Public Health Minor

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Total number of hours required in the minor:
22-24 semester hours

Total number of advanced hours required in the minor:
9-17 semester hours

Public health is the science and art of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities. Public health uses perspectives from sociology, biology, anthropology, politics, history and others.

Take the following required courses:

SOCI 1301 - Introduction to Sociology 3 hrs
SOCI 1319 - Introduction to Public Health 3 hrs
SOCI 3311 - Sociological Statistics 3 hrs
SOCI 3313 - Sociology of Health 3 hrs
ANTH 2453 - Introduction to Biological Anthropology 4 hrs
or
BIOL 3462 - Genetics 4 hrs

Take 6-8 hours from the list:

ANTH 3346 - Medical Anthropology 3 hrs
BIOL 1410 - Environmental Science 4 hrs
BIOL 3310 - Drugs and the Body: What You Should Know about Drugs 3 hrs
BIOL 5493 - Introduction to Pharmacology 4 hrs
ECON 4306 - Health Care Economics 3 hrs
SOCI 3319 - Mapping the Social World 3 hrs
SOCI 4330 - Violence in Communities and Families 3 hrs
SOCI 5389 - Practicum 3 hrs