4 courses with the subject PH, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
PH 101Introduction to Public Health3
3-0-3 This course introduces students to the discipline of public health and its philosophies, approaches, and activities. The course reviews the core functions, essential services, and five disciplines of public health. Students learn about the science of disease prevention, health promotion, and the historical development of social constructs that lead to health disparities in many communities. The course will teach students to identify and analyze health disparities in large populations and causal factors such as racism, sexism, and classism.
This course is designed to provide students with the basic processes and skills for understanding human behavior and the application of these processes to improve the health of communities. Next in the sequence after PH 101, this course provides an in-depth look at community health, one of the disciplines of public health. Students will learn and practice public health methods such as health communication, health promotion, and other program planning methods used to educate and design efforts to prevent disease, injury and improve health and wellbeing. Health programming will focus on communities, instead of individual health. Students will read and analyze public health literature, exploring scholarly and scientific approaches to community health promotion and education.