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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 6414 - Biostatistical Literacy

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

Develop ability to read/interpret statistical results in primary literature. Minimal calculation. No formal training in any statistical programming software. Biostatistical Literacy will cover the fundamental concepts of study design, descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, odds ratios, relative risks, adjusted models in multiple linear, logistic and Poisson regression, and survival analysis. The focus will be when to use a given method and how to interpret the results, not the actual computation or computer programming to obtain results from raw data. prereq: MPH or certificate student or environmental health or instr consent

PUBH 6107 - Excel Skills for Data Management in Public Health Settings

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

Hands-on course on computer skills to learn a wide range of methods to manipulate public health data. Students will be given ?raw? datasets and practice computer methods to clean, filter, recode, combine, tabulate and report data within the Excel and Access environments. The course is ideal for students who may not pursue more advanced quantitative training but still want to feel comfortable using these widely available programs to produce quality datasets for further analysis, and to generate summary results or reports in their work as public health practitioners.

PUBH 6325 - Data Processing with PC-SAS

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

Introduction to methods for transferring/processing existing data sources. Emphasizes hands-on approach to pre-statistical data processing and analysis with PC-SAS statistical software with a Microsoft Windows operating system.

PUBH 6420 - Introduction to SAS Programming

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Summer

Use of SAS for analysis of biomedical data. Data manipulation/description. Basic statistical analyses (t-tests, chi-square, simple regression).

PA 5929 - Data Visualization: Telling Stories with Numbers

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

Tools for communicating quantitative information in an intelligent, effective and persuasive way. Topics covered include 1) writing and speaking about data; 2) data management in Excel in order to prepare data for charting; 3) understanding and ability to deploy core concepts in of design, layout, typography and color to maximize the impact of their data visualizations 4) determining which types of statistical measures are most effective for each type of data and message; 5) determining which types of design to use for communicating quantitative information; and 6) designing graphs and tables that are intelligent and compelling for communicating quantitative information.

PUBH 6123 - Violence Prevention and Control: Theory, Research, and Application

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

Analysis/critique of major theories and of epidemiological research pertinent to violence, including characteristics of violence and relevant risk factors, reporting/treatment protocols, and current/potential intervention efforts and prevention initiatives. Emphasizes interdisciplinary contributions to violence prevention/control.

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 6751 - Principles of Management in Health Services Organizations

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

Understanding of and improvement in the competencies of managers in organizations, particularly as applied to health services and public health organizations. prereq: [Public hlth MPH or MHA or certificate] student or [environmental health MS or PhD] student or dentistry MS student or instr consent

PUBH 6102 - Issues in Environmental Health

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

Current issues, principles, and methods of environmental/occupational health practice. prereq: Public health [MPH or MHA or certificate] student or health journalism MA major or nursing MS student or instr consent

PUBH 6020 - Fundamentals of Social and Behavioral Science

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

Three major approaches to social sciences in public health: psychosocial, community approaches, economic and policy interventions. Covers theories of behavior change, program and policy development, community engagement, and policy implementation and advocacy. Not open to students in Community Health Promotion or Public Health Nutrition MPH programs.

PUBH 6741 - Ethics in Public Health: Professional Practice and Policy

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

Introduction to ethical issues in public health practice/policy. Ethical analysis, recognizing/analyzing moral issues. prereq: Public health [MPH or MHA or certificate] student or environmental health [MS or PhD] major or instr consent

PUBH 6250 - Foundations of Public Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

In this course we will examine values, contexts, principles, and frameworks of public health. We will provide an introduction to public health, consider the history of public health, social/political determinants, impact of health disparities on race, class and gender, moral and legal foundations, public health structures, historical trauma and cultural competence, health and human rights, advocacy and health equity, communication and financing, and the future of public health in the 21st century. Grounded in theory and concepts, we will incorporate core competencies and skills for public health professionals and will focus on developing problem solving and decision-making skills through critical analysis, reflection, case studies, readings, and paper assignments.

PUBH 6630 - Foundations of Maternal and Child Health Leadership

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6630/PubH 6655
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Historical/current principles, programs, policies, and practices related to women, children, adolescents, and families. Articulating a personal leadership style/plan for development of leadership competencies. Leadership principles, skills, and models applied to improving health of MCH populations. prereq: Public Health MCH major or instr consent

PUBH 6600 - Topics: Maternal and Child Health

Credits:	0.5 -4.0 [max 20.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer

New courses or topics of interest.

PUBH 6605 - Sexual, Reproductive, and Perinatal Public Health

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

Overview of perinatal, sexual, and reproductive health surveillance, programs, services, and policies in the U.S., with an emphasis on vulnerable populations and methods to assess and interpret perinatal, sexual, and reproductive health data. prereq: Public health student or grad student or instr consent

PUBH 6606 - Children's Health: Life Course and Equity Perspectives

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

This course is focused on 1) major causes of illness at each phase of fetal, infant, and child development, 2) how the social determinants of health interact with underlying biology in early life to shape health over the life course, and 3) evidence-based child public health programs and interventions.

PUBH 6607 - Adolescent Health: Issues, Programs, and Policies

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

This two-credit course focuses on the major public health issues of adolescents and the programs and policies that impact the health and well-being of this population. Course readings and discussion focus primarily on adolescents in the United States, although international contexts are also considered. The course is designed to examine the prevalence and etiology of health and wellness indicators for youth, including mental health; sexual and reproductive health; physical activity and nutrition; and prevention of tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use, violence involvement, and injury. In addition, the course analyzes contemporary social movements and issues that impact adolescents through a public health lens (e.g., Black Lives Matter, DACA and the DREAM Act, achievement gap, inequitable distribution of wealth and economic opportunities, gender equity, civic engagement). The course is designed for graduate public health students with professional interests in preventive interventions to reduce health inequities. Students in other related health professions (e.g., medicine, nursing) or human services professions (e.g., public affairs, social work) with an interest in health issues are also welcome. The course meets the requirement for the Health Equity Minor in the School of Public Health.

PUBH 6613 - Children and Youth With Special Health Care Needs

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

Principles, programs, policies, and practices for identifying/meeting needs of children/youth with special health care needs in the United States. Epidemiology, historic/current legislation, organization/delivery. Readings, online discussions, written assignments. prereq: Graduate-level student in [AHC programs or education or social work or psychology]

PUBH 6675 - Women's Health

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

Programs, services, and policies that affect women's health in the United States. Methodological issues in research. Emphasizes social, economic, environmental, behavioral, and political factors. Measurement/interpretation of factors, how they translate into interventions, programs, and policies.

PUBH 6907 - Maternal, Infant, Child and Adolescent Nutrition

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6902/PubH 6903/PubH 6907
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

This course provides an overview of nutrition issues affecting pregnant and postpartum women, females of reproductive age, infants, children and adolescents. The course integrates public health practice and policy recommendations with evidence-based clinical practice guidelines to provide a comprehensive view of maternal and child health (MCH) nutrition issues seen by practitioners in community settings. The course addresses nutrition education, community/ population nutrition intervention strategies, and programs and policies to promote healthy eating and physical activity and to reduce obesity and chronic disease risk among MCH populations. The course also provides an opportunity for students to develop social marketing and media communication skills and messages appropriate for maternal and child health (MCH) populations as well as to evaluate child nutrition assistance programs and policies.

PUBH 6034 - Evaluation I: Concepts

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6034/PubH 6852
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Developing useful program evaluations. Emphasizes skills for program administrators, planners. Needs assessments. Assessment of program design, implementation, impact. Cost-effectiveness analysis. Quantitative and qualitative data collection methods. Ethical considerations.

PUBH 6852 - Program Evaluation in Health and Mental Health Settings

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6034/PubH 6852
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Understanding an evaluation study. Program evaluation. Applications to health and mental health settings. emphasizes public health.

PUBH 6035 - Evaluation II: Planning & Evaluation

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6035/PubH 6806
Typically offered:	Every Fall

The course will prepare students to develop and apply evidence-based policy and program evaluation approaches in community health settings. The course is designed to guide students through planning and evaluating the impact of public health strategies using the RE-AIM Framework based on the Reach, Effectiveness, Adaptation, Implementation, and Maintenance/Sustainability. prereq: PubH 6034 or Instructor permission

PUBH 6107 - Excel Skills for Data Management in Public Health Settings

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

Hands-on course on computer skills to learn a wide range of methods to manipulate public health data. Students will be given ?raw? datasets and practice computer methods to clean, filter, recode, combine, tabulate and report data within the Excel and Access environments. The course is ideal for students who may not pursue more advanced quantitative training but still want to feel comfortable using these widely available programs to produce quality datasets for further analysis, and to generate summary results or reports in their work as public health practitioners.

PUBH 6310 - Clinical Epidemiology 1

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

Clinical epidemiology is the science of using population methods to answer individual patient questions. In this course in clinical epidemiology, I will cover the design of epidemiological studies and the analysis and interpretation of epidemiological data in order to answer clinical questions. A variety of study design methods including cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional study designs will be taught. The design and analysis of clinical trials are covered in-depth by other courses (e.g. PUBH 7420 and 7415) and hence are not covered here. This course is intended for MS students majoring in clinical research. If you are in the clinical research certificate program and have an MD, you can enroll in this course. If you are in the clinical research certificate program and do NOT have an MD, please contact the instructor for permission prior to enrolling. Others including those in MPH programs in the School of Public Health and other interested students should contact the instructor for permission prior to enrolling. If you have already studied advanced methods in epidemiology or biostatistics or completed Epi Methods II (PUBH 6342) or more advanced Epidemiology courses, please do not take this 1-credit course since there will be redundant material. You may be interested instead in Clinical Epidemiology II, which focuses on more clinical aspects including prognosis, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

PUBH 6325 - Data Processing with PC-SAS

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

Introduction to methods for transferring/processing existing data sources. Emphasizes hands-on approach to pre-statistical data processing and analysis with PC-SAS statistical software with a Microsoft Windows operating system.

PUBH 6342 - Epidemiologic Methods II

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

Methods and techniques for designing, implementing, analyzing, and interpreting observational epidemiologic studies, including cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional studies.

PUBH 6389 - Nutritional Epidemiology

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Nutrition/disease relationships through application of epidemiologic methods. Characterization of various exposures to food/nutrient intakes, biological basis for nutrition/disease relationships. Studies of specific chronic diseases and nutritional intake. Design/interpretation of studies using nutritional measures. prereq: [[6320 or 6330 or 6341], [Epidemiology MPH or Public Health Nutrition MPH or Epidemiology PhD student]] or instr consent

PUBH 6420 - Introduction to SAS Programming

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Summer

Use of SAS for analysis of biomedical data. Data manipulation/description. Basic statistical analyses (t-tests, chi-square, simple regression).

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

PUBH 6636 - Qualitative Research Methods in Public Health Practice

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

Qualitative inquiry, selected data collection, management, analysis methods for qualitative research in public health. Current approaches to assess strength of evidence of qualitative studies in public health. Provision of practical skills that can be applied in public health settings.

PUBH 6765 - Continuous Quality Improvement: Methods and Techniques

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

Theory/practical applications of concepts, tools, techniques of continuous quality improvement (QI) in public health/health care.

PUBH 6803 - Conducting a Systematic Literature Review

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

Project-based class to develop systematic review skills for evidence-based practice. Draws from AHRQ and Cochrane systematic review methodology; supported by examples from the Minnesota Evidence-based Practice Center. Use for master?s thesis, dissertation, or to support research proposals. Prereq: research study design or epidemiology.

PUBH 6806 - Principles of Public Health Research

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

Evaluation of public health research literature and planning for independent research projects. Formulation of research question, research design, sampling techniques, use of research concepts, and data analysis. Data collection techniques, including questionnaires, interviews, and data analysis. prereq: Pub hlth or grad or professional school student or instr consent

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.

PUBH 6311 - Clinical Epidemiology II

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

Clinical epidemiology is the science of using population methods to answer individual patient questions. This course in clinical epidemiology will cover the design of epidemiological studies and the analysis and interpretation of epidemiological data in order to answer clinical questions. Clinical Epidemiology II will cover concepts related to prognosis, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. This course is intended for MS students majoring in clinical research. If you are in the clinical research certificate program and have an MD, please contact the instructor for permission. Students in PhD programs in the School of Public Health are welcome to enroll as long as they meet the course requirements. This course is not suitable for MPH students. COURSE PREREQUISITES ? Fundamentals of Epidemiology (PUBH 6320; grade of B- or higher) OR Epidemiological Methods I (PUBH 6341; grade B- or higher), or equivalent. ? Clinical Epidemiology I (PUBH 6310; grade B- or higher) OR Epidemiological Methods II (PUBH 6342; grade B- or higher), or equivalent. ? Biostatistics Literacy (PUBH 6414; grade of B- or higher) OR Biostatistics I (PUBH 6450; grade B- or higher), or equivalent.

PA 5929 - Data Visualization: Telling Stories with Numbers

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

Tools for communicating quantitative information in an intelligent, effective and persuasive way. Topics covered include 1) writing and speaking about data; 2) data management in Excel in order to prepare data for charting; 3) understanding and ability to deploy core concepts in of design, layout, typography and color to maximize the impact of their data visualizations 4) determining which types of statistical measures are most effective for each type of data and message; 5) determining which types of design to use for communicating quantitative information; and 6) designing graphs and tables that are intelligent and compelling for communicating quantitative information.

PUBH 6123 - Violence Prevention and Control: Theory, Research, and Application

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

Analysis/critique of major theories and of epidemiological research pertinent to violence, including characteristics of violence and relevant risk factors, reporting/treatment protocols, and current/potential intervention efforts and prevention initiatives. Emphasizes interdisciplinary contributions to violence prevention/control.

PUBH 6673 - Grant Writing for Public Health

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6051/Pubh 6673
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Hands-on workshop. Identifying successful elements of a grant application. Grant review process. Critiquing a grant. Writing an application.

PUBH 6045 - Skills for Policy Development

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

Skills relevant to policy development and implementation for public health-related issues.

PUBH 6049 - Legislative Advocacy Skills for Public Health

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

State legislature as arena for public health practice. Skills necessary to operate in that arena. Analyzing emergence, development, and resolution of legislative issues of public health importance.

PUBH 6066 - Building Communities, Increasing Health: Preparing for Community Health Work

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

Taught with Powderhorn-Phillips Cultural Wellness Center. Introduction to community building/organizing. Using culture as a resource for health, reducing barriers, identifying community assets, planning organizing strategy, understanding the impact of history. Emphasizes self-reflection and skill-building for authentic, grassroots community work.

PUBH 6074 - Mass Communication and Public Health

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Jour 5541/PubH 6074
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course provides an overview of theory and research that lies at the intersection of mass communication and public health. We examine the potential for media exposure to influence public health outcomes, both as a product of people's everyday interactions with media and the strategic use of media messages to accomplish public health goals. To this end, we will explore large-scale public health campaigns in the context of tobacco, obesity, and cancer screening. We also will explore news media coverage of controversial health issues, such as the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, and health information in entertainment media, such as smoking in movies. This course seeks to understand whether media messages have had intended and/or unintended effects on public attitudes and behavior. Although our focus is on mass media, interpersonal, medical, and digital media sources will be considered as well.

PUBH 6078 - Public Health Policy as a Prevention Strategy

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

Philosophical, ethical, economic, political, efficacy rationale for policy approach to prevention. Historical/current application of prevention policy to public health problems. prereq: 2nd yr MPH or public health MS student or [Epi, Biostats, Env Hlth, HSRPconcurrent registration is required (or allowed) in A PhD student] or instr consent

PUBH 6627 - Sexuality Education: Criteria, Curricula, and Controversy

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

Issues and controversies affecting K-12 sexuality education. Current research and guidelines for effective, responsible education and curricula selection. Various curricula being used in the United States. Challenges in teaching sensitive issues inherent in sexuality education.

PUBH 6711 - Public Health Law

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

Basic concepts of law, legislative process, and legal bases for existence/administration of public health programs. Legal aspects of current public health issues/controversies, regulatory role of government in health services system. prereq: Grad student or professional school student or instr consent

PUBH 6727 - Health Leadership and Effecting Change

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

Analysis of leadership models and competencies, particularly as applied to organizational change. Applications to individual self-development and to health care organizations. prereq: Public hlth MPH or MHA or certificate student or [health services research, policy/admin] MS student or instr consent

PUBH 6735 - Principles of Health Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6735/PubH 6835.
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the policy environment that influences and shapes public health and the provision of health care services, to enhance understanding of the historical and political context of health policy, to develop strategies for analysis of health policy issues, and to communicate effectively in the policy environment. Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for PubH 6835.

PUBH 6755 - Planning and Budgeting for Public Health

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

Principles of budgeting, planning, forecasting, and analyzing in nonprofit/government organizations applied to health care administration and public health. prereq: Academic Hlth Ctr grad student or instr consent

PUBH 6955 - Using Policy to Promote Healthy Eating and Activity Among Young People

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 3955/PubH 6955
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Overview of federal, state, local policy approaches. National initiatives for prevention of child and adolescent obesity. Specific policies will be discussed at local, state, federal levels. Extensive discussion on evidence of impact of policies on child and adolescent weight.

PUBH 7691 - Independent Study: Maternal and Child Health

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 20.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Independent study supervised by a maternal and child health faculty member. prereq: Maternal/child health major, instr consent

PUBH 6055 - Social Inequalities in Health

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

Extent and causes of social inequalities in health. Degree to which understanding of these inequalities is hampered by methodological limitations in health research. Focuses on individual, community, and policy approaches to reducing social inequalities in health.

PUBH 6737 - Structural Racism and Health

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

This course offers an examination of U.S. health inequities from a historical lens and discussion of present-day issues. Through the readings, discussions, and assignments in this class, students will better understand historical policies, events, and movements that have led to health inequities and connect those to contemporary issues in the United States and within the field of public health. The course takes an intersectional perspective (to race, ethnicity, gender, and class) to examine health inequities, with a specific focus on inequities related to race and racism.

PUBH 6914 - Community Nutrition Intervention

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

Tools for developing community nutrition interventions. Using behavioral therapy, conducting needs assessments, writing program objectives, developing intervention strategies, evaluating program implementation and effectiveness, planning a budget, writing grant proposals.

PUBH 6954 - Personal, Social and Environmental Influences on the Weight-Related Health of Pediatric Populations

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

Overview of public health strategies for the prevention of pediatric obesity. Includes overview of epidemiology of child and adolescent obesity with a focus on social-ecological risk factors. Discusses implications for developing interventions and programs. prereq: completed one of the following: a) basic intro to nutrition course, b) PubH 6094, or c) 1 year work experience in the field of obesity and/or public health or instructor consent.

PUBH 7696 - Applied Practice Experience: Maternal and Child Health

Credits:	1.0 -5.0 [max 5.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

MPH students are required to complete a supervised Applied Practice Experience (APEx). Students must address five competencies and must submit two products that demonstrate attainment of the competencies. prereq: Maternal and Child Health Student, instr consent

PUBH 7694 - Integrative Learning Experience: Maternal and Child Health

Credits:	1.0 -4.7 [max 4.7]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

MPH students complete an integrative learning experience (ILE) that demonstrates synthesis of foundational and concentration competencies. Students in consultation with faculty select foundational and concentration-specific competencies appropriate to the student?s educational and professional goals. prereq: Maternal/child health program, instr 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 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 5215 - Forgiveness and Healing: A Journey Toward Wholeness

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

This course will examine the impact of forgiveness on the process of interpersonal and intrapersonal healing, as well as healing of conflict and trauma at the intergroup level. Forgiveness and healing will be examined in the context of intense interpersonal and intrapersonal conflicts in multiple health care and social work settings, including in families, between physicians and nurses, between patients/clients and nurses/social workers, within communities, among friends, between co-workers, or within ourselves. Forgiveness will also be examined in the larger global context and how principles and practices of forgiveness are being applied in some of the most entrenched political and violent conflicts, such as in Northern Ireland, South Africa, Liberia, Rwanda, and Israel/Palestine. This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of the central elements of forgiveness and healing in the context of multiple micro and macro life settings. The concepts of forgiveness and healing will be examined from multiple spiritual and secular traditions. The underlying philosophical elements of forgiveness and healing will be critically assessed and beliefs and rituals from numerous indigenous and European traditions will be presented and examined. The focus will be upon gaining a more grounded understanding of the process of forgiveness and its potential impact upon emotional and relational healing. The concepts of forgiveness and healing will be addressed in a very broad and inclusive manner, with no assumptions made related to their specific cultural context or meaning. Empirical studies that have examined the impact of forgiveness upon emotional and physical healing will be reviewed. Concepts such as forgiveness and healing are inseparable from the concept of spirituality. For the purposes of the course, spirituality is not synonymous with the dogma and creeds of the major religious traditions in the world, even though religion for many may serve as a pathway to spirituality. Practices within the major religions of the world that foster forgiveness and healing, however, will be explored, along with practices within Native American, Canadian Aboriginal, Native Hawaiian, African, New Zealand Maori, and Eastern cultural traditions. prereq: Jr or sr or grad student 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 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.

CSPH 5701 - Health Coaching Fundamentals I

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course provides a foundation of Health Coaching through skill development in Motivational Interviewing and coaching structure. We will explore basic tenets of health coaching including deep listening, effective and empathic communication, mindfulness, unconditional positive regard, and nonjudgement. In addition, this course will include tools for self-development which is key in a health coaches? professional journey and development of emotional intelligence. We will learn how each person is intrinsically healthy, whole, and wise and how they are the expert in their journey not the health coach. There are onsite requirements for this course. Prereq admitted to Master of Arts in Integrative Health and Wellbeing Coaching; or, Integrative Therapies and Healing Practices Certificate-Health Coaching track; or, Doctor of Nursing Practice; or, non-degree seeking graduate students or students from other graduate degree programs may enroll with permission of the course instructor.

