Graduate Minor in Arts in Public Health
About the Graduate Minor
Arts have long been linked to creativity, change and the power to transform lives. The Dornsife School of Public Health’s graduate minor in Arts in Public Health focuses on the vitality and power of arts to transform individuals, neighborhoods, communities, and societies. With an emphasis on community and social transformation, the minor builds on the City of Philadelphia’s renowned and longstanding commitment to community-based arts.
As the first U.S. school of public health with a minor in Arts in Public Health, the Dornsife program is built on an unflinching commitment to justice, equity and human rights and emphasizes the necessity for activism, citizen engagement and multi-sector collaboration. With innovation and imagination at its center, the program integrates knowledge, action, research, and policy and includes a required practice-based course that offers students an opportunity to work with a community-based arts organization.
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 are eligible to enroll.
Students must receive approval from their home program, the Dornsife School of Public Health, and the Arts in Public Health program director and complete the necessary paperwork with the DSPH Academic Advising Team.
Program Requirements
| Required Courses | ||
| CHP 530 | Arts for Community Health and Wellbeing | 3.0 |
| CHP 531 | Community-Engaged Practice in Arts and Community Health | 3.0 |
| Electives (Choose Two) | 6.0 | |
| Dornsife School of Public Health | ||
| Design and Grant Writing for Community Health Programs | ||
| Multicultural Competence in Community Health and Prevention | ||
| Community Organizing and Community Assessment for Health and Wellness | ||
| Intersectional Perspectives | ||
| Migration and Health | ||
| Theory & Practice of Community Health and Prevention II | ||
| Qualitative Research in Community Health | ||
| Community Based Participatory Research | ||
| Interprofessional Collaboration for Urban Health | ||
| Introduction to Urban Health | ||
| Health Disparities: Systemic, Structural, Environmental & Economic | ||
| Violence, Trauma and Adversity in Public Health | ||
| Public Health Advocacy and Activism | ||
| Health and Human Rights | ||
| Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design | ||
| Arts Entrepreneurship | ||
| Arts in Education | ||
| Creative Placemaking | ||
| Community Cultural Planning | ||
| Political Activism in the Arts | ||
| Civic Engagement & Participatory Methods | ||
| Urbanism, Health & the Built Environment | ||
| College of Nursing and Health Professions | ||
| Foundations of Creative Arts Therapies | ||
| Center for Food and Hospitality Management | ||
| Culture and Gastronomy | ||
| School of Education | ||
| Foundations in Creativity | ||
| Tools and Techniques in Creativity | ||
| Diagnostic Creative Intervention | ||
| Total Credits | 12.0 | |
Additional electives may count towards the minor with program director approval.
Additional Information
For more information about this graduate minor, please contact:
DSPH Academic Advising Team
Office of Education
dsphadvising@drexel.edu
Rabbi Nancy E. Epstein
Professor, Dept. of Community Health and Prevention
Program Director, Arts in Public Health Graduate Minor
nee22@drexel.edu
Additional information can be found on the Dornsife School of Public Health website.
