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    Feb 07, 2025  
2024-2025 Binghamton University Academic Guide 
    
2024-2025 Binghamton University Academic Guide

Global Public Health, BA

Location(s): Main Campus


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Global public health is a highly interdisciplinary program with a multidisciplinary approach to preparing students to advance health equity through education and research. The curriculum provides students with a solid foundation in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences through courses, research opportunities, and experiential learning locally, nationally, and globally.

Students learn and apply methods through global public health questions, theoretical concepts, and frameworks. They learn tools to study the social determinants of health and the complex relationships between health, environment, and social and cultural factors. These tools help them develop competencies in health assessment, social justice and ethics, politics and policy, communication, environment, history, culture, and population health, focusing on critical thinking and collaboration.

Students majoring in the Global Public Health Bachelor of Arts receive excellent training in the social, behavioral, and physical sciences, in addition to humanities courses that prepare them for a range of careers and education options in public health, law, health sciences, business, economics, government, and non-governmental organizations and much more.

Program Requirements


University General Education Requirements


All Binghamton University undergraduate students are required to fulfill this set of university-wide requirements to ensure that every graduate acquires the essential core of a SUNY university undergraduate education. Please refer to the General Education page for more information.

Harpur College Requirements


All students in Harpur College must fulfill additional requirements designated by Harpur College to complement and extend the general education requirements. Please refer to the Harpur College of Arts and Sciences  page for more information.

Major Requirements


Course Requirements


Students must fulfill the following requirements for the Global Public Health major for a total of 56 credits:

B. Public Health Courses


C. Electives


  • 16 credits of Electives*

D. Capstone Courses


  • GPH 401 Global Public Health Research Capstone I
  • GPH 402 Global Public Health Research Capstone II

Note:


*At least 8 credits must be at the 300-level or higher

Additional Information About the Program


Only courses passed with a grade of C- or better are counted toward fulfilling the requirements of a major in global public health; transfer courses must also be C- or better to count toward the major. No more than one course taken under the Pass/Fail option is accepted to fulfill the requirements for the global public health major.

Residency Requirements: The global public health residency requirement stipulates 32 credits at Binghamton University for the BA track.

For more information on the Global Public Health BA program, please refer to the Global Public Health website. To apply to the Global Public Health BA program, please visit the University Admissions website.

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