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NURS 8180 - Doctoral Proseminar I: Scholarly Development

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

Transition to doctoral study. Begins socialization process to role of nursing scholar/scientist. Career trajectories of nursing scholars who have pursued various roles. prereq: Doctoral nursing student

NURS 8175 - Quantitative Research Design and Methods

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

Designs for quantitative description and quasi-experimental/experimental evaluation of scientific problems across domain of nursing. Evaluation of logic of design/attribution of causality from health and social science perspectives. prereq: [PhD student in nursing, advanced applied statistics] or instr consent

NURS 8172 - Theory and Theory Development for Research

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

Paradigms in nursing/health, associated methods of scientific/scholarly inquiry. Inductive/deductive techniques for theory development Theory-testing using data obtained under controlled conditions. prereq: Doctoral student

NURS 8152 - Advanced Ethics in Nursing Research and Scholarship

Credits:	2.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Students will analyze values underlying concepts and discourses of health, disease, risk, and use of health care technologies. They will analyze central ethical issues in nursing research, scholarship, and research integrity as part of ethics training required to conduct research. prereq: Nursing PhD student or permission of faculty

NURS 8171 - Qualitative Research Design and Methods

Credits:	3.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Overview and comparative analysis of selected qualitative research methods and analytic strategies. Focuses on developing rigorous qualitative designs that contribute to development of nursing and health care knowledge for diverse populations. prereq: 8170 or equiv

NURS 8177 - Advanced Nursing Research Practicum

Credits:	1.0 -2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

NURS 8177 Advanced Nursing Research Practicum is a required independent study course where students participate in designing or conducting a nursing or health-related research study under the supervision of a School of Nursing faculty investigator. prereq: PhD nursing student, instr consent, adviser consent

NURS 8190 - Critical Review in Nursing and Health Research

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

Skills needed to critique a body of scientific literature in focused areas of nursing research and related fields. Includes construction of literature reviews for planning research projects and for research utilization. prereq: NURS 8142, instructor consent

NURS 8121 - Health Behaviors and Illness Responses

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

Theories of health behaviors and responses to illness are analyzed/critiqued. Multivariate research designs. Specification of testable, descriptive, dynamic models for health/illness that incorporate culture, biology, environment, and health systems for diverse individuals, families, communities, and populations. prereq: Doctoral student or instr consent

NURS 8173 - Principles and Methods of Implementing Research

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Nurs 8173/SAPh 8173
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Integrates scientific, statistical, and practical aspects of research. Inter-relationships among design, sample selections, subject access, human subjects requirements, instrument selection and evaluation, data management, analyses plans, grant writing, and research career issues. Field experiences required. prereq: 8114 or other 8xxx grad research methods course, 2 grad stat courses;

PUBH 6450 - Biostatistics I

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

This course will cover the fundamental concepts of exploratory data analysis and statistical inference for univariate and bivariate data, including: ? study design and sampling methods, ? descriptive and graphical summaries, ? random variables and their distributions, ? interval estimation, ? hypothesis testing, ? relevant nonparametric methods, ? simple regression/correlation, and ? introduction to multiple regression. There will be a focus on analyzing data using statistical programming software and on communicating the results in short reports. Health science examples from the research literature will be used throughout the course. prereq: [College-level algebra, health sciences grad student] or instr consent

PUBH 6451 - Biostatistics II

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

This course will cover more advanced aspects of statistical analysis methods with a focus on statistical modeling, including: ? two-way ANOVA, ? multiple linear regression, ? logistic regression, ? Poisson regression, ? log binomial and ordinal regression, ? survival analysis methods, including Kaplan-Meier analysis and proportional hazards (Cox) regression, ? power and sample size, and ? survey sampling and analysis. There will be a focus on analyzing data using statistical programming software and on communicating the results in short reports. Health science examples from the research literature will be used throughout the course. prereq: [PubH 6450 with grade of at least B, health sciences grad student] or instr consent

