This course is designed to give students practical hands-on experience of health promotion skills that a health promotion educator will use.

This course provides a basic and theoretical understanding of the social, emotional/mental, physical, and lifestyle factors related to human behavior. Practical strategies are used to identify barriers to behavior and to enhance and improve health. This course will prepare students to take the CHES exam.

Evaluation is one of the 10 essential public health functions, one of the seven core competencies of health education, and is critical to effective practice. This course will cover the skills and knowledge necessary to conduct program evaluation. Students will be able to design appropriate process, impact and outcome evaluation. They will also discuss the ethical issues involved in evaluation.

Each of the twelve focuses for this course are listed in the course outline. They are designed to introduce students to the possibility of pursuing a career in healthcare administration. Materials for the course are drawn from a variety of publications and electronic sources.

Intended to help students become better disciple leaders by “Doing Good, Better.” Learn how to become a change maker and embrace some element of the social spectrum — anything from working for a non-profit to starting a hybrid or social business. Covers the broad spectrum of how individuals and organizations are solving the world’’s greatest problems in new and innovative ways. Understand the different ways to make a difference in the word when the opportunity presents itself to give back. Learn about the broad spectrum of social innovation including: non profits, social businesses, NGO’s, impact investing, philanthropy, and corporate social responsibility. Hybrid class; all course content will be completed outside of class.

This course is an introduction to scientific writing, assessment instruments, data collection, research design, and statistical analysis. This will help prepare students to take the CHES exam. Students will be able to define plagiarism and recognize when it is present in their own writing and in the writing of others. They will also be able to propose, design and conduct a small research project, work collaboratively and effectively with other people to meet a common goal, and present their research findings through written and oral communication. Students will understand their relationship between scientific and spiritual inquiry, the strengths and limitations of each, and the role of each in the pursuit of truth.