{"id":25027,"date":"2023-06-12T18:55:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T18:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/nhs\/graduate\/learning-objectives-and-curriculum"},"modified":"2025-12-30T11:26:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T19:26:46","slug":"courses-program-objectives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/nhs\/graduate\/ms-community-health-social-justice\/courses-program-objectives","title":{"rendered":"Courses and program objectives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Upon completion of the program, students are able to&#8230;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Apply multidisciplinary approaches and tools to address health determinants, disparities, and injustices.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Understand, evaluate, and deploy social justice theories, practices, and policies that shift systems of inequities in communities and develop strategies to disrupt oppressive systems and injustice.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Engage in reflective praxis grounded in an equity and intersectionality lens to recognize how issues of equity, diversity, anti-bias inclusion must be embedded explicitly and implicitly in community health interventions and participatory research.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Develop leadership skills that value and lift all voices in communities, particularly those of\u202fhistorically and currently\u202fmarginalized groups.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Identify processes needed to improve health outcomes and systems through planning, implementation, and evaluation of health programs for individuals and communities using a social justice framework.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Curriculum<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Core coursework and capstone: 45 credits<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Social Justice and Ethics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>History, Frameworks, and Foundations of Community Health&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Critical Approaches to Health Communication and Promotion<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Health Policy, Systems, and Advocacy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Inclusive Healthcare Leadership and Management&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Social Epidemiology&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Research Theory, Methods, and Practice<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Program Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Capstone Experience I and II<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n    \n            <a class=\"bothell-link-block link-block-1 bothell-link-block--margin-top \"\n           style=\"color:var(--wp--custom--color--purple-300)\"\n           href=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/nhs\/course-descriptions\"\n                    >\n                            <span class=\"show-for-sr\">Core course descriptions<\/span>\n                <span class=\"bothell-link-block__label\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Course Descriptions <\/span>\n                                        <span class=\"bothell-link-block__label-icon bothell-link-block__label-icon--alt\">\n                                        <span class=\"bothell-link-block-dark-purple\">\n                        <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" viewBox=\"0 0 28.28 42.26\" width=\"14\" height=\"14\">\n  <path d=\"m5.4 42.26 22.87-21.27L5.18 0 0 5.71 16.97 21 .27 36.5l5.14 5.76Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg>                    <\/span>\n                <\/span>\n                    <\/a>\n    \n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Elective coursework: 15 credits<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Students have access to a wide selection of elective options in pursuit of a concentration area. Options are any School of Nursing and Health Studies 400-500 level BHLTH course except for BHLTH 435, 436, 437, 438, 439, 496, University of Washington 400-500 level courses (across the three campuses), and\/or transfer up to 6 graduate credits approved by faculty and the Graduate School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Updated December 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon completion of the program, students are able to&#8230; Curriculum Core coursework and capstone: 45 credits Elective coursework: 15 credits Students have access to a wide selection of elective options in pursuit of a concentration area. 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