Community Health and Prevention

Courses

CHP 500 Behavior and Social Change Theories 3.0 Credits

This course introduces students to theories, principles, scientific methods, and research issues in community health and prevention. Major theoretical approaches to community health are discussed. An ecological model of health is presented, with an emphasis on behavioral and social determinants of health. Key public health issues are studied and placed in the context of theoretical approaches to community health.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 501 Community Engagement in Public Health Practice & Research 3.0 Credits

This course seeks to orient students to a type of public health practice and research designed to build the capacities of groups and institutions within multidimensional and often complex systems. This course is grounded in social justice, community participation, and capacity building with a focus on the self-identified needs and strengths of stakeholder groups we work with. Through readings, in-class discussion, and field work, students will be introduced to the roles public health professionals may play while engaging in community organization activities; developing public health programs, interventions, and policy; systems building; and public health/program evaluation.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 503 Multi-Method Data Analysis in Community Health & Prevention 3.0 Credits

In this course, students will apply multiple research methods to understand the impact of individual, social, and structural factors on community health. In this applied course, students will utilize qualitative, quantitative, and mixed method data analysis skills using real-world data sets common in behavioral and social science research to answer specific conceptually grounded research questions. Course assignments will focus on organizing, interpreting data and preparing data briefs for diverse audiences.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 515 Maternal Health: Problem Solving 3.0 Credits

This course is focused on understanding the key drivers related to maternal mortality, drawing on insights from public health, medicine, sociology, and policy. Students will understand the importance of addressing complex social and structural factors that contribute to maternal mortality, while also highlighting the potential for effective interventions to improve maternal health outcomes.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 516 History of Public Health 3.0 Credits

This course considers the origins of contemporary public health by examining major currents in the history of public health in the US from colonial times to the present, with an emphasis on the 20th century. The course introduces students to historical methods in public health research; examines how the changing nature of medical knowledge influences how we treat both the underlying illness and populations and individuals with disease; seeks to understand factors that make populations healthy; examines roots of contemporary health disparities; understands the relationship between agriculture and public health; and, finally, looks at major achievements of public health practice during the 20th century in order to better understand the challenges that might lay ahead for public health in the 21st century.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 517 Overview of Maternal and Child Health 3.0 Credits

This course covers key principles and methods of maternal and child health (MCH) using a public health lens. This course will look at key points in the reproductive cycle, to include family planning, prenatal health, birth and the postpartum period; and then explore child health, to include infant and child morbidity and mortality, child development, LGBT health issues, and children and youth with special health care needs. The course will introduce common environmental and occupational exposures of women, fetuses, infants and children and discuss exposure prevention interventions.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 518 Global Issues in Maternal and Child Health 3.0 Credits

This course covers maternal and child health (MCH) disparities using the life course perspective. Health disparities will be explored across geopolitical boundaries. Material will stem from three main pedagogical principles: 1) MCH issues outside the US are sometimes very similar to domestic issues; 2) MCH issues outside the US are sometimes drastically different than domestic issues; and 3) MCH is not only about women and children, but also about men, as well external factors beyond the individual and interpersonal levels of the social ecological model. Throughout the course, an emphasis will be placed on providing practice-based evidence of MCH disparities from around the world and evidence-based practice examples for prevention, intervention, and ultimately the reduction of global MCH health disparities.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 519 Methodology and Methods for Health Equity Research: The Health of Black Communities 3.0 Credits

This course teaches students how to leverage theories of structural marginalization to inform methodological approaches to and design of health equity research and practice. Focusing on health inequities in the Black community as a case study, the course first discusses the state of evidence with a lens towards challenges in successful translation into action. Next, we distinguish between methodology and methods in order to focus on the use of two frameworks of structural marginalization used to generate this evidence base: critical race theory and structural racism. The course concludes by having students apply their understanding of theory and foundational frameworks to critique current methodological approaches to addressing a select Black Health issue.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 522 Health and Human Rights Research Methods 3.0 Credits

