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ECON 1101 - Principles of Microeconomics (SOCS, GP)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Econ 1101/1165 ApEc 1101/1101H
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Microeconomic behavior of consumers, firms, and markets in domestic and world economy. Demand and supply. Competition and monopoly. Distribution of income. Economic interdependencies in the global economy. Effects of global linkages on individual decisions. prereq: knowledge of plane geometry and advanced algebra

APEC 1101 - Principles of Microeconomics (SOCS, GP)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Econ 1101/1165 ApEc 1101/1101H
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Economic behavior of consumers/firms in domestic/international markets. Demand, supply, competition. Efficiency, Invisible Hand. Monopoly, imperfect competition. Externalities, property rights. Economics of public policy in environment/health/safety. Public goods, tax policy.

STAT 3011 - Introduction to Statistical Analysis (MATH)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AnSc 3011/ESPM 3012/Stat 3011/
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Standard statistical reasoning. Simple statistical methods. Social/physical sciences. Mathematical reasoning behind facts in daily news. Basic computing environment.

PSY 3801 - Introduction to Psychological Measurement and Data Analysis (MATH)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Psy 3801/Psy 3801H
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Descriptive/basic inferential statistics used in psychology. Measures of central tendency, variability, t tests, one-way ANOVA, correlation, regression, confidence intervals, effect sizes. Psychological measurement. Graphical data presentation. Statistical software. prereq: High school algebra, [PSY 1001 or equiv]; intended for students who plan to major in psychology

SOC 3811 - Social Statistics (MATH)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This course will introduce majors and non-majors to basic statistical measures and procedures that are used to describe and analyze quantitative data in sociological research. The topics include (1) frequency and percentage distributions, (2) central tendency and dispersion, (3) probability theory and statistical inference, (4) models of bivariate analysis, and (5) basics of multivariate analysis. Lectures on these topics will be given in class, and lab exercises are designed to help students learn statistical skills and software needed to analyze quantitative data provided in the class. prereq: Undergraduates with strong math background are encouraged to register for 5811 in lieu of 3811 (Soc 5811 offered Fall terms only). Soc Majors/Minors must register A-F.

BA 2551 - Business Statistics in R (MATH)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	BA 2551/SCO 2550
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

The purpose of the course is to develop skills for improving data-driven decision-making using statistical techniques in the powerful statistical software environment R. As an introductory statistics course, the content will include three main areas of statistics: Descriptive Statistics, Statistical Inference, and Analysis of Relationships with Scatterplots, Correlation and Linear Regression. Developing statistical literacy is increasingly important in understanding data and engaging in the complex business world. BA 2551 focuses on statistical reasoning and how to implement statistical methods in a business context using R. Topics include (but are not limited to) descriptive statistics, statistical inference, variability, sampling, distributions, correlation analysis, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, graphical summaries of data, and introduction to linear regression. Through weekly in-class lab sessions and critical thinking assignments related to statistics in business, the course will train students to become informed consumers of numerical information and provide foundational skills in R to compute statistical procedures in future courses. We use existing packages in R as a tool to enable us to solve business problems that can leverage mathematical and statistical thinking. prereq: [Math 1031 or equiv]

COMM 1101 - Introduction to Public Speaking (CIV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Comm 1101/Comm 1101H/PSTL 1461
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Public communication processes, elements, and ethics. Criticism of and response to public discourse. Practice in individual speaking designed to encourage civic participation.

ACCT 2051 - Introduction to Financial Reporting

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Acct 2050/ApEc 1251/Dbln 2051
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This course introduces the topics of financial reporting and accounting. The purpose of financial accounting is to provide information to the entity owners and external parties to serve as the basis for making decisions about that entity. A student who successfully completes this class should be able to 1) understand the concepts and principles of accounting, 2) analyze, record and report the accounting treatment of business transactions, and 3) prepare, interpret, and analyze financial statements.

APEC 1251 - Principles of Accounting

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Acct 2050/ApEc 1251/Dbln 2051
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Financial accounting. Theory, concepts, principles, procedures. Preparation/understanding of the four financial statements.

PUBH 3001 - Personal and Community Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 3001/PubH 3004/PubH 3005
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Fundamental principles of health conservation and disease prevention.

PUBH 3003 - Fundamentals of Alcohol and Drug Abuse

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 3003/PubH 3004/PubH 3005/
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Scientific, sociocultural, and attitudinal aspects of alcohol and other drug abuse problems. Emphasizes incidence, high-risk populations, prevention, and intervention.

PHAR 1002 - Medical Terminology

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Phar 1002/Phar 5201
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Interested in learning the difference between an antigen and an antibiotic? During this course, you will not only increase your medical vocabulary by more than 2500 words at your own pace, you will also learn to identify and articulately describe a wide variety of medical conditions and processes. Communication related to disease states, procedures, and diagnostics in health care can sometimes seem like another language. This course will help you recognize medical abbreviations, relate terms to procedures and diagnostics, and comprehend the meaning of medical terminology by using word elements. If you are interested in the health care field or would like to understand more about your own medical care, this course is a great place to start.

