Public Health (B.A.)
Program Transfer Guide
Hood College
Effective
Fall, 2025 - Current
Instruction Methods
In person
About the Program
About this Program
With a degree in public health, you’ll be ready to help people make sense of conflicting societal messages about how best to eat, live and work, or to help governments and communities adopt better public health policies.
Program Overview
Are you concerned about the lack of safe water, emerging infectious diseases or the use of prescription drugs? Are you interested in healthcare legislation or want to take a role in facing the health challenges facing undeveloped nations?
A bachelor’s degree in public health offers an option in the health professions that allows you to address professional and global challenges. Our program provides an option for those with an interest in healthcare that is not nursing or direct, hands-on care. You will gain the skills to become an entry-level professional in sectors including government, nonprofit consultation, advocacy organizations and more.
Public health encompasses science, math, human behavior, psychology, communication, sociology—all of which are part of a Hood education. This highly interdisciplinary program epitomizes Hood’s mission of providing students with a compressive liberal arts education integrated with professional offerings.
The public health degree’s core curriculum includes an array of specialized coursework. As part of the public health core curriculum, you will complete a year-long applied learning experience and may use elective credits to pursue a related course of study (minor or certificate).
An understanding of public health is a critical component of good citizenship and a prerequisite for taking responsibility for building healthy societies. It serves as a vehicle for the development of written and oral communication skills, critical and creative thinking, quantitative and information literacy, and teamwork and problem solving. It incorporates civic knowledge and engagement—both local and global intercultural competence, and ethical reasoning and action, while forming the foundation for lifelong learning.
Hood College's Public Health Program is an applicant for accreditation by the Council on Education for Public Health. The accreditation review will address the Public Health, Bachelor of Arts. Other degrees and areas of study offered by this institution will not be included in the unit of accreditation review. Hood meets requirements for accreditation by offering courses with themes like race, ethnicity and gender.
Learn more about the Public Health Program.
Important note: Hood College is transitioning to new core requirements and Program Transfer Guides are unavailable at this time. In the meantime, please visit Public Health (B.A.) to review more information about the major. If you would like to map out your major, follow this link: Major Maps. If you would like to see single-course equivalencies, you can do so here.
Important note: Hood College is transitioning to new core requirements and Program Transfer Guides are unavailable at this time. In the meantime, please visit Public Health (B.A.) to review more information about the major. If you would like to map out your major, follow this link: Major Maps. If you would like to see single-course equivalencies, you can do so here.