This seminar focuses on the application of human rights norms and tools to public health and particular challenges within public health. Building upon human rights frameworks, we will discuss current debates about the usefulness of a “human rights approach” to health, the methods and ethics of health-related human rights research, and case studies of human rights investigations and advocacy. The case studies are intended to examine how human rights abuses, including violations of economic and social rights and civil and political rights, can be understood as determinants of health.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 530 Arts for Community Health and Wellbeing 3.0 Credits

This course brings together a focus on the arts and community health and wellbeing and covers five major learning areas. 1. Arts, Resilience, and Healing; 2. Arts and Social Connectedness; 3. Arts and Community/Neighborhood Development; 4. Arts and Social Justice; 5. Arts-based Research. It builds on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) holistic definition of health and applies a social ecological lens through which to view the arts and human flourishing at multiple levels: the individual, the interpersonal, the community and society. The course engages students via in-class and on-line discussions of assigned weekly readings, videos, guest lectures, presentations, and media from the growing arts and health movement and includes an array of community-based activities and assignments.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 531 Community-Engaged Practice in Arts and Community Health 3.0 Credits

This course is designed to be an action-oriented exploration and synthesis of the evidence-based literature applied to arts in health program planning, evaluation, community engagement, outreach, social media and/ or research methods.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 560 Design and Grant Writing for Community Health Programs 3.0 Credits

This course is an interdisciplinary course of the Master of Public Health (MPH) Program required for Community Health and Prevention majors. It is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills essential to the development, implementation, and evaluation of comprehensive health promotion programs. The course will also introduce students to the grant application process. Students will demonstrate an understanding and mastery of the principles of program development, implementation, and evaluation via the development and presentation of a competitive grant proposal addressing a public health issue of relevance today.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 561 Overview of Issues in Global Health 3.0 Credits

This introductory course will cover the major issues and considerations involved in global health. It is a survey course that is designed to familiarize students with the major health issues across the globe, including general concepts such as determinants of health, the measurements of health status, as well as demographic and other global trends and their impact on the global burden of the disease. The course will also address specific health issues that affect much of the world’s population such as communicable diseases, malnutrition, water and sanitation, chronic diseases, injuries and environmental health challenges, as well as the factors that threaten reproductive and child health.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 605 Outcomes and Impact Evaluation 3.0 Credits

This course will provide students with theoretical and practical aspects of health evaluation. Much of public health is about developing programs and policies to impact individual and population health. Therefore, public health practitioners must be able to measure the impact on health of these initiatives. This course helps students understand what they can say with confidence about how health programs and policies perform.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 607 Public Health Ethics 3.0 Credits

This course will explore the basics of ‘public health ethics’: its historical emergence; the theories and approaches used in this discipline; and key ethical issues in contemporary public health. Emphasis will be placed on developing critical thinking skills to guide students in ethical problem-solving. During the first third of the course, we will consider theoretical issues in public health ethics, including the nature and definition of ‘health’, the boundaries of the field, key theoretical approaches, and critical thinking skills. In the following weeks, we will apply these ethical concepts, principles and theories to a number of specific topics and cases in public health. This course is demanding in both reading and writing; students should be prepared to engage in serious dialogue each week in class.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 650 Drug Use and Public Health 3.0 Credits

In the past several decades drug use has emerged as a major public health issue. The course will focus on biological, psychological, social, and cultural aspects of key licit and illicit substances. Additionally, students will learn relevant public health aspects of drug use, including prevention, intervention, and policy.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 660 Global Health Ethics 1.5 Credit

Global health ethics is an emerging discipline, rooted in bioethics, but often recognizing the challenges of globalization, cultural diversity, social and economic inequities, and the broad scope of global health concerns. Often, global health ethics is considered a field of applied ethics, inquiry, and practice engaged in interprofessional, transdisciplinary and transcultural dialogue, rigorous analysis, and normative guidance. Global health ethics also engages with human rights discourses in analyzing the responsibilities and actions of both state and non-state actors.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: CHP 607 [Min Grade: C] (Can be taken Concurrently)

CHP 661 Monitoring and Evaluation in Global Health Programs and Advocacy 1.5 Credit

