Description: This course will cover a mixed-methods approach to conducting needs assessments; including collection of primary data (e.g. surveys, focus groups, and interviews) and secondary data (e.g. agency, state statistics, and census). Furthermore, a global perspective will be used to study various international efforts using health equity needs assessments.
Description: Students will partner with a community organization to develop, complete, and submit two written products that are needed for the real world of public health, fulfilling the program’s applied practice experience (APEx) requirements. Students will also launch the integrated learning experience (ILE) that will be completed in PUBHLTH 681.
Learning Objectives: At the end of this fall-semester course, students should:
- Have partnered with a community partner to complete two APEx written products that achieve specific purpose(s) for the real world of public health, are appropriate for specific audience(s), and are written in a particular public health style.
- Demonstrate and apply core public health competencies that they identify.
- Have identified the focus and competencies they will apply to develop their integrated learning experience/capstone product in PUBHLTH 681, the culmination of their experiences and learning in the MPH program.
- Have further developed their public health communication skills (writing and verbal) through reflection, discussion, and trying new approaches.
- Have gained experience collaborating with their peers and have connected these collaborative activities to public health practices.
Description: Students will continue with research, analysis, evaluation and writing to complete their capstone project. They will also explore different professional writing formats.
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
