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2016-2017 Graduate Catalog ARCHIVED CATALOG: CONTENT MAY NOT BE CURRENT. USE THE DROP DOWN ABOVE TO ACCESS THE CURRENT CATALOG.
Courses - School of Community Health Sciences
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School of Community Health Sciences
EAB 700 - Research Methods for Public Health
Credits 3
Provides a foundation in research methodology for public health professionals. Topics include basic sampling and experimental designs, quantitative and qualitative methods in research, mathematical and economic models in research, and multidisciplinary approaches to designing research programs.
Prerequisites
EAB 703 or consent of instructor.
EAB 703 - Biostatistical Methods for the Health Sciences
Credits 3
Designed to provide a foundation in biostatistics for graduate students in the health sciences. Topics include probability, distributions, estimation, hypothesis testing, ANOVA, simple and multiple regression, vital statistics, and nonparametric methods.
Prerequisites
Undergraduate mathematics through calculus, comparable graduate coursework, or consent of instructor.
EAB 704 - Research Integrity & Ethics
Credits 3
Designed to provide students with an understanding of how to conduct responsible research. Covers the concepts of scientific ethics and integrity broadly in order to provide a foundation for future research professionals. Topics include ethical principles, peer review, mentoring, IRB, collaborative research, and scientific record keeping.
EAB 705 - Epidemiology and Public Health
Credits 3
Explores principles related to the distribution and causality of disease. Focuses on etiology, prevention and control of communicable and chronic human disease. Participants trained in basic epidemiological methodology, featuring case-series, case-control, experimental and cohort study designs.
EAB 709 - Scientific/Technical Writing for the Health and Life Sciences
Credits 3
Technical writing skills are critical to success in publication of scientific journal articles, approval of research grant submissions, and acceptance of thesis/dissertation requirements. In this course students will study techniques and develop skills in technical writing useful to professionals in health care and life sciences.
EAB 710 - Fundamentals of Public Health
Credits 3
Introduces students to public health concepts and practice. Provides broad overview of the field of public health and focused look at core areas of health promotion and education, environmental health, epidemiology and bio statistics, and health care administration in the public health arena.
EAB 715 - Chronic Disease Epidemiology
Credits 3
Surveys the major chronic diseases with an emphasis on recent epidemiological research and findings, demographic and populations aspects of chronic illness, causation and risk factors, prevention, and control.
Prerequisites
HED 725 or consent of instructor.
EAB 716 - The Epidemiology of Obesity
Credits 3
Describes the epidemiology and prevention of obesity and associated complications. Discusses methodological issues associated with evaluating epidemiologic studies that target obesity. Designed to cover the global epidemic of obesity, the environmental and behavioral risk factors, as well as interventions to reduce and prevent obesity.
EAB 720 - Grant Writing for Epidemiology and Public Health Research
Credits 3
Covers the process of designing competitive research grant proposals from conceptualization to grant management.
Prerequisites
Core epidemiology class, research methods.
EAB 725 - Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
Credits 3
Introduces the basic concepts in infectious disease epidemiology. Students develop a basic conceptual understanding and analytic skills in the investigation and control of infectious diseases in human populations. Students describe the most common infectious diseases, including their transmission, pathogenesis, treatment, prevention, and control. Prerequisites: Admission to the School of Community Health Sciences or consent of instructor.
EAB 730 - Introduction to Statistical Computing with SAS
Credits 3
PC-based statistical computing applications with SAS 9.3 for public health. Develop basic skills in the use of a statistical package through classroom demonstrations and independent lab assignments that will complement the material covered in EAB 703 or equivalent. Emphasize data definition, verification, descriptive and inferential statistics and graphical presentation.
Prerequisites
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EAB 733 - Survey Sampling for the Health Sciences
Credits 3
Introduces the basics of sampling theory and application in the health sciences. Several popular designs will be covered in depth. Other topics include sources of error in sampling, design of surveys, and population size determination.
Prerequisites
EAB 703 or consent of instructor.
EAB 735 - Outbreak Investigation
Credits 3
Students will work through simulated outbreak situations, culminating in a lengthy simulation of an outbreak. Students will be responsible for all aspects of the investigation including report writing. Through partnership with community health agencies, students will have the opportunity to assist in actual outbreak investigations occurring during the semester.
Prerequisites
HED 725/EAB 705 or equivalent
EAB 743 - Experimental Design for the Health Sciences
Credits 3
Provides thorough coverage of experimental design for student in the health sciences. Topics include single factor designs, factorial experiments, within-factor designs, nested designs, analysis of trend, and general linear models.
Prerequisites
EAB 703 or consent of instructor.
EAB 745 - Epidemiological Surveillance
Credits 3
Students will explore systems currently in place, both in the United States and internationally, and will learn the methodology used to analyze surveillance data. Students will learn about effective surveillance systems through lecture and case studies of existing surveillance systems.
EAB 753 - Nonparametric Statistics for Public Health
Credits 3
Designed to provide a strong foundation in nonparametric statistical methods commonly used in public health. Topics explored in the course include ranked data, transformation of ranks, methods for paired and independent samples, nonparametric regression and correlation, categorical data analysis, and robust estimation.
Prerequisites
Graduate level biostatistics.
