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410.672.81
Introduction to Campaigning & Organizing for Public Health

Location
Internet
Term
Summer Term
Department
Health, Behavior and Society
Credit(s)
3
Academic Year
2019 - 2020
Instruction Method
TBD
Auditors Allowed
Yes, with instructor consent
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Prerequisite
Description
Tired of beating your head against the wall trying to make people well in a broken system? Take this course and learn how to change the system.
Introduces students to a key area of knowledge in public health practice: the principles and methods of community organizing and campaigning for policy and structural change. Focuses on how to mobilize the right people at the right time, with the right demands, to change public policies to promote health. Complements other courses in the school that look at advocating within policy processes or by using the mass media by placing these strategies in the context of the practical daily work and thinking of people who plan and carry out policy change campaigns at grassroots and grasstop levels.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
  1. Critically evaluate community organizing as a behavioral intervention to support public health policy change
  2. Describe the purpose and methods of campaign planning and execution
  3. Identify key lessons to be learned from campaigns in other arenas
  4. Recognize that real improvements in people’s lives have been achieved by citizens like them running hard-hitting campaigns
  5. Select the most appropriate campaign approaches for particular situations
  6. Develop a basic campaign plan to address a real-world problem
Special Comments

Co-instructor faculty appointment pending for Ayelet Hines