PUB 4020Peer Health Ed

Catalog

Prerequisite(s): Senior Standing and Approval of Instructor Crosslisted: HSP 4025 As a senior experience and service learning course, students (or MSU Peer Health Educators) in this course learn about the design, implementation and evaluation of health education programs through a direct community experience.  In the course students gain knowledge on the importance and application of evidence-based public health education.  Students are trained in a selected evidence-based health education curriculum and facilitating the delivery of health education sessions to students in identified local high schools.  The selected health education curriculum builds students' faciliatation skill in delivering health information through different instruction modalities (i.e. lecutures, discussions, and engagement activies) and focuses on areas such as sexual and behavioral health, substance abuse, mental health, and overall well-being. MSU PHE students are trained to provide information and resources to support skill development in high school students when making health behavior choices. The course includes training on the health education curriculum guided by the course instructor and additional support from teachers and staff at the participating schools and community partners. Credit is granted for one prefix only. Note: Sections may be taught as Community Engaged Learning