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2018-2019 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

 

Other Courses
  

  • MEDE 9301 Rural Scholars Community Health Research Project

    1-3 SCH. This course is designed to give the student experience in community responsiveness, leadership and scholarly activity. Through the identification of a need or a health problem in their designated rural community, the student develops a research plan to obtain pertinent data, and produces a final paper with a potential plan to address the community need or health problem. This course is restricted to students enrolled in the Rural Scholars Program.
    Prerequisite: Students must complete MEDE 7220 - Rural Medicine 4
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9401 Elective Clerkship - Family Medicine

    4 SCH. This course is a four-week elective that is completed during the fourth year. The goal of this course is to provide educational experiences within the private sector emphasizing the totality of community-based family practice. The student is allowed considerable flexibility in choosing the preceptor for this course.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9403 Elective Clerkship - Emergency Medicine

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in emergency medicine.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9404 Elective Clerkship - Internal Medicine

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in internal medicine.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9407 Elective Clerkship - Obstetrics and Gynecology

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in obstetrics and gynecology.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9408 Elective Clerkship - Pediatrics

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in pediatrics.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9410 Elective Clerkship - Psychiatry

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in psychiatry that can be tailored to meet the student’s objectives. This course is especially useful for students who wish to pursue advanced training in psychiatry.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9411 Elective Clerkship - Surgery

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in surgery in an affiliated hospital.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9412 Elective Clerkship - Anesthesiology

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in anesthesiology.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9413 Elective Clerkship - Dermatology

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in dermatology.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9414 Elective Clerkship - Ophthalmology

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week clerkship in ophthalmology.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9415 Elective Clerkship - Hospital Medicine

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in hospital medicine.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9416 Elective Clerkship - Manipulative Medicine

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation for self-directed study in manipulative medicine with emphasis on applications of osteopathic philosophy and principles. The clerkship may be served in the manipulative medicine clinic or in the offices of area manipulative medicine specialists.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9417 Elective Clerkship - Otorhinolaryngology

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in otorhinolaryngology.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9419 Elective Clerkship - Radiology

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in radiology.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9420 Elective Clerkship - Sports Medicine/Rehabilitation

    4 SCH. An elective four-week rotation in sports medicine and rehabilitation emphasizing the role of the primary care physician in the care of athletes.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9421 Elective Clerkship - Allergy

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in allergy care.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9422 Elective Clerkship - Rheumatology

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in rheumatology.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9423 Elective Clerkship - Cardiology

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in cardiology.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9424 Elective Clerkship - Endocrinology

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in endocrinology.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9425 Elective Clerkship - Gastroenterology

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in gastroenterology.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9426 Elective Clerkship - Hyperbaric Medicine

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in hyperbaric medicine.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9427 Elective Clerkship - Geriatrics

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in geriatrics.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9428 Elective Clerkship - Hematology/Oncology

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in hematology/oncology.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9429 Elective Clerkship - Infectious Disease

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in infectious disease.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9430 Elective Clerkship - Nephrology

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in nephrology.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9431 Elective Clerkship - Neurology

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in neurology.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9432 Elective Clerkship - Pulmonary Medicine

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in pulmonary medicine.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9433 Elective Clerkship - Mobile Integrated Healthcare

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in mobile integrated healthcare.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9434 Elective Clerkship - Orthopedics

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in orthopedics.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9435 Elective Clerkship - Thoracic Surgery

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in thoracic surgery.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9436 Elective Clerkship - Neurosurgery

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in neurosurgery.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9437 Elective Clerkship - Urology

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in urology.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9438 Elective Clerkship - Pathology

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in pathology.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9439 Elective Clerkship - Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in sports medicine and physical therapy clinics emphasizing the principles of rehabilitation of musculoskeletal, neurologic, and orthopedic conditions.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9444 Elective Clerkship - Intensive Care Unit

    4 SCH. An elective four-week elective clerkship in an intensive care unit.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9445 Elective Clerkship - Radiation Oncology

