Applied Health Sciences Minor

The Applied Health Sciences Minor offers students the ability to critically analyze scientific knowledge and examine career options in science-based, applied health professions.  Students consider a variety of approaches, perspectives, and factors contributing to healthy human development and functioning. Course work includes offerings from the natural sciences, social sciences, and professional disciplines, providing students with opportunities to consider and explore their pursuit of a professional degree, most likely as a graduate or second (post) baccalaureate degree, in applied health sciences. Students receive an on-line orientation to the minor (e.g., to explore major requirements and degree options) and meet with the health science minor advisor to select and complete a desired curriculum path in the minor. (23 credit hours; many courses also fulfill core requirements)  Students are required to obtain a 2.5 cumulative overall GPA for coursework fulfilling the applied health sciences minor.