Public Health Internship & Seminar

451 Level - 3-10 Credits

This course provides academic scaffolding, guided reflection, seminar-based learning, and assessment for urban public health internships. Internships include mentorship from multicultural clinicians in human protection, health improvement, and community health services in clinics and agencies of Baltimore, MD, Philadelphia, PA, New York, NY, and Washington DC. Students gain an introduction to the foundational principles of public health and engage in constructivist learning from 3 months of urban public health learning experiences supported by academic readings, seminar discussions, and reflective writing assignments. Variable Credit course - minimum of 120 hour-internship (3 Credit) and maximum of 400 hour-internship (10 Credits).