EAB 755 - Cancer Epidemiology
Credits 3
This course is an introduction to cancer epidemiology. The objective is to make the student use, learn and consolidate basic analytic skills in developing research projects in cancer. It includes among others the following topics: trends, biology of cancer, issues in prostate, breast, colorectal, lung, and cervical cancer, cancer screening, GIS and spatial analysis in cancer, survival, and migrant studies.
EAB 756 - Epidemiology and Research
Credits 3
Topics in Epidemiology II include analytic reasoning in public health and in disease surveillance, descriptive epidemiology and causal inference with a special emphasis on study design. This course will largely make use of scientific articles to provide students with a solid basis to critically analyze and develop medical/public health research. May be repeated to a maximum of three credits.
Prerequisites
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EAB 763 - Linear Statistical Models
Credits 3
Explores the foundations and applications of linear statistical models. Applications include simple, multivariate, and logistic regression; time series analysis; single -/multiple-factor ANOVA; random and mixed effects models; and ANCOVA. Several experimental designs will also be explored.
Prerequisites
Graduate level biostatistics.
EAB 773 - Survival Analysis for Public Health
Credits 3
Explores the broad area of survival analysis for analyzing data derived from laboratory, clinical, and epidemiological studies. Methods explored in this course include survival functions, data censoring, hazard models, regression models, and parametric/nonparametric methods for comparing survival models.
Prerequisites
EAB 753 and EAB 763.
EAB 783 - Multivariate Methods for the Health Sciences
Credits 3
Provides an in- depth coverage of common multivariate methods. Topics include multivariate correlation and regression, multivariate ANOVA, logistic regression, factor analysis, time series analysis, and principle component analysis. Emphasis placed on application of techniques useful for students in the health sciences.
Prerequisites
EAB 773 or consent of instructor.
EAB 790 - Current Topics in Environmental Health and Epidemiology
Credits 1-3
This is an advanced seminar course directed by members of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program. Seminars will be facilitated by faculty members based on their particular areas of research interest and expertise.
EAB 793 - Internship in Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Credits 1 – 3
Capstone experiences for the MPH degree and is intended to provide students with applied work experience in a local agency, organization, center or institute.
Notes
May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
Prerequisites
Admission to the School of Community Health Sciences or consent of instructor.
EAB 794 - Professional Paper in Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Credits 3
Provides the opportunity for a graduate degree candidate to be involved in an in-depth project. A formal paper and presentation describing the project culminate this experience.
Notes
May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
Prerequisites
Admission to the School of Community Health Sciences or consent of instructor.
EAB 795 - Special Topics in Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Credits 1 – 3
Selected topic of current interest in epidemiology and biostatistics.
Notes
May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
Prerequisites
Admission to the School of Community Health Sciences or consent of instructor.
EAB 796 - Independent Study in Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Credits 1 – 3
Independent study of a selected topic in Epidemiology or Biostatistics.
Prerequisites
Admission to the School of Community Health Sciences or consent of instructor.
EAB 798 - Thesis Research in Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Credits 1 – 6
Notes
May be repeated, but a maximum of six credits will apply towards the student’s degree program.
EOH 601 - Advanced Environmental Toxicology
Credits 3
The following course has been approved for graduate credit. A full description of this course may be found in the Undergraduate Catalog under the corresponding 400 number.
EOH 660 - Health Ecology and Sustainability
Credits 3
This course will examine ways human populations are using land, energy, food and water resources and the related impacts on global climates, ecosystem degradation and biodiversity. This course will provide students with an understanding of how human consumption and standards of living are exceeding the carrying capacity of the planet.
Same as
Crosslisted with PBH 460.
Grading
Letter grade.
EOH 793 - Internship in Environmental Health
Credits 1 – 3
The environmental internships is one of the capstone experiences for the MPH degree and is intended to provide students with applied work experience in a local agency, organization, center or institute.
Notes
May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
Prerequisites
Admission to the School of Community Health Sciences or consent of instructor.
HCA 652 - Health Politics and Policy
Credits 3
Role of politics and policy-making as an external environmental impact on health care. Describes the political process in health care policy-making at all government levels. Interest group politics introduced in the context of the roles that these groups play in health care policy development and how these forces and health care organizations react to shape health care policy. Prerequisites: HIST 100, PSC 100, or PSC 101. 3 credits.
HCA 680 - Organization and Management of Long-Term Care Services
Credits 3
Examination of health and social services for the elderly with emphasis on structure and function of the long-term care industry. Focuses on management of nursing home services. Includes analysis of reimbursement, regulatory, and other social, economic, political and legal factors affecting health and social services for the elderly.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with HCA 480. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
HCA 700 - Fundamentals of Health Care Financial Management
Credits 3
Exploration of accounting and financial management principles and concepts for decision-making in health care organizations.
Grading
Letter Grade
HED 629 - Education for Sexuality
Credits 3
Physical, mental-emotional, and social aspects of sexuality including sexual communication, relationships, gender, decision making and sexual pleasure and function. Structured to prepare individuals to conduct meaningful learning experiences in personal and family life sex education.
Notes
This course is crosslisted with PBH 429. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.
HED 720 - Program Planning and Grant Writing in Health Promotion
Credits 3
Principles of program planning based on assessing individual and community needs and techniques to evaluate the effectiveness of health promotion programs. Also designed to analyze the process to obtain fiscal resources through grants, contracts, and other internal and external sources.
Prerequisites
HED 700, 705
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