1. Dropping the Public Administration Emphasis from the MPH degree.
2. PH 660 - Public Health in a Global Setting is being added as a Spring elective to serve as a course for both PH and OT graduate students and in collaboration with an interdisciplinary global health experience.
3. All courses in the emphasis areas of Health Promotion and Epidemiology are being updated to include a hybrid delivery option. This is to accommodate the Traverse City location and student cohort as well as more flexibility for the Grand Rapids cohort in delivery options.
2. Explain how these changes will strengthen and improve the curriculum and/or how these changes align with unit goals.
1. This is a change that will strengthen the emphasis numbers in the …show more content…
Offering a global health experience with another graduate program in the College of Health Professions is an asset to faculty, students, and curriculum enhancement. The PH 660 course will be available to both PH and OT students in conjunction with a domestic/or international service learning trip.
3. Having all courses, including the emphasis area core courses, available for hybrid delivery will strengthen the delivery options of our courses at both the Grand Rapids and Traverse City locations.
3. If relevant and appropriate, compare the proposed program with other appropriate programs found locally, regionally, and nationally.
1. Public health programs at the local level are offering generalist/online programs that do not offer emphasis areas at all. At GVSU we are still offering a program with a more specific public health skill set than our competition. The remaining two emphasis areas (Epidemiology and Health Promotion) are the leading areas in the field offered and the most popular among applicants to our program. Regionally and nationally public health programs offer both generalist programs as well as emphasis-specific curriculum. The emphasis areas offered can be across the discipline and in a variety of areas. We have found that very few students are interested in and apply to the administration emphasis
2. PH 660 - Public Health in a Global Setting is being added as a Spring elective to serve as a course for both PH and OT graduate students and in collaboration with an interdisciplinary global health experience.
3. All courses in the emphasis areas of Health Promotion and Epidemiology are being updated to include a hybrid delivery option. This is to accommodate the Traverse City location and student cohort as well as more flexibility for the Grand Rapids cohort in delivery options.
2. Explain how these changes will strengthen and improve the curriculum and/or how these changes align with unit goals.
1. This is a change that will strengthen the emphasis numbers in the …show more content…
Offering a global health experience with another graduate program in the College of Health Professions is an asset to faculty, students, and curriculum enhancement. The PH 660 course will be available to both PH and OT students in conjunction with a domestic/or international service learning trip.
3. Having all courses, including the emphasis area core courses, available for hybrid delivery will strengthen the delivery options of our courses at both the Grand Rapids and Traverse City locations.
3. If relevant and appropriate, compare the proposed program with other appropriate programs found locally, regionally, and nationally.
1. Public health programs at the local level are offering generalist/online programs that do not offer emphasis areas at all. At GVSU we are still offering a program with a more specific public health skill set than our competition. The remaining two emphasis areas (Epidemiology and Health Promotion) are the leading areas in the field offered and the most popular among applicants to our program. Regionally and nationally public health programs offer both generalist programs as well as emphasis-specific curriculum. The emphasis areas offered can be across the discipline and in a variety of areas. We have found that very few students are interested in and apply to the administration emphasis