2018-2019 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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PSY 273 - Introduction to Clinical Experience, 2 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): PSY 100
This course is intended for freshman and sophomore level students who are interest in pursuing an applied experience in psychology. Students are assigned to a clinical or work setting for an experiential learning opportunity. Student work under the supervision of the personnel of the institution in which they are placed, as well as indirectly under the supervision of the faculty member teaching the course. Progress is assessed by the consultation between students, the institutional supervisor and the faculty supervisor.
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PSY 278 - Elements of Statistics, 4 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): PSY 100 Sociology majors who have taken SOC 100D may also be admitted to this course. This course will not count toward satisfying the social sciences portion of the core curriculum requirement of the University.
This course is designed for behavioral science students and covers such topics as measures of central tendency, variability, tests of significance, confidence intervals, regression analysis and correlation. In addition, the students will receive an introduction to computer data analysis and advanced inferential techniques.
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PSY 279 - Laboratory in Statistical Methods, 2 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): PSY 278 . Must be Psychology major or minor to enroll.
Corequisite(s): or concurrent with PSY 278
This course will introduce students to PASW, a statistical software package commonly used by psychologists. Students will learn techniques important to data analysis including data entry and transformation, descriptive and inferential statistics, interpretation of results, graphical presentation of data and APA style reporting conventions.
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PSY 280 - Research Methods, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): PSY 100 and PSY 278 .
This course provides an overview of research techniques and design considerations that are central to a variety of sub-disciplines within psychology (e.g., cognitive, physiological, sensation and perception, developmental, clinical, learning, social, industrial/organizational, etc.). Students are also familiarized with ethical issues involved in conducting psychological research. Students develop a proposal for a study of their own design.
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PSY 281X - Thesis in Psychology, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): PSY 151 , PSY 278 and PSY 280 . Grade of C or higher PSY 280 required.
This course entails conducting the research project that was designed in PSY 280 . The student research is facilitated by discussions in class and through individual instruction each week. The student will gain hands-on research experience, analytical skills, scientific writing abilities and oral presentation skills. A grade of “C” or higher in PSY 280 is required to enroll in this course.
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PSY 301 - Psychological Testing, 4 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): PSY 278 or consent of the instructor A study of the field of psychological testing and assessment.
The course will focus on issues of reliability, validity, and psychometrics. Special attention will be given to the areas of intelligence, aptitude, educational, and personality testing. Ethical, legal, and judgmental issues in psychological assessment in clinical, industrial, and educational settings will be explored.
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PSY 302 - Abnormal Psychology, 4 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): PSY 100
A survey of the phenomena of psychopathology, including historical background, symptomatology, incidence, course and etiology of a wide array of pathologies including, to name a few, stress-related disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, dissociative disorders, personality disorders and the schizophrenias. A brief review of treatment will also be presented.
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PSY 303 - Physiological Psychology, 4 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): 40 credit hours, including PSY 100
This lecture-laboratory course provides an overview of the physiological bases of behavior, cognition, motivation, emotion, learning and memory. Emphasis is placed on the mechanisms of brain and endocrine system functioning.
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PSY 304 - Personality Psychology, 4 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): PSY 100 .
This course may be taken to partially satisfy the core curriculum requirement in the social sciences. An introduction to the general subject of personality. Emphasis is on the determinants of a healthy personality in such areas as emotions, self-concept and interpersonal relations. The course consists of a review of major theories of personality and an introduction to research methods and testing.
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PSY 312D - Counseling Psychology, 4 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): PSY 100 . PSY 304 is recommended.
This seminar is designed to expose students to the various counseling theories, techniques, specialties, as well as assessment and ethical issues. Students will learn and implement beginning counseling techniques. Students acquire knowledge and engage in the counseling psychology supervision process.
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PSY 315 - Child Development, 4 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): PSY 100 and PSY 205 or EDU 203 or EDU 205
The span of life from birth until puberty is examined with a focus on the following areas of development: genetics, prenatal, physical, perceptual, cognitive, language, emotional, social, self-concept, gender, and moral development. Also addressed will be the influence of various contexts including the family, peers, school, and society.
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PSY 316D - Child Psychopathology, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): PSY 205 , or PSY 315 , or consent of the instructor
A study of the specific psychological disorders exhibited during childhood. Emphasis is placed on childhood disorders as normal development gone awry. Symptomatology, course, etiology and treatment will be examined for emotional and behavioral disturbances in children and adolescents.
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PSY 320 - Industrial/Organizational Psychology, 4 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): PSY 100 .
