Health Education Minor

We offer a minor in health education that prepares you to teach health PK-12. This minor is available to all majors and all teacher licensure candidates as a subsequent endorsement on an initial license. Visit the current undergraduate catalog for the requirements.

Our program may also prepare eligible students to sit for the Certified Health Education Specialist exam.

At the graduate level, we offer the following:

  • Certificate of graduate study in health education
  • PK-12 health education endorsement

If you're interested in the minor, endorsement or CHES exam, contact health education adviser Becky Pritchard at 815-753-1891 or rpritchard@niu.edu.

Contact Us

School of Preventive and Applied Health
227 Wirtz Hall
DeKalb, IL 60115
815-753-5118
spah@niu.edu

Hours

Monday through Friday
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.