Public Health Minor
Introduction
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The undergraduate minor in Public Health is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of the social, cultural, and biological dimensions of health. The minor curriculum provides students with the intellectual and methodological tools needed to understand the joint bio-cultural determinants and contexts of health, health care and public health.
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
- Students must complete a minimum of 24 credit hours from the approved courses.
- Students must complete a minimum of 12 upper-division (3000-level and above) PBHL credit hours from the approved courses.
- 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.
- Students must complete a minimum of 12 PBHL credit hours with CU Denver faculty from the approved courses.
Program Restrictions, Allowances and Recommendations
- No more than six credit hours may be counted toward a major or minor in another department and counted toward the minor in Public Health.
- Due to substantial overlap in coursework, students who complete the major in Public Health cannot also be awarded the minor in Public Health.
- Students must complete a minimum of 12 upper-division level credit hours with CU Denver faculty.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Complete the following program requirements: | ||
| Complete the following General Public Health courses: | 8 | |
| Introduction to Public Health | ||
| Introduction to Epidemiology | ||
| Complete a minimum of two of the following Public Health Focused courses: 1 | 6 | |
| Introduction to Environmental Health | ||
| Health Policy | ||
| Perspectives in Global Health | ||
| Social Determinants of Health | ||
| Complete one of the following Biological Background lab courses: | 4 | |
| Introduction to Biological Anthropology | ||
| Basic Biology: Ecology and the Diversity of Life | ||
| Basic Biology: From Cells to Organisms | ||
| Organisms to Ecosystems (Gen Bio) and Organisms to Ecosystems Lab (Gen Bio) | ||
| Honors Organisms to Ecosystems (Gen Bio) and Honors Organisms to Ecosystems Lab (Gen Bio) | ||
| Molecules to Cells (Gen Bio) and Molecules to Cells Lab (Gen Bio) | ||
| Honors Molecules to Cells (Gen Bio) and Honors Molecules to Cells Lab (Gen Bio) | ||
| Complete two of the following elective courses: | 6 | |
| Medical Anthropology: Global Health | ||
| Global Health Practice | ||
| Anthropology and Public Health | ||
| Medical Anthropology | ||
| Health Communication | ||
| Health Communication and Community | ||
| Rhetorics of Medicine & Health | ||
| Designing Health Messages | ||
| Health Risk Communication | ||
| Health Economics. | ||
| Environment, Society and Sustainability | ||
| Ethnicity, Health and Social Justice | ||
| Geography of Health | ||
| Hazard Mitigation and Vulnerability Assessment | ||
| GIS Applications in the Health Sciences | ||
| Foundations of Health Humanities | ||
| Death & Dying: Social & Medical Perspectives | ||
| Gender, Science, and Medicine: 1600 to the Present | ||
| Global Demography and Health | ||
| Ethnicity, Health and Social Justice | ||
| Human Sexuality and Public Health | ||
| Fundamentals of Health Promotion | ||
| Health, Human Biology and Behavior | ||
| Health, Culture and Society | ||
| Decision Making | ||
| Mental Illness and Society | ||
| Global Topics In Sexual and Reproductive Health | ||
| Health in the City: Urban Health | ||
| Live Long and Prosper: Public Health & Aging | ||
| Human Migration: Nomads, Sojourners, and Settlers | ||
| Medical Sociology | ||
| Internship | ||
| Special Topics in Public Health | ||
| Global Health: Comparative Public Health Systems | ||
| Community Health Assessment | ||
| Ethnographic Research In Public Health | ||
| Health Disparities | ||
| Global Health Practice | ||
| Psychedelic Anthropology | ||
| Public Health Perspectives On Family Violence | ||
| The Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic | ||
| Health Risk Communication | ||
| Independent Study | ||
| Directed Research | ||
| Global Study Topics | ||
| Topics in Public Health | ||
| Medicine, Health Care, and Justice: Bioethics | ||
| Women's Rights, Human Rights: Global Perspectives | ||
| U.S. Health Policy | ||
| Health Psychology | ||
| Drugs, Brain and Behavior | ||
| Abnormal Psychology | ||
| Aging, Brain and Behavior | ||
| Medical Sociology | ||
| Death & Dying: Social & Medical Perspectives | ||
| Sociology of Health Care | ||
| Population Change and Analysis | ||
| Aging, Society and Social Policy | ||
| Total Hours | 24 | |
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Students may elect to take all four of these courses in lieu of taking two elective courses listed below.
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