Revision of the Undergraduate Professional Program in Health Education to Create a New Track in Community Health Education

Abstract

The current Undergraduate Professional Program in Health Education serves both students who wish to be school health educators and those who wish to be community health educators. The Department of Health Science is proposing a major change to the program such that a new track will be formed that will include only those students interested in community health education (CHE). This new track will better align the CHE program with the state of the art in preparing community health educators. A second proposal is being submitted to senate that describes the revision of the existing Health Education track to serve those students interested in school health education (SHE).