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The Public Health minor integrates key aspects of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, communities and individual. Students who choose to augment their current baccalaureate major by adding the public health minor increase their awareness of emerging issues in public health, the social and behavioral aspects of preventing disease, environmental health concepts, the changing U.S. health care system, and the monitoring of diseases in the community through applied public health research.

Type Legend: DD Diversity–Domestic; DG Diversity–Global; ELR Experiential Learning; KAD Kent Core Additional; KBS Kent Core Basic Sciences; KCM Kent Core Composition; KFA Kent Core Fine Arts: KHU Kent Core Humanities; KMC Kent Core Mathematics and Critical Reasoning; KSS Kent Core Social Sciences; WIC Writing Intensive

Please read the sections in the University Catalog on Kent Core, diversity, writing-intensive and the experiential learning requirements.

PUBLIC HEALTH MINOR REQUIREMENTS (21 credits)
Type	Course		Title	Credits
	PH	10001	Introduction to Public Health	3
DG		10002	Introduction to Global Health	3
		20001	Essentials of Epidemiology	3
		30005	Social and Behavioral Science Theories in Public Health	3
		30006	Environmental Health Science	3
	Choose from the following:			6
	PH	20012	Sanitation and Hazardous Materials Management (3)
		30002	Introductory Biostatistics (3)
		30003	Public Health Strategies (3)
		30004	Public Health Research (3)*
		30007	Prevention and Control of Disease (3)*
		30012	Communicable Diseases (3)
		30033	Public Health Policy and Decision-Making (3)*
		40195	Special Topics in Public Health (1-3)
		40196	Individual Investigation in Public Health (1-3)
DD		44000	Health Disparities (3)
	MINIMUM TOTAL			21

*Students in the nursing [BSN-NURS] major may substitute NURS 40020 for PH 30007, NURS 40045 for PH 30033 and NURS 40872 for PH 30004. 

Students are required to complete a minimum of 6 hours in residence at Kent State University and earn a minimum 2.000 cumulative and minor GPA to be awarded the minor in Public Health.