CSPH 5702 - Health Coaching Fundamentals II

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

This course expands upon students? skills in motivational interviewing to include health coaching theories, coaching psychology, goal setting, and theories in behavior change and motivation. In the course students will have the opportunity to remove their ?expert hat? and deepen their understanding of coaching skills and style, empathy, deep listening, effective and empathic communication, and tools for self-development. It is the role of the Health Coach to provide a safe, non judgmental environment to allow for exploration and the practice of skill building to increase the client?s self-efficacy. In this course you will learn how to facilitate the change process by incorporating the client?s strengths and values. There are onsite and synchronous requirements for this course. This course must be taken concurrently with CSPH 5716 Health Coaching Practicum 2. Prereq CSPH 5701 and CSPH 5703. This course is required for students who have been admitted to the Integrative Therapies and Healing Practice Certificate - Health Coaching track; and Integrative Health and Wellbeing Coaching Master of Arts programs. Students from other graduate degree programs may enroll with permission of the course instructor.

CSPH 5703 - Advanced Health Coaching Practicum I

Credits:	1.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

In this course, students participate in a peer-coaching model with their fellow students in dyads or triads, to create opportunities for applying the tools and skills they are learning. The key to this course is practice not perfection in a safe, supportive environment where mistakes are welcomed and learning and growth is at the center. This course must be taken concurrently with CSPH 5701 Health Coaching Fundamentals I for Health Coaching Master of Arts and Certificate students, and is a required prerequisite for CSPH 5702 Health Coaching Fundamentals II. Prereq: This course is required for students who have been admitted to the Integrative Therapies and Healing Practice certificate - Health Coaching track; and Integrative Health and Wellbeing Coaching Master of Arts program. This course is a required prerequisite for Fundamentals of Health Coaching II (CSH 5702) and must be taken concurrently with CSPH 5701 Fundamentals of Health Coaching I for Health Coaching M.A. and certificate students. Students from other graduate degree programs may enroll with permission of the course instructor.

CSPH 5704 - Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in Health & Wellbeing

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

This course encourages students to reflect on their responsibility to provide culturally competent care as an expression of their professional values and doing the difficult internal work required to increase health equity. In the framework of social determinants of health, this course explores the intersection of health care and marginalized individuals and groups of all cultures, races, ethnicities, disabilities, sexual orientation, size, and gender identities. Students will explore how societal factors, power dynamics, attitudes, biases, historical and institutionalized bias, colonialism, and discrimination have produced health disparities and how these can change with just policies, decision-making, and health equity initiatives. This course has an onsite requirement. This course is a prerequiste for CSPH 8701 Internship for those in the Master of Arts program. There are no prerequisite courses. This course is required for students who have been admitted to the Integrative Therapies and Healing Practice certificate - Health Coaching track; and Integrative Health and Wellbeing Coaching Master of Arts program. Doctorate of Nursing Practice students, non-degree seeking students, or students from other degree programs, may enroll with special permission from the course instructor.

CSPH 5706 - Lifestyle Medicine

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

This course provides a foundation in the theory and clinical application of lifestyle medicine. Lifestyle medicine aims to address the behavioral and lifestyle bases of common illnesses through health promoting activities and reducing harmful behaviors. In this course, we will explore optimal nutrition, lifestyle, physical activity, and attitude. We will examine the emerging evidence base of lifestyle medicine and how it relates to health promotion and disease prevention. Participants will be introduced to common laboratory and imaging findings, and how they relate to optimal health. prereq: jr or sr or grad, or inst consent

CSPH 5707 - Coaching People with Clinical Conditions

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

This course provides students with a basic awareness and expanded perception of prevalent clinical conditions, and supports the development of empathy related to these conditions. It continues to build coaching skills specific to coaching clients with clinical conditions. Also supports the development of professional oral and written communication skills. Prereq CSPH 5701, 5702, 5716. This course is required for students who have been admitted to the Integrative Health and Wellbeing Coaching Master of Arts program. Doctor of Nursing Practice students, non-degree students, or students from other degree programs, may only enroll with special permission of the course director.

CSPH 5708 - Mind-Body Science and Trauma-Informed Mental Health

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

Health coaches, mental health providers, and other health care providers all work to facilitate change for their clients, and in that process mental health concerns and the effects of trauma may show up. In this course, students will gain a clear understanding of the scope of practice of non-mental health providers as it relates to mental health, trauma, and the processes of referring clients to other health professionals when appropriate. Students will be able to recognize the signs and symptoms of common mental health concerns and of trauma and will learn tools and techniques to navigate these concerns within their profession?s scope of practice. Students will also learn the foundations of mind-body science and trauma-informed practices to support their client's journey toward health and wellness. There are no prerequisite courses. This course is required for students who have been admitted to the Integrative Health and Wellbeing Coaching Master of Arts program. Doctor of Nursing Practice students, non-degree students, or students from other degree programs, may only enroll with special permission of the course director.

CSPH 5709 - Health and Wellbeing Group Coaching

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

The Health and Wellbeing Group Coaching Practicum enables the student to learn and apply the theory and practice of group health and wellbeing coaching in a community site-based practicum setting, and to communicate their learning in a professional manner. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: ? Explore and demonstrate how to apply the four pillars into the structure of group coaching. ? Identify and practice skills and tools of group facilitation and coaching. ? Demonstrate the art of managing group dynamics successfully. Prereq: CSPH 5701, 5702, 5703, 5716. This course is required for students who have been admitted to the Integrative Health and Wellbeing Coaching Master of Arts program. Doctor of Nursing Practice students, non-degree students, or students from other degree programs, may only enroll with special permission of the course director. Basic computer skills, the ability to be on camera, and internet access are required.

CSPH 5713 - Health Coaching for Health Professionals

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

This course will explore the basic tenets of 4 Pillars of Health Coaching model--self-awareness, mindful presence, authentic communication, and safe/sacred space. Students will learn to identify/benchmark stages/patterns of change, respectfully collaborate with interdisciplinary health care providers and facilitate clients? ability to achieve sustainable lifestyle changes. Consistent, nonjudgmental application of a holistic perspective of optimal health and wellbeing in patient encounters will be discussed and demonstrated. Students will have the opportunity to see demonstrated and to practice applying tools and practices from motivational interviewing, appreciative inquiry, non-violent communication, and other authentic communication tools. Interprofessional dialogues and exercises will be guaranteed through targeted participation of second year Health Coaching students, who are not taking this course for credit but are volunteering to increase the interprofessional understanding of coaching and team work. This course is not considered preparatory for becoming a professional health coach and does not meet educational hour requirements toward eligibility for the National Board of Health and Wellness Coaching exam, or for Continuing Education hours for NBHWC recertification. Prereq: Admitted to the Doctor of Nursing Practice-Integrative Health and Healing specialty; Admitted to other Doctor of Nursing Practice specialties; Graduate or professional students in health sciences programs; Practicing health professionals; or instructor consent.

CSPH 5805 - Wellbeing in the Workplace

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

Work and experiences in the workplace have a profound impact on many dimensions of individual and collective wellbeing, including a sense of purpose and meaning, financial and emotional security, quality of relationships and community, physical and emotional health, and the local and global environments. In this course, students will learn multi-disciplinary perspectives on key challenges in creating workplaces that contribute to greater wellbeing. Students will also reflect on their own personal experiences with wellbeing in their current and past work environments and examine strategies for enhancing wellbeing based on interdisciplinary theory and research. Specific topics include the importance of purpose and meaning at work, challenges in achieving work-life integration, the impact of technology on work expectations, and organizational change. This course is based on a whole-life, integrative model of wellbeing and draws from research and theory across the social, behavior, and health sciences. Prereq jr or sr or grad, or instructor 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 5807 - Mindfulness in the Workplace: Pause, Practice, Perform

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

Mindfulness in the Workplace is an experiential course designed to teach core mindfulness skills while also exploring specific applications to the workplace setting. The course explores key mindfulness traits and how they relate to essential workplace skills, such as resilience, task execution, critical analysis, intra/interpersonal growth, leadership, and other related topics. In addition, the course explores how corporate culture can be a barrier or a catalyst for adoption of mindfulness principles. By exploring the above topics from the perspective of the workplace and academic literature, students will gain an understanding of how to apply evidence-informed techniques to help them on the job. Prereq jr or sr or grad, or instructor consent

CSPH 5905 - Food Matters: Cook Like Your Life Depends On It

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

Food Matters is an experiential-learning, applied nutrition & culinary skills course for health professional students. The course addresses the role of food in specific health conditions and its function in health promotion and disease prevention. The course guides future health professionals in the procurement, preparation, and consumption of sustainably raised whole foods for self care and how this translates to patient care. Prereq: Graduate student in a health professions field, or instructor consent

EPSY 5114 - Psychology of Student Learning

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	EPsy 3301/EPsy 5114
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course is an introduction to the theories, data, and methods of Educational Psychology most relevant to understanding student thinking and learning. The first third of the course reviews those aspects of cognitive development that are foundational for education. The second third considers how cognitive psychology informs questions of learning, memory, knowledge, and transfer. With this background in place, the final third of the course will focus on the classroom: on instruction, motivation, individual differences, and group differences. The course concludes by considering the neural correlates of classroom learning.

EPSY 5247 - Qualitative Methods in Educational Psychology

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

Introduction to qualitative methods of inquiry. Contrasting different research traditions (e.g., case study, phenomenology, ethnography, social interactionism, critical theory). Practice with field notes, observations, and interviewing. Use of NVIVO to track/code data. prereq: Graduate student or Applied Psychology in Educational and Community Settings Minor

EPSY 5609 - Infants and Toddlers with Delays/Disabilities: Family-Centered Approaches to Early Intervention

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	EPsy 4609/EPsy 5609
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course was designed to provide pre-service and current teachers as well as related service providers with the knowledge and skills needed to understand the dynamic ecosystems of families with a child with disabilities. Students will be introduced to the major methods, philosophies, and current research that emphasize effective family-professional collaboration in planning and service delivery for infants and young children with disabilities. The focus is on a family-centered approach to assess and design educational plans and interventions, with a specific emphasis on relationship building and understanding the diverse perspectives on family life and developmental expectations.

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 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 8282 - Statistical Analysis of Longitudinal Data

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

Traditional/modern approaches to analyzing longitudinal data. Dependent t-test, repeated measures ANOVA/MANOVA. Linear mixed models, multilevel models, generalized models. prereq: [8252 or equiv]

FSCN 4612W - Advanced Human Nutrition (WI)

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

Advanced study of digestion/absorption of nutrients. Research techniques in nutrition, including human/epidemiological studies. Health promotion, disease prevention theories. Non-Enforced Prerequisites: FSCN 1112, CHEM 1062 and CHEM 1066 Enforced Prerequisites (students cannot register without the following): BioC 3021 or PHSL 3051 or ANSC 3301 or BIOL 3211 or Instructor Consent

FSCN 4614W - Community Nutrition (SOCS, DSJ, WI)

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

Nutrition risks associated with different age, sex, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups. Community needs assessment. Program planning and evaluation. Programs developed to address the needs and interests of people at different stages of the life cycle, ethnic or cultural backgrounds, and literacy levels.

FSCN 4621 - Nutrition and Metabolism

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

Carbohydrate, lipid, protein metabolism. Uses systems/holistic approach to emphasize how metabolic pathways interrelate. Prequisite courses: FSCN 4612, BIOC 3021, ANSC 3301

FSCN 4622 - Nutritional Toxicology, the basic science of diet-related toxicants

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	FScN 4622/Nutr 5627
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Concepts of toxicology. Molecular mechanism behind dietary chemical-induced toxicities. Impact/risk of dietary chemicals for human health. prereq: BIOC 3021; designed for students majoring in [nutrition or food science or toxicology ]

FSCN 4665 - Medical Nutrition Therapy I

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

Nutrition care process, with a focus on nutrition assessment and support, and on pathophysiology, management, and nutrition care of disease and injury, e.g. gastrointestinal (GI), pancreatic, hepatic, and pulmonary disorders; surgery/trauma/burns; and cancer. prereq: FSCN 4612, PHSL 3051, BIOC 3021

FSCN 4666 - Medical Nutrition Therapy II

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

Nutrition care process, with a focus on pathophysiology, management, and nutrition care of diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disorders, renal disorders, and obesity. prereq: FSCN 4665, FSCN 4612, PHSL 3051, BIOC 3021

FSCN 4732 - Food and Nutrition Management

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

Financial and human resource management applied to a variety of business and institutional settings. Field trips may be required. prereq: 3732

FSCN 5131 - Food Quality for Graduate Credit

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

Management systems, statistical procedures, regulatory requirements involved with producing quality food/ingredients. Risk assessment/management, good manufacturing practices, hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP), statistical methods for process control, total quality management, food/drug laws. Prereq: Food Science Grad Student Student may select grading basis if instructor approves. A-F registration is required for class to count toward degree.

FSCN 5312 - Food Analysis

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

Analytical tools needed for investigation in Food Science/Technology, whether by food industry, governmental agencies, or universities. Application of quantitative/ qualitative physical, chemical/instrumental methods used for analysis/examination of food constituents. Sensory evaluation techniques, evaluation of methods/interpretation of results. prereq: 4112, STAT 3011

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.

FSOS 5014 - Quantitative Family Research Methods I

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

Family research methods, issues associated with multiple levels of analysis. Conducting family-focused data analyses using basic/intermediate methods (through ANOVA and multiple regression), including power analysis. Ethical issues involved in family research such as IRB/HIPAA regulations. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

FSOS 5015 - Family Research Laboratory

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

Application of basic family research methods into experiential learning using statistical software. Analyses that correspond with problem situations in 5014 and that involve secondary data analyses. Using statistical software for basic family research. Preparation to work with quantitative family data sets. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

FSOS 5111 - Introduction to Family Therapy

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

This course is designed as an introduction to the field of marriage/couple and family therapy. Students who successfully complete the course should be well versed in the basics of both the foundational and contemporary theories of the discipline. Further, students will be exposed to a number of clinical vignettes and case scenarios that demonstrate the application of the theories in pre-recorded family therapy sessions. Through class assignments and discussions, students will be able to make a more informed decision as to whether or not family therapy is a field that holds potential for them in their own professional pursuits. Other mental health disciplines attend to family variables but having a background in family systems theory and family therapy theories will provide a solid knowledge base for someone embarking on a career in relationship-oriented clinical work. Family systems theory guides the majority of what will be discussed in class.

FSOS 5701 - Prevention Science: Principles and Practices

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	FSoS 5701/PREV 8001
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

Theoretical, empirical, and practical foundations for strategic interventions to prevent behavioral problems and promote healthy development. Multidisciplinary roots of prevention science. Trends/directions and best practices.

FSOS 5937 - Parent-Child Interaction

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

In Parent-Child Interaction, we will examine the dynamic, reciprocal nature of parent-child interactions across the lifespan through multidisciplinary and diverse research, theories and practices. Emphasis will be given to the bidirectional impact of parent-child interactions on the parent-child relationship and on parents' and children's development within complex family, community, cultural and other socio-ecological contexts. Students will continue to reflect and grow in their understanding of the professional role and competencies of a parent educator and learning activities will focus on practical application to both personal lives and professional work with families.

FSOS 5942 - Diverse Family Experiences

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

This course is a research-based in-depth look at family experiences from many diverse points of view. Students will examine diverse experiences of families and their relevance to parent education and to the professional development of parent educators. Research and theoretical knowledge are woven together with observation and personal reflection to create a strength-based approach to both families and professional development.

FSOS 5944 - Curricular Design in Parent Education

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

Students will develop the skills to adapt and design curricular resources and teaching strategies for effective parent education with diverse families across multiple contexts. Students will develop competence in conducting needs assessment, identifying content, discerning teaching methods, and designing lesson plans. As they develop their own philosophy of practice, students will study the history and evolution of parent education in Minnesota and across the U.S. prereq: FSoS 5937 & FSoS 5942 or instr consent

FSOS 5945 - Teaching and Learning in Parent Education

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

Students will examine adult, adolescent, and parent learning and development from the perspective of their relevance for parent education. Students will select, use, and reflect on group and individual parent education teaching strategies and facilitation processes designed to meet the needs of diverse populations of adult learners. Critical reflection, ethical practices, and other parent educator competencies related to teaching methods and processes will be addressed. Personal professional development will be facilitated through challenging assumptions and examining the knowledge and competencies required for parent educators. prereq: FSoS 5937 & FSoS 5942 or instr consent

FSOS 5946 - Assessment and Evaluation in Parent Education

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

Students will be introduced to theory, terminology, issues, and approaches in assessment and evaluation. Students will apply this new material to the tasks of monitoring program performance, assessing program quality, and measuring parent learning and development. prereq: 5944 or instr consent

FSOS 8001 - Conceptual Frameworks in the Family

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

Major theoretical models about families, emphasizing sociohistorical context.

FSOS 8002 - Advanced Family Conceptual Frameworks

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

Builds on FSoS 8001 by focusing specifically on family level research questions. Family development/critical theoretical perspectives that can be used to understand/study family processes/contemporary ecological issues. prereq: 8001 or instr consent

FSOS 8014 - Quantitative Family Research Methods II

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

Quantitative research process, from developing research question to putting findings to use. Major course project basis for class discussion. Family research. Applying research knowledge to study of families. prereq: [5014 or equiv], [8001 or equiv], [two stat courses or instr consent]

FSOS 8036 - Couple/Marriage and Family Therapy Research

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Historic/contemporary approaches to C/MFT research with emphasis on prevention, intervention, dissemination from variety of perspectives. prereq: FSOS doctoral student enrolled in Couple Family Therapy (CFT) or instr consent

FSOS 8101 - Family Stress, Coping, and Adaptation

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

Helping families become more resilient to stress by decreasing vulnerability to crises and traumatic stress disorders. Students develop research or intervention proposal on family stress, coping, adaptation, crisis, trauma, or resilience. prereq: 8001 or equiv, research methods course

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

HINF 5440 - Foundations of Translational Bioinformatics

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

Translational bioinformatics deals with the assaying, computational analysis and knowledge-based interpretation of complex molecular data to better understand, prevent, diagnose and treat disease. This course emphasizes deep DNA sequencing methods that have persistent impact on research related to disease diagnosis and treatment. The course covers sequence analysis, applications to genome sequences, and sequence-function analysis, analysis of modern genomic data, sequence analysis for gene expression/functional genomics analysis, and gene mapping/applied population genetics. Prerequisites: MS, PhD, or MD/PhD student interested in translational bioinformatics

HINF 5450 - Foundations of Precision Medicine Informatics

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

The course will provide an introduction into the fundamental concepts of Precision Medicine with a focus on informatics-focused applications for clinical data representation, acquisition, decision making and outcomes evaluation. The student will gain an appreciation of fundamental biomedical data representation and its application to genomic, clinical, and population problems.

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

HINF 5520 - Informatics Methods for Health Care Quality, Outcomes, and Patient Safety

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

Application/operation of clinical information systems, electronic health records, decision support/application in health care system. Use of clinical information systems/association with health care delivery, payment, quality, outcomes. prereq: Junior or senior or grad student or professional student or instr consent

HINF 5531 - Health Data Analytics and Data Science

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

Data science methods and techniques for the extraction, preparation, and use of health data in decision making. prereq: Junior or senior or professional student or grad student or instr consent

HINF 5610 - Foundations of Biomedical Natural Language Processing

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

The course will provide a systematic introduction to basic knowledge and methods used in natural language processing (NLP) research. It will introduce biomedical NLP tasks and methods as well as their resources and applications in the biomedical domain. The course will also provide hands-on experience with existing NLP tools and systems. Students will gain basic knowledge and skills in handling with main biomedical NLP tasks. Prerequisites graduate student or instructor consent; Experience with at least one programming language (Python or Perl preferred) Recommended: basic understanding of data mining concepts, basic knowledge of computational linguistics

HINF 5620 - Data Visualization for the Health Sciences

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

An advanced health informatics course, focusing on theoretical and practical aspects of data and information visualization for health care and the health sciences. Topics include classic and novel visualization types; models of human visual perception and cognition; color, text and typography; maps and diagrams; evaluation and testing; and the aesthetic and cultural aspects of visualization. Examples emphasize health sciences applications for clinicians, patients, researchers, and analysts. Modern programming and commercial tools are discussed, including D3, ggplot2, and Tableau. Students will report on and discuss visualization methods, published studies and books, culminating in a final visualization project of the student's choosing.

HINF 5630 - Clinical Data Mining

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

This is a hands-on introductory data mining course specifically focusing on health care applications. Analogously to the relationship between biostatistics and statistics, the data and computational challenges, the experiment design and the model performance requirements towards data mining in the clinical domain differ from those in general applications. This course aims to teach the students the most common data mining techniques and elaborate on the differences between general and clinical data mining. Specifically, the course will focus on (i) clinical data challenges and preprocessing; (ii) survey of the most common techniques in the clinical domain; (iii) clinical application touching up on experimental design and collaborations with physicians. The class will meet twice a week, one day dedicated to lectures and one day to a hands-on lab component, where students are expected to apply the techniques to health-related data. Some of the models will be evaluated with the involvement of a physician collaborator. Prerequisites: Basic linear algebra (matrix notation), basic optimization (gradient descent) Graduate level introductory statistics (e.g. STAT 5101-5102) or equivalent or instructor consent

HSEX 6001 - Foundations of Human Sexuality

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

Foundations of Human Sexuality covers topics in human sexuality, including biology and sexuality; sexuality across the lifespan, cultures and history; religions, epidemiology and clinical issues; and sexuality and legal/social aspects. Using readings, discussion forums, peer review, and an applied final project, students will understand the interactions between biological, social, and individual factors in producing variations in human sexuality.

