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Program Description
The One Health approach is a comprehensive framework that recognizes the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health. It emerged from the understanding that the health of each of these domains is interdependent and that addressing health issues requires a collaborative and multidisciplinary effort. A One Health Undergraduate Certificate with an Environment and Climate focus will instill the One Health approach through a multidisciplinary educational framework with interdisciplinary classroom collaboration.
Understanding the changes that sustainable practices, environmental management, and landscape design can have on health outcomes is a critical component of maintaining human and animal health. Students in this program will receive prescribed education in human diseases then take electives from a curated list of One Health topics in both environment and health supporting courses. Certificate students will complete one credit of Wicked Problems in One Health with students from other One Health undergraduate programs to practice their One Health problem-solving skills.
The certificate program is appropriate for all students including students interested in medicine, public health, environmental protection, sustainable practices and economics, climate change, community development, community education, social work, and policy and advocacy.
Program Requirements
To earn an undergraduate certificate in One Health: Environment and Climate, a minimum of 13 credits is required.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Prescribed Courses | ||
| Prescribed Courses: Require a grade of C or better | ||
| VBSC 130 | Understanding Human Disease  | 3 |
| VBSC 340N | Introduction to One Health | 3 |
| VBSC 341 | Wicked Problems in One Health | 1 |
| Supporting Courses and Related Areas | ||
| Supporting Courses and Related Areas: Require a grade of C or better | ||
| Environment or Climate Elective 1 | 3 | |
| Environment, Social Science, or Animal Health Elective 1 | 3 | |
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Academic Advising
The objectives of the university's academic advising program are to help advisees identify and achieve their academic goals, to promote their intellectual discovery, and to encourage students to take advantage of both in-and out-of class educational opportunities in order that they become self-directed learners and decision makers.
Both advisers and advisees share responsibility for making the advising relationship succeed. By encouraging their advisees to become engaged in their education, to meet their educational goals, and to develop the habit of learning, advisers assume a significant educational role. The advisee's unit of enrollment will provide each advisee with a primary academic adviser, the information needed to plan the chosen program of study, and referrals to other specialized resources.
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University Park
Jennifer Koehl, Ph.D., MPS
Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences Undergraduate Program Coordinator, One Health Minor Coordinator, Assistant Teaching Professor
108E Animal, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences Building
University Park, PA 16802
jzk335@psu.edu
Contact
University Park
DEPARTMENT OF VETERINARY AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES
Animal, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences Building
University Park, PA 16802
vetbiomedsci@psu.edu