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BMSC 5315 Principles of Scientific Communication
2 SCH. This course will serve as a primer for providing students with the framework of communicating scientific content in a clear and effective manner. Key elements include providing students with general rules of scientific writing and ways to communicate science to different audiences (e.g., lay-public versus technically savvy audience).
Offered Spring
Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
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BMSC 5350 Principles of Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Medicine
3 SCH. This course is intended to introduce students to the fundamental elements of epidemiology, with relevant emphasis on clinical applications and evidence-based medicine. The course consists of lectures, biomedical journal article discussions, student presentations, and other activities as assigned. Lectures emphasize the basic concepts of epidemiology and clinical research design, and their applications to clinical medicine and public health. Biomedical journal articles emphasize the practical application of concepts covered in lectures. Group presentations provide students an opportunity to enhance their communication skills, while also demonstrating mastery of course content.
Offered Fall
Letter Grade
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BMSC 5390 Special Problems
1-3 SCH. For master’s students capable of developing a finite problem independently through conferences and activities directed by the instructor. Problem chosen by the student with the consent of the instructor. May be repeated for credit. .
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
Letter Grade
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BMSC 5391 Special Problems 2
1-3 SCH. For master’s students capable of developing a finite problem independently through conferences and activities directed by the instructor. Problem chosen by the student with the consent of the instructor. May be repeated for credit.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
Letter Grade
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BMSC 5395 Thesis
3-9 SCH. To be scheduled with consent of department. A maximum of 6 SCH total will be allowed toward the degree. Continuous enrollment required after initial registration in course. Prerequisite: Completion of approved thesis research proposal milestone. May be repeated for credit. Student will receive letter grade for final semester only.
Prerequisite: GSBS MS Students must complete Approved Research Proposal Milestone before enrolling in Thesis hours. Student must also be active in MS program.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
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BMSC 5697 Internship Practicum
1-12 SCH. The candidate must complete an internship at an approved site. At the completion of the practicum, the student will write a report detailing the activities of the internship. A copy of the report must be submitted within the appropriate deadlines to the graduate school according to the guidelines for completing the requirements for graduation. Offered each semester. Student will receive letter grade for final semester only. Normally 6 SCH.
Prerequisite: Students must be in good academic standing in order to enroll in this course.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
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BMSC 5998 Individual Research for MS Students
1-12 SCH. Master’s-level research of an independent nature. A maximum of 12 SCH will be allowed toward degree requirements.
Prerequisite: Students must be active in GSBS MS program.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
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BMSC 6100 Scientific Communication Competencies
1 SCH. This course serves to develop and evaluate key competencies in written and oral communication skills through various mentor and/or student advisory committee-driven forums. The development of oral communication skills will be promoted and evaluated through such opportunities as individual conferences with the mentor, laboratory meetings, and Work-in-Progress seminars (WIPS). Written communication skills will be developed and evaluated through such activities that include: written abstracts and manuscripts, and lab reports. Expectations of scientific communication competencies will be stage-of-training specific. Students will enroll in this course each summer semester.
Offered Summer
Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
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BMSC 6200 Introduction to Experimental Design and Biostatistical Methods
2 SCH. This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to experimental design with consideration of the appropriate application of statistical evaluations in the context of biomedical science research. Following the completion of this course, students will be able to: Explain the principles of sound experimental design; Discuss the considerations of sampling strategies, sample size and statistical power; Determine the appropriate statistical test to use for various experimental models; Discuss the assumptions and limitations of Goodness of Fit tests, Students t-Test, ANOVA approaches and Regression Analysis; and Evaluate and critique experiments reported in the literature for their design, limitations and appropriateness of applied statistical analysis.
Offered Fall
Letter Grade
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BMSC 6201 Fundamentals in Biomedical Sciences I
2 SCH. This course is designed to provide foundational knowledge of the basic building blocks of cells (proteins, lipids, carbohydrates and their tum-over), generation of energy (intermediary metabolism) and the role of hormone-mediated integration of organ-specific metabolic events into whole body homeostasis. The course also offers insight into enzyme action and mechanisms and regulation of activity.
Offered Fall
Letter Grade
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BMSC 6202 Fundamentals of Biomedical Sciences II
2 SCH. An introduction to key concepts in cell biology including cell structure and function, cell cycle, cell death, signal transduction, and organization of subcellular organelles, with an emphasis on the central dogma of life and the flow of information from DNA to RNA (transcription) and RNA to protein (translation).
Offered Fall
Letter Grade
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BMSC 6203 Fundamentals of Biomedical Sciences III
2 SCH. An introduction into the key concepts of the molecular organization of the genome from the DNA molecule through the operations of the gene, with a focus on how DNA variants and modifications alter gene expression, are inherited across generations and are maintained in populations.
Offered Fall
Letter Grade
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BMSC 6204 Fundamentals of Biomedical Sciences IV
2 SCH. This course will focus on integrating cellular mechanisms and systems physiology to provide an integrated perspective of homeostasis. Systems that will be featured will include nervous, immune, endocrine, and the cardiovascular.
Offered Fall
Letter Grade
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BMSC 6390 Special Problems
1-3 SCH. For Doctoral students capable of developing a problem independently through conferences and activities directed by the instructor. Problem chosen by the student with the consent of the instructor. May be repeated for credit. Offered each semester.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
Letter Grade
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BMSC 6391 Special Problems 2
1-3 SCH. For Doctoral students capable of developing a problem independently through conferences and activities directed by the instructor. Problem chosen by the student with the consent of the instructor. May be repeated for credit.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
Letter Grade
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BMSC 6395 Doctoral Dissertation
1-12 SCH. Student can enroll in 3, 6 or 9 SCH. To be scheduled with consent of department. A maximum of 12 SCH total will be allowed toward degree. No credit assigned until dissertation has been completed and filed with the graduate office. Doctoral students must maintain continuous enrollment in this course subsequent to passing qualifying examination for admission to candidacy. May be repeated for credit. Student will receive letter grade for final semester only.
