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Nature of course request C00246 :

New course

400/500 course

First term offered :
Course Prefix&Number	Descriptive Title	Credits/Hours
HE 457/557	Migrant Health	4 -

Abbreviation for Class Schedule(20 spaces) Migrant Health

Catalog Description: Overview of major health and health care issues related to migrant communities in the United States. Using an ecological perspective, students will gain an understanding of the theories and realities about migration and the migration-health relationship with a focus on migrant and seasonal farm workers in the Pacific Northwest. Specific topics include: assimilation & acculturation, access to care, protective practices (the so-called Latino paradox), migrant health centers & community health workers, environmental & occupational issues, immigrant families.

Course Goal and Objectives: At the completion of the course students will be able to: 1. Understand the underlying concepts and theories of migration. 2. Identify major health and health care issues related to migrant families and communities in the United States, particularly in the Northwest. 3. Assess the role that migrant health centers and community health workers play in migrant health. 4. Recognize the environmental and occupational health issues affecting migrant and seasonal farmworkers. 5. Examine the situation of migrant-sending communities and the impact of remittances for health development.

Justification for adding the course (e.g. alignment with other institutions, program revision, etc.): The health and welfare of migrant workers in the United States presents unmet challenges for a variety of health professionals. Community Health Education majors and other allied health professionals at WOU currently do not have a course focused on the unique issues of this population. This course is also in keeping with WOU's commitment to serving the growing Latino immigrant population in the Mid-Valley. This class is uniquely suited to analyze migrant health issues both locally and globally. Students will learn first hand of the realities of immigration and its relationship to health and health care issues.

Faculty and facilities needed: Dr. Daniel Lopez-Cevallos is a tenure-line faculty in Community Health. Dr. Lopez-Cevallos will teach the course one time per year. A standard smart classroom would be required.

Brief Course outline: The proposed HE 457 has previously been offered with the temporary course number HE 407. The proposed HE 557 has previously been offered as a special topic under HE 612. Please see attached course syllabi for both the undergraduate and graduate versions of this course.

Approval Queue C00246

Attached Files:

HE407_Syllabus_92708[1].pdf		Download
HE612_Syllabus_32409[1].pdf		Download