Health Administration & Policy
The minor in Public Health acquaints students with the science of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting healthy life styles both in this country and abroad. Public health includes the study of the causes and distribution of disease frequency in human populations and interventions aimed at minimizing risk factors and preventing disease at the population level. This discipline studies community efforts for improving the environment, containing community infections, addressing the social determinants of health and developing the social machinery to maintain the health of a population.
* It is possible for HAP majors to minor in Public Health as long as the students take at least two courses that are not part of the HAP major.
Requirements:
HAP 350 Essentials of Public Health
HAP 355 Essentials of Epidemiology
HAP/SRP 456 Public Health Ethics OR
HAP/SRP 457 Biomedical Ethics
and one of the following:
HAP 420 Seminar in Health Policy
ANT/SOC/HAP 317 Global Health Issues
PLS 435 Global Poverty & Development
PLS 319 Politics of the Developing Areas
EDP 361 Social Justice in the Dominican Republic*
Group I - 3 hours
Anthropology/Sociology
ANT/SOC 312 Quantitative Methods in Social Science
ANT/SOC 314 Statistics for the Social Sciences
SOC/HAP 315 Healthcare, Society & Culture
ANT/SOC 307 Demography - World Population Issues (unless taken as a requirement)
ANT/NAS 340 Native American Culture and Health
ANT 363 Medical Anthropology
ANT 383 Cultural Epidemiology
SOC 355 Environment and Society: Sociological Perspectives
SOC 455 Food, Society & Environment
PLS/HAP 520 Statistics for Public Administration & Policy Analysis
Political Science
PLS 333 Environmental Politics and Policy
PLS/HAP 433 Public Policy Analysis
Group II - 3 hours
Biology/Environmental/Statistical Studies
BIO 149 Human Biology
BIO 351 Microbiology
BIO/EVS 390 Environmental Sciences
BIO 401 Biostatisics
BIO 432 Introduction to Immunology
BIO/EVS 539 Ecology of Zoonotic Diseases
BIO 581 Evolution
MTH 363 Elementary Probability & Statistics
MTH 513 Probability & Statistics in the Health Sciences
Health Administration and Policy
HAP/PLS 334 Public Policy of Healthcare
HAP/PLS 331 Managing Profit and Non-profit Organizations
Social Work
SWK 261 Introduction to Social Welfare
*Taught in the DR
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