1. New classes for Spring 2025
- SPHU 2500 Principles of Professionalism in Healthcare, Prof Ken Orie. Healthcare is an interdisciplinary field of professions with many different education, skills, and backgrounds. In Principles of Professionalism in Healthcare, students will learn about the diverse healthcare workforce and the norms, standards, and values of various disciplines within the profession. They will learn foundational concepts of healthcare delivery and career opportunities within the field. Students will take initial steps to discover their professional identity from guest lectures, class discussion, and reflection. By the end of the semester, students will understand the concepts of professions and professionalism to successfully navigate this fast-paced and growing field.
- SPHU 3360 Public Health Nutrition: Principles to Practice, Prof Anna Kiefer – This is a required course for the Public Health Nutrition Minor. This course comprehensively explores the intersection between nutrition and public health. It introduces students to the science of nutrition and dietetic practice within community and public health settings, including skill sets and scope of practice found within public health nutrition. Through a structural, social-determinants lens, this course emphasizes the role of nutrition in disease prevention, health promotion, and overall well-being, considering existing and potential health inequities. Students will delve into multidisciplinary aspects of public health nutrition, such as program development and intervention, epidemiology, policy, assessment, and behavior change. Public health nutrition concepts and practices will be discussed in the context of individuals, communities, and populations, and public health nutrition programs and services in the US and globally will be highlighted.
2. SPHU Courses with Service Learning: SPHU 3011, SPHU 3170 (it will be posted soon), and SPHU 3350
3. If you are thinking of doing your Capstone in the spring, the deadline for the CPS Internship program is December 1th. Check out our Internship Directory for a list of internships held by public health students. View the CPS application here.