| Public Health |
| A.A. Degree (Transfer) An Arts and Sciences Area of Study |
| APPLICATION CODE 250 |
| For curriculum information, contact the Health Sciences Division—Room ST-149—443-518-1560. |
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| Public Health is a dynamic field that focuses on saving lives on a population level through disease and injury prevention strategies. Public Health includes a variety of challenging disciplines such as epidemiology, biostatistics, health services, environmental health, behavioral health, and occupational health. Health risk assessments, health screenings, health promotion programming, and surveillance of disease outbreaks are examples of public health services. Public Health professionals work within a variety of settings including state and local health departments, hospitals, workplace wellness programs, government agencies, educational institutions, research organizations, and international development agencies. This area of study is designed to articulate to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) Health Administration and Policy program Public Health track. Students not transferring to UMBC are advised to check the requirements of the institution to which they intend to transfer. |
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| GENERAL EDUCATION CORE | Credits |
| Students enrolled in transfer patterns must take a minimum of 30 credits in General Education. Each student’stotal of general education and required courses must equal at least 60 semester hours of credit. |
| Composition | ENGL-121 College Composition | 3 |
| Humanities, Arts & | |
| Literature1 | World Language Sequence | 8 |
| Humanities, Arts, or Literature Core Course |
| (see pp. 61-62) | 3 |
| Social Sciences2 | GEOG-101 Introduction to World Geography |
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| GEOG-102 Elements of Cultural Geography | 3 |
| Social and Behavioral Sciences Core Course |
| (see p. 63) | 3 |
| Science | Science Core Courses (see p. 63) | 8 |
| Mathematics | MATH-138 Statistics | 4 |
| Interdisciplinary | Interdisciplinary and Emerging Issues Core |
| Course (see p. 64) | 3 |
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| REQUIRED COURSES RELATED TO MAJOR |
| HEED-115 | Personal and Community Health | 3 |
| NUTR-211 | Nutrition | 3 |
| PUBH-101 | Introduction to Public Health | 3 |
| PUBH-210 | Epidemiology | 3 |
| PUBH-230 | Health and the Disease Process | 3 |
| PUBH-233 | Introduction to Environmental Health | 3 |
| PUBH-260 | Community Advocacy in Public Health | 3 |
| PUBH-280 | Global Health | 3 |
| SOCI-101 | Introduction to Sociology | 3 |
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| 1 A World Language Sequence (8 credits), plus another Humanities, Arts, and Literature Core (3 credits) in a second discipline other than a world language satisfies the Humanities, Arts and Literature Core requirement. World Language Sequence requirements vary by institution. At HCC, the World Language Sequence means two sequential foreign language courses in the same language (e.g. SPAN-101 and SPAN-102, or FREN-102 and FREN-201), excluding courses taught in English. |
| 2 One History Core Course is required and may be taken as either a Social and Behavioral Sciences Core or a Humanities Core. No more than 6 credits may be taken in History to meet Humanities Core and Social and Behavioral Sciences Core requirements. |
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