Education knowledge transfer in Saudi Arabia: Two bachelor programs at PNU
Education knowledge transfer in Saudi Arabia: Two bachelor programs at PNU
Education knowledge transfer in Saudi Arabia: Two bachelor programs at PNU
Since January 2013 the Unit for Health Promotion Research has been running two BSc programs of Health Education and Promotion and of Epidemiology at Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University (PNU) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which is the world’s largest women’s university. See www.PNU.EDU.SA.
The BSc programs are based on the model of SDU’s BSc in Public Health with slight modifications to fit the local context. The two programs are taught together the first three semesters of each student cohort after which about half the cohort has taken Health Education and Promotion and the other half Epidemiology. SDU taught the first cohort 100% and after that PNU has increased its teaching share. Each course lasts one month. The student cohorts have had 45-87 enrolled students. After three years of academic studies, the students take one year of internship before graduating. From the first cohort 54 students graduated December 2016.
The Unit staff, which consists of several nationalities, are on the SDU payroll and travels to Riyadh as visiting teachers to teach there normally one course per trip. A few junior staff members have stayed there full semesters. In addition to the Unit staff, single courses have been carried out by staff members from the Unit for Thrombosis Research and the Health Economics Department of IST as well as the Institute of Management and Economy. Since autumn 2016 the SDU teaching has expanded in scope and includes now also series of workshops for the PNU staff: One on active learning methods and one on qualitative research methods.
For more information about the research areas, teachers, skills and other programs at the University of Southern Denmark, Unit for Health Promotion Research, Esbjerg, Denmark.
See www.healthpromotion.sdu.dk
Contact information:
Project leader, Academic supervision and quality control
Professor Arja R. Aro,
araro@health.sdu.dk
Study Leader:
Associate Professor Leena Eklund Karlsson,