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ENGL 232 - Tutoring in English Practicum I
This course is a practicum or internship as a peer tutor in the College Writing Center. Students tutor for a minimum of three contact hours per week throughout the semester. This course may be taken by Writing Center tutors with experience prior to the creation of ENGL 231.
Prerequisites & Notes
Permission of the Writing Center Director.
Credits: 1
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ENGL 233 - Tutoring in English Practicum II
This course is a practicum or internship as a peer tutor in the College Writing
Center. Students tutor for a minimum of three contact hours per week throughout
the semester. This course may be taken concurrently with ENGL 232.
Prerequisites & Notes
Permission of the Writing Center Director.
Credits: 1
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ENGL 234 - Student Newspaper Practicum
This course is designed to provide students with practical experience in writing, editing, headline writing, and layout of a student newspaper. Each student receives a varied weekly assignment from the editor-in-chief of the College’s student newspaper. This course may be repeated up to a maximum of eight semester hours.
Credits: 1
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ENGL 240 - Literature of Journalism
This course focuses on major non-fiction works written by American journalists, with particular emphasis on the literary and historical impact of the non-fiction genre.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 241 - American Literature I
This course focuses on a topic in American Literature prior to the Civil War (e.g., a literary movement, a focused historical period, a group of authors, a genre, or a theme.)
Prerequisites & Notes
This course may be repeated (up to a total of 9 credit hours) if topics vary.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 242 - American Literature II
This course focuses on a topic in American Literature in an era from the Civil War to the present (e.g., a literary movement, a focused historical period, a group of authors, a genre, or a theme.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course may be repeated (up to a total of 9 credit hours) if topics vary.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 246 - American Short Story
This course examines the historical significance and the artistic achievement of classic works of American short fiction from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries alongside the work of new and emerging voices in contemporary U.S. literature. The course aims to help students become more effective readers and critical writers.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 251 - African American Literature I
This course traces African American self-expression in autobiographical and imaginative forms from 1760 to the 1930’s, noting the educational, social, economic, political, and legal limitations within which, or against which, they were produced.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 252 - African American Literature II
This course presents African American literature from the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920’s through the contemporary period, tying literary movements and text to music, visual art, folklore, history, and socio-political contexts from which they spring.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 261 - British Literature I
This course focuses on a topic in early British literature from the beginnings to the Enlightenment (e.g., a literary movement, a focused historical period, a group of authors, a genre, or a theme).
In selected semesters, as noted in the course offerings information, the course will focus on the literature of the Middle Ages and will include an optional trip over Spring Break to London and York, England, to visit medieval sites.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course may be repeated (up to a total of 9 credits) if topics vary.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 262 - British Literature II
This course focuses on a topic in British literature from the Romantic period to the present. Possible topics include the study of a literary movement, a focused historical period, a group of authors, a genre, or a theme.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course may be repeated (up to a total of 9 credits) if topics vary.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 270 - Nature and Environmental Writers
This course is a literature course with a theme; it introduces the student to a selection of nature and environmental writers. The class examines nature writing as a unique form of writing. There are many themes to examine within this genre-how we humans find our “place” in nature and what that means to us, how science relates to literature and art, the complex relationship between wildness and civilization, as well as spiritual issues and environmental issues and responsibilities.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 272 - Native American Literature
The focus of this course is on Native American oral and literary expression. Traditional Native American biographies, speeches, and legends, and contemporary Native American short stories and novels are read.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 274 - Asian American Literature
This course examines novels, short stories, poetry, essays, and political texts written by Asian Americans. Students will attend to the form, content and context of the readings in order to develop their critical thinking skills in relation to a number of issues, themes, and concepts which emerge out of and in relation to Asian American literature and the American racial context; exclusion, group identity, community individualism, racial identity, and immigration.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 275 - Women and Literature
In this course, students read literature written by women and study the literary tradition and critical reception of women writers. Particular emphasis is placed on the cultural position of women in the United States, emphasizing racial, ethnic, and class diversity.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 276 - Men in Literature
