Minor in Health Equity

Minor

Health Equity

On Campus

The interdisciplinary Minor in Health Equity is designed and developed for students across the university who seek to understand how the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship and age affect a wide range of health, functioning and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.

A woman speaking to a circle of young adults

Apply Request Info Visit

Program Overview

The Minor in Health Equity features a curriculum relevant for both patient/client care and non-science health-related fields. Students from every discipline will appreciate how the sampling of courses prepares them for success in a variety of industries such as patient/client care, healthcare policy and advocacy, social work, healthcare consulting, community health, biomedical marketing and communications, healthcare analytics, patient advocacy and healthcare administration.

Programs of Interest

This minor will pair well with a number of majors in the School of H ealth Sciences as well as in the College of Arts & Sciences. However, students interested in any aspect of healthcare that study within the Schools of Business, Communications, Nursing, Education or Computing and Engineering may also have interest.

Health Equity Minor Curriculum

In order to fulfill the interdisciplinary nature of the minor, students may take a maximum of nine credits in any one school. Therefore, students would select no more than nine credits within the School of Health Sciences, no more than nine credits in the College of Arts and Sciences and no more than nine credits in the School of Business. There is also an elective course available from the School of Communications.

Course List
Code	Title	Credits
Required courses (select one)		3
HSC 209	Introduction to Health Disparities	3
SO 280	Sociology of Health and Illness	3
Required community engagement OR internship (select one 1-credit and one 2-credit community engagement course OR select a 3-credit internship course)		3
HSC 205	Age-Related Community Engagement Youth (HSC 505)	1
HSC 206	Community Engagement: Leaving a Legacy Service Learning Seminar: International (HSC 506)	1
HSC 207	Community Engagement:special Populations Service Learning Seminar: Special Populations (HSC 507)	1-2
HSC 308	Community Engagement Leadership	2
CAR 295	Career Practicum	3
Required capstone (select one)		3
SHS 420	Integrative Capstone (Social Determinants of Health)	3
IDS 400	Transdisciplinary Project	3
Elective courses (select nine credits)		9
ADPR 346	Health Communication	3
AN 237	Health and Medicine Around the World	3
AN 252	The Science of Human Diversity	3
BMS 162	Human Health and Disease	3
HM 201	Introduction to Healthcare Management	3
HM 365	Health Care Analysis	3
HSC 205	Age-Related Community Engagement Youth (HSC 505)	1
HSC 206	Community Engagement: Leaving a Legacy Service Learning Seminar: International (HSC 506)	1
HSC 207	Community Engagement:special Populations Service Learning Seminar: Special Populations (HSC 507)	1-2
HM 404	Legal Aspects of Health Care Delivery	3
HSC 220	Health Care Essentials: Structure, Policy and Professionalism	3
HSC 270	Pillars of Public Health: Saving the World on a Population Level	3
HSC 300	Special Topics in Health Science	2
HSC 301	Health Care Challenges and Team-Based Solutions	1
HSC 315	Bioethical Issues in the 21st Century	3
HSC 318	Community Nutrition	3
HSC 320	The Environment and Human Health	3
HSC 380	International Health Care - Field Research	3
HSC 404	Healthcare Law and Ethics	3
PL 222	Bioethics	3
PL 368	Philosophy of Death and Dying	3
PO/ENV 209	Environmental Politics and Policy	3
PO/WGS 387	Women and Public Policy	3
SO/GT 263	Aging in Society Of Aging	3
SO 266	Population and Society	3
SO 305	Sociology of Death and Dying	3
SO 333	Drugs, Alcohol and Society	3
SO 360	Sociology of Mental Health	3

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this minor, students will be able to:

Identify and explain the five domains of social determinants of health: social context, economic stability, healthcare access, education and local environment.
Describe how health is influenced by several factors, including genetics, social behavior, environmental/physical influences and access to medical care.
Recognize the ways in which an individual’s socioeconomic status affects the health and well-being of people and their communities.
Analyze the ways in which historical and contemporary injustices are directly related to health outcomes that exacerbate health disparities at the individual and population level.

Contact Us

Susan Norkus

Professor of Athletic Training & Sports Medicine

Associate Chair of Athletic Training & Sports Medicine

Chair of Health Science Studies

Professor of Health Science Studies

Athletic Training & Sports Medicine

Lauren M Sardi

Professor of Sociology and Women's & Gender Studies

Dir of the Collaborative for Interdisciplinary & Integr Stud

Sociology