PUBH at University of Pennsylvania

A suggested order for the 20 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate PUBH coursework.

• PUBH 5050Public Health Policy & Administrationopens 5 courses (5 directly)
• PUBH 5060Methods for Public Health Practiceopens 5 courses (4.5 directly)
• PUBH 5020Introduction to the Principles and Methods of Epidemiologyopens 4 courses (4 directly)
• PUBH 5070Public Health Law & Ethicsopens 3 courses (3 directly)
• PUBH 5040Public Health Theories & Frameworksopens 2 courses (1.5 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate PUBH work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 20 PUBH and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 69 more PUBH courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on PUBH, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in PUBH. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at PUBH 6040

  1. PUBH 5060Methods for Public Health Practice
  2. PUBH 6040Qualitative Research Methods in Public Health

• 2 courses deep, ending at PUBH 6050

  1. PUBH 5020Introduction to the Principles and Methods of Epidemiology
  2. PUBH 6050Epidemiology & Control of Infectious Diseases

• 2 courses deep, ending at PUBH 6070

  1. PUBH 5050Public Health Policy & Administration
  2. PUBH 6070Advanced Local Policymaking

• 2 courses deep, ending at PUBH 6080

  1. PUBH 5040Public Health Theories & Frameworks
  2. PUBH 6080Design for Health Behavior Change

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for PUBH yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under PUBH yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

PUBH does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Penn campus feed.