This course studies the dialogic relationship between various men, embodying different masculinities and literature. The study consists of two components: first, an exploration of men’s literacy and literature and second, a service-learning project that aims to create a male-positive learning experience of men’s literacy for service-providers and clients.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 301 - Advanced Composition
This course teaches selection, organization, presentation of material, and principles of writing.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 303 - Business and Professional Speaking
Individuals learn rhetorical techniques for effective speaking in the workplace in the context of their respective future careers. Students are required to make several effective oral presentations, proposals, informative lectures or briefings, progress reports, summaries, evaluations, budget reviews, etc. Participation in mock interviews and staff meetings and proper use of visual aids and equipment to enhance presentations are stressed.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 305 - Writing for the Professions
This course involves the practice and study of selected types of discourse employed in professional writing situations, preparing students for different systems of writing in their professional lives. Examples from the writing of workplace professionals are analyzed and used as models to demonstrate the transition from academic to professional writing.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 306 - Reading and Writing Poetry
This course is intended to develop students’ skills in the writing of poetry. Students are expected to submit several written assignments during the course of the term, to read and respond to the poetry of professional poets, to prepare detailed and close peer evaluations, and to submit a significant portfolio of writing at the end of the semester. This course will run primarily as a creative writing workshop.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 307 - Writing and Reading Fiction
This course develops students’ skills in the writing and reading of fiction. Students submit several written assignments during the course of the term, read and respond to short stories and novels by published writers, prepare detailed and close peer evaluations, and submit a significant portfolio of writing at the end of the semester. This course is run primarily as a creative writing workshop.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 308 - Writing and Reading Creative Non-Fiction
This course develops students’ skills in the writing and reading of creative non-fiction. Students submit several written assignments during the course of the term, read and respond to short stories and novels by published writers, prepare detailed and close peer evaluations, and submit a significant portfolio of writing at the end of the semester. This course is run primarily as a creative writing workshop.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 321 - Chaucer and the Middle Ages
This course involves close study of selections from The Canterbury Tales, and “Troilus and Criseide,” as well as other representative selections from Middle English literature.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 332 - The Victorian Period
This course is a study of selected authors of the period, including Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Rosseti, and Carlyle. The course will look at the social, political, and cultural trends of the period.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 333 - English Romantic Literature
This course familiarizes the student with some of the finest poetry and prose written in early nineteenth century England.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 343 - Film as a Narrative Art
Narrative films such as On the Waterfront, All the King’s Men, and Requiem for a Heavyweight are studied and discussed in terms of character, theme, structure, and style. Similarities between cinematic technique and the adaptation of material from literature to film are explored.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 349 - Modern American Poetry
This course is a survey from Dickinson to such poets as Frost, Stevens, Wilbur, and Silko. Modern poetic forms, diction, and content are emphasized. The course reflects the diversity of modern American poetry and its relevance to contemporary literary movements.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 350 - Modern American Novel
This course explores ideas of modernism and post-modernism in American novels, considering ideas of moderism as both an era of literature and a style of writing. What makes a piece of writing “modern” or “post-modern”? How do we know? Who decides? We will discuss the idea of “the Great American Novel” and how marginalized writers are often excluded from consideration in that debate.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 352 - American Realism and Naturalism
This course focuses on the literary genre, criticism, and cultural context of America from 1865 to 1914. The course includes a study of the works of the following writers: Howells, Whitman, Twain, James, Harte, Garland, London, Norris, and Crane.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 353 - American Romanticism
This course focuses on the literary works of key nineteenth century authors in the American Romantic movement: Irving, Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. Romantic themes of individualism, imagination, and intuition are stressed.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 356 - Readings in the English Novel I
This course traces the rise and development of the English novel from the early eighteenth century until the mid-nineteenth century. Included in this examination are the evolution of narrative voice and structure, point of view, theme, and ideology.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 357 - Readings in the English Novel II
This course traces the development of the English novel from the mid-Victorian period through the middle of the twentieth century, focusing particularly on the modernist and postmodernist movements and their influence on narrative voice, point of view, structure, theme, and ideology. Authors included are Eliot, Gissing, Hardy, Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf, Burgess, Sillitoe, and Golding.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 362 - Celtic Literature
