“Every student, regardless of major, designs an individualized course of study and co-curricular experiences that develop leadership abilities and understanding of complex global dynamics. Equipped with a rigorous liberal arts and sciences education, an understanding of complex global issues and the ability to lead strategically and honorably, Agnes Scott graduates are ready to scale the next SUMMIT.”
-Agnes Scott College
Leadership Development
Posts for my Foundational Skills Seminar
(LDR-101: Making American Girls)
can be found here
Global Learning
Work from my Journey
(GBL-102: New York City –Performance and Visual Art)
can be found here
Digital Portfolio
Posts for my Digital Portfolio Seminar
(SUM-400: Digital Portfolio)
can be found here
Summit Learning Objectives (SLOs)
Curricular SLOs
- Identify, explain, and analyze global themes, processes and systems
- Demonstrate knowledge and skills essential for global engagement
- Critically examine the relationship between dominant and marginalized cultures, subcultures or groups
- Communicate effectively through writing and speaking, especially across cultural or linguistic differences
- Recognize, analyze and evaluate arguments
- Articulate and appraise problems and solutions from multiple perspectives, critically considering diverse sources of information
- Recognize, analyze, and employ effective teamwork
- Identify and assess one’s values, interests, and abilities
- Practice or interpret creative expression or probe fundamental questions of value and meaning
- Interpret quantitative information or demonstrate the methods of inquiry appropriate for investigating the natural world
- Analyze human behavior or social relations
Co-Curricular SLOs
- Cultivate and maintain interpersonal relationships and networks
- Demonstrate confidence and motivation to effect change
- Practice continual improvement of one’s whole person and seek and utilize feedback
- Identify, evaluate and strategically utilize campus and community resources
- Demonstrate honorable and ethical behavior and civic engagement
Major Learning Objectives (MLOs)
Students graduating with a Public Health major from Agnes Scott College will have:
- Critical understanding of historical and contemporary public health trends and approaches
- Understands the history of public health
- Articulates current public health paradigms and approaches
- Understanding of the subdisciplines of public health: epidemiology, statistics, social and behavioral sciences, global health, environmental health, health law and policy
- Understands approach and scope of public health subdisciplines (Click here to read my reflection on my summer internship doing Quality Assurance at the CDC)
- Articulates points of intersection of subdisciplines
- Recognition of the cross-cultural variation in views of health and the structures of health systems
- Articulates and understands rationale behind WHO definition of health
- Critically compares diverse definitions of health across cultures
- Describes key models of health systems around the globe
- Understanding of determinants of health, both biological and social, within a broad ecological framework and their impact on health outcomes
- Understands biological determinants of disease for key global diseases
- Articulates the concept of social determinants of health
- Applies an ecological framework to investigating disease distribution (Grant proposal from BIO-311)
- Applies critical theories and perspectives from the liberal arts to analyze public health issues (e.g. – biology, anthropology, sociology, economics, women’s studies, human rights)
- Ability to explain and apply the intellectual and practical skills needed to design an intervention and develop a plan for evaluating an intervention
- Conducts a literature review (Essay, July 2016) (Poster, November 2016)
- Demonstrates digital literacy in obtaining information
- Differentiates between types and sources of information with respect to quality, validity and reliability
- Understands and implements principles of basic quantitative methods
- Understands and implements principles of basic qualitative methods
- Uses data to inform the design of creative interventions to address health problems
- Identifies appropriate measures and methods for evaluating public health interventions