Prerequisite: PhD Students must complete Approved Research Proposal Milestone before enrolling in Doctoral Dissertation hours. Student must also be active in PhD program.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
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BMSC 6998 Individual Research
1-12 SCH. Doctoral research of independent nature. A maximum of 40 SCH will be allowed toward degree.
Prerequisite: Students must be active in GSBS PhD program.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
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EOHS 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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EOHS 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
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EOHS 5300 Environmental Determinants of Health I
3 SCH. Students will be introduced to the environmental determinants that influence human health (physical, chemical, biological, psychosocial), their sources, modes of transport, routes of exposure, and various intervention paradigms. This course will include discussion on municipal water supply and disposal, ambient and indoor air quality, solid and hazardous wastes, food security, zoonotic diseases, pesticides, occupational safety, toxicology, risk assessment/risk communication and genomics.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
Letter Grade
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EOHS 5310 Evaluation and Control of Environmental Pathogens
3 SCH. This course addresses biological and infectious disease organisms from a global perspective through real scenario-based exercises: organism recognition, exposure and health effects, sampling and analysis methods, and existing public health intervention strategies and system. In particular, the course emphasizes competencies in identification of appropriate source information, hazard assessment and analysis, compliance with regulation, and application of information and knowledge to an expected job task as an environmental/community environmental health professional.
Prerequisite: Student must complete EOHS 5300.
Offered Fall
Letter Grade
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EOHS 5312 Food Safety: Farm to Fork
3 SCH. This course will examine the quality and safety aspects of our food production from the “Farm to the Table.” It will provide the student with information about food safety from a holistic perspective, address laws, regulations, and policies, the importance of animal welfare, safe and sustainable farming practices and their relationship to food quality and nutrition, and the importance of food safety to public health. Topics will cover the relationship of microorganism and sanitation; food contamination sources; personal hygiene; the role of the FDA, local health departments and veterinarians in the protection of food; cleaning compounds; waste disposal and its associated implications; food processing and preparation; environmental issues associated with food production (climate change, antibiotic resistance, etc.); and the relationship of food safety to public health.
Prerequisite: Student must complete or be concurrently enrolled in EOHS 5300 or obtain permission from the instructor.
Offered Summer
Letter Grade
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EOHS 5313 Topics in Global Food Security and Sustainability
3 SCH. This course will expose the student to the issues in food security from the local to the global levels. Topics will cover a broad range of issues, including, but not limited to: food quality and access, food deserts, climate change impacts, food animal welfare, food safety, agroterrorism, nutrition (starvation, under-nutrition, and obesity), agricultural practices, and policy/regulation of the food system. Students are expected to gain a better understanding of the successes and failures of the food systems locally, nationally, and globally; a better appreciation for the future challenges associated with food security, and an understanding of how to solve real-world problems stemming from food security issues.
Offered Fall and Spring
Letter Grade
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EOHS 5316 Social Implications of Animals and Public Health
3 SCH. This course will present the impacts that animals, both companion and livestock, have on our daily lives and health. From bioterrorism to food animal safety and welfare, from toxicology to food safety, it is designed to stimulate an awareness of, and interest in, an important, but often missed, aspect of public health. This course will address the fundamental issues facing public health practitioners from the animal health perspective, including environmental impacts, human health impacts, and the importance of interactions between humans and animals that directly and indirectly influence public health. It will also explore the history of veterinary medicine and its role in public health, along with associated policies that influence and affect the safety and welfare of both animals and humans.
Prerequisite: Student must complete EOHS 5300.
Offered Summer
Letter Grade
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EOHS 5318 Diseases from Animals to Humans
3 SCH. This course will expose the student to the role of animals in public health by focusing specifically on zoonotic diseases and their public health implications. Over 70% of emerging and infectious diseases today are considered zoonotic - able to pass from animals to humans and vice versa. As the global community becomes smaller and smaller, and the human-animal interface becomes more and more consistent, it is important to be aware of and understand the implications of such diseases. Some examples of diseases to be covered include vector-borne diseases such as malaria and Dengue fever, bacterial diseases such as salmonellosis and listeriosis, and viral diseases including Ebola, Marburg, and West Nile Virus. Additionally, students will be given the opportunity to put their public health practitioner hats on with 1-2 local field trips designed to give practical, real-life experiences to which they may apply their current knowledge of public health.
Prerequisite: Student must complete EOHS 5300 or obtain instructor permission.
Offered Spring
Letter Grade
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EOHS 5320 Texas Border Health Issues
3 SCH. This course will expose students to public health issues on the border between the U.S. and Mexico. This is an interactive course where students gain first-hand experiences about border health issues through collaborative teaching with the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, South Texas Environmental Education and Research program in Harlingen, Texas. The course may cover cultural diversity, bi-national water quality control and management, and zoonotic, acute infectious and chronic disease control from seasoned public health instructors and practitioners. Through contacts with colonias, urban and rural community health centers, and agencies that deal with border issues, students will be introduced to the importance of cultural sensitivity and cultural competency when practicing public health in a multicultural environment. The class meets for two three-hour sessions prior to travel during the Spring Break to the border city of Laredo and/or other border communities. Student presentations and written projects are due during a final session after returning to campus. Enrollment is limited.