    4 SCH. This course is a four-week elective rotation providing the student an opportunity to learn the basic fundamentals of radiation oncology, including available technologies, as well as patient management.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9446 Rural Elective-Rural Community Health Systems

    4 SCH. This course is a four-week elective clinical rotation that provides the student with broad in-hospital patient care experience as well as experience with the medical and health care services provided by the community. The goal is to involve the student doctor in every aspect of a patients care. This may relate not only to actual in-patient care, but rehabilitation services, emergency medical services, home health, hospice, sports medicine care (i.e. team physician), etc. This rotation is done at a designated community and rural hospital and is open to any Year 4 TCOM student.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9459 Elective Clerkship - Directed Studies

    4 SCH. An elective four-week directed study.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9460 Elective Clerkship - Academic Medicine

    4 SCH. An elective four-week directed study in Academic Medicine designed for the acquisition of test construction skills and for the review of essential concepts in the clinical sciences, prior to Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination (COMLEX), Level 2.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9461 Elective Clerkship - Medical Humanities

    4 SCH. An elective four-week rotation in medical humanities.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9462 Elective Clerkship - Occupational Medicine

    4 SCH. An elective four-week rotation in occupational medicine.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9463 Elective Clerkship - Public Health/Preventive Medicine

    4 SCH. An elective four-week rotation in public health/preventive medicine.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9464 Elective Clerkship - Substance Abuse

    4 SCH. An elective four-week rotation in substance abuse.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9465 Elective Clerkship - Toxicology

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in toxicology.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9466 Elective Clerkship - International Family Medicine

    4 SCH. An elective four-week international clerkship in family medicine.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9467 Elective Clerkship - International Internal Medicine

    4 SCH. An elective four-week international clerkship in internal medicine.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9468 Elective Clerkship - International Obstetrics and Gynecology

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week international rotation in obstetrics and gynecology.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9469 Elective Clerkship - International Pediatrics

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in obstetrics and gynecology.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9470 Elective Clerkship - International Surgery

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in International Surgery.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • MEDE 9475 Elective Clerkship - Military Medicine

    4 SCH. This course is an elective four-week rotation in military medicine.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • PSPT 6100 Independent Topics in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacotherapy (PSPT)

    1 SCH. This elective course will be a journal club offered only in the spring semester for a given school year. In consultation with the course director, each student will select, present and lead the discussion about a recently published research paper that represents a major scientific advancement in the fields of pharmaceutical sciences or pharmacotherapy.
    Prerequisite: Student must complete BMSC 6201, BMSC 6202, BMSC 6203, and BMSC 6204.
    Offered Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • PSPT 6400 Principles of Drug Discovery and Development

    4 SCH. This course is designed to provide graduate students and professional students with a broad knowledge about the processes of drug discovery and development. We blend multiple disciplines to cover researches from preclinical to clinical. Topics covered include therapeutic target identification, drug lead identification and optimization, drug ADME, drug formulation development, preclinical animal studies and clinical research.
    Prerequisite: Student must complete BMSC 6201, BMSC 6202, BMSC 6203, and BMSC 6204.
    Offered Spring
    Letter Grade

Academic Medicine
  

  • AMED 5000 Clinical Teaching 1

    1 SCH. This course is designed to introduce medical faculty to concepts and processes involved in clinical teaching. Students will assess their own teaching style and develop a personal clinical teaching plan. Topics covered include developing a supportive learning environment; learner needs assessment, instructional planning, instructional modalities, observation skills and developmental models.
    Offered Fall
    Letter Grade
  

  • AMED 5100 Clinical Teaching 2

    1 SCH. This course builds on the basic concepts and processes introduced in Clinical Teaching 1 for medical faculty. Topics covered include feedback and evaluation, remediating academic performance problems and due process/academic dismissal.
    Offered Spring
    Letter Grade
  

  • AMED 5200 Curriculum Design 1

    1.5 SCH. This course is designed to introduce medical faculty to concepts and processes involved in curriculum design. Topics covered include the history of medical curriculum development, exploring models of mind/competency, defining curricular needs, learner needs assessment, writing clear goals/objectives and evaluation planning.
    Offered Fall
    Letter Grade
  

