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American University Catalog 2015-2016

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American University Catalog 2015-2016 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Public Health (Minor)

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Offered by the Department of Health Studies , College of Arts and Sciences .

Minor Requirements

25 credit hours including a minimum of 9 credit hours at the 300-level or above, with grades of C or better and at least 12 credit hours unique to the minor

Course Requirements

Core Courses (16 credit hours)

PHIL-241 Bioethics (3)
PUBH-110 Introduction to Public Health FA4 (3)
PUBH-340 Fundamentals of Epidemiology (3)
SISU-358 Global Health (3)
STAT-202 Basic Statistics (4)
or
STAT-203 Basic Statistics with Calculus (4)

Elective Courses (9 credit hours)

9 credit hours with at least 6 credit hours at the 300-level or above from the clusters below, with courses taken from at least two clusters. Note: Some courses may have additional prerequisites.

Global Health

Health Science

Policy, Program Planning, and Evaluation

COMM-540 Social Marketing (3)
or
MKTG-250 Fundamentals of Marketing and Business for Communications (3)
ECON-373 Labor Economics (3)
ENVS-465 Environmental Risk Assessment (3)
or
JLC-352 Psychiatry and the Law (3)
or
JLC-451 Drugs, Crime, and Public Policy (3)
HPRM-335 Heath Promotion Program Planning (3)
HPRM-410 Health Promotion Management (3)
PSYC-497 Topics in Psychology (3) : Community Interventions
PSYC-555 Improving Human Services (3)

Social and Community Health

HIST-469 History of Medicine in the United States: from Smallpox to AIDS (3)
HPRM-245 Multicultural Health FA4 (3)
HPRM-441 Health Communication (3)
HPRM-480 Health Policy and Behavior Change (3)
JLC-426 Domestic Violence (3)
or
PSYC-497 Topics in Psychology (3) : Stress and Coping
PSYC-333 Health Psychology (3)
PUBH-330 Community Public Health (3)
SOCY-335 Sociology of Birth and Death (3)

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