This course explores modern and contemporary Irish, Welsh, and Scottish literary traditions, with attention to the mythological and political backgrounds of the literature. Particular emphasis is given to the Irish Literary Renaissance and such writers as Yeats, J.M. Synge, James Joyce, Flann O’Brien, and Frank O’Conner.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 370 - Film Genre
Each semester it is offered, this course focuses on a specific film genre such as
athlete in film, crime film, women in film, science fiction film, or film comedy. Films
are analyzed in terms of character, theme, symbol, structure, and unique cinematic
techniques. It is suggested, but not required, that students take ENGL 343, Film
as Narrative Art, prior to ENGL 370.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course may be repeated (up to a total of 9 credit hours) if different genre topics are selected.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 377 - The History of the English Language
This course analyzes the growth, structure, and development of the English language.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 388 - Special Topics in Narrative Film
Each semester it is offered, this course focuses on a specific film genre such as the war film, film comedy, or the western. Films are analyzed in terms of character, theme symbol, structure, and unique cinematic techniques. It is suggested, but not required, that students take ENGL 343 Film as a Narrative Art, prior to 388. This course may be taken for credit more than one time if different genre topics are selected.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 428 - Modern Drama
This course explores modern trends in the development of dramatic literature, with emphasis on Realism and Theatricalism.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 459 - The Contemporary Novel
This course seeks to investigate the novel from the point where traditional courses in American and European literature terminate. Current novels are read and discussed in an effort to evaluate their literary merit, popularity, and contribution to modern culture.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 488 - Special Topics
Varies.
Credits: 3
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English for Speakers of Other Languages |
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ESOL 250 - ESOL Reading and Writing I-Advanced
This is an advanced level reading a writing course designed for students whose native language is not English. It focuses on developing reading and writing skills to enable them to function effectively in an academic setting. Students should be placed in ESOL 250 through the placement exam or with the recommendation of an ESOL instructor. (Fall only) .
Credits: 3
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ESOL 251 - ESOL Speaking and Listening-Advanced
This is an advanced speaking and listening course designed for students whose native language is not English. It focuses on developing the speaking and listening skills to enable them to function effectively in an academic setting. Students should be placed in ESOL 251 through the placement exam or with the recommendtion of an ESOL instructor. (Fall only)
Credits: 3
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ESOL 260 - ESOL Reading and Writing II-Advanced
This is an advanced level reading a writing course designed for students whose native language is not English. It focuses on developing reading and writing skills to enable them to function effectively in an academic setting. Students should be placed in ESOL 260 through the placement exam or with the recommendation of an ESOL instructor. (Spring only)
Credits: 3
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ESOL 261 - ESOL Speaking and Listening-Advanced
This is an advanced speaking and listening course designed for students whose native language is not English. It focuses on developing the speaking and listening skills to enable them to function effectively in an academic setting. Students should be placed in ESOL 251 through the placement exam or with the recommendation of an ESOL instructor. (Spring only)
Credits: 3
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ESOL 288 - Special Topics
Three special topics courses are offered each semester. Topics may include TOEFL preparation, study skills, vocabulary development, pronunciation, or advanced grammar topics.
Credits: 1
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ENVS 115 - Environmental Geology
Environmental Geology is an introductory course examines broad range of topics, all related by the interactions between geological processes and society. Class begins with an overview of our physical environment, covering such topics as: rocks and minerals, plate tectonics, weathering and erosion, and climate trends. The class continues by focusing on such topics as geologic hazards, utilization of natural resources, environmental management, and regulatory processes.
Credits: 4
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ENVS 120 - Foundations of Sustainability
Sustainability is an interdisciplinary field that examines the interrelated environmental, economic, social and technological problems facing humans at local, regional and global scales. This course takes a scientific approach to understanding sustainability: providing a foundation of the concepts, principles and tools from diverse fields that contribute to understanding and responding to problems such as climate change, environmental degradation, and social inequalities. Introducing perspectives from the natural and social sciences, arts and humanities, and professional disciplines, it explores how their interconnection increases the prospects for creating a more sustainable future.
Credits: 3
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ENVS 150 - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
This course provides an introduction to the theory and application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). This class includes the three components of GIS: data, analysis, and communication. Topics covered include data sources, data collection, data analysis techniques, and communication through cartography. The course balances theoretical and applied material, enabling students to apply knowledge of GIS in the solution of real-world problems.
