Health Minor
The health minor is open to students majoring in all disciplines except public and community health. Students enrolled in this minor are afforded the opportunity to survey a broad set of health issues impacting individual and population health. Following a required 3-credit theoretical framework course, students can take advantage of the flexibility of this minor to study health issues of interest, be it health care systems, health promotion and disease prevention, or an array of health content areas.
Requirements
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK | ||
| HLTH 20500 | Critical Health Issues | 3 |
| or HLTH 21300 | Wellness: Multicultural Perspectives on Health and Healing | |
| HEALTH ELECTIVES | 15 | |
| Fifteen credits in health-related electives, selected from the list, with no more than three credits earned in a level 1xxxx course and at least three credits earned in a course at level 3xxxx or above. | ||
HLTH 1xxxx | Choice of any 100-level health course from selected list | |
HLTH 2xxxx-HLTH 4xxxx | Choice of any 200-, 300-, or 400-level courses from selected list | |
PHED 2xxxx -OR- SOCI 3xxxx | ||
HLTH 3xxxx-HLTH 4xxxx | Choice of any 300- or 400-level course from selected list | |
SOCI 3xxxx | ||
| HEALTH ELECTIVES SELECTED LIST | ||
| Medical Terminology | ||
| War, Hunger, and Genocide: An International Health Perspective | ||
| Personal Health | ||
| Technology for the Professional Edge | ||
| Cyborgs, Clones, and Policy: New Technologies in Health and Medicine | ||
| Food and Society | ||
| Human Nutrition | ||
| Consumer Health | ||
| Economics of Health Care | ||
| Critical Health Issues | ||
| Viral Diseases of the World | ||
| Wellness: Multicultural Perspectives on Health and Healing | ||
| Epidemiological Approaches to Disease Prevention and Control | ||
| Health Communication | ||
| Stress: Its Nature and Management | ||
| Human Sexuality | ||
| Human Disease | ||
| Fitness Applications for Health Promotion | ||
| Development and Evaluation of Health Programs | ||
| Fitness Applications for Health Promotion | ||
| Global Health | ||
| Lifecycle Nutrition | ||
| Counseling for the Health Professions | ||
| Family Health Problems | ||
| Health Research and Analysis | ||
| Health Planning and Administration | ||
| Health Promotion in the Workplace | ||
| Legal and Ethical Issues in Health Policy | ||
| Drug Use and Abuse | ||
| Public Health Policy and Justice | ||
| Teaching Strategies in Health Education | ||
| Multicultural Issues in Health | ||
| Total Credits | 18 | |