Courses and program objectives
Upon completion of the program, students are able to…
- Apply multidisciplinary approaches and tools to address health determinants, disparities, and injustices.
- Understand, evaluate, and deploy social justice theories, practices, and policies that shift systems of inequities in communities and develop strategies to disrupt oppressive systems and injustice.
- Engage in reflective praxis grounded in an equity and intersectionality lens to recognize how issues of equity, diversity, anti-bias inclusion must be embedded explicitly and implicitly in community health interventions and participatory research.
- Develop leadership skills that value and lift all voices in communities, particularly those of historically and currently marginalized groups.
- Identify processes needed to improve health outcomes and systems through planning, implementation, and evaluation of health programs for individuals and communities using a social justice framework.
Curriculum
Core coursework and capstone: 45 credits
- Social Justice and Ethics
- History, Frameworks, and Foundations of Community Health
- Critical Approaches to Health Communication and Promotion
- Health Policy, Systems, and Advocacy
- Inclusive Healthcare Leadership and Management
- Social Epidemiology
- Research Theory, Methods, and Practice
- Program Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation
- Capstone in Community Health
Elective coursework: 15 credits
Students have access to a wide selection of elective options in pursuit of a concentration area. Options are any School of Nursing and Health Studies 400-500 level BHLTH course except for BHLTH 435, 436, 437, 438, 439, 496, University of Washington 400-500 level courses (across the three campuses), and/or transfer up to 6 graduate credits approved by faculty and the Graduate School.
Updated July 2024