ABUS 3301 - Introduction to Quality Management

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Principles/concepts of managing quality in business applications. Improving business processes with six sigma method. Implementing/leading process improvement. Baldrige Award, ISO 9000. prereq: Introductory statistics

ABUS 4013W - Legal, Ethical, and Risk Issues for Managers (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ABus 4013/CMgt 4013
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Key legal, ethical, and risk frameworks in business activity and civic life. Students will identify areas of exposure within their specific industry and learn about best practices to minimize legal liability and manage risk. The writing-related instruction is designed to develop effective management-level communication skills regarding legal, ethical, and other risks and to develop a thoughtful analytical approach to addressing real-world risks. prereq: CMgt 4011 recommended for CMgt students, 45 semester credits

ABUS 4041 - Dynamics of Leadership

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Successful leadership via flexible approach. Knowledge, skills, and abilities that leaders develop from eight leadership strategies: academic, bureaucratic, eclectic, economic, fellowship, military, political, social. Ways to lead diverse populations in a global environment. prereq: 45 cr completed

HINF 5430 - Foundations of Health Informatics I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

An introductory survey of health informatics, focusing on foundational concepts. Topics covered include: conceptualizations of data, information, and knowledge; current terminologies, coding, and classification systems for medical information; ethics, privacy, and security; systems analysis, process and data modeling; human-computer interaction and data visualization. Lectures, readings, and exercises highlight the intersections of these topics with electronic health record systems and other health information technology. prereq: Junior, senior, grad student, professional student, or instr consent

HSM 3521 - Health Care Delivery Systems

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Health care (HC) delivery systems, health economics, third-party/public reimbursement, current trends in HC organizations/management/administration. Regulations, standards, quality assurance, accreditation, current ethical issues. Implications for HC providers/professionals, patients/families, communities, international health. prereq: 30 cr

HSM 4531 - Human Resources in Health Care Settings

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Prerequisites:	45 cr
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Basic understanding of human resources issues within health care organizations--management of human capital to meet organizational objectives, and building and motivating an engaged workforce. Legal principles; labor supply and demand; sourcing, recruitment, selection and orientation; compensation; benefits; diversity; performance management. prereq: 45 cr

HSM 4541 - Health Care Finance

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	HSM 4541/HSM 6541
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

General principles of financial management for health care industry. Operational knowledge of financial management theory, esp., how hospitals and their departments develop/balance operating/capital budget for business growth/development. Governmental policies, procedures, and ethical issues controlling the health care industry. prereq: Basic accounting knowledge, a course such as ACCT 2050, and knowledge of Microsoft Excel are strongly recommended. HSM pre-majors should wait for major status to take this course.

HSM 4561W - Health Care Administration and Management (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Knowledge and and skills in the organizational and managerial aspects of health care. Applications of behavioral and organizational theory to health care settings. Topics will include organization models, supervision, employee evaluation, problem solving, productivity management, group leadership, and case studies. As a Writing Intensive course, it will provide management-level communication skills to develop a thoughtful and reflective understanding of the writing (and rewriting) process.

HSM 4591 - Health Care Law and Ethics

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Introduction to the major legal and ethical aspects and principles as applied in health services management. Topics include organization and governance of healthcare organizations; regulation; healthcare fraud and abuse; professional licensing and credentialing; compliance, quality and risk management; privacy and security of individually identifiable health information; healthcare decision-making; professional liability and malpractice. Other topics include legal and ethical issues surrounding healthcare technologies, medical research, and medical breakthroughs.

HSM 4596 - Health Services Management Internship

Credits:	1.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This course serves as a requirement in the Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Health Services Management. Students will apply coursework in the health services management area and contribute knowledge of best practices to make a positive impact on the health services management workplace and industry. Students will participate in career development activities, a challenge project, and networking. prereq: HSM major; dept. consent. Permission to enroll will be granted only upon completion of HSM 3051, 3521, 4531, 4541, 4561W, & 4591. Highly recommended: HSM 4043 & 4301 (and HINF 5430 for HSM technology internships).

HSM 4861 - Leadership and Business Planning in Health Care: Capstone

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

The course is a core requirement in the HSM major and allows students to synthesize and integrate lessons from previous courses. It covers theory and practice of leadership skills needed for high-performing health care organizations in changing and turbulent times. It emphasizes a four-phase approach: environmental assessment, planning, strategy and innovation, and implementation/measurement. Students will be prepared to embrace innovation and lead business plans through to successful implementation. They will learn to integrate a wide range of management tools through collaborative development of a strategic business plan. prereq: HSM 3521, 4531, 4541, 4561, 4591. HSM major. Final year status required.

PUBH 3801 - Health Economics and Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ApEc 3801/PubH 3801
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Economics of health care markets. Problems faced by consumers/health care services. Builds on principles of supply/demand for health, health care/insurance, and role of government. Theoretical/empirical models/applications. prereq: Course on microeconomics, course on basic statistics

ABUS 3510 - Communicating Virtually Across Global Teams in Applied Business Settings

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Collaborative exploration of virtual communication within teams/across cultures. Impact of technologies on global business/societies. Virtual team functioning/dynamics. Influence of cultural perspective on communication within group. Role of communication technology in cultural development. Ethical/legal implications.

ABUS 4022W - Management in Organizations (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Demands on today's managers, with a focus on small to medium-sized organizations. Techniques/ideas beyond traditional studies. Applying management theory at all levels. Managing in a global workplace. Organizational planning and decision making. Organizing resources. Leading/motivating people. Controlling/evaluating organizational activities. This writing intensive designated course will spend significant time focusing on the writing process. Writing is crucial to this discipline because clear, accurate, and professional communication is essential to organization management. The ability to write effectively in terms of specified audiences ensures, in the professional world, successful communication between team members as well as the success of the projects, companies, and employees they represent. prereq: 45 semester credits recommended

ABUS 4023W - Communicating for Results (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Aspects of communication essential for being persuasive/influential. Organizing/presenting ideas effectively, strategies for audience analysis, choosing communication methods, making appropriate use of informal influence methods, handling dissent. Processes for intercultural communication. prereq: 45 cr completed

ABUS 4043 - Project Management in Practice

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Introduction to project management: tools and techniques for defining, scheduling, and managing a project. Learn about team development and ways to enhance team performance through planning and executing a project. Requires use of MS Project, which will be made available to students without cost via download. prereq: 45 cr completed

