{"id":5084,"date":"2017-02-08T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=5084"},"modified":"2017-02-07T17:40:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T01:40:33","slug":"get-know-major-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/get-know-major-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Get to know a major"},"content":{"rendered":"
By: Paige Scofield\r\nCampus Life Editor<\/pre>\n
Western offers a wide variety of degrees that students can major in, many of which students don\u2019t know are offered, or know next to nothing about. This week, in \u201cGet To Know a Major:\u201d receiving a bachelor of science in community health.<\/p>\n
\"\"Maressa Milat, a junior, is working towards receiving a bachelor of science in community health with a minor in human biology. Although she didn\u2019t come to Western for that specific major, she knew she wanted to come here. \u201cI came to Western to attend a small school rather than a big state school,\u201d Milat stated.<\/p>\n
Originally Milat was going to major in nursing, but she didn\u2019t like how competitive it was, so she switched her major to community health. \u201cYou can do so much with a major in community health,\u201d she said. \u201cThere are a lot of careers available to someone educated in that field.\u201d According to Western\u2019s website, those fields include: medical care facilities, colleges and universities, public health settings, non-profit community health organizations, private businesses and building a foundation for beginning advanced\/graduate level work.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m thinking about taking more of a social worker job, that checks in on families, children and the elderly,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s something that I think is a really important job in our society.\u201d<\/p>\n
The community health major is described on Western\u2019s website as a program that, \u201c… prepares students to work with individuals, groups, and communities to promote health and prevent disease and disability. Students develop professional skills and competencies that include: assessing individual and community needs, planning and implementing health education programs, evaluating the effectiveness of health education programs, coordinating health education services, acting as a resource person for reliable and valid health information,advocacy and communication of health needs and information to multiple audiences in socially and culturally appropriate ways.\u201d
\nWhen asked what her favorite course she had taken so far was, Milat replied, \u201cHuman sexuality is my favorite so far. I like how open everything is and there’s no judgement.\u201d She added, \u201cMost of our classes are taught in a lecture style, and our class size is fairly small, so it\u2019s easy to communicate with other students and my professors, I like that a lot too.\u201d<\/p>\n
Contact the author at journalcampuslife@wou.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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