EPSY 8251 - Statistical Methods in Education I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	EPsy 8251/EPsy 8261
Prerequisites:	[EPSY 5261 or equiv] or undergrad statistics course
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Statistical Methods in Education I is the first course in an entry-level, doctoral sequence for students in education. This course covers estimation and hypothesis testing with a particular focus on ANOVA and an introduction to multiple linear regression. Prepares students for EPSY 8252/8262. prereq: [EPSY 5261 or equiv] or undergrad statistics course

EPSY 8252 - Statistical Methods in Education II

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	EPsy 8252/EPsy 8262
Prerequisites:	[8251, 8261 or equiv]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Statistical Methods in Education II is the second course in an entry-level, doctoral sequence for students in education. This course focuses on multiple linear regression and provides an introduction to linear mixed models. prereq: [8251, 8261 or equiv]

NURS 8888 - Thesis Credit: Doctoral

Credits:	1.0 -24.0 [max 100.0]
Grading Basis:	No Grade
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

(No description) prereq: Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 24 cr required

NURS 5115 - Nursing Informatics and Digital Health Technologies

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

This course will provide an introduction to the field of nursing informatics and its role in supporting care processes to ensure safe, high-quality, and efficient healthcare. Nurses, as members of multidisciplinary healthcare teams, play an important role in the implementation and governance of these informatics and digital health tools. Skills on using data from these tools to generate knowledge, drive decision-making, and support equitable access to quality, safe care will be shared. Nurse contributions in using digital technologies, influencing policies, and emerging trends in the field will be discussed.

NURS 7600 - Nursing Research and Evidence Based Practice

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

Examination of evidence based nursing including types and levels of evidence, research process, critique, and synthesis of research studies, and the science of implementation. prereq: Completion of or concurrent enrollment in a 3 credit inferential statistics course

NURS 6102 - Family Health Theory

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

Emerging theory in family nursing science, related theories. Research on family systems for structuring systemic framework to examine clinical problems related to family health care. Applies family health theories to selected phenomena of interest to health care. prereq: 6200 or instr consent

NURS 7200 - Economics of Health Care

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

Economic theories of health care in relation to health disparities and global health. Financing strategies, payment systems, and their effect on doctor/nursing practice. prereq: Admission to DNP program

NURS 7300 - Program Planning and Evaluation

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

A critical analysis of methods for practical program planning and evaluation for advanced nursing professionals in leadership roles; includes evaluation of approach and design, intervention processes including stakeholder issues, measurement issues, and strategies to evaluate outcomes achievement. prereq: Admission to DNP program or instr consent

NURS 7900 - Scholarly Teaching and Learning in Nursing

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

Critical analysis of teaching-learning theories and evidence about elements that comprise effective teaching in diverse populations in order to design and evaluate the quality of plans for educational experiences that facilitate achievement of desired learner outcomes in nursing.

NURS 7904 - Nursing Education Practicum

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Design, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based, scholarly teaching and learning in various nursing education contexts. Analysis of select nursing program in relation to meeting standards for accreditation and various other expected outcomes of nursing programs. prereq: Graduate student in nursing or Nurs 7900 or equivalent.

NURS 8185 - Qualitative Data Analysis for Health Care Research

Credits:	3.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Qualitative analysis techniques for descriptive, interpretive, and analytic data including data preparation, management and analysis are presented. Transforming data from multiple texts to theoretical conceptualizations, writing skills and dissemination of qualitative research findings suitable to each method are stressed. prereq: 8171 or grad course in qualitative research methods

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

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

FSOS 8105 - Family Gerontology

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

Integrates gerontology and family studies; new lines of inquiry, qualitative and quantitative, into aging families. Family gerontological research, family relationships, family and long-term care institutions, theoretical frameworks and research methods, and research and interventions. prereq: 4154 or equiv or instr consent

PUBH 6904 - Nutrition and Aging

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Current literature on nutrition needs/factors affecting nutritional status of adults and the elderly. Relevant community resources. prereq: Grad student or professional school student or instr consent

PUBH 6320 - Fundamentals of Epidemiology

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

This course provides an understanding of basic methods and tools used by epidemiologists to study the health of populations.

