Recommended Courses for Program Development & Program Evaluation

EDPSY 596 Program Evaluation (3)

Advanced course in evaluation research emphasizing nontraditional designs, especially those that impose severe ecological constraints on the evaluators. Prerequisite: EDPSY 593, EDPSY 594, EDC&I 597, or permission of instructor. Offered: S. Instructor Course Description: Cindy M Walker Scott A. Stage

EPI 588 Preparing and Writing Research Proposals (2) Kristal, Reiber
Experience in preparing, organizing, and writing research proposals, following NIH and AHRQ guidelines. Includes weekly assignments and didactic exercises, leading to final research proposal. All students participate in mock study section to review and critique proposals. Credit/no credit only. Prerequisite: second-year graduate student (PhD recommended), or PhD or MD in health-related field. Offered: odd years; A.

HSERV 504 Health Communication ([1-3]-, max. 3)
Overview of the theory and practice of designing, producing, and evaluating public health communication campaigns, including the use of mass media. Develops greater capacity for critical judgment about the use of communication strategies for achieving public health goals.
Instructor Course Description: Ann E. Downer Gail I. Greenwood

HSERV 507 Communication for Health Promotion: Theory and Application (3)
Discuss and evaluate health communications theories and applications at the individual level (i.e., persuasion), interpersonal level (i.e. doctor/patient communication), and societal level (i.e., mass media). Investigate intercultural communication cutting across all levels of health communication. Examines the steps involved in the design of a health communication intervention.

HSERV 522 Health Program Evaluation (3-5)
Politics, theory, methods of evaluation, from simple health programs to evaluation of large-scale interventions. Emphasizes experimental and quasi-experimental designs to estimate program impacts, as well as evaluation of program implementation. Case studies drawn from health field illustrate various types of evaluations. Prerequisite: background in introductory statistics. Instructor Course Description: Gail I. Greenwood David Grembowski

HSERV 560 Adult Learning: Theory and Practice (3)
Designed to help students apply Popular Education theory and practice to preparation, presentation, and evaluation of health education. Students design, teach, and evaluate four separate teaching sessions (one between each seminar) using theory and principles of Popular Education learned to date. Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor.
Instructor Course Description: Cindy R. Moore Gail I. Greenwood

HSERV 561 Introduction to Health Promotion and Planning (3)
Overview of behavior change theory and comprehensive approach to planning, implementing, and evaluating health promotion interventions. Links theory to practice. Uses PRECEDE/PROCEED planning model by Green and Kreuter as framework. Instructor Course Description: Gail I. Greenwood

HSERV 581 Strategies of Health Promotion (4)
Assessment of health promotion planning, implementation, and evaluation strategies for their strengths, weaknesses, and effectiveness. Students critique strategies to modify behavioral factors that influence lifestyles of individuals, including decisions influencing their reciprocal relationship with environmental factors affecting the health of individuals, organizations, and communities. Prerequisite: HSERV 511. [recommended by previous CHN students]

HSERV 582 Theoretical Perspectives on Health Behavior Change ([3-4, max. 4]-)
Overview of theoretical perspectives in health behavior at the individual, interpersonal, and community level. Focuses on increasing skills in describing, applying, and integrating these frameworks in the design and evaluation of health promotion interventions. Prerequisite: HSERV 511 or permission of instructor.

HSERV 588 Community Approaches to Health Promotion (3)
Provides opportunities to critically examine community-based health promotion interventions and the design, evaluation, and implementation issues they raise. A wide range of disciplinary perspectives is presented. Case studies and class projects are designed to give students the skills needed to critically assess community projects around health promotion. [recommended by previous CHN students]

NURS 591 Advanced Seminar in Nursing Science (3, max. 15)
In-depth analysis and evaluation of literature in focused areas of research. Synthesis of literature related to selected fields of nursing science. Oral analysis of assigned papers and topics. Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor.

PB AF 551 Public Management: Program Planning and Design (3)
Policy context of planning and programming, the institutionalization of purpose, the planning process, activity design, work scheduling and measurement, and program evaluation.

PB AF 554 Nonprofit Organizations and Public Policy (3)
Examines the changing role of nonprofit organizations in American society. Selected policy topics include privatization, for-profit/nonprofit competition, public-private partnerships, tax policy, and new sources of revenues.

PB AF 562 Introduction to Neighborhood Planning and Community Development (3)
Provides introduction to basic practices in neighborhood planning and community development, including theoretical/historical bases; developing neighborhood plans/projects; indicators and evaluation of neighborhood quality; community participation; institutional framework, ethical dilemmas, and professional roles. Addresses current issues, including Seattle's experience, NIMBYism, security, neighborhood character, housing segregation, environmental racism. Offered: jointly with URBDP 562.

PB AF 589 Risk Assessment for Environmental Health Hazards (3/4)
Context, methodologies, types of data, uncertainties and institutional arrangements for risk assessment. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches to the identification, characterization, and control of environmental hazards to health emphasized through didactic and case studies. Offered: jointly with CEE 560/ENV H 577.