A study of psychological research and theory as applied to work settings. The course will emphasize industrial issues such as job analysis, job evaluation, validation, and performance appraisal and organizational issues such as corporate culture, downsizing, organizational justice, stress, leadership and motivation. Job design and ergonomics issues will also be reviewed. The course will also examine the legal and ethical context of the practice of industrial/organizational psychology.
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PSY 321 - Human Relations and Group Dynamics, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): PSY 100 .
This course may be taken to partially satisfy the core curriculum requirement in the social sciences. A course designed to examine interpersonal relationships in small and large groups. Current theory and research is presented, along with experiential exercises. A major focus is on leadership skills and group development.
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PSY 325 - Adolescent Development, 4 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): PSY 100 , and PSY 205 or EDU 206 .
The span of life between puberty and young adulthood is examined with special attention given to such factors as previous developmental experience, cultural variables, physiological changes, cognitive development, identity formation, interpersonal relations, delinquency, substance abuse, and adolescent psychopathologies.
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PSY 326 - Applied Behavior Analysis, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): PSY 100 or consent of instructor.
This course covers the various methodologies used by behavior analysts to change maladaptive behaviors. Students will design and carry out a project to change some behavior(s) of their own choosing.
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PSY 327 - Psychology of Learning, 4 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): 40 credit hours, including PSY 100
A study of the historical development of theories of learning, with a focus on experimental technique and results. The course emphasizes three areas: innate behaviors, classical conditioning, and operant conditioning. A lab component exposes the student to all three areas.
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PSY 328 - Cognitive Processes, 4 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): 40 credit hours, including PSY 100
A study of the processes by which people receive, transform and store incoming information and retrieve stored information. Specific topics examined include perception, concept formation, levels of memory processing, the relation of cognitive and language processes, models of semantic organization and artificial intelligence.
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PSY 329 - Sensation and Perception, 4 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): 40 credit hours, including PSY 100
This course provides an introduction to the study of the principles of sensation and perception. Emphasis is placed on understanding how individuals obtain information from the environment and various theories as to how that information is processed. Topics will include basic sensory physiology, psychophysics, visual perception, auditory perception, tactile perception, and the chemical senses. In addition the students will gain first hand experiences in carrying out several classical perceptual experiments and will gain research skills relevant to the field of sensation and perception.
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PSY 339 - Social Psychology, 4 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): PSY 100 , or consent of the instructor; PSY 280 recommended.
This course may be taken to partially satisfy the core curriculum requirement in the social sciences. A study of psychological principles underlying social behavior. Problems in perception, motivation, social cognition, social interaction attitudes, values and prejudice in person/group relationships are studied.
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PSY 340 - Social Cognition, 4 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): PSY 100
Social cognition is the study of cognitive processes governing how we think about and make judgments about other people and social situations and how other people and social situations influence how we think. This course will provide an overview of scientific theory and research in the major topics of social cognition. Students will gain an understanding of the cognitive process governing social cognition. Students will come away with an understanding of the ubiquitous nature of these processes in everyday life, and of the application of social cognition to real-life problems.
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PSY 359 - Faculty-student Collaboration, Credit hours to be arranged
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PSY 363 - Seminar, 1-4 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite dependent on topic.
Advanced seminars reflecting the depth and breadth of Psychology are offered periodically.
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PSY 373 - Seminar in Clinical Experience, 2 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): Three Psychology courses including PSY 302
Students meet weekly to study, discuss, and experience techniques of counseling and clinical psychology. Students explore the ways behavior is changed through clinical intervention. Frequent field trips expose students to a variety of clinical settings and help form realistic expectations for careers in psychology.
Graded: S/U (pass/fail).
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PSY 412 - History and Systems of Psychology, 4 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): PSY 280 (PSY 281X recommended), Senior Status
This course covers the development of psychological thought through the ages, beginning in the pre-Socratic period. There is a heavy emphasis on critical analysis of the issues (for example, dualism, empiricism, etc.) that have faced Psychology through time. This course fosters individualized student thought. In addition to a text book, original readings from the classics are emphasized and explored.
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PSY 459 - Faculty-student Collaboration, Credit hours to be arranged
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PSY 463 - Seminar, 1-4 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite dependent on topic.
Advanced seminars reflecting the depth and breadth of Psychology are offered periodically.
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PSY 473 - Clinical Experience, Credit hours to be arranged
Prerequisite(s): PSY 373 and consent of the instructor
Students are assigned to a clinical setting for a learning and work experience. Students work under the supervision of the personnel in the institution to which they are assigned. Progress is assessed by consultation between the students, the institutional supervisor and the instructor.
Graded: S/U (pass/fail).
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PSY 491 - Departmental Thesis/project, Credit hours to be arranged
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PSY 492 - Departmental Thesis/project, Credit hours to be arranged
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PSY 496 - Industrial and Organizational Capstone Project, 4 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): BUS 410 or PSY 280
The capstone course will require students to apply learning from coursework in the Major to a project with an outside profit or non-profit organization. Students will learn the consultative process and develop and utilize skills in marketing ideas, influencing decision-makers, and interacting with various organizational constituencies. Students will implement business and behavioral science research knowledge and skills in order to address and solve organizational needs and problems. The capstone requires extensive oral and written communication skills in order to complete an applied and/or research project.
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PHT 170 - Introduction to Public Health, 3 credit hours
This course provides a comprehensive overview of public health as well as in-depth reviews of specific topics. Beginning with a historical overview students will explore major public health issues such as polio, cholera, and yellow fever epidemics. Students will be introduced to the concepts of measuring and evaluating the health of populations, principles of communicable disease, environmental and occupational health, economics of health, and the role of public health workers in society.
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PHT 173I - Global Health, 3 credit hours
This course provides and introduction to epidemiological, political, behavioral, sociological, cultural, and medical dimensions in the field of international health. Coverage includes problems concerning both developed and developing countries, but the emphasis is on problems confronting developing countries. Population-based public health approaches to solving international health problems will be introduced. Topics include historical perspectives, health indicators, the role of culture and behavior, communicable and no communicable diseases, malnutrition, obesity, environmental health and population issues, the health of women and children, mental health, world health systems, and future issues in international health.
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PHT 175 - Epidemiology: Measuring Health and Disease, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): MTH 101 or MTH 108 or MTH 121 or equivalent Math/Stat course or instructor’s permission.
Epidemiology is the basic science of disease prevention and plays major roles in the development and evaluation of public policy as well as in social, political, and legal arenas. Used together with laboratory research, it identifies environmental and genetic risk factors for disease and pathogenesis. This course provides an introduction to the field; students will learn basic principles, methods, approaches, and uses of epidemiology. Students will apply principles learned to actual public health questions.
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PHT 271 - Public Health Colloquium I, 1 credit hour
Prerequisite(s): Public Health major or minor and sophomore standing
This course enhances learning from the required and elective public health coursework and allows students an opportunity for socialization into the field. Meeting together, students from all three levels will meet to examine current issues in public health through journal articles, grand rounds, case studies, and guest speakers.
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PHT 274 - Environmental Health, 3 credit hours
This course will provide an overview of how human habits impact the environment, which, in turn, influences health. Included is a historical background bout measures that have been implemented to conserve and preserve the environment as a public health effort, and information regarding laws and policy designed to prevent environmental health issues.
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PHT 275 - Infectious Disease & Epidemics, 3 credit hours
This course is devoted to the methods required to study infectious disease and outbreak investigations. It will provide the opportunity for the student to apply basic principles of epidemiology in real-life examples and case studies such as HIV/AIDS, SARS, Lyme disease, food-borne contagions, sexually transmitted diseases, and hemorrhagic fever outbreaks.
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PHT 285 - GIS for Health Analysis, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): PHT 170 or permission of instructor.
This introductory course will offer an introduction to GIS and its usage in public health, disease surveillance and healthcare planning. Students will learn to use ESRI’s ArcGIS for basic data management, epidemiological analysis, analysis of health behaviors, and health disparities. The students will also learn how to articulate the role of GIS in public health, describe the basic structure of spatial data, identify and use available major sources of GIS health data in locally and nationally. Lastly, students will learn how to use GIS to understand and find solutions for public health problems.
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PHT 370 - Health Policy & Public Health, 3 credit hours
This course will provide students of public health with a firm foundation of the basics of American health policy and law. Given the prominent role played by policy and law in the health of all Americans, the aim of this course is to help students develop an understanding of the broad context of health policy and law, the essential policy and legal issues impacting and flowing out of the health care and public health systems, and the way health policies and laws are formulated. This course will provide an introduction to the seminal issues in U.S. health policy and law, thus providing a starting point for discussion, reflection, research, and analysis.
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PHT 371 - Public Health Colloquium II, 1 credit hour
This course enhances learning from the required and elective public health coursework and allows students an opportunity for socialization into the field. Meeting together, students from all three levels will meet to examine current issues in public health through journal articles, grand rounds, case studies, and guest speakers.
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PHT 373 - Special Topics in Public Health, 3 credit hours
Special topics of interest will be presented. Examples include Military Health; Impact of Culture on Health; Principles of Human Disease; Health, Human Rights, and Displaced Persons; Issues in Women’s Health, and Men’s Health Across the Lifespan.
