7 courses with the subject HPC, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
HPC 1002THE ART OF PERSUASION3
All human communication tries to have some kind of effect on an audience. This course will give students information and skills related to the art of persuasion. Students will learn basic principles, theories, and techniques, and will study how deeply persuasion is embedded in every area of human endeavor. They will become better persuaders, as well as more skeptical consumers of other people's attempts at persuasion.
This course introduces students to health and wellness through the lens of epistemolgoy (the study of ways of knowing). Students will gain a sense of appreciation for the scope and subject of the many ways to understand and think about disease, illenss, well-being, and healing. Ways of knowing and thinking about the world inevitably influence our ways of acting in the world. This course will unpack various ways of thinking about the world to generate comparisons and analysis of some primary bodies of knowledge (modern biomedical sciences, indigenous sciences, etc.). We will critically examine selected knowledge systems to better understand their origins, as well as their perspectives of health and disease. An analysis of ways of knowing about health will also force students to examine their own ways of thinking and being.
HPC 3001COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS3
This course imparts knowledge and skills related to personal and professional communication. Assignments with involve writing, public speaking, and graphic design. We will spend a lot of time discussing how humans communicate, drawing upon fields such as sociology, psychology, and cultural anthropology. Topics will include body language, how communication is affected by context, and difference in communication styles. Above all the course will focus on rhetoric, the art of persuasion.
As a health professional, you'll want to give people the right treatment, but you'll also want to treat them right morally. This is not always as easy as it sounds. Situations may be complicated; there may be pluses and minuses on both sides of a decision. Your good intentions and instincts may not serve you, or your patients, well. This course will give you tools for thinking clearly about morality, and we'll give those tools a good workout in classroom discussions and writing assignments. (Note: This class meets weekly.)
A continuation of Foundations of Evidence-Informed Practice (EIP) in earlier trimesters. Students identify an area of interest, location ten or more articles from the peer-reviewed scientific literature, and appraise and summarize them. Student develop reviews of research that can be used in doctors'' clinical summaries and as patients'' health education abstracts. Class projects promote students' skills in appraising and summarizing research and generating useful research questions and research designs.
This course surveys both theory and practice of health care from prehistoric times to the present day. Major topics will include herbalism, nutrition, childbirth, surgical procedures, pain management, sanitation, antibiotics, and mental illness. Perhaps the most important topic of all will be the history of disease, especially the Black Death and other pandemics. Special attention will be paid to the intersection of medicine and religion, the differences between allopathic and alternative forms of health care, and the historical roles of healers and health care institutions.
HPC 3720CRITICAL THINKING FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS3
Introduction to scientific reasoning. Students are introduced to the skill of scientific critical thinking in everyday life, much as a scientist uses critical thinking to develop valid and reliable knowledge. Students practice the language or reasoning, and they identify and evaluate assumptions and statements presented as fact. Students evaluate patterns of reasoning and assess the credibility of causal inferences.
