5 credits
The course provides students interested in pursuing a public health doctoral-level degree with the advanced competencies necessary to evaluate public health programs. This course will emphasize public health practice and is designed to assist students in understanding how to plan, conduct, and report on a program evaluation. Students will learn the importance of abiding by the program evaluation standards and evaluator guiding principles. These are fundamental to ensure students complete evaluations with integrity and utility. Students will learn the importance of evaluation theory and the relationship between evaluation theory, program theory, and public health change theories.