Grant Writing for Health Educators
- Offered: Winter
- Prerequisites: Instructor’s permission or junior standing.
- Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.
Provides students with an interdisciplinary cultural immersion experience in a service-learning setting. Students will have an opportunity to learn about the culture of a selected Latin American country with a particular focus on the health and health care of the country's residents.
Notes: Cross listed with NE 386.This course will be the continuation of Program Planning concepts that was offered in HL 367. Students will learn implementation and evaluation concepts in health promotion. Through this course students will gain a basic understanding of health promotion program implementation and evaluation. Students will learn how to make a budget, develop LOGIC Model, market their program, and actually implement it in a real life setting. They will also evaluate their program utilizing different evaluation models in health promotion.
Through this course students will gain an understanding of planning health promotion programs and evaluating their effectiveness. Students will utilize current theories and models used in health promotion, to understand research methods, conduct secondary needs assessment, and plan a program intervention.
A survey of the cultural, economic, environmental, historical and political concepts associated with the delivery of health care to various world populations. Major determinants of health status in several regions of the world are studied in concert with patterns of intervention at the local, community, national and international levels.
This course examines the scientific method and the role of research in developing knowledge in the areas of health, wellness, fitness, and physical activity. Students will develop skills to become critical consumers of research and other publicly disseminated information. Students will be introduced to various research designs.
Provides theoretical and practical communication techniques required for health educators.