Graduate Minor in Urban Health
About the Graduate Minor
Graduate Minors are open to all Drexel graduate students in all schools and colleges. The graduate minors are designed to complement student’s training by providing basic knowledge in topics outside their primary discipline
This minor will provide students with basic 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, work with interdisciplinary teams, and communicate about drivers of urban health and effective policies with diverse stakeholders.
Admission Requirements
The Graduate Minor in Urban Health is open to current Drexel Graduate students.
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
Academic Program Coordinator
kk842@drexel.edu
267.359.6181
