Oct 04, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Public Health, B.S.


Health and Human Performance  
Kahler Stone, program coordinator
615-494-7898

Kahler.Stone@mtsu.edu

The major in Public Health provides basic experiences for those interested in preparing for numerous health and health-related professions.

The Public Health major is designed to prepare health educators in community and public health strategies so that they may influence changes in public health practice for individuals, organizations, and/or communities. In consultation with an advisor, the student will include the curriculum below. NOTE: The Public Health program is accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH).

Accelerated Bachelors/Masters (ABM) Program

High achieving students majoring in Public Health who intend to pursue a master’s degree in Public Health may apply to participate in the Accelerated Bachelors/Masters (ABM) pathway. The pathway allows undergraduate students an opportunity to complete select requirements for both the bachelor’s and master’s degrees simultaneously. Upon successful completion of the ABM pathway, students must submit an application (including application fee) to the graduate program.  Additional application requirements will be waived, and the student will be admitted to the program automatically. For more information about the ABM pathway, see the Graduate Catalog.

Academic Map


Following is a printable, suggested four-year schedule of courses:

Public Health, B.S., Academic Map  

Degree Requirements


True Blue Core (TBC) 41 hours
Major Requirement 54 hours
Electives 25-28 hours
TOTAL 120 hours

*This program requires courses that can also fulfill requirements of the True Blue Core curriculum. If program requirements are also used to fulfill True Blue Core requirements, the number of elective hours will increase. 

True Blue Core (41 hours)


True Blue Core (TBC)  requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in the Foundational Skills areas of Written Communication (WC), Information Literacy (Info Lit), Non-Written Communication (NWC), and Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). Knowledge Domains include Human Society and Social Relationships (HSSR), Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit), Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE), and History and Civic Learning (HCL), which include Discovery and Explorations categories. Students must choose at least one course from each Discovery category.

The following courses required by the major meet True Blue Core requirements:

Electives (25-28 hours)


Following are recommended electives:

Curriculum: Public Health


Freshman


  • Written Communication 3 credit hours
  • Information Literacy 3 credit hours
  • Non-written Communication 3 credit hours
  • Quantitative Literacy 3 credit hours
  • Creativity and Cultural Expression 3 credit hours
  • Human Society and Social Relationships 3 credit hours
  • Scientific Literacy 8 credit hours (BIOL 1030/BIOL 1031 rec.)
  • History and Civic Learning 3 credit hours
  •  

  • 3 credit hours (HSSR) AND
  • 0 credit hours

Subtotal: 32 Hours


Sophomore


Subtotal: 30 Hours


Subtotal: 30 Hours


Senior


Subtotal: 28 Hours