Minor in Public Health
General Requirements
A minimum of 22 credit hours in public health coursework, including a minimum of 9 upper-division credit hours, are required for the minor. All coursework applied to the minor must be completed with a grade of C- or better; no pass/fail work may be applied. The grade point average for all public health coursework must equal 2.00 (C) or higher.
Students will be allowed to apply no more than 9 credit hours, including 6 upper-division credit hours of transfer work towards a minor in public health.
The course catalog for the Public Health Minor can be found here.
Fundamentals of Public Health - Required Courses - 10 Credits
PBHL/GEOG 2692(3) Foundations in Public Health*
*Must be taken before GEOG 3692 and IPHY 3490
GEOG 3692(4) Introduction to Global Public Health
PBHL/IPHY 3490(3) Introduction to Epidemiology
Introduction to Biology Course - 3 Credits
One of the following:
EBIO 1100(3) Biology and Society
or EBIO 1210(3) General Biology
or MCDB 1150(3) Introduction to Cellular and Molecular Biology
Introduction to Statistics Course - 3-4 Credits
One of the following:
*courses with significant prerequisites are listed last
ANTH 4000 (4) Quantitative Methods in Anthropology
or EBIO 1010 (3) Introduction to Statistics and Quantitative Thinking for Biologists
or ECON 3818(4) Introduction to Statistics with Computer Applications [prerequisites include Calculus]
or GEOG 3023(4) Statistics for Geography
or IPHY 3280(4) Introduction to Data Science and Biostatistics
or MATH 2510(3) Introduction to Statistics [prerequisites include Algebra]
or PSCI 2075(3) Quantitative Research Methods
or PSYC 2111(4) Psychological Science I: Statistics [prerequisites include Algebra]
or SOCY 2061 (3) Introduction to Social Statistics
or STAT 2600(4) Introduction to Data Science [prerequisites include Calculus]
Elective Courses in Public Health - Minimum 6 Credits
Six credit hours of public health electives. At least one course (at least 3 credits) must be at the upper-division level, and at least one course (at least 3 credits) must be from outside of the student's major.
Electives by Category
| Class | Fall 2025 | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| ANTH 2600 (3) Plagues and the Human Response from Past to Present | No | Yes |
| ANTH 4610 (3) Medical Anthropology | Yes | No |
| ANTH 4645 (3) Stress: From Old Bones to Molecules | No | No |
| ANTH 4655 (3) Human Health and Disease in the Past: Paleopathology & Paleoepidemiology | No | No |
| ECON 4646 (3) Topics in Health Economics (depends on topic) | No | |
| ENVS 3525 (3) Intermediate Environmental Problem Analysis: Topical Cornerstones: Health and the Built Environment | No | |
PBHL 4000 (3) Special Topics in Public Health (Public Health Communication ) | Yes | |
| PSCI 3216 (3) Politics of Social Policy | Yes | No |
| PSYC 4021 (3) Psychology and Neuroscience of Exercise | Yes | Yes |
| PSYC 4541 (3) Special Topics in Psychology - Social Science (Prevention Science: Promoting Positive Youth and Adult Development; Science of Happiness; Sports Psychology) | Yes | |
| PSYC 4606 (3) Advanced Topics in Social Psychology (select topics) | No | No |
| SOCY 1022 (3) Ethics and Social Issues in U.S. Health and Medicine | Yes | No |
| SOCY 2034 (3) Drugs in United States Society | Yes | |
| SOCY 3032 (3) Social Epidemiology | No | No |
| SOCY 3045 (3) Sociology of Death and Dying | No | No |
| SOCY 3052 (3) Medical Sociology | Yes | Yes |
| SOCY 4052 (3) Social Inequalities in Health | Yes | Yes |
| SOCY 4062 (3) Suffering and Care in Society | No | No |
| WGST 2850 (3) Sex, Religion, and Politics in US Healthcare | Yes | No |
| Class | Fall 2025 | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| EBIO 3400 (4) Microbiology | Yes | Yes |
| ECON 4646 (3) Topics in Health Economics | Yes | No |
| ENVS 4800 (3) Capstone: Critical Thinking in Environmental Studies: Water Quality and Health Risks | No | Yes |
| GEOG 2552 (3) Healthy Places, Toxic Spaces: Geographies of Wellbeing Risk, and Care | Yes | |
| GEOG 4692 (3) Climate Change and Health | No | Yes |
| GEOG 4852 (3) Health and Medical Geography | No | No |
| GEOG 3782 (3) Environmentalism, Race, and Justice | No | No |
| OR ENVS 3034 (3) Foundations of Environmental Justice | Yes | Yes |
| OR HONR 4075 (3) Environmental Justice | No | No |
| HIST 2830 (3) Disease and Public Health in Global History | No | No |
| SOCY 4007 (3) Global Human Ecology | No | No |
| Class | Fall 2025 | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| ANTH 4060 (3) Nutrition and Anthropology | Yes | Yes |
| EBIO 3630 (4) Parasitology | No | Yes |
| IPHY 2420 (3): Introduction to Nutrition | Yes | Yes |
| OR IPHY 3440 (3) Clinical Nutrition | Yes | No |
| IPHY 3590 (3) Health and Function over the Adult Lifespan | No | |
| IPHY 4040 (3) History of Medicine | No | |
| IPHY 4041 (3) Global Health and Disease | No | No |
| IPHY 4420 (3) Nutrition and Human Performance | No | Yes |
| IPHY 4780 (3) Sleep, Circadian Rhythms, and Health | No | No |
| MCDB 3160 (3) Infectious Disease | No | Yes |
| MCDB 4150 (3) Biology of Aging and Longevity | Yes | |
| NRSC 4062 (3) The Neurobiology of Stress | Yes | |
| PBHL 4000 (3) Special Topics in Public Health (Population Health) | Yes | |
| PBHL/PSYC/GEOG 4542 (3) Public Health Capstone Research Methods: Environmental Interventions to the Mental Health Epidemic | Yes | |
| PHIL 1160 (3) Introduction to Medical Ethics | Yes | |
| OR PHIL 3160 (3) Bioethics | Yes | |
| PSYC 2012 (3) Biological Psychology | Yes | Yes |
| PSYC 4541 (3) Special Topics in Psychology - Social Science: Prevent Mental/Beh Disorders | Yes | |
| SLHS 1010 (3) Disabilities in Contemporary American Society | Yes | Yes |
| SOCY 2031 (3) Social Problems | Yes | |
| SOCY 4117 (3) Food and Society | Yes | |
| SPAN 3080 (3) Spanish for Health Professions | Yes | No |
| WGST/JWST 4200 (3) Religion and Reproductive Politics in the United States | No | Yes |
| WRTG 3020 (3) Topics in Writing: Medical Discourse and the Body | Yes | Yes |