One Health Co-op Information for Employers
Adding Value to Your Team
This four-year Honours program will prepare our future leaders for the complex challenges at the confluence of human, animal and environmental health, including critical analysis of complex systems, problem solving across disciplinary boundaries, mobilizing knowledge, and informing policy.
The One Health degree offers students the opportunity to explore animal, environmental, and human health from both the scientific and socio-cultural perspective. One Health is an approach to research and problem-solving that brings together different knowledge systems and perspectives in order to find solutions that ensure people, animals, and our environment stay healthy.
University of Guelph Advantage
The One Health degree offers four areas of emphasis. Students must declare and complete all requirements for one of the areas of emphasis to graduate with the degree. The areas of emphasis include:
- Disease, Complexity, and Health (DCH)
- Environment, Food, and Health (EFH)
- Policy, Economics, and Health (PEH)
- Culture, Society, and Health (CSH)
Our co-op process responds to your needs. Employers can post, interview, and hire throughout the semester and our students are available for 4 or 8 or 12 month work terms. The Experience Guelph hiring tool makes hiring Guelph students easy!
Student Strengths
Communication
Accurately and effectively communicate complex issues, ideas, arguments, and analyses to a range of audiences, using graphic, oral, and written forms and a variety of media. Establish and facilitate interactions among partners and stakeholders associated with One Health challenges.
Professional and Ethical Behaviour
Demonstrate integrity by respectfully considering diverse points of view, intellectual contributions of others, and different knowledge systems, and by demonstrating a commitment to honesty, ethical standards, confidentiality, equity, diversity, and inclusion. Demonstrate mastery of key professional behaviours including adaptability, active listening, ethical reasoning, and leadership, when working individually or with others.
Methodologies and Techniques
Apply quantitative and qualitative analytical methods to interpret data and critically evaluate evidence to make informed conclusions and decisions. Effectively devise and implement a project management plan by setting goals, managing tasks and information, and meeting timelines.
Bachelor of One Health Co-op Work Term Schedule
| YEAR | FALL | WINTER | SUMMER |
|---|---|---|---|
| ONE | Academic | Academic | Off |
| TWO | Academic | Academic | Off |
| THREE | Academic | Academic | Work |
| FOUR | Work | Work | Off |
| FIVE | Academic | Academic |
One Health Course Sequencing
Please see the current undergraduate calendar for more information.
Fall
- Biological Anthropology
- Biological Concepts of Health
- Introduction to Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Explaining Environmental Change
- For DCH and EFH:
- General Chemistry I
- For PEH and CSH:
- Introductory Microeconomics or Introduction to Psychology
Winter
- Introduction to Anthropology
- Discovering Biodiversity
- Introduction to One Health
- One Of: Elements of Calculus I or An Elective
- For DCH and EFH:
- General Chemistry II
- For PEH and CSH:
- Introductory Microeconomics or Introduction to Psychology
Fall
- Evolution
- Case Studies in One Health
- Society, Knowledge Systems and Environment
- 1 Elective or 1 AOE Restricted Elective
- For DCH and EFH:
- 1 AOE Elective
- For PEH and CSH:
- Regional Ethnography or Social Psychology
Winter
- Ecology
- Introduction to Co-operative Education
- One of: Introductory Methods or Statistics I or Biostatistics For Integrative Biology
- For DCH and EFH:
- Introduction to Biochemistry
- Foundations in Molecular Biology and Genetics
- 1 Elective or AOE Restricted Elective
- For PEH and CSH:
- Comparative Politics or Public Policy
- 2 Electives or AOE Restricted Electives
Summer
Off
Fall
- Epidemiology
- Topics in One Health
- Global Environmental Change or Climate Change Biology
- 1 Electives or AOE Restricted Electives
- One of: Concepts in Human Physiology or Biomedical Physiology or Life Strategies of Plants or Human Physiology I - Concepts and Principles or Comparative Animal Physiology I
Winter
- Qualitative and Observational Methods
- Populations, Communities, and Ecostustesm or Contemporary Issues in Culture Society, Nature
- 3 Electives or AOE Electives
Summer
Work Term One
Fall
Work Term Two
Winter
Work Term Three
Summer
Off
Fall
- Applications of One Health
- Up to 5 Electives or AOE Restricted Electives
Winter
- Applications of One Health
- Up to 5 or AOE Restricted Electives
See Undergraduate Calendar for list of Restricted Electives.
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