DHYG 318 Community Oral Health Educational Practicum (1 credit)
Course Description
The course explores the principles of community oral health education, dental public health agendas, and the development and implementation of community-based educational outreach services.
Course Content
Principles of community health programs – focus on oral health Role of prevention, education, and promotion in community oral health programs Goals of organized community efforts in public health agenda. Learning theories Introductory community health lesson planning and curriculum development Teaching strategies and methods for community health instruction Introductory objectives of community health education Challenges in conducting effective and appropriate community-based educational services. Classroom/group management Cognitive load for specific populations Evaluating community oral health instruction Effective community in oral health communication Planning and coordination in community oral health Target populations for community oral health Community service learning - educational outreach Evidence-based community oral health educational curriculum
Student Outcomes
1. Design goals and objectives in the role of community oral health advocate to promote education.
2. Apply learning theories and motivational techniques, lesson planning, and classroom/group management in a variety of settings with diverse audiences.
3. Implement evidence-based oral health education programs for diverse community populations.
Degree Outcomes
This course is part of the Bachelor Science in Applied Science in Dental Hygiene Degree. Please refer to the Dental Hygiene Competency Map for detail of the Program Competencies this course addresses. Each competency is identified at a level of skill by the terms Introductory (I), Developing (D), or Competent (C). The map also shows the alignment between each Program Competency and the Pierce College Core Ability(ies).
Core Abilities
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Information Literacy: Graduates will be critical users, creators, and disseminators of information by examining how information is created, valued, and influenced by power and privilege.
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to craft and exchange ideas and information in a variety of situations, in response to audience, context, purpose, and motivation.
Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.
Lecture Contact Hours 10
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 10
Potential Methods
Group discussion Group written assignments Group oral presentations Community group evaluations Peer-evaluations Self-evaluations Teaching practicum ePortfolio
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