Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize, define, and apply key concepts in public and population health.
2. Critically analyze the social determinants of health in Canadian and global contexts.
3. Identify policies and other interventions addressing the social determinants of health.
4. Apply course concepts in the analysis of current health issues.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify and explain terminology, concepts, and assumptions related to personal health and well-being.
2. Evaluate and critically appraise information and resources relevant to personal health.
3. Apply course content to one's own personal health practices.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Explain how exercise and physical activity impacts health.
2. Identify the components of physical fitness and describe the physiological responses to exercise.
3. Explain how movement behaviours and components of physical fitness can be assessed to inform exercise planning.
4. Apply the basic principles of training to design safe and effective personal exercise programs.
5. Create strategies to implement and adapt exercise plans to meet individual movement behaviour goals.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe the practice of health promotion and its relationship to the individual and social determinants of health.
2. Assess the principles of program planning and evaluation in designing and implementing health promotion interventions.
3. Identify the importance of practices that promote cultural safety and health equity.
4. Compare approaches to health promotion for a variety of public health issues.
5. Apply improved information literacy and writing skills.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe how food is digested and absorbed into the body.
2. Identify the roles of nutrients and non-nutrients in the body.
3. Plan meals for personal consumption demonstrating the importance of dietary guidelines, Dietary Reference Intakes, and nutrition labeling.
4. Assess a diet and recommend appropriate adaptations.
5. Investigate inter-relationships between food consumption, body weight change, anatomical function, and general health within typical contexts.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe the main features of the dominant industrial food system, traditional Indigenous food systems, and alternative food systems including agroecology.
2. Identify and describe contemporary debates related to food systems.
3. Appreciate the social, cultural, spiritual, symbolic, political, and ethical dimensions of food and eating.
4. Recognize food consumption, production, and distribution as sites of injustice and oppression, as well as resistance, change, and hope.
5. Use sociological concepts and theories to connect the everyday, personal act of eating to larger social and political structures, including race, class, gender, culture, capitalism, and globalization.
6. Apply university-level critical thinking and writing skills to analyze food systems.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe the major types of psychoactive drugs.
2. Contrast biological, psychological, and social theories of drug use and addiction.
3. Compare and critique enforcement, prevention, treatment, and harm reduction as responses to drug use and addiction.
4. Model empathy and cultural competence for engaging with people who use drugs and people with drug use disorder.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Evaluate research articles from the different types of research occurring within the SKHS and the research methods associated with each.
2. Describe the founding principles and development of quantitative and qualitative research traditions to inform an appreciation of the multiple ways of researching health.
3. Describe the philosophical and practical limitations associated with “knowing” in quantitative and qualitative research to develop a healthy skepticism of the research process and research methodologies/tools.
4. Recognize different components of a problem statement and identify linkages between problem statements and study objectives, hypotheses and study design, and assess the importance of the problem statement within the quantitative and qualitative research processes.
5. Recognize the structure of a research paper introduction, develop an outline for an introduction starting from a problem statement, and practice writing an introduction concisely and effectively.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe movement behaviour principles and concepts to appreciate the movement behaviour field.
2. Review movement behaviour levels in the population to determine what movement behaviours are problematic in the population and population subgroups who are at high risk.
3. Identify health benefits of movement to describe the role that movement behaviours have on health and well-being.
4. Identify the determinants of movement behaviours to discuss the complexity of these behaviours.
5. Generate a movement behaviour intervention plan to demonstrate ability to develop new ideas by integrating knowledge and understanding of movement behaviour principles, determinants, and intervention strategies.
6. Practice effective written communication techniques to show your ability to enhance others understanding of a topic area.
7. Act in a manner consistent with academic integrity and professional practice to display scholastic and professional competence.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply professional development resources to prepare and utilize a professional cover letter and resume, as well as, employ effective interview and networking skills to secure a placement opportunity.
2. Practice professional skills such as: leadership, adaptability, written and oral communication, inquiry and analysis, self-management, time management, collaboration and critical thinking through seminar and placement experience.
3. Employ knowledge gained through theory-based courses in an intensive practicum experience (relevant to the field of study), to then critically reflect on connections and/or gaps between course content, scientific literature and observations of professional practice.
4. Describe current advances, practices, organizational culture and professional etiquette used in field-related workplaces (e.g., local business, public sector, health care, and community-based settings).
