COM HLT 100Introduction to Community Health Sciences
Community Health Sciences · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Limited to junior/senior nonmajors and graduate students, with preference given to undergraduates in Public Health minor. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 120. Introductory course to provide students with broad and comprehensive overview of concepts, empirical research, and public health practice in community health sciences, with emphasis on social context and determinants of population health, and principles of planning interventions to protect and improve public health. Includes ways to define and measure health and illness, social construction of illness, social and behavioral determinants of health, and health disparities. Discussion also of social and behavioral theories of health-related behavior change, health promotion strategies and methods, advocacy, and public policy.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
COM HLT 100
- COM HLT M294Social and Behavioral Factors of HIV/AIDS: Global Perspective
- PSYCTRY M288Social and Behavioral Factors of HIV/AIDS: Global Perspective
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.