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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on media's role in shaping health behaviors. Taking a traditional approach to the effects of mass media, students will examine how media campaigns change health behaviors like smoking, drinking, drug use, safe sex behaviors, HIV prevention, breast cancer awareness, and more. The class will focus on the principles behind designing, implementing, and evaluating a health campaign.
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3.00 Credits
This course presents methods for the identification of population-based needs for public health intervention, development of programs to meet those needs, and evaluation of the effectiveness of these public health interventions. The course integrates several knowledge and skill areas including: research methods, proposal writing, budget planning, project management, and program evaluation. Students will learn the process of public health programming including research methods, proposal writing, budget planning, assessment, design, planning, implementations, project management, and evaluation.
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3.00 Credits
This course will cover nutrition as it relates to public health. As such, nutrition will be approached from a community and population viewpoint rather than a clinical viewpoint. Topics covered will include nutritional epidemiology, community nutrition assessment, public policy as it pertains to nutrition, food insecurity, food justice, nutrition in global health, nutritional health promotion, and protection of the food system. This course will also explore the interrelatedness of agriculture, food production, population growth, health and nutrition programs, the environment, natural or man-made disasters, disease, and economic development. Specific topics in clinical nutrition will also be covered.
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3.00 Credits
In this course you will learn how emergency preparedness affects you as an individual as well as a Public Health professional. We will examine how the emergency response system works locally and federally as well as the role of public health workers in responding to natural disasters, disease outbreaks and other types of emergencies. Upon completion you will be more effectively be able to participate in the emergency response plan in the event of a major event or disaster.
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3.00 Credits
Sexual assault, domestic violence, stalking, trafficking, and other forms of interpersonal violence disproportionately affect women, girls, and marginalized populations. Violence against women has become a significant public health threat with measurable impact on indicators such as illness, injury, and mortality. This course will use the public health framework to examine the causes and consequences of interpersonal violence, including an analysis of individual, community, and societal risk and protective factors, implications for public policy, and research directions for primary prevention.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the extent/causes of social inequalities in health. The focus is on individual, community and policy approaches to reducing social inequalities in health.
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to provide students with a basic understanding of "Informatics" and its application in a Public Health setting. The goal of Public Health Informatics is for students to understand the basic technological tools and building blocks needed to develop and manage Public Health data collection systems to meet analytical needs. Students will learn how to take these systems and implement them successfully in Public Health environments.
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3.00 Credits
The focus of this course is an overview of public health on a global scale. Students in this course will immerse themselves with a global outlook of public health, and understand how disease and illness ignore national borders. The course will begin with a broad overview of the global health situation, comparing the different regions of the world. Students will then be exposed to specific topics in global health, including infectious diseases, chronic diseases, women and children's health, nutrition, occupational and environmental diseases, mental health, culture/religion and health, traditional and indigenous health, and health care systems. The course will be a blend of lectures and discussion, along with guest lectures and multimedia presentations. The capstone for the course will be a presentation and final paper on a topic of the student's choice.
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3.00 Credits
Infectious Disease Epidemiology provides an overview of the foundations and methods used in assessing the phenomena of infectious disease from a public health perspective. The cause and treatment of common infectious diseases are explored as a foundation for the learning objectives.
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1.00 Credits
Allows students to undertake independent research and readings on special topics not fully covered in the MPC Program. Prerequisites: consent of instructor and school dean.
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