Preparing for Community Health Engagement & Service Learning

3 credits · Medicine

This SC core course prepares learners to engage thoughtfully and effectively in service-learning and community-engaged approaches to community health and health equity. Over 10 weeks, students will develop readiness for service work through experiential learning, critical reflection, and community-based activities that explore how individual, social, and structural factors shape health and well-being. The course draws on models of leadership, wellness, humanism, and ecological systems theory to provide learners with insights that prepare them for careers in community health.nNote: This course is required for Track A of the HEE Scholarly Concentration. Students not enrolled in the scholarly concentration may enroll with the consent of the course director.