ABUS 4101 - Accounting and Finance for Managers

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ABus 4101/MT 4001
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Cost accounting concepts. Cost behavior. Management decision making using cost data. Time value of money. Cost of capital. Capital budgeting techniques. Financial statement analysis. Assignments draw on business/industry examples. prereq: Financial accounting, 45 cr

ABUS 4151 - Innovation for Leaders and Organizations

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Innovation as cornerstone of knowledge economy. History of innovation process, importance to individuals/organizations. Strategies to foster innovation. Responsibilities in innovation skill-building/leadership. prereq: 45 cr

ABUS 4509 - New Product Development

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

How new consumer, industrial, and service products are planned/developed. Idea generation, concept/buyer testing, pricing, sales/profit strategies, product positioning, promotion, packaging/distribution. Marketing case histories. Student projects. prereq: [[4103 or 4701 or Mktg 3001], at least 45 cr] or instr consent

ABUS 4515 - Strategy and Management for a Sustainable Future

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Sustainability in business. Relationship of sustainable environments to organizations. Economic/strategic enterprise value. Relationship of sustainable business practices to marketplace trends/realities. prereq: 45 cr completed

ABUS 4571W - Introduction to Grant Writing for Health Care and Nonprofit Organizations (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ABUS 4571/ABUS 4571W/HSM 4571
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Nonprofits and health care entities will continue to be challenged by limited resources and increased needs in communities they serve. This reality also results in an increased need for these groups to find additional financial support. This course will provide an understanding of ways to find, research, and write proposals for grants offered by government and private entities. As a writing intensive course, it will spend significant time focusing on the writing process. Writing is crucial to the field because the only way for a nonprofit to be awarded a grant is by submitting a written proposal. The strength of the proposal has a significant impact on the money that an organization will receive. Students will become familiar with various sections of the proposal by drafting, editing, and seeking feedback, and by revising a needs assessment, goal statement, budget justification, and statement of organizational purpose. By learning how to write well in the field, students will increase their chances of being employed by a nonprofit and securing funding for their organization.

ABUS 4701 - Introduction to Marketing

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Conceptual tools for creating a marketing plan. How marketing relates to other functional areas of business. Importance of an ethical, global view. prereq: [Macroeconomics or microeconomics], 45 cr

ABUS 4703 - Marketing for the Professional Practice

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Principles of marketing applied to the management of the professional practice. Begins with an introduction to marketing and its overall role and function. We will examine the four P's of marketing (product, price, place, and promotion), then move on to developing a marketing plan, which serves as a map that highlights a path towards success. We look at the major components of a marketing plan and provide you with an opportunity to gain knowledge and experience by completing one. Topics include understanding the internal and external environment, segmenting the market, positioning, differentiating, branding, and formulating a marketing plan with goals, strategies, and financial considerations. prereq: 45 semester cr recommended

ABUS 4705 - Leadership and Management for the Professional Practice

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

An introduction to organizational behavior for students and professionals interested in leading or managing a professional practice. Its purpose is to improve your effectiveness as a leader or manager through an understanding of the sociological, economic, and political factors that affect organizations. The course will progress from an introspective look at leadership and your own personal preferences and style, to interactions with others in groups or teams, to the structure and dynamics of organizations and how they respond to external factors. prereq: 45 semester cr recommended

ABUS 4707 - Financial Management for the Professional Practice

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Provides professional practitioners with the skills they need to make informed financial decisions for their business. It introduces the fundamental concepts of finance and also touches on related topics in financial and managerial accounting, marketing, and personal finance. Students will work in small groups to implement the principles they have learned by developing and analyzing a business plan of the kind used to request funding for a professional practice. prereq: 45 semester cr recommended

ADDS 5011 - Foundations in Addiction Studies

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AddS 5001/AddS 5011
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Theoretical perspectives/concepts related to etiology of alcohol/drug dependency/abuse. Emphasizes bio-psycho-social models of addiction/disease: psychodynamics, social learning, contingency, family systems. Connection of theory to empirical research.

ADDS 5071 - Foundations of Co-occurring Disorders

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AddS 5004/AddS 5071
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Understanding mentally ill/chemically abusive or dependent client. Intervention, advocacy, education, support for client/those part of his/her environment. Social, environmental, multicultural factors that contribute resources for these clients.

ANTH 3306W - Medical Anthropology (GP, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Relations among human affliction, health, healing, social institutions, and cultural representations cross-culturally. Human health/affliction. Medical knowledge/power. Healing. Body, international health, colonialism, and emerging diseases. Reproduction. Aging in a range of geographical settings. prereq: 1003 or 1005 or entry level soc sci course recommended

ANTH 4075 - Cultural Histories of Healing (SOCS, GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

Introduction to historically informed anthropology of healing practice. Shift to biologically based medicine in Europe, colonialist dissemination of biomedicine, political/cultural collisions between biomedicine and "ethnomedicines," traffic of healing practices in a transnationalist world.

APEC 4821W - Business Economics and Strategy (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ApEc 4821W/ApEc 5821
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Strategic management for production, processing, wholesaling, retailing, and service. Strategy formulation, implementation, and control. Business plans. Case study analysis. prereq: APEC 3002 or APEC 3003

ABUS 4211 - Facility Asset Management, Finance, and Budgeting

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Examination of different types of leases. Relevance of BOMA (Building Office & Managers Association) space standards. Understanding components of total annual and capital facility costs. Analyzing and interpreting facility financial statements and reports. Constructing facility capital and operating budgets. Illustrating GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) related to asset capitalization, and applying financial terminology when speaking to the chief financial officer. Recommended prereq: ABUS 4101 or basic accounting/finance knowledge/experience

CSPH 3001 - Introduction to Integrative Healing

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course provides an overview of the current US healthcare system and US cultural views of health and wellness. Within this context it also provides students with an introduction to various complementary and alternative medical systems (also known as complementary and integrative approaches) that might be integrated into the current way of thinking about health and wellness and treatment of illness/disease. Examples include: whole systems of thinking about health such as traditional Chinese medicine or Native American healing; manual therapies like spinal manipulation and massage therapy; energy therapies like reiki and qigong; mind body therapies like yoga and meditation; and biologically based therapies like botanicals and aromatherapy. prereq: Junior or senior undergraduates (60+ credits), or instructor consent.

