Program Contact: Susan Norkus (203-582-3382) or Lauren Sardi (203-582-8215)
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.
Outcomes
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.
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) | 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 |