Mental Health Literacy and Wellness Undergraduate Minor
The Mental Health Literacy and Wellness minor is designed to give undergraduate students foundational information about mental health, wellness, and information literacy, as well as core coping and communication skills. These will support students’ own mental wellbeing as well as help them understand how to navigate areas questions of mental health and wellness with their peers and members of their communities. Each of these pieces are core to helping them navigate some of the challenges that they may face as they transition from adolescence to adulthood, including negotiating challenges that could impact their academic success—students' ability to focus, concentrate, and retain information, for example.
Program Requirements
- Students must earn a C or higher in the required courses.
- Students must also maintain an overall GPA of 2.0 within the minor.
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required | 15 | |
| Mental Health Literacy and Wellbeing | ||
| Stress Management | ||
| Helping Skills | ||
| Love, Sex, and Relationships: Skills for Building Satisfying, Healthy Relationships | ||
Select one course from the list below: | ||
| Creating a Meaningful Life | ||
| Introduction to Gerontology: Thinking about Aging | ||
| Human Development Across the Life Span | ||
| Families and Close Relationships | ||
| Development of School-Age Children | ||
| Infant and Child Development | ||
| Adolescent Development: From Puberty to Young Adulthood | ||
| Adult Development | ||
| Issues in Parenting | ||
| Personal Health | ||
| Mental Health and Well-Being | ||
| Lifetime Wellness | ||
| Information Use in a Digital World | ||
| Managing Conflict in Professional Contexts | ||
| Working through Interpersonal Conflicts | ||
| General Psychology | ||
| Sociology of the Family | ||