Undergraduates are allowed to enroll in this course.
Description: In this seminar course, we will explore the challenges and opportunities for advancing public health values and goals through artificial general intelligence (AGI) platforms, such as chatGPT. Students will select a key area of interest, develop a plan, document their exploration/results, and present their findings in a collective public forum.
Learning Objectives: -Articulate human values that drive public health mission and describe the ways in which AI tools could undermine them
-Identify the unique challenges and opportunities GAI technology poses
-Apply critical AI literacy, critical thinking, and systems thinking to a public issue
-Use critical AI literacy to develop best practices for incorporating AI into public health work
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.
