Health Studies
Understand health, explore solutions, and make a difference in communities
The Bachelor of Arts in Health Studies prepares you to understand health from multiple perspectives and develop the knowledge and skills to make a meaningful difference in public health. Through engaging coursework and applied learning, you’ll explore diverse approaches to improving health and well-being and discover how your interests can shape your path through the program.
The degree prepares you for a wide range of career and graduate study opportunities, including public and global health, health management and administration, nonprofit and community services, community organizing, mental health services, healthcare outreach, public health, clinical health professions, pre-med, social work, and other health-related fields.
The major opened my eyes to public health and gave me the tools to understand how education, policy and community shape health outcomes. I see health care through a broader lens, grounded in equity, prevention, and community-based care.
Program Highlights
- Hybrid and online classes for greater scheduling flexibility.
- An upstream approach to studying health to recognize how social, political, economic and geographical trends can shape outcomes.
- Social justice framework to better understand and address health inequities and systems of oppression with local and global perspectives.
- Community-engaged learning to provide hands-on skill building to deepen understanding of health systems.
- Electives designed to further prepare you for a career in a health related field or prepare for graduate studies.
Broaden Your Education Beyond Your Major
We offer three minors designed to deepen your knowledge: Global Health, Health Studies, and Health Education and Promotion. Our minors are open to students in any major, including Health Studies students.