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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
This course focuses on the preparation of students regarding the practices of health education/health promotion in Thailand. The students will be introduced to the Thailand cultural considerations as well as the major health issues of concern. Additionally, students will be exposed to concepts of the implementation of a service learning project that will address a community need.
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2.00 Credits
This is a travel abroad course that requires travel to Thailand. Students travel to Thailand to learn about and apply community health/promotion disease prevention concepts. The travel component of the course will include two weeks in Thailand with guided interactive tours covering the history, culture, and healthcare trends of the country. As a community health practicum, the service learning component includes opportunities to practice concepts of health promotion/disease prevention through community education activities
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisites: One of the following - HSC 203, HSC 230, NUR 432, CHE 232, BIO 330, BIO 360, or permission of the instructor. This course addresses contemporary issues in the usage of dietary supplements and sports performance aids, including vitamin and mineral supplements, herbs and botanicals promoted to the general public and to the athlete. The focus is to use the scientific method to evaluate product and research literature and health claims, when it is known that data are often likely to be incomplete or inconclusive. The course also reviews safety data, adverse event reports, and legal issues involving dietary supplements.
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4.00 Credits
This course provides key concepts and knowledge regarding how health policy is formulated, enacted, and implemented. The course analyzes health policy by focusing on how and why health policy is developed at the federal, state and local levels. Students will be given the tools with which to understand how both public and private institutions produce health policy in its various forms. Students will engage in local policy and advocacy processes. This course will provide a practical background to the study of public health policy.
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4.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to the development, implementation and evaluation strategies that address health promotion issues at multiple levels. The course will provide a strong foundation of theories and conceptual frameworks used to develop, implement and evaluate health promotion from an ecological perspective - encompassing the individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, social and policy levels.
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4.00 Credits
This course is intended to provide students with an interdisciplinary perspective at solving public health issues through case studies. Students will research and present differing public health perspectives aimed at solving pressing and current public health problems issues. In this course we will examine ways in which public health communities, organizations, stakeholders and other entities work to develop interventions to improve the health outcomes in the local, national, and global communities they serve. This course is intended for public health majors.
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4.00 Credits
This course will provide the students with a basic knowledge of public health preparedness and response using an all-hazards approach: radiological, biological, chemical, and natural disaster, as well as exercises utilizing case studies.
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4.00 Credits
This course develops the student's ability to: 1) work with organizations and communities; 2) develop skills to mobilize resources and the organizational and community capacity to address public health challenges and achieve the national health objectives; and 3) enable participation and leadership in a network that fosters the future of public health. The course exposes students to concepts and theories of leadership, performance improvement, organizational behavior, marketing, operations, organizational strategy and continuous quality improvement. The general management perspective is emphasized.
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2.00 Credits
An upper-level course for those looking to go onto professional/graduate school and/or those who would benefit from experiential learning in teaching various aspects of a laboratory course. Through direct involvement both in and out of the classroom, students gain hands-on knowledge of instruction in a health science laboratory. Under the supervision of the faculty, students participate in all aspects of teaching a semester long laboratory class. This may include, but is not limited to, presenting materials in the introductory component of each laboratory, working with students during laboratory hours, holding office hours, holding review sessions in the laboratory, creating and evaluating testing components, and laboratory preparation and maintenance. Counts as a general elective only.
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1.00 - 8.00 Credits
This course is an experiential education course that focuses on conducting undergraduate research in health sciences and working along with a faculty member. The students will be engaged in project conception, background literature study, methodology, data collection, analyzing results and possible presentation of research to larger community. At least two hours a week is required for each credit hour.
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