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Graduate Catalog 2014 - 2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

 

French
  

  • FRN 593 - Special Topics In Culture And Civilization

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Topics to be announced in the Course Schedule. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.


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  • FRN 594 - Special Topics In Literature

    (6 credits)
    Intensive study of a particular period, theme, or author. Topics to be announced in the Course Schedule. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.


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  • FRN 596 - Independent Study

    (6 credits)
    Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and departmental approval. Student-initiated, supervised projects involving French language or literature; examples include in-depth study of a particular writer or specialized readings in linguistics. May be used to cover the materials of a listed course not offered in a given year. Projects arranged between individual students and instructor; title of project appears on the student’s transcript.


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General Administration
  

  • GAD 501 - Business English

    (4 credits)
    Intensive work on mastering basic English skills needed for graduate study in business. Emphasis on building vocabulary and verbal fluency and on improving grammar, sentence structure, and listening and reading comprehension. Lab required. Must pass the final examination with a grade of “B” or better before registering for GAD 502. Note: Required for full-time students who score below the 16th percentile on the verbal section of the GMAT or GRE. Students required to take GAD 501 must consult their program advisor to determine which other courses may be taken concurrently.


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  • GAD 502 - Intermediate Business English

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: GMAT or GRE test score between the 16th and 19th percentile or GAD 501. Intensive work on mastering intermediate English communication skills for business. Emphasis on building content-specific vocabulary and more sophisticated grammatical skills as well as on critical reading and analytical writing. Lab required. Must pass the final examination with a grade of “B” or better before registering for GAD 515.


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  • GAD 515 - Communication for Managers

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: GAD 501 and GAD 502; must be admitted as a graduate student to be eligible for this course. Introduces fundamental and advanced techniques of effective written and oral communications for a business/professional environment. Topics include oral presentations and writing of common business documents including letters, memos, and reports (cannot be used for elective credit).


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German
  

  • GER 534 - Studies In Language And Linguistics

    (3 credits)
    Topics to be announced in the Course Schedule; may be repeated with change of topic. Linguistics Studies course.


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  • GER 540 - Field Experience Abroad

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and departmental approval. Specially arranged field experience abroad, providing intensive exposure to students’ target countries and languages; may be preceded by a special preparatory course; examples include supervised individual or group work-study experience in the target country followed by a period of travel, supervised two- to six-week group travel for students interested in a language, or culture-oriented project. See the Course Schedule and contact the department office for further information.


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  • GER 592 - Special Topics: Study Abroad

    (6 credits)
    Prerequisites: Graduate Standing. Study of a particular topic in German language, literature, or civilization as part of the University’s Study Abroad Program. May be repeated with change of topic.


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  • GER 593 - Studies in Culture and Civilization

    (4 credits)
    Topics to be announced in the Course Schedule; may be repeated with change of topic. Linguistics Studies course.


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  • GER 596 - Independent Study

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and departmental approval. Student-initiated, supervised projects involving German language or literature; examples include in-depth study of a particular writer or specialized readings in linguistics. May be used to cover the materials of a listed course not offered in a given year. Projects arranged between individual students and instructor; title of project appears on the student’s transcript.


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Health Care Administration
  

  • HCA 511 - Decision Modelling and Statistics for Healthcare Managers

    (3 credits)
    Must be admitted as a graduate student to be eligible for this course. May be taken concurrently with HCA 515, HCA 516. Presents a framework for decision making in the health care environment. Students will be exposed to a series of quantitative techniques that are useful in analyzing complex decision-making situations that arise in the health care sector. Students will develop skills in: I) formulating an abstract mathematical representation of the decision-making problem; II) choosing the appropriate quantitative technique to analyze the problem and; III) translating the solutions to the problem from the mathematical model back into the original “real world” situation; IV) the manipulation and interpretation of large data sets. This course is also designed to provide you with the ability to apply quantitative methods to epidemiology. Insights gained from this course will facilitate problem solving and understanding how epidemiology relates to management decision making in the second course in quantitative methods.


