Micro-Minor in Health Equity

The health equity micro-minor will both broaden and deepen student learning about health equity. The courses collectively draw on multiple disciplines and diverse cultural perspectives on the principles of social justice, ethics, and human rights for health. Through this micro-minor, students complete a public health course, a history course, and a leadership or service-learning course to identify, analyze, process, and translate how to address social and structural inequities that historically marginalized populations face when trying to achieve their full health potential.  Students who complete the micro-minor will be able to:

• Explain how eliminating health disparities serve as a metric for progress toward health equity for all U.S. populations; 

• Describe historical, economic, and/or social indicators of disadvantage, marginalization, and discrimination within U.S. subpopulations;

• Review changes to policies, practices, laws, and systems as what fosters opportunities for populations to be healthy; and

• Critically analyze the role of racism and/or discrimination to explain the disproportionate morbidity and mortality rates and other adverse health outcomes among historically marginalized populations. 

 The following requirements must be fulfilled: 9 credits, including one 3-credit required course and 6 credits in elective courses.

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
Required
All students must complete HSCI 2050 before taking either of the two electives courses. There are no other prerequisites for any of the elective courses.
HSCI 2050	Foundations of Health Equity
Electives
Two courses selected from the following:
AMST 4702W	Race, Medicine, and Public Health *
or HIST 3001W	Special Topics
or HONR 2047W	Self and Society Seminar
HIST 2016	Capitalism and Inequality from the Industrial Revolution to Present
HSCI 2050	Foundations of Health Equity
HSSJ 1177	Social Justice and Public Policy *
or HSSJ 2200	Principles of Ethical Leadership
PUBH 2117	Service Learning in Public Health
SUST 3003	World on a Plate

*Only one course from this set of options may be counted toward program requirements.