Biobehavioral Health and Wellness Minor

The Biobehavioral Health and Wellness (BBHW) minor prepares students to address unique, imperative, and challenging health and wellness issues. The BBHW minor offers interdisciplinary preparation designed to integrate biological, behavioral, and social science approaches to the study of human health and illness. The minor provides students with the opportunity to study how biological, psychosocial, nutritional, and environmental factors affect health and disease. 

This minor can be completed online.

• 18-hour concentration
• A 2.0 GPA minimum is required, but students must also satisfy the GPA requirements for specific courses.

Pairs Well With The Following Majors

• Nutritional Sciences
• Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics
• Human Development and Family Sciences
• Counseling and Addiction Recovery Sciences
• Human Sciences

Program Highlights

The Biobehavioral Health and Wellness minor allows students to participate in one-of-a-kind learning and undergraduate research experiences. The minor cultivates critical thinking and prepares students for a variety of biobehavioral health-related fields.

Students choose courses from disciplines in the College of Human Sciences and related fields to create a holistic basis for understanding human health and wellness.

Required Courses

6 hours

• NS 3332 - Fundamentals of Human Health Behavior Change
• NS 4301 - Nutrition and Chronic Diseases

Minor Elective Options

Mental, Relational, and Emotional Health (3 hours):

• ADRS 3327 - Substance Use Disorder Prevention
• ADRS 4329 - Eating Disorders
• CARS 4331 - Introduction to Marriage and Family Therapy
• PSY 4305 - Abnormal Psychology

Health and Wellness Across the Lifespan (6 hours):

• FCSE 3303 - Educational Processes in Family and Consumer Sciences Professions
• FCSE 4325 - U.S. Family Issues and Social Action
• HDFS 3321 - Human Sexuality from a Life Span Perspective
• HDFS 3326 - Families in Crisis
• HDFS 4343 - Advanced Topics in Human Development and Family Sciences
• HUSC 3325 - Comprehensive Wellness for Adolescents
• ID 2383 - Environment and Behavior
• NS 3340 - Nutrition in the Lifecycle
• PFI 1305 - Life, Love, and Money

Research (3 hours):

• HDFS 3390 - Research Methods in Human Development and Family Sciences
• NS 4360 - Introduction to Nutrition Research
• ID 4381 - Design Research
• or a student-initiated undergraduate research experience in health-related topic in HUSC 4000, ADRS 4000, CFAS 4000, HDFS 4320, ID 4000, NS 4000, or PFP 4000.