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Twin Cities Campus

Health Equity Minor

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Contact Information
School of Public Health, MMC 819, Room A395, 420 Delaware Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612-626-3500 or 1-800-774-8636)
Email: sph-ask@umn.edu
Website: http://www.sph.umn.edu
  • Program Type: Graduate free-standing minor
  • Requirements for this program are current for Fall 2018
  • Length of program in credits (master's): 7
  • Length of program in credits (doctoral): 12
  • This program does not require summer semesters for timely completion.
The Health Equity Minor is a graduate minor that allows students to specialize in studying health disparities and inequalities. A firm understanding of the structural factors that cause health inequalities will help prepare students to enter the professional world of public health as an effective advocate.
Program Delivery
  • via classroom (the majority of instruction is face-to-face)
Prerequisites for Admission
The preferred undergraduate GPA for admittance to the program is 3.00.
Other requirements to be completed before admission:
Declaring this minor is contingent upon prior admission to a University master's or doctoral degree-granting program. Students should first consult with their program advisor, then contact the Health Equity Director of Graduate Studies regarding requirements.
For an online application or for more information about graduate education admissions, see the General Information section of this website.
Program Requirements
Use of 4xxx courses towards program requirements is not permitted.
Required Captsone Seminar (1 Credit)
All students pursuing the minor must take the following required seminar:
PUBH 6772 - Health Disparities Capstone Seminar (1.0 cr)
Program Sub-plans
Students are required to complete one of the following sub-plans.
Students may not complete the program with more than one sub-plan.
Master's
Additional Coursework (6 Credits)
Select at least 6 credits from the following, in consultation the advisor and the health equity director of graduate studies, to complete the 7-credit minimum requirement:
CSPH 5115 - Cultural Awareness, Knowledge and Health (3.0 cr)
or PUBH 6066 - Building Communities, Increasing Health: Preparing for Community Health Work (2.0 cr)
or PUBH 6055 - Social Inequalities in Health (2.0 cr)
or PUBH 6855 - Medical Sociology (3.0 cr)
Doctoral
Required Coursework (10 Credits)
Complete the following required courses for a total of 10 credits:
CSPH 5115 - Cultural Awareness, Knowledge and Health (3.0 cr)
PUBH 6066 - Building Communities, Increasing Health: Preparing for Community Health Work (2.0 cr)
PUBH 6055 - Social Inequalities in Health (2.0 cr)
PUBH 6855 - Medical Sociology (3.0 cr)
Electives (1 Credit)
Select at least 1 elective credit, in consultation the advisor and the health equity director of graduate studies, to complete the 12-credit minimum requirement. PubH 6000 Topics: Urban Health and Social Policy (2 cr) PubH 6570 Topics: Introduction to Population Health: A Health System Perspective
PUBH 6000 - Topics: Community Health Promotion (0.5-4.0 cr)
or PUBH 6370 - Social Epidemiology (2.0 cr)
or PUBH 6570 - Healthcare Administration (1.0-4.0 cr)
or PUBH 6601 - Born a Girl: Global Women's Health (1.0 cr)
or PUBH 6634 {Inactive} (2.0 cr)
or PUBH 6675 - Women's Health (2.0 cr)
or PUBH 6804 - Mental Health Policy (2.0 cr)
or PUBH 6703 {Inactive} (1.5 cr)
or PUBH 7241 - Culturally Responsive Communication (1.0 cr)
or PUBH 7242 - War and Public Health (1.0 cr)
or PUBH 7244 - Community-based Participatory Research (1.0 cr)
or PA 5211 - Land Use Planning (3.0 cr)
or PA 5290 - Topics in Planning (0.5-4.0 cr)
or PA 5401 - Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy (3.0 cr)
or PA 5421 - Racial Inequality and Public Policy (3.0 cr)
or PA 5451 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)
or PA 5452 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)
or PA 8203 {Inactive} (4.0 cr)
or NURS 5033 - Population-Focused Health in Public Health and Mental Health Nursing (5.0 cr)
or NURS 5800 - Nursing Topics (1.0-4.0 cr)
or POL 8360 - Topics in American Politics (3.0 cr)
or SW 8551 - Advanced Community Practice: Assessment, Organizing, and Advocacy (3.0 cr)
or SOC 8201 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)
or SOC 8211 - The Sociology of Race & Racialization (3.0 cr)
or SOC 8735 - Sociology of Culture (3.0 cr)
or GCC 5003 - Seeking Solutions to Global Health Issues [GP] (3.0 cr)
 
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PUBH 6772 - Health Disparities Capstone Seminar
Credits: 1.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: OPT No Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Readings and discussion-based seminar. Readings emphasize practice and policy solutions to health disparities. prereq: CSPH 5115 OR PubH 6066 OR PUBH 6055 OR PUBH 6855, 2d yr MPH student completing SPH health disparities interdisciplinary concentration] or instr consent
CSPH 5115 - Cultural Awareness, Knowledge and Health
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
How knowledge can become resource for individual, family, community health. Interactive glimpse of wisdom of cultural communities. Develop capacity to see culture within professional education/practice. Cultural constructs underpinning medical system, role of culture in interaction between practitioner/patient, role of reconnection to cultural heritage in healing. prereq: Jr or sr or grad student or instr consent
PUBH 6066 - Building Communities, Increasing Health: Preparing for Community Health Work
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Taught with Powderhorn-Phillips Cultural Wellness Center. Introduction to community building/organizing. Using culture as a resource for health, reducing barriers, identifying community assets, planning organizing strategy, understanding the impact of history. Emphasizes self-reflection and skill-building for authentic, grassroots community work.