Credits: 3
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ENVS 486 - Environmental Science Internship
The internship program is designed to help you connect your academic studies to practical applications by offering academic credit for environmentally-focused work experience. A well-designed internship will allow you to develop your professional skills, gain hands-on experience, evaluate career opportunities, and begin building a professional network. Academic credit is dependent upon the number of hours spent at the internship site.
Prerequisites & Notes
ENVS majors only
Credits: 1-3
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FINC 486 - Finance Internship
The internship highlights academic study with a focus in various areas of finance. It offers students the opportunity to test classroom theory, align career goals, develop a professional outlook, proof communication skills, and deepen the understanding of the functions of finance in a business setting. Academic credit is dependent upon the number of hours spent at the internship site. Courses for junior and senior business majors only.
Prerequisites & Notes
SPCO 220 - Internship Preparation Seminar
Credits: 1-6
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FREN 103 - Cultures of France and Francophone World
This course presents selected aspects of French culture through readings, and especially through the viewing of films. The aim is for students to visualize a culture before examining it. Students discuss selected topics pertinent to the French civilization that are also relevant to them. In addition, students acquaint themselves with French-speaking countries by embarking on an intellectual voyage through discussions of each movie and each literary work, through individual research, and oral presentation.
Credits: 3
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FREN 111 - Elementary French I
This course is offered to students with no experience of the French language. Students are immersed in all the complexity of spoken French and are brought to speak with confidence and good pronunciation in familiar situations. By means of this immersion method, students use their creativity and coping skills to communicate and to reflect on the differing values in a foreign culture.
Credits: 3
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FREN 212 - Intermediate French II
This course emphasizes the advantages of learning a foreign language as a means of communication and as the key to a different culture. Students gain a better understanding of how the French Language works in real life. The conversational method of the course stresses both verbal and non-verbal communication, gestures, looks, attitudes, behavior, intonation, i.e., cultural conventions and assumptions. Toward this goal, multimedia and global communication capacities through technology are used to expose students to French in its natural form.
Prerequisites & Notes
FREN 112 - Elementary French II with a B+ average
FREN 211 - Intermediate French I
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4 years of French at the Secondary School Level, or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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GEOG 200 - World Regional Geography
This is a basic introductory course in geography designed to develop an understanding and perspective of the major regions of the world.
Credits: 3
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GEOG 210 - Cultural Geography
This course introduces students to cultural geography, the study of how various aspects of culture are expressed spatially. Global patterns of population, economic
organization, forms of government, religion, language and development are surveyed.
Credits: 3
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HCMT 486 - Health Care Management Internship
The internship highlights academic study with a focus in various areas of health care management. It offers students the opportunity to test classroom theory, align career goals, develop a professional outlook, proof communication skills, and deepen the understanding of the functions of health care management in a business setting. Academic credit is dependent upon the number of hours spent at the internship site. Courses for junior and senior business majors only.
Prerequisites & Notes
SPCO 220 - Internship Preparation Seminar
Credits: 1-6
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Health Science and Rehabilitation Studies |
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HSRS 101 - Introduction to Health Care and Rehabilitation
Students in this course learn about the scope and domain of practice of various healthcare fields and explore the roles and relationships of health professionals within
the U.S. healthcare system. Discussion and assignments address both the broader context of healthcare services and individual students’ experiences and interests.
Students explore and develop plans for their own healthcare education and careers.
Credits: 3
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HSRS 130 - Introduction to Public Health
This course introduces students to the population health approach to public health and describes a range of options for intervention to promote health and prevent disease. Topics include the history of public health, uses of health information, health risk, and the frequency of health problems, health screening, health promotion, a review of the U.S. public health system, the role of government in both public and preventative health, the comparison of U.S. health policy with other countries.
Credits: 3
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HSRS 201 - Introduction to Health Care Ethics
Health care ethics presents some of the most intriguing and perplexing issues facing the country today. This course introduces and explores issues such as scarce health care resources; the relationship between patient and health caregiver; experimentation with human subjects; social justice and the right to health care; assisted reproductive technologies; and euthanasia and assisted suicide. We will discuss issues from the standpoint of different kinds of patients, medical professionals, and citizens who shape policy in a democrat ice society. Ethical theories and concepts will be stressed.
