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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Public Health

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Minimum number of credits to complete the minor:  20

Minimum cumulative GPA required to graduate:  2.0

 

School: School of Nursing and Health Sciences

Department: Nutrition and Public Health

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Public health is the science of protecting and improving the health of communities through education, promotion of health lifestyles and research for injury and disease prevention. Public health work involves analyzing the effect on health of genetics, personal choice and the environment in order to develop programs that protect the health of families and communities. The Department of Nutrition and Public Health offers a minor in Public Health, which can complement majors in many diverse fields.

Minor Requirements

The five course (20 credit) minor requires completing three core courses and two required elective courses chosen from a list of approved related courses in Communication and Media, Political Science and Public Policy, Psychology, Sociology, or Gender, Diversity, and Social Justice. Students in this minor will be assigned an advisor from the School of Nursing and Health Sciences faculty.

Core Courses

Complete the following three required courses:

Required Electives

Choose two courses from the following:

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