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Comprehensive academic advising throughout your time in the program will help you to develop a course map to best meet your professional learning goals with respect to public health methods, frameworks, and content depth. Below are sample course maps to help you think about ways to combine courses from different study emphases as part of the Interdisciplinary Program. These are just examples and there are many ways to map your course of study. As part of the planning process, consider asking yourself: What tools do I want to bring to the table to address the public health issues I am most passionate about tackling?

Do you have questions about your course map and how it aligns with your professional and learning goals? Please reach out to Dr. Evan vanDommelen-Gonzalez, Faculty Lead for the Interdisciplinary Program.

First Year

Fall Semester

Courses

PHW200G: Health and Social Behavior

PHW250: Epidemiological Methods I

Units

3

3

Spring Semester

Courses

PHW200F: Introduction to Environmental Health Sciences

PHW142: Introduction to Probability and Statistics

Units

2

4

Summer Semester

Courses

PHW200E: Introduction to Health Policy and Management

PHW205: Program Planning, Development and Evaluation

Units

3

3

Second Year

Fall Semester

Courses

PHW220M: Health Policy Methods

PHW253: Outbreak Investigation

Units

3

3

Spring Semester

Courses

PHW219: Social & Behavioral Health: Intro to Survey Methods

PHW277: Intro to GIS for Public Health

Units

3

3

Summer Semester

Courses

PHW289: Interdisciplinary Seminar

PHW204: Mass Communications in Public Health

 + Practicum by second to last semester

Units

3

3

Fall Semester

Courses

PHW212: Foundations in Global Health

PHW236A: Regulatory Science, Drug Development and Public Health

+ Comprehensive Exam in last semester 

Units

3

3

Total: 42 units