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PHT 373S - Community Health Planning, 3 credit hours
Special topics of interest will be presented. Examples include Military Health; Impact of Culture on Health; Principles of Human Disease; Health, Human Rights, and Displaced Persons; Issues in Women’s Health, and Men’s Health Across the Lifespan.
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PHT 375X - Health and Social Justice, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): PHT 170 or PHT 175 or any 100 level Sociology/Psychology course or instructor’s permisson.
Health is an asset and a resource critical to human development that benefits society as a whole. But realizing health for all members of society is a matter of social justice, which depends on reducing social and economic inequality and increasing democracy. This course will allow the student to explore many aspects of health inequalities including how health inequalities are rooted in injustices associated with racism, social class, and sex discrimination. It will provide an analysis of the politics of health inequities and show how market values often dominate over collective needs for well being. Students will examine the politics of methodology and the implications for research and public policy, and critique the ideological implications of contemporary health promotion as a model for public health. Additionally, the course will review approaches that influence the social determinants of health and develop encourage students to develop principles for action and research. An analysis of the role of the mass media in influencing the conceptualization of public health issues will be included.
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PHT 470X - Public Health Internship, Credit hours to be arranged
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PHT 471 - Public Health Colloquium III, 1 credit hour
Prerequisite(s): Public Health major or minor and senior standing
This course enhances learning from the required and elective public health coursework and allows students an opportunity for socialization into the field. Meeting together, students from all three levels will meet to examine current issues in public health through journal articles, grand rounds, case studies, and guest speakers.
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PHT 475 - Professional Seminar, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): Concurrent with or prior to PHT 470X .
This course will provide a forum in which students will discuss their individual public health field experiences, problem-solve, discuss issues, and explore both workforce and graduate school opportunities.
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PHT 520 - Fundamentals of Population Health, 2 credit hours
The course provides students with an introduction to fundamental concepts and principles underlying population health approaches to public health. The course is designed to address population and prevention-based perspectives on health; the biopsychosocial context of health and health disparities; role of community in public health; role of organized public health and medical efforts in population health; and future directions in population health. The course will also designed to provide a broad overview of health disparities and disparity population in terms of race/ethnicity, geographic locations, and sexual orientation. Leading Health Indicators and Leading Causes of Death in the U.S. as described in Healthy People 2020 will be explored.
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PHT 522 - Biological Basis of Population Health, 1 credit hour
This course is designed to introduce students an overview of the human biology and biomedical sciences field with an emphasis on its application to significant public health problems. The primary emphasis of this course is to provide the necessary information to individuals with diverse backgrounds so that they have a good working knowledge of biomedical sciences and how it influences our lives and shapes public health. This course will provide an introduction to the field of biomedical sciences through discussion of disorders of public health relevance, including infectious and transmissible vectors, genetic disease and chronic disorders such as type II diabetes and obesity. Concepts of laboratory methods including quality control, normal ranges, and universal precautions and data interpretation are described.
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PHT 525 - Statistical Methods in Population Health, 3 credit hours
The objective of this course is to train students about the most commonly used statistical-methods in clinical, public health, epidemiological, and experimental research. This course is designed to provide a broad overview of biostatistics methods as well as applications commonly used for public health research. Topics covered include measurement and categorizing variables, use and misuse of descriptive statistics, testing hypotheses, and applying commonly used statistical tests including t-test, ANOVA, linear regression, etc. An emphasis will be placed on the practical application of data to address public health issues, rather than theoretical and mathematical development. Students will learn how to choose and apply statistical tools to data sources, when and how statistical tools can be used to analyze data, and how to interpret others’ quantitative studies. Students will gain experience using online datasets and the SAS statistical software package. In addition, the student learns how to read, critique, and interpret statistical concepts in the literature.
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PHT 526 - Epidemiology for Public Health Practices, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): PHT 520 and PHT 525
The course is designed to introduce students to the concepts of epidemiological methods and their practical applications in the understanding of determinants and distributions of diseases and health related events. This course provides a foundation of topics in epidemiology through examining infectious disease, chronic diseases, and general health. The course will cover basic principles of epidemiology, including disease control and analysis of risk factors. Topics will include the history of epidemiology, types of epidemiologic studies and risk estimation and causal inferences. Students will learn from real world health problems and demonstrate how epidemiology is used to better understand, prevent, and treat diseases among the population. We will illustrate and practice using epidemiology to better understand, characterize, and promote health at a population level.
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PHT 530 - Environmental & Occupational Health, 3 credit hours
Introduces students to physical, chemical and biological hazards found in the environment and biological hazards health risks associated with workplace and community exposure to them. Risks to special population and mechanism to reduce these risks are discussed. Students will discuss environmental justice, and will explain its history and principles. The course content will also examine general mechanisms of toxicity in eliciting a toxic response to various environmental exposure. In addition, the course will provide students with basic skill for emergency preparedness and disaster management.
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PHT 535 - Research & Evaluation Methods in Population Health, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): PHT 525
This is a course designed around modules whose objective is to provide students with greater familiarity in a range of methods essential to public health practice. The course will be framed around an in depth needs assessment and community public health planning in Northeast Ohio. Topics covered will include data collection and evaluation, both quantitative and qualitative, uses of informatics in public health, analysis of vital statistics, working with communities, methods for developing and facilitating solutions to public health problems. The course demonstrates how core public health competency areas in data analysis and communication provide foundations for applications for both practice and practice-based research. Students will learn to identify the kind of research problems for which qualitative and quantitative methods are appropriate, and to critique research in terms of design, technique, analysis and interpretation. Students will use SAS, NVivo and related software for quantitative and qualitative analysis.
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PHT 537 - Theories & Practices in Health Promotion, 3 credit hours
This course will focus on social and behavioral sciences as applied to the understanding of the distribution, etiology, and solution of public health problems. The course will critically review examples of the application of various models to health promotion and disease prevention with individuals, groups and communities. Public health interventions and educational programs are most likely to have an impact on populations and communities when they are guided by a theory. Theories of health behavior help researchers, practitioners and participants identify targets and opportunities for change as well as methods for accomplishing change. This course is intended to provide students with a solid foundation in behavioral and social science theory in the context of both, public health research and practice. The content of this course will provide exposure to a broad range of theories and frameworks commonly employed in the public health arena including issues related to the intersection of public health and human rights. These theories will be discussed using examples of their applications to numerous public health problems including, but not limited to, HIV/AIDS, violence, cancer, cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, environmental hazards, and global health.
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PHT 541 - Public Health Management, Policy & Advocacy, 2 credit hours
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the fundamental organization, behavior, financing, and challenges of the health system of the United States. This course is an introduction to health policy and management. It examines both the historical and current state of health policy in America and integrates these concepts within the context of public health practice. The course examines key concepts in understanding US health care organization, financing and delivery, current political and economic debate on health care reform, examining the role and management issues of public health departments, and case studies in public health policy and management. This course provides students with a basic understanding of the US health care system and describes how various health care components work individually, and how they work (or fail to work) together to create the “health care system”. Though the orientation of the course is toward the American health care system, the experience of foreign systems will frequently be noted.
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PHT 598 - Clinical Research Methods, 2 credit hours
The course will provide students with the methods and issues associated with clinical trials. The course will consist of experimental methods and how they are used to design clinical trials. Students will learn how to design and interpret results from clinical trials. Students will also examine the ethical and regulatory issues related to the conduct of Clinical Research Trials.
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PHT 600 - Grand Rounds in Population Health, 1 credit hour
Prerequisite(s): PHT 520
Grand rounds are topical seminars designed to provide students with breadth of knowledge on emerging issues in population health. Students are required to attend a minimum of 3 grand round lectures and develop a white paper on a specific topic of interest that deals with a contemporary population health issues.
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PHT 610 - Prevention of Chronic Diseases, 3 credit hours
This course focuses on the current status of preventive and population-level interventions to reduce chronic disease risk in adults and children, with an emphasis on community-level, public health policy approaches to promoting healthier lifestyle and wellbeing. This course covers the major chronic diseases and their risk factors. The importance of this subject cannot be overstated since it is the major factor driving health care costs. The U.S. now spends more money per capita than any other nation yet is behind in longevity. Brief overviews of the epidemiology, physiology, chronic disease implications of obesity will be covered. Class sessions are a combination of lecture and class discussion.
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PHT 611 - Disease & Wellbeing Across Lifespan, 3 credit hours
In this course the students will use concepts from population health, biology, and nutrition, pharmacology, and biopsychosocial sciences to critically examine the determinants of health, wellness, and illness across the lifespan. Environmental, sociocultural, and economic factors that influence health care practices are emphasized. Theories of health, wellness, and illness are related to health promotion, disease prevention, and illness prevention interventions will be explored.
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PHT 612 - Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 2 credit hours
This course will fulfill elective requirement that aligns with program goal and mission. The content in this course is designed to meet the knowledge outcomes for graduate program in Public Health as set forth by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH). Northeast Ohio experience significant disparities in terms of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Thus, it is expected that future Public health professionals address this disparities by gaining critical knowledge and skills in prevention of STIs.
