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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Sophomore level Independent Study .
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1.00 Credits
Focuses on future educators integrating technology into the classroom. Hands-on work involves designing educational experiences for professional and student use. RESTRICTIONS: Open to HPE majors only.
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3.00 Credits
Designed to challenge students to examine how they can impact their happiness and improve their overall health and quality of life. Students will complete weekly assignments developed to address a variety of issues that impact happiness and quality of life.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the field of medical anthropology, the study of health and illness across diverse societies. This course examines the causes of health disparities and inequalities, various cultural meanings of illness and body, and relationships between biological and social factors in disease and sickness. Topics include COVID-19, HIV/AIDS, infectious disease, chronic illness, mental health, pharmaceuticals, environmental health, among other topics. Particular interest for students interested in medicine, public health, nursing, and other health professions.
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide students with an in-depth examination of public health campaigns that promote behavior change using theories at the individual, interpersonal, organizational, and community levels. We will explore the current media environment, in which public health campaigns can utilize a variety of channels including smart phones, social networks, video games, and entertainment television. Students will gain practical skills and expertise in message design and effects.
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3.00 Credits
People's cultures, health, and environments are intimately connected. Cultural beliefs and behaviors shape people's health and their environment. Health issues shape cultural responses to risk and decisions about the environment. Environments impact cultural perceptions and people's health. Understanding these influences, interactions, and connections is crucial to navigating today's world. This class will cover relationships between culture, health, and environment, including questions about inequality, inequity, food, agriculture, disasters, pollution, and climate change.
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3.00 Credits
Global health is a defining social and political movement of our time. Examines different health and illness conditions in diverse social and cultural settings and the efforts to improve health around the world. Topics include major global health problems, health disparities and inequalities, health care access, community-based health care, and health justice. Particular interest for students interested in medicine, public health, nursing, and other health professions.
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3.00 Credits
Nutritional Anthropology takes an explicit biocultural approach to nutrition, examining the interaction of biology and culture as they affect food systems, customs, practices and nutrition. Specific foci of the course include: evolutionary and comparative perspectives (biological baseline, agriculture, contemporary food systems); why we eat what we eat (materialist, symbolic explanations for foodways); adaptation of food to people and people to food; foods as medicines; under- and over-nutrition in contemporary world; child and infant feeding, hunger; solutions to diet-related problems.
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3.00 Credits
Examines topics in global pharmaceuticals, including antidepressants, lifestyle drugs, medicalization, media advertising, brain science, ethical issues in medical research, the clinical treatment of children, and health care access. This course is of particular interest for students interested in medicine, public health, nursing, and other health professions.
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3.00 Credits
Issues surrounding health behavior science, with emphasis on role of professional in promoting individual and community behavior change. COREQ: BHAN155 for non-Sports Health majors; BHAN155 or KAAP155 for Sports Health majors.
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