Field Experience

All Community Health Education (CHE) students must complete a master’s project. Additionally, depending on which master’s project option you select, you may also need to complete a supervised field experience. There are two strategies available to students to meet these requirements.

Professional experience prior to enrolling in the CHE program will not exempt students from this requirement. Work on research projects, including data collection, data analysis, or intervention for the project, carried out in conjunction with a unit of the University of Minnesota or some other research institution, will not fulfill the fieldwork requirement for the CHE program. If you want to conduct work with a unit of the University of Minnesota for your Master's Project, you must choose Strategy Two.

Strategy One

This strategy allows students to complete both their master’s project and field experience requirements by doing a needs assessment, a program evaluation, or a program development project (project options one or two from the list below) within an organization other than the University of Minnesota. This is the most efficient way for students to complete degree requirements. However, this option may not be appropriate for students desiring an internship opportunity or those students needing to acquire research or data analysis skills. Students completing strategy one register for PubH 7094: Master’s Project for 2 credits.

Strategy Two

The second choice is to complete 120 hours of field experience in addition to a master’s project. Only students who complete a separate field experience may do the research or data analysis project format of the master’s project. Students choosing this option can also elect to complete the other master’s project options. Students choosing Strategy Two register under PubH 7096 for 2 credits for the field experience credits, and PubH 7094 for 2 credits for Master’s Project credits.

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