This course focuses upon program monitoring and evaluation (M&E) challenges and considerations in a global health setting. The course presents a series of case studies and requires students to engage in considering how M&E systems in these settings can be developed using the CART principles, which seek to ensure that M&E data is credible, actionable, responsible (feasible and cost-effective), and transportable (generalizable). The course also presents the challenge of M&E in the context of advocacy campaigns.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: CHP 673 [Min Grade: C] (Can be taken Concurrently)

CHP 662 Case Studies in Global Health 3.0 Credits

This course is designed around specific case studies in global health, highlighting themes related to ethics and monitoring and evaluation. The course intends to holistically present how global health interventions are designed and measured, and the challenges, ambiguities and values embedded in how global health programs are implemented, recognizing the need to decolonize global health approaches, and recognize cultural diversity and social and economic inequities amid the broad scope of global health concerns.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 670 Multicultural Competence in Community Health and Prevention 3.0 Credits

This course aims to heighten our capacity designing initiatives responsive to the priorities and context of specific communities, including methods for bridging cultural, ethnic, racial, social, and class differences among others. Implicit in cultural competency is a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and values facilitating engagement with peoples whose backgrounds and experiences may differ from our own. This concept also assumes awareness of one’s cultural identity, self-acceptance, skill walking in others’ shoes, & one’s ability capitalizing on human differences to advance population health. Principles & practices that acknowledge equality in rights & dignity will be applied to gain knowledge & understanding of peoples’ antecedents while increasing our self-knowledge & self-assessment skills.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 671 Community Organizing and Community Assessment for Health and Wellness 3.0 Credits

This course introduces students to community health and wellness through the lenses of community organizing, community assessment and building equitable partnerships. It is a conceptual and practice-based course that focuses on models, principles, concepts and methods, including Action-Oriented Community Diagnosis (AOCD), a multi-step framework for community assessment that is a foundational step of Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR). It also focuses on the role of the public health professional and ethical considerations when working with communities. The course provides an integrated approach to learning that includes activities in and outside of the classroom.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 672 Theory and Practice of Health Communication 3.0 Credits

This course introduces students to the theory, principles, and practical applications of the ever-changing dynamics of health communication. Communication is viewed as an important tool to develop, maintain, and enhance relationships between individuals, families, community organizations and members, health professionals and consumers, government agencies and the general public, and all members of our society. Students will discover, analyze, and practice the steps to develop, implement, and evaluate health communication interventions. Emphasis will be on the use of a systematic and strategic process including a conceptual framework, audience research, strategic design, message development, pretesting, materials production, developing and implementing a dissemination plan, monitoring, and evaluation.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 673 Process Monitoring and Outcomes Evaluation for Community Health Programs 3.0 Credits

This course is designed to review the principles of identifying short-term, mid-term and long-term outcomes and how these are linked to program goals, objectives, mission and vision. Topics include selecting outcomes in conjunction with the community, and strategies for design, data collection, analysis and interpretation.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 681 Research with Rare, Stigmatized and Hidden Populations 3.0 Credits

Target audience for this course is those intending to conduct research or evaluate programs designed for rare, stigmatized and/or hidden populations and for consumers of such programs. The course seeks to help students understand the ethics of research/evaluation in such programs, analyze health outcome measures and appropriately store data collected.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 683 Intersectional Perspectives 3.0 Credits

This course is designed to introduce public health students to the burgeoning scholarship on intersectionality within the social sciences, with a specific focus on the public health field. We will examine how the intersection of social identities including race, ethnicity, sex, gender, socio-economic status, mental, or physical disabilities, among others, results in different health implications and outcomes for different populations as a consequence of social discrimination based on the noted interlocking identities.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 684 Sexual Orientations And Health 3.0 Credits

This course is intended as a first survey course that covers various health concerns and disparities associated with sexual orientations (focusing on the concerns of sexual minorities), ranging from mental health to HIV/AIDS to intimate partner violence. The paradigm that we will adopt as the foundation for our weekly discussions will emphasize how behaviors and outcomes are related to stress and stigma and other social determinants that sexual minorities experience as marginalized communities.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 685 Genders And Sexes And Health 3.0 Credits

