If you're planning a career in medicine, nursing, or allied health a minor in Public Health will extend your knowledge and make you more marketable. The minor consists of six courses (18 credits) that are the basis for increased understanding of disease prevention, causes, transmission, and outcomes and policies that affect the health of our society.

Majors complemented by the minor in public health

• medicine
• nursing
• environmental health
• medical technology (clinical laboratory science)
• health education
• health care administration
• dietetics
• economics
• journalism

Required courses

There are eight courses approved for the public health minor. To receive the minor on your transcript you need to complete six of the eight courses. The College of Health and Human Services accepts two of these courses (PUBH 301 and PUBH 320) as General Education Social Sciences. Some courses in the list are also requirements or electives for various majors. Note that a student's minor must include at least 15 hours of courses that DO NOT also count toward requirements in the student's major degree program requirements.

• PUBH 301. International Health (approved for General Education Social Science International Perspectives)
• PUBH 320. Introduction to Public Health (approved for General Education Social Science)
• PUBH 330. Research Methods in Public and Allied Health (core requirement for Applied Health Science)
• PUBH 402. Issues in International Health
• MEDT 450. Emerging Infectious Diseases
• ENVH 407. Environmental Toxicology
• ENVH 449 or BIOL 449. Epidemiology (core requirement for ENVH and supportive requirement for App. Micro)
• GEOG 424 or ENVS 403. Geographic Information Systems

Contact Information

For more information or to make an appointment with an advisor, call the College of Health and Human Services at (419) 372-8242 or e-mail your questions to Matt Webb at mwebb@bgsu.edu.