APPLIED PRACTICE EXPERIENCE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: PUBLHLTH 787 Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Last Taught: Summer 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Integrate public health theory, knowledge, and skills in a community or public health practice setting; Audience: Graduate 2. Engage with a community public health practice organization to fully understand organizational structure, local and organizational politics, program administration, community relationships, and program coordination; Audience: Graduate 3. Demonstrate mastery of at least five public health competencies; Audience: Graduate 4. Contribute to the MPH Practice Portfolio with at least two products for each competency identified; Audience: Graduate 5. Complete defined projects in an area of public health practice such as needs assessment, program planning, program evaluation, policy development, educational campaign, or applied research project; Audience: Graduate 6. Gain/expand/develop skills and knowledge in an area of interest not covered in depth elsewhere in the educational plan Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Integrate public health theory, knowledge, and skills in a community or public health practice setting; Audience: Graduate 2. Engage with a community public health practice organization to fully understand organizational structure, local and organizational politics, program administration, community relationships, and program coordination; Audience: Graduate 3. Demonstrate mastery of at least five public health competencies; Audience: Graduate 4. Contribute to the MPH Practice Portfolio with at least two products for each competency identified; Audience: Graduate 5. Complete defined projects in an area of public health practice such as needs assessment, program planning, program evaluation, policy development, educational campaign, or applied research project; Audience: Graduate 6. Gain/expand/develop skills and knowledge in an area of interest not covered in depth elsewhere in the educational plan Audience: Graduate