Creating+501+-+Introduction

=1.Introduction = Welcome to this course, **Creating 501:Developing Effective SBCC Materials for Health **. The course will be conducted through a series of on-line sessions as well as inter personal and face to face sessions. My name is Amos Zikusooka, your tutor for this course. I am looking forward for your enthusiastic participation in this course.

=2. Course Objectives = By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
 * Develop effective SBCC materials for various health interventions.
 * Describe and apply the 7’Cs of effective communication in developing effective SBCC materials
 * Understand and appreciate the process/steps involved in creating effective SBCC materials.

=3. Course Syllabus = You can read more about the course syllabus here: [|Creating 501 - Syllabus.doc]

=4. Course Requirements =
 * This is a highly practical course for SBCC practitioners. Program staff and communication officers of development organisations involved in developing and implementing various SBCC interventions.


 * The course requires full and active participation of learners in all online and face to face sessions. Learners are expected to participate fully in these sessions, read online resource materials, contribute to postings and develop their own SBCC material or critique an existing material.


 * Each participant will be assigned a group in which he/she will work with in both online discussions and face-to-face group activities.

> = 5. Contact Information =
 * To enrol in this course, each participant will have to have access to a reliable and steady internet access at home or office. If not, they will need to have an internet modem. More than half of this course will be done on line. So internet access is compulsory for this course.
 * In order to complete the course enrolment, participants will have to accept invitation to join wiki spaces, login using their e-mail user name and pass word to become a wiki user/member. ONLY students who have accepted the wiki invitation and become members will be considered participants.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> For more information and questions regarding course requirements, difficulty in logging in your wiki account, please contact me, your course tutor on: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">amosmedia@gmail.com or the course IT advisor on ronniem@hcpuganda.org