Undergraduate Program in Health Science

The undergraduate program in Health Science offers five options for completing a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Health Science and four minors. Also included in the Undergraduate Program in Health Science are the Gerontology Program and the Division of Health Professions.

The educational activities in the Undergraduate Program in Health Science are guided by six core ideas about health:

1. Health is a multi-faceted experience that includes multiple forms of wellbeing;
2. Health and wellness promotion require community collaboration and involvement.
3. Health, illness, and disease are population-level phenomena studied through epidemiological methods and ecological frames;
4. Health is influenced by the quality of our social and physical environments;
5. Aging, human development, and intergenerational relationships are key influences on individual and population-level health;
6. Inequalities in healthcare access and outcomes are neither accidental nor unavoidable and are studied as social problems to be addressed through research, advocacy, and community organizing.