#  Learning by Doing: Student Workshops 

 





May 03, 2024

 

 

     ![Students talking during the GHELI student workshops.](/sites/g/files/omnuum10866/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/20240426_GHELI_GE1063-stdt-wkshp_055.jpg?itok=CyxMvB6O) 

 



 

 It’s the end of the semester for your favorite class, GenEd 1063 *World Health: Challenges and Opportunities*, taught by Professor Sue J. Goldie. You have a topic and target population in mind for your creative final project, but you just can’t decide what kind of project you want to do. What to do?

 During the final week of classes, the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator (GHELI) invited students from faculty director Sue J. Goldie’s Spring 2024 general education class, GenEd 1063, into the Incubator for a final project workshop to explore the wide variety of project mediums available to them.

 For their final project, students were tasked with analyzing a societal health challenge and creating a “real world” product to inspire action, influence policy, or create change. In this flexible assignment, students have the freedom and opportunity to choose a topic that is important to them and communicate their ideas in an artistic format. The Incubator hosted a series of workshops to introduce students to three types of creative mediums that they might use for their final project. The workshops were led by former students of the course Ashton Body and Aimee Ramirez, who worked closely with the Incubator’s Associate Director of Educational Initiatives, [Megan Harding](/people/megan-harding), to design and plan workshop activities. Additional support was also provided by the Incubator’s Multimedia Coordinator, [Camilla Finlay](/people/camilla-finlay).

 Workshop attendees began with a tour of GHELI’s student project gallery to get inspired by past projects and analyze what made them interesting or effective. Students then rotated between three stations to explore video, podcasts, and artwork as tools for global health learning, dissemination, and communication. Each station included a short exercise using the example topic of youth vaping to give students a chance to learn by doing—to experiment with tools and start thinking about the specific advantages of each medium for communicating a health message. The workshops also featured a visit from Professor Goldie, who offered valuable individual advice on how to approach the research side of the final projects.

 Speaking on the success of the workshops, “I think it helped students narrow down what they want to do, and also importantly, what they don’t want to do,” said Ramirez.

This is the second year Body and Ramirez have led the final project workshops. To learn more about GHELI’s educational initiatives and multimedia endeavors, check out our [Studios page](/studios). To find examples of creative student projects from past years, visit our [online gallery](/blog).

 

 

 



 

 

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