This secondary major provides interdisciplinary, liberal arts training in critical foundational skills and conceptual understanding useful for a career in health, and prepares undergraduate students with the coursework, advising, and examination and application support they need for a variety of preprofessional programs
The program aims to provide:
Interpersonal skills grounded in humanistic and social scientific understanding of health.
Ethical and scientific reasoning skills necessary for solving complex individual and societal health problems.
Multicultural competence critical for dealing with diverse patient populations in the U.S.
This secondary major provides foundational training in four core areas of reasoning and interpersonal relationships. It requires that students integrate that learning in courses that provide interdisciplinary perspectives on a health topic and a specific health science. The secondary major culminates in a capstone course or research or internship experience in which students apply their learning.
With careful selection of courses, this secondary major should be able to be completed in addition to a primary major within 120 hrs, as many of the courses in the secondary major will also satisfy K-State 8 and general distribution requirements in K-State colleges.
