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This course introduces students to the discipline of public health and its philosophies, approaches, and activities. The course reviews the core functions, essential services, and five disciplines of public health. Students learn about the science of disease prevention, health promotion, and the historical development of social constructs that lead to health disparities in many communities. The course will teach students to identify and analyze health disparities in large populations and casual factors such as racism, sexims, and classism.
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This course is designed to provide students with the basic processes and skills for understanding human behavior and the application of these processes to improve the health of communities. Next in the sequence after PH 101, this course provides an in-depth look at community health, one of the disciplines of public health. Students will learn and practice public health methods such as health communication, health promotion, and other program planning methods used to educate and design efforts to prevent disease, injury and improve health and wellbeing. Health programming will focus on communities, instead of individual health. Studetns will read and analyze public health literature, exploring scholarly and scientific approaches to community health promotion and education.
Prerequisite:
PH 101
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In this course, students will learn what constitutes health policy and how it is developed and implemented by state, local, and federal governments. The course will focus on the major policy issues of access, quality and cost of healthcare. Students will analyze various health care policies and the impacts on identified stakeholders to learn how to influence policy and be an advocate as a healthcare professional. The course also reviews the basic components of the healthcare system and plicy such as public and private insurance, hospitals, reform, innovation, and primary care. Disparities in health and health care access will also be addressed through study of structural factors that influence health and the healthcare system.
Prerequisite:
AH 204 (Grade of C or Better)
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This course provides students with a foundation in public health research methods, including quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods. Students will be introduced to epidemiology and how research is conducted to determine health problems and issues in affected communities. Students will learn the influence of social constructs and environments on health problems and diseases through evidence-based research used to understand and improve the health of various populations. Students will analyze the effect of environments on specific social groups, considering race, ethnicity, and gender.
Prerequisite:
(PH 102 and SOC 231) or (SOC 233 and FNMT 118) or MATH 251
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The course introduces students to the foundational theories and methods of philosophical analysis, emphasizing critical examination of some fundamental principles and problems of philosophy, with examples from the major areas of philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics.
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The course introduces students to the foundational theories and methods of philosophical analysis, using a particular theme or subgenre - such as art, ethics, or truth - to at once focus student inquiry, while broadening the interdisciplinary nature of the course. Students learn to write and speak critically about philosophical theories, with emphasis on interpretation as well as relationships between philosophy and other academic disciplines.
Prerequisite:
ENGL 101 (Prerequisite or Corequisite)
Corequisite:
ENGL 101 (Prerequisite or Corequisite)
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Principles of critical thinking and problem solving, deductive and inductive logic and fallacies. Includes the analysis of formal and informal arguments.
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Introduction to many of the world's major religious traditions (including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam) as well as other selected ancient and modern religious traditions. The course will also consider the nature and significance of religious experience, the impact of religion on culture, basic approaches to the study of religion, and different theories used to interpret religious beliefs and practices.
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Systematic and historical analysis of philosophical problems of religion, such as the problem of evil and theodicy, the conflict between religion and science, the relationship between faith and reason, the nature of religious language, and arguments about the nature and existence of God.
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