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The Saint Michael’s College minor in Health Equity provides a unique opportunity for students to examine the challenge of unjust distribution of health care and resources for living healthy lives, both globally and locally. Students in this minor will develop skills to tackle topics such as race-based inequality in health outcomes; linkages between poverty and disease; and the intersecting ways that multiple forms of discrimination provide barriers to health care access.
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Required:
PB 101 Introduction to Public Health
SO 215 Social Determinants of Health
At least one course must be from this list (If desired, all three electives may come from this list):
MA 110 Math for Social Justice
PH 221 Ethics in Healthcare
RS 328 Christian Healthcare Ethics
PH 351 Otherness and Marginalization: Levinas and the Alienated
PO 351 Politics of the Global AIDS Pandemic
PO XXX Health Policy (New Course)
HI 345 The Black Death
AN 217 Social Inequalities
AN 315 Anthropology of International Development
EC 321 Economics of Development and Poverty
ES 306 Environmental Justice
SO 107 Social Problems
SO 221 Race & Ethnic Relations
Take at least two electives from the complete list:
Environmental and Nutritional Health
- BI 108 Nutrition
- ES 225 Food Systems and Sustainable Agriculture
- ES 306 Environmental Justice
- ES 310 Environmental Hazards
- PO 325 Politics of Food
Global and National Health
- AN 315 Anthropology of International Development
- AN 333 Anthropology of Refugees
- AN 341 Culture, Illness and Healing
- AS 227 Intro to Latinx Literature & Culture
- HI 345 The Black Death
- PO 351 Global Politics of AIDS
- PO XXX Health Policy (new course)
Health Equity
- AN 217 Social Inequalities
- EC 321 Economics of Development & Poverty
- EN 375 The Middle Passage
- HI 365 Race, Class and Gender in the Atlantic World
- HI 414 African Slavery in the Atlantic World
- MJD 323 Race, Gender & Ethnicity in the Media
- PH 351 Otherness & Marginalization
- PH 358 Philosophy of Race
- SO 221 Race & Ethnic Relations
Gender, Sexuality & Health
- GS 101 Gender Studies Foundations
- PO 292 Global LGBTQI Politics and Culture
- HI 215 Women in American Society
Skills for Public Health
- MA 110 Math for Social Justice
- ST 251 Probability
- ST 252 Mathematical Statistics and Methods
- DS 203 Data Science
Additional Options
- AL 250 Intercultural Communication
- ED 350 Trauma Informed Educational Process
- PS 250 Social Psychology
- PS 256 Abnormal Psychology
- PS 310 Drugs and Behavior
- PS 350 Psychology of Health and Illness
No more than 2 total courses can contain the same course Prefix (e.g. BI or SO)
Faculty
Mathematics and Statistics
Christopher Desjardins
Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
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Political Science and International Relations
Patricia Siplon
Professor of Political Science, Director of Public Health
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Sociology/Anthropology
Adrie Kusserow
Department Chair, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology
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