Credits: 3
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HSRS 310 - Genetics, Health and Behavior
The aim of this course is to provide a review of this interdisciplinary field which is a combination of behavioral science and genetics. Specifically, the focus of the course is to provide a clearer understanding of the contribution that genes make to individual differences in behavior. The interrelationships of biological and cultural determinants of behavior will be explored with regard to complex human behavior.
Prerequisites & Notes
RHDS 260 - Human Disease and Chronic Illness
Credits: 3
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HSRS 325 - Biostatistics
The basic principles and techniques of biostatistics are examined. Topics include: data presentation, numerical summary measures, rates and standardization, life tables, probability, probability distributions, sampling distribution of the mean, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, comparison of two means, analysis of variance, nonparametric methods, inference of proportions, contingency tables, correlation, linear regression, and survival analysis.
Credits: 3
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HSRS 380 - Special Topics in Health Science
By its nature, this course will be an offering where the topic will be different for each student.
Prerequisites & Notes
Junior and Senior Health Science-General Studies students only and permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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HSRS 384 - Practicum in Health Science
This course is an individually contracted, practical experience under professional supervision in a Health Sciences setting. It is intended to assist the student in exploring and confirming career goals. Students engage in forty-five to fifty clock hours of supervised practicum per semester hour of credit.
Prerequisites & Notes
Health Science-General Studies majors only.
Credits: 3
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HSRS 410 - Health and Health Care Disparities
The objective of this course is to familiarize students with the aspects of culture that influence health status, the development of public health policy, and the management and practice of health care. The following topical areas will be examined: paradigms and explanations of mental and physical health disparities, population characteristics by which health is stratified, access to health services, and health status outcomes. These cultural factors impact patient-provider interaction, health and illness, behavior, and health care provided decision-making.
Prerequisites & Notes
RHDS 260 - Human Disease and Chronic Illness
Credits: 3
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HSRS 420 - Evidence-Based Health Care
The principles of evidence-based practice and research methodologies that underpin patient and client care. These principles are also viewed through the prism of information literacy. Approaches to obtaining and validating information in the digital world are examined. The focus is upon students preparing to engage in evidence-based practice, providing the skills necessary to critically evaluate new information that is available from research findings and professional organizations and practice groups. The process of assessing and integrating new information into the individual practitioner’s approach to practice is emphasized.
Prerequisites & Notes
RHDS 260 - Human Disease and Chronic Illness
Credits: 3
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HSRS 450 - Behavioral Neuroscience
The physiological basis of behavior is examined. There will be a detailed examination of the anatomical and physiological correlates of behavior. An understanding of the physiological correlates of many types of psychological pathology as well as an appreciation of the pervasive impact of physiological variables on psychological functioning will be examined. Also examined are the relationships of mind and body to adaptation as they relate to personality and behavior in health and disease.
Prerequisites & Notes
RHDS 260 - Human Disease and Chronic Illness
Credits: 3
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HSRS 460 - Health Law
The health sciences student is exposed to the legal issues they are likely to face in the delivery of health care, health care practice, and interactions with health care organizations. The further purpose is to help students understand how the legal system functions and how it affects the delivery of health care. The sources of laws, rules, and the legal process are examined. The student is also introduced to current legal issues in health care and the skills to analyze these issues.
Prerequisites & Notes
HSRS 130 - Introduction to Public Health
Credits: 3
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HSRS 470 - Global Health
This course joins the main concepts of the public health field to the critical links between global health and social and economic development. Students also review the burden of disease, risk factors, and key measures to address the burden of disease in cost-effective ways. The course is global in coverage, but with focus on low- and middle-income countries and on the health of the poor.
Prerequisites & Notes
HSRS 130 - Introduction to Public Health
Credits: 3
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HSRS 475 - Maternal and Child Health
This course examines the determinants, mechanisms and systems that promote the health, safety, well-being and appropriate development of children and their families in communities and societies, and examines birth in the context of the U.S. relative to global health. Themes of joy, fear, and pain in childbirth, as well as meanings of pregnancy will be explored in different times and places. A variety of urgent issues in global reproductive health are analyzed, such as reproductive rights, equity, access, and quality of healthcare during birth.
