Both GCP and MPH students will participate in our Internet Skills course, where they will learn many of the above-mentioned skills. The Distance Education Division also provides online interactive tutorials to guide you through these procedures as well as answer queries if you have difficulties. Students who attend on-site sessions prior to taking distance courses participate in orientation sessions directed at these topics. Although you are miles apart from most of your classmates and faculty, you will still interact through email and Internet conference sessions via your computer. You may informally get together to work through problems or be assigned to groups to complete assignments.
Students routinely participate in on-going bulletin board discussions with faculty and classmates.
Through these threaded discussions, the topic and related debates are linked together so that you can follow an on-going discussion from beginning to end. The online courses are set up similarly to on-site classes. Your schedule will list the dates for each lecture, your assignments, and exam dates. But here you have an advantage over the on-site students. You normally have about one week to review the lecture material.