  • AMED 5300 Curriculum Design 2

    1.0 SCH. This course builds on the basic concepts and processes introduced in Curriculum Design 1 for medical faculty. Topics covered include the educational strategies, evaluation methods, and steps to implement curricular change. Students will develop a written curriculum for their medical education institution based on current needs.
    Offered Spring
    Letter Grade
  

  • AMED 5400 Professional Academic Development for Medical Faculty 1

    1.5 SCH. The Professional Academic Development course is designed to advance the faculty competencies and enhance the professional development skills and opportunities for students through various workshops, sessions, and activities. This course will assist students in defining their career goals, develop interpersonal communication skills, and increase their knowledge and skills to excel academically and professionally. Activities in this course are designed to prepare the student professionally for careers in academic medicine.
    Offered Fall
    Letter Grade
  

  • AMED 5500 Professional Academic Development for Medical Faculty 2

    2 SCH. The course advances faculty competencies in organizational change management, developing productive teams, grant writing, and professional organizations. This course will feature exploration of emerging topics such as health care reform, disruptive innovations and teaching in a digital environment. Students will develop their own educator portfolio to demonstrate competencies. Activities in this course are designed to promote longevity and success as academic medicine faculty.
    Offered Spring
    Letter Grade
  

  • AMED 5600 Research Skills for Academic Health Professionals 1

    3.0 SCH. This course is designed to introduce medical faculty to concepts and processes involved in medical and educational research. Topics covered include asking quality research questions, searching the literature, research design, human subjects protection and successful writing. Students will develop a research question, choose a study design, develop applicable data collection instruments and submit their required project proposal for institutional review.
    Offered Fall
    Letter Grade
  

  • AMED 5700 Research Skills for Academic Health Professionals 2

    3.0 SCH. This course builds on the basic concepts and processes from the introductory course. Topics covered include critical appraisal of the literature, biostatistics, data analysis and evidence-based medicine journal clubs. Continuing the research project developed in Research Skills for Health Professionals 1, students will gather, analyze and present the resultant data and will prepare a written report.
    Offered Spring
    Letter Grade
  

  • AMED 5800 Capstone for Academic Medicine Certificate

    1 SCH. This course is designed to refine and integrate content from earlier certificate course work via dialogue, symposia, and directed final reflection. The session will conclude with the final presentation of projects launched during initial certificate courses, a leadership round-table, and granting of a Certificate in Academic Medicine to those students who acceptably complete all course work.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Letter Grade
  

  • AMED 6300 Strategies for Clinical Education

    3 SCH. This course focuses on the application of conventional learning theories to the unique environment of the clinical setting. Course participants will be able to apply these principles in preparing and executing curriculum for advanced students in health education programs. Classes will include self-study and weekly participation in classroom-based interactive seminars. A semester project demonstrating acquisition of knowledge of learning and instructional design principles will be required. Course credit from the University of North Texas Health Science Center has been applied for.
    Offered Fall
    Conversion Grade Basis - SPH

Behavioral and Community Health
  

  • BACH 5001 MPH Comprehensive Exam

    0 SCH. The Comprehensive Examination is a culminating experience option for the MPH degree intended to test the mastery of the competencies required. A student who chooses this option must register for this course in the semester in which he/she intends to take the examination.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • BACH 5297 Practice Experience

    1 SCH. 3 SCH; 1 SCH each semester. This course provides students with experience in public health practice through directed work in practice settings. The public health practice experience involves different goals and activities aimed at providing opportunities for the student to gain hands-on experience addressing the MPH foundation and concentration competencies. Students are required to commit to a minimum of 600 cumulative hours total over three semesters, earning a minimum of 100 hours each semester of enrollment. Students are required to complete a project that is specific and beneficial to the organization, produce a poster presentation of their and practice experience, complete weekly reflection assignments, and other assignments as detailed in the course. Placements and practice activities are selected to complement the students’ academic and professional goals. Students must attend all required practice experience sessions and obtain approval of their placement before enrolling in the course.
    Prerequisite: Students must be in good academic standing with the university and have completed all required courses during the first year cohort program or have completed at least 21 SCH as an online student.
    Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
    Letter Grade
  

