Undergraduate Programs
In this cross-disciplinary public health program—a collaboration between the Connell School and BC's Schiller Institute—you will gain an interdisciplinary understanding of how health and disease exist in communities and develop the skills to translate that knowledge to advance the common good.
Visit the CSON website for academic program information.
Additional electives may be considered subject to the approval of the Program Director and Associate Deans. Please contact publichealth@bc.edu for further information
Students pursuing a minor in Global Public Health must select 3 Electives, at least one of which MUST be from List B.
- CSON minor Students only: All CSON Nursing students must take must take NURS4260 and NURS4261 which both count as List A electives, therefore the final elective must be from List B.
Students pursuing a major in Global Public Health must select:
- 2 electives from any of the courses in List A or List B.
Carroll School of Management
Course # | Course Name |
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MGMT2139 | Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship |
BSLW1113 | Climate Change Law & Ethics |
BSLW2000 | (cross listed as ECON2000) The State of Affordable Housing in the States |
Connell School of Nursing
Course # | Course Name |
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NURS4260 | Population Health Nursing Theory |
NURS4261 | Population Health Practice in the Community |
NURS5345 | Ecuador: Global Health Perspectives |
Lynch School of Education and Human Development
Course # | Course Name |
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APSY2217 | Statistics for Applied Psychology |
APSY3320 | Building Sustainable Communities |
APSY4151 | Health Psychology |
APSY6348 | Prevention and Intervention Strategies for Children |
APSY6397 | Social Issues and Social Policy |
APSY7471 | Psychological Responses to Humanitarian Crises |
School of Theology and Ministry
Course # | Course Name |
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TMCE7052 | Theological Bioethics: From the Basics to the Future |
TMCE7128 | Just Sustainability |
TMCE8072 | Human Genetics and Biotechnologies: Challenges for Science and Religion |
TMCE8159 | Catholic Healthcare: History, Contexts, Values, and Principles |
TMCE8518 | Global Health and Theological Ethics |
Law School
Course # | Course Name |
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LAWS4501 | New Frontiers in Environmental Policy * |
LAWS4503 | Water Law and Policy * |
LAWS4505 | Climate Change Law and Policy * |
LAWS9326 | Bioethics and the Law Seminar |
*Students must take either ENVS2256 or PHCG2130 prior to enrolling in this course. In addition, students must be registered by the department. Please email publichealth@bc.edu for further information.
Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Biology
Course # | Course Name |
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BIOL1440 | Sustaining the Biosphere |
BIOL2300 | Biostatistics |
BIOL4440 | Vaccination and Immunity |
BIOL5130 | Environmental Disruptors of Development |
BIOL5150 | Vaccine Development and Public Health |
Communications
Course # | Course Name |
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COMM4465 | Health Communication |
Core
Course # | Course Name |
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PHCG1701 Maternity and Science: Society, Culture, & Public Health |
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PHCG1702 Institutional Disparity: Equity and Global Health |
Earth & Environmental Science
Course # | Course Name |
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EESC1174 | Climate Change and Society |
EESC1187 | GeoScience and Public Policy |
EESC2297 | Environmental Hydrology |
ENVS2256 | Environmental Law and Policy |
ENVS2258 | Environmental Law and Policy in the United States and Europe |
ENVS3315 | Sustainable Agriculture |
ENVS3345 | Environment and Public Health |
Economics
Course # | Course Name |
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ECON1151 |
Statistics |
ECON2213 | Economics of Health Policy |
ECON2242 | Public Policy and an Aging Society |
ECON2273 | Development Economics |
ECON2275 | Economic Development: The Experience of El Salvador |
ECON2277 | Environmental Economics and Policy |
ECON2278 | Environmental Economics |
ECON2289 | Which is Better? An Economic Comparison of Health and Health Care in France, the UK, and the US? |
ECON3315 | Economics of Immigration |
ECON3317 | Economics of Inequality |
ECON3363 | Micro Public Policy Issues |
ECON3373 | Impact Evaluation in Developing Counties |
ECON3374 | Development Economics and Policy |
ECON3385 | Health Economics |
ECON3390 | Applied Health Economics |
ECON3391 | Economics of Energy and the Environment |
English
Course # | Course Name |
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ENGL4201 | Science Writing |
History
Course # | Course Name |
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HIST2431/AADS2431 |
Leeches to Lasers: Medicine & Health in the United States |
HIST4485/AADS4485 | History of Medicine and Public Health in the African Diaspora |
Philosophy
Course # | Course Name |
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PHIL4320 | Philosophy of Mental Illness |
PHIL2233 | Values in Social Services and Health Care |
Psychology
Course # | Course Name |
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PSYC112001 | Introduction to Behavioral Statistics and Research Methods I |
Schiller Institute
Course # | Course Name |
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SCHI2000 | (cross-listed as PHCG2000) Spatial Data Science and Applications |
Sociology
Course # | Course Name |
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SOCY1002 | Introductory Sociology for Health Care Professionals |
SOCY1073 | States, Markets, and Bodies |
SOCY1078 | Sociology of Health and Illness |
SOCY1096 | Aging and Society |
SOCY1097 | Death and Dying |
SOCY2200 | Statistics |
SOCY3373 | Sexuality and Society* |
SOCY4400 |
(cross-listed as AADS4400) Racialized Medicine |
Theology
Course # | Course Name |
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THEO3222 | Bioethics and Social Justice |
THEO5498 | HIV/AIDS and Ethics |
Woods College of Advancing Studies
Course # | Course Name |
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ADSB1904 |
Planetary Health |
Course # | Course Name |
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ADSB3000 | Global Environmental Change and Human Health |
APSY4050 | Public Health Practice in the Community (not currently offered) |
BIOL2320 | Case Studies in Epidemiology (not currently offered) |
PHCG3210 |
Contemporary Issues in Public Health (formerly NURS3210) |
NURS5350 | Global Healthcare: Meeting Challenges & Connections |
PHCG3120 | Cancer Epidemiology |
PHCG3300 | Global Health: Theory to Practice |
PHCG3560 | Biostatistics, Data Analytics and Quantitative Methods in Public Health |
PHCG3600 | Health Inequities: Origins and Remedies |
PHCG3810 | Public Health Planning, Practice and Evaluation |
PHCG4140 | Children's Health and the Environment |
PHCG4050 | The Law, Policy, and Politics of Women’s Health |
PHCG1290 | Global Health Delivery and Health Equity: A South African Context (summer course) |