This course is intended as a first survey course that covers various health concerns and disparities associated with sexes and genders (focusing on the concerns of gender minorities), ranging from violence to substance abuse to access to care. The paradigm that we will adopt as the foundation for our weekly discussions will emphasize how behaviors and outcomes are related to stress and stigma and other social determinants that gender minorities experience as marginalized communities.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 691 Public Health Practice in and with Latino Communities 3.0 Credits

The goal of this course is to prepare students for genuine engagement in a culturally diverse experience in the service of Latino populations within the United States using interdisciplinary approaches to learn about public health practice. Attention will be given to the major Latino subgroups living in the US and the role of applied knowledge about ways to work with these varied populations across their lifespan. This course seeks to help students better understand the multiple forces that impinge on one’s health, and the role of social determinants – where we live, where we work, where we socialize, and the role of stress on our physical health and mental well-being.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 692 Migration and Health 3.0 Credits

This course will provide students with an overview of the health issues experienced by immigrant and migrant populations. The course starts with a global approach, but focuses on Latino im/migrants in the US as a case study. We will cover historical and current migration trends, demographic, and economic aspects of international migration, and theoretical frameworks to identify priority health issues and individual, socio-cultural, and structural health determinants across different migration phases. We will also cover strategies and interventions to address the health needs of immigrant and mobile populations. Students will gain an understanding of migration and health theories, methodological approaches, data resources, and intervention approaches to do research on and/or work with these populations.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 705 Religion, Spirituality, and Health 3.0 Credits

This course focuses on the emerging field of Religion, Spirituality and Public Health. It explores many dimensions of religion, spirituality, and health to promote individual and community wellbeing in the United States. Course content focuses on research, practice, advocacy and successful models for working with faith-based communities and religious leaders and emphasizes the importance of building working partnerships among health systems, public agencies and faith-based organizations for social justice. The course also provides an opportunity for students to explore topics of personal interest linking spirituality, science and health, including belonging, compassion, empathy, meaning-making and gratitude.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 750 Integrative Learning Experience in Community Health & Prevention I 3.0 Credits

The ILE is organized as a 6-credit project over two quarters in year two. Students will work with their advisor to develop and implement a practice-based project designed to enhance students’ interests and engage with community partner(s) or be of direct relevance to community stakeholders. Although practice-based, the ILE is to be rooted in the research literature and/or apply research methods to elevate the work wherever it lies within a planning and research cycle, such as the Institute of Medicine’s Framework for Collaborative Public Health Action in Communities (2003). Students may choose to work on an individual or group-based project. Students are required to complete a high-quality written product at the end of the experience, ideally of benefit to both academic and community audiences.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 751 Integrative Learning Experience in Community Health & Prevention II 3.0 Credits

The ILE is organized as a 6-credit project over two quarters in year two. Students will work with their advisor to develop and implement a practice-based project designed to enhance students’ interests and engage with community partner(s) or be of direct relevance to community stakeholders. Although practice-based, the ILE is to be rooted in the research literature and/or apply research methods to elevate their work wherever it lies within a planning and research cycle. Students may choose to work on an individual or group-based project. Students are required to complete a high-quality written product at the end of the experience, ideally of benefit to both academic and community audiences. This is the second course in the sequence, which will focus on analysis and completion of deliverables.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 752 Global Health Integrative Learning Experience: Capstone Course I 1.5 Credit

The Integrative Learning Experience (ILE) comprises the culminating experience required of full-time second-year and part-time third-year MPH students majoring in Global Health. Organized as a 3-credit project over two quarters, students engage in an Assessment, Evaluation or Research Project that emphasizes practical applications of concepts and skill development. Students will engage in discussion and peer mentoring throughout the two-course sequence providing support and feedback to their peers via an online classroom. This project will primarily be self-directed learning. Students are required to complete a high-quality written product and presentation at the end of the experience. This is the first course in the sequence.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 753 Global Health Integrative Learning Experience: Capstone Course II 1.5 Credit

