<p>Does anyone know what the difference is between Public Health Sciences in the School of Social Ecology or the College of Health Sciences? I understand they collaborate on this major but does it matter which school/college you register under? Thanks.</p>
<p>The Public Health Sciences major is technically part of the College of Health Sciences. However, the College of Health Sciences is new and only has advisors for the Nursing Students(and the offices are atm, in the research park and not directly on campus). Because of this, the School of Social Ecology offers the advising and all the administrative stuff for the major. Eventually the major will probably switch to being controlled by the College of Health Sciences alone.</p>
<p>I know this because I am a Public Health Sciences major, and an officer of the Academic Public Health club known as the Public Health Association(pha.zotters.org). So if you have any more questions about the PH majors, I’d be happy to ask.</p>
<p>Thank you tatertots, I’m so glad to have found you! 
I imagine most public health majors are in the School of Social Ecology then, right? Also, are most/all of the pre-med preparation courses taken in this major?</p>
<p>Yea all Public Health majors are in the School of Social Ecology for all practical purposes. </p>
<p>For Pre-med requirements there is a little more that needs to be taken as electives.
Physics 3A-B-C and LB and LC needs to be taken, Bio majors usually take the series their junior year.</p>
<p>Also Biology labs are not required for the Public Health Sciences major, but do count for some of the major requirements. For medical school 3 labs are generally needed.
Bio Sci 100LW, M114L, M116L, M122L count as Bio Sci labs and also as Upper Division Public Health Sciences coursework so it could be easily fulfilled with wise choices.</p>
<p>Also one more English class(on top of the two required GE writing courses) is needed to have 1 year of English(required by some schools). Since General Ed requires taking 3 humanities, just make one english and everything should be golden.</p>
<p>I am also a pre-med so I am quite familiar with the requirements. ><</p>
<p>^ Hey, I’m Public Health too… don’t know about Policy or Science</p>
<p>what’s the difference?</p>
<p>Policy is more social science focused, you don’t take the Bio core, or Chem or Orgo(but you need these for med school). You take classes focused on Health Policy and Administration and Social and Behavioral Health Sciences.
Public Health Science you take all the science lower divisions that a Bio major takes, and take upper division courses divided into three categories: Epidemiology and Genetics, Environmental and Global Health Sciences, and Infectious Diseases. </p>
<p>There is overlap in each of majors in the general public health classes and some overlap in the upper-division.</p>
<p>Detailed information can be found here or in the catalogue:
[Majors</a> in Public Health ?(Public Health Association at UCI)?](<a href=“http://pha.zotters.org/academic-information/majors-in-public-health]Majors”>http://pha.zotters.org/academic-information/majors-in-public-health)</p>
<p>There is also a minor in epidemiology and public health which is very disjointed and doesn’t cover many of the public health classes and you take mostly environmental health classes(the minor was around before the Program in Public Health, maybe it will change in the future =/ )</p>
<p>^ So If I want to do epidemiology then I have to be PH Sciences?
What if I want to do grad work at Harvard’s SPH and get MPH?</p>
<p>And of course for med school possibility is just better to get Public Health science</p>
<p>Thanks tatertots, you’re a goldmine! My D is starting at UCI this fall and is very interested in public health and possibly going on to med school, but not 100% sure yet. If she’s in the College of Health Sciences, it’s pretty much the same thing except that she would be counseled through the School of Social Ecology then, correct? Also, which classes are known to be the most challenging (“weeder”) classes?</p>
<p>Haiku:
Both majors do epidemiology(101A, 101B) but science has other epidemiology upper-division courses such as Infectious Disease Epi and Genetic Epi. Personally Epidemiology is also the reason why I am doing Public Health, even though I have not taken any of the Epi classes. I am currently doing research with the Department of Epidemiology at the School of Medicine. If you want to pursue an MPH it shouldn’t matter what major but MPHs have many concentrations so Public Health Policy would be more similar to Policy and Health Administration MPHs while Science would be more similar to Biostats and Epi and so forth. It doesn’t matter a whole lot though I am sure with either major you could pursue w/e MPH you wanted. </p>
<p>Undecided Mom:
Yea doesn’t matter what college shes under.
The most challenging “weeder” classes for PHS are the Bio Sci Classes and maybe General Chem and Organic Chem. The core classes are not terribly easy and all the Bio majors will be taking the same classes. But they are doable. As for public health classes, I have heard none of them are too bad. We have one stellar lecturer who teaches the lower division Public Health classes.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info tatertots. ;)</p>
<p>Im more confident about Public Health now</p>
<p>woo</p>
<p>We were recently told at Discover UCI, that UCI doesn’t have a cadaver lab or anatomy class for pre-med students. Therefore, they have to take it somewhere else, such as a community college. Is this true?</p>