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79 courses with the subject HLTH, 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.
HLTH 100Introduction to Health Careers3
Provides students with an understanding of various career opportunities in health and safety occupations and the opportunity to determine whether their needs, interests, abilities, and values are suited to careers in this area.Credits: 3
Addresses concerns pertaining to college living and life-long health. Emphasizes wellness with its emotional, physical, and social components.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededThematic Thread(s): Citizenship & Social Problems, Cultural Literacy & Community Building, Human Diversity & Well-Being, Transfer Thread Completion Course
Discusses the role of wellness in health promotion. Identifies major health risks and examines primary prevention strategies utilizing select health appraisal instruments for the promotion of optimal individual and community health. Exposes students to agencies, which serve as resources for health information.Credits: 3
Examines the major health problems and health risks to determine feasible secondary and tertiary intervention strategies to maintain, promote and manage the highest possible level of individual and community health. Explores behaviors and circumstances that are barriers to seeking and/or adhering to medical advice.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Fall TermsEnrollment is limited to students with a program in Public Health, Health Science - Public Health or Hlth Sci-P Hlth-Pre PT-SRU 3+3.
Provides a broad foundation of information related to the structure and functioning of the community health system including the identification and examination of programs, providers, and current problems associated with the delivery of health services.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Fall TermsThematic Thread(s): Cultural Literacy & Community Building, Human Diversity & Well-Being, Transfer Thread Completion Course
Foundations of Academic Discovery serves as the entry point to the Rock Integrated Studies Program. With its strong faculty-student interaction, the course promotes intellectual inquiry, critical and creative thinking, and computer skills needed for academic success. Through varied content, the course introduces students to academic discourse and information literacy while exploring topics such as diversity and inclusion and global awareness. This course will set students along the path to becoming engaged with issues and scholarship important to a 21st century education while they learn about themselves and their place in the world.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededEnrollment limited to students with a semester level of Freshman 1 or Freshman 2. Enrollment limited to students with the ROCK STUDIES 2 STUDENT or ROCK STUDIES STUDENT attributes.
A unique and specifically focused course within the general purview of a department which intends to offer it on a "one time only" basis and not as a permanent part of the department's curriculum.Credits: 1-3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as Needed
A workshop is a program which is usually of short duration, narrow in scope, often non-traditional in content and format, and on a timely topic.Credits: 1-6Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as Needed
A Selected Topics course is a normal, departmental offering which is directly related to the discipline, but because of its specialized nature, may not be able to be offered on a yearly basis by the department.Credits: 1-3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as Needed
This course will focus on introducing public health students to the benefits of physical activity (PA), how to safely engage in PA and how to apply PA to the public health model.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Spring TermsEnrollment is limited to students with a program in Public Health or Health Science - Public Health.
HLTH 204Public Health Education and Communication3
Examines the knowledge and skills necessary to function effectively as a community, school, or worksite health educator. Emphasizes the responsibilities and competencies of the Certified Health Education Specialist.Prerequisites: HLTH 103D and (HLTH 104D or HLTH 210D)D Requires minimum grade of D. Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Fall TermsStudents with a semester level of Freshman 1 or Freshman 2 may not enroll. Enrollment is limited to students with a program in Public Health, Health Science - Public Health or Hlth Sci-P Hlth-Pre PT-SRU 3+3.
Provides a broad foundation of information related to the etiology, pathophysiological mechanisms, signs and symptoms, outcomes and current therapies for selected communicable, genetic, and chronic diseases.Prerequisites: BIOL 216D or BIOL 209D or BIOL 110DD Requires minimum grade of D. Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Spring TermsStudents with a semester level of Freshman 1 or Freshman 2 may not enroll. Enrollment is limited to students with a program in Public Health, Health Science - Public Health or Hlth Sci-P Hlth-Pre PT-SRU 3+3.
Examines the role of women as consumers and as both formal and informal providers of health services.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Summer TermsThematic Thread(s): Citizenship & Social Problems, Conservation, Technology & Imagination, Human Diversity & Well-Being, Transfer Thread Completion Course
Identifies and examines the major health problems at the individual and community level. Emphasizes health information and resources that can be used to deliver developmentally appropriate primary, secondary and tertiary education and/or interventions among diverse populations.Credits: 3Enrollment is limited to students with a program in Exploratory Physical Educ, School Wellness Education, Health-Physical Educ Teaching, Public Health, Health Science - Public Health or Hlth Sci-P Hlth-Pre PT-SRU 3+3.
