Course Description

Course at a glance:

Department: Faculty of Arts
Subject: Health and Society
Course Name: International Health and Development 
Course Number: HESO 449B 003
Credits: 3 
Time: Thursday, 2PM-5PM (January 5th 2009 –  April 8th 2009)
Location: Family Practice Board Room, David Strangway Building (suite 300-5950 University Boulevard) 

Description

This seminar will take a practical, hands-on approach to health-based international development projects, with students learning about what it takes to create successful projects. The seminar is divided into two major components. The first will prime students on key international health and development themes, focusing on the Millennium Development Goals, and will introduce students to the grounding principles of successful international development projects. The second part of the course requires students to work in pairs to research, plan and develop a viable international health focused project meeting the needs of a specific community. These projects will receive feedback from faculty advisors and field experts. Upon completion of the course, students will have knowledge on what it takes to plan successful development projects and will have researched and developed their own fully-implementable project. There exists the possibility for students in the course to receive funding to travel and implement the most viable project that comes out of the class, or another project (to be confirmed).

Grading Scheme

50% – Term Project (~15 pages)

30% – Participation (peer evaluated)

10% – Case assignment (~2 pages)

10% – Faciliation of class discussion (~20 minutes, peer evaluated)

 

Please note that the grading scheme may change slightly should the class decide it is not appropriate.