The Integrative Learning Experience (ILE) comprises the culminating experience required of full-time second-year and part-time third-year MPH students majoring in Global Health. Organized as a 3-credit project over two quarters, students engage in an Assessment, Evaluation or Research Project that emphasizes practical applications of concepts and skill development. Students will engage in discussion and peer mentoring throughout the two-course sequence providing support and feedback to their peers via an online classroom. This project will primarily be self-directed learning. Students are required to complete a high-quality written product and presentation at the end of the experience. This is the second course in the sequence.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 801 Theory & Practice of Community Health & Prevention I 3.0 Credits

This course introduces students to theories, scientific methods, and research issues in community health and prevention. Major theoretical approaches to community health are discussed, including behavioral, social, cultural and communication –based approaches. An ecological model of health is presented, with an emphasis on behavioral and social determinants of health. Key public health concerns are studied and placed in the context of theoretical approaches to community health.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is CHP and program is PHD.

CHP 802 Theory & Practice of Community Health and Prevention II 3.0 Credits

This course focuses on public health interventions, specifically how theory and research intersect in public health programming. It discusses individual and social theories of change to design interventions across several socio-ecological domains, from the intrapersonal to the global level. Process evaluation and outcome assessment of interventions are covered.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is CHP and program is PHD.

CHP 803 Research Methods for Community Health and Prevention 3.0 Credits

Public health leaders must understand and use diverse research methods to make significant contributions to community health and prevention. This course integrates foundations of research methodology with use of appropriate statistical procedures to prepare students to apply rigorous scientific methods to understand and solve major public health problems.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is CHP and program is PHD.

CHP 804 Qualitative Research in Community Health 3.0 Credits

This course is designed both for those who plan to engage in qualitative research and for those who want to become familiar with how qualitative researchers produce knowledge. Through lectures, group discussions, hands-on skills practice, and written reflections, this course provides students with an overview of the theoretical and practical tools of qualitative research. Students will study and use a variety of qualitative methods suited for public health practice and research. Methods include case study analysis, individual interviews, focus groups, ethnography, and observation.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 805 Outcomes and Impact Evaluation 3.0 Credits

This course will provide students with theoretical and practical aspects of health evaluation. Much of public health is about developing programs and policies to impact individual and population health. Therefore, public health practitioners must be able to measure the impact on health of these initiatives. This course helps students understand what they can say with confidence about how health programs and policies perform.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 806 Community-Based and Participatory Research 3.0 Credits

This course provides an opportunity to learn about ways that public health scientists and community members connect and collaborate to conduct research, in pursuit of health and social justice. Students will unpack and understand their own positionality and power in relation to research and will read about, critique, and define various methods of doing community-engaged research, including but not limited to participatory action research, community-rooted research, and community-based participatory research. Students will gain a deeper practice of listening to and understanding community research needs while simultaneously honoring and trusting their knowledge, experience, and expertise. Students will also learn how to align their own scholarship with the needs and questions that communities want addressed.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 807 Public Health Ethics 3.0 Credits

This course will explore the basics of ‘public health ethics’: its historical emergence; the theories and approaches used in this discipline; and key ethical issues in contemporary public health. Emphasis will be placed on developing critical thinking skills to guide students in ethical problem-solving. During the first third of the course, we will consider theoretical issues in public health ethics, including the nature and definition of ‘health’, the boundaries of the field, key theoretical approaches, and critical thinking skills. In the following weeks, we will apply these ethical concepts, principles and theories to a number of specific topics and cases in public health. This course is demanding in both reading and writing; students should be prepared to engage in serious dialogue each week in class.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 808 Measuring Health 3.0 Credits

This course is for students using health measurement scales, and constructing measures of health for evaluation, research, population monitoring, or policy purposes. Methods will be explored for measuring health in individuals and populations. We will review fundamental theories of measurement including classical test theory, item response theory, and qualitative and quantitative approaches. We will explore existing measures of health and what is known about their validity and reliability. We will examine how existing scales have been used to learn about the health of people and communities and to measure health disparities. We will then explore how to create scales when none exist or existing scales are inadequate for the desired purposes.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 813 Theory and Practice of Health Communication 3.0 Credits

