State Mandated Common Course Prerequisites - Public Health B.S.
Following Florida BOG Regulation 8.010, state mandated common course prerequisites are lower-division courses that are required for progression into the upper division of a particular baccalaureate degree program.
Students desiring to transfer to USF should complete an A.A. degree at a Florida College System institution. If students transfer with fewer than 60 semester hours of acceptable credit, the students must meet the University’s entering freshman requirements including ACT or SAT test scores, GPA, and course requirements. Transfer students are also required to comply with the immunization, foreign language, and continuous enrollment policies of the university.
NOTE: The University of South Florida B.S. in Public Health does not require any common prerequisites.
GPA Requirements
Maintain a major GPA of 2.0 in USF coursework.
Grading Requirement
None of the coursework taken in the student’s major may be taken as an S/U grade, unless S/U is the only grading option. Coursework fulfilling the State Communication Requirement (formerly known as Gordon Rule Writing) and State Computation Requirement (formerly known as Gordon Rule Math) and General Education requirements may not be taken as S/U.
The Audit option is available only during the first 5 days of classes.
Grades of D+ or lower are not acceptable in the major.
Residency Requirement
Students in the College of Public Health are expected to complete a minimum of 50% of their major and/or minor coursework in residence at USF.
Other Information
Students completing the B.S. in Public Health will be able to:
- Identify and articulate the core functions of public health.
- Explain the basic principles of epidemiology.
- Assess social and behavioral interventions to improve health of populations.
- Identify the impact of the environment and communicable diseases on health.
- Explain the role that public health plays in disaster prevention and management and evaluate public policy issues with respect to access, quality and cost when understanding health disparities within vulnerable populations.
- Exhibit critical thinking and analytical abilities, including the capacities to engage in inductive and deductive thinking and quantitative reason, and to construct sound arguments.
- Identify topics pertaining to public health research.
- Generate research questions, analyze and present data, and interpret and discuss findings.
- Demonstrate awareness about current public health topics including an analysis of the societal attitudes that generate differences on current public health topics.
- Communicate using effective oral skills.
- Demonstrate an ability to contribute effectively to group discussions and presentations.
- Apply effective public speaking skills during classroom presentations.
- Develop effective written presentations.
- Demonstrate the use of information literacy skills such as locating and evaluating pertinent public health information.
- Demonstrate the ability to use library resources and scientific databases.
- Exhibit proper referencing secondary materials in APA format.
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