Prerequisites & Notes
HSRS 130 - Introduction to Public Health
Credits: 3
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HSRS 577 - Assistive Technology in the Classroom
Using a case-based approach, students work in small interdisciplinary teams to explore the use of assistive devices and technologies that promote the participation of all
children in school. Class activities include lecture and demonstration, and hands-on experience with hard- and software, adaptive quipment, and a variety of high-and low-tech devices.
Credits: 3
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HLTH 100 - Wellness: A Way of Life
This course provides students with a basic knowledge and practice of wellness and the importance of lifelong healthful living. Students are acquainted with such topics as healthy behavior change, stress management, mental health, nutrition and weight management, sexuality, relationships, addictions and physical fitness and activity. Emphasis is placed on decision-making and personal responsibility for one’s own health. The class is comprised of lecture and lab components.
Credits: 3
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HLTH 101 - Physical Health and Wellness
This course provides students with a basic knowledge and practice of physical health and wellness the importance of lifelong healthful living. Students are acquainted with such topics as physical health and fitness, healthy behavior change, stress management, nutrition, weight management, and relationships. The classes comprise a lecture and lab components.
Credits: 3
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HLTH 210 - Consumer and Environmental Health
This course aids prospective health education majors, as well as interested student consumers, in attaining a better understanding of individual human rights in consumer health from conception until death and in realizing a maximum return for their money and effort spent in the pursuit of optimum wellness. Students will examine the epidemiology and pathology of major environmental diseases and the attendant psycho-socio-economic implications.
Credits: 3
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HLTH 260 - Drugs and Society
This course provides students with a basic knowledge of current drug use and the adverse effects of drug misuse and abuse. The use and misuse of drugs are examined from physiological, psychological, sociological, and intellectual perspectives. This course provides students with an opportunity to examine the various components and issues of drug use, misuse, and abuse in society today.
Prerequisites & Notes
HLTH 100 - Wellness: A Way of Life
Credits: 3
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HLTH 304 - Health Education Methods and Pre-Practicum: PreK-12
The course is designed to help dually enrolled physical education/health education teacher preparation students further their pedagogical content knowledge and to introduce principles of curriculum development and instruction for grades pre-K through 12. Students will apply and practice developmentally appropriate activities in school-based laboratory settings. The primary focus will be to extend pre-service teacher knowledge of appropriate practices for planning, teaching, and evaluating as that knowledge relates to children receiving instruction in Elementary and Secondary Health Education. Students must earn a ‘C’ or better in HLTH 304 in order to matriculate for the practicum experiences.
Credits: 3
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HLTH 343 - Community Health Education
This course helps students become effective community health educators by increasing knowledge in community health areas and enhancing individual health skills and competencies essential to this career field. This course also provides an overview of the organization, role, and structure of community health agencies, with a specific emphasis on the health education services.
Credits: 3
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HLTH 355 - Human Sexuality
This course provides open discussion, debates, and reading materials to survey the dynamics of human sexuality, and to identify and examine the basic issues in human sexuality in relation to society as a whole.
Credits: 3
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HLTH 360 - Violence Prevention and Psychosocial Health
This course will focus on the implications and the critical importance of the emotional and social health dimensions as they apply to total health status, and the field of health education. This course also provides access to core knowledge related to promoting school safety, preventing school violence, and responding to school crisis. The course offers a foundation for both scholarship and practice regarding implementing effective prevention and intervention programs to prevent school violence and promote safe and effective schools.
Credits: 3
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HLTH 417 - Organization, Administration, and Assessment for the School Health Program
This course examines administrative relationships, procedures, and assessment techniques involved in the conduct of school health programs. Areas of study include: general policies, services and delivery systems, environment, reliability, personnel duties, curriculum development, and instruction. An emphasis on aligning program objectives and assessment strategies with the current Massachusetts Comprehensive Health Education Frameworks (MCHEF) will comprise a significant segment of required assignments.
Credits: 3
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HLTH 450 - Workshop in Family and Consumer Sciences
Workshop in family and consumer sciences education prepares students to teach young people and train them for family life, work life, and careers in family and consumer sciences. The course will provide an opportunity for students to develop knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviors in the critical areas of FA CS, including, but not limited to; promoting optimal nutrition and wellness across the life span, managing resources to meet the material needs of individuals and families, balancing personal, home, family, and work lives, using critical and creative thinking skills to address problems in diverse family, community, and work environments, and functioning as providers and consumers of goods and services. Students must earn a ‘B’ or better in HLTH 450 in order to matriculate for the practicum experiences.
