CIV 330 - Advanced Peer Health Education

2 credit(s)
This course provides experiential learning opportunities for students in their role as peer health educators. Students will continue developing knowledge and skills requisite to providing individual and community-based peer health education, fostering a healthy campus culture, and empowering positive change. Emphasis will be placed on the application of health education models of individual and community behavior change, communication and conflict resolution skills, providing culturally sensitive and relevant education, crisis recognition and strategies for providing appropriate referrals. Students will build leadership, group facilitation, and presentation skills throughout the course. May be repeated once for credit.

Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Civic Engagement.Prerequisite(s): PH 225/SOCWK 225.