ECON 3101 - Intermediate Microeconomics

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Econ 3101/Econ 3012/ApEc 3001
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Behavior of households, firms, and industries under competitive/monopolistic conditions. Factors influencing production, price, and other decisions. Applications of theory. Economic efficiency. Distribution of well-being. Students cannot take this course if they have taken ApEc 3001, as ApEc 3001 does not contain all material in Econ 3101. prereq: ECON 1101, 1102, and MATH 1271 or equivalent courses approved by the Economics Department.

FSCN 5601 - Management of Eating Disorders

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Etiology, occurrence, course, treatment, prevention of eating disorders from multidisciplinary perspective. Roles and responsibilities of eating disorder treatment team members of varying types across various treatment milieus. Prereq: Junior, senior or graduate student in nutrition or health related program or instructor consent.

GEOG 3411W - Geography of Health and Health Care (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Application of human ecology, spatial analysis, political economy, and other geographical approaches to analyze problems of health and health care. Topics include distribution and diffusion of disease; impact of environmental, demographic, and social change on health; distribution, accessibility, and utilization of health practitioners and facilities.

GERO 5125 - Gerontology Service Learning

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

At least 100 hours of service to seniors or organizations serving seniors required. Longitudinal one-on-one relationship with at least two seniors. Service activities may include: friendly visiting, escorting seniors to medical appointments, chore services, teaching health education to groups of seniors and staff, participating in social or recreational activities with seniors, assisting with immunization and screening programs, assisting seniors with selection of health plans, or providing volunteer home health aide or nursing assistant services or emergency non-medical response under the supervision of a nurse. Students may use up to 25 percent of their service time for project that benefits the campus as a whole. Reading, monthly class discussions, a term paper and weekly self-reflection

HINF 5431 - Foundations of Health Informatics II

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

An introductory survey of health informatics, focusing on applications of informatics concepts and technologies. Topics covered include: health informatics research, literature, and evaluation; precision medicine; decision models; computerized decision support systems; data mining, natural language processing, social media, rule-based system, and other emerging technologies for supporting 'Big Data' applications; security for health care information handling. Lectures, readings, and exercises highlight the intersections of these topics with current information technology for clinical care and research. prereq: Junior, senior, grad student, professional student, or instr consent

HINF 5501 - US Health Care System: Information Challenges in Clinical Care

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Health care system/its unique interaction between key health system stakeholders. Relationship between patients, providers, payers, regulatory bodies. Role of information management/challenges of information standardization/exchange. prereq: Junior or senior or professional student or grad student or instr consent

HINF 5502 - Python Programming Essentials for the Health Sciences

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Computer programming essentials for health sciences/health care applications using Python 3. Intended for students with limited programming background, or students wishing to obtain proficiency in Python programming language. prereq: Junior or senior or grad student or professional student or instr consent

HINF 5510 - Applied Health Care Databases: Database Principles and Data Evaluation

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Principles of database theory, modeling, design, and manipulation of databases will be introduced, taught with a healthcare applications emphasis. Students will gain experience using a relational database management system (RDBMS), and database manipulation will be explored using Structured Query Language (SQL) to compose and execute queries. Students will be able to critically evaluate database query methods and results, and understand their implications for health care. prereq: Junior or senior or grad student or professional student or instr consent

HMED 3001W - Health, Disease, and Healing I (HIS, WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	HMED 3001W/HMED 3001V
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to intellectual/social history of European/American medicine, health care from classical antiquity through 18th century.

HMED 3002W - Health Care in History II (HIS, WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduction to intellectual/social history of European/American medicine, health care in 19th/20th centuries.

HMED 3075 - Technology and Medicine in Modern America (HIS, TS)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

How technology came to medicine's center-stage. Impact on production of medical knowledge, professionalization, development of institutions/industry, health policy, and gender/race disparities in health care.

MGMT 3001 - Fundamentals of Management

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This course is about the foundational principles of management, encompassing disciplinary and topical boundaries. We will look at these principles from the perspective of how they guide action, specifically: planning, organizing, leading and controlling. By the end of the course, students will know the basics of how to set up organizations to be effective and innovative, and not just efficient. During the course, you will engage with the material in the course and understand how management frameworks can be used to choose the right internal structures and processes that can best react to your particular industry context and general business environment.

BA 3033W - Business Communication (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	BA 3033W/Mgmt 3033W/IBUS 3033W
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This course teaches strategies and skills to communicate with confidence, clarity, and impact in business settings. Students develop their abilities in critical thinking (analyzing data, audience, purpose, and context) and craft (honing skills in storytelling, persuasion, writing, diction, tone, presence, data visualization, and visual design). They learn to navigate ambiguity, evaluate the needs of internal and external stakeholders, and communicate solutions to complex business problems. The course is performance- and project-based. Students produce professional-level memos, emails, and research-based proposal decks. They deliver multiple presentations (individual and team) and learn to communicate effectively with data. Students will meet with the instructor in small groups outside of class time for one scheduled lab session. The course culminates in the Case Study Competition where student teams apply their knowledge to address a real challenge from one of our industry partners. prereq: First Year Writing, Carlson School junior or senior.

MGMT 4175W - New Business Feasibility and Planning (WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	03099
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

The purpose of this course is to provide students with the following insights into ? Techniques for developing and screening business ideas ? Criteria for properly assessing idea feasibility ? Equipping yourself with the necessary information and analysis to develop a useful business plan ? Preparing an effective business plan ? Effectively pitching the plan to stakeholders, primarily prospective investors The class makes use of lecture, videos, articles, cases, class exercises, assignments, and quizzes to help develop depth of understanding amongst students of the relevant subject matter of this course. prereq: MGMT 3010 or MGMT 3015 or IBUS 3010

MLSP 5011W - Professional Issues in the Health Care Community (WI)

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring & Summer

Current literature and written discussion to explore the laboratory profession: healthcare systems, professional scope of practice, regulatory and licensure issues, medical ethics, Interprofessional practice models and current topics impacting health care delivery. Focus is on the medical laboratory�s crucial role in patient care.

OLPD 3332 - Global Identity: Connecting Your International Experience to Your Future (GP)

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Reflect on activities/readings of study abroad experiences overseas. E-journaling, written activities, group interaction using various formats. prereq: [3321 or EDPA 3102 or instr consent], studying abroad the semester student is enrolled in course

PA 3003 - Nonprofit and Public Financial Management

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Concepts/tools for project/budget planning. Program analysis. Interpreting financial reports. Identifying/resolving organizational performance issues. Case studies, real-world exercises. prereq: Jr or sr

PA 4101 - Nonprofit Management and Governance

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Managing/governing nonprofit/public organizations. Theories, concepts, real-world examples. Governance systems, strategic management practices, effect of different funding environments, management of multiple constituencies.

PHAR 4204W - Drugs and the U.S. Healthcare System (CIV, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Phar 4204W/Phar 5200/Phar 6200
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Being an empowered patient is important when discussing ethics-driven issues within the U.S. healthcare system. This course will expose students to current controversial issues surrounding medications and national healthcare and help students examine their own role as a participant in this system. Students will learn to draw comparisons between medication use systems around the world and analyze other controversies related to access, choice, and quality of healthcare. During this course, students will explore how their choices, ethics, and behavior affect societal decisions surrounding the availability of medications in the U.S. and what their rights are as a citizen-participant during the healthcare debate. Students are expected to have completed the first-year writing requirement (https://cla.umn.edu/writing-studies/first-year-writing), or equivalent, prior to registering for this class. This is a completely online course with weekly due dates and is offered each Fall and Spring term. For more information, contact phar4204@umn.edu or 612-624-7976.

PHIL 3305 - Medical Ethics

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Moral problems confronting physicians, patients, and others concerned with medical treatment, research, and public health policy. Topics include abortion, living wills, euthanasia, genetic engineering, informed consent, proxy decision-making, and allocation of medical resources.

PSY 1001 - Introduction to Psychology (SOCS)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PSTL 1281/Psy 1001/Psy 1001H
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Scientific study of human behavior. Problems, methods, findings of modern psychology.

PSY 3206 - Introduction to Health Psychology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Madr 3206/Psy 3206
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Theories/research in health psychology. Bi-directional relationships between psychological factors and physical health. Stress/coping, adjustment to chronic illness. Psychological factors in etiology/course of disease. Health behavior change. prereq: 1001

PUBH 3106 - Making Sense of Health Studies

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 3106/PubH 6106
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

How to critically evaluate health news (and the health research reports on which they are based) to make good, well informed decisions about your health and well-being.

PUBH 3107 - Global Public Health and the Environment

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Environmental determinants of health and or well-being of populations. Role of environment in public health. Population burden of disease. Variation of environmental public health determinants across globe. Interconnectedness of activities and actions of people in different countries. prereq: public health minor, instr consent

PUBH 3351 - Epidemiology: People, Places, and Disease

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

How diseases are distributed among us. Epidemiology terminology, methods, critical thinking, and analysis. Intended for students interested in a health science career or in a career that may need to evaluate epidemiologic evidence such as health journalism or public policy or litigation. prereq: Undergrad statistics course is recommended

PUBH 3415 - Introduction to Clinical Trials - Online

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 3415/PubH 7415
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

Phases of trials, hypotheses/endpoints, choice of intervention/control, ethical considerations, blinding/randomization, data collection/monitoring, sample size, analysis strategies. Protocol development/implementation, interactive discussion boards. prereq: PUBH 3415 enrollees must have one semester of undergraduate level introductory biostatistics or statistics (STAT 3011, EPSY 3264, SOC 3811, BIOL 3272, or instr consent) AND junior or senior standing or instr consent.

PUBH 3601 - Global Public Health Issues

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This is a global impact course designed for public health minors providing an introduction to key global health history, concepts, structures, and stakeholders. The course content articulates a myriad of population health determinants and explores risk and protective factors shaping global health. Students will explore global health equity and engage with inequity and disparity in health access and outcomes as well as relevant research, policy, and programmatic solutions. Evidence, perspectives, and application opportunities related to critical issues and solutions in the organization and delivery of global public health are examined and offered. prereq: Public Health minor requirements or instr consent, [3202 or 3001 or 3004], [3351 or 3106]

PUBH 6535 - Managerial Accounting for Health Services

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Differential, absorption, activity-based costing. Budgeting, variance analysis. Financial accounting, including transaction data and accrual accounting. Developing financial statements. Ration analysis. prereq: MHA student or instr consent

PUBH 7580 - Organizational Management in Long Term Care

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Overview of organizational management and human resource management in long-term care setting from senior manager's perspective. Combines three days of on-campus seminars with independent study.

PUBH 7584 - Health Care and Medical Needs

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Differentiation between aging process and disease process. Common conditions/diseases associated with aging.

PUBH 7587 - Regulatory Management in Long-Term Care

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Funding mechanisms, regulatory compliance mechanisms, and legal provisions currently in force for long-term care industry.

