3481 | Majors Organic Chemistry I | |
| Organic Chemistry Lab I | ||
or CHEM 3488 | Majors Organic Chemistry Laboratory I | |
| Organic Chemistry II | ||
or CHEM 3491 | Majors Organic Chemistry II | |
| Organic Chemistry Lab II | ||
or CHEM 3498 | Majors Organic Chemistry Laboratory II | |
| Calculus I | ||
| College Physics I | ||
or PHYS 2311 | General Physics I: Calculus-Based | |
| College Physics II | ||
or PHYS 2331 | General Physics II: Calculus-Based | |
| Intro Experimental Phys Lab I | ||
| Intro Experimental Phys Lab II | ||
| Complete three credits (1 course) of PBHL electives. | 3 | |
| Complete three additional PBHL elective credits, or choose one of the following pre-approved electives from another department, or another course that has been approved by the undergraduate program director/advisor in advance: | 3 | |
| Medical Anthropology: Global Health | ||
| Global Health Practice | ||
| Psychedelic Anthropology | ||
| Anthropology and Public Health | ||
| Medical Anthropology | ||
| Health Communication | ||
| Health Communication and Community | ||
| Rhetorics of Medicine & Health | ||
| Designing Health Messages | ||
| Health Risk Communication | ||
| Health Economics. | ||
| Environment, Society and Sustainability | ||
| Ethnicity, Health and Social Justice | ||
| Geography of Health | ||
| Hazard Mitigation and Vulnerability Assessment | ||
| GIS Applications in the Health Sciences | ||
| Foundations of Health Humanities | ||
| Death & Dying: Social & Medical Perspectives | ||
| Gender, Science, and Medicine: 1600 to the Present | ||
| Medicine, Health Care, and Justice: Bioethics | ||
| Women's Rights, Human Rights: Global Perspectives | ||
| U.S. Health Policy | ||
| Health Psychology | ||
| Drugs, Brain and Behavior | ||
| Abnormal Psychology | ||
| Aging, Brain and Behavior | ||
| Medical Sociology | ||
| Death & Dying: Social & Medical Perspectives | ||
| Sociology of Health Care | ||
| Population Change and Analysis | ||
| Aging, Society and Social Policy | ||
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