BS in Health Sciences

The mission of DePaul University’s Department of Health Sciences is to educate and train students who will collaboratively address human health from interdisciplinary natural and social scientific perspectives in order to promote health and to improve the lives of individuals and communities. The Health Sciences major offers concentrations in Bioscience and Public Health Studies that will enable future health care professionals to begin this cross-disciplinary conversation even earlier. Each concentration offers tracks that help students focus their interests and prepare for future careers. This degree a) provides students interested in pursuing a career in one of many health-related professions with a common core of knowledge; b) provides a general track in each concentration but also articulates additional tracks that meet requirements for entry into graduate programs; c) provides enough flexibility to enable students to move among those tracks as their interests evolve, and d) brings students headed for multiple health-related professions into on-going conversation with each other. Learning Outcomes - Students will be able to: Demonstrate effective communication skills and work collaboratively with individuals and populations of varied perspectives. Evaluate both natural and social science research as it applies to individual and population health. Explain and understand foundational biological principles related to human health. Apply the scientific method and evidence-based approaches to human health. Identify and analyze ethical issues in research, health, and public health. Identify and understand how social determinants influence an individual’s health and create health disparities. Identify the core concepts and principles of public health and apply them to the promotion of health and prevention of disease. Describe the components of health policy and health care systems both domestically and globally. Career Options: Clinical trials management, Community health worker, Health care administration, Health communication, Health policy, Hospital administration, Medical school, Nursing school, Pharmacy school, Physical therapy school, Public health.