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.
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.
This minor will pair well with a number of majors in the School of Health Sciences as well as in the College of Arts and 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.
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.
| Code | Title | Credits |
| Required Courses (select one) | ||
| 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) | ||
| HSC 205 | Age-Related Community Engagement Youth | 1 |
| HSC 206 | Community Engagement Legacy Service Learning Seminar: International | 1 |
| HSC 207 (HSC 507) | Interprofessional Community-Based Service Learning Seminar: Special Populations | 1 |
| HSC 308 | 308 Community Engagement Leadership | 2 |
| CAR 295 | Career Practicum | 3 |
| Required Capstone (select one) | ||
| SHS 420 | Integrative Capstone (Social Determinants of Health) | 3 |
| IDS 400 | Transdisciplinary Project | 3 |
| Elective Courses (select nine credits) | ||
| ADPR 346 | Strategic Health Communication | 3 |
| AN 237 | Health and Medicine Around the World | 3 |
| AN 252 | The Science of Human Diversity | 3 |
| BMS 262 | Human Health & Disease | 3 |
| HM 201 | Introduction to Healthcare Management | 3 |
| HM 365 | Health Care Analysis | 3 |
| HM 404 | Legal Aspects of Health Care Delivery | 3 |
| HSC 207 | Interprofessional Community-Based Service Learning Seminar: Special Populations | 1-2 |
| 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: Equity in Healthcare | 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 & Ethics | 3 |
| PL 222 | Bioethics | 3 |
| PL 368 | Philosophy of Death and Dying | 3 |
| PO 209 (ENV 209) | Environmental Politics and Policy | 3 |
| PO/WGS 387 | Women & Public Policy | 3 |
| SO 263 (GT 263) | Aging in Society | 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 |
Upon completion of this minor, students will be able to:
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