Nov 21, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Public Health Minor


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The Public Health Minor is designed for students with interests in the social and/or environmental aspects of public health and for those who seek careers that may be enhanced by background in public health.  These include, but are not limited to, biological sciences, environmental sciences, anthropology, and sociology. 

Please see the UNLV School of Public Health Department of Environmental and Occupational Health web page at www.unlv.edu/eoh for information about department programs, faculty and facilities.  Degree worksheets are available at unlv.edu/degree/minor-public-health.

Learning Outcomes

The Public Health Program and the program’s public health national accreditation concepts guide students to develop and show proficiency to:

  • Advocate for protection and promotion of the public’s health at all levels of society
  • Act on ethical decision making related to self and society
  • Participate in networking
  • Develop a professional foundation based on the science of the field
  • Demonstrate proficiency in research methods

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