PUBH 7588 - Information Uses in Long-Term Care

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Accumulation/analysis of data to inform management decision-making in long-term care. One day on-campus seminar, independent study. prereq: Some knowledge of computers

SOC 3511 - World Population Problems (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Soc 3511/Soc 3511H
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This class is an introduction to the contemporary issues that accompany such dramatic population change, including fertility change, disease experiences, migration as opportunity and challenge and human-environment conflict. Further, we will examine the roles of global organizations, national governments, and culture in shaping and reshaping populations. prereq: [SOC 1001] recommended, Sociology majors/minors must register A-F

SOC 4246 - Sociology of Health and Illness

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

This course is an introduction to the importance of health and illness in people�s lives, how social structures impact who gets sick, how they are treated, and how the delivery of health care is organized. By the end of the course you will be familiar with the major issues in the sociology of health and illness, and understand that health and illness are not just biological processes, but profoundly shaped by the organization of society. prereq: One sociology course recommended; soph or above; soc majors/minors must register A-F

WRIT 3029W - Business and Professional Writing (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	EngL 3029W/Writ 3029W
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

In this course students practice writing and revising common business documents for today?s business world. Students write memos, proposals, cover letters, resumes, and digital and web content as well as practice choice of appropriate formats and media. The course draws from current business practices and stresses workplace collaboration, broader issues of professional literacy, and responsive writing styles. Students practice rhetorical analysis and discuss concepts such as audience, purpose, tone, and context when writing and revising their documents. Students analyze and write from a variety of perspectives and contexts including formal (researched reports, proposals) and informal (email, social media) communication. Students also build a professional online presence through such platforms as LinkedIn.

WRIT 3405W - Humanistic Healthcare and Communication (AH, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Humanistic Healthcare and Communication focuses on critically therapeutic patient-provider communication. Topics surveyed include: health literacy, cultural and risk communication, health communication, narrative theory and digital medicine. These topics are brought to bear on three historical moments in the history of medicine when humanism entered or was displaced in medical practice. Students will be exposed to writings, visual arts and music created by physicians and nurses throughout history and write critical essays on these. These will prep students for the new MCAT exam. A variety of guest lecturers from the medical profession will discuss case histories that demonstrate the course themes in practice.

WRIT 4573W - Writing Proposals and Grant Management (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This advanced-level Writing Studies course introduces students to the activities, responsibilities, challenges, and opportunities that characterize proposals for nonprofits and/or research/business. Students analyze unique proposal writing situations, including audiences (customers, reviewers, and teammates) and resources (collaborators, templates, and time). Students practice the entire process of proposal and grant writing: 1) describing the problem in context; 2) identifying sponsors and finding a match; 3) designing, writing, revising, and completing all proposal components; 4) conceptualizing and using persuasive visual elements; and 5) presenting and responding to stakeholders and sponsors.

ABUS 3051 - Career Search for the Professional Environment

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

An introduction to the nuts and bolts of job search strategies, including r�sum� writing, interviewing, networking, and the use of technology and the Internet in job seeking. You will begin to make realistic decisions about what kinds of jobs and work environments will best suit you after graduation and into the future, and formulate a concrete plan for how to attain this important career goal. In addition, you will have an understanding of the professional environment of business. This will include appropriate on-the-job behavior and how knowledge of corporate culture, communication, and etiquette can make the difference between struggling in the business world and succeeding and advancing. Professional presentation, dress, and communication are highlighted. Assignments will focus on practical and applied knowledge relating to career-oriented skills, exploration, and success. Prerequisites: None, but upper-division status recommended.

CFAN 3201 - Career and Internship Preparation

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

The aim of this course is to equip you with long-term skills and knowledge that will help you manage your career within a dynamic and exciting work world of agriculture, food and the environment. The focus will be on career opportunities and resources related to CFANS majors highlighting alumni, employers and events from those majors. You will learn to tailor communication about your unique skills and interests to the needs of employers, graduate schools, and others via resumes, cover letters, online media, interviews, and individual interactions. We will explore how to attend to your authentic identity and values as you consider career alternatives and to enter a workplace culture with grace and curiosity. Finally we will introduce career competencies needed for successful career management in the workplace including strategies to function as an effective employee and team member. prereq: Soph or jr or sr or grad student

ICP 3201 - Career and Internship Preparation

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Prerequisites:	Soph or jr or sr or grad student
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Self exploration, networking, industry research, job/internship search, resumes, cover letters, interviewing, salary negotiation, goal setting. prereq: Soph or jr or sr or grad student

CSCL 3350W - Sexuality and Culture (DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CSCL 3350W/GLBT 3456W
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.

GLBT 3456W - Sexuality and Culture (DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CSCL 3350W/GLBT 3456W
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.

GEOG 3379 - Environment and Development in the Third World (SOCS, ENV)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Geog 3379/GloS 3303
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Inequality in the form of extreme wealth and poverty in our world are major causes of environmental degradation. In addition, development failure as well as certain forms of economic growth always led to environment disasters. This course examines how our world?s economic and political systems and the livelihoods they engender have produced catastrophic local and global environmental conditions. Beyond this, the course explores alternative approaches of achieving sustainable environment and equitable development. prereq: Soph or jr or sr

LEAD 3971 - Leadership Minor: Field Experience

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Students apply and integrate leadership theory in a community experience, think critically about their positional leadership roles, extrapolate the experience to future leadership issues within their specific fields, and work through challenges of positional leadership.

LEAD 3961 - Leadership, You, and Your Community

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

How do effective leaders create positive systemic change within complex systems? What is community and how does it shape the work of leadership? Students examine leadership from a multi-dimensional and multicultural perspective and critically examine leadership theories in authentic, complex community settings.