5. Evaluate and critique personal performance throughout practicum experience based on individualized placement learning objectives.
6. Identify career options in the field of study, through seminar discussions around students’ practicum experiences.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss theories and processes of policy and policy change.
2. Explain ideological influences on health policy.
3. Describe the history and current structure of the Canadian health care system.
4. Contrast the Canadian health care system with health care systems in other countries.
5. Analyze current debates about reforms to the Canadian health care system.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify various theories used to promote healthy lifestyles among individuals.
2. Recognize the process of evidence-based, health promotion practice.
3. Link behaviour change techniques with behaviour change theories.
4. Integrate behaviour change techniques and behaviour change theories into evidence-based health promotion practice.
5. Analyze the effectiveness of health behaviour change theories used in various lifestyle interventions.
6. Critically evaluate scientific literature relevant to health behaviour change in order to integrate evidence into health behaviour change practice.
7. Critically evaluate scientific literature relevant to equity deserving groups in order to adapt health behaviour change interventions to reflect responsible conduct of professional practice.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe the principles and history of epidemiology research to appraise the field of epidemiology.
2. Quantify rates and measures used in epidemiology and public health to assess their meaning and practice standard calculations.
3. Assess different study designs used in epidemiology research and critique scientific articles to determine strengths and weaknesses of existing studies, identify gaps in the literature and reiterate important study findings.
4. Recognize applications of epidemiology research to describe how epidemiology research is used to influence health policy and practice.
5. Practice effective communication techniques to show your ability to enhance others understanding of a topic area.
6. Act in a manner consistent with academic integrity and professional practice to display scholastic and professional competence.
7. Generate novel research questions and develop a research plan in the field of epidemiology to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of literature, epidemiological principles, epidemiology research methods, written communication skills, and ability to work in a team environment.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify the basic scientific principles underpinning human nutrition.
2. Critically analyze an individual’s diet and identify components that are both deficient and surplus.
3. Describe how to enhance health and well-being with nutritional interventions.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss disability terminology and models.
2. Explain how health conditions interact with personal and environmental factors to influence participation and quality of life among persons with disability.
3. Recognize, critically appraise, and propose feasible solutions that minimize or remove barriers to accessibility and inclusion in society.
4. Communicate appropriately and respectfully using inclusive language in order to advocate responsibly and professionally for an accessible and inclusive society.
5. Reflect on and evaluate the consequences of their own personal attitudes towards disability.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify and contextualize issues related to sexuality and cultures of sexuality.
2. Discuss sexuality as a social construct.
3. Explain the relationship between private life and social structures.
4. Practice thinking historically and sociologically about important social issues.
5. Appraise processes of social change.
6. Practice the art of the good question.
7. Apply critical reading skills.
8. Practice writing as a tool of critical thinking.
9. Identify, reflect upon, and assess our own perspectives and opinions.
10. Identify and apply social justice frameworks.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Deploy critical concepts and theories to analyze health and illness as collective, social phenomena.
2. Identify how systemic forces create and reproduce disparate health experiences and outcomes.
3. Evaluate explanations for how health and illness are produced, distributed, and lived.
4. Recognize health and illness as sites for the production of cultural meaning.
5. Engage politically with health, illness, and the world at large.
6. Develop the necessary reading, writing, and presentation skills to produce informed and insightful work.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Critically discuss the issues and challenges associated with a range of global health topics.
2. Critically discuss the complexity of decision-making in global public health at various levels.
3. Assess current systems and mechanisms for global health governance.
4. Explain the basis for between- and within country inequalities in health.
5. Examine theoretical models and moral frameworks within the context of global health promotion.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe principles, rights and duties for governing humanitarian aid in crisis settings through class discussion and written work.
2. Assess health and humanitarian responses and the coordination between host governments, the UN, and humanitarian agencies.
3. Analyze the risk factors to the physical, mental, and social health in refugee camps and host communities.
4. Examine objectives, priorities, and minimum standards in human health response during emergency and post-emergency phases of crises.
5. Apply principles of academic research, writing and academic integrity.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss multidisciplinary research methodologies used in SKHS research labs/programs.
