2024-2025 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, intersectional and social justice perspective. Students will be able to apply this specialized knowledge and expertise in the field of public health to their major discipline of study and thus increase their graduate and employment opportunities.

 

Requirements 15

Required Course 3

HED 2100PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC AND COMMUNITY HEALTH

3

Guided Electives 12

All elective should be selected with the advice of a Health Faculty Member; each Health Minor student must select four (4) guided electives (ANY HED or HPE) to satisfy the requirements for a Health Minor. A minimum of six (6) semester hours must be from upper division 3000-4000 level courses.

HED 1225CRITICAL ISSUES IN HEALTH

3

HED 3100ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

3

HED 3160HEALTH PERSPECTIVES IN WOMEN

3

HED 3200HOLISTIC HEALTH

3

HED 3231FIRST AID, DISASTER PREPAREDNESS, CPR /AED

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 3333MINDFULNESS AND WELLBEING: TOOLS FOR A BALANCED LIFE

3

HED 3400HUMAN SEXUALITY

3

HED 3460WOMEN'S GLOBAL HEALTH

3

HED 3515WELLNESS

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 4105EPIDEMIOLOGY AND BIOSTATISTICS

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

HPE 1225CRITICAL ISSUES IN HEALTH IN K-12 EDUCATION

3

HPE 3110WELLNESS CONSIDERATIONS FOR AUTISM

3

HPE 3533CURRICULUM AND PROGRAMMING IN HEALTH EDUCATION K-12

3

HPE 3515WELLNESS

3

Total Credit Hours: 15