  • BACH 5300 Theoretical Foundations of Individual and Community Health

    3 SCH. This course provides an introduction to theoretical approaches used in facilitating behavioral, social and cultural changes needed for improving population health. Students learn the importance of integrating multidisciplinary perspectives- behavioral, social, cultural, political, and economic- to address health disparities and assess impacts of health policy. The course will rely on an ecological framework to examine theories of individual and community health at multiple levels.
    Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
    Letter Grade
  

  • BACH 5310 Participatory Approaches to Improving Community Health

    3 SCH. SCH. 3 SCH. The purpose of this course is to provide students with an understanding of the principles and strategies that guide participatory research and practice in community health. Students learn different approaches to addressing health assets and barriers in disparate communities. The course explores the strengths and challenges of participatory research and practice, and skills necessary for effective implementation. Prerequisites:BACH 5300 . Offered Fall and Spring.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Letter Grade
  

  • BACH 5312 Community Assessment and Program Planning

    3 SCH. SCH. 3 SCH. This course provides an overview of the models, concepts, and skills used in community assessment and health program planning. Students will learn how to conduct needs assessments, develop logic models for planning programs based on community needs, and identify goals and objectives that can serve as a foundation for program evaluation. This course is the first of three required courses designed to prepare the student to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate community intervention programs. Prerequisites: BACH 5300  and BACH 5310 . Offered Fall and Spring.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Letter Grade
  

  • BACH 5314 Quantitative Research Methods

    3 SCH. This course serves as a foundation for understanding and applying research methods in community health. Emphasis will be placed on applying quantitative methods to health promotion and disease prevention activities in communities. The course will prepare students to become critical consumers of research literature.
    Prerequisite: Students must complete BACH 5300, EPID 5300 and BIOS 5300 or permission by instructor.
    Offered Fall
    Letter Grade
  

  • BACH 5316 Community Health Program Evaluation and Interventions

    3 SCH. SCH. 3 SCH. This course focuses on models and procedures for evaluating community health programs. Practitioner competencies related to evaluation design, and the use and implementation of evaluation findings are addressed in the course. Prerequisites: BACH 5300 , BACH 5310  and BACH 5312  or permission of the instructor. Offered Fall and Spring.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Letter Grade
  

  • BACH 5319 Tobacco Control and Prevention

    3 SCH. This course provides a comprehensive overview of the history of tobacco use and its impact on morbidity and mortality. Students learn about the production and marketing of tobacco products; the relationship between smoking and disease; the politics of tobacco legislation; effects of government and workplace regulatory policies; industry responses to regulation; research on smoking cessation and tobacco use in developing nations.
    Prerequisite: Student must complete BACH 5300 or obtain permission of the instructor.
    Offered Spring
    Letter Grade
  

  • BACH 5321 Injury and Violence Prevention

    3 SCH. This course explores the causes and consequences of the many types of traumatic injury in the United States. Injuries associated with transportation, work-life, home-life, intimate partner and family violence, criminal activity, and natural disasters are included. The role of the public health and safety policy in preventing injury is critically examined.
    Prerequisite: Student must complete BACH 5300 or obtain permission of the instructor.
    Offered Spring
    Letter Grade
  

  • BACH 5324 Introduction to Health Disparities

    3 SCH. The objective of this course is to provide students with an understanding about the determinants and consequences of health inequalities and learn to advocate for reducing existing health disparities.
    Offered Fall
    Letter Grade
  

  • BACH 5328 Introduction to Global Health

    3 SCH. This introductory course provides the student with an overview of the conditions, practices and obstacles encountered in delivering primary health care in the international arena. The differences and commonality of the challenges facing the health care provider are explored. The history of international health and the roles of government and non-governmental agencies are presented along with specific models of intervention and evaluation of major international health problems.
    Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
    Letter Grade
  

