Guidelines for a Minor in Public Health
The minor consists of a minimum of 18 credits distributed as follows:
Required Courses:
- Introduction to Public Health, INTD 270 (4 credits)
*Introduction to Public Health is advised to be the first course students take.
- Elementary Statistics, MATH 080, 3 credits, or Statistics, PSYC/SOC 214, (4 credits)
- Epidemiology, BIOL 365 (4 credits)
- Social Welfare Policy, SOWK 364 (3 credits)
Any two of the following courses:
Social/behavioral/cultural science topics in public health
- Human Behavior and the Social Environment, SOWK 273 (3 credits)
- Legal Issues, SOWK 290 (4 credits)
- Sociology of Health and Medicine, Soc 246 (3 credits)
- Biological Bases of Behavior, PSYC 222 (3 credits)
- Health Psychology, PSYC 382 (3 credits)
- Stress and Disease in the 21st Century, PSYC 227 (4 credits)
- Current Topics in Health, KNS 300 (3 credits)
Environmental science topics in public health
- Introduction to Environmental Science, ENVS 100 (4 credits)
- The Chemical Nature of Our Environment, ENVS 230 (4 Credits)
- Environmental Chemistry, CHEM 380 (4 credits)
Biomedical science topics in public health
- Biology of Aging, INTD 170 (4 credits)
- KNS 201 Fundamentals of Nutrition, KNS 201 (3 credits)
- Global Health: Problems of the Modern World, INTD 230 (3 credits)
- Cardiovascular Health, INTD/KNS 290 (3 credits)
- Medicine and Culture, INTD 287 (4 credits)
