About Public Health
Preventing disease and promoting health at the population level. Courses carry the HLTH subject code and are offered through the College of Education, Health & Human Sciences. Numbers below 300 are introductory, 300–499 advanced undergraduate, and 500 and above graduate. Prerequisites are enforced at registration.
How the sequence works
Of the 9 HLTH courses listed, 2 are introductory (numbers under 300), 2 are advanced undergraduate (300–499). 1 course has no prerequisite and is a reasonable first step. Later courses assume the earlier ones, so read prerequisites before you plan a term — they are enforced at registration and an override from the Public Health department is the only way around them.
HLTH 1500 — Introduction to Public Health 3 cr
The core functions, the determinants of health, and the major public-health achievements and challenges.
Prerequisite: none.
HLTH 2100 — Epidemiology 3 cr
Measures of disease frequency, study designs, causal inference, and outbreak investigation.
Prerequisite: MATH 1600.
HLTH 2300 — Environmental Health 3 cr
Air, water, food, and built-environment hazards and the systems that manage them.
Prerequisite: HLTH 1500.
HLTH 2500 — Health Behavior and Promotion 3 cr
Behavior-change theories and designing interventions for individuals and communities.
Prerequisite: HLTH 1500.
HLTH 3100 — Biostatistics for Public Health 3 cr
Estimation, hypothesis testing, and regression applied to health data, with software.
Prerequisite: HLTH 2100.
HLTH 3300 — Health Policy and Systems 3 cr
How health systems are organized and financed, and how policy is made and evaluated.
Prerequisite: HLTH 1500.
HLTH 3500 — Program Planning and Evaluation 3 cr
Needs assessment, logic models, implementation, and evaluation design.
Prerequisite: HLTH 2500.
HLTH 3700 — Global Health 3 cr
The global burden of disease, health equity, and international health institutions.
Prerequisite: HLTH 1500.
HLTH 4900 — Public Health Practicum 4 cr
A supervised placement with a health department or community organization and a capstone project.
Prerequisite: senior standing.
Planning and advising
Your degree audit shows exactly how HLTH courses apply to your requirements; this list only shows what is offered. If you are choosing between two courses, deciding when to take a heavy one, or wondering whether a course will run next term, your academic adviser can tell you. Course availability by term is set close to registration and is not guaranteed by anything on this page.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every course, prerequisite, credit value, and department on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real curriculum or a course you can enroll in.