Take My SNHU Community Health Education Classes

All twelve courses on the program page are covered.

The health education strand starts with CHE 110 Introduction to Community Health Education, which covers the role of the health educator, the eight areas of responsibility behind the CHES credential and the settings where educators work. CHE 300 Methods and Materials in Health Education teaches lesson planning, learning objectives, teaching methods and how to adapt materials for literacy and culture. CHE 350 Program Administration covers budgets, staffing, partnerships and grant management for community programs. CHE 460 Health Communication, Social Marketing, and Advocacy builds campaigns with the four Ps of social marketing and teaches policy advocacy. CHE 490 Community Health Capstone draws the strand together.

The disease and wellness courses supply content. CHE 220 Communicable Diseases covers transmission, prevention and control of infections from influenza to sexually transmitted infections, and IHP 200 Wellness Across the Lifespan covers nutrition, activity, sleep, stress and preventive care from infancy to old age.

The public health courses supply method. IHP 330 Principles of Epidemiology teaches rates and study designs, PHE 327 Research and Assessment in Public Health covers needs assessment, PHE 340 Social and Behavioral Health applies behavior change theory, PHE 425 Programming Planning in Public Health builds program plans with logic models and PHE 423 Evaluation Methods in Public Health designs evaluations.

The table on this page links each course to its own help pages.

We begin with where you stand in the degree: courses finished, transfer credit SNHU applied, and the terms you plan to enroll in. From that, each Community Health Education course is placed on a calendar, one at a time or paired.

Courses are matched to experience. A former school health teacher takes CHE 300 and its lesson plans; an infection preventionist takes CHE 220; a nonprofit program director takes CHE 350 and its budget; a social marketing specialist takes CHE 460; an evaluator takes PHE 423.

The applied courses work best with a single population. Suppose you choose Hispanic adults with prediabetes in one city's east side. That group can anchor the PHE 327 needs assessment, the CHE 300 lesson series, the PHE 425 program plan, the CHE 460 campaign, the PHE 423 evaluation and the CHE 490 capstone, so each course adds a layer to the same program.

Within each term, posts are written before the module opens and assignments reach you early enough to read, with a study sheet before any quiz you take. Instructor comments are applied to the next submission.

When a course ends, its writer hands the next one a short note on your population, the sources used and the voice of your posts.

The bench for this degree is made up of practicing health educators and their colleagues: a CHES-certified diabetes prevention lifestyle coach, a former middle school health teacher, a county infection preventionist, a hospital community outreach manager, a nonprofit director who has managed state and federal grants, and an evaluator who writes logic models for foundations.

Their lesson plans read like ones taught in church halls and community centers, and their budgets add up.

An editor checks every deliverable against the module instructions, the rubric and its sources before it goes to you.

The coordinator assigned at the start stays with your degree to the capstone.

Because many of them still teach or run programs, their examples stay current with today's guidelines, such as the latest dietary guidance or vaccine schedules.

Writing measurable objectives is the most common stumbling point in Community Health Education. CHE 300 and PHE 425 graders expect objectives with an audience, a behavior, a condition and a degree, such as by the end of session four, 80 percent of participants will read a nutrition label and identify added sugars, and vague goals like improve health lose marks.

Theory is the second. PHE 340 and CHE 460 want behavior change and social marketing models applied to one audience, with each construct linked to a program element.

Numbers are the third. Epidemiology rates, county data profiles and program budgets all need arithmetic that many educators set aside years ago.

The applied run is the last. Plans, campaigns, evaluations and the capstone each depend on the earlier ones, and changing populations midway means rebuilding.

Many students also work in the field, and the 8-week terms leave little room around shifts and family.

Each Community Health Education course is priced from its syllabus. CHE 300, CHE 350, CHE 460, PHE 425, PHE 423 and the CHE 490 capstone carry the most graded work, while CHE 110 and IHP 200 carry less.

You choose how much to hand over: the remaining core, one term, or just the courses that collide with work. Many health educators keep CHE 110 and the wellness course and hand over the planning, budget and evaluation courses.

Ideally the request comes in about ten days before a term. If a course is already running, the price starts from the current module.

Timed quizzes and exams, any teaching you must record and any work with real community members stay with you. Send your degree audit with the quote request.