PUBH 6341 - Epidemiologic Methods I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6320PubH /6341
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to epidemiologic concepts and methods: (1) Study design (randomized trials and observational studies); (2) Measures of exposure-disease association; (3) Casual inference and bias; (4) Confounding and effect modification.

PUBH 6810 - Survey Research Methods

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Theory/application of survey research in data collection. Sampling, item development, instrument design/administration to conduct survey or be aware of issues related to design/implementation. Identification of sources of error in survey research.

PUBH 7250 - Designing and Conducting Focus Group Interviews

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring & Summer

Interactive, intensive overview of focus group procedures for public/non-profit environments. Practical approaches to determining appropriate use of focus groups. Design options, developing questions, recruiting participants, moderating. Analyzing/reporting results.

EPSY 5245 - Advanced Survey Data Analysis for Categorical and Rating Scale Data

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Practical course. Specific nature of survey data (typically categorical or ordinal). Appropriate data analytic methods. prereq: 5244, 5261

EPSY 8264 - Advanced Multiple Regression Analysis

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

General linear model used as context for regression. Matrix algebra, multiple regression, path analysis, polynomial regression, standardized regression, stepwise solutions, analysis of variance, weighted least squares, logistic regression. prereq: [8252 or equiv], regression/ANOVA course, familiarity with statistical analysis package

EPSY 8265 - Factor Analysis

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Prerequisites:	[8252 or equiv or #]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Factor analytic techniques/applications. Component, common factor, confirmatory analysis. Factor extraction, estimating number of dimensions. Rotation, factor scores, hierarchical factor analysis. prereq: [8252 or equiv or instr consent]

EPSY 8266 - Statistical Analysis Using Structural Equation Methods

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Prerequisites:	8265, [8252 or equiv]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Quantitative techniques using manifest/latent variable approaches for analysis of educational/social science data. Introduction to structural equation modeling approaches to multiple regression, factor analysis, path modeling. Developing, estimating, interpreting structural equation models. prereq: 8265, [8252 or equiv]

EPSY 8268 - Hierarchical Linear Modeling in Educational Research

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

Conceptual framework of hierarchical linear models for nested data, their application in educational research. Nature/effects of nested data, logic of hierarchical models, mixed-effects models. Estimation/hypothesis testing in these models, model-checking, nonlinear models. prereq: [8252 or equiv]

NURS 6110 - Epidemiology in Nursing

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

For nurses in advanced practice and leadership positions to utilize basic epidemiological principles in assessing determinants of health and their outcomes in populations. Application of epidemiological concepts to nursing.

NURS 7202 - Moral and Ethical Positions and Actions in Nursing

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

Normative ethics and theoretical underpinnings for positions taken. Implications for subsequent action. Morally defensible positions on health-related issues, corresponding actions from perspective of nursing.

CSPH 5101 - Introduction to Integrative Healing Practices

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

By the end of the course, students will demonstrate an understanding of the overall field of integrative healing practices, which includes both integrative and alternative (CAM) therapies. The course will cover theoretical framework, safety, efficacy, and evidence for various therapies and practices. The online version of this course is an approved 1Health Interprofessional Education (IPE) activity. prereq: Jr or sr or grad student; or instructor consent

