A Combined Degree program enables undergraduate students to enroll in graduate courses in their senior year, which can be counted towards the completion of both their Bachelor's and Master's degree requirements. The ability to take these "swing courses" allows students to earn both their Bachelor's and Master's degrees in a shortened period of time, typically within five years. Undergraduate students interested in this option can find more information regarding program requirements on the University's Combined Programs website.
Program Requirements
Students in this combined degree program must complete the requirements for:
Public Health - Community Health Education Concentration (M.P.H.)
Graduate Swing Courses
A combined degree program allows students to complete 6-12 graduate credits ("graduate swing courses") while enrolled as an undergraduate. These courses count for both their bachelor and master’s degrees. Graduate swing courses will count toward undergraduate free electives, unless noted otherwise.
The Graduate Swing Courses for this program:
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| HLTH 501 | Public Health Seminar: Foundations, Ethics, and Cultural Competency | 3 |
| HLTH 504 | Behavioral and Social Science in Health | 3 |
| HLTH 528 | Program Planning and Evaluation | 3 |
| HLTH 555 | Structures of Inequality in Public Health | 3 |
| Total Credits | 12 | |
Recommended Roadmap to Degree(s)
This recommended five-year plan is provided as an outline for students to follow in order to complete their degree requirements within five years. This plan is a recommendation and students should only use it in consultation with their academic advisor.
Fifth year courses are taken at the graduate level, after matriculation into the graduate portion of this combined degree program.
| First Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| GENERAL EDUCATION (A) New Student Seminar | 1 | GENERAL EDUCATION (C2) Literature | 3 |
| GENERAL EDUCATION (C1) Writing | 3 | GENERAL EDUCATION (G) Computer Science | 3 |
| GENERAL EDUCATION (C3) Communication | 3 | GENERAL EDUCATION (H) Mathematics | 3 |
| GENERAL EDUCATION (K1) Social Science – American and European History | 3 | World Language II | 3 |
| World Language I | 3 | PSYC 203 | 3 |
| PSYC 101 | 3 | ||
| 16 | 15 | ||
| Second Year | |||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| GENERAL EDUCATION (D) Fine and Performing Arts | 3 | GENERAL EDUCATION (F1) Great Works and Their Influences | 3 |
| GENERAL EDUCATION (F2) Humanities – Philosophical and Religious Perspectives | 3 | GENERAL EDUCATION (I) Natural Science Laboratory | 4 |
| GENERAL EDUCATION (L) Interdisciplinary Studies | 3 | GENERAL EDUCATION (K2) Global Cultural Perspectives | 3 |
| PSYC 220 | 4 | PSYC 301 | 4 |
| Advanced PSYC Elective (200-level) | 3 | Advanced PSYC Elective (200-level) | 3 |
| 16 | 17 | ||
| Third Year | |||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| World Cultures | 3 | GENERAL EDUCATION (K3) Social Science Perspectives | 3 |
| PSYC Elective - Personality | 3 | PSYC Elective - Social/Applied | 3 |
| Advanced PSYC Elective | 3 | Advanced PSYC Elective | 3 |
| Free Elective | 3 | Free Elective | 3 |
| Free Elective | 3 | Free Elective | 3 |
| 15 | 15 | ||
| Fourth Year | |||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| GENERAL EDUCATION (J) Physical Education | 1 | Free Elective | 3 |
| PSYC Elective - Biological | 3 | Free Elective | 3 |
| Free Elective | 3 | Free Elective | 1 |
| HLTH 501 | 3 | HLTH 555 | 3 |
| HLTH 504 | 3 | HLTH 528 | 3 |
| 13 | 13 | ||
| Total Credits 120 | |||
| Fourth Year | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer | Credits | ||||
| FSHD 506 | 3 | ||||
| HLTH 502 | 3 | ||||
| 6 | |||||
| Fifth Year | |||||
| Summer | Credits | Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| HLTH 606 | 3 | HLTH 507 | 3 | HLTH 580 | 3 |
| Elective Course | 3 | HLTH 529 | 3 | HLTH 604 | 6 |
| HLTH 565 | 3 | ||||
| 6 | 9 | 9 | |||
| Total Credits 30 | |||||