PUB-200 |
Health Behavior and Health Education |
This course will examine the relationship between behavior and health and explore the many factors that affect health behaviors including social determinants. Health behavior theories will be explored to understand underlying causes of individual and community behavior. Students will explore strategies for affecting and changing behavior as an approach for protecting or promoting health. |
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PUB-210 |
Public Health Policy and Advocacy |
In this course, students will examine the role of policy in health and healthcare, comparing systems of healthcare in the US and other countries. Students will learn strategies to influence health policy and act as advocates for |
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public health. |
3.00 |
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PUB-220 |
Community Needs and Capacity Assessment |
Students will learn how to identify assets and needs in a community to facilitate the development of health education interventions appropriate for specific communities. Strategies for engaging community stakeholders |
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and developing partnerships will be addressed. |
3.00 |
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PUB-230 |
Environmental Health |
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Students will learn about the relationship between the physical environment and human health, and how | |||
environmental exposures impact communities. Strategies for affecting environmental health will be explored. |
3.00 |
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PUB-240 |
Human Disease and Disease Prevention |
In this course, students will examine common diseases affecting human populations around the globe and the biological processes that contribute to those diseases. Students will explore strategies to prevent common diseases. This course introduces concepts that will be explored in more depth in PUB 310 Introduction to |
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Epidemiology. |
3.00 |
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PUB-250 |
Health Communication Strategies |
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This course will provide students with an introduction to health communications. Students will learn how to | |||
develop and implement effective, accessible, ethical, and culturally appropriate health communications. |
3.00 |
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PUB-299 |
Selected Topic in Public Health |
This course focuses on exploration of a topic selected by the instructor. It is designed to expand students ' |
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understanding of the field of public health. This course may be repeated for credit if the topic changes. |
3.00 |
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PUB-300 |
Managing Public Health Organizations |
In this course, students will review key public health organizations and compare systems of healthcare in the US and other countries. Public health management and leadership skills will be introduced, including those needed |
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for implementing health interventions. |
3.00 |
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PUB-305 |
Health Psychology |
The students will study the application of psychological principles to health and wellness. Topics will include illness perception and prevention, health enhancing and health compromising behaviors, the effects of stress on health, patient provider interactions, factors influecing utilization of health services and the managment of chronic illness. |
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PUB-310 |
Introduction to Epidemiology |
In this course, students will develop an understanding of the field and methods of epidemiology. Students will examine disease surveillance systems around the world and explore strategies used to understand disease cause |
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and spread and to improve population health. |
3.00 |
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PUB-320 |
Research Methods for Public Health |
Students in this course will examine quantitative and qualitative research methods commonly used in public health. Students will learn to critique and design public health research. An emphasis will be placed on ethics in |
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research design and implementation. |
3.00 |
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PUB-330 |
Planning / Eval Pub Hlth Interventions |
In this course, students will integrate their understanding of human health, determinants of health, health data, research, and strategies to affect health into the development of health education and promotion interventions designed to meet the needs of communities. Students will learn how to develop an effective intervention to address the identified need, and how to design and implement an evaluation and use evaluation results to |
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improve health. |
3.00 |
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