5 credits
Health education and health promotion practitioners use research skills to develop programs and interventions that enhance the health of communities and demonstrate the efficacy of programs. This course will provide students an opportunity to explore various research methods in the fields of health education and health promotion. Concepts include literature reviews, ethics, quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods, methodology selection processes, sampling, and writing for publication and presentation. An emphasis in utilizing research methods to impact local, regional, national, and global health education and health promotion issues will be presented. This course will culminate in the development of a research poster presentation suitable for presentation at a professional conference within the fields of health education and health promotion.