Health Sciences
The Department of Health Sciences at Western Illinois University offers a Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences on the Macomb campus. Undergraduate students majoring in health sciences may select one of two emphases: community health education or environmental and occupational safety.
Community health educators are professionally prepared in the disciplines of community and public health education. They demonstrate competence in planning, implementation, and evaluation of health promoting and health enhancing programs for individuals, groups, and communities. For additional information on careers in health education, please review information available from the American Association for Health Education and the Illinois Hospital Association.
Environmental and occupational safety professionals are concerned with the relationships between the characteristics of the natural environmental (air, water, soil, chemicals, etc.) and mental and physical health. This information is used to establish limits on pollutants that the environment can absorb without detrimental effects, to develop control technology, and to implement controls as necessary for the benefit of human and animal populations. Please review the Careers in Environmental Health brochure available from the Association of Environmental Health Academic Programs for additional information.
Please review the Undergraduate Catalog for our program requirements.
For more information about the undergraduate program, email the undergraduate advisor, Stacy Dorsett at SE-Dorsett@wiu.edu