Public Health, Minor

Undergraduateminor2027 catalogHealth Sciencesverified parse

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Required Courses

• One of:
  • PHTH 1260 — The U.S. Healthcare System
  • PHTH 1261 — Comparative Healthcare Systems
• One of:
  • PHTH 2350 — Community and Public Health
  • PHTH 2351 — Community and Public Health - Global
  • NRSG 4604 — Public Health Community Nursing
• PHTH 4202 — Principles of Epidemiology in Medicine and Public Health

Statistics Requirement

From the catalog

Complete one of the following (PHTH 2210 is recommended):

• One of:
  • BIOE 2365 — Bioengineering Measurement, Experimentation, and Statistics
  • ECON 2350 — Statistics for Economists
  • All of:
    • ENVR 2500 — Biostatistics
    • ENVR 2501 — Lab for ENVR 2500
    • ENVR 2502 — Recitation for ENVR 2500
  • MATH 2280 — Statistics and Software
  • MATH 3081 — Probability and Statistics
  • MGSC 2301 — Business Statistics
  • NRSG 3120 — Health Science Statistics
  • One of:
    • NRSG 5120 — Statistics for Health Science
    • HLTH 5120 — Statistics for Health Science
  • PHMD 3450 — Research Methodology and Biostatistics
  • PHTH 2210 — Foundations of Biostatistics
  • POLS 2400 — Quantitative Techniques
  • PSYC 2320 — Statistics in Psychological Research

Elective

From the catalog

Complete one course from the options below. Categories are provided to assist with selection:

• Choose 4 semester hours from:
  • Nutrition and Wellness
    • EXSC 1120 — Introduction to Exercise, Fitness, and Health
    • HSCI 1105 — Human Nutrition
    • HSCI 1106 — Contemporary Issues in Nutrition
    • PHTH 2300 — Communication Skills for the Health Professions
    • PHTH 2301 — Communication Skills for the Health Professions—Global
    • PHTH 4540 — Health Education and Program Planning
  • Policy and Administration
    • PHTH 2515 — Healthcare Policy and Administration
    • PHTH 4511 — Healthcare Management
    • PHTH 4515 — Critical Issues in Health and Public Health Policy
  • Society and Health
    • PHTH 1270 — Introduction to Global Health
    • AFCS 1270 — Introduction to Global Health
    • PHTH 2414 — Environmental Health
    • PHTH 3717 — Infectious Disease: Past, Present, Future
    • PHTH 4120 — Global Perspectives on Discrimination and Health

GPA requirements

• A grade of C or higher is required for the Statistics Requirement. A minimum cumulative 2.000 GPA is required in the minor.

Substitutions

Possible equivalents for this program — dashed means a suggestion, not a rule, and every substitution needs your advisor's approval:

• HLTH 5120 ↔ NRSG 5120 (tier B)

What the tiers mean

Parsed from the catalog by NU Map; the structured machine copy is in this college's JSON for the 2027 catalog, under public-health-minor, and the official page is the authority.