Offered Spring
Letter Grade
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EOHS 5322 Air Pollution, Climate Change and Sustainability
3 SCH. The course is designed to introduce students to the basic concepts of air pollution and how air pollution can affect individual and public health. Students will learn to recognize air pollution sources, biological mechanisms of air pollution, control technologies used to mitigate emissions and human exposure. Current Federal and State regulations related to air quality, and topics of Environmental Justice, climate change and health effects from air pollution in developing countries will be discussed.
Prerequisite: Student must complete EOHS 5300.
Offered Fall
Letter Grade
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EOHS 5324 Water and Public Health
3 SCH. This course covers how water quantity and quality affect population health from regional and global perspectives, and efforts to reduce its impacts on public health. The course discusses recognition, evaluation, and control of water contaminants and current issues related to water sustainability. The water contaminants include microbial organisms, chemicals, and radioactive materials both from natural and anthropogenic sources. Human efforts to reduce the impacts of water contamination and to conserve water include; water and wastewater treatment technologies and policy and regulations. In addition, climate effects on water quality and quantity will be discussed both in regional and global perspectives.
Prerequisite: Student must complete EOHS 5300.
Offered Spring
Letter Grade
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EOHS 5330 Evaluation and Control of Chemical and Physical Hazards
3 SCH. This course will cover and expand on methodologies for the recognition, evaluation and control of physical and chemical hazards in the community and workplace. In-class experiments, field samplings and site visits will be used to observe and perform methodologies presented. Discussion and interpretation of data will include impact of regulatory requirements and professional organization recommendations.
Prerequisite: Student must complete EOHS 5300, BIOS 5300 or obtain permission from the instructor.
Offered Spring
Letter Grade
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EOHS 5334 Work, the Environment and Population Health
3 SCH. This course covers diseases and the cultural/social and environmental interactions that impact populations at work and within their communities. Students will become familiar with the sources, exposure mechanisms and disease outcomes from chemical, biological, physical, radiological, and hazardous agents at work, and their impacts on communities. Intervention methods and regulatory principles, policy and requirements to present adverse outcomes will be discussed.
Offered Fall
Letter Grade
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EOHS 5350 Medical Toxicology: The Science of Poisons
3 SCH. This course investigates toxicological pathways of poisons, pathogens and environmental toxicants, presents the broad aspects of medical toxicology and integrates important concepts from anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and the environment to understand how normal pathological pathways can be derailed and result in disorder and disease in the human body. Medical Toxicology will focus on the diagnosis, and pathway interference of poisons (toxins and toxicants) and mechanic of action on specific organ symptoms. After completion of this course the student will have better understanding and ability to recognize adverse health effects caused by environmental and occupational exposures and biological agents and be able to identify target organ of chemical toxicity.
Prerequisite: Student must complete EOHS 5300 or obtain consent of the instructor.
Offered Spring
Letter Grade
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EOHS 5362 GIS in Public Health
3 SCH. GIS in Health is an applied course covering the theory and applications of geographic information systems (GIS) for public health. This course is designed for students with interests in learning about methods for analyzing the spatial patterns of disease burdens and their relationships to environmental hazards and includes an overview of GIS and spatial analysis principles in public health. The practical component of this class involves the use of desktop GIS software packages including ArcGIS and other spatial analysis software such as SatScan. In addition, this course also covers location allocation (LA) techniques for measuring and evaluating accessibility to public health facilities.
Offered Fall
Letter Grade
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EOHS 5364 Geographic Distribution of Health and Disease
3 SCH. Medical geography deals with geographic aspects of disease ecology, health care delivery, and environment and health. Disease ecology involves the spatial pattern of diseases and associated explanatory variables including geological, meteorological, biological and cultural phenomena associated with disease, as well as the social, political and economic barriers to healthy living. Health care delivery includes spatial patterns of health care provision and patient behavior including health inequalities. Environment and health draws on geography’s long tradition in environmental hazards research and includes such topics as the physical and psychosocial health impacts of environmental contamination. GIS and spatial analysis are used intensively in this course.
Offered Spring
Letter Grade
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EOHS 5391 Special Topics in Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
1-3 SCH. This course is to provide exposure to students in specialized topics in Environmental and/or Occupational Health Sciences. The topics will be selected by the instructor in either specialized areas, innovative topics, timely issues or current methodologies. Topics may include such areas as: exposure methodologies; environment and disease; control and measurement issues for nanotechnology; ultra-fine particles; social justice and environmental exposures in developed and developing countries; probabilistic methods for risk analysis; gene-environment interactions; drinking water quality; etc. This course may be repeated for credit with advisor’s permission.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
Letter Grade
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EOHS 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
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EOHS 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 EOHS 5297. The student must maintain continuous enrollment in EOHS 5297 until all the requirements are completed.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
Letter Grade
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EOHS 5399 Independent Study in Environmental Health and Occupational Health Sciences
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. Permission of the instructor is required before enrollment. This course may be repeated for credit.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
Letter Grade
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EOHS 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
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EOHS 6300 Environmental Determinants of Health II
3 SCH. Students will advance their knowledge and skills in applying the core theories of public health in identification of hazards, recognizing effects on human health, applying exposure and risk assessment methods, and determining and evaluating interventions of environmental and occupational stressors.
Prerequisite: Students must complete BIOS 5300, EOHS 5300, EPID 5300, HMAP 5300 and BACH 5300 or obtain the permission of the instructor.
Offered Fall
Letter Grade
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EOHS 6310 Environmental Epidemiology
3 SCH. This course will focus on methods to study relations between exposure to environmental agents (for example air pollutants and metals) or conditions (heat waves, built environment) and effect markers, symptoms, morbidity and mortality in population and subgroups. Exposure assessment and statistical methods for evaluation of environmental and occupational factors will be considered in the context of specific applications. The course will prepare students to critically interpret environmental epidemiologic research, understand the types of questions that can and cannot be answered in environmental epidemiology, and help provide a foundation or designing and conducting such studies.
