Graduate Minor in Urban Health
About the Graduate Minor
The Graduate Minor in Urban Health will provide students with fundamental knowledge and skills necessary to describe health in cities and other urban areas, understand and analyze the drivers of health in urban areas, identify and evaluate effective strategies to improve urban health, collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to address urban health issues, and to communicate key factors and policies contributing to urban health with diverse stakeholders.
Admission Requirements
Graduate minors are designed to complement students' training by providing basic knowledge in topics outside their primary discipline. All matriculated graduate students in quarter programs, except for students pursing the Urban Health MPH, are eligible to enroll in the Urban Health minor.
Students must receive prior approval from their program and complete the minor form in order to formally enroll in this minor.
Program Requirements
| Required Courses | ||
| EOH 550 | Introduction to Urban Health | 3.0 |
| EPI 563 | Interprofessional Collaboration for Urban Health | 3.0 |
| Methods Elective | 3.0 | |
| Choose one of the following | ||
| Qualitative Research in Community Health | ||
| Making Sense of Data | ||
| Introduction to GIS for Public Health | ||
| Civic Engagement & Participatory Methods | ||
| Spatial Reasoning for Urbanists, Architects & Designers | ||
| Substantive Elective | 3.0 | |
| Choose one of the following | ||
| Injury Prevention and Control | ||
| Public Health and Disaster Preparedness | ||
| Public Health Impacts of Global Climate Change | ||
| What is a City | ||
| Urbanism, Health & the Built Environment | ||
| Total Credits | 12.0 | |
Additional Information
For more information about this graduate minor, contact:
Kristi LeBlanc, MSEd
Senior Program Manager
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
kk842@drexel.edu
267-359-6181
Additional information can be found on the Dornsife School of Public Health website.
