Description: This course supports you in thinking critically and intentionally about the purpose, vision, and values that guide your professional journey in public health. Class activities, discussions, and assignments will help you understand the ethical foundations of public health; plan for the HBHE curricular requirements; prepare for your summer internship and APEx projects; build professional relationships; and explore professional development resources.
Learning Objectives: Articulate the purpose, vision, and values that guide your professional goals; Understand the ethical foundations of public health; Reflect on positionality and professional identity; Consider and begin to develop professional relationships; Set goals for the MPH and create a program completion plan; Prepare for your summer internship and APEx requirements.
Description: This course supports you in completing the HBHEQ program and navigating career opportunities. The course will provide a structure for integrating and disseminating lessons from your internship, writing the ILE Culminating Essay, and developing materials and skills necessary to advance your job search or other professional development goals.
Learning Objectives: Integrate and disseminate lessons from your internship experience; Develop and demonstrate visual, written, and verbal communication skills; Build community and learn from peers and alumni; Explore the array of professional directions your HBHEQ degree can take you; Build confidence and skills in developing professional relationships; Plan your job search and take steps toward career development goals.
Description: This 3-credit course offers an examination of U.S. health inequities from a historical lens and discussion of present-day issues. Through the readings, discussions, and assignments in this class, students will better understand historical policies, events, and movements that have led to health inequities and connect those to contemporary issues in the United States and within the field of public health. The course takes an intersectional perspective to examine health inequities, with a focus on inequities related to race, ethnicity, gender, and class.
Learning Objectives: (Note, these are from the CEPH Foundational Learning Objectives)
1. Explain public health history, philosophy and values
4. List major causes and trends of morbidity and mortality in the US or other community relevant to the school or program
10. Explain the social, political and economic determinants of health and how they contribute to population health and health inequities
Description: Students will launch their integrated learning experience, which involves addressing an applied health problem and presenting their work in a professional communication format, synthesizing competencies they achieved throughout the program. Students will partner with community organizations in the Real-World Writing Project to develop two products, fulfilling the program’s APEx requirements.
Learning Objectives: At the end of this fall-semester course, students should:
- have started their integrated learning experience and capstone product, the culmination of their experiences and learning in the MPH program.
- have written something for the real world of public health that achieves a specific purpose and that is appropriate for a specific audience, and is written in a particular style.
- have further developed their composing process through reflection, discussion and trying new approaches.
- have gained experience collaborating with their peers and have connected these collaborative activities to public health practices.
- be able to identify and/or create effective written and oral arguments within each of the communication formats we cover in the course.
- explain the critical importance of evidence in advancing public health knowledge.
Description: Students will continue with research, analysis, evaluation and writing to complete their capstone project. They will also explore different professional writing format.
Learning Objectives: Objectives:
- Complete integrated learning experience project, through research, analysis and evaluation
- Produce a written capstone in a professional format
- Understand how to tailor written product (aka your capstone) to a specific audience (intended readers of student's work)
- Be able to develop effective written and oral communications
- Get practice using conventions specific to practice-based and/or academic writing
- Further develop writing process through reflection and trying new approaches
- Revise own writing based on feedback from advisor
- Explain the critical importance of evidence in advancing public health knowledge
