Bachelor of Health Science, Major in Public Health and Health Promotion

Program Overview

The Public Health and Health Promotion major empowers individuals to harness digital technology to improve public health. Students learn to use social media, gamification, and research methods to address contemporary health challenges and lead public health campaigns. The program prepares graduates for high-demand careers in health education, promotion, research, policy, and community development.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

Empower people to live their healthiest lives by harnessing the power of digital technology through our Public Health and Health Promotion major. This innovative major leads to high-demand graduate careers in health education and promotion, research, policy, women’s health and community development. Learn to use social media to communicate health messages, use a gamified platform to develop a pandemic action plan, explore contemporary industry challenges and lead public health campaigns.

Outline:

Year 1

• Anatomy and Physiology
• Introduction to Health Sciences
• Digital Health Foundations
• Foundations of Statistics
• Brain and Behaviour
• Environment and Society: Problems and Solutions
• Physical Activity, Health and Technology

Year 2

• Research Methods for Health Sciences (or Introduction to Research Methods - Psychology majors only)
• Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
• Epidemiology
• Elective
• Health and Disease Across the Life Course
• Indigenous Health
• Elective

Year 3

• Health Communication
• Public Health Nutrition
• Leadership and Innovation in Health Promotion
• Elective

Careers:

• Community developer
• Health education and promotion officer
• Policy developer
• Government officer
• Community officer
• Project officer