Nov 09, 2024  
Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025 
    
Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025

Health Promotion Concentration


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The 15-credit concentration in Health Promotion is designed so students from different fields of study and professional practice can extend profession-specific perspectives to create transdisciplinary, integrative strategies to innovatively address health issues and health inequities. The program will provide students with the opportunity to learn more about the complex issues related to promoting and advocating for “health for all” now and in the future.

The Health Promotion concentration is ideal for students enrolled in a health-related, biological, behavioral or social undergraduate degree or students who may want to pursue a graduate degree in health promotion, public health or a health profession.


For more information on the Health and Human Performance department, visit its website.

Health Promotion Concentration Curriculum


Concentration requirements include 5 courses (15 credits):

  1. Two required foundational health promotion courses
  1. Two elective courses from approved topics related to the determinants of health.
Approved courses include:   

Courses with * may have pre-requisites

  1. One required capstone experience:

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