2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog

Health Minor

Coordinator: Professor Kathleen Curran
Contact: 908-737-3822, kcurran@kean.edu

The Health minor provides a strong foundation for students to learn and address the physical, social, psychological, cultural, and clinical needs in regards to health from an interdisciplinary perspective. Students will be able to apply this specialized knowledge and expertise in the field of health to their major discipline of study and thus increase their employment opportunities.

Total 15 credits

Required Course 3

HED 2100PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC AND COMMUNITY HEALTH

3

Guided Electives 12

All elective should be selected with the advisement of a Health faculty member; each health minor student must select (4) guided electives (of any HED course or ID 1225) to satisfy the requirements for the Health Minor.

HED 1231CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION (CPR/AED)

1

HED 2300MINDFULNESS: HISTORY, THEORY AND PRACTICE

3

HED 3034REIKI

3

HED 3100ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

3

HED 3160HEALTH PERSPECTIVES IN WOMEN

3

HED 3200HOLISTIC HEALTH

3

HED 3232EMERGENCY MEDICAL RESPONDER

3

HED 3233INTRODUCTION TO PRINCIPLES OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

3

HED 3270HEALTH DISPARITIES IN THE UNITED STATES

3

HED 3300COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH

3

HED 3400HUMAN SEXUALITY

3

HED 3460WOMEN'S GLOBAL HEALTH

3

HED 3515WELLNESS

3

HED 3533CURRICULUM AND PROGRAMMING IN HEALTH EDUCATION K-12

3

HED 3534METHOD AND MATERIALS IN PUBLIC AND COMMUNITY HEALTH EDUCATION

3

HED 3600NUTRITION

3

HED 3635INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HEALTH

3

HED 3725DEATH IN PERSPECTIVE

3

HED 4101EPIDEMIOLOGY AND DISEASE

3

HED 4231FIRST AID INSTRUCTOR

3

HED 4333DRUG USE AND ABUSE

3

HED 4400ESSENTIALS OF GLOBAL HEALTH

3

HED 4650COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNSELING

3

HED 4860HEALTH AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

3

ID 1225CRITICAL ISSUES IN HEALTH

3