HSEX 6011 - Policy in Human Sexuality: Cutting Edge Analyses

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

Policy in Human Sexuality: Cutting Edge Analyses offers an overview of United States and international policy related to gender and sexuality. The course will present the content and impact of such policies across human life stages, from youth reproductive health to aging LGBTQ folks; and a variety of contexts including education, military service, employment, and criminal legal systems. Using readings, multimedia sources, discussion forums, peer review, and an applied final project, students will understand the theory, process, and central actors in policy development and implementation, and the real-world effects of these processes.

HSEX 6211 - Dimensions of Sexual Functioning

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

This course covers various aspects of sexual function and dysfunction as well as an in-depth overview of sexual health as it pertains to the general public. Using readings, discussion forums, peer review, and an applied final project, students will understand the range of sexual responses people may experience, diagnostic categories of sexual functioning, and the range of therapies available.

HSEX 6013 - Perspectives and Practices in Sexual Health Education

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

This course covers the history of sexuality education, primarily in the US with international comparison, as well as current and emerging issues in sexual health education. Using readings, discussion forums, peer review, and an applied final project, students will understand the temporal changes in sexual health education in the US and abroad and the empirical, theoretical, and educational foundations of sexual health education.

LAW 6036 - Reproductive Rights & Justice

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

This course is a critical look at the regulation of sex, sexuality, and reproduction by American law. The materials will examine the evolution of family law as a normative system, how marriage and criminal law interact to enforce sexual boundaries, how regulation of pregnant bodies and birthing subvert bodily autonomy to 'science' and how science reinforces socially constructed ideas of women's roles, how criminal laws are used to reinforce boundaries of acceptable sexual and reproductive behavior, and the increasing intervention of state and federal actors in our private sexual and reproductive lives. It addresses the rights of women, men, minors, and the government. Students will explore ethical considerations, historical perspectives, and how regulation of reproduction -- either directly or indirectly -- reinforces racial hierarchies. This is a discussion-centered course that requires deep engagement with the material and regular class attendance.

LAW 6046 - Human Trafficking

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

Seminar will examine the breadth and depth of efforts to combat and raise awareness about human trafficking, a form of modern-day slavery in which people are compelled through force, fraud, coercion, or other means to engage in commercial sexual exploitation or forced labor.

LAW 6058 - Human Rights Advocacy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GloS 5900/Law 6058
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course will study the histories, philosophies and activities of human rights activists and organizations. The course examines the theoretical basis of the human rights movement, the principles underlying key organizations in the human rights field, as well as their strategies, tactics, and programs. The class will use case studies and other active methods to understand and to evaluate the work of human rights activists. Topics to be considered include fact-finding and documentation, campaigns on human rights issues, cultural relativism, economic rights, and corporate responsibility for human rights. Students will consider the basic organizational structure and fundraising needs of NGOs. Students will design and present a research project based on their selection of in-class topics. Readings include material on the history of NGOs; roots and development of the human rights movement; analysis of key NGOs; advocacy within international institutions; and reports and publications from NGOs working in the field.

LAW 6621 - Rights in Conflict: Citizenship and Human Rights

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

This course explores an emerging, interdisciplinary field of inquiry that focuses on the relationships between Civil Rights Law in the United States and International Human Rights Law in the global context. Although the two areas represent distinct bodies of law, they also share many important features, objectives, and impediments. By examining the historical emergence of (1) Civil Rights Law in the United States, and (2) International Human Rights Law in the global context, students will gain a better understanding of the critical relationships and intersections between these two important areas of public law. Through an examination of the seminal cases and controversies in these areas, this course will explore the differences between various categories of rights; America�s �exceptionalism� why the United States pursues a strong human rights agenda abroad that is rarely applied in the domestic context; the gains (and losses) that the domestic civil rights movement has experienced in recent decades, among other topics.

LAW 6718 - Immigration and Criminal Law: Immigration Consequences of Crimes and Criminalizing Migration

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

In the last decade, there has been an increased emphasis on using the criminal justice system to help determine who is and who is not suitable to live and work in the United States. This phenomenon has had some increasingly interesting effects as the immigration apparatus has been for most of the history of the United States a civil and agency system. The increased reliance on the criminal justice system has caused some overlap of criminal justice norms- including concepts of right to counsel, detention and detainers and warrants. At the same time, the prosecution of federal migration crimes has skyrocketed in the same period to the point where the majority of all federal prisoners are imprisoned because of migration crimes.

LAW 6827 - Women's International Human Rights

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

This seminar addresses the history and legal context of women�s human rights; the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and its impact; gender and human rights in the international system; specific topics such as property and other economic rights, reproductive rights, and violence against women; and the role of nongovernmental organizations in making CEDAW work for women.

LAW 6862 - Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Human Rights

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

Few areas of law have changed as quickly or as dramatically as those regulating the rights of members of the LGBTQ community. This is true in Minnesota, nationally, in foreign jurisdictions, and at the international level. These evolving debates span numerous areas of law, including criminal, asylum, family, employment, civil rights, and human rights. This course will critically review the history and broader context of these legal developments to ask: where should we go from here? Through the lens of paradigmatic cases and events, we will examine local, national, and international advocacy approaches to a wide range of human rights issues affecting LGBTQ people: criminalization, violence, stigma, forced migration, marriage, family, housing, health, employment, and freedom of speech and association. The course will analyze how factors like race and class have shaped the LGBTQ rights movement in the US and beyond, with an emphasis on how laws and policies that appear neutral on their face can nevertheless have a disparate impact on members of the LGBTQ community. Students will study primary and scholarly sources, supplemented by narrative and other artistic material. Through focused interactions with guest speakers, students will have the opportunity to learn from practitioners working on litigation, advocacy, and mobilization in Minnesota, the US, and abroad. Coursework consists of independent research projects informed by students? interests. Students will finish the seminar with a better understanding of the relevant law and the choices and challenges faced by human rights advocates in a rapidly changing field.

NURS 5029 - Introduction to Nursing Interventions

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to evidence-based interventions for safe, inclusive, and ethical nursing practice. Active learning activities in laboratory, simulation, are used to build skills to support nursing process.

NURS 5031 - Human Response to Health and Illness: Adults and Elders

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

Focus on individual responses to health and illness in the context of families and environments. The clinical component will emphasize the application of the nursing process in adult and older adult populations.

NURS 5032 - Human Response to Health and Illness: Children and Childbearing Families

Credits:	5.0 [max 5.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Focus is on family responses to health and illness. Application of the nursing process in children and childbearing families is emphasized. The family as the unit of care is the focus of a seminar.

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 5116 - Consumer Health Informatics

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

This course examines issues from the consumer?s perspective in the acquisition, understanding, or use of health information. Mobile health, telehealth, sensor technology, and internet sources for improving health are examined. The impact on consumer-provider communication and relationships as well as ethical and legal issues are explored. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

NURS 5117 - Consumer Health Informatics Practicum

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

Students apply consumer health informatics principles, theories, and research to consumer health informatics topics and how technology is used to engage patients, clinicians, and family members in their health care. Specific topics include electronic health literacy, digital/mobile health technologies (health apps), and sensor/remote monitoring. prereq: Graduate student, [Nurs 5116 or &Nurs 5116] or instructor consent

NURS 5190 - Essentials of Holistic Health Assessment and Foundational Clinical

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

Introduction to health and physical assessment for safe, culturally sensitive, inclusive, and ethical nursing practice across the life span. Active learning, simulation, and clinical settings are used to develop a holistic approach to nursing process: assessment, diagnosis, outcome, planning, implementation, and evaluation. prereq: Admission to MN Program

NURS 5284 - Supporting Physiologic Labor and Childbirth for Nurses

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

Techniques to provide labor support, discussion about doula role and overlap with nursing support. Emphasizing continuous physical and emotional labor support plus information to enhance physiologic birth. Experience providing labor support to women at a clinical facility included.

NURS 5505 - Assessment and Support of Individuals in Labor

Credits:	1.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course builds the knowledge and skills required to care for individuals in labor. prereq: Admission to DNP Program

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 6213 - Reproductive Healthcare for Patients with Complex Conditions

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

The course provides an evidence based, theoretical and epidemiologic basis for advanced practice nursing care of patients with complex reproductive health problems requiring multidisciplinary interventions. Selected high-risk gynecologic and perinatal conditions are examined. prereqs: (NM and WHNP) 6305/6306, 6501, 6925; (NM only) 6308, 6210/6211; (WHNP only) 6502, 6926, 6927/6928

NURS 6305 - Reproductive and Sexual Health Care

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

Application of theory and evidence to holistic practice in reproductive and sexual health care. Emphasis is placed on theoretical knowledge and skills related to caring for persons with common reproductive health needs throughout the life cycle. The sociopolitical context of women's lives and those seeking reproductive and sexual health care is integrated throughout. prereq: DNP student, 5200, 5222, 5228, 5229

NURS 6600 - Health Systems and Care Models

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

Current/emerging care delivery systems and nursing models are analyzed as to how they meet dynamic, social, economic, technological, political trends. Impact of disruptive technologies, business models, value networks, designing better models.

NURS 6895 - Adult Acute Care Holistic Health Assessment and Wellness

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

Provides nurse anesthesia students and other interested APRN students with the cognitive and psychomotor skills necessary to perform an advanced health assessment for acute care adult patients and/or those in need of a preoperative assessment. prereq: Nurse anesthesia DNP student or instr consent

NURS 7100 - Quality Improvement and Implementation Science in Health Care

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

Study of improvement and implementation science with emphasis on integration of organizational change theory, quality improvement models, guidelines, and strategies to drive evidence-based change and improve patient outcomes in the context of healthcare systems.

NURS 7108 - Population Health Informatics

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

Standards, interoperability, and integration of information systems for population health are examined. Population health use cases are analyzed for potential benefits, legal, ethical, and practical issues related to the development of population health information systems. prereq: [5115 or [HINF 5430, HINF 5431]] or instr consent

NURS 7209 - Integrative Nursing I

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

This is a foundational course for advanced nursing practice with a focus on the scholarship, research, and theory underlying integrative nursing. prereq: NURS 5101, NURS 5200, NURS 5222, NURS 7000, taken concurrent with CSpH 5226

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 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 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

NUTR 5624 - Nutrition and Genetics

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

Overview of gene-diet interactions and relevant technologies used to study such interactions. Nutrigenomics, epigenetics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics. Examples of gene-diet interactions, implications. Current issues. Prerequisites: Courses in Nutritional Biochemistry (e.g., NUTR 5625), and Vitamin and Mineral Biochemistry (e.g., NUTR 5622), or consent of instructor

NUTR 5626 - Nutritional Physiology

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

Whole body macronutrient metabolism as it relates to etiology of metabolic diseases. Signaling between tissues to control homeostasis. How dysregulation of crosstalk can lead to metabolic diseases. How diet, exercise, or starvation impact metabolism. Regulation of food intake and energy expenditure. Designing/analyzing/interpreting research data. prereq: NUTR 5625

NUTR 5627 - Nutritional and Food Toxicology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	FScN 4622/Nutr 5627
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Toxic agents, organisms, and toxic effects that are important in the toxic events, with a focus on food toxicants and nutrient-toxicant interaction. prereq: BIOC 3021; designed for students majoring in [nutrition or food science or toxicology]

NUTR 8620 - Advances in Nutrition

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

Recent research or special topics (e.g., obesity, vitamin biochemistry, nutrition education).

OLPD 5011 - Leading Organizational Change: Theory and Practice

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

How theory is incorporated, affects the change process, and can improve schools/institutions of higher education. Characteristics that impact change processes/outcomes. Leadership/policy effects.

OLPD 5095 - Problems: Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 24.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer

Course or independent study on specific topic within department program emphasis.

OLPD 5096 - Internship: Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development

Credits:	1.0 -9.0 [max 24.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Internship in elementary, secondary, general, postsecondary administration, or other approved field related setting.

OLPD 5103 - Comparative Education

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

Examination of systems and philosophies of education globally with emphasis upon African, Asian, European, and North American nations. Foundations of comparative study with selected case studies.

OLPD 5104 - Education and the Sustainable Development Goals

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

This course provides a critical analysis of strategies used to improve educational outcomes worldwide. This course examines contemporary trends in educational policy, development, and practice, focusing on how?s and why?s of educational change. Empirical studies, organizational reports, and student experiences all inform class discussion. prereq: Grad student

OLPD 5107 - Gender, Education, and International Development

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

Role of gender/gender relations in international development/education. Interdisciplinary body of literature from development studies, political science, economics, anthropology, cultural studies, gender/women's studies.

OLPD 5124 - Critical Issues in International Education and Educational Exchange

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

Analysis of comprehensive policy-oriented frameworks for international education; practices of U.S. and other universities; conceptual development of international education and its practical application to programs, to employment choices, and to pedagogy.

OLPD 5132 - Intercultural Education and Training: Theory and Application

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

Introduction to the field of intercultural education and related field of multicultural education; analyzes the field through a critical lens; examines diverse meanings of education, including cultural knowledge.

OLPD 5201 - Strategies for Teaching Adults

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

Psychological theories of adult learning; learning styles and personality types; teaching styles; group and team learning; moderating and study circles; teaching technologies and distance learning; gender, race, and cultural communication. Applications of strategies. prereq: Grad student only

OLPD 5202 - Perspectives of Adult Learning and Development

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

Emphasis on major adult development theorists, theories, and current applications. Transformative learning, self-directed learning, experiential learning, and cooperative learning provide theoretical framework for exploring physiological, psychological, sociological, and cultural aspects of adult development through the life span.

OLPD 5346 - Politics of Education

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

Political dimensions of policy formulation/implementation in education. Use of power/influence in shaping educational policies and in resolving conflicts over educational issues. Analysis of consequences/cross-impacts. prereq: postbac, MEd, or grad student

OLPD 5501 - Principles and Methods of Evaluation

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	OLPD 5501/EPsy 5243
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Introduction to program evaluation. Planning an evaluation study, collecting and analyzing information, reporting results; evaluation strategies; overview of the field of program evaluation.

OLPD 5502 - Comparative evaluation theory for practice

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

This class will give students the foundation in evaluation theory necessary for high-quality and ethical practice in evaluation, consulting, or other forms of organizational change Recommend 5501 or equivalent (can be taken concurrently)

OLPD 5607 - Organization Development

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

Introduction to major concepts, skills, and techniques for organization development/change. prereq: Grad student only

OLPD 5611 - Facilitation and Meeting Skills

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

Introduction to the disciplines of planning and running effective meetings. Tools and methods for meeting management and evaluation are presented within the context of organization development.

OLPD 5619 - Planning and Decision-Making Skills

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

Introduction to the disciplines of planning and decision making typically used in process improvement interventions. Tools and methods for facilitating group decisions and problem solving.

OLPD 5819 - Evaluating and Using Research in Organizations and Education

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

Role of educational research in professional practice. Problems of practice for research. Alternative modes of research. Synthesis/application of results of research. prereq: Grad student

OLPD 8502 - Advanced Evaluation Theory and Theory crafting

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

This advanced course will provide students with an in-depth understanding of major evaluation theories, systems for organizing evaluation theories, and propose ways of expanding current theory. prereq: Doctoral standing OR instructor?s permission (enforced) Recommend OLPD 5502 (can be taken concurrently)

PA 5002 - Introduction to Policy Analysis

Credits:	1.5 [max 1.5]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Process of public policy analysis from problem structuring to communication of findings. Commonly used analytical methods. Alternative models of analytical problem resolution.

PA 5003 - Introduction to Financial Analysis and Management

Credits:	1.5 [max 1.5]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Finance/accounting concepts/tools in public/nonprofit organizations. Fund accounting. Balance sheet/income statement analysis. Cash flow analysis. Public/nonprofit sector budgeting processes. Lectures, discussions. Cases. prereq: Public policy major/minor or major in development practice, public affairs or liberal studies or grad nonprofit mgmt cert or instr consent

PA 5004 - Introduction to Planning

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

History/institutional development of urban planning as profession. Intellectual foundations, planning theory. Roles of urban planners in U.S./international settings. Scope, legitimacy, limitations of planning/planning process. Issues in planning ethics/settings of diverse populations/stakeholders. prereq: Major/minor in urban/regional planning or instr consent

PA 5011 - Dynamics of Public Affairs Organizations

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

Critical analysis of organizations in the world of public affairs from multiple levels - including the individual, group, organization, and sector - and the dynamics of relationships among them. Develop actionable recommendations to improve organizational effectiveness in the context of multiple (often contested) prosocial purposes and conflicting stakeholder demands. Memo writing, case analyses, simulations, guest speakers, and self-awareness exercises

PA 5012 - The Politics of Public Affairs

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

Politics is how we make collective decisions about matters of shared consequence. This course examines politics and introduces students to key concepts and skills needed for effective political analysis. The central themes of the course focus on power; institutions and organizations; discourse; and citizenship.

PA 5013 - Law and Urban Land Use

Credits:	1.5 [max 1.5]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Role of law in regulating/shaping urban development, land use, environmental quality, local/regional governmental services. Interface between public/private sector. prereq: Major or minor in urban/regional planning or instr consent

PA 5021 - Microeconomics for Policy Analysis

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

Introduction to tools useful for public policy. Intermediate microeconomics.

PA 5022 - Applications of Economics for Policy Analysis

Credits:	1.5 -3.0 [max 9.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Application of economic reasoning to a wide range of contemporary public policy issues. The following topically-focused courses also fulfill the MPP economics requirement: PA 5431: Public Policies on Work and Pay, PA 5503: Economics of Development, PA 5521: Development Planning and Policy Analysis, PA 5722: Economics of Natural Resource and Environmental Policy, and PA 5805: Global Economics. prereq: 5021 or equiv

PA 5031 - Statistics for Public Affairs

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

Basic statistical tools for empirical analysis of public policy alternatives. Frequency distributions, descriptive statistics, elementary probability/probability distributions, statistical inference. Estimation/hypothesis testing. Cross-tabulation/chi-square distribution. Analysis of variance, correlation. Simple/multiple regression analysis.

PA 5032 - Applied Regression

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

Bivariate/multivariate models of regression analysis, assumptions behind them. Problems using these models when such assumptions are not met.

PA 5033 - Multivariate Techniques

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

Use of bivariate and multivariate statistical approaches for analyzing and evaluating public affairs issues and the assumptions behind the analytical approaches. Designed to help students read, understand, interpret, use, and evaluate empirical work used in social sciences by policy analysts and policy makers. prereq: Students who register for PA 5033 must take PA 5044 and PA 5033 in the same semester. The same grade will be issued for PA 5044 and PA 5033 after PA 5033 is completed.

PA 5041 - Qualitative Methods for Policy Analysts

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

Qualitative analysis techniques, examples of application. Meet with researcher. Hands-on experience in designing, gathering, analyzing data.

PA 5042 - Urban and Regional Economics

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

Evaluation of city existence/growth using economics. Economic forces in development of cities. Economic analysis of urban areas/land market. Economic analysis of planning issues in land use, transportation, housing, environment. prereq: [Major or minor in urban and regional planning, microeconomics course] or instr consent

PA 5043 - Economic and Demographic Data Analysis

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

Economic/demographic data analysis techniques for planning. Exposure to most important data sources. Conceptual understanding of range of methods/hands-on experience in applying these methods. prereq: Major or minor in urban/regional planning or instr consent

PA 5044 - Applied Regression, Accelerated

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

Bivariate/multivariate models used in regression analysis, including assumptions behind them/problems that arise when assumptions are not met. Course covers similar topics as PA 5032 but delves deeper into theory/application of methods. prereq: Students who register for PA 5044 must take PA 5044 and PA 5033 in the same semester. The same grade will be issued for PA 5044 and PA 5033 after PA 5033 is completed.

PA 5051 - Leadership Foundations

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

Leadership concepts, tools, and strategies in a personal, community, and organizational context for mid-career students. Prereq: Master in Public Affairs student(cohort program) or public affairs leadership certificate student (cohort program).�5051-5052 must be taken in same academic yr

PA 5053 - Policy Analysis in Public Affairs

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

Process of public policy and program analysis, including problem formulation, program design, and implementation. Opportunity to draw upon published research and conduct field-based research to understand implementation conditions. Professional communications, including writing of memos, requests for proposals, and implementation briefs, are stressed. Prereq: Master in Public Affairs student (cohort program) or public affairs leadership certificate student (cohort program).�5053-5054 must be taken in same academic yr

PA 5054 - Program Design and Implementation Analysis

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

Continues 5053. Process of public policy and program analysis, including problem formulation, program design, and implementation. Opportunity to draw upon published research and conduct field-based research to understand implementation conditions. Professional communications, including writing of memos, requests for proposals, and implementation briefs, are stressed. Prereq: Master in Public Affairs student (cohort program) or public affairs leadership certificate student (cohort program).�5053-5054 must be taken in same academic yr

PA 5055 - Qualitative Research Methods and Analysis

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

Problem-based learning of analytical reasoning through social science research methods. Systematic review and literature review. Qualitative research including interviews, focus groups, and analysis. Research proposal. prereq: Major in public affairs (cohort) or public affairs certificate (cohort); 5055-5056 must be taken in same academic yr

PA 5056 - Quantitative Research Methods and Analysis

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

Problem-based learning to analytical reasoning through social science research methods. Frequency distributions, descriptive statistics, elementary probability, statistical inference. Hypothesis testing. Cross-tabulation, analysis of variance, correlation. Simple regression analysis. prereq: Master in Public Affairs student (cohort program) or public affairs leadership certificate student (cohort program).�5055-5056 must be taken in same academic yr

PA 5081 - Understanding Power and Teamwork in Public Affairs Education

Credits:	0.5 [max 0.5]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Power and teamwork in public affairs education.

PA 5101 - Management and Governance of Nonprofit Organizations

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

Theories, concepts, and real world examples of managerial challenges. Governance systems, strategic management practices, effect of funding environments, management of multiple constituencies. Types of nonprofits using economic/behavioral approaches. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

PA 5103 - Leadership and Change

Credits:	1.5 -3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Models of change/leadership. How leaders can promote personal, organizational, and societal change. Case studies, action research. Framework for leadership and change.

