5319. Health Education and Behavioral Interventions for At-Risk Populations

The study and application of current learning theories, models, and strategies used by experienced health professionals to become effective interventionists within didactic, clinical, and community settings.

5351. Contemporary Nutrition Issues and Research

Critical thinking and application of research to contemporary issues in food and nutrition applied to clinical nutrition and community/public health nutrition. Learning occurs through classroom discussions, self-exploration through reading and applying scientific studies to issues, and participation in a research project.

5370. Applied Advanced Nutrition

Provides student with advanced nutrition information for the effective management of complex medical and public health problems. Emphasizes the impact of nutrients and food components on human health. The research regarding the physiological, pathological and metabolic basis for nutrients in health and disease will be emphasized.

6181. Experiential Learning in Health Promotion Research

Mentored research experiences on and/or off-campus to increase doctoral student's breadth and depth of knowledge, skills and competence in health promotion science.

6184. Graduate Seminar in Health Promotion Research

In a small learning environment under the direction of one or more faculty, students develop their research and academic abilities in health promotion sciences. Activities include: individual goal setting and implementing learning plans; attending scientific seminars; preparing and delivering research presentations; research writing; college-level teaching; grant and compliance administration; and applying for post-graduate employment.

6324. Critical Issues in Health Promotion, Disease and Disability Prevention

An in-depth study of health promotion, disease and disability prevention policies, programs and strategies.

5222. Mental Health Considerations in Exercise and Sport

The course will examine mental health considerations in sport and exercise. The course will closely examine the impact that exercise and sport performance can have on the individual and athlete’s mind and body as they devote time, energy, and effort into their sport. Engaging in sport individuals and athletes navigate unique stressors and can be at greater risk compared to the general population to experience a negative impact on their mental health and well-being. Topics to be covered may include athlete identity, mental health stigmas, personality disorders, disordered eating, substance abuse, sports specialization, and other psychiatric disorders.

5507. Fundamentals of Exercise Prescription

An examination and application of the principles of exercise prescription in primary disease prevention. Students will advance their knowledge in the exercise pre-participation health screening and pre-exercise evaluation processes. Students will develop exercise prescriptions for healthy adults and adults with multiple cardiovascular disease risk factors and/or special considerations. Student will learn how to adjust an exercise prescription for clients taking common medications that affect the exercise response and learn behavioral strategies to improve exercise adherence.

5458. Pediatric Physical Therapy

Covers normal motor development, childhood conditions that are commonly served by pediatric physical therapists, and general examination and intervention methods used for pediatric populations.

5472. Advanced Pediatric Physical Therapy

An elective for Doctorate of Physical Therapy students that covers the specialized practice of pediatric physical therapy. The course provides in depth information about pediatric conditions for which physical therapy services are typically provided. Specialized pediatric assessments and interventions are reviewed and clinical opportunities are provided to integrate and apply the academic information.

No courses found.

6317. Nutritional Epidemiology

Principles and applications of nutritional epidemiology with emphasis on research design.

5020. Culture, Health and Human Development

Introduction to current interdisciplinary approaches to the study of human development and health in the context of culture. An overview of theoretical approaches; presentations of current research by invited speakers, focusing on how to combine disciplinary perspectives and methods in order to build a new integrative science of health and development across and within cultures.

No courses found.

5101. Infant and Toddler Development

Contemporary theories and research on infant and toddler development; evaluation of prevention and intervention programs designed to address contemporary social issues facing infants/toddlers and their families.

5102. Early and Middle Childhood Development

Theory and research related to early and middle childhood as a developmental period. Focus will be on topics such as executive functioning and cognitive development, language and literacy development, peer relations, gender roles, aggression, and prosocial behaviors, as well as on prevention and intervention programs designed to address contemporary social issues facing children and their families.

5103. Adolescent Development

Adolescent development; understanding the various forces related to adolescent behavior.

5150. Human Attachment Across the Lifespan

Theory and research on attachment, separation, trauma, and loss; lifespan approach to studying continuity or discontinuity from infant-parent attachment to peer-peer interactions to adult relationships.

5215. Models and Concepts of Lifespan Human Development

Overview of approaches to understanding human development across the lifespan. Emphasis on models that cross disciplinary boundaries to explore development in social and cultural contexts.

5312. Diverse Families: Adaptations Across the Lifespan

An interdisciplinary examination of the issues and experiences of diverse families within sociological and psychological contexts and how factors such as race, ethnicity, and culture shape contemporary family life across the lifespan.

No courses found.

5340. Prevention, Intervention, and Public Policy

Survey course of the theory, practice and science of primary prevention of human problems. Prevention concepts and case studies are presented. Students give analysis and critique of course content and develop personal and professional perspectives on prevention practice and possible social policy initiatives.

