HEED 227 Cross-Cultural Community Health Service and Learning Practicum

The community service and learning practicum provides the opportunity for students to serve in a community health agency. Through community health education these agencies address important and current cross-cultural and/or international health issues, such as AIDS outreach, disease prevention, and wellness education. The goal of the practicum is to develop practical and professional skills in the creation, implementation and evaluation of programs designed to enhance the health of the population. Each student is assigned to a community health agency for eight hours weekly. A two-hour on-campus seminar is scheduled every other week.

Credits

3

Hours Weekly

9 hours lab weekly

Course Objectives

1. 1. Identify emergent health issues that affect both the local and global community.
2. 2. Construct a framework for development of a community health education initiative (i.e.
   goal statement, objectives, assessment measures).
3. 3. Assist in the implementation and possible evaluation of a health education program.
4. 4. Describe the tools used for assessment of a population’s needs.
5. 5. Describe the tools used to evaluate the outcome of a program.
6. 6. Engage in reflective dialogue to promote an ethic of community service learning.
7. 7. Create an end-product (i.e. written paper, visual display board, etc.) to demonstrate the
   effect the community service and learning practicum had upon the student.

Course Objectives

1. 1. Identify emergent health issues that affect both the local and global community.
2. 2. Construct a framework for development of a community health education initiative (i.e.
   goal statement, objectives, assessment measures).
3. 3. Assist in the implementation and possible evaluation of a health education program.
4. 4. Describe the tools used for assessment of a population’s needs.
5. 5. Describe the tools used to evaluate the outcome of a program.
6. 6. Engage in reflective dialogue to promote an ethic of community service learning.
7. 7. Create an end-product (i.e. written paper, visual display board, etc.) to demonstrate the
   effect the community service and learning practicum had upon the student.