Chorazy Margaret L, Klinedinst Kimberly S
Undergraduate Programs, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States.
Front Public Health. 2019 Feb 26;7:31. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00031. eCollection 2019.
Many accredited schools and programs of public health integrate experiential learning into the capstone experience for undergraduate public health majors; thus, the experiential learning capstone must be both cumulative and integrative. A goal of experiential learning is to foster the application of concepts and skills learned in the classroom to real-world public health situations. Students may benefit from earlier opportunities to engage in high-impact experiential learning activities. Therefore, the University of Iowa College of Public Health developed an experiential learning requirement that is separate from the capstone course. Our students' experiential learning activities do not need to be cumulative across the entire curriculum, but they should be integrative. Public health undergraduate students at the University of Iowa must successfully complete at least one of the following experiences in public health: research, internship, service learning, or global learning. This article will provide a model for the creation of an experiential learning program for undergraduate public health students that is separate from the culminating, capstone experience.
许多经认可的公共卫生学院和项目将体验式学习融入本科公共卫生专业的顶点课程;因此,体验式学习顶点课程必须兼具累积性和综合性。体验式学习的一个目标是促进将课堂所学的概念和技能应用于实际的公共卫生情况。学生可能会从更早参与高影响力体验式学习活动的机会中受益。因此,爱荷华大学公共卫生学院制定了一项与顶点课程分开的体验式学习要求。我们学生的体验式学习活动无需在整个课程中具有累积性,但应具有综合性。爱荷华大学的公共卫生本科生必须成功完成以下至少一项公共卫生体验:研究、实习、服务学习或全球学习。本文将提供一个为本科公共卫生学生创建与最终顶点课程分开的体验式学习项目的模式。