Teaching & Learning

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

TEACHING & LEARNING

Communication Sciences and Disorders

Brett Myers

These courses provide graduate speech-language pathology students with clinical practicum experiences in off-campus facilities with supervision provided by licensed and certified speech-language pathologists.

Health & Kinesiology

Traci Thompson

The purpose of the Health and Kinesiology Internships is to advance and enhance students' community engagement and professional growth through integration of classroom theory with planned, supervised, practical, and meaningful work experience in the field of community health education. In this Community Engaged Learning (CEL) designated course, students will gain a deeper understanding of the real challenges and rewards of working in a community setting. Each student will work with a community partner to create and accomplish individual goals that will address their organization’s needs. As they actively engage in the community, students will gain a deeper understanding about how to integrate key concepts from the Health and Kinesiology curriculum in a real-world setting.

Nutrition & Integrative Physiology

Theresa Dvorak

NUIP 7540: Culinary Medicine - Students will learn how to translate evidence-based nutrition information into meals and actionable advice about what and how to eat.
Red Butte Garden: Cooking with Plants for a Healthier U - These demonstration and hands-on cooking classes aim to empower individuals with the tools and confidence to redefine healthful cooking while pursuing deliciousness! These classes are co-sponsored with NUIP and the Resiliency Center.
Intensive Outpatient Clinic: Cooking for a Healthier U - These cooking classes aim to improve individuals confidence, competence, and self-efficacy in preparing delicious meals that support their health and are budget friendly.

Kary Woodruff

I support the placement of all of our sports nutrition master’s students in their capstone/advanced practice placements.

Our program places second-year master’s students interested in the field of sports nutrition and dietetics in various community placements where students work one-on-one with a sports dietitian to provide nutrition education and support to athletes of various levels and backgrounds. Our community partners include but are not limited to the University of Utah Athletics Department, the Utah Jazz NBA team, Intermountain Health’s Sports Nutrition Department, US Ski & Snowboard, the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee, Salt Lake Community College (SLCC), and the Student Life Center here at the U of U. I also supervise students completing a capstone/advanced practice placement focused on teaching in higher education where 1 to 2 students each year are paired with a SLCC mentor and teach their own nutrition class at SLCC in their second year of the program.

Parks, Recreation and Tourism

Jeff Rose

Complementing our methodological considerations of community engagement perspectives, processes, and outcomes, students will conduct semester-length research projects to critically interrogate local intersections of place- and race-based efforts for environmental justice.

EHUM 6860: Community Engaged Learning in the Environmental Humanities Program

Teaching & Learning Community Programs

Amy Loverin

University of Utah Center for Community Nutrition engages individuals in adopting healthful eating habits to enhance health and prevent chronic diseases.