CSPH 5111 - Ways of Thinking about Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course is your opportunity to examine, challenge and critically reflect upon your thinking about health. The class meets in a hybrid model that includes in-person, field-trip ?micro-immersion experience? to explore different understandings of health through visits to cultural communities. We include with field trips virtual experiential glimpses into fundamentally different systems of knowledge often conflicting with the scientific/professional models emphasized in many professional fields on campus. Frameworks for critical thinking, critical self-reflection, cultural self-study, intellectual virtues and supplemental readings are offered to support your effort to step into culturally different knowledge systems and mental models of health and well-being. These frames and approaches offer you a mirror through which your own perspective, thinking and background assumptions of health become more visible and explicit. I ask you to challenge your own thinking and better recognize the culture you carry in your thinking as you attempt to inhabit different cognitive worlds. You will also apply this examination to the professional fields of your interest, sharing your insights with learners in other professions. In this way, we bring together interdisciplinary and intercultural learning. On the dates that we meet virtually, our goal is to create a space that encourages us to share with sincerity our thoughts and emerging insights with one another in Zoom conversations. The synchronous Zoom sessions allow you to benefit from each other?s personal and professional take on the immersion experiences as you develop your philosophy, narrative and understanding of health. prereq: jr, sr, grad, or instr consent

CSPH 5303 - Pain Management and Evidence Based Complementary Health Approaches

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

This course will cover the evidence regarding effectiveness and safety of CIH practices, and the relationship of CIH to contemporary views of pain, health, and healing. There is a growing evidence base to support some complementary and integrative healing (CIH) approaches for pain management including yoga, mindfulness meditation, chiropractic, and others. In the US, chronic pain impacts over one third of the population and affects more individuals than heart disease, diabetes, and cancer combined. While there is a wide range of conventional medical treatments available to manage pain, many are only marginally effective and are associated with troublesome side effects. Of growing concerns is the endemic problem of opioids associated with misuse, addiction, and fatal overdose. Pain sufferers and health providers need effective and safe options for pain management. Some complementary and integrative healing (CIH) approaches have a growing evidence base to support their use, particularly for pain management. This course will introduce students to the theories, mechanisms, use, effectiveness, and safety of commonly used complementary and integrative healing practices. The relationship of CIH approaches to contemporary views and research regarding pain, health and healing, and placebo effects will also be explored. Through reading, reflection, discussion, and critical appraisal, students will develop the necessary skills to synthesize different forms of information, including research, to reach evidence-informed and balanced conclusions regarding CIH for managing pain, restoring function, and enhancing overall health and wellbeing. CIH approaches covered will include: whole systems (Traditional Chinese Medicine, osteopathy, chiropractic, Ayurvedic Medicine, etc.); mind-body practices (contemplative and meditative practices; yoga, tai chi, Qigong, etc.); manipulative and body-based approaches (massage therapy, acupuncture, manipulation); and energy-based approaches (energy medicine, Reiki, therapeutic touch, healing touch). Upon completion of the course, students will have a foundational knowledge of CIH for pain management and the skills to critically appraise and determine the trustworthiness of different information sources. Prerequisite: Graduate or Professional program student.

CSPH 5711 - Optimal Healing Environments

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

This course focuses on the development and implementation of optimal healing environments (OHE) as a healthcare innovation. You will examine the evidence base supporting design, human and care processes and begin to explore how OHE are created. An emphasis will be placed on identifying models of optimal healing environments and leadership strategies that support the diffusion of innovation. prereq: Jr or sr or grad student or instr consent

CSPH 5806 - Wellbeing and Resiliency for Health Professionals

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

This course will teach health professional students and health professionals self-care strategies that will improve their individual wellbeing and reduce the stress and burnout often experienced in these professions. Improving individual wellbeing will also contribute to greater wellbeing in the teams and systems in which these professionals work Prereq jr or sr or grad, or instructor consent

CSPH 5115 - Cultural Awareness, Knowledge and Health

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

How knowledge can become resource for individual, family, community health. Interactive glimpse of wisdom of cultural communities. Develop capacity to see culture within professional education/practice. Cultural constructs underpinning medical system, role of culture in interaction between practitioner/patient, role of reconnection to cultural heritage in healing. prereq: Jr or sr or grad student or instr consent

