Course Objectives

There are four learning objectives for this course.

  1. Students will become familiar with the "Knowledge to Action" (K2A) literature in population and public health, and able to identify 5 "anxieties" that regularly appear in the literature.
  2. Students will become familiar with interdisciplinary scholarship that can help us address the K2A anxieties that are common in the population and public health literature.
  3. Students will develop their K2A skills by using tools that help them to "think about power," "think like a movement," "think like a lobbyist," "think like a political scientist" and "think like a marketer."
  4. Students will produce a K2A "Field Guide" that will inform their future K2A activities.