MPH 581 - Internship

Description:

Under faculty guidance, students gain practical experience in a public health setting relevant to their career goals and interests. Experience includes in-depth understanding of agency-specific mission, goals, and objectives, and working on special projects to demonstrate integration of public health competencies into practice. Requires periodic summary reports based on an activity log and reflective journal, and evaluative final paper. Requires a minimum of 50 contact hours for each credit hour taken. May be repeated to a maximum of 4 hours. Degree requires 4 hours of internship credit with minimum of 200 contact hours. Course Information: Prerequisite: completion of at least 24 hours of core courses. Internship Learning Agreement and instructor approval required.

Special Instructions:

Requires Instructor Approval

Academic Program Restrictions:

CERT: Online Epidemiology -UIS CERT:OnlineEmrPrepHomeSec -UIS MPH: Online Public Health-UIS MPH:Online PH-Env Health -UIS NDEG:Online Env Health -UIS NDEG:OnlineEnvRiskAssess -UIS MPH: Online Public Health-UIS

Option 1

Number of Required Visit(s): 0

Course Level: Graduate

Credit: 1

Term(s): Fall , Spring , Summer