  • BACH 5330 Health Communication Strategies

    3 SCH. This course is designed to provide a step-by-step approach to developing, implementing, and evaluating a health communication plan designed to influence voluntary behavior change of target audiences to improve their personal welfare and that of their society. The role of media and other channels will be evaluated as part of health communication strategies. National and international health communication campaigns will be analyzed.
    Offered Spring
    Letter Grade
  

  • BACH 5335 Issues In Mental Health and Mental Illness

    3 SCH. This course introduces students to public health perspectives on mental health and mental illness. The course focuses on conceptions of mental health and illness, and the social and policy factors that sustain the inadequate system of care for persons with serious mental illness. Students will learn about the consequences of mental illness; the history of deinstitutionalization in the United States; the role of psychotherapeutic medications in contemporary treatment; the relationships between mental illness, homelessness, poverty, and the myths and prejudices associated with mental illness.
    Prerequisite: Student must complete BACH 5300 or obtain permission of the instructor.
    Offered Spring
    Letter Grade
  

  • BACH 5340 Community Assessment and Program Planning

    3 SCH. This course provides an overview of the models, concepts, and skills used in community assessment and health program planning. Students will learn how to conduct needs assessments, develop logic models for planning programs based on community needs, and identify goals and objectives that can serve as a foundation for program evaluation. This course is the first of three required courses designed to prepare the student to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate community intervention programs.
    Prerequisite: Student must complete BACH 5300 and EPID 5300 or obtain permission of the instructor.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Letter Grade
  

  • BACH 5345 Participatory Approaches to Improving Community Health

    3 SCH. The purpose of this course is to provide students with an understanding of the principles and strategies that guide participatory research and practice in community health. Students learn different approaches to addressing health assets and barriers in disparate communities. The course explores the strengths and challenges of participatory research and practice, and skills necessary for effective implementation.
    Prerequisite: Students must complete BACH 5340 or obtain permission of the instructor.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Letter Grade
  

  • BACH 5350 Community Health Program Evaluation

    3 SCH. This course focuses on models and procedures for evaluating community health programs. Practitioner competencies related to evaluation design, and the use and implementation of evaluation findings are addressed in the course.
    Offered Spring
    Letter Grade
  

  • BACH 5390 Professional Report

    3 SCH. The student conducts an individual project that addresses a well-focused public health question or issue. Work is conducted under the supervision of a faculty committee. A written report of the project is required as well as an oral presentation by the student to the supervisory faculty committee. BACH 5390 is designed to partially meet the culminating experience requirement for the MPH. The student must maintain continuous enrollment in BACH 5390 until the requirements are completed.
    Offered On Demand
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • BACH 5391 Topics in Community Health

    1-3 SCH. This course is designed to give students exposure to cutting edge topics in community health. Examples of such topics include: health advocacy, social marketing, promoting health behaviors, topics seminars, etc.
    Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
    Letter Grade
  

  • BACH 5395 Thesis

    3 SCH. The thesis requires the student to conduct and prepare the written thesis under the supervision of a faculty committee.  The student must complete an oral defense of the thesis.  The student must maintain continuous enrollment in the thesis hours until the requirements are completed and the thesis is approved by the faculty committee.
    Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
    Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
  

  • BACH 5397 MPH Practice Experience

    2 SCH. This course provides students with experience in public health practice through directed work in practice settings. The public health practice experience involves different goals and activities aimed at providing opportunities for the student to expand and practice MPH core and concentration-specific competencies. Students are required to commit 200 hours to the practice experience, complete a special project that demonstrates their ability to define and issue, apply methods appropriate to their concentration, and produce results. Students are expected to produce a written report of project(s) undertaken in the site placement, and prepare a poster presentation of their practice experience. Placements and practice activities are selected to complement the students’ academic and professional goals. Students must obtain approval of their choice of practice placement and plan for the practice experience in the semester prior to registering in BACH 5397. The student must maintain continuous enrollment in BACH 5397 until all the requirements are completed.
    Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
    Letter Grade
  

