Learn by Doing: A Model for Incorporating High-Impact Experiential Learning Into an Undergraduate Public Health Curriculum

Margaret L Chorazy; Kimberly S Klinedinst

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2019.00031

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Learn by Doing: A Model for Incorporating High-Impact Experiential Learning Into an Undergraduate Public Health Curriculum

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Learn by Doing: A Model for Incorporating High-Impact Experiential Learning Into an Undergraduate Public Health Curriculum

Margaret L Chorazy and Kimberly S Klinedinst

Frontiers in public health, Vol.7, pp.31-31

2019

DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00031

PMCID: PMC6399422

PMID: 30863743

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Abstract

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.

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bachelors of public health

experiential learning

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public health education

undergraduate education

undergraduate public health

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Title: Subtitle: Learn by Doing: A Model for Incorporating High-Impact Experiential Learning Into an Undergraduate Public Health Curriculum
Creators: Margaret L Chorazy - , ,
Kimberly S Klinedinst - , ,
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Frontiers in public health, Vol.7, pp.31-31
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00031
PMID: 30863743
PMCID: PMC6399422
NLM abbreviation: Front Public Health
ISSN: 2296-2565
eISSN: 2296-2565
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A
Language: English
Date published: 2019
Academic Unit: Public Health Administration; Epidemiology
Record Identifier: 9984214717102771

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