PHPH 679

Public Health Practicum Experience

Required field experience for Masters of Public Health degree (total of 3 hours). The practicum experience is designed to bridge the gap between academia and public health practice by providing field experience at a public health worksite. Each MPH student identifies a practice site, develops a learning agreement in consultation with the practice site mentor and faculty mentor, works at the site to address the components of the learning agreement and to gain experience within the organization, prepares a written characterization of the practice site, and prepares written and oral reports describing the practicum experience

Units: 1.0-3.0(2.0)