Spring 2023 Course Offerings: BSHES Electives
Category : Student Opportunities
BSHES 522: Principles of Curriculum & Instruction in Health Education
Fridays, 9-11:50am
Course Description: Introduces methods used by education practitioners in designing health interventions. Presents decision-making models for health education strategies selection for specific target populations. Explores techniques in group facilitation, mass communication, behavior modification, classroom instruction, and organizational development. Students begin and conduct activities for health promotion and education.
BSHES 557: Addressing Racism as a Public Health Issue to Promote Health Equity
Section 1: Tuesdays, 10-11:50am
Section 2: Wednesdays, 5-6:50pm
Course Description: This course provides an overview of racism as a driver of health inequities and interventions designed to dismantle racism to promote health equity. Racism causes harm at multiple ecological levels from the individual level (e.g., internalized racism) to the systemic level (e.g., oppressive and unjust policies & practices). This course will introduce students to how racism operates to create and maintain health inequities and proposed interventions (programs & policies) to promote health equity.
