Community Wellness

The community wellness specialization is designed for the student who works in or wants to work as a support person in a community health setting, and who desires to combine select courses from a variety of related disciplines into a cohesive degree. To meet the requirements for the community wellness specialization, students must satisfactorily complete 86 credit hours, including:

Degree Requirements

As part of the General Curriculum Distribution requirements (hours count to fulfill the GCDR but not the specialization):

BIO 124	Biological Science	3
	or
BIO 183	Microbiology for the Allied Health Sciences	3
PSY 200	General Psychology	4
SOC 100	Introduction to Sociology	4

Required in the specialization:

HSC 100	Health Science	2
HSC 130	Medical Terminology	3
ESC 150	Comprehensive First Aid/CPR/AED	2
HSC 203	Nutrition	3
HSC 220	Functional Anatomy	3

At least two 200-level or higher psychology (PSY) courses of the student’s choosing (8)

SOC 202	Marriages and Families	4
SOC 302	Sociology of Aging	4
SOC 307	Families in Global Perspective	4

One of the following:

SOC 306	Racial and Ethnic Relations	4
SOC 313	Social Stratification	4
SOC 320	Sociology of Gender	4
HIS 325	Narcotic Drugs and Modern Society	4

One of the following two:

HIS 212	Witchcraft and Magic in the Early Modern Atlantic World	4
HIS 215	Women in American History	4

At least 15 of the above credit hours must be earned at the University.

At least 16 of the above credit hours must be earned in courses at the 300-level or higher.

43 credit hours may be earned through electives of the student’s choosing.