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The purpose of this form is to submit a course that is not currently part of the Public Health Program (be it the Major, Minor, or Certificate). This could be a new course, a transfer course from another institution, or a course that is exclusively taught as part of a Study Abroad program. If you are a student transferring into CU Boulder, please contact the Transfer Office.

Electives in Public Health

Students may only use three courses (up to 9 credits) from outside of the CU Boulder campus for the BA degree in Public Health. For the minor in Public Health, only one elective can be from an institution other than CU Boulder.

For a course from outside of CU Boulder to count as an elective for the BA in Public Health or the minor in Public Health, it must do one of the following:

• Be counted as equivalent to a course on the current list of approved electives that are taught at CU Boulder. Equivalency of these courses will be done by the department that teaches that course at CU Boulder OR
• Meet the following criteria:
  • Cover a topic of relevance to public health, which means that it is addressing a health outcome at the population level (not solely the individual level) and discussing determinants beyond just biological determinants (to include potentially environmental, social, political, economic, or behavioral determinants) This can be from a historical or current perspective. AND
  • Have a public health rather than a medical focus such that it is more about prevention rather than treatment of health outcomes (or if there is a treatment focus, that it addresses treatment as a means of prevention which applies in the case of infectious diseases) AND
  • Discusses health equity (including health disparities/inequalities/inequities, unequal exposures, environmental injustice, or structural violence) in some way. 

Criteria for Course Approval for PUBH Major/Minor/Certificate