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 perspective. Students will be able to apply this specialized knowledge and expertise in the field of health to their major discipline of study and thus increase their employment opportunities.

Total 15 credits

Required Course 3

HED 2100

PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC AND COMMUNITY HEALTH

Guided Electives 12

All elective should be selected with the advisement of a Health faculty member; each health minor student must select (4) guided electives (of any HED course or ID 1225) to satisfy the requirements for the Health Minor.

HED 1231	CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION (CPR/AED)	1
HED 2300	MINDFULNESS: HISTORY, THEORY AND PRACTICE	3
HED 3034	REIKI	3
HED 3100	ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH	3
HED 3110	WELLNESS CONSIDERATIONS FOR AUTISM	3
HED 3160	HEALTH PERSPECTIVES IN WOMEN	3
HED 3200	HOLISTIC HEALTH	3
HED 3231	FIRST AID, DISASTER PREPAREDNESS, CPR /AED	3
HED 3232	EMERGENCY MEDICAL RESPONDER	3
HED 3233	INTRODUCTION TO PRINCIPLES OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT	3
HED 3270	HEALTH DISPARITIES IN THE UNITED STATES	3
HED 3300	COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH	3
HED 3400	HUMAN SEXUALITY	3
HED 3460	WOMEN'S GLOBAL HEALTH	3
HED 3515	WELLNESS	3
HED 3533	CURRICULUM AND PROGRAMMING IN HEALTH EDUCATION K-12	3
HED 3534	METHOD AND MATERIALS IN PUBLIC AND COMMUNITY HEALTH EDUCATION	3
HED 3600	NUTRITION	3
HED 3635	INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HEALTH	3
HED 3725	DEATH IN PERSPECTIVE	3
HED 4101	EPIDEMIOLOGY AND DISEASE	3
HED 4231	FIRST AID INSTRUCTOR	3
HED 4333	DRUG USE AND ABUSE	3
HED 4400	ESSENTIALS OF GLOBAL HEALTH	3
HED 4650	COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNSELING	3
HED 4860	HEALTH AND SOCIAL JUSTICE	3
ID 1225	CRITICAL ISSUES IN HEALTH	3