Learning Goals

Students who MAJOR in Public Health at St. Lawrence will have the ability to:

1. Recognize and critically reflect on the social, historical, and cultural contexts in which public health has been constructed as a field of study and practice, and their ethical implications.
2. Approach public health questions from multiple disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, recognizing the complex intersections of biological, environmental, historical, and social factors that impact the health of individuals, groups, and populations on local and global scales.
3. Apply principles of social justice and engage in critical self-reflection to examine the relations of power and structures of inequality that shape health disparities.
4. Explain and apply quantitative and qualitative research methods to understand and address public health questions.
5. Critically examine communication about public health in different forms, including texts, narratives, and images, and communicate effectively about public health in speaking and writing.

Students who MINOR in Public Health at St. Lawrence will develop their capacity to:

1. Recognize and critically reflect on the social, historical, and cultural contexts in which public health has been constructed as a field of study and practice, and their ethical implications.
2. Approach public health questions from multiple disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, recognizing the complex intersections of biological, environmental, historical, and social factors that impact the health of individuals, groups, and populations on local and global scales.
3. Apply principles of social justice and engage in critical self-reflection to examine the relations of power and structures of inequality that shape health disparities.
4. Critically examine communication about public health in different forms, including texts, narratives, and images, and communicate effectively about public health in speaking and writing.