Essentials of global health problems, ways of assessing health on population level and knowledge of health-related organizations and strategies.

The students of the University of Tampere may apply to the course as others (see link below) but no admission fee applies to them

http://www.uta.fi/admissions/summer_school/index.html

Min-max number of students: 16-32

The course is part of University of Tampere Summer School 2015.
Please see the teaching timetable and lecture rooms (PDF) at: http://www.uta.fi/admissions/summer_school/courses.html.

I Orientation:

-Watching at least 2 video lectures of 2015 course recordings

- Watching a distinctive collection of videos on poverty

-Reading a book or 2-3 articles from the list given

-Participation in a web-debate at the Moodle site

II Process writing (see learning methods below: essay)

III Blog writing (see learning methods below: blog)

LEARNING METHODS

MOODLE:

Orientation part ends with Moodle discussion.

1) Student should form one sound question/argument and support it with 100 words argumentation

2) Student should give two different 50 word comments on the questions/arguments of the fellow students. One of those should be addressed on such question/argument that has not been commented or is an object of little discussion so far

Moodle will also be used for distributing papers and comments.

Moodle provides links to the video materials used at the course.

There will be a brief ‘multiple choice’ tests in each section making sure you have gained the key message from the video based material.

SEMINARS:

Each student must participate in two seminar sessions.

ESSAY:                                 

Each student prepares a 2000-word paper including 5-15 references on freely chosen topic on global poverty. The seminar session are held to produce ideas and comments that help everyone's writing process. Instructions will be given later.

BLOG:

In addition to commenting papers, within the mid-paper seminars about 5-6 best blog ideas (indicating instantly higher section-grades for these students) are chosen and 4-5 commentators for each of these are selected (good comments are valued). Blog posts go to the blog site of the program for Global Health and Development Writing at https://www.uta.fi/globalhealth.