HSAHSCOTHPHC
Credits: 3; Prereq: APK 2105C, and BSC 2007 or BSC 2005 or BSC 2010, and PSY 2012 and STA 2023; health science or communication sciences and disorders majors or health science minor.
Overview of organization, delivery and financing of health services in the U.S. Topics include health professionals, health care facilities, financing of health services, managed care and current health policy issues.
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HSC 3057 Research Methods and Issues in Health Science
Credits: 3; Prereq: HSC 3502 and health science majors/minors only.
Emphasizes four aspects of research: understanding research principles, evaluating journal articles, applying research findings to clinical settings and designing programmatic evaluation projects.
Credits: 3.
Instruction and practice in healthcare communication skills. Provides an overview of key issues in healthcare communications and telehealth.
HSC 3502 Survey of Diseases and Disability
Credits: 3; Prereq: health science or communication sciences and disorders majors or health science minor.
Overview of medical and psychosocial aspects of chronic diseases and disability.
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HSC 3661 Therapeutic Communication Skills with Patients, Families and the Health Care Team
Credits: 2; Prereq: HSA 3111, HSC 3502, HSC 4558 and health science majors only; Coreq: RCS 4415L.
Learn appropriate verbal and nonverbal behavior to be used with patients, families and the health care team through lecture, discussion and role play in large and small groups.
HSC 3801 Clinical Observation / Health Care Volunteer Work
Credits: 1 to 4; Prereq: health science majors only and department permission.
Learn about a specific health care field or gain knowledge about specific patient or client populations through direct observation and/or hands-on assistance. (S-U)
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HSC 4184 Health Care Leadership: Skills and Styles
Credits: 3; Prereq: HSA 3111, HSC 3502, HSC 4558 and health science majors only.
Behavioral styles that contribute to leadership effectiveness. Studies specific styles for their contributions to motivating people and overall leadership effectiveness in health care.
HSC 4558 Survey of Diseases and Disabilities 2
Credits: 3; Prereq: HSC 3502; health science or communication sciences and disorders majors or health science minor.
Overview of medical and psychosocial aspects of chronic diseases, including issues of disability management. This required course, combined with HSC 3502, covers all of the major disabling conditions.
Credits: 4; Prereq: HSA 3111, HSC 3502, HSC 4558, HSC 3661 and health science majors only.
Develops critical thinking skills to solve problems in the health care environment.
HSC 4652L Ethical and Legal Issues in the Health Professions
Credits: 3; Prereq: HSA 3111, HSC 3502, HSC 4558 and health science majors only.
Overview of ethical and legal issues in the health professions, including contemporary ethical issues in disease management.
Credits: 1 to 4; can be repeated with change in content up to 12 credits. Prereq: Health education and behavior majors, junior or senior standing, HSC 3032 with minimum grade of C, and instructor permission.
Special topics in health science. Please refer to the department for specific course information.
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Credits: 3. Prereq: APK 2105, HSA 3111, HSC 3502, and health science majors/minors only, or instructor permission.
Basic understanding of pathophysiology as a change from normal physiological functioning of the various systems of the human body.
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Credits: 3.
Overview of public health as a multifaceted field. Includes discussion of contemporary public health challenges with input from discipline experts.
Credits: 3; Prereq: HSC 3502 and PHC 4101.
Critical links between global health and social and economic development. Discusses the burden of disease and how to measure this across countries. Focuses on low and middle income countries and the health of the poor.
Credits: 3; Prereq: HSC 3057, HSC 3502, HSC 4558, PHC 4101, and health science majors only.
Principles and methods of epidemiological investigation focusing on both infectious and noninfectious diseases. Emphasizes outbreak investigations, field epidemiology and epidemiology careers.
PHC 4094 Introduction to Biostatistics for Health Science and Public Health
Credits: 3; Prereq: STA 2023.
Methods and public health applications for analysis of variance, correlation, simple linear regression, multiple linear regression, nonparametric and distribution-free statistical methods, and some basic concepts about survival analysis. Public health applications using statistical software. Writing data analysis reports.
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Credits: 3; Prereq: APK 2105C, and BSC 2007 or BSC 2005 or BSC 2010, and PSY 2012 and STA 2023; health science majors/minors only and department permission.
Introduces the basic tenets, applications and foci of public health, including integrating public health with other health professions.
PHC 4117 Public Health Management Leadership
Credits: 3; Prereq: HSA 3111, HSC 3502, HSC 4558, PHC 4101 and health science majors only.
Provides knowledge relevant to leading public health organizations while effectively managing and motivating employees. Includes organizational behavior and theories to examine management, leadership and application of skills in delivering public health programs.
Credits: 3; Prereq: HSC 3502, HSC 4558 and PHC 4101; Coreq: HSC 3661.
Covers development of the role of a public health and human services provider in an agency setting.
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