Prerequisite: Students must complete BIOS 5300, EOHS 5300, EPID 5300, and EPID 5310 prior to enrolling in this course.
Offered Fall
Letter Grade
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EOHS 6340 Environmental and Health Risk Assessment
3 SCH. Environmental and Health Risk Assessment is a multidisciplinary field of focused around the methods used to evaluate exposure, predict health risks and outcomes, and developing informed decision-making procedures to control or otherwise respond to unacceptable exposures to environmental hazards. In this course the student will learn the basic guidance procedures developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for evaluating and estimating the potential human risk associated with exposures to chemicals in the environment from natural or anthropogenic sources. The ability to develop an environmental or health risk assessment is one of the basic tools for a public health professional. The student will learn how to identify and collaborate with subject matter experts (SMEs) from varied technical disciplines and how to address issues of risk assessment to the public officials and the general public. The skills learned in developing a risk assessment can be powerful tools to organize and articulate scientific knowledge within a defined framework allowing for mediation of exposure and useful information for decision makers. An Environmental Health Risk Assessment is designed to inform a decision and its generation is based upon data available and comprehension of risk perceptions.
Prerequisite: Students must complete BIOS 5300, EOHS 5300, EPID 5300 or obtain permission of instructor.
Offered Fall
Letter Grade
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EOHS 6366 GeoSpatial Applications
3 SCH. This course will utilize epidemiology and geographic information science (GISci) methodologies and apply them to a student-developed public health research problem. It is intended that the student will identify a public health research question with a geographic application, develop a hypothesis, and use geographic information science (GISci) technologies and epidemiologic approaches to perform a research project. These projects will be of a quality for presentation at a conference and/or publishing them in a peer-reviewed journal. Through this course, students will develop workplace and industry-wide competencies in the realm of geospatial technology. The course instructors will aid in the development and continuation of projects, as well as present research design methods in GISci. Database design of a geographic dataset is integral in the research design process. Additionally, guest lecturers will present students with novel geographic approaches to public health problems in order to showcase the multiple applications of GIS in a public health context.
Prerequisite: Students must complete EOHS 5362 or obtain permission from the instructor.
Offered Summer
Letter Grade
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EOHS 6391 Advanced Topics in Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
1-3 SCH. This course is to provide exposure to students to a specialized topic in Environmental and/or Occupational Health Sciences. The topics will be selected by the instructor in either specialized areas, innovative topics, timely issues or current methodologies. Topics may include such areas as: exposure methodologies; environment and disease; control and measurement issues for nanotechnology; ultra-fine particles; social justice and environmental exposures in developed and developing countries; probabilistic methods for risk analysis; gene-environment interactions; drinking water quality; etc. This course may be repeated for credit with advisor permission. Permission of course instructor.
Offered Fall and Spring
Letter Grade
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EOHS 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 students’ 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 EOHS 6395 until the requirements are completed. This course may be repeated for credit. A minimum of 12 SCH is required for the PhD degree.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
Pass/No Pass
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EOHS 6399 Doctoral Independent Study in Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
1-3 SCH. This course is to provide research and other scholarly projects to be carried out by the student under the supervision of a School of Public Health faculty member. A brief proposal with objectives and/or hypothesis, method of accomplishing goals, and deliverable timelines will be prepared by the student and approved by both the academic advisor and supervising instructor. Course may be offered each semester. May be repeated for credit with advisor’s permission.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
Letter Grade
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EPID 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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EPID 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
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EPID 5300 Principles of Epidemiology
3 SCH. The overall purpose of this course is to introduce public health students to epidemiology so that they understand how epidemiology contributes to (1) identifying factors that cause and prevent diseases, and other undesirable physical, social and emotional conditions(2) assessing the public health consequence of disease, (3) describing the natural history and occurrence of diseases, and (4) developing skills to critically evaluate procedures for preventing diseases.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
Letter Grade
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EPID 5310 Intermediate Epidemiology
3 SCH. This course illustrates concepts, methods, and strategies used in epidemiologic studies, beyond the principles discussed in EPID 5300. Topics include analysis of birth cohorts, measures of disease frequency and association, bias, confounding, effect modification, stratification and adjustment, quality control, and reporting of epidemiologic results. The primary objective of the course is to present the main issues in establishing causal relationships from observational data.
Prerequisite: Students must complete EPID 5300 and BIOS 5300 or BIOS 5301 or obtain permission from the instructor.
Offered Spring
Letter Grade
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EPID 5312 Survey Research & Questionnaire Design
3 SCH. Creating a survey instrument is a multistep process. If executed properly, the instrument will produce valuable information; otherwise a poorly designed survey produces little information of meaning and is a waste of time. This introductory course provides the student with a foundation of theoretical research and survey concepts and practical implementation and analytical skills. Each student will construct their own research question with corresponding objectives, map these objectives to meaningful and measurable survey items, submit a research proposal and instrument to the Institutional Review Board (IRB) for approval, put survey instrument into a designated population collect enter, and analyze data and present results in a final written project and oral presentation. This comprehensive course teaches the theory and applications of survey methodology in the guise of a structured research project; from conception of the research question to presentation of collected data and drawing of corresponding conclusions. This introductory course is designed for epidemiology and other public health students requiring a basic knowledge research survey and questionnaire design, implementation and analysis. This course will include lectures, in-class assignments, a group project, class discussion, oral and written presentation and readings. A lecture outline will be provided before class; students may need to take additional notes.
