Credits Required
Total credits in the minor:
- 13 for CHHS students
- 12 for ESTP or ENSTU students
- 17 for students in other CSUMB majors
Outcomes, Courses and Assessment
You may add the Environmental Health Policy minor to your course of study at any time during your undergraduate studies at CSUMB. However, if you think you are interested in the EHP minor, you should contact one of the program faculty as early as possible, so that you can integrate the minor requirements into your Individual Learning Plan (ILP).
The following CHHS and ESTP Learning Outcomes (LO) represent the knowledge, skills and abilities you are expected to master to successfully complete the minor degree and demonstrate your competence. You must achieve each of the Learning Outcomes designated below by successfully completing the listed courses.
Learning Outcomes (LOs)
Knowledge of Health and Human Services ~ Demonstrate an understanding of the fundamental principles and issues common to the major fields of health and human services including community health, social welfare and public policy; and demonstrate competence in the selected areas of concentration
Professional Development ~ Demonstrate ability to apply the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for growth and development as an entry-level professional by producing evidence of increasing self-awareness and self-correcting behaviors
Public Policy Analysis ~ Demonstrate ability to critically analyze public policy issues and begin to master the skills necessary to identify and define public policy problems, analyze existing policies, develop alternatives to current policy and recommend alternatives
Policy Competency ~ Students must understand and accurately communicate state, federal and local political structures and processes and their relationships, as well as landmark environmental laws and regulations
Systems Approach to Environmental Decision Making ~ Students must be able to apply general systems theory, systems modeling, stakeholder analysis, cost/benefit analysis or other interdisciplinary analysis tools to evaluate the equitability and the effectiveness of alternative environmental decisions, policies or actions
Courses
Requirements for this minor provide students with significant breadth and appropriate depth of knowledge and skills in environmental politics and economics, environmental health issues, public health assessment and education, and policy analysis.
Pathway #1: CHHS majors
Complete all of the following:
ENSTU 309ENSTU 309: Sci & Pol of Global Change
ENSTU 384ENSTU 384: Social & Ecological Justice ENSTU 384SENSTU 384S: Social and Ecol Justice
ENSTU 387ENSTU 387: Water Res Assess/Law/Poli
Pathway #2: ESTP or ENSTU majors
Complete all of the following:
PH 320PH 320: Intro to Community Health
PH 417PH 417: Global Women's Health Issues
CHHS 450CHHS 450: Intro to Policy Analysis
Pathway #3: All other majors
Complete all of the following:
PH 320PH 320: Intro to Community Health
CHHS 450CHHS 450: Intro to Policy Analysis ENSTU 384ENSTU 384: Social & Ecological Justice ENSTU 384SENSTU 384S: Social and Ecol Justice
And one of the following:
ENSTU 309ENSTU 309: Sci & Pol of Global Change
OR ENSTU 387ENSTU 387: Water Res Assess/Law/Poli