5 courses with the subject BDH, 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.
BDH 300Leadership and Management in Healthcare3
This course will utilize a systems focus to analyze the "fit" and "position" of dental hygiene within organizations and health care systems. Issues related to power, politics and influence, distribution of resources, marketing healthcare, and organizational dynamics will be examined. The course will enhance the student's ability to examine, evaluate and shape social policy and its impact on health policy, health status and systems, delivery of care, and reduction of disparities through effective leadership and management.
BDH 310Program and Curriculum Planning, Development, and Evaluation3
This course prepares the student to be an effective curriculum and program planner, manager and evaluator of academic curriculum and public health programs. The student is introduced to adult learning theory (experiential, transformational learning) with a focus on cultural competence. Further, the student will learn the fundamentals of the development and evaluation of health programs using the framework of evaluation of need, evaluation of progress, evaluation of outcome and evaluation of efficiency. Psychometric, economic, political and ethical issues related to health program evaluation are analyzed. The course will provide the student with the skills to evaluate the rigor and validity of published evaluations. Students will design and present a discrete 79
This course introduces the basic concepts of epidemiology and biostatistics as applied to public health problems. Emphasis is placed on the principles and methods of epidemiologic investigation, appropriate summaries and displays of data, and the use of classical statistical approaches to describing population health. Topics include defining epidemiology in public health, study types in epidemiology, basic infectious disease concepts in epidemiology, measuring risk in epidemiology, basic concepts in data analysis, application of sound methods of scientific investigation and the application of this study to the prevention and control of health problems. This course will provide students with the basic tools necessary to manage, analyze, and interpret information and statistics.
Subtotal...........................................................................................................................80 Upper Division Program Requirements (Semester Credits)......................................80 Liberal Arts and General Education Requirements (Semester Credits)..................47 Total Program Requirements (Semester Credits).....................................................127 *Note: Students are required to pursue, as a pre-requisite to admission, a minimum of 47 liberal arts and general education coursework prior to enrolling in the Dental Hygiene program. The liberal arts and general education coursework may be pursued at Plaza College or at any other college of choice. Within the 47-credit requirement, students must have successfully taken the following prerequisite courses: Anatomy and Physiology I with Lab (4 credits), Anatomy and Physiology II with Lab (4 credits), Microbiology with Lab (3 credits), Statistics (3 credits), Social Sciences (6 credits), English and Composition, including one course at the 300 or 400 level that the required students to conduct a research paper (9 credits). 50