Prerequisite: Students must complete EPID 5310, EPID 5313, and BIOS 5310 or permission by instructor.
Offered Fall
Letter Grade
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EPID 5313 Introduction to Data Management and Statistical Computing
3 SCH. Develops skills in the use of statistical packages in public health research. Emphasis is on data definition, verification, descriptive examination, and graphical presentation. Statistical packages will include SAS software.
Offered Fall and Spring
Letter Grade
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EPID 5314 Applied Data Analysis in Epidemiology
3 SCH. New investigators often find the choice of statistical analysis to be the most difficult step in conducting research. Statistical approaches can vary from simple t-tests to complex hierarchical regression analysis. Exploring and applying the best practices of epidemiology data analysis is critical to meet the growing demand for more efficient analysts who can accurately analyze and interpret complex datasets that will be necessary to setting future public health priorities. This course is designed to provide practice experience in analyzing different types of epidemiologic data. We will learn how to apply analytic methods to answer specific epidemiologic research questions and interpreting the results. Students will be given public health scenarios reflective of current issues in our world and will be asked to formulate hypothesis, identify the most appropriate statistical approach for calculating risk, utilize statistical software to calculate risk, critically interpret findings, and effectively communicate findings to professional and lay audiences. This course is intended for MPH students and serves to fulfill one of the five required courses in epidemiology.
Prerequisite: Students must complete BIOS 5310, EPID 5310, and EPID 5313 or equivalent.
Offered Fall
Letter Grade
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EPID 5318 Chronic Disease Epidemiology
3 SCH. This course is designed for graduate students interested in chronic disease epidemiology. The chronic diseases that will be discussed in this course are cardiovascular diseases, obesity, diabetes, mellitus, cancers, oral health. Screening of chronic diseases will also be covered.
Prerequisite: Students must complete EPID 5300 or obtain permission from the instructor.
Offered Spring
Letter Grade
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EPID 5319 Epidemiology of Disasters
3 SCH. The course explores the pervasive relationship of public health and epidemiology in the contemporary emergency and disaster prevention, response and recovery environment. The
purpose of this course is to develop an understanding of how basic epidemiologic principles and methods can be used to cultivate prevention, response and resolution strategies to
naturally occurring or intentional biological incidents and other disaster events.
Course activities will examine the changing and unique role of public health in disaster response and emergency management, paying special attention to the integration of
epidemiology with traditional emergency services and the need for planning, training, collaboration, cooperation and inter-operability between disciplines. The class will promote
insight into the necessary integration of epidemiology and public health in the development of effective emergency response contingencies specific to natural, accidental and
intentional disaster events through the use of class lectures, class exercises, group and individual presentations, special projects, exercises, a quiz and both a midterm and final
exam . Students will be expected to demonstrate insight into the need for a reinforced and integrated public health system to augment traditional emergency response capabilities
as well as to provide early detection and identification capabilities representative of intentional biological events in order to optimize response and recovery activities. The course is
designed to construct a foundation of coherent epidemiological concepts in the emergency management environment and foster an understanding of how to use well-articulated
epidemiologic principles and methods towards the prevention and resolution of catastrophic events. The course will include certification in the National Integrated Management
System (NIMS) as well as certification in FEMA Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Radiological Awareness.
Prerequisite: EPID 5300
Offered Spring
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EPID 5320 Infectious Disease Epidemiology
3 SCH. This course is designed to give graduate students in public health an introduction about infectious diseases of major public health importance. The course will cover the basics of microbiology, immunology, outbreak investigation, the principles of disease surveillance, and prevention strategies, especially vaccination.
Prerequisite: Students must complete EPID 5300 or obtain permission from the instructor.
Offered Fall
Letter Grade
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EPID 5391 Special Topics in Epidemiology
1-3 SCH. These courses are designed to provide students exposure and academic insight into contemporary and relevant topics in Epidemiology. Examples of such topics include, but are not limited to, prenatal epidemiology, structural equation modeling, meta-analysis in epidemiology, topical seminars, bioterrorism/emergency management, molecular epidemiology, cancer epidemiology, etc. Many of these courses require pre-approval by the course instructor before enrollment.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
Letter Grade
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EPID 5395 Thesis
3 SCH. The thesis requires the student to conduct and prepare the written thesis under the supervision of a faculty committee. The thesis is written in traditional academic style or in journal article manuscript format. The student must complete an oral defense of the thesis. The student must maintain continuous enrollment in EPID 5395 until the requirements are completed and the thesis is approved by the dean. This course may be repeated for credit. A minimum of 6 SCH is required to meet the MPH culminating experience requirement.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
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EPID 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 EPID 5397. The student must maintain continuous enrollment in EPID 5397 until all the requirements are completed.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
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EPID 5399 Independent Study in Epidemiology
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. Permission of the instructor is required before enrollment. This course may be repeated for credit.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
Letter Grade
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EPID 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
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EPID 6310 Advanced Methods in Epidemiology 1
3 SCH. This is an advanced, doctoral level course for students who require extensive preparation in epidemiologic theory and methodology. Topics covered include causal inference; study design; the analysis of crude, stratified, and matched data; approaches to assessing effect modification and adjusting for confounding; estimating dose response associations; modeling data; bias and the critical evaluation of epidemiological studies.
Prerequisite: Students must complete EPID 5310, BIOS 5300, and BIOS 5310 prior to enrolling in this course.
