Public Health

Typically Offered: Spring, Fall

Class Attributes: IUB GenEd S&H credit, Class uses IU eTexts

Course Description: How individuals interact with family units and society and how family and society influence the development of the individual across the life span.

Typically Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall

Class Attributes: IUB GenEd N&M credit - Natural Science, Class uses IU eTexts

Course Description: An understanding of environmental health issues is essential for any student of public health. This course is designed to introduce the student to the many areas of environmental health and demonstrate the important role this field plays in the health of people and communities everywhere.

Typically Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall

Class Attributes: IUB GenEd S&H credit

Course Description: Broaden your view of living well by actively pursuing healthy lifestyles. This course utilizes SPH-B faculty and professionals throughout the Bloomington community to help students achieve balance in health, physical activity, and leisure pursuits. Students address concepts of peer mentoring and goal setting strategies to achieve this balance.

Typically Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall

Course Description: Helping professions are career paths that nurture growth in one or more domains of wellness, including disciplines such as medicine, nursing, allied health, social work, education, fitness, and life coaching. Students will learn how their values, interests, personality, and skills align with career options in the helping professions. Focus is on early career development and navigating career resources.

Typically Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall

Class Attributes: IUB GenEd S&H credit, Class uses IU eTexts

Course Description: This survey course provides a theoretical and practical treatment of the concepts of disease prevention and health promotion. Covers such topics as emotional health; aging and death; alcohol, tobacco, and drug use disorders; physical fitness; nutrition and dieting; consumer health; chronic and communicable diseases; safety; and environmental health.

Typically Offered: Spring, Fall

Class Attributes: IUB GenEd S&H credit

Course Description: Introductory analysis of the dying and death experience with emphasis on the development of a healthy personal death awareness. Topics include processes of dying, needs and care of the dying person, grief, legal and consumer aspects, and children and death.

Typically Offered: Spring

Class Attributes: IUB GenEd S&H credit

Course Description: An introduction to the physiological, social, cultural, and behavioral aspects of health weight management and obesity prevention. Topics will also include the impact of obesity on individual, family, and community health.

Typically Offered: Spring, Fall

Class Attributes: IUB GenEd S&H credit

Course Description: This course covers various contributors to violence in America with an emphasis on community health issues. Personal and environmental factors related to violence are considered within a context of public health. Domestic and community violence prevention and reduction approaches are presented.

Typically Offered: Spring, Fall

Class Attributes: IUB GenEd S&H credit, Class uses IU eTexts

Course Description: Covers world health problems and efforts being made to achieve optimal health for all. Exposes students to health concerns of non-Western and nondominant cultures. Population dynamics, vital statistics, global disease patterns, and analysis of variations among nations will be considered in analyzing health status of people and communities around the world.

Typically Offered: Spring, Fall

Class Attributes: IUB GenEd S&H credit

Course Description: This is an applied course, designed to help students explore the many facets of relationships, marriages and families. The primary focus: The ways in which your experience of family has affected, is affecting and will affect you in the future—viewed from both a personal and scholarly perspective.

Typically Offered: Spring, Fall

Class Attributes: IUB GenEd S&H credit

Course Description: Survey of the dynamics of human sexuality; identification and examination of basic issues in human sexuality as relating to the larger society.

Typically Offered: Spring, Fall

Class Attributes: IUB GenEd N&M credit - Natural Science

Course Description: The CDC describes disease surveillance and monitoring as "the systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of data for use in prioritizing, planning, implementing, and evaluating health programs, activities, and practices." This surveillance and monitoring is one of the fundamental activities of public health in the United States and elsewhere, and represents the primary source of information about the health of a population. This course will focus on the fundamental processes and procedures to investigate and track infectious and communicable diseases as well as non-infectious chronic diseases.