5342. Parenting, Parenthood, and Family Science Interventions

Parents’ roles, identities, and behavior and the dynamics of parenthood across the lifespan. Interpersonal, familial, and societal roles of parents and the interventions that support individual parent and family well-being outcomes are presented.

5442. Latina/o Health Disparities

Overview of health and health care issues among Latina/os in the United States with particular focus on health disparities.

5550. Social Policy, Law, and Child Welfare

Application of theory and research on child development, family relations, and intervention/prevention practices to legal, policy and child welfare contexts.

5120. Health Psychology

Interaction of biological, psychological, and social factors in health. Topics include disease prevention and health promotion, psychosocial factors in treatment of illness, and stress and coping processes.

5123. Occupational Health Psychology

Introduction to research in occupational health and the field of occupational health psychology in a proseminar format. Topics include work stress, worker participation in hazard management, epidemiology of occupational exposures, workplace incivility, and design of safe work environments.

5303. Developmental Psychopathology

An examination of diagnosis, etiology, and prognosis in child psychopathology.

No courses found.

5420. Cognitive Development

Current theory and research on children's conceptual development.

5460. Social and Personality Development

Fundamental research and theory on social behavior, social cognition, and interpersonal relations in the preschool period (2-6 years) and in middle childhood (6-12 years). Early childhood precursors and consequences in adolescence. Both normative and atypical development.

5617. Occupational Health and Safety

Research methods, theories and findings related to the impact of work duties and environmental conditions on occupational safety and health.

5501. Racism

Variable topics in the study of racism, such as racism and U.S. social policy, white racism, and the social construction of whiteness. Topic may vary by semester.

5515. Sociology of Immigration

Theoretical and empirical work on immigration and ethnicity including forms of assimilation, ethnicity and transnationalism; challenges and opportunities for incorporation, and struggles over political, social, economic human rights. The course focuses on the US with selected cases from Europe and Asia.

5614. Sexual Citizenship

Sexuality as an axis of citizenship in diverse national and international contexts. Analysis of access to citizenship, relationship recognition, marriage rights, heteronormativity and compulsory heterosexuality, trans citizenship claims, immigration, asylum, sex work, reproductive rights, sex education, racism and racialization, colonialism, and social justice.

No courses found.

5344. Pediatric Rehabilitative Audiology

Auditory-based components of managing hearing loss in children; the role of the family and cultural environment in service delivery.

5345. Motor Speech Disorders

The effects of acquired and developmental neuropathology on speech. Emphasis on differential diagnosis and clinical management.

5346. Dysphagia

Dysphagia secondary to neurologic impairments, cancer, and degenerative disease. Anatomy and physiology of normal and disordered swallowing, evaluation including instrumental assessment techniques, and multidisciplinary management.

5348. Language Disorders I: Birth to 5 Years

The nature, assessment, and intervention of delayed and disordered language in children birth to five years of age.

5349. Language Disorders II: School Age Population

The nature, assessment, and intervention of delayed and disordered language in school-age children.

5353. Speech Sound Disorders in Children

Prevention, assessment, and intervention of anatomical, physiological, and language-based disorders affecting the production of speech in children.

5373. Pediatric Audiology

Physiological and perceptual maturation of the auditory system from gestation through two years of age. Assessment of children's hearing, including difficult to test children, public school and neonatal screening.

5378. Augmentative Alternative Communication in Speech-Language Pathology

Addresses the etiologies associated with severe communication impairments and related physical and/or cognitive-linguistic challenges; instructs on the basic principles of AAC assessment and procedures; identifies potential AAC users, appropriate selection of symbols and vocabulary for no, low, mid and/or high-technology systems, seating and positioning, and access; and instructs on the principles of intervention and implementation of AAC systems within the clinic, school, medical, home and community settings across the lifespan.

5315. Sport in Society

The structure and function of sport as an institution, including issues and controversies involving gender, race, and intercollegiate, professional, and children's sports.

5518. Introduction to Sport Based Youth Development

This is a service learning course that requires both classroom participation and community involvement.

5108. Students with Special Needs in the Classroom Environment

Methods for identifying, planning for, and working effectively with children with special needs in the general education classroom. Intended for non-SPED majors only.

5119. Policy, Law, and Ethics in Special Education

The impact of policy and law on the professional role of special educators.

5140. Transition Planning for Students with Disabilities

An examination of relevant legislation and recommended practices related to person-centered transition planning for students with disabilities in post-school and adult life, including postsecondary education, employment, community participation, and independent living.