PUBH 6055 - Social Inequalities in Health
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Extent and causes of social inequalities in health. Degree to which understanding of these inequalities is hampered by methodological limitations in health research. Focuses on individual, community, and policy approaches to reducing social inequalities in health.
PUBH 6855 - Medical Sociology
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Introduction to common theoretical/empirical approaches used by sociologists to study health/illness. How content reflects social inequalities in health/illness. Social processes that shape experience of health/illness. prereq: [[Grad or professional school] student, previous experience with statistical software] or instr consent
CSPH 5115 - Cultural Awareness, Knowledge and Health
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
How knowledge can become resource for individual, family, community health. Interactive glimpse of wisdom of cultural communities. Develop capacity to see culture within professional education/practice. Cultural constructs underpinning medical system, role of culture in interaction between practitioner/patient, role of reconnection to cultural heritage in healing. prereq: Jr or sr or grad student or instr consent
PUBH 6066 - Building Communities, Increasing Health: Preparing for Community Health Work
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Taught with Powderhorn-Phillips Cultural Wellness Center. Introduction to community building/organizing. Using culture as a resource for health, reducing barriers, identifying community assets, planning organizing strategy, understanding the impact of history. Emphasizes self-reflection and skill-building for authentic, grassroots community work.
PUBH 6055 - Social Inequalities in Health
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Extent and causes of social inequalities in health. Degree to which understanding of these inequalities is hampered by methodological limitations in health research. Focuses on individual, community, and policy approaches to reducing social inequalities in health.
PUBH 6855 - Medical Sociology
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Introduction to common theoretical/empirical approaches used by sociologists to study health/illness. How content reflects social inequalities in health/illness. Social processes that shape experience of health/illness. prereq: [[Grad or professional school] student, previous experience with statistical software] or instr consent
PUBH 6000 - Topics: Community Health Promotion
Credits: 0.5 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
New course offerings or topics of interest in Community Health Promotion.
PUBH 6370 - Social Epidemiology
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Spring Even Year
How a society's social interactions, past and present, yield differential exposures and differences in health outcomes between persons who make up populations. New disease-specific risk factors. How well-known exposures emerge and are maintained by social system.
PUBH 6570 - Healthcare Administration
Credits: 1.0 -4.0 [max 8.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer
Selected readings in healthcare administration. Discussion based on readings. prereq: dept consent
PUBH 6601 - Born a Girl: Global Women's Health
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered: Every Summer
Women's health conditions, programs, services, and policies in developed/developing countries. Social, economic, environmental, behavioral, and political factors affecting health behaviors, reproductive health, chronic and acute diseases, premature mortality and longevity. prereq: Grad level student
PUBH 6675 - Women's Health
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Programs, services, and policies that affect women's health in the United States. Methodological issues in research. Emphasizes social, economic, environmental, behavioral, and political factors. Measurement/interpretation of factors, how they translate into interventions, programs, and policies.
PUBH 6804 - Mental Health Policy
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Social-psychological processes that shape experience of mental health/illness. Consequences of disorders for individuals, families, and communities. Epidemiology research, theories of mental health/illness. Effect of policies related to organizing/financing services.