PA 5104 - Human Resource Management for Public and Nonprofit Organizations

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

Theory/practice of developing, utilizing, and aligning human resources to improve culture/outcomes of nonprofit/public organizations. HR strategy, individual diversity, leadership, selection, training, compensation, classification, performance appraisal, future HR practices.

PA 5105 - Integrative Leadership: Leading Across Sectors to Address Grand Challenges

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Law 6623/Mgmt 6402/OLPD 6402/P
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Are you interested in working across government, business, and the non-profit sector for public good? Are you wondering how you can create sustainable shared leadership on challenges that can best be addressed together? This course explores multi-sector leadership and related governance and management challenges from a variety of perspectives and provides an opportunity for students to work together to apply what they are learning individually and in teams through in-class exercises and a final team project. The course is taught by a team of interdisciplinary faculty and considers different contexts, forms, and specific examples of multisector leadership that can enable transformative action to tackle a significant societal issue and achieve lasting change. Credit will be not be granted if credit has been received for GCC 5023, OLPD 6402, PUBH 6702, MGMT 6402, PA 5130, LAW 6623.

PA 5113 - State and Local Public Finance

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

Theory/practice of financing. Providing public services at state/local level of government. Emphasizes integrating theory/practice, applying materials to specific policy areas, and documenting wide range of institutional arrangements across/within the 50 states.

PA 5114 - Budget Analysis in Public and Nonprofit Orgs

Credits:	1.5 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PA 5111/PA 5114
Prerequisites:	PA 5003
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Techniques, terminology, concepts and skills for developing and analyzing operating and capital budgets in public and nonprofit organizations. Budget analysis using case studies, problem sets, and spreadsheets. Time value of money, cost-benefit analysis, break-even analysis, sensitivity analysis, and fiscal analysis. prereq: PA 5003

PA 5116 - Financing Public and Nonprofit Organizations

Credits:	1.5 [max 1.5]
Prerequisites:	PA 5003; credit will not be granted if credit already received for: PA 5111
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Financial resource management for public and nonprofit organizations. Short-term and long-term debt management, retirement financing, and endowment investing. Conceptual frameworks and analytical techniques applied to real-world problems. Financial management in context of national and regional economies. prereq: PA 5003; credit will not be granted if credit already received for: PA 5111

PA 5122 - Law and Public Affairs

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

Law and public policy in the United States are in a dialogue with each other. This dynamic is reflected in the differing roles of legislatures and courts, as well as the other institutions (for example, executive agencies that adopt regulations) involved in making law and policy. This course aims to give students an understanding of how law and policy interact in the American context using historical materials and examples from other countries to provide a broader perspective on how the interaction works today. Our exploration will necessarily involve the critical role of the United States Constitution and state constitutions in establishing the parameters for both law and policy. We will also examine particular instances of policy and law interactions on topics such as abortion, civil rights, criminal justice, elections, education and speech. Readings will include judicial opinions, legislation examples, policy and legal articles and other materials. Class time will include guest speakers from the disciplines of law, politics and public affairs, discussion in small and large groups and only an occasional short lecture. Grades will be based on written student reflections on the readings, 2-3 short papers exploring how law and policy apply to particular topics, and a longer research paper that examines the interaction of law and policy on a topic important to the student. Instructors have been legal, political and policy practitioners. Some have served in the state legislature.

PA 5123 - Philanthropy in America: History, Practice, and Trends

Credits:	1.5 -3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Theory/practice of philanthropy. Foundation/corporate/ individual giving. History/economic structure/dynamics. Models of philanthropy, components of grant making/seeking. Current debates, career options.

PA 5135 - Managing Conflict: Negotiation

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

This course teaches the theory and the practice of negotiation strategies with an emphasis on applied, personal skill building constructed on a foundation of research and practice in the field. Students will apply their negotiation skills across interpersonal, public dispute, government, and private sector settings. The course focuses on developing students? personal theory of practice for decision-making, effective communication and impactful leadership through practice of distributive bargaining, value creation, consensus building, facilitation, and mediation exercises and discussions.

PA 5136 - Group Process Facilitation for Organizational and Public/Community Engagement

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

Group process facilitation components, theories, tools, techniques. Facilitator�s role in group goals and processes. Facilitation in public policy. Cross-cultural challenges. Topics may include meeting management, group decision-making, conflict, participatory leadership, and other tools.

PA 5137 - Project Management in the Public Arena

Credits:	1.5 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Project management and leadership strategies for implementing public policy, including new or revised government programs, public works, and regulations. Use of project management concepts, principles, and tools, including project definition, scoping, planning, scheduling (using the critical path method), budgeting, monitoring, staffing, and managing project teams. Application of "agile" and "extreme" project management in situations of complexity and uncertainty, including those due to the scrutiny and expectations of elected officials, the media, citizens, and other stakeholders.

PA 5145 - Civic Participation in Public Affairs

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

Critique/learn various approaches to civic participation in defining/addressing public issues. Readings, cases, classroom discussion, facilitating/experiencing engagement techniques. Examine work of practitioner, design engagement process.

PA 5151 - Organizational Perspectives on Global Development & Humanitarian Assistance

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

Organizational analysis of international development and humanitarian assistance, including perspectives from sociology, political science, psychology, public administration, and management. Examines efforts of multiple organizational players, including NGOs, governments, bi-lateral and multi-lateral organizations, corporations, foundations, and international organizations. Critical analysis of aid organizations, especially regarding ways in which they reflect and create power and privilege, the manner in which individuals� needs and desires interact with, support, or challenge the needs of the organization, and how all of this is influenced by forces outside the boundary of the organization. Students practice developing actionable recommendations to improve the effectiveness of international aid organizations in the context of multiple (and often contested) understandings of global development needs and conflicting stakeholder demands. Readings, class discussions, mini-lectures, simulations, case analyses, group projects, oral presentations, memo writing, opinion writing.

PA 5209 - Urban Planning and Health Equity

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

This interdisciplinary course examines the causes and consequences of place-based health disparities in cities, explores how health disparities can be mitigated and exacerbated by urban planning decisions, and introduces best practices in urban planning for achieving community health equity. The course will involve extensive readings, guest lectures, field-based assignments, data-collection activities, and local community involvement. Twin Cities has one of the largest disparities in health outcomes in the nation and local practitioners are pioneering new urban planning solutions to reduce place-based health disparities. The course will utilize this location advantage and use the region as an immersive learning environment. Students are expected to apply knowledge and skills learned in the class locally in the Twin Cities region. At the end of the course, students will be able to: Understand the historical foundations, current trends and challenges, and international perspectives in connecting urban planning to health equity issues; investigate how various planning sectors and urban environment dimensions, including land use, transportation, open space, housing, food systems, and community social capital, interact to affect health disparities in cities; critically evaluate how existing planning processes and decisions respond to the needs of vulnerable populations and contribute to health equity; and develop skills to engage communities and identifying community-sensitive solutions for reducing place-based health disparities. Fulfills a requirement for graduate Health Equity Minor (http://www.sph.umn.edu/academics/minor/health-equity/).

PA 5211 - Land Use Planning

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Physical/spatial basis for land use planning at community/regional level. Role of public sector in guiding private development. Land use regulations, comprehensive planning, growth management, innovative land use planning/policies. prereq: Major or minor in urban/regional planning or instr consent

PA 5212 - Managing Urban Growth and Change

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

Theory/practice of planning, promoting, and controlling economic growth/change in urban areas. Economic development tools available to state/local policymakers, historic context of their use in the United States. legal, social, and economic implementation constraints. Interactions among economic, social, and demographic trends. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

PA 5213 - Introduction to Site Planning

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

Analyzing/preparing graphic plans for development or redevelopment of property. Site planning issues, process, opportunities, details, and techniques. Hands-on preparation of a site plan. Site visits, lectures, research, presentations, exam, in-class exercises. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

PA 5231 - Transit Planning and Management

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CEGE 5213/PA 5231
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Principles/techniques related to implementing transit systems. Historical perspective, characteristics of travel demand, demand management. Evaluating/benchmarking system performance. Transit-oriented development. Analyzing alternative transit modes. System design/finance. Case studies, field projects. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

PA 5234 - Urban Transportation Planning and Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CEGE 8202/PA 8202
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course will integrate key theories and practices, traditional and emerging policy instruments, and techniques for urban and transportation planning. The goal is to introduce students to essential concepts, influential thinkers, and important debates associated with the land use-transportation connection as a foundation for both professional and academic work. By the end of the course, students will be able to comprehend urban transportation planning process and demand forecasting; the theories and empirical evidence on land use and transportation interactions; land use and transportation policy instruments and their effectiveness; and land use and transportation planning in developing countries.

PA 5242 - Environmental Planning, Policy, and Decision Making

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

Theory and practice. Ethical, legal, and institutional frameworks relative to a range of environmental issues. Innovative environmental decision making informed by collaboration, conflict resolution, adaptive management, and resilience thinking. prereq: Grad or instr consent

PA 5251 - Strategic Planning and Management

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Theory and practice of strategic planning and management for public and nonprofit organizations and networks. Strategic planning process, management systems; stakeholder analyses. Tools and techniques such as purpose expansions, SWOT analyses, oval mapping, portfolio analyses, and logic models.

PA 5261 - Housing Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Hsg 5463/PA 5261
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Institutional/environmental setting for housing policy in the United States. Competing views of solving housing problems through public intervention in the market. Federal/local public sector responses to housing problems. prereq: Grad or instr consent

PA 5262 - Neighborhood Revitalization Theories and Strategies

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PA 5262/PA 8203
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Policymaking/politics of planning in housing, community development, social policy. Connecting policy to local/regional politics. Role of institutional decision-making structures on policy outcomes. Importance of citizens, social movements, interest groups in policymaking process.

PA 5271 - Geographic Information Systems: Applications in Planning and Policy Analysis

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

Introduction to GIS. Applications in public planning and policy analysis. Operational skills in GIS software. Mapping analysis of U.S. Census material. Local/state government management/planning. Spatial statistical analysis for policy/planning. prereq: Major in urban/regional planning or instr consent

PA 5281 - Immigrants, Urban Planning and Policymaking in the U.S.

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

This course examines the impact of contemporary immigration in the U.S. on urban planning and public affairs. Through a review of canonical scholarship and contemporary research, it engages several issues including migration theory, an exploration of immigrant settlement patterns, labor market outcomes for immigrants, and community development in immigrant communities. The course concludes with a focus on how urban planners and public policy makers can work more effectively with immigrants in the U.S.

PA 5290 - Topics in Planning

Credits:	0.5 -4.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Selected topics.

PA 5301 - Population Methods & Issues for the United States & Global South

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PA 5301/Soc 5511
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Basic demographic measures/methodology. Demographic transition, mortality, fertility. Perspectives on nonmarital fertility, marriage, divorce, cohabitation. Cultural differences in family structure, aging, migration, refugee movements, population policies. Discussion of readings. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

PA 5311 - Program Evaluation

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

This course covers the core principals, methods, and implementation of evaluation research. Students will learn through an applied partnership with a nonprofit or state/local government clients. The course is designed for both students interested in a potential career in evaluation and those that want to be better consumers of research. Past programmatic/policy areas included health and human services, education, environment science, economic development, transportation, and evidence-based policymaking.

PA 5401 - Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy

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

Nature/extent of poverty/inequality in the United States, causes/consequences, impact of government programs/policies. Extent/causes of poverty/inequality in other developed/developing countries. prereq: Grad or instr consent

PA 5405 - Public Policy Implementation

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

Theory, tools, and practice of the implementation of public policy, particularly in areas involving public, private, and nonprofit organizations. Analytical approach focuses on multiple levels in policy fields to pinpoint and assess implementation challenges and levers for improvement.

PA 5413 - Early Childhood and Public Policy

Credits:	1.5 -3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CPsy 5413/PA 5413
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

State/federal/int'l policies/legislation touching first 5 years of child's life. Family, community, institutional roles in promoting children's social/cognitive/emotional development. Health, mental health, poverty, special needs, economic/social justice. Part of Early Childhood Pol cert. prereq: Grad or instr consent

PA 5415 - Effective Policies for Children in the First Decade

Credits:	1.5 -3.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Policies to improve the wellbeing of children through the first decade of life are examined using examples from economics and other disciplines. The course focuses on the role of government in helping to promote early childhood development. Readings and projects focus on policies or programs that affect child outcomes from the prenatal period to third grade. Students will become familiar with the importance of rigorous impact evaluations and the use of cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis as a tool for efficient resource allocation. Some familiarity with regression analysis would be helpful.

PA 5421 - Racial Inequality and Public Policy

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

Historical roots of racial inequality in American society. Contemporary economic consequences. Public policy responses to racial inequality. Emphasizes thinking/analysis that is critical of strategies offered for reducing racism and racial economic inequality. prereq: Grad or instr consent

PA 5426 - Community-Engaged Research and Policy with Marginalized Groups

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

Marginalized populations tend to be viewed as objects of social policy, passive victims, or a cause of social problems. Processes of marginalization we will explore in this class include: structural racism, colonization, economic exclusion and exploitation, gender bias, and more. Policy and research are typically driven by mainstream/dominant society members with little direct knowledge about the real lives of people on the margins. This can lead to misguided actions, misunderstandings, paternalism, unintended negative consequences, and further marginalization and/or stigmatization. In this course, we will learn about community-engaged research methodologies such as participatory action research (PAR) and community-based participatory research (CPBR). We will use case studies to explore the challenges, rewards, and ethical implications of these community-engaged approaches to research and policy-making. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, sex trafficking, housing, and youth work. Instructors and students in the course will work together on a real-world research and policy challenge so that students contribute to ongoing work in the field in real-time.

PA 5431 - Public Policies on Work and Pay

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	HRIR 5655/PA 5431
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Public policies affecting employment, hours of work, and institutions in labor markets. Public programs impacting wages, unemployment, training, collective bargaining, job security, and workplace governance. Policy implications of the changing nature of work. prereq: [[PA 5031 or equiv], grad student] or instr consent

PA 5521 - Development Planning and Policy Analysis

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

Techniques of development planning/policy analysis at national, regional, and project levels. Effects of external shocks and government interventions on national/regional economies. Macroeconomic modeling, input-output analysis, social accounting matrices/multipliers, project evaluation. prereq: 5031 or equiv recommended or instr consent

PA 5561 - Gender and International Development

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

Women and men are affected differently by development and participate differently in policy formulation and implementation. Gender-sensitive perspective. Historical, political context. Global South. Policy, practice, and experience (theory and measurement; international, national, local stakeholders; effects of policy and practice on development). prereq: Grad or instr consent

PA 5601 - Global Survey of Gender and Public Policy

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

Introduction to the key concepts and tools necessary for gender policy analysis. Survey of the major findings in the field of gender and public policy in policy areas such as poverty alleviation, health, international security, environment and work-family reconciliation. Scope includes local, national, and global policy arenas as well as exploration of gender and the politics of policy formulation.

PA 5711 - Science, Technology & Environmental Policy

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

Interplay of science, technology, the environment, and society. Approaches from across the social sciences will cover how science and technology can create new environmental pressures as well as policy challenges in a range of spheres from climate change to systems of intellectual property and international development.

PA 5721 - Energy Systems and Policy

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

Impact of energy production/consumption choices on environmental quality, sustainable development, and other economic/social goals. Emphasizes public policy choices for energy/environment, linkages between them.

PA 5723 - Water Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PA 5723/WRS 5101
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Socio-cultural, legal, and economic forces that affect water resource use. Water quality, Clean Water Act contrasted with international laws, roles of State and Local agencies. Water supply, drought, flooding, drainage, irrigation, storage. Sulfide mining, Line 3, hypoxia, wildfire, climate, snowpack, extreme events, China south-to-north transfer, CEC?s, AIS, Aral Sea, CAFOs, and more.

PA 5724 - Climate Change Policy

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

Existing and proposed approaches to mitigate and adapt to climate change through policies that cross scales of governance (from local to global) and impact a wide range of sectors. Exploration of climate change policy from a variety of disciplinary approaches and perspectives, emphasizing economic logic, ethical principles, and institutional feasibility. How policy can be shaped in the face of a variety of competing interests to achieve commonly desired outcomes. Students develop a deep knowledge of climate change in particular countries through a team final project. prereq: Intro microecon (such as Econ 1101 or equiv)

PA 5741 - Risk, Resilience and Decision Making

Credits:	1.5 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Interplay between risk analysis, decision making, and policy in the context of new and emerging technologies, environmental and human well-being, risk and resilience. Assessment methods; risk management processes, issues and methods; role/treatment of uncertainty; factors in decision making; risk-based rule making; public values; risk communication and perception. Scientific, technical, social, political, and ethical issues. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

PA 5801 - Global Public Policy

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

This course explores the emergence and evolution of rules, norms, and institutions that constitute international relations. It will focus, in particular, on those related to questions of war, peace, and governance. For students with an interest in international security, foreign military intervention, democracy and governance promotion, and the political economy of aid.

PA 5805 - Global Economics

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Prerequisites:	[5021 or equivalent] or #
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Global trade, exchange rates, finance, international business, and migration in context of theories and evidence that inform the policies pursued at national level. Operation of main international organizations dealing with these issues will also be examined. prereq: [5021 or equivalent] or instr consent

PA 5813 - US Foreign Policy: Issues and Institutions

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

This course helps students develop a deep understanding of U.S. foreign policy issues and institutions, and the implications of U.S. global engagement. Through readings, class discussions, and guest lectures, we look at the institutions and processes involved in developing and managing US foreign policy, and use case studies to advance students' knowledge of bilateral and regional issues. We examine the workings of the State Department, the National Security Council, and the Department of Defense; how economic instruments like sanctions are used to advance policy; and how American citizens, lobbyists, and foreign governments influence policy. We incorporate discussions of current events into each class, with students developing skills in writing and presentation critical to foreign policy careers.

PA 5814 - Global Diplomacy in a Time of Change

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

Taught by the Humphrey School?s diplomat in residence, this course examines the changing world of twenty-first century global diplomacy and how state and nonstate actors are challenging the status quo. We look at the dynamics behind major international developments?with case studies including BREXIT, the Iran Agreement, climate negotiations, and China?s global initiatives?placed in the context of an examination of how states operate in the international diplomatic sphere and how multilateral organizations enhance or challenge the concept of state sovereignty. Students gain knowledge about the complexities of diplomacy and negotiation through readings, classroom discussions, and guest speakers and develop professional skills through writing and presentation assignments.

PA 5823 - Human Rights and Humanitarian Crises: Policy Challenges

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

Examines response of governments, international organizations, NGOs, and others to global humanitarian and human rights challenges posed by civil conflict and other complex emergencies in places such as Syria, Ukraine, South Sudan, Somalia, Burma, and elsewhere. Course will also consider and assess UN and other institutions established to address these issues (like UNOCHA and UNHCR). In addition, course will examine US policy toward humanitarian issues and refugees (including US refugee admissions).

PA 5825 - Crisis Management in Foreign Affairs

Credits:	1.5 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Crisis decision making in foreign policy. Examination of the organization and structure of crisis decision-making within U.S. national security apparatus. Analysis of in-depth four foreign policy crises (Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam � Tet, Iraq, and a current crisis). Crisis simulation with students in the role of national security leaders.

PA 5826 - National Security Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PA 5826/PA 8821
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course will analyze U.S. national security policy and process from the viewpoint of the National Security Council staff. Students will examine the organization and structure of the U.S. national security apparatus and the national security decision-making process, including individual and political factors; assess central threats to U.S. and international security and develop and discuss policy options to deal with those threats; undertake a major policy review on a specific national security challenge facing the United States, including analysis and recommendations; produce products, both written and oral, crucial to national security policy making (e.g., concise information and action memorandum), and put themselves in the position of national security leaders as part of a policy simulation. Grades will be based on oral participation, papers, and class reports.

PA 5885 - Human Rights Policy: Issues and Actors

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

Politics of human rights issue emergence; relevant international, regional, and domestic norms; correlates of state repression; measurement of human rights abuse and remedies; human rights promotion by states, political parties, international organizations, NGOs, social movements, faith-based organizations, and providers of international development assistance.

PA 5927 - Effective Grantwriting for Nonprofit Organizations

Credits:	1.5 [max 1.5]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Grantwriting skills, processes, problem,s and resources for nonprofit organizations. Researching and seeking grants. Communication with potential funders and generating financial support. Collaborating effectively with the organization and clients to create substantive, fundable proposals.

PA 5928 - Data Management and Visualization with R

Credits:	1.5 [max 1.5]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to R Studio software. Use of R Studio to carry out R file and related database management functions. Tools and techniques for data analysis and statistical programming in quantitative research or related applied areas. Topics include data selection, data manipulation, and data and spatial visualization (including charts, plots, histograms, maps, and other graphs). Prerequisite knowledge: Introductory statistics; ability to create bar graphs, line graphs, and scatter plots in MS Excel; and familiarity with principles of data visualization.

PA 5929 - Data Visualization: Telling Stories with Numbers

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

Tools for communicating quantitative information in an intelligent, effective and persuasive way. Topics covered include 1) writing and speaking about data; 2) data management in Excel in order to prepare data for charting; 3) understanding and ability to deploy core concepts in of design, layout, typography and color to maximize the impact of their data visualizations 4) determining which types of statistical measures are most effective for each type of data and message; 5) determining which types of design to use for communicating quantitative information; and 6) designing graphs and tables that are intelligent and compelling for communicating quantitative information.