Credits: 1-3
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HLTH 484 - Health/Family and Consumer Science (PreK-8) Practicum and Seminar
This culminating experience gives teacher candidates the opportunity to plan, organize, and teach elementary/middle school health/family & consumer science under the direct supervision of a qualified supervising practitioner and program supervisor. The experience includes between 150-225 clock hours, depending on the number of registered credits. A minimum of 150 clock hours, grades PreK-8, is required for those seeking licensure as a Health/Family & Consumer Science teacher (All levels). A seminar taught by Springfield College faculty is included.
Prerequisites & Notes
All standards for practicum placement must be met including passing all required MTELs.
Credits: 4-6
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HLTH 485 - Health/Family and Consumer Science (5-12) Practicum and Seminar
This culminating experience gives teacher candidates the opportunity to plan, organize, and teach secondary health/family & consumer science under the direct supervision of a qualified supervising practitioner and program supervisor. The experience includes between 150-225 clock hours, depending on the number of registered credits. A minimum of 150 clock hours, grades 5-12, is required for those seeking licensure as a Health/Family & Consumer Science teacher (All levels). A seminar taught by Springfield College faculty is included.
Prerequisites & Notes
All standards for practicum placement must be met including passing all required MTELs.
Credits: 4-6
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HLTH 487 - Fieldwork in Health Promotion
The fieldwork experience in health promotion gives students the opportunity to apply theory and knowledge learned in the classroom to the work situation through participation in a health organization’s daily activities. Students learn how to identify health needs of individuals and groups, and how to plan, coordinate and implement health education activities.
Prerequisites & Notes
Students must have successfully achieved advanced standing in the Health Studies major. In addition, students must meet with their faculty supervisor to discuss planning information and selection of an appropriate agency, prepare a resume to present to the agency supervisor at the time of the interview (it is recommended that the resume be shared with the faculty supervisor first), and familiarize themselves with the selected agency and then contact the selected agency to arrange for an interview.
Credits: 6-12
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HLTH 488 - Special Topics in Health Studies
This course gives prospective classroom professionals an opportunity to study the special health issues and problems that arise in assisting students to change lifestyles or cope with special health needs. Through this course, students are better able to apply the communication and interpersonal skills necessary for promoting health and wellness.
Credits: 3
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HLTH 505 - Curriculum Construction in Health Education
This course analyzes the essential components of and procedures for the development of a written standards-based/data-driven pre-K-12 comprehensive health education or interdisciplinary (health education & physical education) curriculum. Using the National Health Standards and the Massachusetts Comprehensive Health Frameworks, students will design and write a standards-based/data-driven curriculum document geared to a specific grade level (preK-12). Opportunity for interfacing physical education and health education instruction into a coherent interdisciplinary or cross-curricular written curriculums is often the typical instructional delivery model in grades preK-12, will be provided as one option for designing and developing a written curriculum document. The importance of parental involvement in the delivery of meaningful and age-appropriate health or interdisciplinary curricular materials will be showcased as students enrolled in this course will evaluate the impact parenting roles and responsibilities have on strengthening the well-being of individuals and families via well-designed health instructional materials. A variety of assessment tools and techniques will be explored completing the connection among instruction, curriculum, and evaluation.
Credits: 3
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HPER 301 - Short Term Study Abroad - Ireland
This course will provide students with academic and cultural experiences. The academic focus will include the globalization of athletic training and exercise science. The cultural include introductions to the arts, religion, historical, academic, landscape and interaction with Irish citizens and current students and faculty with appropriate visits to historical sites.
Credits: 3
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HPER 350 - Wilderness First Responder
This course is designed to provide outdoor professionals with the knowledge and skills to deal with crisis in remote settings. The W.F.R. certification is the most widely
recognized certification for outdoor leaders. With an emphasis on prevention and decision-making, practical simulations and labs provide practice in backcountry leadership and rescue skills. *Students who successfully complete this course will receive a S.O.L.O. WFR certification card.
Prerequisites & Notes
18 years of age and permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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