Senior Seminar in Global Public Health

Catalog description

This course will be the culmination for the students within the Global Public Health BS degree as they prepare for their future careers and/or progression on to graduate school. A focus will be on integrating their prior learning and preparing them for life after graduation. A key element of the course will be to develop a public health project proposal and presentation that builds on the experiential learning they have done in their earlier Experiential Learning Opportunities (e.g., Co-op, internship, study abroad, supervised research), the classroom learning they have done in HLTH 330 Health Needs Assessment & Program Evaluation, and the research deliverables produced in the NUTR 560 Health and Nutrition Research Foundations course. Within this course the students will create a proposal for an evidenced-based public health project that includes a description of the issue to be addressed and why an intervention is needed; an overview of the planned intervention; the proposed program resource needs (funding plan, personnel, equipment, facilities, etc.); an implementation plan and timeline; and any educational materials to be utilized, along with a description of how the program will be assessed and evaluated for effectiveness.