Undergraduate Programs
Student Learning Outcomes
Certificates and Minors
Concentration in Population Health Sciences
Upon completion of this Certificate Concentration, students will be able to:
- Describe the scientific foundation of the field of public health
- Distinguish the characteristics of a population-based health problem
- Recognize common linkages and relationships among multiple factors affecting health
- Analyze and evaluate key policy, political, social, ethical, financing and managerial challenges that confront the current health care system
- Recognize the biological (e.g., physical and psychological) and cultural factors that influence resilience and vulnerability, and resistance to certain disease
Upon completion of this Certificate Concentration, students will be able to:
- Discuss the structure and organization of the U.S. health care system and its components, including financing
- Recognize various ways of leading and managing health delivery systems
- Analyze and evaluate key policy, political, social, ethical, financing and managerial challenges that confront the current health care system
- Analyze the complex and dynamic externaland specific environments in which health care functions and evaluate ideas for health care administration strategy, policy and management
A student who earns the Minor in Environmental Health Science will demonstrate the following learning outcomes:
- Describe the ways humans can have a negative impact on their environment.
- Identify contaminants and common sources of these contaminants that pollute the air, land, and water, and built environment.
- Explain ways humans are exposed to environmental pollution and the adverse effects it can have on health and safety.
- Explain the approaches that are used to assess the scope and extent of risk associated with environmental/occupational hazards.
- Describe the techniques that are used to eliminate or control hazards that can cause harm to human health and the environment.