PA 5933 - Survey Methods: Designing Effective Questionnaires

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

Applied (hands-on) introduction to survey questionnaire design. Student teams design a questionnaire for a client. For example, students may draft and revise questions about respondents' demographics and employment; life histories; knowledge, use, and opinions about services; and/or anxiety and well-being. The syllabus evolves depending on the needs of the client and the class' decisions about how to build the survey; a complete syllabus will not be available at the beginning of class for this reason. Readings include a textbook and articles related to the client's survey. Students actively engage in class and in groups about draft questions, thus learning how to improve them, with regular feedback from the instructor. Questions are tested on volunteers. Students learn: the process of questionnaire design in a team; pitfalls of survey design; and how to track questions, coded responses, and prompts for interviewers. This class is not a substitute for a comprehensive survey research class or a statistical course on sampling and weighting. Students will learn: - The process of questionnaire design in a team - Basic pitfalls of survey design ? names, definitions, examples. - How to use Excel to track questions, coded responses, and prompts for interviewers - How to use interviewing software SurveyToGo This class is not a substitute for a comprehensive survey research class or a statistical course on sampling and weighting.

PUBH 6004 - Global Health Capstone

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

This course is designed to facilitate learners� synthesis of the skills, knowledge, and attitudes learned throughout the Global Health Certificate courses and practiced during field experience. Each student will be guided through the creation of a portfolio of carefully selected assignments, reflections, and experiences completed during the Certificate program, along with a resume and a final reflection. Each student will then present a portfolio at the end of the course.

PUBH 6011 - Public Health Approaches to HIV/AIDS

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 3011/6011
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Survey of public health approaches to AIDS epidemic. Epidemiological/clinical features of HIV infection. Impact of AIDS on certain communities/populations. Behavior change principles as they apply to AIDS interventions. prereq: Grad student or professional school student or instr consent

PUBH 6020 - Fundamentals of Social and Behavioral Science

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

Three major approaches to social sciences in public health: psychosocial, community approaches, economic and policy interventions. Covers theories of behavior change, program and policy development, community engagement, and policy implementation and advocacy. Not open to students in Community Health Promotion or Public Health Nutrition MPH programs.

PUBH 6034 - Evaluation I: Concepts

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6034/PubH 6852
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Developing useful program evaluations. Emphasizes skills for program administrators, planners. Needs assessments. Assessment of program design, implementation, impact. Cost-effectiveness analysis. Quantitative and qualitative data collection methods. Ethical considerations.

PUBH 6035 - Evaluation II: Planning & Evaluation

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6035/PubH 6806
Typically offered:	Every Fall

The course will prepare students to develop and apply evidence-based policy and program evaluation approaches in community health settings. The course is designed to guide students through planning and evaluating the impact of public health strategies using the RE-AIM Framework based on the Reach, Effectiveness, Adaptation, Implementation, and Maintenance/Sustainability. prereq: PubH 6034 or Instructor permission

PUBH 6045 - Skills for Policy Development

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

Skills relevant to policy development and implementation for public health-related issues.

PUBH 6049 - Legislative Advocacy Skills for Public Health

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

State legislature as arena for public health practice. Skills necessary to operate in that arena. Analyzing emergence, development, and resolution of legislative issues of public health importance.

PUBH 6050 - Community Health Promotion I: Integrating Theory, Evidence, and Context

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

This course examines personal, social, and environmental factors that influence health-related behaviors, as well as the role of individuals, groups, institutions, societal structures, and policy in encouraging and discouraging healthy behaviors. The course focuses on behavior change theories and application of these theories to health promotion.

PUBH 6051 - Community Health Promotion II: Developing, Implementing, and Justifying Interventions

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6051/Pubh 6673
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Skill development for developing community health interventions, budgets, implementation plans, and grant proposals. Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for PubH 6673.

PUBH 6055 - Social Inequalities in Health

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

Extent and causes of social inequalities in health. Degree to which understanding of these inequalities is hampered by methodological limitations in health research. Focuses on individual, community, and policy approaches to reducing social inequalities in health.

PUBH 6060 - Motivational Interviewing: Strategies to Effect Behavior Change

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Introduction of the theoretical basis of motivational interviewing (MI) style. Using MI style in diverse contexts (clinical, community program, research) and relative to diverse behavioral issues (addictions, healthy lifestyle behaviors, chronic disease adherence).

PUBH 6066 - Building Communities, Increasing Health: Preparing for Community Health Work

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

Taught with Powderhorn-Phillips Cultural Wellness Center. Introduction to community building/organizing. Using culture as a resource for health, reducing barriers, identifying community assets, planning organizing strategy, understanding the impact of history. Emphasizes self-reflection and skill-building for authentic, grassroots community work.

PUBH 6074 - Mass Communication and Public Health

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Jour 5541/PubH 6074
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course provides an overview of theory and research that lies at the intersection of mass communication and public health. We examine the potential for media exposure to influence public health outcomes, both as a product of people's everyday interactions with media and the strategic use of media messages to accomplish public health goals. To this end, we will explore large-scale public health campaigns in the context of tobacco, obesity, and cancer screening. We also will explore news media coverage of controversial health issues, such as the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, and health information in entertainment media, such as smoking in movies. This course seeks to understand whether media messages have had intended and/or unintended effects on public attitudes and behavior. Although our focus is on mass media, interpersonal, medical, and digital media sources will be considered as well.

PUBH 6078 - Public Health Policy as a Prevention Strategy

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

Philosophical, ethical, economic, political, efficacy rationale for policy approach to prevention. Historical/current application of prevention policy to public health problems. prereq: 2nd yr MPH or public health MS student or [Epi, Biostats, Env Hlth, HSRPconcurrent registration is required (or allowed) in A PhD student] or instr consent

PUBH 6081 - Sex, Sexuality, and Sexual Health

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

This course is a graduate-level class for students preparing for careers in public health research and practice where sex, sexuality, and sexual health are key components. It is a highly applied, highly interactive course focused on developing skills needed in sex research and sexual health practice. The teaching pedagogical approach is a "flipped classroom" where students are expected to learn the content from the assigned audiotaped lectures, movies and readings, and to come to class ready to participate in exercises, discuss case studies, complete assignments and immerse themselves in public health practice and research focused on sex, sexuality, and sexual health. The purpose of this graduate level course is to prepare health professionals for a professional career addressing community and population sexual health concerns by deepening their knowledge of and exposure to research practice in the field, increasing comfort familiarity and ability to speak on sexual health topics, and by practicing their skills. The assignments focus on hot topics in sex and sexual health, and are designed to increase knowledge of the field of sexual health, while developing skills in conceptualization, measurement, intervention design, and evaluation. Please note this course addresses the greatest challenges in sexual health facing our world, including such hot topics as the zika virus and HIV prevention, clergy sexual abuse, campus sexual climate, sexual harassment, LGBT health disparities, contraception, abortion, women's rights, teen sex, and unplanned pregnancy.

PUBH 6094 - Interventions to Address Weight-Related Health and Eating Disorders

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

Examine obesity epidemic, eating disorders, prevention and treatment approaches at multiple levels (individual, social, environmental, policy), links between obesity and eating disorders.

PUBH 6102 - Issues in Environmental Health

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

Current issues, principles, and methods of environmental/occupational health practice. prereq: Public health [MPH or MHA or certificate] student or health journalism MA major or nursing MS student or instr consent

PUBH 6107 - Excel Skills for Data Management in Public Health Settings

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

Hands-on course on computer skills to learn a wide range of methods to manipulate public health data. Students will be given ?raw? datasets and practice computer methods to clean, filter, recode, combine, tabulate and report data within the Excel and Access environments. The course is ideal for students who may not pursue more advanced quantitative training but still want to feel comfortable using these widely available programs to produce quality datasets for further analysis, and to generate summary results or reports in their work as public health practitioners.

PUBH 6108 - Foundations of Global Health

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

This course provides an introduction to key principles and topics in global health including measures of global burden of disease, identification of key health problems around the world and the main determinants, health systems and international public health organizations. In addition, we will discuss cross-cutting and timely issues in health promotion, disease control programs, and operational research in international settings. Class exercises and discussions will focus on challenging global health problems, and strategies to address them. This course is required for those students enrolled in the School of Public Health Global Health Certificate program, and is also open to other qualified students (see Course Prerequisites). Examples of diseases and illustrations of global health problems in this class will include both infectious and non-infectious diseases and should be of interest to students in various programs.

PUBH 6116 - Environmental Law

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

Questions when pollution protection law conflicts with policy encouraging the use of natural resources. Conflicts when government restricts use of property without compensating its owner. Increasing authority of government to audit businesses.

PUBH 6120 - Injury Prevention in the Workplace, Community, and Home

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

Injury epidemiology: analyses of major injury problems affecting the public in the workplace, community, and home using epidemiologic model and conceptual framework; emphasis on strategies/program development for prevention and control.

PUBH 6123 - Violence Prevention and Control: Theory, Research, and Application

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

Analysis/critique of major theories and of epidemiological research pertinent to violence, including characteristics of violence and relevant risk factors, reporting/treatment protocols, and current/potential intervention efforts and prevention initiatives. Emphasizes interdisciplinary contributions to violence prevention/control.

PUBH 6130 - Occupational Medicine: Principles and Practice

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Pathogenesis of diseases caused by occupational hazards. Evaluating work-related illnesses. Overall regulatory framework governing occupational health/safety. prereq: Environmental health major; toxicology course recommended or instr consent

PUBH 6131 - Working in Global Health

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

Introduction to key issues in global health. Global burden of disease. Cultural issues/health. Nutrition. Infectious diseases. Environmental problems. Women/children. Prereq Grad student.

PUBH 6132 - Air, Water, and Health

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

Issues related to providing adequate levels of clean air/water. Local water quantity/quality, air quality in developed/developing world, global air/water quality, policies meant to protect these resources.

PUBH 6134 - Sustainable Development and Global Public Health

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

Effects of globalization on social/sustainable development. Population, war, economics, urbanization, environment, water/sanitation, communicable/non-communicable conditions. New infectious/chronic diseases, food security/environmental health. prereq: Credit will not be granted if received for 6100 or 6365

PUBH 6135 - Job Search Strategies and Career Professional Development

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

This course is intended for students who are interested in learning how to develop a meaningful career in Public Health and related fields. Students will learn skills that they can apply to finding an Applied Practice Experience or internship, and to finding employment. The skills include the following: assessing self-awareness/strengths, researching job/internships and employers, relationship-building (networking), interviewing, self-marketing (e.g. resumes, cover letters), identification of professional goals, and professionalism in the workplace. The focus is primarily non-academic careers but some class content and work may also apply to academic job searches and careers.

PUBH 6140 - Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology

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

Principles/concepts in identifying health effects in workplace. Strategies for identifying excess risk, evaluating strengths/weaknesses of research techniques, assessing bias/confounding. prereq: Coursework in epidemiology, biostatistics

PUBH 6150 - Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Occupational Health and Safety Field Problems

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

Guided evaluation of potential health/safety problems at work site, recommendations and design criteria for correction/evaluation of occupational health/safety programs.

PUBH 6151 - Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing Seminar

Credits:	1.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Synthesize information from coursework/professional experience to enhance critical thinking/application to field of occupational/environmental health nursing. prereq: Enrolled in OEHN program, MS, MPH, PhD degrees

PUBH 6154 - Climate Change and Global Health Modeling

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

Interconnected relationships between global climate change/human health. Develop computer models to predict climate change from natural/anthropogenic forces, predict human health outcomes as result of changing climate. prereq: Students must have elementary computer skills.

PUBH 6159 - Principles of Toxicology I

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

This is the first of two courses that covers fundamental principles of exposure, uptake and metabolism. This course focuses on identifying the mechanisms and effects of chemical, biological, and physical agents on human health. Discussions will focus on the action of environmental agents and how they interact with humans to cause disease. Emphasis is on understanding the principles of toxicology as they apply to understanding toxicant-human interactions.

PUBH 6161 - Regulatory Toxicology

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

In-depth introduction to laws (and associated regulations) of U.S. federal regulatory agencies, such as CPSC, EPA, FDA, OSHA, and DOT, that require/use toxicological data/information in their mission of protecting human/environmental health. prereq: Background in toxicology or pharmacology or related field is recommended

PUBH 6162 - Biomarkers

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

Introduce current status of molecular biomarker research, including biomarkers of chemical exposures, genetic toxicity markers, genomics-based biomarkers of susceptibility, organ/systems biomarkers. Progression of biomarker development/application from laboratory environment to clinical or population-based settings/development of public health policies/interventions. prereq: Introductory courses in toxicology and exposure analysis recommended

PUBH 6170 - Introduction to Occupational Health and Safety

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Nurs/PubH 5170
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

Concepts/issues in occupational health/safety. Application of public health principles/decision-making process in preventing injury/disease, promoting health of adults, protecting worker populations from environmental hazards. Observational visit to manufacturing facility. prereq: Environmental health major or instr consent

PUBH 6173 - Exposure to Physical Agents

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

Nature, health effects, monitoring, and control of physical agents in working/living environments. Ionizing/non-ionizing radiations (including lasers, ultraviolet, visible, and infrared light). Noise/vibration, heat/cold stress. Dose, response, and engineering interventions.

PUBH 6175 - Environmental Measurements Laboratory

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

Measuring exposures to potentially hazardous agents in air or water. Sampling the agent. Preparing sample for analysis. Conducting analysis. Interpreting results. prereq: EH or instr consent

PUBH 6177 - Nanotechnology Health and Safety

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

As defined by ASTM, nanotechnology is the emerging field of "technologies that measure, manipulate, or incorporate materials and/or features with at least one dimension between approximately 1 and 100 nm". Toxicology studies have indicated that exposures to nanomaterials present unique health risks not encountered with their parent materials. After completing this course, students will understand how the fundamental concepts and methods of occupational hygiene are applied specifically to nanomaterials. Students will learn to use aerosol science, toxicology, product lifecycle assessment, exposure assessment, and occupational hygiene data interpretation methods comprehensively to evaluate workers' disease risks from nanomaterial exposures and to guide intervention efforts. Emphasis will be placed on control measures appropriate for nanomaterials, and control banding approaches when data are lacking. Participants will study the handling of waste products and potential impacts of released nanoparticles on the public and the ambient environment. The course is aimed at graduate and upper-level undergraduate students in the health and basic sciences, engineering, public health, and industrial hygiene.

PUBH 6181 - Surveillance of Foodborne Diseases and Food Safety Hazards

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 5181/VMed 5165
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Principles/methods for surveillance of foodborne diseases. Investigation of outbreaks, assessment of food safety hazards. Focuses on integration of epidemiologic/lab methods.

PUBH 6182 - Emerging Infectious Disease: Current Issues, Policies, and Controversies

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

Issues/controversies surrounding emerging infectious diseases. Framework for considering realistic/innovative policies. Bioterrorism, public health preparedness. Pandemic influenza preparedness, smallpox vaccination, antibiotic resistance. prereq: AHC student, instr consent

PUBH 6183 - Theory and Practice in Foodborne Disease Outbreak Detection, Investigation and Control

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

This course focuses on the practical basis for developing and implementing methods for foodborne disease outbreak detection, investigation and control; using recent outbreaks to highlight underlying principles. The course will review biological characteristics of major foodborne disease pathogens, clinical features of the illnesses they cause and epidemiologic presentations of foodborne outbreaks. The implications of these characteristics will be discussed in a problem solving, seminar format that examines theory and practice in the context of recent outbreaks. Strategies to promote timely decision-making will be emphasized.

PUBH 6184 - Field and laboratory methods in public health entomology

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

Pathogens transmitted by arthropods, particularly mosquitoes and ticks, inflict human disease all over the world. These pathogens represent a broad diversity of persistent foes as well as emerging challengers. PubH 6184: Field and laboratory methods in public health entomology will provide students with the tools and experiences that they will need to be conversant on the topic with both the general public and public health entomology experts. This course is intended to prepare MPH, Veterinary, and other graduate and undergraduate student to work alongside these experts and be able to contribute intelligently to entomological problems they might encounter during their future careers. To this end, rather than having a heavy emphasis on lectures and textbooks, the course has many field trips to professional entomology facilities, field work, and laboratory projects.

PUBH 6192 - Measurement and Properties of Air Contaminants

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

Gaseous/particulate air contaminants, their occurrence in workplaces. Factors governing generation/dispersal. Criteria, rationales, and standards for measurement in workplace. Industrial hygiene measurement. Aerosol-related ill-health. prereq: Good grasp of [elementary physics, chemistry, mathematics including calculus]

PUBH 6193 - Advanced Topics in Human Exposure Science

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

Designing exposure studies for epidemiologic investigations and health risk assessments. Techniques to measure/estimate human exposures to hazardous agents in non-occupational and occupational environments. prereq: 6192 or instr consent

PUBH 6241 - American Indian Public Health and Wellness, Health Policy, Law, Health Services Administration

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

As sovereign nations, American Indian Tribes are responsible for the overall health and well-being of their members along with the land and environment of their respective tribe. Tribes are becoming increasingly involved in more public health activities and regulations, and deliver public health services through various funding sources, grants, and contracts, alone or in collaboration with other tribes and local governments, county and state health departments. This course provides a general basis for understanding American Indian public health and wellness. Central to this area of study, is an appreciation to understand the unique governmental relationship based on how the federal government relates to tribal nations as distinct sovereign political entities, not as a racial classification. The trust responsibility is a government to government relationship as established in the U.S. Constitution. In this course students will learn about the legal responsibility of the United States to the 574 federally recognized tribes, to provide health services to American Indians. Students will examine the public health issues facing American Indian communities; review historical implications, analyze legislation, apply specific financing requirements, and gain an understanding of the unique American Indian public health system and the complex set of services, activities, collaborations, and stakeholders that varies by tribe and region. This is a required course for those seeking a certificate or minor. It is designed to help students understand how to work respectfully and effectively with tribes and American Indian communities, to understand the basis of health services and implications of specific tribal (local and federal) law to help improve the devastating health issues currently experienced by American Indians. While this course focuses on American Indian Public Health and Wellness, Health Policy, Law, Health Services Administration, there are many parallels that can be made by students related to other governance structures from around the world. The lessons can help fortify the knowledge of all students regardless of race, and culture, that can be utilized in individual professional endeavors.

PUBH 6242 - Cultural Humility with American Indian Populations

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

The course will present evidence that cultural humility is a lifelong quest toward achieving positive outcomes in work with American Indian Tribes and American Indian communities. It is essential that health care and health service providers learn the respective cultures of the American Indian population they are serving. Equally important is the fact that every federally recognized tribe, of which there are 573, has their own unique traditional customs, history with other tribes, and often subpopulations within the governance of a single tribal government. The realization of understanding how populations have been driven by their respective cultures to their overall health and well-being is necessary to promote achievement of positive outcomes for stakeholders and communities. The course will target methods to help health professionals to ensure that health services take into account individual understanding of the professional?s knowledge and how this knowledge should be respectful of individual cultural preferences. A systematic process will be provided to assist in how to learn community policies, learning processes, and traditions; as well as learning about various structures by which the culture of governments, organizations and individuals develop and support the attitudes, behaviors, practices and systems that are needed for effective cross-cultural interactions between health professionals and community members. Students will learn that ultimately, cultural humility effectiveness is determined by the individual who is receiving the services. The course is grounded in the understanding that cultural humility can effectively be used to strive for continuous improvement, to effectively utilize assets and address the health needs of individual American Indian communities.

PUBH 6243 - American Indian Research, Evaluation and Collaborations

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

As sovereign nations, American Indian Federally Recognized Tribes are responsible for the overall health and well-being of their populations, as well as controlling research and evaluation activities; and development of formal collaborations. A duly elected Tribal government is responsible for all functions and activities of the Tribe. Tribes have an inherent and legal responsibility to protect Tribal affairs, businesses, and traditional values and customs. Included in Tribal responsibilities is the ability to develop and maintain policies to protect the integrity of operations and guard against predatory and harmful use of data against the population they serve. This is an absolute and non-negotiable function of a Tribe to ensure present and continued viability of all future generations. This course will provide specific examples of data sharing agreements, Memorandums of Agreement or Understanding, legal basis for confidentially, discuss community readiness, and community evaluations. It is designed to help students understand how to work respectfully and effectively with Tribes and American Indian communities, and to understand the basis of research, evaluation, and collaboration. This course focuses on stakeholder driven: participation, issue identification, data sharing, and benefit to community. To help ensure ethical and cultural values are protected an increasing number of Tribes are forming their own Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) under 45 CFR 46. The course will offer examples of Tribal IRBs and specific IRB components for American Indian populations. Tribal governments represent communities with distinctive social, cultural, and spiritual qualities that embody a unique context for the review and conduct of research. This course will provide numerous examples of Tribally developed research and review mechanisms that are tailored to specific community needs and interests.

PUBH 6250 - Foundations of Public Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

In this course we will examine values, contexts, principles, and frameworks of public health. We will provide an introduction to public health, consider the history of public health, social/political determinants, impact of health disparities on race, class and gender, moral and legal foundations, public health structures, historical trauma and cultural competence, health and human rights, advocacy and health equity, communication and financing, and the future of public health in the 21st century. Grounded in theory and concepts, we will incorporate core competencies and skills for public health professionals and will focus on developing problem solving and decision-making skills through critical analysis, reflection, case studies, readings, and paper assignments.

PUBH 6261 - Human Centered Design for Public Health Leadership, Practice and Innovation

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Design has always played a significant role in public health, including the birth of Public Health, where John Snow discovered that a poorly designed water pump placement (sanitary system design) was the root cause of an 1854 cholera outbreak in London. Today, while the challenges facing public health leaders, researchers and practitioners have changed, the need for Human Centered Design (HCD) competencies such as systems thinking, interdisciplinary collaboration and creativity, has only become more apparent. 21st Century public health problems are what designers refer to as ?wicked problems? or those problems that are difficult or impossible to solve in the traditional sense because they are complex, long-term and constantly evolving, requiring a new set of tools and approaches well suited for HCD. HCD in public health is an applied research and innovation framework that: 1) prioritizes understanding the lived experiences of those individuals and populations most familiar with, and impacted by, a challenge; 2) recognizes the role of power and privilege in designing public health systems; 3) involves an inclusive and collaborative approach throughout the design process, and; 4) promotes iterative prototyping of assumptions and ideas to learn quickly and safely into unknowns. Those looking to address complex public health challenges such as obesity, mental illness, poverty or health disparities, will need to learn how to master a variety of practices that support cross-sectored collaboration, systems thinking, creativity, experimentation and equity: Human Centered Design is an effective compliment, convener and enhancer to other core public health, public policy and health system management policies and practices. This course is an introduction to Human Centered Design for 21st century public health leadership, practice and research and is a prerequisite for PUBH 6262 Human Centered Design for Public Health Studio I: Applying HCD for Community Health Innovations.