2. Practice various aspects of the research process including data collection/analysis, literature searches, manuscript writing, presentation skills, etc. through a research development practicum in an SKHS research lab/program.
3. Apply effective written and oral/visual communication skills.
4. Model ethical behaviour consistent with the responsible conduct of research and professional practice.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop critical understanding of how conditions of power shape Black Health.
2. Explain global Black health inequities and their social and commercial determinants.
3. Identify the importance of practices that promote cultural safety and Black health equity.
4. Identify opportunities to operationalize strategies to promote global Black Health.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply critical thinking and interpretation to various topics that are current and/or of special interest in Health Studies.
2. Analyze the relationship between the special topic and its relationship to the social determinants of health and health equity.
3. Practice effective communication skills (written, oral and/or visual).

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Examine theory and global perspectives of interprofessional education and collaborative practice with a focus on equity, diversity, inclusion, Indigeneity and accessibility.
2. Explore challenges related to the demands of working with collaborative interdisciplinary teams composed of varied professionals and diverse partners.
3. Apply interprofessional education core competencies to the delivery of educational programs for the future workforce and the link this may have to improve health outcomes.
4. Analyze a practice setting and apply interprofessional education and collaborative practice principles to examine care delivery and the potential for quality improvement.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze implications of disability for people living with disabilities, their community support systems, health and social services personnel, and societal attitudes.
2. Synthesize language and classification systems regarding disability, and the models of disability used by researchers, scholars and activists.
3. Assess basic prevalence and distributions of disability in populations; regionally, nationally and globally.
4. Evaluate issues associated with disability, quality of life, social participation, services, benefits and policies.
5. Examine disability from a human rights perspective, demonstrating an understanding of international expectations in terms of rights and accommodations.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Debate current trends in CBR, international development, and opportunities for CBR research, policy making and service delivery.
2. Examine health and disability challenges in a CBR development setting.
3. Develop and demonstrate grant writing techniques to translate vision into project.
4. Interpret, analyze and integrate capacity building strategies in CBR into development projects and policy making.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify definitions of mental health outlined by global institutions to utilize in practice.
2. Articulate and contract the conflict of discourse by demonstrating mental health as shaped through a biomedical and traditionalist model.
3. Examine the mental health outcomes at the community level, notably for geriatric populations and people with disabilities, to highlight the challenges of health program development.
4. Analyze the role that technology and social media play in shaping the current mental health landscape to create tailored mental health interventions.
5. Evaluate mental health in the context of humanitarian crises to better inform practice and implementation of treatment.
6. Critically examine the construction, perpetuation, and distribution of mental health and disability knowledge in the Global North and Global South to inform policy.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify and explain key theses and arguments that exist in the various theoretical or epistemological traditions reviewed in the course.
2. Use the theoretical and epistemological approaches to interrogate priority environmental health inequities.
3. Identify and describe connections between environment and health in a critical and respectful way.
4. Communicate effectively and collaboratively.
5. Critique and question the implications of current health promotion practices and assumptions.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss the importance of settings to health promotion.
2. Describe key concepts and implications in promoting health from an ecological approach.
3. Identify sources and resources to construct an organizational/community profile.
4. Recognize one's positionality and how it relates to health promotion practice.
5. Discuss ethical issues in health promotion, including the need for developing authentic partnerships with organizations and communities.
6. Plan, implement, and evaluate health promotion interventions in diverse communities.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe and administer strategies to assess community level health promotion needs.
2. Apply diverse evidence, theories, models, methods, and existing health promotion strategies, and programs to inform the development of a community health promotion plan.
3. Recognize the resources, steps and challenges involved in implementing health promotion activities.
4. Identify evaluation methods, data sources, measures and tools for tracking program delivery, developing evaluation questions and an evaluation design to measure program impact and outcomes.
5. Competently present a program design, implementation strategy and evaluation findings using a variety of approaches to engage specific audiences.
6. Model ethical and professional behaviour in developing a respectful working relationship with a community partner organization.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Critically engage with biomedical understandings of body weight and size by using socio-cultural perspectives.
2. Explore implications of thinking about body size only in terms of health and apply socio-cultural ways of understanding body size instead.
3. Apply different theoretical approaches to studying body size, including social constructionism, feminism, Foucauldian governmentality theory, critical race theory, queer theory, and masculinity theory.