Offered Fall and Spring
Letter Grade
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EPID 6311 Applied Epidemiology for Public Health
3 SCH. This course is intended for practitioners in epidemiology, and students in epidemiology and related disciplines that rely heavily on epidemiologic methods and reasoning in academic setting, federal agencies with public health related missions, state and local public health agencies, and health care organizations. This course focuses on areas of public health practice in which the systematic application of epidemiological methods can have a large and positive impact. It describes how best to apply traditional epidemiological methods for determining disease etiology to real life problems in public health and health services research. The course embodies advanced competencies in public health practice and illustrates concepts, strategies used in epidemiologic studies, ethics, principles, and methods generally useful in the surveillance and epidemic investigations, bio-emergency response, basic study designs, measures of disease frequency and association, bias, confounding, causal inference, data analysis, and reporting of epidemiologic results.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
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EPID 6312 Advanced Methods in Epidemiology 2
3 SCH. This course is designed to integrate methods introduced in Applied Data Analysis in Epidemiology and Advanced Methods in Epidemiology 1, along with new methods in data synthesis in order to prepare students to apply these methods as independent researchers in epidemiology. Students will have the opportunity to 1.) critically evaluate and interpret epidemiologic evidence, 2.) synthesize such evidence, 3.) analyze real data, and 4.) write manuscripts. Students will learn to interpret and synthesize information from ecologic, cross-sectional, case-control, cohort and clinical trial studies. Descriptive methods of synthesis as well as systematic meta-analysis methods will be covered. Classes will include both didactic instruction as well as hands-on practice interpreting, critically reviewing, synthesizing, analyzing and writing up results from epidemiologic studies. Course evaluations will be based on the students’ performance in class participation, exercises, as well as written and oral projects demonstrating the students’ ability to understand and apply epidemiologic methods, critically evaluate and synthesize information from the literature, analyze real data and write manuscripts.
Prerequisite: Students must complete EPID 5314 and EPID 6310 prior to enrolling in this course.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
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EPID 6314 Experimental Methods in Epidemiology
3 SCH. This course is designed to introduce students to the methods involved in the design, conduct, analysis and evaluation of results from clinical trials. Topics include planning a trial, randomization, blinding, trial designs, ethics, analyses and writing a protocol. This course also provides examples of how these methods are applied in actual clinical trials. Course evaluations will be based on the students’ performance in class participation, the mid-term examination, as well as a written project demonstrating the students’ ability to apply these methods in planning for a clinical trial.
Prerequisite: Students must complete EPID 5300 or obtain permission from the instructor.
Offered Spring
Letter Grade
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EPID 6316 Molecular Epidemiology
3 SCH. The focus of the course is on the basic concepts and methodology of molecular epidemiology, particularly in cancers. Designed for students who have a strong biology background and want to pursue doctoral study in the area of molecular epidemiology, we will explore how molecular biomarkers are integrated into population based studies to more accurately define and measure exposures and outcomes and how these measures in turn guide study development. Examples are discussed using current epidemiologic literature to emphasize methodologic issues relevant to molecular epidemiology. We also consider the ethical issues posed by this rapidly evolving field.
Prerequisite: Student must complete EPID 5310 and BIOS 6300 or obtain permission from the instructor.
Offered Fall
Letter Grade
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EPID 6318 Epidemiologic Surveillance
3 SCH. This course includes the application of epidemiologic methods to two important professional areas of public health. The first one is devoted to the planning, management, and data analysis of public health surveillance systems. The steps for planning a surveillance system, criteria for identifying high priority health events for surveillance, types of surveillance systems, data collection, data processing, quality control, analysis and the interpretation of surveillance data are included. This part of the course also encompasses the basis for evaluation of surveillance systems and the methods used for screening of disease. A small-scale computerized surveillance system is developed as part of the course. The second part of the course, deals with the basic epidemiologic methodology used to assist in the planning and evaluation of health programs of disease control and prevention. It includes the methodology for the design of instruments for data collection, assessment of health care needs, and the epidemiologic evaluation of the impact of health interventions.
Prerequisite: Student must complete EPID 5300 and BIOS 5300 or obtain permission from the instructor.
Offered Summer
Letter Grade
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EPID 6320 Social Epidemiology
3 SCH. This course will explore study design, measurement, and analytic issues applicable to epidemiologic research into the social determinants of health. The format of the course is a seminar offered to students with a basic knowledge of epidemiologic and biostatistical principles. The course is organized around key concepts in social epidemiology. Students will be expected to critically examine the scientific literature, form scientifically-based critiques, reach empirically and theoretically grounded conclusions and actively participate in class discussions. This course is intended for persons who have an interest in research and some background in epidemiology and/or behavioral sciences.
Prerequisite: Student must complete BIOS 5300 and EPID 5300 or obtain permission from the instructor.
Offered Summer
Letter Grade
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EPID 6322 Nutritional Epidemiology
3 SCH. The overall purpose of this course is to introduce the methods and concepts involved in nutritional epidemiologic research. Topics that will be discussed in this course include the assessment on diet, physical activity and body composition, the reliability and validity of dietary assessment, advantage and disadvantage of different study designs in nutritional epidemiologic research, gene-nutrient interaction and the use of biomarkers, specific statistical issues involved in nutritional epidemiologic research, and the development of a research proposal on nutritional epidemiologic studies.
Prerequisite: Student must complete EPID 5300, BIOS 5300 and BIOS 5310 or obtain permission from the instructor.
Offered On Demand
Letter Grade
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EPID 6324 Cancer Epidemiology
3 SCH. The course is designed to apply principles learned in the introductory and intermediate epidemiologic methods courses to the critical evaluation and interpretation of cancer epidemiology studies. Basic methodological concepts and problematic issues specific to cancer epidemiology studies and/or cancer sites will be emphasized, rather than descriptive epidemiology of specific cancers. The course is conducted in a participatory seminar format using assigned articles as a stimulus for discussion.
