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. 

This Bulletin covers the degree requirements for students matriculating in the current academic year. Students who matriculated before the current year can find their requirements in the relevant archived Bulletin.

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 Foundations of Health Equity (3 credits) before taking either of the elective courses. There are no other prerequisites for any of the elective courses.
Elective courses
Two courses (6 credits) selected from the following:
AMST 4702W	Race, Medicine, and Public Health *
or HIST 3001W	Special Topics
or HONR 2047W	Self and Society Seminar
EMSE 4197	Special Topics (Impact of Technology on Society)
GEOG 3198	Special Topics (Climate and Social Change)
GEOG 3275	Sustainable Food Systems
HIST 2016	Capitalism and Inequality from the Industrial Revolution to Present
HSSJ 2177	Social Justice and Public Policy
or HSSJ 2200	Principles of Ethical Leadership
PUBH 2117	Service Learning in Public Health
WGSS 3170	Topics in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

*Only one of these three course options can be counted toward program requirements.