Education
EDU 810: Ethical Leadership
Students are exposed to the complex set of issues relating to ethical behavior in institutional settings, including academic integrity, curriculum choices, student assessment, parental involvement, community relations, and administrative-staff conflict. Through readings, case analyses, and other means of investigation, the…
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EDU 811: Diagnosing Organizational Dynamics
Transformative leaders are successful in diagnosing and interacting with both internal and external forces affecting the organizational environment. This includes socio-cultural factors, poverty, family situations, and health. Students analyze case studies of effective and ineffective individual, group, and organizational dynamics…
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EDU 812: Dissertation Seminar I
Students work directly with their dissertation chair and committee to define the research problem, literature and methodology they will use during the third year of the program. By the completion of the course, candidates will be prepared to pursue their…
Education
EDU 813: Dissertation Seminar II
Effective transformative leaders must understand and address the dynamics, whether positive or negative forces, affecting change efforts in their respective settings. The course engages students in issues of power, conflict, negotiation, and compromise. Emphasis is placed upon how best to…
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EDU 814-817: Dissertation
Collaborating with their respective dissertation committee, as well as continuing with peer interaction, students engage in the planning, organization, research, writing and revising of the dissertation. Regularly scheduled virtual meetings with the chair and full committee will ensure that timely…
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ENGL 1011: English Composition II
ENGL 1011 is a three-credit college research writing course to prepare students to use the conventions of academic research writing. Writing-as-process and practice strategies will be employed to culminate in the production of an academic research essay supported by well-synthesized,…
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EXSP 1010: Exercise Physiology
EXSP 1010 is a three-credit exercise physiology course that provides students with a solid theoretical basis of exercise physiology as it relates to human movement, health, wellness, sport, and performance. Focus is placed on the practical application of exercise physiology…
Public Health
GPH 702: An Interprofessional Approach to Policy and Advocacy
This course brings together graduate students in public health, education, social work, nutrition, and health informatics to work collaboratively to learn the fundamentals of policy-making as applied to the broad issue of student mental health in an educational setting. Students…
Public Health
GPH 704: Public Health Law, and Ethics
A fundamental goal of government is to protect and support the health of the public, but implementation of health policies may infringe on the protected rights and liberties of individuals and businesses. This conflict is sometimes characterized as “private interest…
Certificate
GPH 706: Public Health Administration
This course provides an overview of the history, content, scope, and processes of public health administration. Emphasis is placed on administration, public health structure and framework, organizational culture, management functions and roles, leadership, motivation, and performance management. Basic principles and…
Public Health
GPH 712: Principles of Epidemiology
This course is designed to introduce students to the basic principles of epidemiology as they apply to public health practice. Content will include: a historical perspective on epidemiology, descriptive epidemiology, effect measures, study designs, bias, surveillance, and screening for disease.…
Public Health
GPH 713: Infectious Disease Epidemiology
This course is designed for students who would like build on the basic principles of epidemiology to study infectious diseases in populations. By the end of this course, students will be able to: 1) describe the general principles of infectious…
Certificate
GPH 714: Principles of Public Health
This course will examine public health principles and concepts. It will provide a broad framework for understanding public health’s role in community health, prevention, and medicine. Using the five core public health knowledge areas and the ten essential public health…
Summer University Graduate Course
GPH 714: Principles of Public Health | (8 Weeks)
This course will examine public health principles and concepts. It will provide a broad framework for understanding public health’s role in community health, prevention, and medicine. Using the five core public health knowledge areas and the ten essential public health…
Public Health
GPH 716: Biostatistics
This course provides you with an introduction to the procedures used in the summarization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of research data. Topics include sampling, experimentation, measurement, descriptive statistics, correlation, probability, confidence intervals, testing hypotheses, 2-way tables, and simple linear regression.…
Public Health
GPH 717: Applied Epidemiology
Applied Epidemiology is for individuals who want to practice and refine their epidemiological skills and ultimately participate in investigating health and disease in communities. This course will focus on the application of epidemiological tools and skills and offer a more…
Public Health
GPH 719: Research Methods
This course is designed to introduce core topics necessary to understand and conduct ethically sound and scientifically valid public health research. It is designed to build on the skills gained in other fundamental public health courses such as principles of…
Public Health
GPH 721: Foundations of Maternal and Child Health
Maternal and child health provides a foundation for a community’s development and sustainability. Students will apply public health frameworks to maternal and child health concepts and issues; in the process, they will gain a broad understanding of the field of…
Certificate
GPH 722: Introduction to Environment Health
The world about us provides for our life, but also can be dangerous to our health. This dichotomy is the essence of the study of environmental health. Students completing this course will be able to apply scientific knowledge to evaluate…
Certificate
GPH 724: Occupational Health
This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to the field of Occupational Health. The course will emphasize the recognition, evaluation and control of hazards in the work environment. General principles and global processes will be linked to…
Public Health
GPH 725: Public Health Financial Management
This course provides students with an understanding of the importance of financial planning in healthcare, the difference between financial and managerial accounting, and using financial data to aid in business decisions. This course builds on students’ understanding of the basic…