This course introduces students to the theory, principles, and practical applications of the ever-changing dynamics of health communication. Communication is viewed as an important tool to develop, maintain, and enhance relationships between individuals, families, community organizations and members, health professionals and consumers, government agencies and the general public, and all members of our society. Students will discover, analyze, and practice the steps to develop, implement, and evaluate health communication interventions. Emphasis will be on the use of a systematic and strategic process including a conceptual framework, audience research, strategic design, message development, pretesting, materials production, developing and implementing a dissemination plan, monitoring, and evaluation.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 815 Advanced Topics in Qualitative Analysis & Manuscript Development 3.0 Credits

Students who take this course will lead their own qualitative analysis and write up the results of their analysis using a dataset of their choice. A key feature of the course involves students reviewing and critiquing each other’s manuscripts. The course begins with an introduction to frameworks for qualitative analysis. The second section of the class focuses on developing skills with a range of analytic techniques followed by a review of these techniques in the context of three distinct qualitative approaches. The final section of the course focuses on writing and representation.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
Prerequisites: CHP 804 [Min Grade: B]

CHP 901 Dissertation Seminar I 3.0 Credits

This is a required doctoral course to develop the doctoral dissertation proposal. Class participants will select their dissertation topic, identify specific aims, complete a critical analysis of literature, and select appropriate research methods. The course will include self-assessment of dissertation proposal development and peer critiques of dissertation proposals.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 902 Dissertation Seminar II 3.0 Credits

This is a required doctoral course to revise and refine the dissertation proposal. During this course, students will meet individually with their supervising professor to advance all aspects of the dissertation proposal, including the Drexel University Internal Review Board (IRB) protocol for their research and the oral defense of the proposal.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: CHP 901 [Min Grade: B]

CHP 903 Advanced Proposal Development 3.0 Credits

This course will support the continued refinement of the student’s plan of research, and completion of the thesis proposal. Students will have the opportunity to hear from students at further stages of the dissertation process, examine theses from previous DSPH students, and consider the choice of the single monograph versus three manuscript thesis options. Students will also be supported in the development of one or more applications for funding to external sources to provide support for their thesis research. Other professional development content will focus on how to ask for and manage feedback from multiple committee members to optimize quality of a proposal or thesis, data ownership and authorship, reference and citation rules and procedures, and other dissertation related topics.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit

CHP 904 Doctoral Seminar in Community Health and Prevention 1.0 Credit

This is a required doctoral seminar in which all first and second year doctoral students in CHP will participate, on an ongoing basis, across their first two years in the program. One goal of the seminar is to expose students to the range and diversity of research activities conducted by CHP faculty and other social and behavioral scientists in the Drexel community and elsewhere. The second goal is to give students the opportunity to present their own research, or research on which they collaborate in a supportive but rigorous setting and receive feedback. The third goal is to expose students to key skills or professional development knowledge that is not contained in any CHP course or thesis-related activity and prepare them for key milestones.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 6 times for 7 credits
Restrictions: Can enroll if major is CHP and program is PHD.

CHP 998 Dissertation Guidance 1.0-12.0 Credit

Directed guidance of dissertation research including base-building and consent, data collection and intervention, analysis and interpretation of data and implications for future research, policy and practice. Guidance will include preparation for presenting dissertation research and preparation for the final defense.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
Prerequisites: CHP 901 [Min Grade: B] and CHP 902 [Min Grade: B]

CHP 999 Dissertation Guidance 1.0-9.0 Credit

Directed guidance of dissertation research including base-building and consent, data collection and intervention, analysis and interpretation of data and implications for future research, policy and practice. Guidance will include preparation for presenting dissertation research and preparation for the final defense.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
Prerequisites: CHP 901 [Min Grade: B]

CHP T580 Special Topics in Community Health & Prevention 0.5-12.0 Credits

Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit

CHP T680 Special Topics in Community Health & Prevention 0.5-12.0 Credits

Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit

CHP T780 Special Topics in Community Health & Prevention 0.5-12.0 Credits

Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit

CHP T880 Special Topics in Community Health & Prevention 0.5-12.0 Credits

Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit

CHP T980 Special Topics in Community Health & Prevention 0.5-12.0 Credits

Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.

College/Department: Dornsife School of Public Health
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit