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PHAR 7141 Special Topics in Research - Pharmacy Compounding
1 SCH. This course allows for a student to do research activity or a project related to pharmacy compounding.
Prerequisite: Completion of PHAR 7127 and PHAR 7137
Offered Spring, Summer
Pass/No Pass
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PHAR 7686 APPE Elective - Pharmacy Compounding
6 SCH. This course allows for a student to complete an APPE Elective rotation in compounding pharmacy.
Prerequisite: Completion of Professional Year 3
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
Letter Grade
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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BIOS 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
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BIOS 5300 Principles of Biostatistics
3 SCH. This course provides an introductory overview of common statistical concepts and methods used in public health. It emphasizes general ideas, application, and interpretations in lieu of mathematical rigor. Topics include descriptive statistics, probability, probability distributions, estimation, hypothesis testing, power, linear regression, and correlation, analysis of variance, nonparametric statistics, and use of statistical software. In addition, other topics such as logistic regression and survival analysis may be covered at an elementary level. This course satisfies the biostatistics core course requirement for all non-biostatistics MPH concentrations. Students in the biostatistics concentration should take BIOS 5301 instead.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
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BIOS 5301 Foundations of Biostatistics
3 SCH. The course provides a fundamental overview of common statistical concepts and methods used in public health with an added focus on theoretical foundations of probability and statistics at an introductory level. Topics include descriptive statistics, probability distributions, random variables, expectations, moments, transformations, estimation theory and applications, hypothesis testing theory and applications, power, linear regression and correlation, analysis of variance, nonparametric statistics, and the use of the SAS statistical software. This course satisfies the biostatistics core course requirement for the biostatistics MPH concentration. All non- biostatistics MPH students should take BIOS 5300 instead, but this course may serve as a substitute for BIOS 5300 for such students as well. Familiarity with basic algebra and univariate calculus is expected.
Offered Fall and Spring
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BIOS 5310 Intermediate Biostatistics
3 SCH. This course is the sequel to BIOS 5300 and provides greater insight into concepts and statistical methods in public health. Topics include multiple liner regression, nested models, model building, one-way ANOVA, two-way ANOVA, experimental design, multiple comparison, logistic regression, survival analysis, nonparametric alternatives to common statistical methods, and further use of statistical software.
Prerequisite: Students must be currently enrolled in or complete BIOS 5300- Biostatistics (or its equivalent) prior to enrolling in this course.
Offered Fall and Spring
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BIOS 5311 Regression and ANOVA
3 SCH. The course is the sequel to BIOS 5301 with emphasis on theory and application of linear statistical models for regression, analysis of variance, and experimental design. Topics include simple linear regression, correlation, regression diagnostics and remedial measures, multiple linear regression, matrix representation of linear models, categorical predictors, interaction, model building, non-linear models, one-way ANOVA, two-way ANOVA, multiple comparison, random and fixed effects, ANCOVA, and use of the SAS statistical software.
Prerequisite: Student must complete BIOS 5301.
Offered Spring
Letter Grade
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BIOS 5314 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.
Prerequisite: Student must complete BIOS 5300 or obtain permission of the instructor.
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BIOS 5391 Topics in Biostatistics
3 SCH. This course provides exposure and introduction to specialized topics in biostatistics. Topics will be selected from a wide range of areas based on current trends in biostatistics and public health, e.g., intermediate statistical computing, data management, and experimental design.
Offered Summer
Letter Grade
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BIOS 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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BIOS 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 BIOS 5397. The student must maintain continuous enrollment in BIOS 5397 until all the requirements are completed.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
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BIOS 5399 Independent Study in Biostatistics
1-3 SCH. The course is designed for students capable of independently completing topical studies or projects and activities under the directed of the instructor. Topics and projects must be approved by the instructor and the Biostatistics MPH and PhD Program Director.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
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BIOS 5400 Introduction to Biostatistics for Clinical Sciences
4 SCH. This course provides students with the basic knowledge and skills to effectively use biostatistics in research design and data analysis and to understand articles in related professional journals. Topics include choosing appropriate research designs and statistical methods in public health research and practice; descriptive statistics; probability and probability distributions; estimation and hypothesis testing; simple linear regression; introduction to analysis of variance; categorical data analysis and an introduction to the use of statistical software packages.
Prerequisite: Students must be accepted to the Biostatistics Certificate for Clinicians and Health Professionals program to enroll in this course.
Offered Summer
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BIOS 5410 Intermediate Biostatistics for Clinical Sciences
4 SCH. The student is introduced to more advanced statistical methods including multiple regression, polynomial regression, ANOVA, repeated measure designs, analysis of categorical data, nonparametric statistics, sample size determination methods and multiple logistic regression.
Prerequisite: Students must be accepted to the Biostatistics Certificate for Clinicians and Health Professionals program to enroll in this course.
Offered Spring
Letter Grade
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BIOS 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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BIOS 6300 Advanced Methods in Biostatistics
3 SCH. The course is the sequel to BIOS 5310 and focuses on advanced and specialized statistical concepts and methods often used in public health practice and research. Topics include regression diagnostic and remedial measures, non-linear regression, generalized linear models, experimental design, multilevel models, generalized estimating equations, factor analysis, principal component analysis, structural equation modeling, cluster analysis, sample size and power, missing data, Bayesian statistics, use of various statistical software, and statistical writing.
Prerequisite: Students must complete BIOS 5310 or BIOS 5311 or obtain permission of the instructor.
Offered Fall
Letter Grade
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BIOS 6310 Probability and Statistical Inference
3 SCH. The course provides rigorous mathematical principles of non-measure-theoretic probability and statistical inference. Topics include probability, conditional probability, independence, random variables, distributions, expectations, moments, probability models, convergence concepts, frequent and Bayesian approaches, estimation, and hypothesis testing.
Offered Fall
Letter Grade
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BIOS 6311 Linear Models
3 SCH. This course provides rigorous mathematical principles of linear statistical models. Topics include vectors of random variables, multivariate normal distribution, quadratic forms, theoretical treatment of general linear models including Gauss-Markov theorem, estimation, hypothesis testing, polynomial regression, analysis of variance, and analysis of covariance.
Prerequisite: Student must complete BIOS 5311 and have familiarity with multivariate calculus and linear algebra.
Letter Grade
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BIOS 6312 Methods of Survey Sampling
3 SCH. This course focuses on survey sampling theory, methods, and their applications. Topics include parameter estimation for finite population, optimal allocation, detectability, multiplicity, simple random sampling, stratification, systematic selection, cluster sampling, multistage sampling, probability proportional to size sampling, cost models, sampling error estimation techniques, nonsampling errors, and compensating for missing data.
Prerequisite: Students must complete BIOS 5310 or BIOS 5311 or obtain permission of the instructor.
Offered Spring
Letter Grade
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BIOS 6314 Categorical Data Analysis
3 SCH. This course provides methods and applications of categorical data analysis beyond the introductory level. Topics include theory and application of contingency tables, measures of association and tests for homogeneity between populations, independence of variables, log linear models, logistic regression, and Bayesian methods for categorical data.
Prerequisite: Student must complete BIOS 5310 or BIOS 5311 or obtain permission from the instructor.
Offered Fall and Spring
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BIOS 6320 Biostatistical Research and Consulting
3 SCH. This course provides basic knowledge and skills to provide biostatistical consulting to persons and organizations in a wide variety of settings, including medical centers, hospitals, industry and government. Students will hone skills in the scientific, technical, business and human aspects of consulting, including scope of work process and billing, research design, sample size estimation, data management and analysis. Students will complete an original research, evaluation or consulting project whereby they assess, analyze, write, and present finding.
Prerequisite: Students must complete BIOS 6300
Offered Spring
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BIOS 6322 Longitudinal Data Analysis
3 SCH. The course introduces advanced biostatistical techniques of data organization, analysis, interpretation and dissemination pertaining to hierarchical repeated measures models. After successfully completing this class, students will be able to apply ANOVA models, mixed-effect models, covariance pattern models, and generalized estimating equation models for repeated measures data. Topics include choosing and applying correct statistical methods and experimental designs for repeated measures data, conducting simulation studies, and performing sample size calculations for hierarchical models.
Prerequisite: Students must complete BIOS 6314 or obtain permission of the instructor.
Offered Spring
Letter Grade
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BIOS 6324 Survival Analysis
3 SCH. The course covers survival data analysis, that is, the use of specialized statistical methods for analyzing survival data derived from laboratory, clinical, and epidemiological studies of humans. Focus is on both the mathematical foundation and practical applications of survival data analytic methods to clinical and epidemiological research. Both parametric and nonparametric approaches are presented. The SAS statistical package will be the primary software used to conduct analyses; however, STATA and SPSS may be used for certain applications.
Offered Spring
Letter Grade
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BIOS 6326 Methods of Clinical Trials
3 SCH. The course covers the general concepts and methods in clinical trials. Topics include phase I, II, and III clinical trials, basic study design, ethical considerations, organization, study population, patient recruitment, protocol adherence and compliance, adverse events, data management, closeout, and issues in reporting results. Additionally, it covers statistical techniques such as randomization, blindness techniques, sample size determination, analysis of safety data, intent-to-treat analyses, adaptive designs, multiple endpoints, quality of life, survival analysis, and meta-analysis.
Prerequisite: Student must complete BIOS 5310.
Offered Fall and Spring
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BIOS 6391 Advanced Topics in Biostatistics
3 SCH. This course provides rigorous coverage in various advanced topics in biostatistics. Possible topics include Bayesian data analysis, missing data, generalized liner models, advanced statistical computing, sequential analysis, and adaptive designs. Prerequisites: varies. The course may be repeated for credit as topics vary.
Prerequisite: Students must complete BIOS 5300 and BIOS 5310 or obtain permission of instructor.
Offered Fall and Spring
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BIOS 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 BIOS 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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BIOS 6399 Doctoral Independent Study in Biostatistics
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
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BIOS 6400 Advanced Biostatistics for Clinical Sciences
4 SCH. The course emphasizes the design, implementation, analysis, and reporting of research investigations. Topics include methods for multinomial response variables, methods for ordinal response, log-linear regression for Poisson counts, analysis of longitudinal data for continuous and binary outcomes, structural equation modeling, life tables, Kaplan-Meier and proportional hazards methods for analysis of time to event data and advanced methods for sample size calculation.
Prerequisite: Students must be accepted to the Biostatistics Certificate for Clinicians and Health Professionals program to enroll in this course.
Offered Fall
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BMSC 5100 Application & Skills Workshop
1 SCH. Participation in three workshops is mandatory. These workshops are designed to help students improve their non-academic qualifications such as interviewing skills, application process, and writing essays.
Offered Summer
Pass/No Pass
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BMSC 5101 Essentials of Biochemistry
1 SCH. Essentials of Biochemistry is an online, one credit hour course that will build your fundamental knowledge of biomolecules, biochemical interactions and metabolic processes. Following the completion of this course, you will be able to describe the structure and function of primary biomolecules and discuss the pathways by which carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids are synthesized and broken down to produce energy in the biological environment. Students will be able to explain the biochemical basis underlying some of the metabolic disorders and inherited diseases. Essentials of Biochemistry is intended to build the core knowledge about biomolecules and biochemical processes that will provide a springboard for students to go on to more specialized, in-depth study of in advanced graduate level courses and professional biomedical programs.
Offered Spring
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BMSC 5102 Essentials of Cell Biology
1 SCH. Essentials of Cell Biology is an online, one credit hour course that will build the student’s fundamental knowledge about cell biology. Students will review origins of the cell as the unit of life, its organization into functional compartments, and differentiate between unicellular and multicellular organisms. The course will allow students to identify, describe and distinguish cellular organelle structures. They will be able to compare and contrast organelle characteristics and function. They will also be able to explain basic principles of cellular regulation, and communication within the cell, between cells and with the surrounding environment. Students will discover how cells signal at cellular, organ, tissue and organism levels, and describe pathways through which cells turnover their components. Finally, cell death mechanisms will be introduced in context of homeostasis and cancer. Essentials of Cell Biology is intended to build core knowledge about Cell Biology that will provide a springboard for students to go on to more specialized, in depth study of Cell Biology in advanced graduate level courses and programs.
Offered Spring
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BMSC 5103 Essentials of Human Genetics
1 SCH. Essentials of Human Genetics is an online, one credit hour foundation course designed to introduce students to the essential concepts of molecular genetics and to establish their knowledge base for continued study in the areas of medicine and biomedical sciences. Following completion of this course, students will be able to recognize biological molecules such as DNA and RNA, describe how DNA is packaged within a cell, and discuss how these features affect gene regulation. Students will develop a fundamental understanding of the cell cycle and will be able to describe the genetic outcomes of meiosis and mitosis. They will be able to define and identify different modes of inheritance and be able to explain how DNA replication and DNA damage relate to one another and interact to create heritable changes in organisms. Finally, students will be able to describe how DNA is transcribed into RNA that ultimately leads into translation into a protein. Essentials Human Genetics is intended to build core knowledge about molecular biology and genetics that will provide a springboard for students to go on to more specialized, in-depth study of in advanced graduate level courses and programs.
Offered Spring
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BMSC 5121 Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues for Responsible Clinical Research
2 SCH. Regulations involved with human subject research will be discussed both from an historical and contemporary perspective. Case studies will be presented and students will attend an Institutional Review Board meeting.
Offered Spring
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BMSC 5140 Seminar in Current Topics
1 SCH. Student will attend 15 lectures of current interest presented by invited speakers throughout the institution. Attendance is mandatory. May be repeated for credit.
Offered Fall and Spring
Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
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BMSC 5150 Laboratory Rotations
1 SCH. Students work in a research laboratory on activities directed by the instructor to become acquainted with the research and laboratory environment before selecting a mentor. All students in the Biomedical Science discipline are required to complete a minimum of two laboratory rotations. The primary goal of rotations is to help a student choose a major professor. A secondary goal is to expose students to a number of areas of study to expand expertise and knowledge in research techniques. Each rotation is seven (7) weeks in length. Require instructor’s consent.
Prerequisite: Student must complete BMSC 6201, BMSC 6202, BMSC 6203, and BMSC 6204.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
Pass/No Pass
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BMSC 5160 Responsible Conduct of Research
1 SCH. Covers major ethical issues in biomedical sciences, including: authorship and intellectual property; conflict of interest; data selection/research design; privacy and confidentiality; discrimination and sexual harassment; misconduct and whistle-blowing; animals in research; human subjects in research; implication of funding sources for research.
Offered Spring
Pass/No Pass
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BMSC 5165 Industry Practice and Laboratory Management
2 SCH. Introduction to the Industry Practice will provide students with an insight about life science industries and equip them for pursuing private-sector career opportunities when they graduate. This course will also introduce students to the tools businesses use every day to increase efficiency, improve operations and succeed. These tools can be used in the laboratory to improve turn-around time, lower costs, introduce new testing services, and help to increase quality.
Offered Spring
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BMSC 5170 Techniques in Biomedical Sciences
1 SCH. A practical course in techniques. Students will participate in laboratories demonstrating up-to-date techniques in biomedical sciences. A listing of the techniques of participating laboratories is available in the schedule of classes.
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer
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BMSC 5180 Introduction to Entrepreneurship
1 SCH. Introduction to Entrepreneurship will provide students with general knowledge about life science entrepreneurship. Students will be exposed to concepts that will better equip them for interacting with entrepreneurs and other private-sector personnel involved in the commercialization of life science technologies. Students will also be exposed to concepts that shape an entrepreneurial mindset that will be beneficial in variety of career paths in addition to entrepreneurship.
Offered Summer
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BMSC 5201 Clinical Practice Preceptorship
2 SCH. The goal of this course is to provide exposure to clinical practice conducted by osteopathic physicians and educational experiences within the private sector emphasizing the totality of community-based family practice. Students are required to find their own preceptor. This course is open only to students in the medical science discipline.
Prerequisite: Course is restricted to Medical Science majors in GSBS.
Offered Summer
Pass/No Pass
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BMSC 5202 MCAT Prep
2 SCH. This course offers in-depth instruction in biology, organic chemistry, general chemistry, physics, psychology/sociology, and critical analysis and reasoning skills (CARS), as well as test-taking strategies.
Prerequisite: MEDS-MS majors only
Offered Summer
Pass/No Pass
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BMSC 5203 DAT Prep
2 SCH. This course offers in-depth instruction in biology, chemistry, reading comprehension, and perceptual ability, as well as test-taking strategies.
Prerequisite: MEDS-MS majors only
Offered Summer
Pass/No Pass
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BMSC 5204 GRE Prep
2 SCH. This course offers in-depth preparation for the verbal, quantitative and analytical writing sections of the Graduate Record Examination.
Prerequisite: MEDS-MS majors only
Offered Summer
Pass/No Pass
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BMSC 5205 Topics in Biomedical Sciences
2 SCH. This course is an introduction to the core integrated biomedical sciences curriculum required for all first-year biomedical sciences graduate students at the health science center. It is not intended to be all-encompassing or comprehensive, but it does aim to provide the student with an overview of some seminal concepts in areas ranging from biochemistry to pharmacology and neuroscience. It will become apparent at the conclusion of the course, if not before, that division of biomedical science into traditional disciplines is no longer valid, because, as future scientists, students must become familiar with basic information that transcends all subjects. The goal of this course is to start the student on the path toward the integration of certain important concepts into his/her learning and understanding regardless of final choice of discipline.
Offered Summer
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BMSC 5231 Introduction to Health Disparities Issues in the United States
2 SCH. An examination of the disparities and issues surrounding the treatment of several health problems in the United States, particularly as related to minority populations. Each health condition is approached from the clinical, cultural and scientific aspect so that the student will understand the etiology and treatment of the disease, the cultural characteristics of various populations that may contribute to the disproportionate presence of the disorder in a particular population, and the underlying science involved with each health problem. The latter understanding will aid the student to better approach research, both in the clinical and basic science venues, directed towards better management of the health problems.
Offered Fall
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BMSC 5300 Biostatistics for Biomedical Sciences
3 SCH.
This course is specifically designed serve as a foundation in biostatistics for biomedical sciences graduate students with intentions to continue their education in medicine, or advance in the fields of biotechnology or clinical research management. The course provides students with training to effectively evaluate the biostatistical approaches appropriate for different research designs and to critically assess statistical results presented in professional journals or research reports. Topics include exploratory data analysis; descriptive statistics; probability and probability distributions; estimation and hypothesis testing, analysis of frequencies, analysis of variance, correlation and simple linear regression. Parametric and nonparametric approaches are presented.
Prerequisite: Course restricted to GSBS students.
Offered Summer
Letter Grade
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BMSC 5301 Principles of Biochemistry
3 SCH. This course is a broad introduction to the fundamentals of biochemistry, especially those relating to thermodynamics, molecular pathways and regulation. Discussion of important techniques that contribute to our present understanding of biochemistry. Course restricted to Medical Sciences and Clinical Research Management majors.
Prerequisite: Course restricted to Medical Sciences and Clinical Research Management majors.
Offered Fall
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BMSC 5302 Molecular Cell Biology
3 SCH. This course covers the fundamentals of cell and molecular biology, concentrating on understanding of the experimental basis of these disciplines as well as the current state of knowledge.
Prerequisite: Course restricted to Medical Sciences and Clinical Research Management majors.
Offered Fall
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BMSC 5303 Immunology and Microbiology
2 SCH. A general exploration of basic concepts of immunology, microbiology and virology including study of genomics, proteomics and gene therapy. Course restricted to Medical Sciences and Clinical Research Management majors. Prerequisites: BMSC 5301 and 5302 or consent of the department.
Offered Fall
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BMSC 5304 Physiology
5 SCH. Emphasis on integrative physiology of human organ systems. This course is restricted to Medical Sciences and Clinical Research Management majors.
Prerequisite: Student must complete BMSC 5301 and 5302 or have department consent.
Offered Spring
Letter Grade
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BMSC 5305 Pharmacology
2 SCH. Emphasis on fundamental principles of pharmacology that include pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, ligand-receptor interactions and their consequent biological effects. Course restricted to Medical Sciences and Clinical Research Management majors.
Prerequisite: Student must complete BMSC 5301 and 5302 or have department consent.
Offered Spring
Letter Grade
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BMSC 5310 Scientific Communications
3 SCH. The purpose of this course is to develop skills and gain experience in the types of scientific writing required for: submitting articles for publication; grant applications; preparing presentations for lectures and seminars; preparing posters for meetings.
Offered Fall and Spring
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BMSC 5312 Introduction to Clinical Research and Studies
3 SCH. Course covers drug development process, ethical and scientific principles of clinical research, clinical trial preparation, study design, informed consent forms, clinical coordinator responsibility and regulatory considerations. Conducting clinical trials from initiation to implementation.
Offered Spring
Letter Grade
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