College Level Requirements

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State Mandated Common Course Prerequisites

Students desiring to transfer to USF should complete an A.A. degree at a Florida College System institution. If students transfer with fewer than 60 semester hours of acceptable credit, the students must meet the University's entering freshman requirements including ACT or SAT test scores, GPA, and course requirements. Transfer students are also required to comply with the immunization, foreign language, and continuous enrollment policies of the university.

There are no State Mandated Common Prerequisites for this program.

Total Major Hours: 54 Hours

Major Core Courses - 30 Hours

• PHC 4101 Overview of Public Health Programs and Policies
• HSC 4551 Survey of Human Diseases
• PHC 4030 Introduction to Epidemiology
• PHC 4069 Biostatistics in Society
• PHC 3302 Introduction to Environmental & Occupational Health
• HSC 4211 Health, Behavior and Society
• HSC 4630 Understanding U.S. Health Care
• HSC 4624 Foundations of Global Health
• PHC 4117 Workforce & Leadership Development
• PHC 4464 Introduction to Health Disparities & Social Determ

Major Elective Courses - 24 Hours

Skills Courses (12 credit hours)

• HSC 4631 Critical Issues in Public Health* (CPST and Gordon)
• PHC 4720 Foundation to Professional Writing in Public Health (WRIN and Gordon)
• PHC 4755 Foundations of Evaluation and Research
• Pick one course:
  • PHC 4140 Introduction to Public Health Geographic Information Systems 
  • PHC 4931 Health Care Ethics
  • PHC 4942 Public Health Field Seminar

Specialization Electives (12 credit hours)
Students may choose(but are not required) an area of specialization and take 12 credit hours from that chosen area:

NUTRITION

• HUN 3126 Food and Culture
• HUN 3272 Sports Nutrition
• HUN 3296 Nutrition and Disease
• HSC 4573 Foundations of Food Safety

INFECTION CONTROL

• PHC 4032 Foundations of Infection Control
• HSC 4504 Foundations of Public Health Immunology
• HSC 4573 Foundations of Food Safety
• PHC 4031 Emerging Infectious Diseases

HEALTH EDUCATION

• PHC 4501 Health Education Theory and Behavior
• PHC 4141 Intervention Program Planning and Management
• PHC 4582 Health Education Methods, Communication and Advocacy
• Select one course from the following list:
  • HSC 4172 Women's Health: A Public Health Perspective
  • HSC 4579 Foundations of Maternal and Child Health

ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

• PHC 3320 Environmental Health Science
• HSC 4213 Environmental and Occupational Risk Analysis
• HSC 4430 Occupational Health and Safety
• HSC 3503 Principles of Toxicology

GLOBAL HEALTH

• PHC 4188 Public Health Emergencies in Large Populations
• PHC 4234 Public and Private Continuity Planning for Emergencies
• PHC 4375 Community Participation in Homeland Security
• PHC 4376 Disaster by Design: Exercise Development for Homeland Security Professionals

Lower-Level Public Health Electives (Choose up to 2 courses)
The following lower-level courses are not required for the major, but may be taken and applied toward the toal degree hours requirement (120 hours).

• HSC 2017 Careers in Public Health
• HSC 2100 Contemporary Health Science
• HSC 2130 Sex, Health and Decision Making
• HSC 2531 Medical Terminology
• HSC 2933 Selected Topics in Public Health
• HUN 2201 Nutrition
• PHC 2100 Introduction to Public Health