A unique and specifically focused course within the general purview of a department which intends to offer it on a "one time only" basis and not as a permanent part of the department's curriculum.Credits: 1-3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as Needed
A workshop is a program which is usually of short duration, narrow in scope, often non-traditional in content and format, and on a timely topic.Credits: 1-6Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as Needed
A Selected Topics course is a normal, departmental offering which is directly related to the discipline, but because of its specialized nature, may not be able to be offered on a yearly basis by the department.Credits: 1-3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as Needed
Explores the ecologic, economic, ethical, toxicologic and epidemiologic bases for environmental health both globally and within the community setting. Emphasizes the relationship between biological, physical and chemical agents and disease/injury causation and the role of government.Prerequisites: CHEM 104D or CHEM 107D or BIOL 210DD Requires minimum grade of D. Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Spring & Summer TermsStudents with a semester level of Freshman 1, Freshman 2 or Sophomore 1 may not enroll. Enrollment is limited to students with a program in Public Health, Health Science - Public Health or Hlth Sci-P Hlth-Pre PT-SRU 3+3.
Provides a broad foundation of knowledge related to data analysis in health science. Emphasizes the interpretation of health data and the computer skills for common statistical methods.Prerequisites: HSAF 312D or HLTH 312D or HLTH 322DD Requires minimum grade of D. Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Spring TermsStudents with a semester level of Freshman 1, Freshman 2 or Sophomore 1 may not enroll. Enrollment is limited to students with a program in Public Health, Exercise Science, Exercise Sci- Pre PT-SRU 3+3, Health Science - Public Health or Hlth Sci-P Hlth-Pre PT-SRU 3+3.
Examines basic scientific principles of nutrition, specifically all major nutrient classes in terms of functions, food sources, and adequate intakes along with sensitivity to diverse needs throughout the life cycle. Emphasizes interdisciplinary perspectives on how cultural diversity relates to food choices and how unique ethnic health challenges influence dietary needs.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Fall & Winter TermsThematic Thread(s): Human Diversity & Well-Being, Transfer Thread Completion Course, United Stated in Global ContextStudents with a semester level of Freshman 1, Freshman 2 or Sophomore 1 may not enroll. Enrollment is limited to students with a program in Public Health, Health Science - Public Health or Hlth Sci-P Hlth-Pre PT-SRU 3+3.
Surveys a broad range of information about human sexuality from biological, psychological, sociological, religious, and medical perspectives.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Every TermStudents with a semester level of Freshman 1, Freshman 2 or Sophomore 1 may not enroll.
HLTH 321Advanced Disease Prevention in Public Health3
This course will build upon the knowledge acquired in HLTH 209 Foundations of Disease in Public Health. The Foundations of Disease in Public Health course provides a basic understanding of a broad range of human diseases with regard to the causes, mechanisms, signs and symptoms, and current therapies. This advanced disease prevention course is designed for public health students as well as other health related majors. It is designed to explore complex disease prevention levels and recent evidence-based health prevention strategies in the US and globally to reduce the incidence of communicable and non-communicable diseases. This course will examine population risk factors, technology for disease prevention, policies which shape health prevention approaches/strategies and interprofessional collaboration. (3 credits)Prerequisites: HLTH 209D or HLTH 309DD Requires minimum grade of D. Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Fall TermsStudents with a semester level of Freshman 1, Freshman 2 or Sophomore 1 may not enroll.
HLTH 322Public Health Research Methods and Data Management3
Explores methods of data collection, manipulation and reporting for health science. Includes computer applications.Prerequisites: MATH 152D or STAT 152D or MATH 114DD Requires minimum grade of D. Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Spring TermsStudents with a semester level of Freshman 1, Freshman 2 or Sophomore 1 may not enroll. Enrollment is limited to students with a program in Public Health, Health Science - Public Health or Hlth Sci-P Hlth-Pre PT-SRU 3+3.
This course focuses on the systematic study of the social and economic conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks. Students will specifically explore how social influences, such as income, social capital, race, gender, education, employment, housing, neighborhood, food security, healthcare, environment, and life course affect health status, disease, disability, and longevity. Students will also examine the role of public policy and structural interventions in shaping health outcomes for communities.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Fall TermsStudents with a semester level of Freshman 1, Freshman 2 or Sophomore 1 may not enroll.
Introduces the study of population-based research and statistical methods of inquiry regarding distribution and determination of disease in human populations. Emphasizes appropriate study design and investigative techniques and interpretation of findings related to community health. Prerequisites: HLTH 313 Biostatistics or taking HLTH 313 Biostatistics concurrently.Prerequisite: HLTH 313 (may be taken concurrently)DD Requires minimum grade of D. Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Spring TermsStudents with a semester level of Freshman 1, Freshman 2 or Sophomore 1 may not enroll. Enrollment is limited to students with a program in Public Health, Health Science - Public Health or Hlth Sci-P Hlth-Pre PT-SRU 3+3.