  • BACH 5399 Independent Study in Behavioral & Community Health

    1-3 SCH. For students capable of independently completing topical studies or projects through conferences and activities directed by the instructor. Topical or project work is chosen by the student with the consent of the instructor. This course may be repeated for credit.
    Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
    Letter Grade
  

  • BACH 6000 PHD Comprehensive Examination

    0 SCH. This academic activity constitutes the final evaluation necessary to advance to PhD Candidacy and to advance to the PhD culminating experience, the Dissertation. The evaluation affords the doctoral student with the means to demonstrate level of mastery in the PhD core and concentration- specific competencies. Enrollment requires permission of the Academic Advisor.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • BACH 6300 Advanced Theories of Individual and Community Health

    3 SCH. This seminar provides students with an intermediate to advanced level of understanding of the theoretical foundations of individual and community health. The course covers theory development, measurement of theories, and use of theories in intervention development. Since health behaviors occur in a multilevel context, the course emphasizes the integration of individual, community and ecological approaches to helping people change. Through reading, discussion, and presentation, students learn how to use theories both to explain behavior and to influence the health status of individuals and communities.
    Prerequisite: Student must complete BACH 5300 or permission of the instructor.
    Offered Spring
    Letter Grade
  

  • BACH 6310 Qualitative Methods

    3 SCH. This course examines different approaches, methods, and techniques for conducting qualitative and mixed methods research. Students study natural and group observation, participant observation, ethnography, focus groups, individual interviews, and mixed methods approaches. The course takes students through the process of designing a qualitative study based on a theoretical model that includes developing a conceptual framework, study methodology, and collecting and analyzing data using NVivo software.
    Offered Spring
    Letter Grade
  

  • BACH 6312 Research Methods in Behavioral & Community Health

    3 SCH. An advanced methods seminar in research design and methodology. The course objective is to provide students with instruction and hands-on experience in applying methods of primarily quantitative analysis to research problems associated with social and behavioral aspects of public health.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Letter Grade
  

  • BACH 6315 Obesity Prevention: A Biopsychosocial Approach

    3 SCH. This course examines the core causes, correlates, consequences, prevention, and treatment of obesity. The course provides an overview of the epidemiology, physiology, and chronic disease implications of obesity, and the current state of preventive and therapeutic interventions for children and adults. A broad range of obesity determinants will be addressed, including biological mechanisms, psychosocial and behavioral factors, food systems and food access, obesogenic environments, and political economy.
    Prerequisite: Student must complete BACH 5300 or obtain permission of the instructor.
    Offered Fall
    Letter Grade
  

  • BACH 6317 Addictive Behaviors

    3 SCH. Addictive behaviors are associated with significant personal, social and economic consequences. This course provides an overview of the etiology, prevention, and treatment of alcohol and drug use, and behavioral addictions. Students examine theories and empirical evidence to explain the acquisition and maintenance of different kinds of addictive behaviors, as well as to generate effective prevention and intervention approaches.
    Prerequisite: Student must complete BACH 5300 or obtain permission of the instructor.
    Offered Fall
    Letter Grade
  

  • BACH 6319 HIV/AIDS

    3 SCH. This course addresses the major public health issues presented by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Topics include the: virology of HIV, routes of disease transmission, natural history of AIDS, provision of care, HIV prevention around the globe, and legal and ethical issues. The impact of government policies and programs is examined.
    Prerequisite: Student must complete BACH 5300 or obtain permission of the instructor.
    Offered Spring
    Letter Grade
  

  • BACH 6322 Motivational Interviewing in Public Health Settings

    3 SCH. This course provides an overview of Motivational Interviewing (MI), an evidence-based counseling strategy for promoting behavior change. The course focuses on using Ml conversations to target behaviors such as smoking, alcohol and other drug use, physical activity, obesity, risky sexual behavior, and injury and violence. The course also presents ways that Ml techniques have been integrated into Internet, mobile and phone-based interventions for a variety of health behaviors.
    Offered Fall
    Letter Grade
  

