The Educated Citizen and Public Health

Project Activities

2008 AAC&U-APTR Undergraduate Curriculum Development Institute

With funding through the APTR-CDC Cooperative Agreement, 48 institutions attended the 2008 Undergraduate Curriculum Development Institute held July 14-15, 2008, in Crystal City, Virginia. This was an intensive, two-day institute where participants worked toward the following goals:

• Develop (or plan to develop) coherent undergraduate curricula in public health.  Coherent curricula will include core courses, electives (based on institutional and faculty strengths and interests), and experiential learning opportunities.  Such coherent curricula may take the form of majors, minors, certificate programs, etc.
• Build collaborative capacity between public health educators and practitioners and faculty members teaching in the arts and sciences. 
• Strengthen relationships between campus and community.
• Share experiences and challenges with colleagues working toward similar goals.
• Serve as national models for efforts to bridge liberal education and professional/pre-professional education.
• Create curricular models that link public health, liberal learning, and education for civic/social responsibility.

2007 AAC&U-APTR Public Health and Liberal Education Faculty Development Workshop

In the first phase of funded work, 39 institutions participated in the Public Health and Liberal Education Faculty Development Workshop held July 9-10, 2007 in Washington, DC. During the two-day workshop participants worked toward the following goals:

• Define liberal learning outcomes that are satisfied through courses featuring a public health perspective.  Such outcomes should be appropriate to institutional mission and vision.
• Make public health-centered courses available to undergraduate students within the context of the general education curriculum.
• Equip faculty with the intellectual and pedagogical skills needed to creatively design and teach complex interdisciplinary courses around issues of public health.
• Serve as national models for efforts to bridge liberal education and professional/pre-professional education.

Future Activities

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