PUBH 7241 - Culturally Responsive Communication
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: OPT No Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Summer
Design/delivery of culturally responsive health communication. Social/cultural contexts and belief systems that shape health behavior. Cultural learning styles. Overcoming cultural barriers. Cultural motivators.
PUBH 7242 - War and Public Health
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: OPT No Aud
Typically offered: Every Summer
Public health problems associated with armed conflict; interdisciplinary perspective with emphasis on analyzing the complexities. Consequences of mass displacement, effects on community and family, women's roles and experiences, trauma and healing. Health intervention strategies. Seminar discussion format.
PUBH 7244 - Community-based Participatory Research
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Course Equivalencies: PubH 6815/PubH 7244
Typically offered: Periodic Summer
This introductory course is intended for graduate students and community practitioners interested in adding CBPR to their repertoire of effective approaches to understanding and addressing social and health disparities. Topics such as the purpose and applications of CBPR; partnership formation and maintenance; issues of power, trust, race, class, and social justice; ethical issues; CBPR's relationship to cultural knowledge systems will be explored. The course has a required pre-course component (6-8 hours) consisting of readings, lectures and exercises designed to prepare you for in-class discussion and experiential learning.
PA 5211 - Land Use Planning
Credits: 3.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall
Physical/spatial basis for land use planning at community/regional level. Role of public sector in guiding private development. Land use regulations, comprehensive planning, growth management, innovative land use planning/policies. prereq: Major or minor in urban/regional planning or instr consent
PA 5290 - Topics in Planning
Credits: 0.5 -4.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Selected topics.
PA 5401 - Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Nature/extent of poverty/inequality in the United States, causes/consequences, impact of government programs/policies. Extent/causes of poverty/inequality in other developed/developing countries. prereq: Grad or instr consent
PA 5421 - Racial Inequality and Public Policy
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: OPT No Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Historical roots of racial inequality in American society. Contemporary economic consequences. Public policy responses to racial inequality. Emphasizes thinking/analysis that is critical of strategies offered for reducing racism and racial economic inequality. prereq: Grad or instr consent
NURS 5033 - Population-Focused Health in Public Health and Mental Health Nursing
Credits: 5.0 [max 5.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Summer
Focus on population- based public health and mental health nursing practice across the lifespan, with local to global perspectives. Emphasis on health equity, health promotion and levels of disease prevention. Apply theory and research to examine interventions and outcomes.
NURS 5800 - Nursing Topics
Credits: 1.0 -4.0 [max 16.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Course allows students to study a topic not included in regular courses, or for faculty to offer a course to determine interest in a topic. prereq: instr consent
POL 8360 - Topics in American Politics
Credits: 3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Readings and research in special topics or problems. prereq: instr consent
SW 8551 - Advanced Community Practice: Assessment, Organizing, and Advocacy
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Community practice, including community organizing, policy advocacy, social service/change leadership. prereq: [5051, 5101, 8151, 8152, 8153, 8154] or MSW Adv Standing or instr consent
SOC 8211 - The Sociology of Race & Racialization
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Major theoretical debates. Classic and contemporary theoretical approaches to studying U.S. race relations; contemporary and historical experiences of specific racial and ethnic groups.
SOC 8735 - Sociology of Culture
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Definition/importance of culture as dimension of social life. Structural/Durkheimian approaches, cultural Marxism, practice theory. Cultural creation/reception. Identities as cultural formations. Culture/social inequality. Culture and race. Cultural construction of social problems. Culture and globalization.
GCC 5003 - Seeking Solutions to Global Health Issues (GP)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
Often, the most progress on challenging issues such as health and equity is made when you apply an interdisciplinary perspective. The same is true for global health issues. Whether responding to emerging pandemics, food insecurity, maternal mortality, or civil society collapse during conflict, solutions often lie at the intersection of animal, environmental, and human health. In this course, students will work in teams to examine the fundamental challenges to addressing complex global health problems in East Africa and East African refugee communities here in the Twin Cities. Together we will seek practical solutions that take culture, equity, and sustainability into account. In-field professionals and experts will be available to mentor each team, including professionals based in Uganda and Somalia. This exploration will help students propose realistic actions that could be taken to resolve these issues. This course will help students gain the understanding and skills necessary for beginning to develop solutions to global health issues. This is a Grand Challenge Curriculum course. GCC courses are open to all students and fulfill an honors experience for University Honors Program students.