Community Health Sciences will become a minor in Public Health beginning in summer of 2011. The health and behavioral sciences department is committed to the principle that understanding the basic social, cultural and biological dimensions of health is fundamental to a solid liberal arts and sciences undergraduate education. HBSC has developed a minor in community health science that is designed to provide undergraduates with the basic intellectual and methodological tools needed to understand the societal contexts of health, health care and public health.
We expect that graduates with a minor in community health science will be successful in their pursuit of graduate degrees in a broad range of fields, including the biomedical sciences, social and behavioral sciences, public health, law, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, business administration, and health services research. The program is especially appropriate for students intending to pursue careers in public health, as well as the primary care specialties in medicine, nursing, or health policy and administration.
Program Requirements for the Minor
To earn a minor in community health science, a minimum of 18 credit hours are required, of which 12 must be upper division. Students must achieve no less than a C (2.0) in each course applied toward minor requirements. At least 12 credit hours must be taken from the Downtown Campus faculty. Additional HBSC courses are currently being developed to provide additional choices. As they are approved, these courses will appear here as well as the online course descriptions and term schedule planner.
Note: HBS courses, in general, are three semester credit hours under the prefix HBSC.
Complete two of the following courses (six credit hours total):
HBSC 2001, Introduction to Community and Population Health Science
HBSC 3021, Fundamentals of Health Promotion
HBSC 3031, Health and Human Behavior
HBSC 3041, Health and Society
Complete a minimum of two of the following methods courses (six credit hours total):
GEOG 4235, GIS Applications in the Health Sciences
HBSC 4001, Introduction to Epidemiology
HBSC 4021, Community Health Assessment
HBSC 4031, Ethnographic Research in Public Health
Complete a minimum of two of the following "community health emphasis" courses (six credit hours total):
ANTH 4040, Anthropology of Food and Nutrition
ANTH 4060, Evolutionary Medicine
ANTH 4090, Political Economy of Drug Culture
ANTH 4260, Human Reproductive Ecology
ANTH 4560, Human Ecology
CMMU 4500, Health Communication
CMMU 4620, Health Risk Communication
GEOG 4020, Earth Environments and Human Impacts
GEOG 4230, Hazard Mitigation and Vulnerability Assessment
HBSC 3010, Evolution of Human Sexuality
HBSC 4010, Global Health Studies I: The Biocultural Basis of Health
HBSC 4020, Global Health Studies II: Comparative Health Systems
HBSC 4080, Global Health Practice
HBSC 4200, The Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic
HIST 4345, Gender, Science, and Medicine: 1600 to the Present
HIST 4346, Medicine and Society: the Ancients to the Present
HIST 4503, Topics in History of Science
PSY 3235, Human Sexuality
PSY 3262, Health Psychology