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PHT 613 - Diversity & Health, 2 credit hours
The purpose is to expose students to the intersectionality of health, race /ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender expression. Variety of qualitative approaches/methodologies that may be used in assessing unique healthcare needs of minority population will be explored. Students will examine and discuss the theoretical and practical elements of the community action research with diverse population.
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PHT 620 - Program Planning, Design, and Evaluation, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): PHT 520 , PHT 525 , PHT 535 , PHT 537 , & BUS 702
This course will provide students with the concepts and techniques of planning, implementing, and evaluating public health programs. The course will cover concepts that are relevant to evaluation of health, and social and behavioral interventions in the community settings. These will include program/intervention, implementation and impact evaluation concepts, models/designs, methods, indicators, and data collection, analysis and interpretation strategies. Design and application of evaluations will include both quantitative and qualitative analysis methods. The course will explore the role of planning and evaluation in improving program implementation, management and outcomes.
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PHT 621 - Advanced Methods in Population Health Assessment, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): PHT 525 , PHT 535 , PHT 537
This course will provide students with advanced skills in research design and methods for establishing causal statements about the efficacy, effectiveness and generalizability of public health interventions designed to alter population health outcomes and social risk or protective factors. Standards for stating/claiming that an intervention is evidence-‐based also are addressed in this course. This course employs basic aspects of ArcGIS, and SAS-based statistical modeling tools for multivariate regression analysis.
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PHT 630 - Violence & Public Health, 3 credit hours
With experiences ranging from interpersonal violence between family members to those experiencing war as either combatants or noncombatants, violence is a major issue in Public Health. The course will examine the impact violence in all forms has upon the lives of those involved and social, cultural, and political factors that relate to it. Students will also examine the social, psychological, and medical effect of violence. Students will also examine programmatic and other mechanisms to reduce disparities and experience of violence.
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PHT 635 - Latino Health & Culture, 3 credit hours
The course will examine the social and medical factors that affect the health of Latino populations within the United States. Issues such as language and culture influences the lives of Latinos and affect their ability to access care and to adhere to treatment. The course will provide students with an understanding of the factors that can benefit or hinder Latino populations. Students will learn about Latino cultures and important phrases to increase their cultural competency regarding Latino populations.
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PHT 645 - Health Informatics & Big Data, 2 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): PHT 525 or other graduate level statistics course
This course provides a conceptual foundation and practical training to students who will be working with larger dataset from clinical trials, census or other public health research studies. Topics include data issues in study design, collecting high quality data, using SAS and SQL to transform data into structures useful for analysis, producing typical reports, data closure and export, and working with big data. This course describes the organizational context of health information and how to use health data to manage population health. Sources and types of health information, organizational processes affecting information quality, consistency, completeness, and accuracy, methods for organizing information, and use of information will be discussed. Students will use SAS JMP software for data analysis and management.
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PHT 650 - Ethics & Law in Public Health, 3 credit hours
This course explores the legal powers and duties of the state, in collaboration with its partners (e.g., health care providers, business, the community, the media, and academe), to assure the conditions for people to be healthy, and the limits on state powers to constrain the autonomy, privacy, liberty, proprietary, or other legally protected interests of individuals for protection or promotion of community health. After reviewing key concepts relating to the public health “system” and introducing the concepts of public health ethics, law and policy, we overview basic theories of ethical decision-making and their relevance to public health. Public health ethics seek to understand and clarify principles and values that guide public health actions, offering a framework for making decisions and a means of justifying them. We close the course by applying what we learn to specific forms of government intervention to address public health problems.
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PHT 665 - Grant Writing & Administration, 1 credit hour
The goal of this course is to provide students an opportunity to enhance their skills in the area of grant writing, reviewing and management. The student will learn the steps in planning and writing the grant for state, federal and private funding agencies, understanding the funding environment, learning how to choose different types of grants, and understand the submission and review process. Students will have the opportunity to experience the range of activities involved in grant writing and management including developing a compelling idea for a project or research; identify ethical issues; skills for identifying strategies, anticipating problems and understanding reviewers to write major components of the grant application including the Executive summary, Needs Statement, Objectives, conceptual model, Project Activities/Methods, Resources, Budget, and Budget Justification; conduct a review for a grant application; and identify post-award expectations in managing a funded project.
