About Public Health

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)