Health Studies Certificate Program (HEST)

Nomination Form for HEST Designated Courses

Use this form to nominate a course for designation as a HEST elective. Questions about course designations may be directed to the HEST Chair Tiffany Frey (freyt@dickinson.edu). Please send the completed form to Erin Slattery (slattere@dickinson.edu).

HEST designated courses should support the HEST Program Goals listed below.

HEST Program Goals

Learn about health from an interdisciplinary perspective

Explore the concept of health, the determinants of health, and/or the consequences of health.

Identify health-related problems or issues and/or explore how they can be solved.

Develop research skills to critically examine health from multiple perspectives.

Apply skills and knowledge about health to a community research project or internship.

Note: The connection to health may emphasize just one dimension of health (e.g., social, biological, economic or cultural), but students should be made aware of other dimensions as well.

Instructor’s Name:
Department:
Course Title:
Course Number:	Cross listed? If so as what?
Offered when?

☐Existing Course (please attach a copy of your syllabus) OR

☐New course (please include a description of the health-related content of the course)

Definitions and Criteria for HEST Designated Courses

Courses that are designated as HEST electives should fulfill the criteria listed below. To assist us in deciding whether your course qualifies, please describe the ways in which your course addresses each one.

Students learn how the knowledge and methods that are the subject of the course can be applied or made relevant to inquiries about health.

Describe how this is done in your course:

Connections to health may be made through lectures, labs, classroom discussions, reading assignments, writing assignments, oral presentations, field experiences, research assignments, creative work or other assignments.

Describe how this is done in your course:

The course must have a substantial focus on health. Normally this would include 4 or more weeks of the course focusing on health.

Describe how this is true for your course: