B.A. in Health Policy

This major has 13 required courses and 4 foundational courses. It is a Bachelor of Arts major that satisfies the Social Science requirement of the Rochester Curriculum. Key goals for this major: Understand health policy as it relates to the organization, financing, and provision of health care in the U.S., including its history; Demonstrate how the principles of statistics, economics, and political science apply to health policy; Understand the current situation relating to population health (including environmental health), private insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, long term care, and mental health at the Federal, State, and local levels, both public and private; Understand how to apply the principles of health policy analysis to population health (including environmental health), private insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, long term care, and mental health at the Federal, State, and local levels, both public and private.