PUBH 6301 - Fundamentals of Clinical Research

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6301/PubH 6305
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Concepts of clinical research design/implementation/analysis. Students will learn skills needed for research in humans.

PUBH 6303 - Clinical Research Project Seminar

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Students will present their thesis and give and receive feedback. Students must have their project underway.

PUBH 6310 - Clinical Epidemiology 1

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

Clinical epidemiology is the science of using population methods to answer individual patient questions. In this course in clinical epidemiology, I will cover the design of epidemiological studies and the analysis and interpretation of epidemiological data in order to answer clinical questions. A variety of study design methods including cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional study designs will be taught. The design and analysis of clinical trials are covered in-depth by other courses (e.g. PUBH 7420 and 7415) and hence are not covered here. This course is intended for MS students majoring in clinical research. If you are in the clinical research certificate program and have an MD, you can enroll in this course. If you are in the clinical research certificate program and do NOT have an MD, please contact the instructor for permission prior to enrolling. Others including those in MPH programs in the School of Public Health and other interested students should contact the instructor for permission prior to enrolling. If you have already studied advanced methods in epidemiology or biostatistics or completed Epi Methods II (PUBH 6342) or more advanced Epidemiology courses, please do not take this 1-credit course since there will be redundant material. You may be interested instead in Clinical Epidemiology II, which focuses on more clinical aspects including prognosis, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

PUBH 6311 - Clinical Epidemiology II

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

Clinical epidemiology is the science of using population methods to answer individual patient questions. This course in clinical epidemiology will cover the design of epidemiological studies and the analysis and interpretation of epidemiological data in order to answer clinical questions. Clinical Epidemiology II will cover concepts related to prognosis, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. This course is intended for MS students majoring in clinical research. If you are in the clinical research certificate program and have an MD, please contact the instructor for permission. Students in PhD programs in the School of Public Health are welcome to enroll as long as they meet the course requirements. This course is not suitable for MPH students. COURSE PREREQUISITES ? Fundamentals of Epidemiology (PUBH 6320; grade of B- or higher) OR Epidemiological Methods I (PUBH 6341; grade B- or higher), or equivalent. ? Clinical Epidemiology I (PUBH 6310; grade B- or higher) OR Epidemiological Methods II (PUBH 6342; grade B- or higher), or equivalent. ? Biostatistics Literacy (PUBH 6414; grade of B- or higher) OR Biostatistics I (PUBH 6450; grade B- or higher), or equivalent.

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 6325 - Data Processing with PC-SAS

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

Introduction to methods for transferring/processing existing data sources. Emphasizes hands-on approach to pre-statistical data processing and analysis with PC-SAS statistical software with a Microsoft Windows operating system.

PUBH 6333 - Principles of Human Behavior I

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

Theoretical perspective on etiology/modification of health behavior in individuals/communities. prereq: Epi PhD student or instr consent

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 6342 - Epidemiologic Methods II

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

Methods and techniques for designing, implementing, analyzing, and interpreting observational epidemiologic studies, including cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional studies.

PUBH 6343 - Epidemiologic Methods III

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

Analysis/interpretation of data from various epidemiological study designs. SAS used to demonstrate epidemiological/statistical concepts in data analysis. prereq: [6342, 6451] with a grade of at least B- or instr consent

PUBH 6344 - Completing the Integrative Learning Experience: Secondary Data Analysis

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

The goal of PubH 6344 is to provide guidance and hands-on experience for developing and completing the Integrated Learning Experience (ILE) research project involving secondary data analysis of a cross-sectional, case-control, or cohort study. The course will help meet research project milestones and complete the project in a timely manner.

PUBH 6350 - Epidemiologic Methods III: Lab

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

Skills-based course in which students get hands-on experience in analysis of a variety of epidemiologic datasets using SAS programming to apply epidemiologic methods presented in PubH 6343, examine crude data for outliers, data errors and distributional assumptions, debug code when programs do not run correctly, and prepare a scientific presentation with appropriate content for introduction/background, methods, results and discussion.

PUBH 6355 - Pathophysiology of Human Disease

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

Compendium of human diseases relevant to public health professionals. Focuses on cardiovascular disease, cancer, and infectious disease. Presented from epidemiologic perspective. Significance of diseases in terms of prevalence, incidence, morbidity, and mortality. Risk factors, prevention strategies. prereq: Epidemiology major or public health nutrition major or Environmental Health major or instr consent

PUBH 6365 - Global Challenges in Infectious Disease Epidemiology

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

This course will focus on the considerable burden due to infectious diseases within middle and low-income countries, as well as the underlying risk factors that lead to their emergence and spread. Students will learn about and review different measures of disease burden and health status. Different diseases of international public health significance will be reviewed, with a focus on epidemiologic research and methods used describe and analyze disease determinants. The course will also expose students to different interventions (prevention and control strategies) that have been used in both emergency situation, and to reduce the burden of more endemic diseases that significantly impact the health of populations. The scientific literature concerning specific diseases of interest will be examined and discussed in order to illustrate these principles. We recognize that it is impossible to cover all subjects in global health. Using a case-study approach, the course will instead select a variety of infectious diseases of international importance. We will focus instead on approaches to dealing with these different problems, and some of the methodologies used to study them. This course will allow students to gain both skills and a greater understanding of public health research and practice as it applies to international health. prereq: [6320 or 6341, instr consent] master's or doctoral level student in School of Public Health

PUBH 6370 - Social Epidemiology

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

How a society's social interactions, past and present, yield differential exposures and differences in health outcomes between persons who make up populations. New disease-specific risk factors. How well-known exposures emerge and are maintained by social system.

PUBH 6381 - Genetics in Public Health in the Age of Precision Medicine

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

Our understanding of human genomic variation and its relationship to health is expanding rapidly. This knowledge is now being translated primarily through the field of ?precision medicine? (finding the right drug for the right person at the right time). Public health, in contrast, seeks to abate the social and environmental factors that lead to disease and health disparities. This course will provide an introduction to the field of public health genomics at this interesting point in its history. Approximately one-half of the course is devoted to Genetic Epidemiology, or the science of detecting genetic risk factors for human disease. The other half of the course will cover public health genomics, including ?precision public health?, genetic screening programs, and the possibilities and pitfalls of direct to consumer marketing of genetic tests. How genomics relates to health equity will be a recurring theme of this course. This is a graduate course designed primarily for Epidemiology MPH and PhD students, and fulfills the ?Epi Of? requirement for the MPH in Epidemiology. Graduate students from other programs are very welcome.

PUBH 6385 - Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases

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

Principles and/ methods. Strategies for disease control and prevention, including immunization. Relevance of modes of transmission of specific agents for disease spread and prevention. Public health consequences of infectious diseases at local, national, and international levels.

PUBH 6386 - Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention

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

The course will provide an introduction to cardiovascular disease (CVD) epidemiology. It is intended to provide a detailed perspective on the well-established risk factors for CVD, as well as an introduction to emerging risk factors. Both observational studies and clinical trials will be discussed. The class will include a main focus on prevention of cardiovascular disease, and national recommendations for treatment and prevention. Several classes will incorporate discussions of new directions and current controversies in CVD. Additionally, the class will introduce students to the CVD research in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health.

PUBH 6387 - Cancer Epidemiology

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Epidemiologic aspects of cancer. Theories of carcinogenesis, patterns of incidence and mortality, site-specific risk factors. Issues of cancer control and prevention.

PUBH 6389 - Nutritional Epidemiology

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Nutrition/disease relationships through application of epidemiologic methods. Characterization of various exposures to food/nutrient intakes, biological basis for nutrition/disease relationships. Studies of specific chronic diseases and nutritional intake. Design/interpretation of studies using nutritional measures. prereq: [[6320 or 6330 or 6341], [Epidemiology MPH or Public Health Nutrition MPH or Epidemiology PhD student]] or instr consent

PUBH 6262 - Global Health Experiential Learning

Credits:	0.5 -8.0 [max 8.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

prereq: Global Health Certificate Instructor Consent

PUBH 6414 - Biostatistical Literacy

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

Develop ability to read/interpret statistical results in primary literature. Minimal calculation. No formal training in any statistical programming software. Biostatistical Literacy will cover the fundamental concepts of study design, descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, odds ratios, relative risks, adjusted models in multiple linear, logistic and Poisson regression, and survival analysis. The focus will be when to use a given method and how to interpret the results, not the actual computation or computer programming to obtain results from raw data. prereq: MPH or certificate student or environmental health or instr consent

PUBH 6420 - Introduction to SAS Programming

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Summer

Use of SAS for analysis of biomedical data. Data manipulation/description. Basic statistical analyses (t-tests, chi-square, simple regression).

PUBH 6432 - Biostatistical Methods in Translational and Clinical Research

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Summer

This short course on translational and clinical research will focus on the topics of diagnostic medicine and designing clinical research methods, application of regression models and early phase clinical trials. prereq: Students will benefit from having taken one or two semester courses in biostatistics or applied statistics covering up to and including multiple regression and introductory logistic regression.

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

PUBH 6525 - Introduction to Population Health: A Health System

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

Population health is the field of practice and research concerned with the health of groups of individuals and the equitable distribution of health within these groups. Populations may be defined by geographic area, by social and economic characteristics such as gender, socio-economic status, and race/ethnicity, by disease states such as persons with mental illness or diabetes, or by enrollment in a health care plan or utilization of a specific health care organization. Population health takes an upstream approach, focusing on the social determinants of health and fundamental issues of health equity. While improving population health requires the involvement of multiple sectors such as public health agencies, health departments, education, housing, faith-based organizations and criminal justice, here we focus on how population heath can be addressed from within the health system through partnerships with other sectors. Using case studies, we will explore how population health innovations are applied by health systems.

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 6541 - Statistics for Health Management Decision Making

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

Variation. Frequency distribution, measurement, probability, graphing. Significance tests, estimation, trends; data handling. Modeling, odds ratios. Prevalence, incidence and vital statistics. Research applications. Statistical approach to rational administrative decision making. Inductive teaching, lectures, computer/lab exercises. prereq: Health care admin student or instr consent

PUBH 6542 - Management of Health Care Organizations

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

Role of hospital in health services delivery. Relationships with other systems and the community. Emphasizes governance, medical staff, and role of administrator. Lectures, on-site visits to health services organizations. prereq: MHA student or permission of instructor

PUBH 6544 - Principles of Problem Solving in Health Services Organizations

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

Problem-solving theory/technique. Solving a management problem within a health services organization. Presenting a report. Lectures, seminars, demonstrations. prereq: 6541, completed 30 hours of MHA coursework, health care administration student

PUBH 6553 - Health Care Management Ethics

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

Ethical issues faced by health care managers as leaders of an organization, members of a profession, and coodinators of clinical processes. Perspectives of managerial, organizational, professional, and clinical ethics. prereq: Public health MPH or MHA or certificate student or instr consent

PUBH 6554 - Healthcare Strategy and Marketing

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

Managing the marketing function, marketing planning, strategy, management concepts. Identifying marketing problems/opportunities. Constructing, evaluating, and managing a marketing plan. prereq: MHA student or permission of instructor

PUBH 6555 - Health Economics

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

General principles of health economics applied to issues in health. Implications for health policy.

PUBH 6556 - Health and Health Systems

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

U.S. health care system and health policy process, including current challenges in the areas of health care delivery, financing, and policy.

PUBH 6558 - Health Finance II

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

Principles of corporate/not-for-profit finance and insurance concepts integrated/applied to health care. Capital/operating budgets. Medicare's payment systems for hospitals/physicians, risk-adjusted capitation payment systems. Population-based health care finance, managed care. Financing aspects of public health policy and health care reform. prereq: MHA student, familiarity with computerized spread-sheets]] or permission of instructor

PUBH 6560 - Operations Research and Quality in Health Care

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Prerequisites:	Grad-level statistics/management coursework
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Using a systems perspective to develop models to analyze/improve health care operations. Identifying data needs/sources to model structures, processes, and outcomes of care. Applying quality improvement, management sciences/operations research techniques to real world health care problems. prereq: Grad-level statistics/management coursework

PUBH 6562 - Information Technology in Health Care

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

Managing information as a strategic resource within health care organizations. Designing information technology systems to capture, combine, and transform information to measure processes/outcomes of care, support collaborative clinical decision making, support management decisions, empower patients, and improve health care operations. Prereq: MHA student or instructor consent.

PUBH 6564 - Private Purchasers of Health Care: Roles of Employers and Health Plans in U.S. Health Care System

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

Development and organization of HMOs and PPOs: risk sharing, provider contracts, utilization management, quality improvement, marketing, and new product development; employer relations; Medicare and Medicaid contracting; budget processing; financial performance; pricing; government regulations. prereq: MHA or MBA or HSRP or PHA student or instr consent

PUBH 6565 - Innovation of Healthcare Services

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

Designing/creating new care delivery services/experiences. Exploiting opportunities for innovation. Overcoming obstacles. Capturing value. prereq: MHA student only

PUBH 6570 - Healthcare Administration

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 8.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer

Selected readings in healthcare administration. Discussion based on readings. prereq: dept consent

PUBH 6571 - Quality, Patient Safety, and Performance Improvement

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

Introduction to concepts of performance improvement in health care institutions. prereq: MHA or MPH or certificate student or instr consent

PUBH 6576 - Understanding Clinical Quality Using Administrative Data

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

This is an introductory course designed for students interested in learning how to effectively use administrative data (e.g., billing or claims data, clinical registries, enrollment records) to inform program development, program or policy evaluation and mandatory reporting. During the course, students will learn about quality frameworks; payment systems and how they translate into available administrative data; common coding and billing systems; structure of administrative data; common data available from each source; approaches for linking data across sources; reporting considerations; strategies for risk adjustment and applications to current local and national quality improvement programs. The course will provide practical, hands-on training for individuals to lead teams who analyze and report outcomes using administrative data-- - without the need to analyze the data themselves.

PUBH 6577 - Advanced Problem Solving in Health Services Administration

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

Capstone course. Students integrate/synthesize knowledge, attitudes, and skills acquired in curriculum and apply them to resolve management problem. prereq: MHA student

PUBH 6578 - Negotiation Strategies

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Prerequisites:	MHA student or instructor permission
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

The central issues of this course deal with understanding the behavior of individuals, groups and organizations on the context of competitive situations. prereq: MHA student or instructor permission

PUBH 6596 - Legal Considerations in Health Services Organizations

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

Laws affecting administration of hospitals and other healthcare organizations. Administrative law, corporate/business law, labor law, civil liability, tax-related issues. Legal issues relevant to administration, decision making, and planning. prereq: Health care admin student

PUBH 6601 - Born a Girl: Global Women's Health

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Women's health conditions, programs, services, and policies in developed/developing countries. Social, economic, environmental, behavioral, and political factors affecting health behaviors, reproductive health, chronic and acute diseases, premature mortality and longevity. prereq: Grad level student

PUBH 6605 - Sexual, Reproductive, and Perinatal Public Health

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

Overview of perinatal, sexual, and reproductive health surveillance, programs, services, and policies in the U.S., with an emphasis on vulnerable populations and methods to assess and interpret perinatal, sexual, and reproductive health data. prereq: Public health student or grad student or instr consent

PUBH 6606 - Children's Health: Life Course and Equity Perspectives

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

This course is focused on 1) major causes of illness at each phase of fetal, infant, and child development, 2) how the social determinants of health interact with underlying biology in early life to shape health over the life course, and 3) evidence-based child public health programs and interventions.

PUBH 6607 - Adolescent Health: Issues, Programs, and Policies

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

This two-credit course focuses on the major public health issues of adolescents and the programs and policies that impact the health and well-being of this population. Course readings and discussion focus primarily on adolescents in the United States, although international contexts are also considered. The course is designed to examine the prevalence and etiology of health and wellness indicators for youth, including mental health; sexual and reproductive health; physical activity and nutrition; and prevention of tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use, violence involvement, and injury. In addition, the course analyzes contemporary social movements and issues that impact adolescents through a public health lens (e.g., Black Lives Matter, DACA and the DREAM Act, achievement gap, inequitable distribution of wealth and economic opportunities, gender equity, civic engagement). The course is designed for graduate public health students with professional interests in preventive interventions to reduce health inequities. Students in other related health professions (e.g., medicine, nursing) or human services professions (e.g., public affairs, social work) with an interest in health issues are also welcome. The course meets the requirement for the Health Equity Minor in the School of Public Health.

PUBH 6613 - Children and Youth With Special Health Care Needs

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

Principles, programs, policies, and practices for identifying/meeting needs of children/youth with special health care needs in the United States. Epidemiology, historic/current legislation, organization/delivery. Readings, online discussions, written assignments. prereq: Graduate-level student in [AHC programs or education or social work or psychology]

PUBH 6627 - Sexuality Education: Criteria, Curricula, and Controversy

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

Issues and controversies affecting K-12 sexuality education. Current research and guidelines for effective, responsible education and curricula selection. Various curricula being used in the United States. Challenges in teaching sensitive issues inherent in sexuality education.

PUBH 6630 - Foundations of Maternal and Child Health Leadership

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6630/PubH 6655
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Historical/current principles, programs, policies, and practices related to women, children, adolescents, and families. Articulating a personal leadership style/plan for development of leadership competencies. Leadership principles, skills, and models applied to improving health of MCH populations. prereq: Public Health MCH major or instr consent

PUBH 6636 - Qualitative Research Methods in Public Health Practice

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

Qualitative inquiry, selected data collection, management, analysis methods for qualitative research in public health. Current approaches to assess strength of evidence of qualitative studies in public health. Provision of practical skills that can be applied in public health settings.

PUBH 6673 - Grant Writing for Public Health

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6051/Pubh 6673
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Hands-on workshop. Identifying successful elements of a grant application. Grant review process. Critiquing a grant. Writing an application.

PUBH 6675 - Women's Health

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

Programs, services, and policies that affect women's health in the United States. Methodological issues in research. Emphasizes social, economic, environmental, behavioral, and political factors. Measurement/interpretation of factors, how they translate into interventions, programs, and policies.

PUBH 6702 - Integrative Leadership Seminar

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

Are you interested in working across government, business, and the non-profit sector for public good? Are you wondering how you can create sustainable shared leadership on challenges that can best be addressed together? This course explores multi-sector leadership and related governance and management challenges from a variety of perspectives and provides an opportunity for students to work together to apply what they are learning individually and in teams through in-class exercises and a final team project. The course is taught by a team of interdisciplinary faculty and considers different contexts, forms, and specific examples of multisector leadership that can enable transformative action to tackle a significant societal issue and achieve lasting change. prereq: University of Minnesota doctoral student or master's student

PUBH 6711 - Public Health Law

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

Basic concepts of law, legislative process, and legal bases for existence/administration of public health programs. Legal aspects of current public health issues/controversies, regulatory role of government in health services system. prereq: Grad student or professional school student or instr consent

PUBH 6717 - Decision Analysis for Health Care

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

Introduction to methods/range of applications of decision analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis in health care technology assessment, medical decision making, and health resource allocation.

PUBH 6724 - The Health Care System and Public Health

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

Overview of health care delivery, finance systems within public health context. Components of health care system: financing, role of employers/public programs, health care delivery system, managed care. Collaborative interventions between managed care, public health. prereq: Public health or grad student or instr consent

PUBH 6727 - Health Leadership and Effecting Change

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

Analysis of leadership models and competencies, particularly as applied to organizational change. Applications to individual self-development and to health care organizations. prereq: Public hlth MPH or MHA or certificate student or [health services research, policy/admin] MS student or instr consent

PUBH 6730 - International Comparative Health Systems

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

History and development of health systems from a socio-political perspective. Overview of relative importance and meaning of health outcomes data. Role of WHO. Students use OECD health database.

PUBH 6735 - Principles of Health Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6735/PubH 6835.
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the policy environment that influences and shapes public health and the provision of health care services, to enhance understanding of the historical and political context of health policy, to develop strategies for analysis of health policy issues, and to communicate effectively in the policy environment. Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for PubH 6835.

PUBH 6737 - Structural Racism and Health

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

This course offers an examination of U.S. health inequities from a historical lens and discussion of present-day issues. Through the readings, discussions, and assignments in this class, students will better understand historical policies, events, and movements that have led to health inequities and connect those to contemporary issues in the United States and within the field of public health. The course takes an intersectional perspective (to race, ethnicity, gender, and class) to examine health inequities, with a specific focus on inequities related to race and racism.

PUBH 6741 - Ethics in Public Health: Professional Practice and Policy

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

Introduction to ethical issues in public health practice/policy. Ethical analysis, recognizing/analyzing moral issues. prereq: Public health [MPH or MHA or certificate] student or environmental health [MS or PhD] major or instr consent

PUBH 6742 - Ethics in Public Health: Research and Policy

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

Introduction to ethical issues in public health research/policy. Ethical analysis. Recognizing/analyzing moral issues.

PUBH 6745 - Rural Health

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

This course will cover some of the broad issues related to rural context, social determinants of health, health care, and health disparities, with the purpose to provide an introduction to the field of rural health. The focus of the course will primarily be on the U.S., although it will touch on the global context and students are welcome to explore rural health issues in other countries in some of their assignments.

