Overview
Online Degree Completion Options in Community Health and in Emergency Management & Disaster Preparedness
For more information about our online BS degree completion options, contact Mrs. Amanda Harvey [ajharvey2@eiu.edu].
The BS in Public Health provides students with two options: Community Health, and Emergency Management Disaster Preparedness. If you are interested in Health Administration, check out the B.S. in Health Administration program. All Public Health majors complete an 8-semester hour, 320-clock hour internship in a workplace setting appropriate to their career goals.
The Department of Public Health & Nutrition includes dedicated academic advising for all students; an internship coordinator who facilitates internship identification, placement, and supervision; and faculty with interdisciplinary training grounded in practical experience. Faculty facilitate student research and support student professional development with their personal time and resources. Students present their research at University, regional, and national conferences.
Community Health is an ideal option for students who want to work with individuals and communities to find ways to improve people’s health status. Students will be trained to evaluate and assess both individual and community health issues by examining risk factors, protective factors, available resources, community support for change, and characteristics of vulnerable populations. Students build on these analytical skills by developing program plans including assessment and evaluation components. Students in this option are eligible to sit for the Certified Health Education Specialist exam in their last term of study.
Core courses in Community Health include: Personal Health, Community Health, Foundations of Health Literacy, Research Methods, Human Diseases, Health Care Delivery Systems, Epidemiology, Health Behaviors, Planning Health Programs, Health Administration, Applied Health Communication.
Elective courses include: Health Citizenship, Motivational Interviewing, Cultural Diversity in Health, Human Sexuality, Women’s Health, Drugs and Society, Health and Aging, Disaster Preparedness, Complementary & Integrative Medicine.
Emergency Management and Disaster Preparedness is a designed for primarily two groups of students: (1) students who are interested in working in emergency management, and (2) students interested in first responder professions which require a bachelor’s degree for career advancement (firefighter, paramedic, police).
Note: 91成人视频 does NOT offer Fire Science or Paramedic coursework, but the Department has an articulation agreement with the Lake Land College Paramedic program, and with their Fire Science Management program. Contact Jasmine Ballard at Lake Land College for more information about their programs, or to have your professional licensures transcripted through LLC.
Core courses in EMDP include: Community Health, Research Methods, Disaster Preparedness, Health Care Delivery Systems, Epidemiology, Health Behaviors, Planning Health Programs, Health Administration. Students may pick from a wide spectrum of elective courses to complement their existing training and coursework to complete their degree.
Degree: Bachelor of Science
Completion time: 120 Credit Hours
Internships:
Where do our students do their internships?
Anywhere they want to!
Our Public Health internship coordinator Dr. Nikki Hillier works collaboratively with students to identify internship sites and complete internship contracts, then supervises them throughout the experience.
Some of the places our students have been include:
- Sarah Bush Lincoln Health System
- Davita Health Care Partners
- Charleston Police Department
- Biomat
- American Red Cross
- Healthcare Consortium of Illinois
- Advocate Trinity
- Decatur Memorial Hospital
- Charleston Fire Department
- Piatt County Health Dept.
- Champaign-Urbana Public Health Dept.
- Silver Cross Hospital
- U.S. Army
- Chicago Housing Authority
- Kane County Health Dept.
- Governor's Environmental Corps, Springfield, IL
- Jersey Community Hospital
- Cederhurst Assisted Living
- Winnebago HD, Emergency Response, Rockford, IL
- Envision Health Care
- Peterson Health
- Glen Cardinal Hosptial, St. Louis
- Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago
- Kadlec Regional Medical Center, Richland, WA
- Oak Street Health, Chicago
- Advocate Christ Medical Center
- Northshore University Health System, Evanston, IL
- CCPHD, Oak Forest
- Community Healthnet, Gary, IN
- FEMA
- Missouri Valley Regional Blood Center
- Alzheimer's Association of North Carolina
- American Diabetes Association, Chicago
- Arkansas Department of Public Health, Little Rock
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First-Year Students
Public Health job prospects are one of the fastest growing employment fields in the U.S. today, with projected job growth of close to 20% for the next 30 years. A degree in Public Health can position you to take advantage of those job prospects, and our mandatory 320 clock hour internship can help jumpstart your career.
Are you looking for a program that will allow you to get involved with your profession, with research, and with service as soon as you step foot on campus? Then look no further!
In the Department of Public Health & Nutrition, we are committed to helping our students grow in the profession, and that means from day 1. If you are interested in research, not only do we have a Research Methods sequence in our program, we have faculty who would love to work on independent research projects with you. Even if you are a freshman!
Are you interested in everything? So are we! Talk to our academic advisor Mrs. Harvey about the possibility of earning a double major or a dual degree, and pair our major with your other interest areas. Many of our students double major in , , or . Or....consider adding one of our many minors, including workplace wellness, nutrition, health communication, aging studies, non-profit leadership, psychology, sociology, pre-law, human services program administration, business administration, entrepreneurship.....the list is almost endless! You can put together a combination of major(s) and minor(s) to customize your degree program -- and STILL graduate on time!
Want even more value? We have a , and an Accelerated Master's Degree program that allows undergraduate students to start on their master's degree their senior year -- and double count those courses toward both their B.S. and their M.S. degrees.
Transfer Students
What is the most common question transfer students have?
"Am I going to be able to finish my degree on time?"
That's why we have our transfer students meet with one of our academic advisors during Transfer Orientation, if not earlier, so we can work with your to create a degree completion plan that fits your timeframe, your work and life schedules, and your financial requirements. Mrs. Amanda Harvey (AJHARVEY2@91成人视频.EDU) is the Public Health & Nutrition academic advisor, and works with all transfer students in Public Health, Health Administration, or Nutrition & Dietetics.
Transfer students who enter the program in their first semester of the junior year can usually finish all their coursework and their internship in 4 semesters. Some students need the full four semesters for their classes, and complete their internship in the summer. It all depends on what coursework you took at your previous school, and how many courses you are able to take each semester.
We also have the option to grant up to 12 s.h. of course credit through Prior Learning Assessment. If you have professional certifications/licensures, and the coursework related to your certification is not transcripted, talk to us about this option, which can save you up to a full semester of coursework.
Public Health job prospects are one of the fastest growing employment fields in the U.S. today, with projected job growth of close to 20% for the next 30 years. A degree in Public Health can position you to take advantage of those job prospects, and our mandatory 320 clock hour internship can help jumpstart your career.
Are you looking for a program that will allow you to get involved with your profession, with research, and with service as soon as you step foot on campus? Then look no further!
In the Department of Public Health & Nutrition, we are committed to helping our students grow in the profession, and that means from day 1. If you are interested in research, not only do we have a Research Methods sequence in our program, we have faculty who would love to work on independent research projects with you. Even if you are a freshman!
Are you interested in everything? So are we! Talk to our academic advisor Mrs. Harvey about the possibility of earning a double major or a dual degree, and pair our major with your other interest areas. Many of our students double major in , , or . Or....consider adding one of our many minors, including workplace wellness, nutrition, health communication, aging studies, non-profit leadership, psychology, sociology, pre-law, human services program administration, business administration, entrepreneurship.....the list is almost endless! You can put together a combination of major(s) and minor(s) to customize your degree program -- and STILL graduate on time!
Want even more value? We have a , and an Accelerated Master's Degree program that allows undergraduate students to start on their master's degree their senior year -- and double count those courses toward both their B.S. and their M.S. degrees.
