Health Sciences

Health Science Minor

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:

• NUR/HSC 100 Medical Terminology
• PSY/SOC 241 Social Determinants of Health and Disease
• SCI 305 Biology of Health and Disease
• NUR/HSC 310 Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care

 

 

Electives: Requires eight credits, minimum of two classes, chosen from this list:

• • ACC 342 Managerial Accounting (3 credits)
  • ACC 442 Auditing (3 credits)
  • BIO 151 or 261 Human Anatomy and Physiology I (4 credits)
  • BIO 152 or 262 Human Anatomy and Physiology II (4 credits)
  • BIO 301 Microbiology for Health Sciences (4 credits)
  • BIO 355 Biology of Microorganisms (4 credits)
  • BIO 495 Directed Independent Research (1-4 credits)
  • BIO 496 Internship/Field Studies (Approved* health science topic) (1-4 credits)
  • CHE 251 Quantitative Analysis 4 CHE 252 Instrumental Analysis (4 credits)
  • CHE 253-254 Organic Chemistry I-II (5 credits each)  
  • CHE 348 Biochemistry (5 credits)
  • CIS 310 Advanced Business Software (3 credits)
  • CIS 357 Business Information Systems (3 credits)
  • COM 325 Web Publishing (4 credits)
  • CSC 245 Databases and Information Retrieval (3 credits)
  • DSC 325 Statistics for Management Decisions (3 credits)
  • ENG 300 Scientific Writing (3 credits)
  • HRM 243 Front Office Management (3 credits)
  • MAT 235 Mathematical Statistics (3 credits)
  • MAT/CSC/BIO 361 Bioinformatics (4 credits)
  • PLS 200 Self Management: Wellness and Risk (2 credits)
  • PSY 332 Industrial Organizational Psychology (3 credits)
  • PSY 350 Drugs, Behavior, and Society (3 credits)
  • SSC 327 Quantitative Research Methods (4 credits)
  • SSC 328 Quantitative Research Methods (4 credits)
  • ----- 496 (Approved* health science topic) Internship course (1-4 credits)

  *Appropriateness of Internship or Directed Independent Study topics is determined by the director of the health science minor or chair of biological sciences.