Design Your Own Curriculum

Choose any combination of classes from across DIS' offerings, for a course load perfectly suited to your interests!

Be sure that you:

  • a) have all the pre- and co-requisites
  • b) don't double book yourself during any time blocks
  • c) pick only one program’s core course(s)

Public Health
Fall, Spring 2009/10

  • Popular majors: Pre-med – Public Health – Political Science – Public Policy – Sociology


Objectives | Courses | Study Tours

Objectives

Denmark provides a laboratory for exploring public health issues much different from the US – come see what these issues look like from a social welfare state with free health care and very high taxes. The program aims:

  • To provide a Northern European perspective on the salient aspects of public health like pre-natal care, immunization, prevention, food safety, health promotion
  • To help you understand the complex challenges of health policy making, prioritization, and health economics
  • To advance your ability to derive comparative insights from analysis of different national health care systems
  • To sensitize you to the political, social, economic, and moral issues involved in different models underlying modern health care systems

Courses

Core Course Syllabus
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Choose your electives, click here:

Study Tours

DIS places strong emphasis on combining classroom work with experiential learning so that you walk away with applicable, real life, cross-cultural skills for the global job market.

Study Tours – each semester

  • A short regional tour in Denmark
  • A longer European study tour to Helsinki-Tallinn