A unique and specifically focused course within the general purview of a department which intends to offer it on a "one time only" basis and not as a permanent part of the department's curriculum.Credits: 1-3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededStudents with a semester level of Freshman 1, Freshman 2 or Sophomore 1 may not enroll.
A workshop is a program which is usually of short duration, narrow in scope, often non-traditional in content and format, and on a timely topic.Credits: 1-6Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededStudents with a semester level of Freshman 1, Freshman 2 or Sophomore 1 may not enroll.
A Selected Topics course is a normal, departmental offering which is directly related to the discipline, but because of its specialized nature, may not be able to be offered on a yearly basis by the department.Credits: 1-3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededStudents with a semester level of Freshman 1, Freshman 2 or Sophomore 1 may not enroll.
Provides basic proficiency in quantitative and qualitative approaches to health education and health promotion program measurement and evaluation. Current trends and issues in community, school and worksite health promotion are brought to bear on the problems of implementing and interpreting the results of formative and summative evaluation.Prerequisites: HLTH 301D or HLTH 204DD Requires minimum grade of D. Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Fall TermsEnrollment limited to students with a semester level of Senior 1 or Senior 2. Enrollment is limited to students with a program in Public Health, Health Science - Public Health or Hlth Sci-P Hlth-Pre PT-SRU 3+3.
HLTH 407Fundamentals of Public Health Policy and Management3
This course examines the foundational concepts of public health policy, focusing on the development, implementation, and evaluation of policies that influence public health and healthcare systems. Students will explore the U.S. public health system’s structure, key stakeholders, public health financing mechanisms, and the policymaking process. The course will also emphasize public health management principles, their application in public health leadership, and the social, political, economic, and ethical dimensions of health policy. Comparative analysis of international public health systems will provide additional insights into the challenges and opportunities in global public health policy and management.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Fall TermsStudents with a semester level of Freshman 1, Freshman 2 or Sophomore 1 may not enroll.
his course is designed to give an overview of the context, infrastructure and core functions of public health systems and related administration. It focuses on the administrative aspects for carrying out the public health functions, and the legal, ethical, economic, management, leadership, and regulatory dimensions of public health systems. This course also addresses performance measures, strategic planning, information systems, and current issues or trends in public health.Prerequisites: HLTH 210D or HLTH 104DD Requires minimum grade of D. Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Fall TermsStudents with a semester level of Freshman 1, Freshman 2 or Sophomore 1 may not enroll. Enrollment is limited to students with a program in Public Health or Health Science - Public Health.
Examines significant health problems affecting people in various parts of the world. Provides opportunities to understand approaches to population health from different cultural perspectives and evaluates disease patterns in distinct global communities. Emphasizes methods for achieving health equity and improving health for all.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Fall & Winter TermsThematic Thread(s): Human Diversity & Well-Being, Transfer Thread Completion Course, United Stated in Global ContextStudents with a semester level of Freshman 1, Freshman 2 or Sophomore 1 may not enroll.
This course provides an understanding of the dietary standards that dictate nutritional requirements for apparently healthy adults. Emphasis is placed on the evaluation of an recommendations for macronutrients, micronutrients, and hydration status for health, physical activity, and human performance.Prerequisites: (HLTH 314D or EXSC 300D or EXER 300D or ERS 300D) and (ERS 301D or EXSC 301D or EXER 301D) and (ERS 302D or EXSC 302D or EXER 302D)D Requires minimum grade of D. Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededStudents with a semester level of Freshman 1, Freshman 2 or Sophomore 1 may not enroll. Enrollment is limited to students with a program in Exercise Science, Exercise Sci- Pre PT-SRU 3+3 or Athletic Training. Enrollment limited to students in the BS 6149 or BS 6204 programs.
This course is designed to provide a critical analysis of the major contemporary public health problems facing persons and communities. Content will also address professionalism and career advancement in the public health professions.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Spring TermsEnrollment limited to students with a semester level of Senior 1 or Senior 2. Enrollment is limited to students with a program in Public Health, Health Science - Public Health or Hlth Sci-P Hlth-Pre PT-SRU 3+3.
Provides opportunity to apply theory and develop competencies through a work-related experience in an appropriate cooperating enterprise. Summers only.Credits: 1-12Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Fall, Spring, & SummerEnrollment limited to students with a semester level of Senior 1 or Senior 2. Enrollment is limited to students with a major in Health Science - Public Health or Hlth Sci-P Hlth-Pre PT-SRU 3+3.