4. Evaluate how understandings of body weight reinforce or resist other systems of privilege and oppression, including gender, race, class, and sexuality.
5. Analyze our own positions in our system of weight-based privilege and oppression.
6. Identify and analyze the ways in which bio-medicine and society more generally reproduces fat-phobia and fat-hatred.
7. Apply advanced critical thinking and writing skills to analyses of body size from socio-cultural perspectives. Contribute meaningfully to seminar discussions.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Contextualize health social movements, understand their origins and influence.
2. Distinguish between education, advocacy, and activist campaigns and identify key examples of health social movements.
3. Critically evaluate the successes and failures of health social movements and develop tools for analyzing health activism in a variety of forms (i.e., social media and marketing campaigns).
4. Discuss participatory research methods and the role of activist health research.
5. Develop organizing, communication and leadership skills that are key to effective health social movements.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe the history of the HIV pandemic.
2. Outline major approaches to preventing HIV infection.
3. Critique HIV prevention interventions.
4. Demonstrate improved research, writing, and critical thinking skills.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Explain the philosophy of harm reduction.
2. Describe the history of harm reduction.
3. Critique interventions using harm reduction principles.
4. Demonstrate improved research, writing, and critical thinking skills.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe sedentary behaviour: principles and concepts, levels in the population, physiology, and determinants in order to appreciate the sedentary behaviour field.
2. Generate a sedentary behaviour intervention to demonstrate ability to develop new ideas by integrating knowledge and understanding of movement behaviour principles, determinants, and intervention strategies.
3. Collaborate with peers on a project to learn how to work effectively with others.
4. Critically appraise sedentary behaviour research articles to demonstrate scientific skills and a deep understanding of sedentary behaviour.
5. Practice effective oral and written communication techniques to enhance others' understanding of a topic area.
6. Act in a manner consistent with academic integrity and professional practice to display scholastic and professional competence.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply your research capacity in an academic setting.
2. Critically analyze issues in contemporary population health research.
3. Apply a strong theoretical foundation for the interrogation of priority health inequities facing Canada and the world today.
4. Combine independent and collaborative approaches toward collective learning objectives.
5. Articulate novel ideas in verbal and written formats.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Investigate a topic of interest at an advanced level in an area relevant to health studies under the supervision of a faculty supervisor.
2. Apply a systematic approach to identify, evaluate and synthesize the research literature on this topic.
3. Formulate original commentary and/or conclusions.
4. Practice scientific writing in the related disciplinary format with technical competence.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Critically assess how conditions of power shape social determinants and health inequities.
2. Demonstrate a critical understanding of anti-Black racism and colonialism and their impact on the health of African/Black populations from an intersectional perspective.
3. Identify opportunities to operationalize strategies to advance racial health equity.
4. Apply clear, critical, and creative knowledge translation skills.
5. Collaborate with peers and apply leadership and public speaking skills.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Investigate a topic of interest at an advanced level in an area relevant to health studies under the supervision of a faculty supervisor.
2. Develop and implement, through a wide variety of options in terms of the design of the study, a project that involves the application of theoretical knowledge.
3. Practice advanced oral and written communication skills in the dissemination of the project.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Examine theoretical framings and understandings of various topics related to health promotion, physical activity and/or epidemiology.
2. Critically appraise and discuss relevant research literature.
3. Practice advanced skills in reading, writing, presenting, and discussing scholarly work.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Examine theoretical framings and understandings of various topics related to psychology and socio-cultural studies of health and/or physical activity.
2. Critically appraise and discuss relevant research literature.
3. Practice advanced skills in reading, writing, presenting, and discussing scholarly work.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Critically analyze issues related to a special topic in the multidisciplinary field of Health Studies.
2. Discuss scholarly publications related to the special topic.
3. Apply different theoretical approaches to studying the special topic.
4. Practice advanced oral and written communication skills.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Investigate a topic of interest at an advanced level in an area relevant to health studies under the supervision of a faculty supervisor.
2. Evaluate and synthesize research literature related to the thesis topic and describe the limitations of existing knowledge.
3. Design and implement an independent research study, evaluate and examine results, and generate novel conclusions based on findings.
4. Apply an appropriate research methodology to the investigation of the thesis topic.
5. Practice advanced oral and written communication skills in the dissemination of the thesis.