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Public Health

Public Health at Alma

The Public Health minor provides students with a fundamental understanding of public health activities by combining information from many different departments on campus, including:

  • Exercise and Health Science
  • Math
  • Communication
  • Environmental Studies
  • Philosophy
  • Political Science
  • Sociology and Anthropology

Classes cover a range of health care issues, including health care communication, epidemiology, ethics and statistics. Students have a wide variety of hands-on opportunities inside and outside of the classroom, including internships at an area hospital and nursing facility.

Career opportunities

Alma’s Public Health minors have continued on to a variety of careers. Some have attended graduate school for public health and some go directly into the job market. Either way, public health is a great minor for a variety of careers, including those in:

  • Medicine
  • Health Administration
  • Public Policy
  • Education
  • Communication

 

Many of Alma’s pre-law graduates go on to attend prestigious law schools, including 2004 graduate Jessica Karbowski, who was accepted at Yale, Stanford and Harvard law schools and is attending Yale. Colin McGlaughlin, a 20004 graduated enrolled at Case Western Reserve Law School, is the first American to intern at the International Criminal Court at The Hague in the Netherlands.

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Graduate Profile

Bruce S. Fraser
Graduation: 1976
Major: Chemistry

Bruce S. Fraser has used his chemistry major to pursue a variety of career fields.

Now a software engineering manager with Lockheed Martin Corp., the 1976 graduate continued his education at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and moved to Los Angeles to be a salesman for an oil and petroleum company.

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