Health Science (HSC) Minor

Janet Lord, Head
Department of Undergraduate Nursing
SWG 327
605-688-6153 or 1-888-216-9806 ext. 2
e-mail: janet.lord@sdstate.edu

A Health Science minor is an interdisciplinary concentration offered to any undergraduate student at South Dakota State University by completing a minimum of 24 semester hours across disciplines with a required core of course offerings. The purpose of the Health Science minor is to provide an opportunity for students to learn more about health and health care while pursuing other majors in the University, and to provide a Health Science minor for those individuals who wish to obtain competence in health knowledge, public health and healthful environments. The outcomes for graduates of the Health Science minor are:

1. Apply public health principles, to selected disciplines.
2. Implement public health science methods and strategies in working with populations incorporating principles from the fields of sociology, psychology, and human growth and development.
3. Apply basic human health concepts from selected sciences including biology, physiology, behavioral, and mental health.
4. Advocate for needs of people served by public health systems that demonstrate an understanding of how environment and ecology affect aggregates and communities.

The required core courses are:

1. Biological Science courses (6 credits). These courses do not need to be sequence courses but must include science courses with the following prefixes: BIOL, MICR, ZOOL.
2. Required Health Science Core courses (12 credits).
3. Electives from set of selected courses (6 credits).