Health Science

Undergraduate Programs

Option in Community Health Education (120 units)

The Community Health Education option is designed for persons whose occupational objective is to serve as a community health educator with an official, voluntary, or corporate health agency.

Lower Division:

Take all of the following courses:

H SC 210 Contemporary Health Issues (3)
Prerequisite: GE Foundation requirements.
BIOL 205 Human Biology (4)
Prerequisite: GE Foundation requirements.
MICR 101 Introduction to Human Disease (3)
Prerequisite/Corequisites: Course that fulfills the A1 GE requirement.
NUTR 132 Introduction to Nutrition (3)
Prerequisite/Corequisites: One Foundation course.

Take one of the following courses:

PSY 210 Introductory Statistics (4)
Prerequisite: PSY 100, GE A1 requirement, and eligible to take a General Education Mathematics course.
SOC 250 Elementary Statistics (4)
Prerequisite: Knowledge of mathematical procedures usually covered in elementary high school algebra as demonstrated on a screening examination.

Take a 3-unit foreign language course.

Upper Division:

Take all of the following courses:

H SC 301 Orientation to Health Science (3)
Prerequisite: Open to Health Science majors and minors only.
H SC 400 Principles of Epidemiology (3)
Prerequisite: Open to Health Care Administration and Health Science majors and minors only. Health Care Administration majors: SOC 250. Health Science majors: H SC 403.
H SC 401 Community Health Education (3)
Prerequisite: HSC 301.
H SC 402 Applied Concepts of Community Health Education (3)
Prerequisite: H SC 301, 401.
H SC 403 Community Health Statistics (3)
Prerequisite: GE Math and SOC 250 or PSY 210 or equivalent.
H SC 405 Health Education Program Evaluation and Measurement (3)
Prerequisite: HSC 403 or equivalent.
H SC 421 Health Behavior (3)
Prerequisite: None.
H SC 430 School Health Program (3)
Prerequisite: HSC 301.
H SC 435 Health Promotion Risk Reduction (3)
Prerequisite: HSC 421 or consent of instructor.
H SC 440 Applied Concepts of Health Science (3)
Prerequisite: HSC 430.
H SC 485 Internship in Community Health Education (3)
Prerequisite: Open to Health Science majors only. H SC 401 and consent of instructor.