PUBH 6751 - Principles of Management in Health Services Organizations

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

Understanding of and improvement in the competencies of managers in organizations, particularly as applied to health services and public health organizations. prereq: [Public hlth MPH or MHA or certificate] student or [environmental health MS or PhD] student or dentistry MS student or instr consent

PUBH 6755 - Planning and Budgeting for Public Health

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

Principles of budgeting, planning, forecasting, and analyzing in nonprofit/government organizations applied to health care administration and public health. prereq: Academic Hlth Ctr grad student or instr consent

PUBH 6765 - Continuous Quality Improvement: Methods and Techniques

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

Theory/practical applications of concepts, tools, techniques of continuous quality improvement (QI) in public health/health care.

PUBH 6772 - Health Disparities Capstone Seminar

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Readings and discussion-based seminar. Readings emphasize practice and policy solutions to health disparities. prereq: CSPH 5115 OR PubH 6066 OR PUBH 6055 OR PUBH 6855, 2d yr MPH student completing SPH health disparities interdisciplinary concentration] or instr consent

PUBH 6780 - Topics in Public Health Administration and Policy

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 60.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer

New courses or topics of interest in public health administration/policy.

PUBH 6803 - Conducting a Systematic Literature Review

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

Project-based class to develop systematic review skills for evidence-based practice. Draws from AHRQ and Cochrane systematic review methodology; supported by examples from the Minnesota Evidence-based Practice Center. Use for master?s thesis, dissertation, or to support research proposals. Prereq: research study design or epidemiology.

PUBH 6805 - Introduction to Project Management for Health Professionals

Credits:	2.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Core concepts/skills for managing projects effectively, making sure they are completed on time, within budget, meeting performance objectives. prereq: Matriculation in master's program in School of Public Health, or instr consent

PUBH 6806 - Principles of Public Health Research

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

Evaluation of public health research literature and planning for independent research projects. Formulation of research question, research design, sampling techniques, use of research concepts, and data analysis. Data collection techniques, including questionnaires, interviews, and data analysis. prereq: Pub hlth or grad or professional school student or instr consent

PUBH 6809 - Advanced Methods in Health Decision Science

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

Methods applicable to issues of medical decision making. Analyses of environmental/safety decisions. How to apply methods at cutting-edge of clinical decision science. prereq: [6717 or intro course in decision analysis], some facility with mathematical notation/reasoning

PUBH 6813 - Managing Electronic Health Information

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

Managing health information is a central function of health care organizations. Information is used for managing population health, profiling providers, and measuring quality. This course describes relational data theory, normalization, and Structured Query Language (SQL) will be used to create and query databases. Students will be introduced to the basic programming skills necessary to manage data in research projects. Programming aspects of the course will use SQL procedure in the SAS language. prereq: Admission to a University of Minnesota Masters program or Permission of instructor.

PUBH 6815 - Community-based Participatory Research

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

This introductory course is intended for junior faculty, post-docs, graduate students and community practitioners interested in adding CBPR to their repertoire of effective approaches to understanding and addressing social and health disparities. Topics will explore the purpose and applications of CBPR; partnership formation and maintenance; issues of power, trust, race, class, and social justice; conflict resolution; ethical issues; CBPR's relationship to cultural knowledge systems, and funding CBPR projects. This is NOT a methodology course. CBPR is an approach to conducting research that is amenable to a variety of research designs and methodologies and will NOT cover topics such as survey design, quantitative methods, qualitative methods, focus groups, community needs assessment procedures, etc.

PUBH 6832 - Economics of the Health Care System

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

Examines applications of microeconomic principles to the U.S. health care system. Topics include demand for medical care, insurance theory and selection issues, provider payment, competition in health care markets, the health care workforce, pharmaceutical prices and innovation, health care spending growth, quality of care, externalities, the relationship between income and health, and the economics of the opioid epidemic. Prerequisite: an introductory economics or microeconomic theory course ? or permission of the instructor.

PUBH 6845 - Using Demographic Data for Policy Analysis

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

How to pose researchable policy questions, locate existing data, turn data into a usable format, understand data documentation, analyze data, communicate findings according to standards of the professional policy community. Quantitative issues. prereq: [Grad level research methods course, basic statistics course] or instr consent

PUBH 6852 - Program Evaluation in Health and Mental Health Settings

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6034/PubH 6852
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Understanding an evaluation study. Program evaluation. Applications to health and mental health settings. emphasizes public health.

PUBH 6855 - Medical Sociology

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

Introduction to common theoretical/empirical approaches used by sociologists to study health/illness. How content reflects social inequalities in health/illness. Social processes that shape experience of health/illness. prereq: [[Grad or professional school] student, previous experience with statistical software] or instr consent

PUBH 6862 - Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care

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

Government regulations. New technologies. Diagnosis/treatment protocols. Strengths, limitations, appropriateness of different approaches. prereq: instr consent; introductory econ course recommended

PUBH 6864 - Conducting Health Outcomes Research

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

Major concepts/principles in conducting health outcomes research that evaluates medical care. Developing study designs matched to research questions. Frequently used study designs. Evaluating health outcomes. Analytical approaches. prereq: Introductory course in epidemiology or health services research methods or instr consent

PUBH 6901 - Foundations of Public Health Nutrition Leadership

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

Principles of public health nutrition. Roles/function of public health nutritionists. Programs/delivery mechanisms for promoting nutritional status of populations. Students explore their beliefs/competencies in relation to principles/philosophy of public health nutrition. This course has a strong focus on policy, systems and environmental changes to improves access to health foods for individuals and communities.

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 6906 - Global Nutrition

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

Nature/scope of chief nutritional issues and problems in the world. Emphasizes developing countries. Nutrient deficiencies, nutrition-related aspects of infectious/chronic disease. prereq: Grad student

PUBH 6907 - Maternal, Infant, Child and Adolescent Nutrition

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6902/PubH 6903/PubH 6907
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

This course provides an overview of nutrition issues affecting pregnant and postpartum women, females of reproductive age, infants, children and adolescents. The course integrates public health practice and policy recommendations with evidence-based clinical practice guidelines to provide a comprehensive view of maternal and child health (MCH) nutrition issues seen by practitioners in community settings. The course addresses nutrition education, community/ population nutrition intervention strategies, and programs and policies to promote healthy eating and physical activity and to reduce obesity and chronic disease risk among MCH populations. The course also provides an opportunity for students to develop social marketing and media communication skills and messages appropriate for maternal and child health (MCH) populations as well as to evaluate child nutrition assistance programs and policies.

PUBH 6914 - Community Nutrition Intervention

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

Tools for developing community nutrition interventions. Using behavioral therapy, conducting needs assessments, writing program objectives, developing intervention strategies, evaluating program implementation and effectiveness, planning a budget, writing grant proposals.

PUBH 6915 - Nutrition Assessment

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Prerequisites:	Public health nutrition major or #
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Common nutritional assessment using dietary, biochemical, and anthropometric approaches. Applications of methods, interpretation of results. Hands-on experience, training in common anthropometric methods. prereq: Public health nutrition major or instr consent

PUBH 6933 - Public Health Nutrition for Adults

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

Explores nutrition through a public health lens and emphasize how nutrition research is translated into recommendations for wellness and chronic disease prevention. We will focus on adult nutrition relating to health and chronic diseases, including obesity, diabetes, coronary heart disease, hypertension, cancer, and select additional health outcomes of public health significance. The process of effectively and efficiently identifying, reading, and synthesizing existing sources of reliable information on diet-disease associations will be covered, as will applying this knowledge in a public health context.

PUBH 6954 - Personal, Social and Environmental Influences on the Weight-Related Health of Pediatric Populations

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

Overview of public health strategies for the prevention of pediatric obesity. Includes overview of epidemiology of child and adolescent obesity with a focus on social-ecological risk factors. Discusses implications for developing interventions and programs. prereq: completed one of the following: a) basic intro to nutrition course, b) PubH 6094, or c) 1 year work experience in the field of obesity and/or public health or instructor consent.

PUBH 6955 - Using Policy to Promote Healthy Eating and Activity Among Young People

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 3955/PubH 6955
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Overview of federal, state, local policy approaches. National initiatives for prevention of child and adolescent obesity. Specific policies will be discussed at local, state, federal levels. Extensive discussion on evidence of impact of policies on child and adolescent weight.

PUBH 6995 - Community Nutrition Practicum

Credits:	7.0 [max 8.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Didactic/experiential learning opportunities in community nutrition program delivery/management. Students complete at least 40 hours each week for ten weeks guided by on-site preceptor and course instructor. prereq: Public health nutrition MPH degree student, instr consent

PUBH 6996 - Clinical Nutrition Practicum

Credits:	7.0 [max 9.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Didactic/experiential learning in clinical nutrition. Application of nutrition care process/model to medical conditions. Students complete at least 40 hours each week for ten weeks guided by on-site preceptor and course instructor. prereq: Public health nutrition MPH degree student, instr consent

PUBH 7091 - Independent Study: Community Health Promotion

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 20.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Independent study supervised by community health promotion faculty member. prereq: CHP major, instr consent

PUBH 7193 - Directed Study: Environmental Health

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 20.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Directed study in a topic agreed upon by student and faculty member. prereq: instr consent

PUBH 7200 - Topics: Public Health Practice

Credits:	0.5 -4.0 [max 80.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

New course offerings or topics of interest in public health practice.

PUBH 7210 - Topics: Global Food Systems

Credits:	0.5 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Food systems related to specific food products, including inputs, processes, and outputs from production sites to consumers. Context for food safety policy. Concept of food system biosecurity as prerequisites for a safe, abundant, affordable, and diverse food supply. Case studies of food-borne disease outbreaks illustrate critical controls in food production.

PUBH 7214 - Principles of Risk Communication

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

Key concepts of risk communication theory and their practical application to collection/sharing of information in support of individual and community decision-making about public health issues. Application of risk communication principles to routine, ongoing public health issues and those that arise out of emergency/crisis.

PUBH 7221 - Planning for Urgent Threats

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

Role of public health in disaster preparedness, response, and recovery. How public health agencies plan for managing the crisis. Providing surge capacity to maintain public health and health care functions. Assisting a community's recovery from a disaster.

PUBH 7230 - Topics in Infectious Disease

Credits:	0.5 -4.0 [max 80.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Topics in emerging/re-emerging infectious diseases. Biology, epidemiology, diagnosis, economics, risk analysis, methods for prevention/control. Global implications.

PUBH 7231 - Surveillance of Foodborne Diseases in Humans

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

Principles/methods for surveillance of foodborne diseases. Investigation of outbreaks, their application for assessment of food safety hazards. Integration of epidemiologic/lab methods for surveillance in human populations.

PUBH 7235 - Surveillance of Zoonotic Pathogens in Animals

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Summer

Case-study approach/field trips. Surveillance issues related to zoonotic pathogens in animals.

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.

PUBH 7253 - Introduction to GIS

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

Concepts/uses of Geographic Information Systems. Data structures, sources of data, tools, vendors/software, health-related applications. Exercises in spatial data display/query, map generation, spatial analysis using ArcGIS software. Students create their own GIS project model. prereq: Experience with spreadsheet programs

PUBH 7257 - Qualitative Data Analysis

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

Analyze/work with qualitative data from variety of data collection methods/multiple analysis approaches. Discussion of analyzing photograph/video data will provide insights on how best to analyze these types of data.

PUBH 7262 - Globalization and Health

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Summer

Global health concerns cross the borders of developed and developing nations. Effect of globalization on social and scientific consequences in public health. Interplay between global stressors such as population, war, economics, urbanization, and environment; effects on the health of women/children, spread of infectious/chronic diseases, nutrition and environmental health.

PUBH 7391 - Independent Study: Epidemiology

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Independent study supervised by epidemiology faculty member. prereq: [EPI major or grad student], instr consent

PUBH 7392 - Readings in Epidemiology

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Current readings in epidemiology. prereq: Epidemiology major, instr consent

PUBH 7401 - Fundamentals of Biostatistical Inference

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

Part of two-course sequence intended for PhD students in School of Public Health who need rigorous approach to probability/statistics/statistical inference with applications to research in public health. prereq: Background in calculus; intended for PhD students in public hlth and other hlth sci who need rigorous approach to probability/statistics and statistical inference with applications to research in public hlth

PUBH 7402 - Biostatistics Modeling and Methods

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

Second of two-course sequence. Rigorous approach to probability/statistics, statistical inference. Applications to research in public health. prereq: 7401; intended for PhD students in health sciences

PUBH 7405 - Biostatistical Inference I

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

T-tests, confidence intervals, power, type I/II errors. Exploratory data analysis. Simple linear regression, regression in matrix notation, multiple regression, diagnostics. Ordinary least squares, violations, generalized least squares, nonlinear least squares regression. Introduction to General linear Model. SAS and S-Plus used. prereq: [[Stat 5101 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in Stat 5101], biostatistics major] or instr consent

PUBH 7406 - Biostatistical Inference II

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

This course introduces students to a variety of concepts, tools, and techniques that are relevant to the rigorous design and analysis of complex biomedical studies. Topics include ANOVA, sample-size calculations, multiple testing, missing data, prediction, diagnostic testing, smoothing, variable selection, the bootstrap, and nonparametric tests. R software will be used. Biostatistics students are strongly encouraged to typeset their work using LaTeX or in R markdown. prereq: [7405, [STAT 5102 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in STAT 5102], biostatistics major] or instr consent

PUBH 7415 - Introduction to Clinical Trials

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 3415/PubH 7415
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

Hypotheses/endpoints, choice of intervention/control, ethical considerations, blinding/randomization, data collection/monitoring, sample size, analysis, writing. Protocol development, group discussions. prereq: 6414 or 6450 or one semester graduate-level introductory biostatistics or statistics or instr consent

PUBH 7420 - Clinical Trials: Design, Implementation, and Analysis

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

Introduction to and methodology of randomized clinical trials. Design issues, sample size, operational details, interim monitoring, data analysis issues, overviews. prereq: 6451 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 6451 or 7406 or instr consent

PUBH 7430 - Statistical Methods for Correlated Data

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

Correlated data arise in many situations, particularly when observations are made over time and space or on individuals who share certain underlying characteristics. This course covers techniques for exploring and describing correlated data, along with statistical methods for estimating population parameters (mostly means) from these data. The focus will be primarily on generalized linear models (both with and without random effects) for normally and non-normally distributed data. Wherever possible, techniques will be illustrated using real-world examples. Computing will be done using R and SAS. prereq: Regression at the level of PubH 6451 or PubH 7405 or Stat 5302. Familiarity with basic matrix notation and operations (multiplication, inverse, transpose). Working knowledge of SAS or R (PubH 6420).

PUBH 7440 - Introduction to Bayesian Analysis

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

Introduction to Bayesian methods. Comparison with traditional frequentist methods. Emphasizes data analysis via modern computing methods: Gibbs sampler, WinBUGS software package. prereq: [[7401 or STAT 5101 or equiv], [public health MPH or biostatistics or statistics] grad student] or instr consent

PUBH 7445 - Statistics for Human Genetics and Molecular Biology

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

Introduction to statistical problems arising in molecular biology. Problems in physical mapping (radiation hybrid mapping, DDP), genetic mapping (pedigree analysis, lod scores, TDT), biopolymer sequence analysis (alignment, motif recognition), and micro array analysis. prereq: [6450, [6451 or equiv]] or instr consent; background in molecular biology recommended

PUBH 7450 - Survival Analysis

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

Statistical methodologies in analysis of survival data. Kaplan-Meier estimator, Cox's proportional hazards multiple regression model, time-dependent covariates, analysis of residuals, multiple failure outcomes. Typical biomedical applications, including clinical trials and person-years data. prereq: 7405, [STAT 5101 or STAT 8101]

PUBH 7461 - Exploring and Visualizing Data in R

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

This course is intended for students, both within and outside the School of Public Health, who want to learn how to manipulate data, perform simple statistical analyses, and prepare basic visualizations using the statistical software R. While the tools and techniques taught will be generic, many of the examples will be drawn from biomedicine and public health.

PUBH 7462 - Advanced Programming and Data Analysis in R

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

This course is intended for students who are relatively proficient with R, and are looking to improve their coding and data analysis skills. The emphasis will be on learning tools and techniques which are useful to students who will be doing non-trivial programming and/or data analysis in either a research or production environment.

PUBH 7465 - Biostatistics Consulting

Credits:	2.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course examines the professional roles, responsibilities and analytic skills of the practicing biostatistician as consultant and collaborator in health science research. The spectrum of roles will be explored through lecture, readings, discussion, written assignments, and participation in statistical consulting sessions with investigators at the University of Minnesota and in the community. prereq: PubH 7405-7406 (or Stat 8051-8052) and Stat 5101-5102 (or Stat 8101-8102); Biostatistics graduate student.

PUBH 7470 - Study Designs in Biomedical Research

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

Diagnostic medicine, including methods for ROC curve. Bioassays. Early-phase clinical trials, methods including dose escalation, toxicity, and monitoring. Quality of life. prereq: [[6450, 6451] or equiv], [grad student in biostatistics or statistics or clinical research], familiarity with SAS

PUBH 7475 - Statistical Learning and Data Mining

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

Various statistical techniques for extracting useful information (i.e., learning) from data. Linear discriminant analysis, tree-structured classifiers, feed-forward neural networks, support vector machines, other nonparametric methods, classifier ensembles, unsupervised learning. prereq: [[[6450, 6452] or equiv], programming backgroud in [FORTRAN or C/C++ or JAVA or Splus/R]] or instr consent; 2nd yr MS recommended

PUBH 7485 - Methods for Causal Inference

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

Although most of statistical inference focuses on associational relationships among variables, in many biomedical and health sciences contexts the focus is on establishing the causal effect of an intervention or treatment. Drawing causal conclusions can be challenging, particularly in the context of observational data, as treatment assignment may be confounded. The first part of this course focuses on methods to establish the causal effect of a point exposure, i.e., situations in which treatment is given at a single point in time. Methods to estimate causal treatment effects will include outcome regression, propensity score methods (i.e., inverse weighting, matching), and doubly robust approaches. The second half of the course focuses on estimating the effect of a series of treatment decisions during the course of a chronic disease such as cancer, substance abuse, mental health disorders, etc. Methods to estimate these time-varying treatments include marginal structural models estimated by inverse probability weighting, structural nested models estimated by G-estimation, and the (parametric) G-computation algorithm. We will then turn our attention to estimating the optimal treatment sequence for a given subject, i.e., how to determine �the right treatment, for the right patient, at the right time,� using dynamic marginal structural models and methods derived from reinforcement learning (e.g., Q-learning, A-learning) and classification problems (outcome weighted learning, C-learning). PubH 8485 is appropriate for Ph.D students in Biostatistics and Statistics. The homework and projects will focus more on the theoretical aspects of the methods to prepare students for methodological research in this area. PubH 7485 is appropriate for Masters students in Biostatistics and PhD students in other fields who wish to learn causal methods to apply them to topics in the health sciences. This course uses the statistical software of R, a freely available statistical software package, to implement many of the methods we discuss. However, most of the methods discussed in this course can be implemented in any statistical software (e.g., SAS, Stata, SPSS, etc.) and students will be free to use any software for homework assignments. prereq: Background in regression (e.g. linear, logistic, models) at the level of PubH 7405-7406, PubH 6450-6451, PubH 7402, or equiv. Background in statistical theory (Stat 5101-5102 or PubH 7401) is helpful.

PUBH 7534 - Marketing for Health Care Professionals

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

Application of principles of marketing to managing professional practice.

PUBH 7537 - Healthcare Finance

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

Principles of corporate/not-for-profit finance/insurance concepts integrated/applied to health care. Capital/operating budgets. Medicare's payment systems for hospitals/physicians, risk-adjusted capitation payment systems. Population-based health care finance, managed care. Prereq: MHA student or instructor consent.

PUBH 7542 - Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

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

Almost 20 years ago in the United States the Institute of Medicine published To Err is Human, transparently noting that between 44,000 and 98,000 people in that country die every year as a result of medical errors; further research has shown that patients in all countries are subject to unintended harm as a result of their interaction with our healthcare systems. Not only are these errors devastating to those who have them, they harm providers and cost billions of dollars a year. Additionally, as the healthcare landscape shifts rapidly from one build upon volume to a value-based system, health systems and countries face an ever more urgent need to improve quality and safety for the populations they serve. This course will review the role of the health system leader in addressing the challenge of improving quality, safety, and value. Modules will specifically address: an overview of quality improvement and patient safety, data and common improvement models, patient safety techniques, the administrator�s role in the creation of the culture of safety, future trends in quality, safety, and value. Course Goals: a. Understand the patient, system, and population impacts of the current quality and safety challenges faced by healthcare b. Describe common models used for improvement work c. Understand the role that providers and health system leaders play in quality improvement and patient safety efforts d. Utilize common tools of quality and safety e. Balance system and personal responsibilities in quality improvement and patient safety f. Be familiar with common terminology and techniques such as PDSA, Lean, RCA, and Six Sigma Course is reserved for students enrolled in Executive Masters in Healthcare Administration Program � School of Public Health.

PUBH 7547 - Health Care Human Resource Management

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

Relationship between human resources management/general management. Work/human resources. Compensation/benefits, personnel planning, recruitment/selection, training/development. Employee appraisal/discipline. Union-management relations. Prereq: MHA student or instructor consent.

PUBH 7551 - Principles of Management in Health Services Organizations

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

Understanding of/improvement in competencies of managers in organizations, particularly as applied to health services/public health organizations.

PUBH 7553 - Health Care Management Ethics

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

Ethical issues faced by health care managers as leaders of organization, members of profession, coodinators of clinical processes. Perspectives of managerial, organizational, professional, clinical ethics. Prereq: MHA student or instructor consent.

PUBH 7554 - Health Care Strategy and Marketing

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

Managing marketing function. Marketing planning, strategy, management concepts. Identifying marketing problems/opportunities. Constructing, evaluating, managing marketing plan. Prereq: MHA student or instructor consent.

PUBH 7555 - Health Economics

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

General principles of health economics applied to issues in health. Implications for health policy. Prereq: MHA student or instructor consent.