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PHT 770 - Practicum in Population Health, 4 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): PHT 520 , PHT 525 , PHT 535 , PHT 537 , & BUS 702
This is a required 4-unit course. Students must complete a minimum of 240 hours of supervised field-work experience and/or a research based thesis. Prerequisites are completion of all general MPH core courses. Attendance at one or more Practicum Orientation meetings is mandatory. Practicum Orientation meetings are held at the beginning of each semester. The practicum is designed to provide MPH students with the opportunity to integrate the knowledge and skills developed during their academic program in a structured, supervised, real-world professional setting under the direction of a site supervisor and a faculty member in a public health setting. Requires a significant project proposal approved by faculty instructor and the Department and a final report and/or a thesis and reflection paper.
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PHT 775 - Capstone Project & Seminar, 1 credit hour
Prerequisite(s): Completion and/or enrollment in core and concentration courses. PHT 770 .
The course draws on students’ prior training in the five core areas of public health; cross cutting competencies (leadership, communication and systems thinking); their additional required course work in one of 2 tracks; and their “real world” experience gained in the field prior to their graduation. In particular, the capstone class is closely linked to the MPH practicum. The Capstone is designed to challenge students to reflect and integrate their training and experience with the goal of developing their own individual point of view regarding the role of public health in contributing to the improvement of the health and well-being of populations in the United States, as well as abroad. A Comprehensive exam, capstone presentation assessment, and reflection on students’ E-Portfolio will be conducted.
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PBH 100 - Introduction to Public History, 2 credit hours
This course will introduce students to public history, an area of history that applies history to the world around us and brings the past to the people. Through readings, hands-on experience, guest lecturers, and group participation, students will be introduced to history careers outside of academia and challenged to think about issues involving preservation, promotion, and the presentation of history to a public audience. Career paths in archival management, museum studies, special collections, oral history, and others will be explored. The course will also address the politics of public history and popular memory.
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PBH 200X - Introduction to Archives and Museums, 3 credit hours
This course is designed to familiarize students with common terminology, best practices, and current events in the archival and museum field. Through readings and experiential assignments, students will be introduced to careers outside of academia and challenged to think about various issues. Class work will present students with an opportunity to curate an exhibit in a public setting, engage in collaboration, promote their work via social media, and manage a very real project budget.
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PBH 300 - Research in Community History, 3 credit hours
This course will introduce students to local history, a genre of history that emphasizes the community and its contributions to our understanding of the bigger picture. In particular, this class will focus on “doing” local history, finding the worthwhile stories, nurturing collaborative endeavours, exploring ways of making local history more engaging, and the impact the web has had on bringing local history to a global audience. Through readings, experiential assignments, and web content, students will be introduced to careers in local history careers.
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PBH 350 - Oral History Practicum, 3 credit hours
Prerequisite(s): PBH 300 or permission of instructor
This course introduces students to the importance, theory, literature, and practice of oral history. A portion of the course will include setting up, recording, editing, transcribing, and making the oral histories accessible via the web. Students will also learn about the use of oral history in research.
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PBH 470X - Public History Internship, Credit hours to be arranged
Prerequisite(s): PBH 100 , PBH 200X , PBH 300 , PBH 350 or permission of instructor
The internship requires students to work for a professional museum, historical society, library, archive, or other organization engaged in public history. The internship will culminate in a presentation to faculty and a reflective essay that describes the choice of internship, learning objectives and challenges experienced in meeting them, and personal development achieved.
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REL 070 - Internship, 1-12 credit hours
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REL 100 - Introduction to Religion, 3 credit hours
An introduction to religion, utilizing Ninian Smart’s seven “dimensions of the sacred”: the ritual or practical; the doctrinal or philosophical; the mythic or narrative; the experiential or emotional; the ethical or legal; the organizational or social; and the material or artistic. Required for Majors and Minors.
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REL 101I - Religions of India, 3 credit hours
An introduction to the beliefs and practices of the major religions of India, including Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Islam, and Sikhism.
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REL 102I - Religions of China and Japan, 3 credit hours
An introduction to the beliefs and practices of the major religions of East Asia, including Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, and Shinto.
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REL 105 - Religion for the Citizen, 3 credit hours
This course focuses on basic Religious Literacy, providing students with the knowledge about Religion they will need to act as educated citizens in our increasingly pluralistic society. This course includes units on religions in our community, religion and service, religion in politics, religion in the media, and spiritual reflection.
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REL 108I - Islam, 2 credit hours
An examination of the basic beliefs, practices, and early history of Islam.
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REL 110 - Judaism, 3 credit hours
An introduction to modern Judaic faith, with emphasis on understanding the main themes of Jewish faith and practice in the contemporary world. Offered with support from the Jewish Chautauqua Society.
