Interdisciplinary Seminar in Population
INTERDISP SEMINAR IN POPF
This course offers a forum for students to reflect upon specific public health topics within their field of study. Through discussion and presentation, students will have the opportunity to integrate their chosen topics into the public health curriculum, as well as to incorporate input and perspectives from other students' experiences. Through presentation and analysis, students hone their analytic skills, develop leadership capacity, and apply strategic communication techniques. This course forms a fundamental building block in the master's degree curriculum as students synthesize field-based learning with their classroom instruction and gain training for future leadership in public health.
The initial sessions will be led by faculty, who model seminar leadership and participatory discussion. Subsequent sessions will be co-led by students, who will rotate in this responsibility. In advance of each session, the lead students will work with faculty to refine the suggested reading list of documents or presentations for critical analysis and reflection. All participating students will prepare annotations and commentary, which will be available to other students, and will be a foundation for discussion in each session. An overall grade for such analysis will be awarded.
Students will present a brief list of key readings for a specific topic and a two-page outline of the proposed review for discussion before session 3. Students will start leading the discussion of those topics beginning in session 4 of the class. Where possible, the student(s) leading each session will have real-world work experience in that area. Students will be graded on their specific summary outline and the leadership of their class discussion. Students will then choose one topic to focus on, and will submit a final version of their review paper (to length and format required by the targeted journal) within seven days of the final session of the class (session 14).
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Instructor:
Stephen P Kachur
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