5141. Classroom and Behavior Management for Special Educators

An introduction to Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS), including theoretical and empirical support, three-tiered model, and implementation strategies.

5142. Individualized Positive Behavior Support

Approaches for adapting programs to the behavioral, social and emotional needs of exceptional learners.

5170. Family Centered Practices in Early Childhood Intervention

Illustrates the centrality of the family in the life of infants and young children with disabilities and, subsequently, early childhood intervention. This course relies on outside readings, discussions, and completion of performance-based competencies where concepts are interpreted and applied to early childhood intervention.

5172. Intervention of Early Childhood Disabilities or Delayed Development and Their Families

Illustrates the importance of well planned and executed interventions for infants and young children with high needs and/or disabilities who receive early childhood services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Creation of intervention programs with integrated (across developmental domains) outcomes that stem from a functional assessment and a collaborative team process. This includes interventions and services designed to maximize natural learning opportunities and the use of evaluation tools and progress monitoring for individual children and families as required for federal reporting. Outside readings, class discussions, interactive web-based assignments and completion of performance-based competencies where concepts are interpreted and applied to infants and young children and their families.

5173. Teaching and Collaborating of Infants and Young Children with Disabilities and their Families

Provides a foundation for the inclusion of infants and young children with disabilities and their families into inclusive community settings and programs. Inherent within this framework is the ability for personnel to demonstrate strategic planning to accomplish this on a family, community and program. Outside readings, in-class activities, and individual and group applications of competencies.

5304. School Counseling Program Development and Evaluation

Basic philosophical and professional premises of the counseling profession. History of counseling profession, counselor's roles and functions, role of research/theory in counseling, and professional ethics. Individual group, and preventive counseling approaches.

5307. Professional Orientation of School Counseling

Principles and practices of pupil personnel work in educational institutions including all aspects of pupil personnel services; the role of the school counselor as a pupil personnel worker; and as a consultant on teacher-pupil relations.

5308. Counseling: Theory and Practice

Contemporary theories and practices of essential helping skills.

5318. Human Growth and Development over the Lifespan: Implications for Counselors

A review of human growth and development over the lifespan using psychosocial theory with an emphasis on individual and family transitions, learning processes, personality, developmental crises, gender role conflicts and transitions, ethical issues, and strategies to optimize human potential.

5404. Pupil Behavior: Studies in Clinical Diagnosis

Diagnosis of school problems, report writing for school purposes, and an analysis of needs for referral.

5430. Childhood Development and Psychopathology

Addresses competencies related to child and adolescent mental disorders, the classification of these disorders, and the basis for diagnosis.

5440. Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Intervention in Schools

Provides students with knowledge and skills related to varied evidence-based methods in psychology and education to promote the social, emotional, and behavioral health and well-being of youth in schools.

5510. Learning: Its Implication for Education

Nature and types of learning, transfer of training, motivation, nature of instructional outcomes, with particular attention to individual differences among elementary and secondary school pupils.

5720. Developing Schoolwide Enrichment Programs

An overview of the theory and research behind and components within the Schoolwide Enrichment Model. Practical techniques for implementing the model in classrooms and school districts.

5201. Essentials of Social Inequality and Health Disparities

Introduction to (a) the extent of health disparities across the US population, (b) how social inequality contributes to health disparities, and (c) why attention to social inequality is essential to the effective practice of clinical medicine and dental medicine. Examination of how society's social, economic, political and cultural institutions are structured and why they perpetuate the unequal distribution of opportunities that systematically limit the life chances and experiences of individuals. A range of social determinants (race/racism, poverty, income inequality, education, environmental conditions, social capital, social cohesion, social mobility, safety/security, criminal justice system) are considered that may influence health, either directly or as pathways for other determinants. Addresses the function of public health assessment, provides students with a conceptual basis for the complementary course, PUBH 5202.

5202. Eliminating Social Inequality and Health Disparities

Examination of the evidence for structural, community, and individual-level interventions to reduce the impact of inequity on health and health care utilization. Identification and implementation of multi-level interventions that may reduce inequities by altering the social, economic, and other structural aspects of the environment. It will also address challenges of implementation and ways to reduce potential barriers. The course builds on the conceptual basis of PUBH 5201.

5455. Health Education

Methods for planning, presenting, and evaluating health education programs in communities, schools and worksites. Includes use of the Precede Model, setting of goals and objectives, behavior modification theory, group processes, teaching techniques and activities for developing and presenting workshops or courses.

No courses found.

