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Health and Nutrition Sciences

Academic Programs: Undergraduate
Health Education with Concentration in Public Health


Coordinator: Mary Jo Belenski
Office: University Hall, Room 4157
Phone Number: (973) 655-7122
Email: belenskim@mail.montclair.edu

Course Requirements:

Core Courses
Number Name Hours
HLTH 200 Introduction to Public Health 3
HLTH 240 Foundations of Environmental Health 3
HLTH 307 The Study of Human Diseases 3
HLTH 330 Foundations of Health Education 3
HLTH 411 School Health and Community Services 3
 
Required Courses
Number Name Hours
HLTH 105 Medical Terminology 3
HLTH 246 The Science of Public Health: Epidemiology 3
HLTH 290 Human Sexuality 3
HLTH 325 Program Planning 3
HLTH 405 Senior Seminar/CHES 2
HLTH 425 Vital Statistics 3
HLTH 442 Health Promotion 3
HLTH 450 Health Disparities and Social Justice 3
NUFD 182 Nutrition 3
 
Required Collateral Courses
Number Name Hours
BIOL 107 Biology for Survival 3
BIOL 240 Mammalian Anatomy and Physiology I 3
BIOL 241 Mammalian Anatomy and Physiology II 3
 
Public Health Concentration Required Courses
Number Name Hours
COED 401 Cooperative Education Experience I 6
OR
HLTH 350 Field Study in Health 6
 
HLTH 245 Observation of Health Agencies 2
 
Select two of the following courses:
 
HLTH 430 Health Counseling 3
HLTH 444 Community Organization and Health Advocacy 3
HLTH 460 Systems of Health Services Delivery 3
HLTH 475 Health Communication and Social Marketing 3
 
Select three of the following courses:
 
ANTH 440 Medical Anthropology 3
HLTH 207 Safety, Accidents and Emergency Care 3
HLTH 213 Perspectives on Drugs 3
HLTH 220 Mental Health 3
HLTH 375 Women's Health 3
HLTH 433 Behavioral Aspects of Diet, Activity and Health 3
HLTH 440 Health Aspects of Aging 3
SOCI 309 Sociology of Health and Illness 3
 
PROGRAM TOTAL: 73 credits