Minor in Community & Public Health Studies
Get to know more about our public health system. Explore determinants and implications of ongoing public health crises (such as, racial injustice, health disparities, and pandemics).
This minor includes 18–20 credits and exciting courses!
Core foundation (9 credits)
HPE 102: Human Health & Disease (3)
HPE 202: Community/Public Health & Health Promotion (3)
HPE 307: Introduction to Epidemiology (3)
One of 3 professional courses (3 credits)
HPE 233: Social & Global Perspectives on Health (3)
HPE 300: Health Education and Health Promotion Pedagogy (3)
HPE 303: Research in Community & Public Health (3)
Any two of the following content-area courses (6–8 credits)
ANTH 237 Measuring Inequality, Analyzing Injustice (4)
ANTH 309 Medical Anthropology (4)
COMM 336 Health Communication (4)
GENDER 205 Introduction to Queer Studies
GENDER 357 Gender and Sexuality (4)
HPE 101 Human Sexuality (3)
HPE 221 Nutrition (3)
HPE 403 Environmental Health (3)
HPE 410 Managing Stress and Mental/Emotional Health (3)
HPE 416 Women’s Health (3)
HPE 431 Drug Education (3)
PSYC 217 Drugs and Chemical Dependency (4)
PSYC 424 Health Psychology (4)
SOC 314 Sociology of Health and Illness (4)
For more information, please reach out to Dr. Soumyadeep Mukherjee (Dr. Deep) smukherjee@ric.edu.
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