CSPH 5118 - Whole Person, Whole Community: The Reciprocity of Wellbeing

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course explores the symbiotic and reciprocal relationship between individual and community health and wellbeing, as well as the many factors/forces which influence that relationship. Drawing upon recent studies in the area of reciprocal/symbiotic effects between individual wellbeing and community wellbeing, this course will include the following core topics: definitions of community and related dimensions of wellbeing, importance of Individual/Community reciprocity (Social Justice, Equity, Safety, and Trust), historical trauma and healing, and individual action and personal empowerment in community transformation. Utilizing elements of the Center for Spirituality & Healing's Wellbeing model and modes of contemplative practice, this course will ultimately assist learners through phases of individual reflection and mindfulness for the purpose of creating more open and reciprocal relationships with entities they describe as their communities. An extension of recent studies in the area of the reciprocal (or rippling) effect between individual wellbeing and community wellbeing this course will guide individuals in identifying the various communities in which they live or participate, the roles they "play" within those communities and why/ how this knowledge can help prepare them for action and leadership. Main themes of the course will include: - Mindfulness, Reflection and Healing: Historical Trauma and Marginalization. - Roles and Reciprocity: Justice, Equity, Security and Trust between individuals and their communities. - Transformation: Individual Action/Leadership as Bridge between Personal and Community Wellbeing.

CSPH 5305 - Introduction to Integrative Mental Health

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

Prerequisite: Graduate or Professional student. This course focuses on introducing students to the concept of integrative mental health (IMH). Definitions of IMH, the history and background of the concept, and how it relates to psychiatric care and health care in general will be explored. Students will explore and practice risk-benefit profiles of different modalities in the context of evidence-based mental health care. An emphasis will be placed on the connection between physical and mental health and how that can be approached from an integrative perspective. Topics such as mindfulness and mental health, nutrition and mental health, herbs and supplements in psychiatric care, and the role of functional medicine in IMH will be covered, as well as how psychotherapy and psychotropic medications fit in the IMH framework. Students will review the current diagnostic system for mental health disorders and that can both help and hinder an integrative approach to mental health care. Integrative approaches for assessing mental health concerns will be reviewed, and how to use these approaches alongside a traditional medical approach for maximum benefit will be explored. Students will further review specific modalities for mental health and wellbeing that are less focused on specific systems and more focused on holism and the interplay of systems. Students will also identity and explore different ways of viewing mental health and wellbeing based on cultural and geographical issues, and how these may impact the approaches.

NURS 5115 - Nursing Informatics and Digital Health Technologies

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

This course will provide an introduction to the field of nursing informatics and its role in supporting care processes to ensure safe, high-quality, and efficient healthcare. Nurses, as members of multidisciplinary healthcare teams, play an important role in the implementation and governance of these informatics and digital health tools. Skills on using data from these tools to generate knowledge, drive decision-making, and support equitable access to quality, safe care will be shared. Nurse contributions in using digital technologies, influencing policies, and emerging trends in the field will be discussed.

NURS 7600 - Nursing Research and Evidence Based Practice

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

Examination of evidence based nursing including types and levels of evidence, research process, critique, and synthesis of research studies, and the science of implementation. prereq: Completion of or concurrent enrollment in a 3 credit inferential statistics course

NURS 6102 - Family Health Theory

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

Emerging theory in family nursing science, related theories. Research on family systems for structuring systemic framework to examine clinical problems related to family health care. Applies family health theories to selected phenomena of interest to health care. prereq: 6200 or instr consent

NURS 7200 - Economics of Health Care

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

Economic theories of health care in relation to health disparities and global health. Financing strategies, payment systems, and their effect on doctor/nursing practice. prereq: Admission to DNP program

NURS 7300 - Program Planning and Evaluation

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

A critical analysis of methods for practical program planning and evaluation for advanced nursing professionals in leadership roles; includes evaluation of approach and design, intervention processes including stakeholder issues, measurement issues, and strategies to evaluate outcomes achievement. prereq: Admission to DNP program or instr consent

NURS 7900 - Scholarly Teaching and Learning in Nursing

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

Critical analysis of teaching-learning theories and evidence about elements that comprise effective teaching in diverse populations in order to design and evaluate the quality of plans for educational experiences that facilitate achievement of desired learner outcomes in nursing.