PUBH 7556 - Health and Health Systems

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

U.S. health care system/health policy process. Current challenges in areas of health care delivery, financing, policy.

PUBH 7560 - Operations Research and Quality in Health Care

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

Using systems perspective to develop models to analyze/improve health care operations. Identifying data needs/sources to model structures, processes, outcomes of care.

PUBH 7562 - Information Technology in Health Care

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

Managing information as strategic resource within health care organizations. Designing information technology systems to capture, combine, transform information to measure processes/outcomes of care, support collaborative clinical decision making, support management decisions. Prereq: MHA student or instructor consent.

PUBH 7564 - Private Purchasers of Health Care

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

Development/organization of HMOs/PPOs. Risk sharing, provider contracts, utilization management, quality improvement, marketing, new product development. Employer relations. Medicare/Medicaid contracting. Budget processing. Financial performance. Government regulations.

PUBH 7565 - Innovation of Healthcare Services

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

Designing/creating new care delivery services/experiences. Exploiting opportunities for innovation. Overcoming obstacles. Capturing value.

PUBH 7569 - Health Care Policy

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

Public policy environment surrounding health care/public health systems. Political context of health policy. Approaches to policy formation/analysis. Tools/strategies for influencing health policy outcomes.

PUBH 7570 - Topics: Healthcare Administration

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

Selected readings in healthcare administration. Discussion based on readings. prereq: dept consent

PUBH 7576 - Legal Considerations in Health Services Organizations

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

Laws affecting administration of hospitals/other healthcare organizations. Administrative law, corporate/business law, labor law, civil liability, tax-related issues. Legal issues relevant to administration, decision making, planning.

PUBH 7590 - Gerontology for Healthcare Managers

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

Covers physical, biological, social, and psychological aspects of the aging process.

PUBH 7591 - Independent Study: Health Care Administration

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 20.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Independent study supervised by a health care administration faculty member. prereq: instr consent

PUBH 7691 - Independent Study: Maternal and Child Health

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 20.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Independent study supervised by a maternal and child health faculty member. prereq: Maternal/child health major, instr consent

PUBH 7720 - Data to Drive Public Health

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

Executive Public Health Administration and Policy (EPHAP) Program required core course. Must be taken A-F.

PUBH 7730 - Public Health Laws, Rules, and Regulations

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

This course will address basic concepts of public health law and the legal bases for the existence and administration of public health programs. Balancing the legal aspects of current public health issues, controversies, individual rights, and the regulatory role of government in health service systems will be considered.

PUBH 7791 - Independent Study: Public Health Administration and Policy

Credits:	1.0 -6.0 [max 24.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Independent study supervised by a public health administration and policy faculty member. prereq: Public hlth admin/policy major, instr consent

PUBH 7991 - Independent Study: Public Health Nutrition

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 20.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Independent study supervised by a Public Health Nutrition faculty member. prereq: [PubH Nutr MPH student or Nutr grad student], instr consent

PUBH 8120 - Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences Research Seminar

Credits:	1.0 [max 12.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Facilitates student research training in occupational health and Safety. Roundtable discussions, interdisciplinary involvement.

PUBH 8160 - Advanced Toxicology

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

Cellular/molecular mechanisms by which xenobiotics cause toxicity. Investigative approaches to current research problems in toxicology/carcinogenesis. Apoptosis, cell cycle regulation, genetic toxicology, molecular mechanisms of chemical carcinogenesis, genetic basis for susceptibility to environmental toxicants. prereq: 6160, one course in biochem, one course in molecular biol, instr consent

PUBH 8166 - Experiences in Toxicology Research

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

Students complete research projects in labs of toxicology program graduate faculty members. prereq: Environmental health PhD student in toxicology concentration

PUBH 8194 - Directed Research: Environmental Health

Credits:	1.0 -6.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Research, with direction from faculty member, in environmental/occupational stresses on human health. prereq: instr consent

PUBH 8341 - Advanced Epidemiologic Methods: Concepts

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

Conceptual foundations of fundamental issues in epidemiologic methodology. How/why a given method, design, or approach might help explain population health. Strengths, limits, and potential alternatives for a given approach.

PUBH 8342 - Advanced Epidemiologic Methods: Applications

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

Applied methodology course designed for students in the Epi PhD program. Examples and readings are aimed at clinical/biological and social/behavioral track students.

PUBH 8344 - Advanced Epidemiologic Methods Workshop

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

This lab course accompanies PubH 8341 - Advanced Epidemiologic Methods. The focus of this course is to gain practical experience with implementing the methods that are taught in PubH 8341. Methods that are explained in PubH 8341 will be implemented in this lab course. Students will be instructed in practical aspects of methodological implementation. Examples and readings are aimed at both clinical/biologic and social/behavioral track students.

PUBH 8392 - Readings in Clinical Research

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Current readings in clinical research. prereq: Clinical research major, instr consent

PUBH 8393 - Directed Study: Clinical Research

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 20.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Directed research or field practice in clinical research. prereq: Clinical research major, instr consent

PUBH 8401 - Linear Models

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

This course is concerned with the theory and application of linear models. The first part of the course will focus on general linear model theory from a coordinate-free geometric approach. The second half of the course covers theory, applications and computing for linear models, and concentrates on modeling, computation and data analysis. It is intended as a core course for biostatistics PhD students and statistics PhD students. prereq: [[7405, concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in STAT 8101] or instr consent], calculus, familiar wtih matrix/linear algebra

PUBH 8403 - Research Skills in Biostatistics

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

Introduces research skills necessary for writing/defending dissertation, career in research. prereq: Stat 8101-02 and admission to PhD program in Biostatistics. The course is meant to be taken the fall before PhD written exam is attempted, so Schedule 2 students typically wait to enroll until second year in program.

PUBH 8432 - Probability Models for Biostatistics

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

Three basic models used for stochastic processes in the biomedical sciences: point processes (emphasizes Poisson processes), Markov processes (emphasizes Markov chains), and Brownian motion. Probability structure and statistical inference studied for each process. prereq: [7450, 7407, Stat 5102, [advanced biostatstics or statistics] major] or instr consent

PUBH 8445 - Statistics for Human Genetics and Molecular Biology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 7445/PubH 8445
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Introduction to statistical problems arising in molecular biology. Problems in physical mapping (radiation hybrid mapping, DDP), genetic mapping (pedigree analysis, lod scores, TDT), biopolymer sequence analysis (alignment, motif recognition), and micro array analysis. prereq: [[[Stat 8101, Stat 8102] or equiv], PhD student] or instr consent; some background with molecular biology desirable

PUBH 8446 - Advanced Statistical Genetics and Genomics

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

Genetic mapping of complex traits in humans, modern population genetics with an emphasis on inference based observed molecular genetics data, association studies; statistical methods for low/high level analysis of genomic/proteomic data. Multiple comparison and gene network modeling. prereq: [7445, statistical theory at level of STAT 5101-2; college-level molecular genetics course is recommended] or instr consent

PUBH 8475 - Statistical Learning and Data Mining

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 8475/ Stat 8056
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Statistical techniques for extracting useful information from data. Linear discriminant analysis, tree-structured classifiers, feed-forward neural networks, support vector machines, other nonparametric methods, classifier ensembles (such as bagging/boosting), unsupervised learning. prereq: [[[6450, 6451, 6452] or STAT 5303 or equiv], [biostatistics or statistics PhD student]] or instr consent

PUBH 8482 - Sequential and Adaptive Methods for Clinical Trials

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

Statistical methods for design/analysis of sequential experiments. Wald theorems, stopping times, martingales, Brownian motion, dymamic programming. Compares Bayesian/fequentist approaches. Applications to interim monitoring of clinical trials, medical surveillance. prereq: Stat 8101-8102 or equivalent, [students should be comfortable with the multivariate normal distribution or instr consent]

PUBH 8485 - Methods for Causal Inference

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

Although most of statistical inference focuses on associational relationships among variables, in many biomedical and health sciences contexts the focus is on establishing the causal effect of an intervention or treatment. Drawing causal conclusions can be challenging, particularly in the context of observational data, as treatment assignment may be confounded. The first part of this course focuses on methods to establish the causal effect of a point exposure, i.e., situations in which treatment is given at a single point in time. Methods to estimate causal treatment effects will include outcome regression, propensity score methods (i.e., inverse weighting, matching), and doubly robust approaches. The second half of the course focuses on estimating the effect of a series of treatment decisions during the course of a chronic disease such as cancer, substance abuse, mental health disorders, etc. Methods to estimate these time-varying treatments include marginal structural models estimated by inverse probability weighting, structural nested models estimated by G-estimation, and the (parametric) G-computation algorithm. We will then turn our attention to estimating the optimal treatment sequence for a given subject, i.e., how to determine "the right treatment, for the right patient, at the right time," using dynamic marginal structural models and methods derived from reinforcement learning (e.g., Q-learning, A-learning) and classification problems (outcome weighted learning, C-learning). PubH 8485 is appropriate for PhD students in Biostatistics and Statistics. The homework and projects will focus more on the theoretical aspects of the methods to prepare students for methodological research in this area. PubH 7485 is appropriate for Masters students in Biostatistics and PhD students in other fields who wish to learn causal methods to apply them to topics in the health sciences. This course uses the statistical software of R, a freely available statistical software package, to implement many of the methods we discuss. However, most of the methods discussed in this course can be implemented in any statistical software (e.g., SAS, Stata, SPSS, etc.) and students will be free to use any software for homework assignments.

PUBH 8492 - Theories of Hierarchical and Other Richly Parametrized Linear Models

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

Linear richly-parameterized models. Hierarchical/dynamic/linear/linear mixed models. Random regressions. Smoothers, longitudinal models. Schemes for specifying/fitting models. Theory/computing for mixed-linear-models. Richly parameterized models and the odd/surprising/undesirable results in applying them to data sets. Lectures, class project. prereq: [[8401 or STAT 8311], [[STAT 8101, STAT 8102] or equiv], [biostatistics or statistics] PhD student] or instr consent

PUBH 8804 - Advanced Quantitative Methods Seminar

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

Understand/competently use advanced quantitative methods in applied social science, policy, demographic research. Methods considered largely within or related to framework of regression analysis. Effort will be made to reflect interests of class. prereq: This is an advanced, doctoral-level course. Students are expected to have completed a full year of doctoral-level introductory statistical and/or econometric classes in their respective field prior to enrolling in this course (e.g., PubH 7401-2, ApEc8211-2, SOC 8801-8811). Exceptions may be granted with instr consent.

PUBH 8810 - Research Studies in Health Care

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to philosophy of science, conceptual modeling, experimental design, survey/sample design, issues relevant to health services research. prereq: [Grad or professional school] student or instr consent

PUBH 8811 - Research Methods in Health Care

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

Research methods commonly used in analysis of health services research and health policy problems. prereq: [8810, [grad or professional school] student] or instr consent

PUBH 8814 - Mixed Methods: Quantitative and Qualitative Strategies in Research

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

The purpose of this course is for students to integrate qualitative strategies with quantitative approaches in research designs. Students will examine the strengths and challenges of using a mixed-methodological framework when selecting conceptual models to guide public health research questions, frame measurement and data collection, appraise strengths and weaknesses of study designs when addressing public health questions of interest.

PUBH 8816 - Implementation Science

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

A major focus of health research is the design of high quality interventions. However, whether and how these interventions are deployed successfully in clinical or community settings receives less attention. Given the extensive investment of time and resource in conducting health research, surprisingly few of these intervention innovations are ever "translated" to services, programs, or policies that benefit the lives of individuals, families, and communities. To address this challenge, implementation science has emerged as a set of theories and methodological approaches to enhance the translational process of evidence to practice. The goal of this course is to provide an overview of the key methodological considerations (theory, conceptualization, design, and analysis) when translating science to real world, everyday contexts using implementation science.

PUBH 8821 - Health Economics II

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

Examines application of microeconomic theory to health services research through selected reading from published and unpublished health economics literature. prereq: 8820 or instr consent

PUBH 8830 - Writing for Research

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

Two-course sequence. Writing research grants/papers. Writing skills appropriate to research proposals and scholarly papers. How to review, synthesize, and critique research proposals and published articles. prereq: HSRPA PhD student or instr consent

PUBH 8831 - Writing for Research

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

Second of two course sequence. Writing research proposals and scholarly papers. How to review, synthesize, and critique papers and research proposals. prereq: 8830

SW 5051 - Human Behavior and the Social Environment

Credits:	2.0 [max 0.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Social, psychological, biological, and cultural factors of individual and group development as applied to social work practice. Behavior and life-cycle development focusing on diversity and each stage of life. Discuss development in terms of the individual, and in terms of overlapping social systems such as the multi-generational family, culture, community, and society.

SW 5101 - Historical Origins and Contemporary Policies in Social Welfare

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Contemporary policies and programs in social welfare are examined in light of their historical origins and evolution. A framework is then developed for analysis of concepts and principles in contemporary social policy for social welfare programs and services. The emergence of the profession of social work also examined.

SW 5562 - Global Social Work and Social Development

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

Theories/strategies of social work and social development in industrial/developing countries. Applying international perspective and comparative framework to analyze basic human needs, social problems, and social work and social development strategies in different countries.

SW 5904 - Facilitation and Conflict Management: Humanistic Approach

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

Humanistic approach to facilitating meetings in small human service organizations and units within large bureaucratic structures. Managing conflict among individuals, groups, and communities in multiple settings.

SW 5912 - Grief and Loss in Social Work Practice

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

Review current concepts of grief/loss. Historical/modern views, symptoms of grief, implications of diverse losses, including expected, sudden, or traumatic losses, ambiguous grief.

SW 8151 - Social Work Methods: Practice With Individuals and Systems

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

Develops foundation knowledge and skills for social workers to work with individuals and systems.

SW 8152 - Social Work Practice Methods: Families and Groups

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

Develop foundational knowledge and skills in relationship building, engagement, interviewing, and assessment with families and groups using the ecological-systems theoretical framework and resiliency-based approach.

SW 8153 - Social Work Practice Methods: Macro Practice and Organizations

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

Models of community intervention, community practice and macro-level interventions as integral to professional social work. Building upon theoretical approaches to human service organizations and their distinct attributes, the course addresses key practice knowledge, skills, and values that promote, develop, and maintain human service organizations that effectively meet community and client needs.

SW 8251 - Social Work Practice in Health, Disabilities, and Aging

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

Social work practice in health/disabilities/aging. History in social work, practice contexts/settings, service delivery systems. Practice/population overlaps, distinctions, co-operations.

SW 8262 - Empowerment Practice With Persons With Disabilities

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

Models of disability, types of disability, common social work practices. Knowledge/skills for use across lifespan/ cultures/various settings.

SW 8263 - Essential Skills and Perspectives for Working with Older Adults

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

Intervention skills that are tailored for older adults in individual, family, group, residential, and community settings. Focus on bio-psycho-social-cultural-spiritual perspectives and evidence-based approaches.

SW 8351 - Assessment and Engagement with Families and Children

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

Utilizing evidence-informed, culturally respectful assessments/engagement models with families/children. Factors internal/external to families. Work with families/children around broad scope of stressors. Resiliency.

SW 8352 - Intervention Methods with Families

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

Work with families/children in family-centered, community, preventive practice. Engagement, assessment, intervention, evaluation.

SW 8361 - Identification and Assessment of Family Violence

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

Identification/assessment of family violence. Contextual knowledge of behaviors of perpetrators, victims, survivors. Gender, race, culture, age, ability, SES, sexual orientation.

SW 8363 - Social Work in Child Welfare

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

Public, private, tribal child welfare related to assessment of strengths/risks. Develop appropriate plans that secure child safety/well-being.

SW 8451 - Assessment and Engagement in Clinical Social Work Practice

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

Mental health diagnostic codes/classifications. Interviewing skills, assessment writing skills/techniques. Biopsychosocial perspective/engagement strategies.

SW 8452 - Core Concepts in Clinical Social Work Practice

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

Interpersonal process skills. Developing/maintaining effective therapeutic alliances/positive intervention outcomes with diverse populations.

SW 8461 - Advanced Clinical Social Work Practice with Adults

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

Research-informed clinical interventions for adults with mental health distress. Application of cognitive behavioral/psychodynamic psychotherapies through brief/long-term models across diverse populations.

SW 8462 - Advanced Clinical Practice With Children and Adolescents

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

Social work interventions using normative developmental supports/mental health case planning. Develop advanced clinical social work practice knowledge/skills for working with children/adolescents with mental health risks. Provide knowledge for community social workers serving children exposed to stress.

SW 8463 - Practice Interventions with Persons Who Experience Serious Mental Illness

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

An overview of SW practice in community mental health services to improve the lives of persons (adults and children) who experience serious mental illness. Topics: context of mental health care and recovery, stigma, needs and strengths assessment, service planning, and current evidence-based interventions.

SW 8551 - Advanced Community Practice: Assessment, Organizing, and Advocacy

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

Community practice, including community organizing, policy advocacy, social service/change leadership. prereq: [5051, 5101, 8151, 8152, 8153, 8154] or MSW Adv Standing or instr consent

SW 8552 - Advanced Community Practice: Leadership, Planning, and Program Development

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

Advanced community practice knowledge/skills. Strategic planning, program design, organizational leadership/management, work groups.

SW 8563 - Advanced Policy Advocacy

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

Students paired with social service, social policy, social justice agencies, coalitions. Agenda setting, legislative research, legislative advocacy in relation to specific legislation proposed in Minnesota state legislature. Tie policy theory to real-world practice.

SW 8804 - Child Welfare Policy

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

Develops advanced policy knowledge/skills for social workers practicing in or collaborating with public or private child welfare services.

SW 8806 - Health and Mental Health Policy

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

Critically engage in health/mental health policy debate, analysis, development, implementation.

SW 8807 - International and Comparative Social Welfare Policy

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

Cross-national comparisons of social welfare policies, major international conventions, treaties. Social welfare, social development theories/policies. In-depth analyses of selected countries' policies, international agreements, social development strategies.

SW 8821 - Social Work and Difference, Diversity and Privilege

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

Essential knowledge/awareness/skills to support culturally competent social work practice.

SW 8841 - Social Work Research Methods

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

Develops foundational research methods knowledge/skills fundamental to evidence-based social work practice.

SW 8842 - Advanced Social Work Evaluation

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Students design/carry out evaluation of program or own direct practice. Purposes/types of evaluations. Instrument design, data analysis, ethical issues. Organizational, political, social, cultural factors affecting evaluation in diverse human contexts.

SW 8843 - Social Work Program Evaluation

Credits:	1.0 -2.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Students design, implement, and present an evaluation of a program either in their field practicum or of particular interest to them. Class topics include the purpose and types of evaluations; instrument design; data collection techniques and management; data analysis; ethical issues; and organizational, political, social, and cultural factors influencing evaluation in diverse human contexts.

SW 8851 - Social Welfare History and Historical Research Methods

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

Methods of historical research in, and survey of, history/evolution of social welfare/work, using primary/secondary source materials. prereq: Completed research courses for soc work PhD student or [equiv research methods courses, grad student]

SW 8901 - Assessment and Treatment of Trauma

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

Sociopolitical context of trauma. Impact on diverse populations of individuals, families, communities. Evidence-based approaches for addressing trauma on multiple system levels. Applications to case conceptualization, treatment planning.

SW 8902 - Social Work Supervision, Consultation, and Leadership

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

Principles, practice skills, models of supervision: administration, education, support. Power/authority, leadership, use of self in supervising. Ethics, risk management, legal obligations. Simulated skills practice, experiential learning.

VMED 5101 - Molecular and Cellular Basis of Nanoparticle Toxicity

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Txcl 5101/VMed 5101
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Use of nanotechnology in scientific research. Impact of nanomaterials on biological systems.

VMED 5165 - Surveillance of Foodborne Diseases and Food Safety Hazards

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 5181/VMed 5165
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Principles/methods for surveillance of foodborne diseases. Investigation of outbreaks. Assessment of food safety hazards. Focuses on integration of epidemiologic/lab methods. prereq: [PUBH 5330, [professional school or grad student]] or instr consent

VMED 5180 - Ecology of Infectious Disease

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CMB 5180/PubH 6180/PubH 6380
Typically offered:	Every Fall

How host, agent, environmental interactions influence transmission of infectious agents. Environmental dissemination, eradication/control, evolution of virulence. Use of analytical/molecular tools.

VMED 5181 - Spatial Analysis in Infectious Disease Epidemiology

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

Spatial distribution of disease events. Exposures/outcomes. Factors that determine where diseases occur. Analyzing spatial disease data in public health, geography, epidemiology. Focuses on human/animal health related examples. prereq: Intro to epidemiology, statistics,

VMED 5915 - Essential Statistics for Life Sciences

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

This course is a broad overview of the principles and methods of statistical analysis used in life sciences research, including biological, veterinary, and translational research, and provides the background a new researcher needs to understand and apply commonly used statistical methods and the preparation needed for more advanced coursework. Classes will include general instruction and background information, detailed examples of how to perform the analyses, with actual data sets, and discussion on how the topic has been applied in biological research, including reading and assessing papers in the field. Computing will be performed using the R software environment, though students may use alternate software with permission. Topics will include: � Descriptive statistics and exploratory graphics � Understanding statistical inference and interpreting P-values and confidence intervals. � One and two sample inference, including t-tests, proportion tests, and non-parametric alternatives � Linear regression, including the effects of confounders � ANOVA methods, including pairwise comparisons and multiple comparisons

VMED 8134 - Ethical Conduct of Animal Research

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AnSc 8134/CMB 8134/VMed 8134
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Ethical considerations in use of animal subjects in agricultural, veterinary, and biomedical research. Federal, state, and University guidelines relating to proper conduct for acquisition/use of animals for laboratory, observational, epidemiological, and clinical research. Regulatory requirements. Bases for proper conduct. Societal impact on scientific investigations utilizing animal subjects.

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