Under the guidance of a cooperating teacher and university supervisor, students engage in two, eight week assignments on a full-time basis in specified school districts and attend scheduled seminars. Supervisors assign additional requirements.Credits: 3-12Students with a semester level of Freshman 1, Freshman 2 or Sophomore 1 may not enroll.
Students study under the supervision of a professor on a specific and significant topic. Independent Study courses give students the opportunity to pursue research and/or studies that are not part of the university's traditional course offerings. Students work one on one or in small groups with faculty guidance and are typically required to submit a final paper or project as determined by the supervising professor.Credits: 1-3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededStudents with a semester level of Freshman 1, Freshman 2 or Sophomore 1 may not enroll.
A workshop is a program which is usually of short duration, narrow in scope, often non-traditional in content and format, and on a timely topic.Credits: 1-6Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededStudents with a semester level of Freshman 1, Freshman 2 or Sophomore 1 may not enroll.
A Selected Topics course is a normal, departmental offering which is directly related to the discipline, but because of its specialized nature, may not be able to be offered on a yearly basis by the department.Credits: 1-3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededStudents with a semester level of Freshman 1, Freshman 2 or Sophomore 1 may not enroll.
Nutrition for Cardiovascular Health: Focuses on the specific nutritional requirements for a healthy cardiovascular system. Will address healthy individuals as well as those with a history of heart disease.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Focuses on current issues in nutritional care, covering public health and budgetary concerns, as well as ethical and moral issues. Emphasizes specific applications of nutrition within the community as well as in clinical settings.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
A unique and specifically focused course within the general purview of a department which intends to offer it on a "one time only" basis and not as a permanent part of the department's curriculum.Credits: 1-3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
A workshop is a program which is usually of short duration, narrow in scope, often non-traditional in content and format, and on a timely topic.Credits: 1-6Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
A Selected Topics course is a normal, departmental offering which is directly related to the discipline, but because of its specialized nature, may not be able to be offered on a yearly basis by the department.Credits: 1-3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
A critical analysis of the health problems facing modern persons and the effect these problems have on them, both as individuals and as members of the community. Local, state, and national initiatives to intervene in these problem areas are analyzed and evaluated.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
HLTH 603Teaching & Assessment for Health Literacy3
Provides knowledge of current trends and procedures in health curriculum development. Focuses on materials, resources, and presentation skills.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
HLTH 604Social and Behavioral Aspects of Health and Wellness3
This course covers the behavioral, social and cultural aspects of health and disease. students learn how behavioral and social theories are relevant to health promotion, wellness and disease prevention efforts in public health.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Fall TermsEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
This course provides a framework for developing and analyzing a range of health policy issues.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Winter TermsEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
This course will prepare students to analyze and evaluate epidemiological study designs that are used to study disease and injury in human populations and the application of epidemiologic concepts to control health problems.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Spring TermsEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
This course provides instruction on how to design health survey questionnaires and how to conduct survey studies.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Spring TermsEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
HLTH 608Planning and Implementation of Public Health Strategies3
This course provides students with core skills in public health and wellness program planning, development and implementation.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Summer TermsEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
The practicum provides students with a supervised, 120 hour experience in public health settings. The practicum enables students to participate in practices relevant to their area of specialization, integrating coursework and applying public health concepts and methods.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Every TermEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
HLTH 610Occupational and Environmental Health Science3
This course explores the assessment of environmental exposures among populations, the recognition of risk among disparate populations and the practical application of local, state and federal public health law in controlling environmental exposures for the protection of the population's health.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Spring TermsEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
This course provides an overview of the major chronic and infectious diseases with emphasis on disease syndromes and prevention. This course will aid the students' understanding of how diseases manifest and best practices and strategies for prevention.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Fall TermsEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
This course will provide students opportunities to plan realistic worksite health promotion programs and engage individuals in motivational interviewing and wellness coaching.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Fall TermsEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Health marketing and communication is essential for garnering interest and participation in public health and wellness initiatives. Effective marketing and communication is also imperative for sustaining and expanding wellness programming. This course addresses services marketing and marketing management in public health and wellness.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Fall TermsEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
This course provides students with opportunities to examine quantitative and qualitative ways to evaluate program effectiveness as well as avenues for improving program quality.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Spring TermsEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
HLTH 619Chronic and Infectious Disease Epidemiology3
This course provides an overview of the epidemiologic aspects and prevention for major chronic and infectious diseases.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
HLTH 620Secondary Analysis of Epidemiological Data3