Prerequisite: Student must complete EPID 5300 and EPID 5310 or obtain permission from the instructor.
Offered Summer
Letter Grade
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EPID 6326 Occupational Epidemiology
3 SCH. The purpose of this course is to prepare students to examine the unified set of concepts, principles and methodologies that govern occupational epidemiology. It is designed to build on a foundation of coherent epidemiological concepts and foster the understanding of the principles and methods of occupational epidemiologic study design, analysis, and interpretation. This course is designed specifically for the epidemiology concentration and other public health students requiring a more thorough knowledge of the concepts and methods used in occupational epidemiologic research. Building upon material covered in previous epidemiology courses, this course stresses etiologic study designs, methodological issues and analytic methods as they relate to occupational studies.
Prerequisite: Student must complete EPID 5300 and BIOS 5300 or obtain permission from the instructor.
Offered Fall and Spring
Letter Grade
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EPID 6328 Secondary Data Analysis
3 SCH. This advanced course will prepare graduate students for actual analysis of epidemiological data from case-control or cohort studies. The course focuses on practical approaches to data analysis. Students will learn to choose the appropriate statistical analyses, conduct these analyses, using SAS, interpret their findings, and communicate their results clearly and effectively.
Offered Fall
Letter Grade
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EPID 6391 Advanced Topics in Epidemiology
1-3 SCH. This course is designed to give students exposure to cutting edge topics at the doctoral level in epidemiology. Permission of course instructor required.
Offered Summer
Letter Grade
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EPID 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. Prerequisites: completion of most required coursework for DrPH curriculum (enrollment is permitted if a student is taken one final elective concurrently with this course).
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
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EPID 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 EPID 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
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EPID 6399 Doctoral Independent Study in Epidemiology
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. Prerequisite: Permission of course instructor.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
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HMAP 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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HMAP 5050 MHA Professional and Academic Development
.5-1 SCH. The MHA Professional and Academic Development course is designed to advance the MHA 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, build competency within their profession, and increase their knowledge and skills to excel academically and professionally. Similarly, activities in this course are designed to prepare the student professionally for the MHA internship. Students are required to fulfill certain MHA Portfolio activities prior to the enrollment in MHA Internship.
Offered Fall and Spring
Pass/No Pass
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HMAP 5118 Seminar in Healthcare Management
1 SCH. The size and complexity of the healthcare system requires a solid understanding of the healthcare delivery system, the key components of care management and evidence based practices to become effective agents of change and improvement. This seminar course examines current issues in healthcare management and challenges related to healthcare organizations, resources, quality, safety, equity, effectiveness and efficiency. The interplay between health care organizations and patients, stakeholders within the organizations and the factors impacting healthcare delivery will also be discussed. The seminar uses various learning methods including presentations by local healthcare leaders, synthesis reports and online modules on quality and safety from the Institute of Healthcare and Improvement.
Offered Spring
Pass/No Pass
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HMAP 5262 Biomedical Aspects of Health Disparities
2 SCH. The course examines the disparities in health care among minority populations for several specific diseases. The course is offered as a lecture series divided into three sections for each health care problem: basic science, clinical and public health. It is the intention of the course to bring to light the behavioral and cultural characteristics of the minority populations that contribute to the disproportionate presence of the disease in that population, and the disparity in treatment available.
Offered Fall
Letter Grade
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HMAP 5297 Practice Experience
1 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 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
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HMAP 5300 Introduction to Health Management and Policy
3 SCH. This course covers a broad range of topics related to healthcare systems, healthcare management, and health policy. The financing and delivery of healthcare services in the United States will be examined in terms of function, costs, quality, outcomes, access and equity, and the United States system will be compared to health systems in other countries. The basic principles of health insurance, budgeting, resource management, personnel management, and leadership will be explored, and multiple dimensions of the policy-making process will be discussed.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
Letter Grade
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HMAP 5302 Master of Healthcare Administration Capstone
3 SCH. This capstone course is designed to allow students the opportunity to apply methods and techniques learned in the MHA program to a practical health administration problem. All students will participate as members of a team to conduct a project focused on a health administration problem and will present their results orally and in a written report. This course is designed to partially meet the culminating experience requirement for students in the Master of Health Administration program.
Offered Spring
Letter Grade
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HMAP 5310 Introduction to Health Systems and Policy
3 SCH. This course will provide a basic understanding of the United States health care system. Components of the health care system will be examined in addition to their interactions. Problems which arise from this “unplanned system” will be analyzed and health policies which have been enacted or recommended will be explored. Key actors in health policy and their perspectives will be discussed.
Offered On Demand
Letter Grade
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HMAP 5312 Health Politics and Policy
3 SCH. This course is an introduction to the concepts and tolls of public policy analysis as applied to health and health care services. The first part of the course is intended to familiarize students with public institutions and processes which govern health policy in the United States. The later portion of the course examines some current health policy issues drawing upon the concepts and tolls of policy analysis.
Offered Fall
Letter Grade
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HMAP 5316 Statistical Methods for Health Management
3 SCH. This course introduces the student to statistics and quantitative skills that will help with interpreting, applying, and using statistical methods and metrics in the healthcare sector. The course is designed to strengthen analytical skills through application of acquired knowledge to spreadsheet datasets and using statistical software to create evidence-based information useful for setting goals and evaluating organizational performance.
Offered Fall
Letter Grade
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HMAP 5320 Health Services Management
3 SCH. The course will integrate alternative disciplinary perspectives from management, social science, policy analysis, and health services literatures to provide an understanding of how health care organizations work. Students will become familiar with the internal and external environments confronting health care managers, as well as essential tools and skills for managing health care organizations.
