Public Health and the Arts minor

Learn about the connections among public health, arts and culture and how they are essential components of individual wellness and healthy communities.

A minor in Public Health and the Arts exposes students to both public health and the arts with the goal of promoting an understanding that community well-being encompasses many aspects of daily living. By combining foundational courses in public health and arts with discipline-specific courses in arts and humanities, students will gain an understanding and appreciation for how arts and culture are essential components of individual wellness and healthy communities.

Requirements

  • Minimum credit hours: 15
  • No more than six credit hours can overlap between the general education requirements and a minor
  • The minor must be in a different subject than the major. Each minor completed must contain a minimum of 12 hours distinct from the major and/or additional minors.

Review the complete minor requirements

Curriculum

The Public Health and the Arts minor includes six credit hours of required courses and nine credits of selective courses from Practice/Performance-Based/Service Learning courses (minimum three credit hours) and Critical Thinking/Reflective courses (minimum three credit hours).

Foundational Public Health course (3 credits)

Course number Course name Credits
PUBHLTH 2010 Critical Issues in Global Public Health 3 credits

 

Foundational arts courses (choose one, 3 credits)

Course number Course name Credits
ART 2000 Encountering Contemporary Art 3 credits
ARTEDUC 2367.01/2600 Visual Culture: Investigating Diversity & Social Justice 3 credits
ARTEDUC 2550 Introduction to Visual Culture: Seeing and Being Seen 3 credits
DANCE 3401 Dance in Popular Culture 3 credits

 

Practice/Performance-Based/Service-Learning courses

The courses below represent a selection of the available courses to choose from for this requirement. Review the curriculum guide for additional courses.

Course number Course name Credits
DESIGN 3105 Exploring Design Thinking 3 credits
ENGLISH 2367.07S Literacy Narratives of Black Columbus 4 credits
PUBHLTH/MUSIC 3010 Public Health and the Opera 4 credits
THEATRE 3921S Creation of Outreach Theater 3 credits
WGSST 2326S Feminist Perspectives on Addiction 3 credits

 

Critical Thinking/Reflective courses

The courses below represent a selection of the available courses to choose from for this requirement. Review the curriculum guide for additional courses.

Course number Course name Credits
ARTEDUC 5670 Public Policy and the Arts 3 credits
CLASSICS 2204 Medicine in the Ancient World 3 credits
ENGLISH 2367.06 Composing Disability in the U.S 3 credits
FRIT 3054 The 21st Century Skill: Intercultural Competence for Global Citizenship 3 credits
WGSST 2230 Gender, Sexuality and Race in Popular Culture 3 credits

Declaring the minor

The minor may be approved by the student's college or school advising office to be added to your degree audit report. It is recommended to declare the minor as soon as possible. It must be declared by the time the student applies for graduation.

For assistance with the minor, contact an undergraduate advisor in the College of Public Health or Ryan Heitkamp in College of Arts and Sciences.

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