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Find your purpose enhancing wellness in rural communities.
This program combine sociology’s focus on social institutions, human interactions, and inequalities with the issues of health equity, program development/promotion, health communication, and health disparities studied intensively in the MBS program.
For your first three years, students take behavioral and social science courses focused on helping you build a strong foundation of knowledge about a variety of sociological and social psychological issues. In your fourth year, you combine research with practical learning by taking graduate-level coursework and integrating your learning into internship work in a rural community. For your fifth year, you take a capstone course and participate in a community health practicum. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to pursue a self-developed project that can have a lasting impact. As a program graduate, you’ll be prepared to take on roles in substance abuse prevention, health promotion and evaluation, elder care, youth health and empowerment, and more.
