PHT 260 - Methods in Public Health Research, 3 credit hours

Prerequisite(s): PHT 170 and MTH 108 or other statistics course
This course has been offered as special topic course for three times and we propose to include the course as a permanent course to the curriculum. This course provides an introduction to the fundamentals of research study design and sampling methods and data collection. It serves as an introduction to quantitative, qualitative (photovoice, online focus groups, etc.), mixed method and participatory approaches (Community based participatory research) to research, as well as ethical issues in conducting community based research and evaluations. Through the mix of texts, articles from the public health literature and course work, students will build skills for conducting health research and evaluation.