A Health Sciences Program That Aligns With Your Career Goals

This master of health sciences program provides a broad perspective of health care and associated competencies for advanced roles within an interdisciplinary environment. The core curriculum provides foundational knowledge in aspects of health care delivery and project management as well as applied behavioral health, epidemiology and data analysis, health education and global leadership. All students will participate in an experiential learning capstone with individualized experiences aligned with their career goals.

Three exciting concentrations provide targeted training. Each incorporates coursework from multiple programs of study within 足球下注app, including Environmental Science, 医疗保健管理局, 高等教育 Leadership and Nursing Leadership. 选择:

• 人口健康: Learn to use data-driven decision making to improve health care for population segments with shared health conditions, demographics and social determinants of health.
• 高等教育: Explore trends in community health, 健康差异, health promotion strategies and key health education principles while gaining the skills to teach within health care organizations and community colleges.
• 环境卫生: Learn how environmental hazards affect human health at the individual, population and systems levels by identifying illness- and injury-causing agents and assessing compliance with environmental and professional standards.

Attain Mastery of In-Demand Skill Sets Through Industry Certification Options

M.S. in Health Sciences program provides 课程 required to meet the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing (NCHEC) standards. 毕业后, students will be eligible to pursue certification as a Certified Health Education Specialist or Master Certified Health Education Specialist (if they have five years of applicable work experience) via a competency-based exam. This designation demonstrates to employers a mastery of skill sets desired in multiple employment arenas: nonprofit, government and for-profit acute or community-based healthcare organizations. Graduates will be equipped to deliver education both formally and informally to individuals and populations from a higher education, environmental health and/or population health perspective.

Part of a Series of Stackable Credentials

通过足球下注app的独特 Dual-Credit优势™ 特征，学生在B.S. in Health Sciences degree program can incorporate two to three master’s level 课程 from the M.S. in Health Sciences program into their undergraduate degree, accelerating into their master’s program and saving tuition dollars.