This course provides students with the ability to identify, manage, analyze and communicate public health secondary data.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Studies survey methodology and related statistical techniques. Applies methods of survey and evaluation through student participation in the design, execution, analysis and evaluation of health programs. The course will also include skill development for selected techniques of both quantitative and qualitative evaluation formats.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
This course provides students with the necessary skill set to complete the foundational preparation for evidence based public health practice.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
HLTH 623Foundations of Environmental and Occupational Toxicology3
This course provides learners with knowledge of environmental contaminants, their action on the body and the foundations for regulatory exposure limits and how those limits are achieved.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Fall TermsEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Focuses on the specific nutritional requirements for physical conditioning of persons involved in active lifestyles; emphasizes the teaching of proper nutrition for active persons; offers hands-on experience.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
HLTH 625Occupational and Environmental Health Management and Leadership3
Based in the concept of task teams and management of task teams, this course provides managerial level background in program development rules and policies development, education and training, inspections and audits and dealing with accidents and environmental releases and errors.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Spring TermsEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
HLTH 626Assessment and Communication of Occupational and Environmental Health Risk3
This course provides students opportunities to examine the environmental health needs of specific communities and workplaces. Students learn how risks are assigned to environmental insults and how those risks must be clearly identified and communicated to constituents and used for mitigative action.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Spring TermsEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
The Public Health Culminating Experience course provides students with the opportunity to design and develop an integrative professional electronic portfolio. Developing an electronic portfolio is a learning process, a way to deepen one's understanding of critical public health concepts, to put one's coursework and field experience into perspective, to demonstrate the knowledge and skills one has obtained, and to assess one's own mastery of the core competencies in one's chosen concentration and field.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Spring TermsEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
This course will cover statistical methods such as descriptive statistics, probability, Central Limit theorem, probability distributions, statistical inference, hypothesis testing and Linear regression. these topics will be taught using health/public health/epidemiology, examples as well as applications to business, engineering and finance. Projects will be tailored to individual students' specialty area such as health promotion, epidemiology, biostatistics, administration, marketing, etc.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Fall TermsEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
This course provides students with an examination of man-made and technological disasters, the various public health related crises which emanate from these disasters and the interaction of public health professionals and other responding agencies in the mitigation of these crises. Disasters are also dissected in terms of response through NIMS, a federal framework for disaster response. The course also explores the determination of risk, in terms of disasters and the communication of risk to various populations.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
HLTH 630Environmental and Occupational Exposure Monitoring Analysis Control3
This course provides students with a practical look at exposure monitoring and area sampling, and the purposes and uses for these types of sampling. The course also examines the chemistry behind these types of examinations and the application of results from monitoring. This course approaches the subject from a managerial and practitioner perspective, going beyond traditional undergraduate learning in environmental sampling or industrial hygiene, though these subjects may be used as a foundation.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Fall TermsEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
This course presents the overarching framework, principles and core responsibilities of public health practice and introduces students to various elements of the public health system.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered Fall TermsEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
The course provides the student with the opportunity to complete a supervised field experience in a school or community health agency. The student will be able to practice and further develop the competencies that have been developed in the classroom. Faculty members and students enrolled in the course will meet periodically for a seminar.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Focuses on physiological and sociological nutritional needs of an aging population. Includes a field experience.Credits: 3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
A unique and specifically focused course within the general purview of a department which intends to offer it on a "one time only" basis and not as a permanent part of the department's curriculum.Credits: 1-3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
A workshop is a program which is usually of short duration, narrow in scope, often non-traditional in content and format, and on a timely topic.Credits: 1-6Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
A Selected Topics course is a normal, departmental offering which is directly related to the discipline, but because of its specialized nature, may not be able to be offered on a yearly basis by the department.Credits: 1-3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Independent Study courses give students the opportunity to pursue research and/or studies that are not part of the university's traditional course offerings. Students work one on one or in small groups with faculty guidance and are typically required to submit a final paper or project as determined by the supervising professor. Please contact the department for more information.Credits: 1-3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
A unique and specifically focused course within the general purview of a department which intends to offer it on a "one time only" basis and not as a permanent part of the department's curriculum.Credits: 1-3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
A workshop is a program which is usually of short duration, narrow in scope, often non-traditional in content and format, and on a timely topic.Credits: 1-6Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
A Selected Topics course is a normal, departmental offering which is directly related to the discipline, but because of its specialized nature, may not be able to be offered on a yearly basis by the department.Credits: 1-3Term(s) Typically Offered: Offered as NeededEnrollment is limited to Graduate level students.