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REL 115D - African-American Religious Experience, 3 credit hours
This course examines African-American Religious Experience by providing a survey of African-American religious history. It pays particular attention to the interaction of African religions with Christianity and to the diversity within African-American religion in Christianity as well as beyond Christianity.
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REL 120 - Catholic Faith Today, 2 credit hours
A study of the beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church today, seen especially in the light of the changes introduced by the Second Vatican Council.
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REL 121 - Spiritual Disciplines, 3 credit hours
Spiritual Disciplines are the path to spiritual growth. Classical disciplines such as prayer, fasting, meditation and others will be examined with respect to both process and content. A practical, experiential component is an essential feature of the class. However, the class does not fulfill the Experiential Learning Core Requirement.
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REL 125 - Modern Spiritual Paths, 3 credit hours
Representative luminaries of various religious traditions provide different ways of experiencing God’s Presence. Attention will also be given to the multiple ways spiritual experiences are articulated. Diversity within the Christian tradition will be in evidence, as well as the pluralism of non-Christian traditions such as Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam.
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REL 127 - Contemplative Spirituality, 3 credit hours
Contemplative Spirituality is a way of living a centered life with awareness of the Divine Presence. The class examines both the historical ways of contemplation and its contemporary expressions in diverse faith traditions. This way of living offers an alternative way of being in the world. An experiential component is an important feature of the class. However, the class does not fulfill the Experiential Learning Core Requirement.
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REL 161 - Christian Faith & Thought, 3 credit hours
An introduction to the field of Christian theology. The course will consider the major forms of Christian faith and thought, with an emphasis on contemporary expressions of Christianity in churches today. Some attention will be given to these topics: faith and reason, church and state, scripture and its interpretation, science and faith, personal faith and communal worship, ecumenical patterns, and the future of Christianity.
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REL 193(I,D) - Topics in Religion, 2-4 credit hours
Various topics in Religion will be examined. May be repeated, provided that the topic is different.
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REL 201I - Buddhist Culture in Asia, 3 credit hours
An anthropological approach to the study of Buddhism, looking at Buddhist culture in South Asia, East Asia, and Tibet. Special attention will be given to ritual practice, religion and politics, social activism, and gender issues.
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REL 215I - Death and the Afterlife in the World’s Religions, 4 credit hours
A comparative examination of the world’s religions in terms of their beliefs and rituals associated with death and the afterlife. The course also includes a segment on near-death experiences and a segment on current life-and-death issues in the modern West.
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REL 216I - Women and Religion, 4 credit hours
A comparative examination of the world’s religions in terms of their attitudes towards women as well as women’s roles. Special attention will be given to both traditional religious conceptions of women and modern feminist reclamations of religious traditions.
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REL 217I - Religion, Violence & Peace, 4 credit hours
A comparative examination of the world’s religions in terms of their beliefs about violence and non-violence. Special attention will be given to scriptural interpretation and modern case studies from around the world.
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REL 218D - American Religious Pluralism, 4 credit hours
A comparative examination of the world’s religions in the United States of America. Special attention will be given to legal and historical understandings of American religious pluralism and to issues of assimilation, discrimination, and enrichment experienced in America, especially since the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965.
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REL 219I - Religion and the Environment, 4 credit hours
A comparative examination of the world’s religions in terms of their attitudes toward nature and the environment. Special attention will be given to modern international case studies of religious approaches to sustainability.
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REL 222 - History of Christian Spirituality, 3 credit hours
The class examines the major diverse traditions in Christian spirituality. Included are Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant voices. Attention will be given to how women and men within these traditions experienced the divinity and how they expressed this experience in both word and deed.
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REL 242 - Intro to the Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament, 3 credit hours
A basic study of the origin and development of the Hebrew-Judaic faith and its expression in history, personalities, theology and various types of literature. An interdisciplinary examination of the Hebrew Bible. Special attention will be given to its authorship, its historical and cultural context, its literary value, and its implications for theological interpretations.
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REL 243 - Jesus and the Gospels, 3 credit hours
A study of the life and teachings of the historical Jesus of Nazareth, as well as a critical examination of the literary portraits of him, represented by the canonical Gospels and the Gospel of Thomas.
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REL 244 - Christianity in the New Testament, 3 credit hours
A study of the birth of Christianity, as portrayed in the letters of Paul and the Acts of the Apostles.
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REL 245 - History of the Bible, 3 credit hours
A study of the formation and use of the Christian Bible through the centuries and of the impact it has had on western culture. Topics such as the following will be addressed: the manuscript traditions of the Bible, the development of the canon, theories of the authority and inspiration of scripture, the history of translation and interpretation, and the history of the English Bible.
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