Sexual health fair: Where teaching and learning overlap

For 5 years HE 340, Sexuality and health, has organized a campus-wide sexuality health fair. HE 340 is a junior/senior level class, and students must demonstrate proficiency in planning, implementing, and evaluating a health education program. The professor and class identify community partners and invite them to participate, advertise the health fair, decide on topics for tables, present information about those topics, design an evaluation worksheet, and evaluate the health fair. Benefits, like increased knowledge and skills like condom competency, and challenges, like maturity and creativity, will be discussed. The health fair addresses several AAHE/NCATE standards and competencies and is one of the health education teacher-education program's artifacts. Assignment information and rubrics will be shared. Evaluation information, including what college students would like to learn at a sexuality health fair, what topics were the most effective, and general satisfaction, will also be shared.