Introduction

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The undergraduate minor in Public Health Demography will introduce students to population-based approaches to health and wellbeing. Both demography and public health draw on theories and methods from across the social and behavioral sciences, to understand population level outcomes. Collectively, the courses in the minor will strengthen skills in analytical thinking, critical thinking, and quantitative reasoning, as related to topics including fertility, mortality, migration, maternal and child health, health disparities, and population health.

The minor in Public Health Demography will help to prepare students for graduate training in public health, demography, epidemiology, or biostatistics. Further, the minor will help to prepare students for jobs that require an understanding of population dynamics. Demographic skills are useful in fields including actuarial studies, marketing, consulting, non-profits, and various agencies in the local, state, and federal government.

These program requirements are subject to periodic revision by the academic department, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences reserves the right to make exceptions and substitutions as judged necessary in individual cases. Therefore, the College strongly urges students to consult regularly with their major, minor and CLAS advisors to confirm the best plans of study before finalizing them.

Program Delivery

• This is an on-campus program.

Declaring This Minor

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General Requirements

Students must satisfy all requirements as outlined below and by the department offering the minor. 

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Program Requirements

1. Students must complete a minimum of 17 credits drawn from the approved course lists.
2. Students must complete a minimum of six upper-division PBHL (3000-level and above) credit hours.
3. Students must earn a minimum grade of C- (1.7) in all courses that apply to the minor and must achieve a minimum cumulative minor GPA of 2.0. Courses taken using P+/P/F or S/U grading cannot apply to minor requirements.
4. Students must complete a minimum of nine PBHL credit hours with CU Denver faculty.

Program Restrictions, Allowances and Recommendations

1. Due to substantial overlap in coursework, students who complete the major in Public Health shall not also be awarded the minor in Public Health Demography.

Required Courses

Note: Students should check for prerequisites when enrolling in courses.

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Complete the following program requirements:
General Public Health		8
PBHL 2001	Introduction to Public Health
PBHL 3001	Introduction to Epidemiology
Core Demography		6
PBHL 2052	Global Demography and Health
SOCY 4220	Population Change and Analysis
Demographic and Statistical Elective		3
PBHL 3070	Perspectives in Global Health
or PBHL 4040	Social Determinants of Health
or MATH 2830	Introductory Statistics
Total Hours		17

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