ABUS 4022W - Management in Organizations (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Demands on today's managers, with a focus on small to medium-sized organizations. Techniques/ideas beyond traditional studies. Applying management theory at all levels. Managing in a global workplace. Organizational planning and decision making. Organizing resources. Leading/motivating people. Controlling/evaluating organizational activities. This writing intensive designated course will spend significant time focusing on the writing process. Writing is crucial to this discipline because clear, accurate, and professional communication is essential to organization management. The ability to write effectively in terms of specified audiences ensures, in the professional world, successful communication between team members as well as the success of the projects, companies, and employees they represent. prereq: 45 semester credits recommended

ABUS 4023W - Communicating for Results (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Aspects of communication essential for being persuasive/influential. Organizing/presenting ideas effectively, strategies for audience analysis, choosing communication methods, making appropriate use of informal influence methods, handling dissent. Processes for intercultural communication. prereq: 45 cr completed

ABUS 4571W - Introduction to Grant Writing for Health Care and Nonprofit Organizations (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ABUS 4571/ABUS 4571W/HSM 4571
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Nonprofits and health care entities will continue to be challenged by limited resources and increased needs in communities they serve. This reality also results in an increased need for these groups to find additional financial support. This course will provide an understanding of ways to find, research, and write proposals for grants offered by government and private entities. As a writing intensive course, it will spend significant time focusing on the writing process. Writing is crucial to the field because the only way for a nonprofit to be awarded a grant is by submitting a written proposal. The strength of the proposal has a significant impact on the money that an organization will receive. Students will become familiar with various sections of the proposal by drafting, editing, and seeking feedback, and by revising a needs assessment, goal statement, budget justification, and statement of organizational purpose. By learning how to write well in the field, students will increase their chances of being employed by a nonprofit and securing funding for their organization.

ANTH 3306W - Medical Anthropology (GP, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Relations among human affliction, health, healing, social institutions, and cultural representations cross-culturally. Human health/affliction. Medical knowledge/power. Healing. Body, international health, colonialism, and emerging diseases. Reproduction. Aging in a range of geographical settings. prereq: 1003 or 1005 or entry level soc sci course recommended

APEC 4821W - Business Economics and Strategy (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ApEc 4821W/ApEc 5821
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Strategic management for production, processing, wholesaling, retailing, and service. Strategy formulation, implementation, and control. Business plans. Case study analysis. prereq: APEC 3002 or APEC 3003

GEOG 3411W - Geography of Health and Health Care (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Application of human ecology, spatial analysis, political economy, and other geographical approaches to analyze problems of health and health care. Topics include distribution and diffusion of disease; impact of environmental, demographic, and social change on health; distribution, accessibility, and utilization of health practitioners and facilities.

HMED 3001W - Health, Disease, and Healing I (HIS, WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	HMED 3001W/HMED 3001V
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to intellectual/social history of European/American medicine, health care from classical antiquity through 18th century.

HMED 3002W - Health Care in History II (HIS, WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduction to intellectual/social history of European/American medicine, health care in 19th/20th centuries.

BA 3033W - Business Communication (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	BA 3033W/Mgmt 3033W/IBUS 3033W
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This course teaches strategies and skills to communicate with confidence, clarity, and impact in business settings. Students develop their abilities in critical thinking (analyzing data, audience, purpose, and context) and craft (honing skills in storytelling, persuasion, writing, diction, tone, presence, data visualization, and visual design). They learn to navigate ambiguity, evaluate the needs of internal and external stakeholders, and communicate solutions to complex business problems. The course is performance- and project-based. Students produce professional-level memos, emails, and research-based proposal decks. They deliver multiple presentations (individual and team) and learn to communicate effectively with data. Students will meet with the instructor in small groups outside of class time for one scheduled lab session. The course culminates in the Case Study Competition where student teams apply their knowledge to address a real challenge from one of our industry partners. prereq: First Year Writing, Carlson School junior or senior.

MGMT 4175W - New Business Feasibility and Planning (WI)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	03099
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

The purpose of this course is to provide students with the following insights into ? Techniques for developing and screening business ideas ? Criteria for properly assessing idea feasibility ? Equipping yourself with the necessary information and analysis to develop a useful business plan ? Preparing an effective business plan ? Effectively pitching the plan to stakeholders, primarily prospective investors The class makes use of lecture, videos, articles, cases, class exercises, assignments, and quizzes to help develop depth of understanding amongst students of the relevant subject matter of this course. prereq: MGMT 3010 or MGMT 3015 or IBUS 3010

MLSP 5011W - Professional Issues in the Health Care Community (WI)

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring & Summer

Current literature and written discussion to explore the laboratory profession: healthcare systems, professional scope of practice, regulatory and licensure issues, medical ethics, Interprofessional practice models and current topics impacting health care delivery. Focus is on the medical laboratory�s crucial role in patient care.

PHAR 4204W - Drugs and the U.S. Healthcare System (CIV, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Phar 4204W/Phar 5200/Phar 6200
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Being an empowered patient is important when discussing ethics-driven issues within the U.S. healthcare system. This course will expose students to current controversial issues surrounding medications and national healthcare and help students examine their own role as a participant in this system. Students will learn to draw comparisons between medication use systems around the world and analyze other controversies related to access, choice, and quality of healthcare. During this course, students will explore how their choices, ethics, and behavior affect societal decisions surrounding the availability of medications in the U.S. and what their rights are as a citizen-participant during the healthcare debate. Students are expected to have completed the first-year writing requirement (https://cla.umn.edu/writing-studies/first-year-writing), or equivalent, prior to registering for this class. This is a completely online course with weekly due dates and is offered each Fall and Spring term. For more information, contact phar4204@umn.edu or 612-624-7976.

WRIT 3029W - Business and Professional Writing (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	EngL 3029W/Writ 3029W
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

In this course students practice writing and revising common business documents for today?s business world. Students write memos, proposals, cover letters, resumes, and digital and web content as well as practice choice of appropriate formats and media. The course draws from current business practices and stresses workplace collaboration, broader issues of professional literacy, and responsive writing styles. Students practice rhetorical analysis and discuss concepts such as audience, purpose, tone, and context when writing and revising their documents. Students analyze and write from a variety of perspectives and contexts including formal (researched reports, proposals) and informal (email, social media) communication. Students also build a professional online presence through such platforms as LinkedIn.

