Public Health Minor (21 units total)
Our Minor Degree in Public Health allows students from other majors to explore the promotion of community and population health in diverse populations using multiple approaches at multiple levels of influence incorporating community, organization, and individual behavior change theories and models. This background can provide a wonderful enhancement to several CSU Fullerton major degrees along with applied experiences and insights that help students when they enter the job market.
Lower-Division Required Courses (6 units)
- PUBH 115: Introduction to Environmental Healt
- PUBH 201: Introduction to Public Health
Upper-Division Required Courses (6 units)
**Any 400-level Public Health (PUBH) course not used in Elective requirements.**
Pick from the following list:
400-level Public Health (PUBH) Courses (all courses are 3 units):
- PUBH 400: Program Design in KNES & Health Promotion
- PUBH 401: Epidemiology
- PUBH 402: Intro to the U.S. Healthcare System
- PUBH 405: Worksite Injury Prevention & Rehabilitation
- PUBH 410: Community Health Education
- PUBH 411: Promoting Health in Diverse Populations
- PUBH 415: Environmental Health
- PUBH 416: Global Issues in Environmental Health
- PUBH 420: Chronic Disease Epidemiology (prereq: PUBH 401)
- PUBH 421: Infectious Disease Epidemiology (prereq: PUBH 401)
- PUBH 424: Health Policy
- PUBH 425: Alternative Healing Therapies
- PUBH 426: Spirituality and Health
- PUBH 440: Determinants of Health Behavior
- PUBH 450: Applied Health Promotion in Aging Pops.
- PUBH 455: Designing Health Education Curricula
- PUBH 460: Worksite Health Promotion
- PUBH 461: Occupational Health and Safety
- PUBH 462: Environmental Toxicology and Health
- PUBH 463: Air Pollution and Health
- PUBH 465: Introduction to International Health
- PUBH 466: Hazardous Material Regulations & Emergency Response
- PUBH 470: Childhood Obesity, Nutrition & Social Context (prereq: PUBH 350)
- PUBH 472: Nutritional Assessment (prereq: PUBH 350)
- PUBH 480: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on HIV/AIDS (prereq: PUBH 401)
- PUBH 481: Health in a Global Society
Elective Courses (9 units)
Public Health Electives (3-9 Units)
**3-9 units of any 300- or 400-level Public Health (PUBH) course not used in the PUBH Required Courses**
Pick from the above 400-level PUBH Course list OR from the following 300-level PUBH Course list:
300-level Public Health (PUBH) Courses (all courses are 3 units):
| PUBH 301 | Promotion of Optimal Health |
| PUBH 321 | Drugs and Society |
| PUBH 325 | Consumer Health |
| PUBH 342 | Stress Management |
| PUBH 349 | Measurement and Statistics in PUBH |
| PUBH 350 | Nutrition |
| PUBH 353 | Physical Activity and Lifelong Well-Being |
| PUBH 358 | Contemporary Issues in Children’s Health |
Elective Courses from Other Departments (0-6 units of any of the following):
| AFAM 304 | The Black Family |
| AMST 438 | American Minds: Images of Sickness and Health |
| ANTH 308 | Culture and Aging |
| ANTH 315 | Culture and Nutrition |
| ANTH 322 | Human Behavioral Ecology |
| ANTH 342 | Anthropology and Health |
| ANTH 344 | Human Evolution |
| ASAM 300 | Intro. to Asian Pacific American Studies |
| ASAM 340 | Asian American Communication |
| ASAM 342 | Asian Pacific American Families |
| ASAM 346 | Asian American Psychology |
| BIOL 300 | Environmental Biology |
| BIOL 302 | General Microbiology |
| BIOL 305 | Human Heredity and Development |
| BIOL 306 | Biology of Aging |
| BIOL 310 | Human Physiology |
| BIOL 360 | Biology of Human Sexuality |
| BIOL 361 | Human Anatomy** |
| CAS 328 | Child Life Theory and Practice |
| CAS 365 | Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting |
| CHEM 301A | Organic Chemistry |
| CHEM 301B | Organic Chemistry |
| CHEM 311 | Nutrition and Disease |
| CHEM 313A | Air Pollution |
| CHEM 313B | Water Pollution |
| CHEM 313C | Land Pollution |
| CHIC 305 | The Chicano Family |
| COUN 350 | Leadership Skills and Personal Development |
| GEOG 321 | Nature & Society |
| KNES 348 | The Physiology of Exercise |
| KNES 351 | Principles of Conditioning |
| KNES 432 | Applied Exercise Psychology |
| KNES 454 | Physical Activity and the Aging Process |
| PHIL 313 | Environmental Ethics |
| PHIL 314 | Medical Ethics |
| POSC 320 | Introduction to Public Management and Policy |
| PSYCH 312 | Psych of Human Sexual Behavior ; |
| PSYCH 341 | Abnormal Psychology |
| PSYCH 351 | Social Psychology |
| PSYCH 362 | Psychology of Aging |
| PSYCH 391 | Industrial/Organizational Psychology |
| SOCI 300 | Introduction to Social Welfare |
| SOCI 354 | Sex Roles and Gender |
| SOCI 360 | Sociology of Death and Dying |
| SOCI 361 | Population and the Environment |
| SOCI 381 | Sociology of Human Sexuality |
| SOCI 385 | Family Violence |
| SOCI 443 | Sociology and Aging |
| SPED 371 | Exceptional Individual |
NOTE: A Public Health minor will need to contact the PUBH Advisors to be permitted to enroll in some PUBH 400-level courses.
In completing the requirements for the minor, a minimum of twelve (12) units, of which at least six (6) must be upper division, must be distinct and different from the units used to complete the requirements of the major. Any units above this minimum requirement, which can be used to satisfy both the requirements for the minor and for the major may be double counted. General education courses, however, may be used to meet minor requirements.
Coursework must be taken for a letter grade and a “C-” or better is required to pass courses applied to the minor. In order to graduate with a Public Health Minor a minimum Minor GPA of a 2.0 is required.
Contact: Advisors: Alysia Rivera and Jackie Blyleven PUBHadvising@fullerton.edu