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  • HCA 515 - Medical Care Organization

    (3 credits)
    The analysis of the current arrangements for the organization, financing, and delivery of medical care services. Specific topics include access to care; health care costs and cost containment; the value system of the health care industry; health policy and politics; the supply, demand, and distribution of health care facilities and human resources; competition and regulation; health insurance (both public and private); newer options for the delivery of health services, including the HMO and PPO; and health care services in an international perspective.


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  • HCA 516 - Seminar in Health Policy and Quality

    (3-0-3 credits)
    Topics include an examination of leading social/ psychological models of health services utilization; introduction to health survey-research design and methods; sociological aspects of the patient/physician relationship; social control in health care; and health care ethics and ethical decision-making systems as applied to administrative issues.


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  • HCA 555 - Analysis Of Health Care Markets

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: HCA 515 or permission of instructor. This course emphasizes the application of microeconomic models to health service issues and problems. Special emphasis is placed on current policy issues, such as consumer education and the cost of information, and to approaches that address problems or inadequacies in the health services delivery system. Additional emphasis is placed on market structure, industry configuration, and the consequences for quality, cost, and service delivery. Prior course work in microeconomic (price) theory is not required.


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  • HCA 601 - Financial Policies

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: FIN 501 and permission of instructor. Covers working capital management, cost of capital, capital budgeting, mergers and acquisitions, reimbursement methodologies, risk management, managed care contracting, and long-range financial planning for the health services industry.


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  • HCA 615 - Quality of Care

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: HCA 500 and HCA 515 or permission of instructor. Teaches specific methods useful in improving quality. Class participants learn to select, apply, and interpret quality tools and methods. Basic tools covered in the course are assessment of organization culture, cause-and-effect diagrams, two-stage sampling, control charts for mortality, control charts for patient health status, and severity-adjusted control charts. The basic behavioral techniques discussed are nominal group technique, integrative group techniques, subjective data, and influences on a physician?s practice patterns.


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  • HCA 616 - Seminar in Health Quality, Policy and Ethics

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: HCA 515. Topics include an examination of leading social/psychological models of health services utilization; introduction to health survey research design and methods; sociological aspects of the patient/physician relationship; social control in health care; and health care ethics and ethical decision-making systems as applied to administrative issues.


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  • HCA 625 - Health Informatics for Managers

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: Completion of IST 502 or course waiver, the HCA Core, and permission of instructor. Health Care Informatics can be defined as the management and transformation of various health data components into information and knowledge that is used by health care managers to improve the process of health care. This course develops an understanding of the concepts relevant to Health Care Informatics and the present status of information technology in health care organizations. The main focus is the use of computer-based applications to support clinical and administrative managers in health care today.


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  • HCA 640 - Health Care Law and Ethics

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: HCA 515. Introduction to health care law. Considers the roles and rights of the major forces in the health care industry: patients, hospital administration, governing boards, health care practitioners, and state and federal governments. Topics include issues of government regulation, corporate organization and financing, medical staff privileges, death and dying, consent to treatment, legal aspects of nursing services, hospital liability, informed consent, collection and disclosure of patient information, legal considerations in financial management and health planning, labor law, and other special, complex issues of health care law.


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  • HCA 645 - Decision Analysis

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: HCA 500 and HCA 515. Introduces students to methods of analyzing decisions and expert opinions, including probability and utility models. Emphasizes behavioral methods of consulting decision makers and groups of experts. Students learn how to organize, conduct, and report on meetings of groups of experts to produce consensus decision models. A hands-on workshop that introduces tools and applies them to realistic tasks. Because students learn by doing, most classroom time is devoted to practice runs instead of didactic lectures. Most examples used in lectures come from analyses of decisions made by managers in the service industry.


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  • HCA 650 - Long-Term Care

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: HCA 515. The unique needs of long-term care facilities provide a new challenge for health administrators. This course covers the history of long-term care facilities, economic and financial aspects of care, different models of service delivery, and alternative care systems. The current federal programs in the U.S. and other Western countries are studied.


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  • HCA 660 - Integrative Business Strategy

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: Completion of all M.P.A./HCA courses (may be taken concurrently with HCA 601) and permission of the instructor. Presents the integrative and cross-functional nature of strategy and decision making in the health services industry. Principles, concepts and theories from strategic planning, marketing, finance, human resources management, accounting, and operations management are applied to administrative decisions and the formulation of strategic business plans for the health services industry.


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  • HCA 661 - Managed Care Arrangements

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: HCA 500 or equivalent and HCA 515 or permission of instructor. Course work designed to provide class participants with the ability to operationalize workable strategies consistent with a managed care environment. Emphasis is placed on developing an understanding of managed care as a concept and then acquiring the requisite tools, such as capitation and contract negotiation needed for implementation, maintenance, and evaluation of services in a managed care environment in both the public and the private sectors.


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  • HCA 685 - Health Care Internship

    (3 credits)
    Supervised internship designed to provide work experience in the health care field and administrator-in-training experience for graduate students preparing for careers in nursing home administration; 220 to 520 clock hours of experience may be arranged with the permission of the executive-in-residence and designated internship preceptor. This course is only for M.P.A. students and those M.B.A. students who wish to pursue a career in nursing home administration.


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  • HCA 689 - Professional Experience

    (1 credits)
    Supervised professional site visits, shadowing experiences, portfolio of experiences and professional presentation. Open only to students admitted to the health care administration MBA program. Formerly was contained in the HCA 690 Administrative Internship/Research Project.


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  • HCA 690 - Administrative Internship/Research Project

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Permission of the HCAP Director and the Executive-in-Residence. Administrative internship open to MBA/HCA students only. Normally taken as the last course in the curriculum after completion of all basic, core, and concentration course work.


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  • HCA 695 - Research Seminar

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Permission to register must be obtained from the HCAP Director early in the semester prior to enrollment in the course. Study of a significant problem in health care administration, with topic selected from candidate?s area of interest; a written report, suitable for publication in a professional journal, is required.


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  • HCA 698 - Independent Study in Health Care Administration

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Supervised study of a health services industry issue or problem. Offered every semester. May only be taken for a letter grade.


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  • HCA 699 - Independent Study

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Supervised study of a health services industry issue or problem. Offered every semester. May only be taken for a satisfactory/unsatisfactory evaluation (S/U).


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Health Education
  

  • HED 550 - Theories In Health Education & Health Behavior

    (3 credits)
    Provides the student with a broad theoretical base for the analysis of healthy/unhealthy behaviors. Research and theoretical literature are reviewed in areas such as sociocultural and environmental factors associated with health behaviors, communications, and behavior-change strategies in health education.


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  • HED 551 - Organization & Admininstration Of Community Health Education Programs

    (3 credits)
    Provides students with basic knowledge of the principles, foundations, problems, and trends in the organization and administration of community health education. Explores trends and issues relevant to health education, such as roles, ethics, applications, settings, professional standards, credentialing, and accreditation of programs.


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  • HED 552 - Health Education Program Planning

    (3 credits)
    Stages in the design, implementation, and management of health education/health promotion programs for various populations and settings. Examines the components of a comprehensive health education program and special problems and issues related to health program development.


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  • HED 553 - Measurement and Evaluation of Health Education Programs

    (3 credits)
    Examines the rationale and procedures used to evaluate health education programs. Topics include planning evaluations, the politics and ethics of evaluation, measurement, sampling, logistics, data analysis, and the development of an ongoing evaluation project.


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  • HED 559 - Principles of Health Education

    (3 credits)
    This course will examine the fields of health education and health promotion in terms of historical development, professional standards, roles, theoretical foundations, ethics, application and settings. Program planning and implementation will also be examined.


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  • HED 560 - Foundations of a Coordinated School Health Program

    (4 credits)
    Explores the basic principles and practices underlying the organization and administration of a comprehensive school health program. Involves an evaluation of the student’s chosen school system in order to compare practice with theory. The role of the school health program in relation to the school, community, and the family is explored.


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  • HED 561 - Methods & Materials For Health Education

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: HED 551, or HED 560, or equivalent. Introduces students to productive, creative, and innovative methods needed to implement comprehensive school health education at the grade levels. Students become familiar with organizing and presenting health content, health materials, health curricula, community resources, and technology.


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  • HED 565 - Analyzing Health Data for Grant Writing

    (3 credits)
    Emphasis on terms, phrases, and sources frequently used to design, analyze, and interpret existing health data with a focus on epidemiological investigative procedures and the development of grant proposals.


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  • HED 570 - Pathophysiology Of Disease

    (3 credits)
    Provides students with essential concepts of pathogenesis and disease processes. Deals with progression, diagnosis, and treatment. Focuses on the body’s immune defense mechanisms for both chronic and communicable diseases; applies basic principles to a variety of examples. Some anatomy and physiology course work recommended.


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  • HED 571 - Substance Abuse Education

    (3 credits)
    Provides students with basic knowledge of the physiological, psychological, and sociological effects of substance use, misuse, and abuse. Examines factors that influence substance use, misuse, and abuse, as well as their attitudes and behaviors. Drug prevention and intervention programs are examined and evaluated.


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  • HED 572 - Consumer Health

    (3 credits)
    Examines health products and services, advertising, marketing, quackery and government control, and guidelines for consumer action when deception, misrepresentation, or fraud is encountered. Students become more informed consumers of health products and services. Implications for health education are considered.


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  • HED 573 - Teaching Human Sexuality

    (3 credits)
    Provides concepts and information about comprehensive sexuality education, including moral, physiological, psychological, and social aspects. Emphasis on methodology and organization of human sexuality programs for school and community settings.


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  • HED 574 - Stress Management

    (3 credits)
    Examines the role and function of stress in everyday life from physiological, psychological, and sociological perspectives. Personal, situational, and environmental sources of stress are explored along the continuum from distress to eustress. Stress management techniques are examined.


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  • HED 575 - Nutrition & Physical Activity

    (3 credits)
    Study of the relationship between nutrition, physical activity, and health. Topics include macronutrients, micronutrients, water, the role of proper nutrition for optimal physical performance, the role of nutrition and physical activity for weight control, and prevention and treatment of disease.


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  • HED 576 - Teaching Nutrition

    (3 credits)
    Explores various instructional materials and strategies available for teaching concepts of nutrition in school and community settings; provides experience in designing and implementing appropriate instructional strategies. Previous knowledge of basic nutritional concepts is recommended.


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  • HED 577 - Social Issues & Needs In Nutrition

    (3 credits)
    Study of the relationship between nutrition and the sociocultural environment. Topics include nutrition and mass media; cancer and diet; nutrients as chemopreventive agents; drug/nutrient interactions; safety and adequacy of U.S. food supply; and world hunger.


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  • HED 579 - Pathophysiology of Diabetes

    (3 credits)
    No prerequisites. This course provides a broad overview of diabetes, with an emphasis on the classification, diagnostic criteria, and current concepts on the pathophysiology of the disease. The diagnosis, signs and symptoms, monitoring, co-morbid conditions and complications of diabetes (cardiovascular disease, retinopathy, nephropathy, neuropathy and peripheral vascular disease) are discussed. General nutrition information, exercise recommendations, management of hypoglycemia and oral diabetic agents are also examined.


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  • HED 580 - Health Education Practicum

    (2 credits)
    Prerequisite: Permission of department chair. A structured, supervised field experience designed to provide an extended, practical experience in a selected Health setting designed and executed by the student in consultation with a member of the faculty.


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  • HED 581 - Health Education Practicum

    (3 credits)
    A structured, supervised field experience designed to provide an extended, practical experience in a selected Health setting designed and executed by the student in consultation with a member of the faculty.


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  • HED 582 - Health Education Practicum

    (4 credits)
    A structured, supervised field experience designed to provide an extended, practical experience in a selected Health setting designed and executed by the student in consultation with a member of the faculty.


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  • HED 585 - Worksite Health Promotion

    (3 credits)
    Areas of emphasis will include the development of program rationales and mission statements, use of needs assessment data to implement priority programs, determination of resources and roles for cost sharing, development of marketing packages to promote programs, a review of “best practices” in worksite health, a critique of Internet resources and selected health risk appraisals, discussion of liability issues and the design of an evaluation. No Prerequisites.


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  • HED 588 - Ethics and Health Behavior

    (3 credits)
    Geared towards the health professional in the community or public health settings, students in this course will examine the ethical issues arising when facilitating health behavior change interventions/programs. Course includes a historical overview of events which contributed to medical mistrust. Primary emphasis will be placed on competing ethical principles and decision making relevant to patient education programs.


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  • HED 696 - Individual Projects In Health Education

    (1 credits)
    Prerequisite: Permission of department chair. Independent project in a selected area of health education. Project must be approved by and arrangements made with permission of project supervisor and department chair. May be repeated for a maximum of four credits.


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Health Sciences
  

  • HSC 501 - Issues in Health Science

    (3 credits)
    Explores trends in health care delivery, related public policy, and funding issues, as well as theoretical and ethical considerations in delivering care.


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  • HSC 502 - Leadership Roles in Health Sciences

    (3 credits)
    Examines the roles of the advanced practitioner in direct service delivery, management, consultation, education, and research.


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  • HSC 503 - Research & Analysis

    (3 credits)
    Provides an overview of qualitative and quantitative research methods, with an emphasis on program evaluation, quality assurance, and outcomes research. Also examines statistical and other methods for analyzing research and evaluating data.


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  • HSC 505 - Culture & Health Care

    (3 credits)
    Examines the ways in which culture affects health and health care, including perceptions of health, disease, treatments, and the values associated with these factors. The need for cultural sensitivity in health care will be stressed.


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  • HSC 506 - Medical Conditions and Occupational Function

    (3 credits)
    Discusses the etiology, incidence and prevalence, signs and symptoms, types, associated disorders, course, and prognosis, diagnosis, and management of a sample of major medical conditions. Their impact on occupational function is explored. The client-centered nature of occupational therapy is emphasized. The phenomenological perspective of occupational function is explored.


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  • HSC 509 - Designing Creative Occupations

    (2 credits)
    This course provides occupational therapists and occupational therapy students with an opportunity to engage in a variety of creative occupations, to reflect on the health benefits of participation in creative occupations, and to develop skills in designing occupation-based practice.


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  • HSC 510 - Principles of Evidence-Based Practice in Health Sciences

    (3 credits)
    Examines the emergence of evidence-based practice (EBP) as a trend in health sciences, and the advantages and disadvantages of this approach to intervention. Explores the process of implementing EBP in clinical settings.


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  • HSC 511 - Service Learning in Occupational Therapy

    (2 credits)
    Students in the course will work in community agencies to apply and assess the concepts and principles from the MOT curriculum. Provision of service to the community, exposure to community issues, and development of service-delivery skills will be emphasized. Time will be spent discussing and integrating service-learning experiences with curriculum content and reflecting on the learning that is taking place in the experience. The course may be repeated.


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  • HSC 512 - Evolving Technologies in Health Care

    (3 credits)
    Reviews assistive technologies used in rehabilitation. Research evaluating program and equipment effectiveness, evolving technologies, program development, theoretical models, and reimbursement issues will be addressed for various categories of assistive technology.


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  • HSC 513 - Outcomes Assessment

    (3 credits)
    Emphasizes integration of qualitative and quantitative research, along with discussion of research results, and their relationship to hypothesis-testing and methodology. Application of findings to contemporary problems encountered in health sciences and guidelines for subsequent research is explored in detail.


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  • HSC 514 - Occupational and Physical Therapy in the Schools

    (3 credits)
    Examines factors influencing the efficacy of school-based occupational and physical therapy. Current literature is used to analyze issues related to evaluation and intervention within an educational context.


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  • HSC 515 - Musculoskeletal Evaluation and Intervention

    (2 credits)
    This course is designed to teach at the knowledge, comprehension, and application levels the musculoskeletal body structures and functions of a person. It also introduces, applies, and analyzes theoretical frames of reference used by occupational therapists to address the evaluation and intervention of the musculoskeletal areas of function. The course lays the foundation for use of this information at higher levels of all three learning domains and in a more integrated way in later course. Emphasis on documenting efficacy of intervention.


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  • HSC 516 - Occupational Therapy Foundations

    (4 credits)
    An introductory course on the history, philosophy, core concepts, language, reasoning, basic tools, and practice arenas of occupational therapy. Articulates the nature of humans as occupational beings and the central role of occupation in the person’s life. Emphasizes activity analysis as a core tool of occupational therapy. Standards of practice and the roles of the occupational therapist in a variety of service delivery models are reviewed. Defines and describes evidence-based practice. Clinical reasoning is introduced and applied through case examples.


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  • HSC 517 - Occupational Therapy Theory and Process

    (3 credits)
    Reviews current occupational therapy models of practice and applies them to the occupational therapy process. Evaluation, intervention planning, intervention, transition services, discontinuation of services, activity analysis, and documentation in occupational therapy are addressed.


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  • HSC 518 - Occupational Development

    (4 credits)
    Development across the lifespan, from conception to very old age, is explored. Content focuses on the development of occupation (activities of daily living, play/leisure, and work) and body structure and function (sensorimotor, cognitive, and psychosocial) throughout a person’s life.


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  • HSC 520 - Physiology for the Clinical Sciences

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisites: Graduate-level standing. BIO 200/201 or equivalent, or permission of instructor. Corequisite: HSC 550 Laboratory course. This course is an in-depth study of the fundamental molecular, cellular, and system-based physiologic concepts as they apply to homeostasis and as they relate to aspects of health, adaptation, and rehabilitation. Physiologic principles applicable to testing, evaluation, and therapeutic intervention across the lifespan and in altered states of wellness are considered. Students will complete a literature-based project requiring integration of complex principles.


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  • HSC 522 - Fundamentals of Curriculum in Health Sciences

    (3 credits)
    Academic education of health sciences practitioners, with emphasis on curriculum design consistent with accreditation standards, designing and implementing courses, and incorporation of clinical education and new technologies.


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  • HSC 526 - Functional Performance of Older Adults

    (3 credits)
    Assessment and intervention designed to assist older adults in accomplishing daily activities, including individual, social, and environmental factors.


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  • HSC 527 - Neuromuscular Evaluation and Intervention

    (3 credits)
    Examines the neuromusculoskeletal body structures and functions of a person at the knowledge, comprehension, and application levels. Introduces, applies, and analyzes theoretical frames of reference used by occupational therapists to address the evaluation and intervention of the neuromusculoskeletal areas of function. Lays the foundation for use of this information at higher levels of all three learning domains and in a more integrated way in later courses. Emphasis on documenting efficacy of intervention.


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  • HSC 528 - Psychosocial Evaluation and Intervention

    (3 credits)
    Examines the psychosocial body structures and functions of a person, including group process, at the knowledge, comprehension, and application levels. Introduces, applies, and analyzes theoretical frames of reference used by occupational therapists to address evaluation and intervention of the psychosocial areas of function. Lays a foundation for use of this information at higher levels of all three learning domains and in a more integrated way in later courses.


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  • HSC 529 - Sensory and Cognitive Evaluation and Intervention

    (3 credits)
    Examines the sensory and cognitive integration body structures and functions of a person at the knowledge, comprehension, and application levels. Introduces, applies, and analyzes theoretical frames of reference used by occupational therapists to address evaluation and intervention of the sensory and cognitive integration areas of function. Lays a foundation for use of these functions at higher levels of all three learning domains and in a more integrated way in later courses. Documentation of efficacy of occupational therapy intervention is emphasized


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  • HSC 531 - Principles of Management for Health Sciences

    (3 credits)
    Funding of health sciences, and implications for service delivery, supervision of personnel, and the design and implementation of programs; fundamentals of organizational behavior and development.


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  • HSC 533 - Program Development & Evaluation

    (3 credits)
    Evaluation of needs, design and implementation of health sciences programs, and assessment of outcomes.


