College of Science & Mathematics
Department of Biological Sciences
Health Sciences
The health science minor is an interdisciplinary minor that is housed in the College
of Science and Mathematics. Courses from a variety of UVI’s colleges of schools help
to make this minor accessible to students in most of the University’s degree programs.
With this goal in mind a wide range of courses will count towards the electives of
this minor in addition to the required in psychology, biology and nursing.
Required Courses:
- BIO 151-152 Human Anatomy & Physiology
- SCI 305 Biology of Health and Disease
Electives: Requires at least 7 credits, minimum of two classes, chosen from this list
- ACC 202 Management Accounting
- ACC 442 Auditing
- BIO 301 Microbiology for Health Sciences
- BIO 355 Biology of Microorganisms
- BIO/CSC/MAT 361 Bioinformatics
- BIO 495* Directed Independent Research
- BIO 496* Internship/Field Studies
- CHE 251 Quantitative Analysis
- CHE 252 Instrumental Analysis
- CHE 253 Organic Chemistry I
- CHE 348 Biochemistry
- COM 325 Web Publishing
- CSC 245 Databases and Information Retrieval
- DSC 325 Statistics for Management Decisions
- ENG 300 Scientific Writing
- HSC/NUR100 Medical Terminology
- IST 210 Business Information Systems
- IST 305 Database Design and Implementation
- MAT 245 Statistics for the Life Sciences
- PSY/SOC 241 Social Determinants of Health
- PSY/SOC 310 Introduction to … Disparities in Health Care
- PSY 332 Industrial Organizational Psychology
- PSY 350 Drugs, Behavior, and Society
- SSC 327-328 Quantitative Research Methods I-II
- ---- 496 * Internship course
*Approved health science topics only