NURS 7904 - Nursing Education Practicum

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Design, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based, scholarly teaching and learning in various nursing education contexts. Analysis of select nursing program in relation to meeting standards for accreditation and various other expected outcomes of nursing programs. prereq: Graduate student in nursing or Nurs 7900 or equivalent.

NURS 8185 - Qualitative Data Analysis for Health Care Research

Credits:	3.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Qualitative analysis techniques for descriptive, interpretive, and analytic data including data preparation, management and analysis are presented. Transforming data from multiple texts to theoretical conceptualizations, writing skills and dissemination of qualitative research findings suitable to each method are stressed. prereq: 8171 or grad course in qualitative research methods

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

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

FSOS 8105 - Family Gerontology

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

Integrates gerontology and family studies; new lines of inquiry, qualitative and quantitative, into aging families. Family gerontological research, family relationships, family and long-term care institutions, theoretical frameworks and research methods, and research and interventions. prereq: 4154 or equiv or instr consent

PUBH 6904 - Nutrition and Aging

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Current literature on nutrition needs/factors affecting nutritional status of adults and the elderly. Relevant community resources. prereq: Grad student or professional school student or instr consent

PUBH 6320 - Fundamentals of Epidemiology

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

This course provides an understanding of basic methods and tools used by epidemiologists to study the health of populations.

PUBH 6341 - Epidemiologic Methods I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6320PubH /6341
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to epidemiologic concepts and methods: (1) Study design (randomized trials and observational studies); (2) Measures of exposure-disease association; (3) Casual inference and bias; (4) Confounding and effect modification.

PUBH 6810 - Survey Research Methods

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Theory/application of survey research in data collection. Sampling, item development, instrument design/administration to conduct survey or be aware of issues related to design/implementation. Identification of sources of error in survey research.

PUBH 7250 - Designing and Conducting Focus Group Interviews

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring & Summer

Interactive, intensive overview of focus group procedures for public/non-profit environments. Practical approaches to determining appropriate use of focus groups. Design options, developing questions, recruiting participants, moderating. Analyzing/reporting results.

EPSY 5245 - Advanced Survey Data Analysis for Categorical and Rating Scale Data

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Practical course. Specific nature of survey data (typically categorical or ordinal). Appropriate data analytic methods. prereq: 5244, 5261

EPSY 8264 - Advanced Multiple Regression Analysis

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

General linear model used as context for regression. Matrix algebra, multiple regression, path analysis, polynomial regression, standardized regression, stepwise solutions, analysis of variance, weighted least squares, logistic regression. prereq: [8252 or equiv], regression/ANOVA course, familiarity with statistical analysis package

EPSY 8265 - Factor Analysis

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Prerequisites:	[8252 or equiv or #]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Factor analytic techniques/applications. Component, common factor, confirmatory analysis. Factor extraction, estimating number of dimensions. Rotation, factor scores, hierarchical factor analysis. prereq: [8252 or equiv or instr consent]

EPSY 8266 - Statistical Analysis Using Structural Equation Methods

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Prerequisites:	8265, [8252 or equiv]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Quantitative techniques using manifest/latent variable approaches for analysis of educational/social science data. Introduction to structural equation modeling approaches to multiple regression, factor analysis, path modeling. Developing, estimating, interpreting structural equation models. prereq: 8265, [8252 or equiv]

EPSY 8268 - Hierarchical Linear Modeling in Educational Research

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

Conceptual framework of hierarchical linear models for nested data, their application in educational research. Nature/effects of nested data, logic of hierarchical models, mixed-effects models. Estimation/hypothesis testing in these models, model-checking, nonlinear models. prereq: [8252 or equiv]

NURS 6110 - Epidemiology in Nursing

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

For nurses in advanced practice and leadership positions to utilize basic epidemiological principles in assessing determinants of health and their outcomes in populations. Application of epidemiological concepts to nursing.