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  • HSC 535 - Occupation & Participation I

    (4 credits)
    Provides a preliminary (pre-entry-level) working knowledge of the concepts and principles of occupational therapy, using simulated and actual case materials. Focuses on occupational therapy evaluation and intervention for maintaining or enhancing the participation of children and adolescents in their occupations.


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  • HSC 536 - Occupation & Participation II

    (4 credits)
    Provides a preliminary (pre-entry-level) working knowledge of the concepts and principles of occupational therapy, using simulated and actual case materials. Focuses on occupational therapy evaluation and intervention for maintaining or enhancing the occupational performance of individuals in their early and middle adulthood. Documentation of efficacy of intervention is emphasized.


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  • HSC 537 - Occupation & Participation III

    (3 credits)
    Provides a preliminary (pre-entry-level) working knowledge of the concepts and principles of occupational therapy, using simulated and actual case materials. Focuses on occupational therapy evaluation and intervention for maintaining or enhancing the participation of older adults in their occupations. Emphasis on documenting efficacy of intervention.


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  • HSC 541 - Environmental Health

    (3 credits)
    An introduction to environmental health, with emphasis on toxic exposures, hazard identification and management.


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  • HSC 542 - Health Disparities

    (3 credits)
    This course delves deeply into identifying and understanding the social determinants of health with maintaining a particular focus on US minority (soon-to-be the majority) populations and racial/ethnic health disparities. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the course carefully studies the complex ways in which race, ethnicity, class/socioeconomic status, gender, relationships, work conditions, cultural histories, and neighborhoods among other factors (and their intersections) impact health and illness.


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  • HSC 543 - Legal and Policy Issues in Health Sciences

    (3 credits)
    Explores legal and policy issues in health care delivery, related state and federal laws, governmental and legislative trends, public policy, and ethical considerations in patient care.


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  • HSC 544 - Social Issues in Health Care

    (3 credits)
    Examines social issues that influence health and illness through the study of disability and medical rehabilitation. Perspectives of health care practitioner, consumer, regulator, and investor are used to investigate control issues, mutual decision-making, and socioeconomic inequalities.


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  • HSC 547 - Assistive Technology for Computer Access

    (3 credits)
    This course reviews assistive technology that enhances accessibility to the computer for individuals with visual, auditory, motor, or learning disabilities.


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  • HSC 548 - Palliative Care

    (3 credits)
    This course provides an overview of the purposes of palliative care and the roles of health care professionals in providing effective end-of-life interventions.Students are expected to synthesize the material in a final paper.


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  • HSC 550 - Physiology Lab

    (1 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate-level standing; BIO 200/201 or equivalent or permission of instructor. Corequisite: HSC 520. Laboratory sessions include interactive lab exercises and assignments. Lab fee.


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  • HSC 552 - Occupational Therapy-Mental Health Promotion Children and Youth

    (3 credits)
    This course examines occupational therapy’s role in mental health promotion, prevention and intervention when working with children and youth with and without disabilities and/or mental health challenges in schools and community settings. Content reflects a public health approach to occupational therapy services at the universal, selected, and intensive levels. Individual and group intervention strategies for enhancing psychosocial function and mental health will be explored. Occupation-based practice, innovative service delivery models, and intervention in school and community settings will be emphasized throughout.


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  • HSC 557 - Human Gross Anatomy Laboratory

    (3 credits)
    Corequisite: HSC 575 . Corequisite: HSC 575. Laboratory sessions include dissection of human cadavers, examination of human skeletal material, and anatomical models.


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  • HSC 558 - Occupational Therapy Practicum I

    (3 credits)
    A level I fieldwork experience in a medical setting. Students exhibit pre-entry-level skills and clinical reasoning necessary to evaluate sensorimotor, cognitive, and psychosocial factors influencing a person’s occupation in work, play/leisure, and self-care; collaborate with the person, the team, and the family to develop and implement intervention strategies that promote occupational functioning; and understand and articulate occupational therapy’s unique role within that setting. Provides an opportunity to gain experiential knowledge of and apply the theoretical approaches studied in the curriculum.


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