WRIT 3405W - Humanistic Healthcare and Communication (AH, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Humanistic Healthcare and Communication focuses on critically therapeutic patient-provider communication. Topics surveyed include: health literacy, cultural and risk communication, health communication, narrative theory and digital medicine. These topics are brought to bear on three historical moments in the history of medicine when humanism entered or was displaced in medical practice. Students will be exposed to writings, visual arts and music created by physicians and nurses throughout history and write critical essays on these. These will prep students for the new MCAT exam. A variety of guest lecturers from the medical profession will discuss case histories that demonstrate the course themes in practice.

WRIT 4573W - Writing Proposals and Grant Management (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This advanced-level Writing Studies course introduces students to the activities, responsibilities, challenges, and opportunities that characterize proposals for nonprofits and/or research/business. Students analyze unique proposal writing situations, including audiences (customers, reviewers, and teammates) and resources (collaborators, templates, and time). Students practice the entire process of proposal and grant writing: 1) describing the problem in context; 2) identifying sponsors and finding a match; 3) designing, writing, revising, and completing all proposal components; 4) conceptualizing and using persuasive visual elements; and 5) presenting and responding to stakeholders and sponsors.

CSCL 3350W - Sexuality and Culture (DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CSCL 3350W/GLBT 3456W
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.

GLBT 3456W - Sexuality and Culture (DSJ, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CSCL 3350W/GLBT 3456W
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Historical/critical study of forms of modern sexuality (heterosexuality, homosexuality, romance, erotic domination, lynching). How discourses constitute/regulate sexuality. Scientific/scholarly literature, religious documents, fiction, personal narratives, films, advertisements.

ADDS 5011 - Foundations in Addiction Studies

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AddS 5001/AddS 5011
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Theoretical perspectives/concepts related to etiology of alcohol/drug dependency/abuse. Emphasizes bio-psycho-social models of addiction/disease: psychodynamics, social learning, contingency, family systems. Connection of theory to empirical research.

ADDS 5021 - Introduction to Evidence Based Practices and the Helping Relationship

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AddS 5002/AddS 5021
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Initiating, conducting, and terminating a counseling relationship. Use of self in counseling process. Nature/process of helping. Evidence-based practices/theories. Reading, discussion, written exercises, role-play, observation, feedback, out-of-class practice.

ADDS 5031 - Applied Psychopharmacology

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AddS 5003/AddS 5031
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring & Summer

This course provides a comprehensive survey of the basic concepts of psychopharmacology and psychiatric conditions for which psychoactive medication presents an appropriate intervention strategy. It is intended to be an introduction into the field and is designed to provide a working knowledge base to enable students to more competently address the experiences of their clients taking prescribed psychotropic medications.

ADDS 5041 - Methods and Models I: Motivational Counseling

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring & Summer

Concepts of motivational interviewing. Spirit of MI. Primary counseling skills. Working with resistance. Identifying/eliciting change talk. Transitioning into change, negotiating treatment plan. Strengths/shortcoming of MI.

ADDS 5051 - Methods and Models II: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring & Summer

Components of cognitive model. Assessment, case formulation, automatic thoughts, core beliefs, cognitive restructuring, behavior change elements, therapeutic relationship. Learn, practice, master key concepts.

ADDS 5061 - Foundations of Group Work

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AddS 5005/AddS 5061
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Designing/facilitating therapy groups. Intra-/inter-personal dynamics, leadership skills, developmental aspects, ethical issues. Application to therapy of chemically addicted individuals. Lectures, discussion, experiential exercises, small groups, readings.

ADDS 5071 - Foundations of Co-occurring Disorders

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AddS 5004/AddS 5071
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Understanding mentally ill/chemically abusive or dependent client. Intervention, advocacy, education, support for client/those part of his/her environment. Social, environmental, multicultural factors that contribute resources for these clients.

ADDS 5081 - Multicultural Foundations of Behavioral Health

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

What is culture? How might culture, cultural practices, and history be significant in the use/abuse of substances? How is culture relevant to the attitudes/practices in the prevention/treatment of substance use/abuse? Multicultural counseling and cultural competence in addiction counseling. People as individuals. Clinician's own cultural worldview/ other cultural worldviews.

ADDS 5091 - Assessment and Treatment Planning I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AddS 4001/AddS 5091
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Core addictions counseling. Clinical assessment, case management, documentation treatment planning, ethical issues. Students begin process of securing internship.

ADDS 5121 - Professional Seminar 1: Internship Prep

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Prepares students for successful entry into field of substance use disorder counseling by focusing on facets that are critical to their professional development. Through discussions, experiential learning activities, guest lectures and site visits, students gain further understanding of the internship placement process and requirements, settings that fit their individual training and career goals, requirements for initial licensing and renewal, the testing process, models of professional development, the importance of professional advocacy and associations, self-care and requirements and benefits of clinical supervision. Professional ethics, including state rules, statutes, codes of conduct and regulations for practitioners and agencies are also addressed. Students will also develop their job search skills and apply them to secure a field placement for the internship seminar.

ADDS 5996 - Internship in Behavioral Health

Credits:	1.0 [max 8.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Internship provides Addiction Studies students with practical experience in settings where substance abuse and/or co-ocurring mental health treatment services are offered. The internship experience allows students to relate academic and theoretical learning to settings outside the classroom. General counseling skills, awareness and influence of self in the counseling process and competency in the 12 Core Functions are enhanced through clinical experience, on-site individual supervision and peer group supervision.

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