BSc Health Promotion  

Dalhousie’ undergraduate program in health promotion is unique in Canada. The four year undergraduate program accepts 40 students annually.  Students are accepted directly from high school, as transfers from other university programs, and as mature students. This small incoming class allows for the development of a strong core of health promotion specialists who work together in the program much as they will in the community. The program consists of specialized courses related to various health issues and a core set of courses that deal with the professional skills, health policy issues and the disciplinary content of the health promotion field as well as other science , social science and humanities courses required for a BSc program.  In addition students take a series of HAHP (Health and Human Performance) courses with their other peers in the Kinesiology and Leisure Studies/Recreation programs. 

At the end of the first year of the program students elect to complete their degree in either the Community Health Promotion stream or the Health Promotion Research and Policy stream. Although the requirements in each stream differ, there are many options for students to take courses in either stream providing they meet the prerequisites.

The BSc (Health Promotion) degree was first awarded in May 2005. Prior to that students graduated with  BSc  (Health Education). To read about the history of the Health Promotion program, click here.  You will notice this designation in earlier graduate profiles.

To read profiles of our current students in the Health Promotion Program, click here.