NURS 7202 - Moral and Ethical Positions and Actions in Nursing

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

Normative ethics and theoretical underpinnings for positions taken. Implications for subsequent action. Morally defensible positions on health-related issues, corresponding actions from perspective of nursing.

CSPH 5101 - Introduction to Integrative Healing Practices

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

By the end of the course, students will demonstrate an understanding of the overall field of integrative healing practices, which includes both integrative and alternative (CAM) therapies. The course will cover theoretical framework, safety, efficacy, and evidence for various therapies and practices. The online version of this course is an approved 1Health Interprofessional Education (IPE) activity. prereq: Jr or sr or grad student; or instructor consent

CSPH 5111 - Ways of Thinking about Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course is your opportunity to examine, challenge and critically reflect upon your thinking about health. The class meets in a hybrid model that includes in-person, field-trip ?micro-immersion experience? to explore different understandings of health through visits to cultural communities. We include with field trips virtual experiential glimpses into fundamentally different systems of knowledge often conflicting with the scientific/professional models emphasized in many professional fields on campus. Frameworks for critical thinking, critical self-reflection, cultural self-study, intellectual virtues and supplemental readings are offered to support your effort to step into culturally different knowledge systems and mental models of health and well-being. These frames and approaches offer you a mirror through which your own perspective, thinking and background assumptions of health become more visible and explicit. I ask you to challenge your own thinking and better recognize the culture you carry in your thinking as you attempt to inhabit different cognitive worlds. You will also apply this examination to the professional fields of your interest, sharing your insights with learners in other professions. In this way, we bring together interdisciplinary and intercultural learning. On the dates that we meet virtually, our goal is to create a space that encourages us to share with sincerity our thoughts and emerging insights with one another in Zoom conversations. The synchronous Zoom sessions allow you to benefit from each other?s personal and professional take on the immersion experiences as you develop your philosophy, narrative and understanding of health. prereq: jr, sr, grad, or instr consent

CSPH 5303 - Pain Management and Evidence Based Complementary Health Approaches

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

This course will cover the evidence regarding effectiveness and safety of CIH practices, and the relationship of CIH to contemporary views of pain, health, and healing. There is a growing evidence base to support some complementary and integrative healing (CIH) approaches for pain management including yoga, mindfulness meditation, chiropractic, and others. In the US, chronic pain impacts over one third of the population and affects more individuals than heart disease, diabetes, and cancer combined. While there is a wide range of conventional medical treatments available to manage pain, many are only marginally effective and are associated with troublesome side effects. Of growing concerns is the endemic problem of opioids associated with misuse, addiction, and fatal overdose. Pain sufferers and health providers need effective and safe options for pain management. Some complementary and integrative healing (CIH) approaches have a growing evidence base to support their use, particularly for pain management. This course will introduce students to the theories, mechanisms, use, effectiveness, and safety of commonly used complementary and integrative healing practices. The relationship of CIH approaches to contemporary views and research regarding pain, health and healing, and placebo effects will also be explored. Through reading, reflection, discussion, and critical appraisal, students will develop the necessary skills to synthesize different forms of information, including research, to reach evidence-informed and balanced conclusions regarding CIH for managing pain, restoring function, and enhancing overall health and wellbeing. CIH approaches covered will include: whole systems (Traditional Chinese Medicine, osteopathy, chiropractic, Ayurvedic Medicine, etc.); mind-body practices (contemplative and meditative practices; yoga, tai chi, Qigong, etc.); manipulative and body-based approaches (massage therapy, acupuncture, manipulation); and energy-based approaches (energy medicine, Reiki, therapeutic touch, healing touch). Upon completion of the course, students will have a foundational knowledge of CIH for pain management and the skills to critically appraise and determine the trustworthiness of different information sources. Prerequisite: Graduate or Professional program student.

