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Program requirements: Artificial Intelligence and Public Health, BS (Boston)

Artificial Intelligence Requirements 

Code Title Hours 
Fundamental Courses  
All students can take a self-assessment to attempt to place out of CS 2000 and CS 2001. Students who place out of CS 2000 and CS 2001 will instead substitute 4-5 semester hours of CS, CY, or DS coursework at the 3000 level or higher not otherwise required in the degree. 
CS 1800 Discrete Structures 
CS 2000 
and CS 2001 
Introduction to Program Design and Implementation 
and Lab for CS 2000 
CS 2100 
and CS 2101 
Program Design and Implementation 1 
and Lab for CS 2100 
CS 3200 Introduction to Databases 
DS 3500 Advanced Programming with Data 
Artificial Intelligence Foundations   
DS 3000 Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence 
DS 4200 Information Presentation and Visualization 
DS 4300 Large-Scale Information Storage and Retrieval 
DS 4400 Machine Learning 

Supporting Courses 

Code Title Hours 
Introduction to College  
Must be taken in alignment with your home college:  
CS 1200 First-Year Seminar  
HSCI 1000 College: An Introduction  
INPR 1000 First-Year Interdisciplinary Seminar  
Ethics  
Complete one of the following:  
BIOL 2329 Bioethics  
PHIL 1165 Moral and Social Problems in Healthcare  
Mathematics  
MATH 1341 Calculus 1 for Science and Engineering 
or MATH 1241 Calculus 1 
Statistics   
Complete one of the following:  4-5 
ECON 2350 Statistics for Economists  
ENVR 2500 
and ENVR 2501 
and ENVR 2502 
Biostatistics 
and Lab for ENVR 2500 
and Recitation for ENVR 2500 
 
MATH 3081 Probability and Statistics  
PHTH 2210 Foundations of Biostatistics  
PSYC 2320 Statistics in Psychological Research  
Professional Development  
Must be taken in alignment with your home college:  
CS 1210 Professional Development for Khoury Co-op  
HSCI 2000 Professional Development for Bouvé Co-op  

 Public Health Requirements 

Code Title Hours 
Public Health Core Courses  
PHTH 1260 The U.S. Healthcare System 
or PHTH 1261 Comparative Healthcare Systems 
PHTH 2300 Communication Skills for the Health Professions 
or PHTH 2301 Communication Skills for the Health Professions—Global 
PHTH 2350 Community and Public Health 
or PHTH 2351 Community and Public Health – Global 
PHTH 2515 Healthcare Policy and Administration 
PHTH 4120 Global Perspectives on Discrimination and Health 
PHTH 4202 Principles of Epidemiology in Medicine and Public Health 
PHTH 4540 Health Education and Program Planning 
Science Requirement  
Biology   
Complete one of the following options: 8-10 
Option 1  
BIOL 1141 Microbes and Society  
or BIOL 1143 Biology and Society 
BIOL 1147 The Human Organism  
Option 2  
BIOL 1111 
and BIOL 1112 
General Biology 1 
and Lab for BIOL 1111 
 
BIOL 1113 
and BIOL 1114 
General Biology 2 
and Lab for BIOL 1113 
 
Psychology  
PSYC 1101 Foundations of Psychology 
Public Health Social Science Requirement  
Introductory Course   
Complete one of the following: 
ANTH 1101 Peoples and Cultures  
COMM 1225 Communication Theory  
ECON 1115 Principles of Macroeconomics  
ECON 1116 Principles of Microeconomics  
ENGL 1300 Introduction to Health and Humanities  
HUSV 1101 Social Change and Human Services  
INTL 1101 Globalization and International Affairs  
PHIL 1101 Introduction to Philosophy  
POLS 1160 International Relations  
SOCL 1101 Introduction to Sociology  
Upper-Level Course  
Complete one of the following: 3-4 
Society and Behavior  
ANTH 3441 Medical Anthropology  
COMM 3201 Health Communication  
COMM 4102 Health Communication Campaigns  
CRIM 3040 Psychology of Crime  
HLTH 5280 The (in)Visibility of (dis)Ability in Society  
PHTH 5222 Health Advocacy  
PSYC 3402 Social Psychology  
PSYC 3404 Developmental Psychology  
PSYC 3450 Learning and Motivation  
SOCL 3241 Violence and Society  
SOCL 3441 Sociology of Health and Illness  
SOCL 4520 Race, Class, and Gender  
Globalization and Global Health  
AFCS 3424 Epidemiology of Pandemic Diseases and Health Disparities in the African Diaspora  
ECON 3404 International Food Policy  
INTL 3200 Cities in a Global Context  
or INTL 3201 Cities in a Global Context (Abroad) 
INTL 3400 International Conflict and Negotiation  
PHTH 3717 Infectious Disease: Past, Present, Future  
PHTH 5230 Global Health  
POLS 3487 Politics of Developing Nations  
Environmental Health and Climate Change  
COMM 3500 Environmental Issues, Communication, and the Media  
ECON 3423 Environmental Economics  
INTL 5100 Climate and Development  
or PPUA 5100 Climate and Development 
PHTH 5214 Environmental Health  
PPUA 5238 Climate Change and Global Urbanization  
Law, Policy, and Human Rights  
ECON 3424 Law and Economics  
PHIL 5001 Global Justice  
PHIL 5002 Ethics and Public Policy  
POLS 3307 Public Policy and Administration  
Healthcare Administration and Management  
ECON 3413 Health Economics and Healthcare Policy  
MGMT 3340 Healthcare Management, Innovation, and Design  
ORGB 3201 Organizational Behavior  
PHTH 4511 Healthcare Management  
PHTH 5232 Evaluating Healthcare Quality  
PHTH 5234 Economic Perspectives on Health Policy  

Writing Requirement 

Code Title Hours 
College Writing   
ENGW 1111 First-Year Writing 
or ENGW 1102 First-Year Writing for Multilingual Writers 
Advanced Writing in the Disciplines   
ENGW 3302 Advanced Writing in the Technical Professions 
or ENGW 3306 Advanced Writing in the Health Professions 
or ENGW 3315 Interdisciplinary Advanced Writing in the Disciplines 

Integrative Requirement  

Code Title Hours 
DS 4420 Advanced Machine Learning 

General Electives 

Code Title Hours 
Complete 20 semester hours of general electives 20 

Public Health Major Requirement 

A grade of C or higher is required for the Public Health Core, Science Requirement, Statistics, and Public Health Social Science Requirement. Students who take College: An Introduction (HSCI 1000) and Professional Development for Bouvé Co-op (HSCI 2000) must achieve a C or higher. 

NUpath Requirements Satisfied 

Integrating Knowledge and Skills Through Experience is satisfied through co-op 

Program Requirement 

131 total semester hours required