HCM 2304 - Virtual Gaming to Address Health Disparities

Credits: 3 hrs

This course will equip students with skills required to recognize the need for information as well as the ability to locate, evaluate, and effectively use information. Through participating in activities of the RAMS KNOW How Mobile Unit in a virtual environment, students will engage in interactive exposures of the various disciplines in the School of Health Sciences and their respective responsibilities. Students will utilize a variety of technology-based resources in an effort to identify health disparities in the state of North Carolina and use the mobile clinic and its resources to combat these disparities.

This elective course explores determinants of health and their contribution to health disparities in North Carolina through an interactive, hybrid, learning format through the use of virtual simulation, web-based research, and various educational technology applications. This course has been designed to help students use their understanding of these dterminants to improve the health of communities.
Pre-requisite(s): None.