CSPH 5711 - Optimal Healing Environments

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

This course focuses on the development and implementation of optimal healing environments (OHE) as a healthcare innovation. You will examine the evidence base supporting design, human and care processes and begin to explore how OHE are created. An emphasis will be placed on identifying models of optimal healing environments and leadership strategies that support the diffusion of innovation. prereq: Jr or sr or grad student or instr consent

CSPH 5806 - Wellbeing and Resiliency for Health Professionals

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

This course will teach health professional students and health professionals self-care strategies that will improve their individual wellbeing and reduce the stress and burnout often experienced in these professions. Improving individual wellbeing will also contribute to greater wellbeing in the teams and systems in which these professionals work Prereq jr or sr or grad, or instructor consent

CSPH 5115 - Cultural Awareness, Knowledge and Health

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

How knowledge can become resource for individual, family, community health. Interactive glimpse of wisdom of cultural communities. Develop capacity to see culture within professional education/practice. Cultural constructs underpinning medical system, role of culture in interaction between practitioner/patient, role of reconnection to cultural heritage in healing. prereq: Jr or sr or grad student or instr consent

CSPH 5118 - Whole Person, Whole Community: The Reciprocity of Wellbeing

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course explores the symbiotic and reciprocal relationship between individual and community health and wellbeing, as well as the many factors/forces which influence that relationship. Drawing upon recent studies in the area of reciprocal/symbiotic effects between individual wellbeing and community wellbeing, this course will include the following core topics: definitions of community and related dimensions of wellbeing, importance of Individual/Community reciprocity (Social Justice, Equity, Safety, and Trust), historical trauma and healing, and individual action and personal empowerment in community transformation. Utilizing elements of the Center for Spirituality & Healing's Wellbeing model and modes of contemplative practice, this course will ultimately assist learners through phases of individual reflection and mindfulness for the purpose of creating more open and reciprocal relationships with entities they describe as their communities. An extension of recent studies in the area of the reciprocal (or rippling) effect between individual wellbeing and community wellbeing this course will guide individuals in identifying the various communities in which they live or participate, the roles they "play" within those communities and why/ how this knowledge can help prepare them for action and leadership. Main themes of the course will include: - Mindfulness, Reflection and Healing: Historical Trauma and Marginalization. - Roles and Reciprocity: Justice, Equity, Security and Trust between individuals and their communities. - Transformation: Individual Action/Leadership as Bridge between Personal and Community Wellbeing.

CSPH 5305 - Introduction to Integrative Mental Health

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

Prerequisite: Graduate or Professional student. This course focuses on introducing students to the concept of integrative mental health (IMH). Definitions of IMH, the history and background of the concept, and how it relates to psychiatric care and health care in general will be explored. Students will explore and practice risk-benefit profiles of different modalities in the context of evidence-based mental health care. An emphasis will be placed on the connection between physical and mental health and how that can be approached from an integrative perspective. Topics such as mindfulness and mental health, nutrition and mental health, herbs and supplements in psychiatric care, and the role of functional medicine in IMH will be covered, as well as how psychotherapy and psychotropic medications fit in the IMH framework. Students will review the current diagnostic system for mental health disorders and that can both help and hinder an integrative approach to mental health care. Integrative approaches for assessing mental health concerns will be reviewed, and how to use these approaches alongside a traditional medical approach for maximum benefit will be explored. Students will further review specific modalities for mental health and wellbeing that are less focused on specific systems and more focused on holism and the interplay of systems. Students will also identity and explore different ways of viewing mental health and wellbeing based on cultural and geographical issues, and how these may impact the approaches.

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