{"id":4786,"date":"2025-08-28T15:22:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/?page_id=4786"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:28:16","slug":"public-health-minor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/academics\/public-health-minor\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Health Minor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In addition to fulfilling all the basic requirements for a minor (see Minor Fields of Study), students who declare a minor in public health must complete the following requirements: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Requirements include 20 credits.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All courses must be taken for a grade, and an average grade of 2.00, unless otherwise specified (e.g., HLT 201, 300, and 450 require a grade of &#8220;C&#8221; or better, in line with the minimum grade requirements for the major). <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To declare this minor, a student must have the approval of a program advisor (Public Health faculty) and an academic advisor. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4 Core Courses: HLT 101, HLT 201, HLT 300 (4 credits), and PHP 405 (4 credits).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Electives &#8211; Select 2 courses from the following: HLT 312, HLT 313, HLT 320, HLT 350, HLT 360, HLT 400, HLT 401, HLT 450; PHP 201; NUT 212G (prerequisite NUT 207)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Other public health-related courses, such as courses in the MPH program, may be used to fulfill minor requirements with approval from the Department Chair.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<a class=\"cl-button  \" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/student-resources\/forms\/\" title=\"\">Access minor form here<\/a>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to fulfilling all the basic requirements for a minor (see Minor Fields of Study), students who declare a minor in public health must complete the following requirements:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2097,"featured_media":0,"parent":12,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-4786","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4786"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4857,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4786\/revisions\/4857"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}