Integrative Health Studies is a nonclinical master's degree program that can be completed in a minimum of two years and 40 units. It includes academic classes, workshops, and the choice of an Integrative Wellness Coaching, externship, or a 200-hour internship focused in one or more of the following areas: Alternative and Complementary Healing, Vulnerable Populations, Spirituality and Healing, Global Health Issues, Integrative Health Research, and Integrative Health Administration.

Required courses introduce students to the philosophy and methodologies of integrative health systems, review the relevant social and scientific theories explaining contemporary human and organizational behavior in local and global settings, and examine multicultural concepts in health and healing. These classes offer advanced conceptual perspectives in science, spirituality, and healing; health research issues; and personal and global wellness. Electives fulfill requirements for areas of specialization, including experiential classes in mind-body practices, alternative healing techniques, and topical issues in integrative health.

Electives are augmented by interdepartmental CIIS classes in expressive arts, somatic psychology, women's studies, social and cultural anthropology, integral philosophy, psychology, and spirituality. In addition, students may transfer 6 units of academic credit from approved graduate institutions.

REQUIRED COURSES

IHL 6000 Fundamentals of Integrative Health (3)
IHL 6010 Advanced Concepts in Integrative Health (3)
IHL 5000 Integrative Anatomy & Physiology (2)
IHL 6100 Communications Practicum (1)
IHL 6200 Epidemiology & Environmental Health (2)
IHL 6400 Health Equity & Planning (2)
IHL 6500 Multicultural Perspectives (3)
IHL 6955 Internship (2)
IHL 6031 Integrative Wellness Coaching (2)
IHL 6032 Integrative Wellness Management (2)
IHL 6033 Health Assessment & Evaluation (1)
IHL 6034 Mind\ Body Approaches (2)
IHL 6035 Movement and Stress Management (2)
IHL 6550 Integrative Nutrition (2)
IHL 6510 Healthy Aging (2)
IHL 6900 Integrative Seminar I (2)
IHL 6900 Integrative Seminar II (2)

Total: 35

ELECTIVES

IHL 6421 Global Health Issues (3)
IHL 6030 Integrative Health Research (2)
IHL 6024 Creativity & Healing (1)
IHL 6410 Health Care Administration (2)
IHL 6590 Music and Healing: African Traditions in Global Perspectives (1)
IHL 6790 Contemporary Issues in Women's Health (3)
IHL 6535 Heart & Soul of Justice (1)
IHL 7200 Coming Alive: Rosen Movement and Bodywork (3)
IHL 6540 Grant Writing (1)
IHL 8888 Special Topics (1-3)
SOM 5201 The Body: Experienced, Conceptualized and Verbalized (3)
SOM 5607 Movement Approaches in Somatic Psychotherapy (2)

Required Units: 35
Electives Units: 5
Total Units Required for Degree: 40

Integrative Health Studies Program Electives
Students take 5 units of electives. These electives are drawn from other CIIS courses, Public Programs workshops, or outside academic offerings. Students who intend to build skills in wellness coaching are advised to include the following electives: IHL 6024 Creativity & Healing SOM 5201 The Body: Experienced, Conceptualized and Verbalized, or SOM 5607 Movement Approaches in Somatic Psychotherapy.

Internships
Integrative Health internships are located in complementary, alternative, and integrative health practices; public health clinics; corporations; research facilities; faith-based organizations; and socially engaged NGOs. Examples include:

Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at UCSF
California Pacific Medical Center's Institute for Health & Healing
Center for Mind-Body Medicine
Health Medicine Institute
University of East-West Medicine
Teleosis Institute
Kaiser Permanente
Alameda Unified School District
Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic
Institute of Noetic Sciences
San Francisco Dept. of Public Health, Project Homeless Connect
St. Mary's Hospital