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HSA 3111 U.S. Health Care System 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Overview of organization, delivery and financing of health services in the U.S. Topics include health professionals, health care facilities, financing of health services, managed care and current health policy issues.
Prerequisite: (BSC 2007 or BSC 2005 or BSC 2010) and PSY 2012 and STA 2023 and (health science or communication sciences and disorders or public health majors or health science or public health minors).
HSC 3057 Research Methods and Issues in Health Science 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Emphasizes four aspects of research: understanding research principles, evaluating journal articles, applying research findings to clinical settings and designing programmatic evaluation projects.
Prerequisite: HSC 3502 and Health Science or Public Health majors or minors.
HSC 3502 Survey of Diseases and Disability 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Overview of medical and psychosocial aspects of chronic diseases and disability.
Prerequisite: health science or communication sciences and disorders majors or health science minor.
HSC 4558 Survey of Diseases and Disabilities 2 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Overview of medical and psychosocial aspects of chronic diseases, including issues of disability management. This required course, combined with HSC 3502, covers all of the major disabling conditions.
Prerequisite: HSC 3502; Health Science, Public Health, Communication Sciences and Disorders majors/minors only
PHC 2100 Introduction to Public Health 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Overview of public health as a multifaceted field. Includes discussion of contemporary public health challenges with input from discipline experts.
PHC 3440 Global Public Health 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Critical links between global health and social and economic development. Discusses the burden of disease and how to measure this across countries. Focuses on low and middle income countries and the health of the poor.
Prerequisite: PHC 4101 and junior standing or higher..
PHC 3603 Critical Issues in Ph 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
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PHC 4024 Applied Epidemiology 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Principles and methods of epidemiological investigation focusing on both infectious and noninfectious diseases. Emphasizes outbreak investigations, field epidemiology and epidemiology careers.
Prerequisite: HSC 3057, HSC 3502, HSC 4558, PHC 4101, and Health Science and Public Health majors/minors only.
PHC 4031 One Health and Emerging Infectious Diseases 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
A pivotal elective in the One Health Program and the Bachelors of Public Health degree; introduces the concept of One Health in the context of how disease-causing microbes or pathogens emerge and the critical drivers of microbial evolution.
Prerequisite: Gen Ed Biology; academic level junior, senior and graduate or instructor approval
PHC 4094 Introduction to Biostatistics for Health Science and Public Health 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Methods and public health applications for analysis of variance, correlation, simple linear regression, multiple linear regression, nonparametric and distribution-free statistical methods, and some basic concepts about survival analysis. Public health applications using statistical software. Writing data analysis reports.
Prerequisite: STA 2023.
PHC 4101 Public Health Concepts 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Introduces the basic tenets, applications and foci of public health, including integrating public health with other health professions.
Prerequisite: (BSC 2007 or BSC 2005 or BSC 2010) and PSY 2012 and STA 2023.
PHC 4117 Public Health Management Leadership 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Provides knowledge relevant to leading public health organizations while effectively managing and motivating employees. Includes organizational behavior and theories to examine management, leadership, and application of skills in delivering public health programs.
Prerequisite: HSA 3111 and HSC 3502 and HSC 4558 and PHC 4101 and Public Health major.
PHC 4320 Environmental Concepts in Public Health 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Surveys major environmental health topics by examining sources, routes, media, and health outcomes associated with biological, chemical, and physical agents in the environment. Introduces the economic and legal frameworks associated with environmental health issues and public health.
Prerequisite: PHC 4101.
PHC 4930 Special Topics in Public Health 1-6 Credits
Grading Scheme: S/U
Exploration of a general or a specific area of public health.
Prerequisite: junior or senior standing.