5477. Food, Health and Politics

Comprehensive overview of the factors that influence how our food is grown; what foods are available, affordable, and advertised; and the ensuing public health implications. Examines the history of food production in America, the development of public and private food assistance programs, the fast food movement, and food marketing. Students will explore the political, social, economic and environmental factors that impact food availability and consumption, and discuss the implications of these factors on health outcomes, such as obesity, hunger, chronic diseases, and health disparities.

5497. Graduate Seminar in Public Health

5497. Graduate Seminar in Public Health

5501. Foundations of Public Health and Disability

Introductory survey of the ways in which disability, both developmental and acquired, is affected by, and interacts with, public health policy and practice. Students will have a foundational understanding of a comprehensive set of issues of both acquired and developmental disability as related to the core elements of public health as framed by the 10 Essential Public Health Services.

5503. Disability Law, Policy, Ethics, and Advocacy

Introduction to policy and law affecting people with disabilities and public health approaches to meeting their individual needs as well as the needs of broader populations. Federal disability laws are reviewed in terms of both their implications and the implications of public health ethics on people with disabilities. Reviews the role courts have played in further shaping disability policy and the influence of public health ethics and the disability rights movement on decision-making in public health. Policy, legal and advocacy implications for public health at the international level, and essential tools for enforcing laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety and for developing new policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts inclusive of people with disabilities.

No courses found.

5430. Management of Childbearing Women and Children

The focus of this course on health promotion/disease prevention and clinical diagnosis and management of management of childbearing women and children. In addition, common acute and chronic health problems will be addressed.

5870. Health Policy and Populations-based Advocacy for the Scholarship of Application

The role of collaborative health care teams in health promotion and risk reduction and illness prevention for population health. Educational strategies necessary for transformation of clinical education to decrease preventable deaths will be incorporated.

5310. Current Trends in Family Intervention: Evid-Based and Promising Practice Models of In-Home Treatment

Exposes students to several nationally acclaimed Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) treatment programs for families that are widely practiced. Students are introduced to competencies associated with EBP and an overview of several empirically supported therapy programs that are designed to address psychiatric, behavioral and/or substance abuse concerns in children and adolescents including Multisystem Therapy (MST), Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT), Intensive Home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services (IICAPS), Functional Family Therapy (FFT) and Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT). Case presentations from local providers of these models and testimonials from families.

5320. Direct Practice in School for Children with Educational Disabilities and Their Families

Meets state requirements for school work certification, approved by the Bureau of Certification and Professional Development. The practice of social work in schools requires that the social worker possess knowledge and skills to provide social work services for students with educational impairments and their families. To provide such service, the social worker must be able to engage in effective partnerships with parents and other multi-disciplinary team members and possess a repertoire of interventions appropriate for this population. Presents and discusses controversies and issues relative to labeling and testing procedures, such as the impact of racial and ethnic differences. Covers six areas of impairment as designated by law (Emotionally Impaired, Mentally Impaired, Learning Disabled, Autistic Impaired, Physically and Otherwise Health Impaired, and Speech and Language Impaired). Stimulates further study in impairment areas and lays a basic knowledge and skill foundation of social work services appropriate for these populations.

5381. Child Maltreatment: History, Theory, Prevention and Intervention

Primarily for students with some practice experience in family and children's services, examines the phenomena of child abuse and neglect and societal and professional responses aimed at their prevention and treatment. As with other courses in the Substantive Area in Family and Children's Services, it is presented in the context of ecologically oriented, family-centered child welfare policy and practice. Elective course for Substantive Area: Focused Area of Study on Social Work with Women and Children in Families.

5345. Clinical Conditions with Children and Adolescents

Practice course paying equal attention to the values, skills, and knowledge required for social work practice with children, adolescents, and their families. These youth have a range of bio-psychosocial problems related to mental disorders. Students will learn a range of assessment and intervention skills and will become familiar with current psychiatric classification systems, such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). Students will demonstrate the ability to access the most recent empirical and practice knowledge, and to develop skills related to work in a variety of mental health settings. Mental disorders will be learned within the context of larger bio-psychosocial systems. Attention is paid to differences based upon such variables as age, gender, ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation, and physical ability.

5318. Special Topics

Introduces new and innovative material into the curriculum on an experimental basis. Any special topics course may be offered only twice and may not duplicate content already available in the regular curriculum. Any instructor offering a special topics course must submit the title and a brief statement of focus of the course to the Registrar for inclusion in the course registration schedule. A student may apply up to eight credits of Independent Study and Special Topics in Social Work (combined) toward the M.S.W. degree.

5318. Core Concepts of Child and Adolescent Trauma

Incorporates the new National Child Traumatic Stress Network core curriculum on child trauma (CCCT). The course conveys the crucial evidence-based concepts, components, and skills designed by the NCTSN to strengthen competency in assessment, referral, and treatment.