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    Jan 28, 2025  
2024-2025 Binghamton University Academic Guide 
    
2024-2025 Binghamton University Academic Guide

Global Public Health, BS

Location(s): Main Campus


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The Bachelor of Science in 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.

The program offers two tracks: the general Global Public Health Bachelor of Science and the Future Healthcare Provider Bachelor of Science. Students majoring in the general track receive excellent training in the social, behavioral, and physical sciences in addition to the 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. Students in the future healthcare provider track also receive excellent training in the social, behavioral, and natural sciences while gaining historical, indigenous, and ethical perspectives, as well as building rhetorical and technical writing skills, which are highly sought after by medical, nursing, and allied health schools.

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


Global Public Health BS Course Requirements


Students must fulfill the following requirements for the general Global Public Health BS major for a total of 68 credits:

B. Public Health Courses


C. Electives


  • 28 Credits* from BS Public Health Electives List

Note:


*12 credits must be 300-level or higher courses

Future Healthcare Provider BS Course Requirements


Students must fulfill the following requirements for the Global Public Health Future Healthcare Providers major for a total of 72 credits:

B. Public Health Courses


C. Pre-health Courses


  • 36 Credits of Pre-Health Courses

Note:


*12 credits of which must be 300-level or higher

Major restriction: Students may not double major in the Future Healthcare Providers track and Integrative Neuroscience due to significant overlap in the majors. However, students pursuing the General Public Health track may double major in Integrative Neuroscience.

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 with a Pass/Fail option is accepted to fulfill the global public health major requirements. 

Residency Requirements: The global public health’s residency requirement stipulates:

  • 36 credits at Binghamton University for the general Global Public Health BS; and,
  • 24 credits at Binghamton University for the Future Healthcare Provider BS track.

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

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