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CHE201L - General Chemistry I multidisciplinary perspectives professional ethics in healthcare PBH 305 – Introduction to Global and ethical issues in epidemiology are
Laboratory Major Requirements on public health. It introduces management as well as planning and Health explored.
Credit Hours: 3 core disciplines of public health: decision making in healthcare sector. Credit Hours: 3
Pre or Co-requisites: CHE 205 prevention, protection and assurance. Prerequisite: PBH101
This course introduces the principles HSC 201 - Determinants of This course provides an introduction HSC 305 - Occupational Health
and concepts of chemistry with the EHS 205 - Introduction to Public Health to the principles, concepts, and and Safety
emphasis on laboratory skills and Environmental Health & Safety PBH 110 - Introduction to Credit Hours: 3 contemporary challenges of global Credit Hours: 3
practical hands-on experiences for Credit Hours: 3 Happiness and Positive Prerequisites: ENS 205 health. It examines the determinants Prerequisite: HSC 200
the students. This course will have Co-requisites: (Co) ENG 102/ENG 200 Psychology This course will introduce students of health across countries and The Occupational Health and Safety
laboratory experiments, simulated This course will introduce students Credit Hour: 3 to different public health paradigms, populations, emphasizing the course describes the importance
experiments, demonstrations and to Environmental Health and Pre or Co-requisites: (Co)ENG102/ including the biomedical, behavioral, social, economic, environmental, of health and safety at work place
group activities for the students that Safety, its definitions its concepts, ENG200 and holistic, ecological, salutogenic political, and cultural factors and its socio-economic impact on
illustrate the principles and concepts issues and attributes. The course This course is about positive paradigms. Various models of that influence health outcomes work place and workers. It gives
for the course CHE 205. introduces students to core psychology, which encompasses public health determinants within worldwide. Students explore the students the tools and skills to ensure
the holistic, ecological, salutogenic
environmental Health and Safety the study of positive experiences, paradigm and the One Health global burden of communicable and health and safety measures within
topics including world population, air positive character strengths, positive Approach are explored. The course non-communicable diseases, health a working environment including
HSC 205 - Biostatistics and water quality, water conservation, relationships, and the institutions then examines specific determinants inequalities, globalization, climate hazard identification and control,
Credit Hours: 3 community health and safety, and practices that facilitate their of public health including biological change, migration, humanitarian accident prevention and investigation,
Prerequisite: STT 100 occupational health and safety, and development. Positive experiences factors, socioeconomic factors, emergencies, and emerging public conducting safety trainings, and
This course introduces students environmental health and safety include mental states of flow and cognitive and affective factors, health health threats. The course also emergency planning. It also provides
to population health statistics. The statistics. mindfulness and emotions about behaviors, and conditions within introduces global health governance, students with an in-depth idea
course covers sources and types of the present (pleasure, contentment, social, economic, political, natural international organizations, about the national and international
data, measures of central tendency, laughter), past (e.g. nostalgia, and built environments and their sustainable development goals occupational health and safety
measures of dispersion,confidence ENS 205 - Introduction to satisfaction, pride), and future (e.g. interactions. (SDGs), health systems, and strategies organizations.
intervals, correlations and Environmental Science hope, optimism). The distinction for improving health equity through
regressions used in public health and Credit Hours: 3 between the pleasant life, the collaborative and evidence-based
environmental health and safety. Pre or Co-requisites: (Co) ENG 102 / good life, and the meaningful life PBH 310 - Principles of Health interventions. Through case studies PBH 420 - Practice of Health
and current global health issues,
ENG 200 will be drawn. The classification of Promotion students develop an understanding Promotion
This course introduces students character strengths and the strengths Credit Hours: 3 of the interconnected nature of Credit Hours: 3
HSC 101 - Medical Terminology to the principles of Environmental themselves will be explored. This Prerequisite: HSC 201 health and the role of public health Prerequisite: PBH 310
Credit Hours: 3 Science. It presents the different course also reviews the history This course provides students with professionals in addressing global This course provides students with
Prerequisite: (Co)ENG 102 (R) /ENG ecosystems, the biogeochemical of positive psychology and the an understanding of the history, health challenges. the knowledge and skills required to
200 cycles of some elements like oxygen, contributions this new field has made approaches, values, and principles of identify health needs and assets, and
This course introduces students carbon, and nitrogen, biomes, to traditional mainstream psychology. health promotion. plan, implement and evaluate health
to the language of medicine, biodiversity, and how species The course is largely experiential promotion initiatives addressing such
focusing on word building, medical interaction. It discusses water and and will include classroom activities, HSC 210 - Epidemiology & health needs and assets. The course
abbreviations, and terms related to air pollution as well as environmental discussions as well as practical Population Health will explore needs assessment and
body systems, diseases, diagnostics, geology and earth resources. This exercises to increase wellbeing, which PBH 300 - Health Sociology Credit Hours: 3 planning models, theories that inform
and treatments. Students will course also presents environmental will supplement our theoretical and Credit Hours: 3 Prerequisite: HSC 205 strategy development, and evaluation
learn to interpret and use medical issues, discusses solutions that help empirical understanding of important Prerequisite: HSC 201 This course introduces students to methods used in critical health
vocabulary in both written and oral reduce such issues and provide questions in positive psychology. Co-requisite: PBH 310 the scientific discipline of promotion practice. The critical health
communication, particularly within the sustainable development, and This course focuses on the epidemiology. It covers definitions promotion values and principles
context of public health, healthcare emphasizes on the importance of contribution of social and behavioral and concepts of epidemiology relevant to these processes will be
documentation, and interprofessional maintaining a healthy environment. HSC 200 - Introduction to Health sciences to the understanding of the together with the principles and explored. The course will develop
collaboration. Management distribution, etiology, and solution tools of epidemiology. The course skills in critical reflection to enhance
Credit Hours: 3 of public health problems. The includes measuring the frequency of health promotion practice
PBH 101 - Introduction to Public Prerequisites: EHS 205 theoretical underpinnings of the health issues, measuring risk and the
most relevant explanation, planning,
burden of disease. Epidemiological
Health This course will introduce change, and evaluation theories will study designs are explored,
Credit Hours: 3 students to management in the be reviewed in depth and illustrated including descriptive, analytical and PBH 425 - Maternal and Child
Prerequisite: (Co) ENG 102/ENG 200 health environment, covering with examples of the application of intervention studies. Survey research, Health
This course addresses a variety of definitions, concepts, issues, and these models to health promotion as a methodology that can be Credit Hours: 3
themes in public health which serve the basic dimensions of health and disease prevention with used across many study designs, is Prerequisite: PBH 420
as a base for an introductory-level care management. The course individuals, groups, and communities. addressed. Issues related to weighing This course will focus on critical public
understanding of the field. This also introduces students to core up the evidence from such studies health issues for women and children
course emphasizes the diverse, challenges, responsibilities, and in varying social, economic, and

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