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HLTH 417 Community-Based Programming and Evaluation Units: 3.00
Designed to advance student understanding of health promotion program planning, implementation, and evaluation, this course uses seminar discussion and community-based activities to provide students with core competencies required in health promotion and public health practice. Students complete a service learning project with community partners.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Seminar, 36 Practicum, 48 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite Level 4 or above and registration in a HLTH Major, Joint Honours, or KINE Specialization and HLTH 416/3.0 and a minimum cumulative GPA of a 2.70 or higher.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Describe and administer strategies to assess community level health promotion needs.
- Apply diverse evidence, theories, models, methods, and existing health promotion strategies, and programs to inform the development of a community health promotion plan.
- Recognize the resources, steps and challenges involved in implementing health promotion activities.
- Identify evaluation methods, data sources, measures and tools for tracking program delivery, developing evaluation questions and an evaluation design to measure program impact and outcomes.
- Competently present a program design, implementation strategy and evaluation findings using a variety of approaches to engage specific audiences.
- Model ethical and professional behaviour in developing a respectful working relationship with a community partner organization.