  • BACH 6324 Public Health and Aging

    3 SCH. The goal of this course is to provide an overview of special health problems associated with aging with special focus on demographic, socioeconomic, historical, and cultural factors influencing these health problems and challenges in studying aging in the field of public health. Special emphasis is given to demographic trends, mortality and life expectancy, theories of aging, special methodological issues in studying aging and health, chronic diseases and disability, the interface between physical and mental health, the influence of social and psychological factors, mental health and dementia, and long-term care and institutionalization.
    Offered Fall
    Letter Grade
  

  • BACH 6326 Society and Health

    3 SCH. This course is based on the premise that social structure (norms, status, institutions, culture) is a fundamental cause of health and illness. Disparities in health and health care can be reduced by focusing on macro-level forces that produce an unequal distribution and access to resources. Therefore, this course analyzes social determinants of population health such as social class, gender, race/ethnicity, family, neighborhoods, and social institutions. Then, we will discuss the consequences and explanations of these patterns which will include reviewing the empirical and theoretical literature on mechanisms and processes that mediate between social factors and their health effects. This course concludes with strategies to promote public health through social action and social research.
    Prerequisite: Student must complete BACH 6300 or obtain permission from the instructor.
    Offered Fall
    Letter Grade
  

  • BACH 6328 Race, Ethnicity, Culture, and Health

    3 SCH. This advanced course exposes students to cutting edge topics in race, ethnicity, culture, and health. The course provides insight into why some populations and communities experience disparities or dissimilarities in health status and health care services, relative to other populations and communities. The course will approach description and explanation from an ecological perspective that accounts for individual-level variables (e.g., genetics, psychology, behaviors) as well as socio-environmental variables (e.g., social structures and processes, socioeconomic status, neighborhood and community effects, culture).
    Offered Summer
    Letter Grade
  

  • BACH 6391 Advanced Topics in Behavioral and Community Health

    1-3 SCH. This course is designed to give students exposure to cutting edge topics in social and behavioral sciences. Examples of such topics include; community based participatory research, global economic development and health, program design and evaluation, chronic disease prevention, topical seminars, etc.
    Offered Spring
    Letter Grade
  

  • BACH 6392 Doctoral Capstone

    3 SCH. This course will provide students with the necessary instruction to prepare dissertation proposals. Topics include scientific writing, preparation of manuscripts for publication, grant writing, proposal writing, and oral presentation skills.
    Prerequisite: Student must complete most required coursework for DrPH curriculum (enrollment is permitted if a student is taken one final elective concurrently with this course).
    Offered On Demand
    Pass/No Pass
  

  • BACH 6395 Doctoral Dissertation

    3 SCH. The doctoral dissertation must consist of original research or public health program development and testing that is focused on a particular health problem. The student’s advisor is expected to provide guidance in the selection of a suitable project that provides for a clear direction for implementing the research or program. The student must complete an oral defense of the dissertation. The student must maintain continuous enrollment in BACH 6395 until the requirements are completed. This course may be repeated for credit. A minimum of 9 SCH is required for the DrPH degree.
    Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
    Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
  

  • BACH 6399 Doctoral Independent Study in Behavioral & Community Health

    1-3 SCH. This academic activity includes research and other scholarly projects carried out by the student under the supervision of a School of Public Health faculty member (instructor). A brief proposal should be written and approved by the academic advisor, and a final report should be submitted to the supervising instructor for credit. Topical or project work is chosen by the student with the consent of the supervising instructor and approval from the academic advisor. This course may be repeated for credit.
    Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
    Letter Grade

Biostatistics
  

  • BIOS 5001 MPH Comprehensive Exam

    0 SCH. The Comprehensive Examination is a culminating experience option for the MPH degree intended to test the mastery of the competencies required. A student who chooses this option must register for this course in the semester in which he/she intends to take the examination.
    Offered Fall and Spring
    Pass/No Pass
 

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