PHE 2000:Writing and Analysis for Public Health Education

2 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: PHE Major and PHE Major-Interest students only
This course is designed to advance students’ critical thinking, reading, and writing skills for the discipline. In this course, students will learn analytical techniques and communication strategies that will help make them successful in the Public Health Education program and the workforce. The course will build writing skills for health literacy, with emphases on research methods, identifying reliable sources of health information, clear and accurate presentation of findings, APA formatting, and delivering audience appropriate health messages. Students will hone their analytical skills through engagement with various health topics and sharpen their writing skills through multiple drafts of papers, with substantial feedback from their peers and their instructor. The culmination of the course will be a portfolio that demonstrates the individual student’s growth in comprehension and production of core Public Health literature.