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BI 300 - Public Health in a Majority World Country II

Credits: 2

The second part of this two sequence course addresses public health issues in developing communities through service learning. International travel over winter break will take students to a designated developing region where they will serve alongside community partners and residents to implement the public health project developed the previous semester in PUB 200. Upon return, students will reflect on their experiences, evaluate the results of their service project, and write a formal report summarizing their findings. Results will be presented to our community partners with the goal of improving resources offered to those they serve. This course will meet from the start of the spring semester until the last week in March. Students who are unable to participate in the travel portion of the course will earn one credit for the course instead of two.

This is both a Community-Based Learning - Required (CBL-R)  and Sustainability-Focused (SF)   course.

Prerequisite/Corequisite
Prerequisite(s): MA 205 or a comparable statistics/data analysis course and junior or senior standing; Others will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

  • Examine and explain how historical, socioeconomic, behavioral, biological, environmental, and other factors impact human health and contribute to health disparities.
  • Recognize the complexities of serving those who live in developing communities. 
  • Implement a community based public health project, taking special care to understand those they are serving.
  • Utilize basic statistics to analyze data.
  • Communicate public health information, in both oral and written forms, through a variety of media and to diverse audiences.
Notes
PUB 200 - If traveling, students are responsible for the additional costs associated with this course. Travel dates over winter break will vary from year to year. Enrollment priority will be given to students minoring in Public Health or majoring in the Community Health Public Health track.

Cross-listed
PUB 300: Public Health in a Majority World Country II


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