Undergraduate Minor in Community Health Sciences

The health and behavioral sciences department is committed to the principle that understanding the basic social, cultural, and biological dimensions of health is fundamental to a solid liberal arts and sciences undergraduate education. HBSC has developed a minor in community health science that is designed to provide undergraduates with the basic intellectual and methodological tools needed to understand the societal contexts of health, healthcare and public health.

We expect that graduates with a minor in community health science will be successful in their pursuit of graduate degrees in a broad range of fields, including the biomedical sciences, social and behavioral sciences, public health, law, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, business administration, and health services research. The program is especially appropriate for students intending to pursue careers in public health, as well as the primary care specialties in medicine, nursing, or health policy and administration.

The Individually Structured Major

A major is not currently available, but students may complete an individually structured major (ISM) that combines course work in Health and Behavioral Science with that of related fields such as anthropology, biology, and psychology. For details see “Individually Structured Major”

PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MINOR

To earn a minor in community health science, a minimum of 18 credit hours are required, of which 12 must be upper division. Students must achieve no less than a C (2.0) in each course applied toward minor requirements. At least 12 credit hours must be taken from the downtown Denver campus faculty. Note that additional HBSC courses are currently being developed to provide additional choices. As they are approved, these courses will appear here as well as the online course descriptions, and term schedule planner.

Note: HBS courses, in general, are 3 semester credit hours under the prefix HBSC.

Complete two of the following courses (6 credit hours total):

HBSC 2001. Introduction to Community and Population Health Science

HBSC 3021. Fundamentals of Health Promotion

HBSC 3031. Health and Human Behavior

HBSC 3041. Health and Society

Complete a minimum of two of the following methods courses (6 credit hours total):

GEOG 4235. GIS Applications in the Health Sciences 3

HBSC 4001. Introduction to Epidemiology

HBSC 4021. Community Health Assessment

HBSC 4031. Ethnographic Research in Public Health

Complete a minimum of two of the following “community health emphasis”
courses (6 credit hours total):

ANTH 4040. Anthropology of Food and Nutrition

ANTH 4060. Evolutionary Medicine

ANTH 4090. Political Economy of Drug Culture

ANTH 4260. Human Reproductive Ecology

ANTH 4560. Human Ecology

CMMU 4500. Health Communication

CMMU 4620. Health Risk Communication

GEOG 4020. Earth Environments and Human Impacts

GEOG 4230. Hazard Mitigation and Vulnerability Assessment

HBSC 3010. Evolution of Human Sexuality

HBSC 4010. Global Health Studies I: The Biocultural Basis of Health

HBSC 4020. Global Health Studies II: Comparative Health Systems

HBSC 4080. Global Health Practice

HBSC 4200. The Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic

HIST 4345. Gender, Science, and Medicine: 1600 to the Present

HIST 4346. Medicine and Society: the Ancients to the Present

HIST 4503. Topics in History of Science

PSY 3235. Human Sexuality