2020 cycle

https://calstatela.curriculog.com/proposal:3435/form

Fit with the Institutional Mission or Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

1. Knowledge: Mastery of Content and Processes of Inquiry
   1. Understand and apply the scientific method
   2. Demonstrate an understanding of human beings as physiological, psychological, social and spiritual people
   3. Utilize perspectives of the different disciplines to analyze broader questions facing society now and in the future
2. Proficiency: Intellectual skills
   1. Critical thinking: Demonstrate advanced reasoning in the discipline
   2. Reading, writing, and speaking:
      1. Write to inform, explain, describe, or define a subject
      2. Demonstrate the ability to write in the discipline
      3. Make an oral argument and respond to questions
   3. Quantitative reasoning:
      1. Perform computations and symbolic manipulations
      2. Demonstrate quantitative reasoning appropriate to the discipline
   4. Information literacy: Demonstrate information seeking, management and evaluation of source appropriate to the discipline
   5. Problem solving: Team work: function effectively in a cross-cultural environment
3. Place: Urban and Global Mission
   1. Demonstrate personal and social responsibility via individual and group effort including engagement with their local communities
   2. Demonstrate an understanding of social issues and the ideals of a multicultural society
   3. Recognize, analyze, and help to solve issues of civic and ethical concern in local and global communities
4. Transformation: Integrative Learning
   1. Conduct a community, creative or scholarly research project
   2. Demonstrates life-long learning dispositions
   3. Articulate and reflect on the benefits of their educational experience

Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)

PLOs:

1. Apply public health knowledge to urban public health problems using principles from social and behavioral sciences, biostatistics, environmental health, epidemiology, health services administration, program planning and evaluation, research methods and health policy
2. Define and address the major health challenges facing Los Angeles in particular and urban areas in the United States in general
3. Apply the appropriate quantitative tools and methods to conduct evidence-based health policy analysis and program evaluation; determine appropriate use of data for problem identification and resolution; and evaluate the integrity and comparability of data

CONCENTRATION Learning Outcomes (MPH in Urban Community Health)