Offered Fall and Spring
Letter Grade
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HMAP 5321 Health Information Systems
3 SCH. The purpose of this course is to provide an overview of contemporary topics in health information systems. The course will emphasize electronic medical records, vendor selection, and the process for implementing information technology. Other topics include health care reform and “meaningful use,” as well as ICD10-CM classification system. We will also cover the principles of database design and Microsoft Access software.
Offered Fall
Letter Grade
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HMAP 5322 Health Care Operations Management
3 SCH. This course will cover various quantitative techniques, such as regression and forecasting, that are used in health management. Each topic will be covered in three stages: theory, example problem, and a real health care application. Students will use Microsoft Excel software to solve problems.
Prerequisite: Student must complete BIOS 5300 or HMAP 5316 or obtain permission from the instructor.
Offered Spring
Letter Grade
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HMAP 5324 Strategic Management and Marketing
3 SCH. This course focuses on issues in strategic management and marketing. It will concentrate on modern analytic approaches. The course is intended to provide a pragmatic approach to guide the formulation and implementation of corporate, business and functional strategies. This course explores the issues of defining corporate missions, objectives and goals. Students will focus on analysis of a firm’s external and internal environment to identify and create competitive advantage. The course emphasizes the cultural, ethical, political, and regulatory issues faced in any global business environment and the need for leadership for a successful management of strategic change.
Offered Fall
Letter Grade
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HMAP 5326 Public Health Program Planning and Evaluation
3 SCH. This course is an introduction to the concepts, methods, and applications of public health program planning and evaluation. The course will explore the role of planning and evaluation in improving program implementation and management and public policy. Design and application of evaluations will include both quantitative and qualitative research methods.
Offered Spring
Letter Grade
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HMAP 5328 Human Resources Management
3 SCH. The course is designed to address the complexities of managing human resources in the dynamic healthcare environment and to develop an awareness of creative strategies to address these challenges. The topics that will be covered in this course include the relationship between cultural competence and disparity, diverse healthcare professionals, basic HR functions such as, job design/ analysis/ recruitment/ selection/ retention, motivation and change, career development and training, performance measures, compensation and benefits, labor relations, legal and ethical issues, and safe working environments.
Offered Spring
Letter Grade
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HMAP 5330 Health Finance 1
3 SCH. This course offers an introduction to accounting, financial theory and practice in health care settings. It is designed to familiarize students with important financial concepts and issues confronting managers in the health sector.
Offered Fall and Spring
Letter Grade
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HMAP 5332 Health Finance 2
3 SCH. This course is the sequel to Health Finance 1. It is designed to provide additional material and more in-depth financial theory and practice for MPH and MHA students. Topics include: payment systems, management control, capital budgeting, capital structure, and special topics concerning health finance and public policy.
Prerequisite: Student must complete HMAP 5330 or obtain permission from the instructor.
Offered Spring
Letter Grade
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HMAP 5340 Public Health Law
3 SCH. Introduction to the statutes and case law governing the practice public health professionals. Emphasis on the constitutional basis for public health issues and the role of administrative law in public health.
Offered Spring
Letter Grade
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HMAP 5342 Leadership and Policy Legislative Experience
3 SCH. This course is designed to offer graduate students in public health exposure to the Texas legislative session. Students will interact with legislators, staff, advocates, and other key actors in the legislative process. The intent of the course is to instill first-hand knowledge of the state legislative process, perspectives of legislators and staff, and stakeholders. Each student will select, track, and analyze a proposed bill and present this analysis in writing and to their peers and instructor.
Offered Every other Spring - Odd Years
Letter Grade
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HMAP 5350 Health Economics
3 SCH. An overview of microeconomics theory, demand and supply of health services, hospital and physician service markets, role of public sector, comparative health systems and cost effectiveness analysis. A background in economics and statistics is helpful.
Prerequisite: Students must complete BIOS 5300 or permission of instructor.
Offered Spring
Letter Grade
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HMAP 5360 Ethical, Legal and Social Issues for the Responsible Conduct of Clinical Research
3 SCH. Regulations involved with human subject research will be discussed, both from an historical and contemporary perspective. Case studies will be discussed, and students must complete the IRB Tutorial on line, and submit the Certificate of Completion for course credit.
Offered Spring
Letter Grade
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HMAP 5391 Topics in Health Management and Policy
1-3 SCH. This course covers current topics in health management and policy. Topics vary by semester.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
Letter Grade
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HMAP 5393 MHA Long-Term Care Internship
3 SCH. The MHA Long-Term Care Internship is a specialized internship experience for students interested in applying for the State of Texas Long-Term Care Administrator’s license. This course will provide the necessary documentation on the student’s transcript to satisfy the state requirement of evidence of enrolling in an Administrator in Training Internship under an Academic Preceptor. Students enrolling in this course will be required to complete all the documentation for HMAP 5394 MHA Internship as well as what is required for obtaining the state license. Student internships under this course will be overseen by the MHA Internship Instructor as well as the UNTHSC MHA long-term care Academic Preceptor.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
Letter Grade
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HMAP 5394 Master of Health Administration Internship
1-3 SCH. This course provides MHA students with the opportunity to expand and practice MHA competencies in a healthcare setting. MHA students are required to complete 500 internship hours (12-13 full time weeks), complete key activities and special projects. Students are expected to produce monthly and final reports and prepare a presentation of their experience. Prerequisites: students are eligible to enroll after completing 27 SCH and successful completion of HMAP 5050- MHA Portfolio pre-internship requirements. Students must confer with the MHA Program Director prior to enrolling in this course.
Offered Summer
Letter Grade
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