Graduate Minor in Urban Health
About the Graduate Minor
The graduate minor in Urban Health provides 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 pursuing the Urban Health MPH, are eligible to enroll.
Students must receive approval from their home program and the Dornsife School of Public Health and complete the necessary paperwork with the DSPH Academic Advising Team.
Program Requirements
| Required Courses | ||
| EOH 550 | Introduction to Urban Health | 3.0 |
| Urban Health Elective | 3.0 | |
| Choose one of the following: | ||
| Healthy Housing & Built Environment | ||
| Interprofessional Collaboration for Urban Health | ||
| Urban Inequality and Health: Theory, Evidence, and Action | ||
| Methods Elective | 3.0 | |
| Choose one of the following: | ||
| Introduction to Statistical Computing | ||
| Methodology and Methods for Health Equity Research: The Health of Black Communities | ||
| Community Organizing and Community Assessment for Health and Wellness | ||
| Process Monitoring and Outcomes Evaluation for Community Health Programs | ||
| Qualitative Research in Community Health | ||
| Public Health Surveillance | ||
| 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: | ||
| Arts for Community Health and Wellbeing | ||
| The World's Water | ||
| Injury Prevention and Control | ||
| Public Health and Disaster Preparedness | ||
| Public Health Impacts of Global Climate Change | ||
| Infectious Disease Epidemiology | ||
| History of Urban Space | ||
| What is a City | ||
| Urbanism, Health & the Built Environment | ||
| Total Credits | 12.0 | |
Additional Information
For more information about this graduate minor, please contact:
DSPH Academic Advising Team
Office of Education
dsphadvising@drexel.edu
Additional information can be found on the Dornsife School of Public Health website.