Sample Project Titles

How do we reduce public health burden of depression?

How do you change behavior?

How do you use technology to reduce symptoms?

How do we enhance MH promotion in underserved areas?

How could you reduce # of work days lost due to MH disorders?

What do we want students to learn

from project based learning?

Process skills Problem solving

Critical thinking

Collaboration (interdisciplinary-within university)

Creativity

Learn how to learn (ex: lit search, ask right

experts)

What do we want students to learn

from project based learning?

Content Knowledge

Scholarly: knowing about literature about content area

Local: ex: presentation of phenomena in

geographical/cultural area

Applied

Potential Content Areas:

Assessment

Psychopathology –e.g. neuroscience, genetics, classification

Intervention (broadly defined- generation, mechanisms,

theory, efficacy, effectiveness, implementation, dissemination,

transportability, translation )

Prevention and MH promotion

Ethics

Diversity

Development/lifespan

Methods

Public heath –e.g. science to service gap

Social and organizational systems

Advantages of project based:

Integrates levels

Emphasizes creativity and problem solving

Emphasizes collaboration

learn from one another

Increase in retention

Disadvantages

Education focus could be too narrow

Will students be marketable for internship

Ways programs could implement

project based model:

Programs could choose degree to which this could be implemented (from one course to program change)

Could replace brown bags, seminars, practica

Could replace assessment, ethics, diversity, intervention, a seminar, electives, practicum (could include an applied component)