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AEXS 540 - Sports Nutrition
This course focuses on the relationship between nutritional practices and human physical performance. Topics covered include the role of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water on performance. In addition, factors affecting body composition and weight control are covered.
Credits: 3
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AEXS 561 - Electrocardiogram Interpretation and Graded Exercise Testing
The purpose of this course is to continue general orientation to a cardiovascular health program; to review physical fitness knowledge techniques and interpretation; to increase understanding of monitored graded exercise testing; to provide skill training in the administration and interpretation of exercise testing protocol and procedures; and to introduce the student to cardiac rehabilitation program policies and procedures.
Prerequisites & Notes
YMCA Physical Fitness Workshop or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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AEXS 601 - Management of Health/Fitness Programs
This course is designed to give students the basic skills necessary to develop and implement an employee health/fitness program. An emphasis is placed on management, facility development, programming, and leadership procedures.
Prerequisites & Notes
Permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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AEXS 602 - Exercise Biochemistry
This course covers the biochemical principles responsible for the release of energy from carbohydrates, fats, and proteins during exercise. Biochemical changes associated with acute exercise, chronic training, and endocrine control of metabolism are also covered.
Prerequisites & Notes
AEXS 313/315, CHEM 331, or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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AEXS 603 - Cardiovascular Physiology and Exercise
This course provides the students the opportunity to study cardiovascular function both at rest and during exercise. The effect of both acute and chronic exercise on cardiovascular function is studied both in lecture and during a laboratory component.
Prerequisites & Notes
MSCI 313/315 or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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AEXS 604 - Neuromuscular Physiology and Exercise
This course examines the integration of neural and muscular aspects of human movement, the effects of acute and chronic exercise on neuromuscular function, and factors which influence neuromuscular function.
Prerequisites & Notes
MSCI 313/315
Credits: 3
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AEXS 606 - Environmental Physiology
This course provides the student the opportunity to study the various forms of environmental stress and how the human organism responds physiologically to them. Students study how physical performance is affected by environmental stressors such as heat, cold, altitude, and the hyperbaric environment both in lecture and in a laboratory component.
Prerequisites & Notes
MSCI 313/315 or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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AEXS 607 - Pulmonary Physiology & Exercise
This course provides students the opportunity to study pulmonic physiological function both at rest and during exercise. The effect of chronic exercise on pulmonic function is studied both in lecture and during a laboratory component. The effect of acute exercise is also studied. The relationship of cardiovascular function to pulmonic function is also presented.
Prerequisites & Notes
AEXS 603 - Cardiovascular Physiology and Exercise
Credits: 3
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AEXS 610 - Advanced Exercise Physiology
This course takes an in-depth look at the physiological responses and adaptations to acute and chronic exercise. Topics that are covered include the physiology of the skeletal muscle, cardiorespiratory, endocrine, and renal systems. In addition, environmental effects, ergogenic aids, gender differences, and training procedures are studied.
Prerequisites & Notes
AEXS 313/315 or equivalent. CHEM 331 or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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AEXS 613 - Exercise for Special Populations
This course provides an advanced level overview of the principles and practice of exercise testing and prescription in select special populations. Focus of the course is on exercise considerations for non-cardiac conditions. Laboratory exercises and clinical site visits are required.
Prerequisites & Notes
AEXS 260.
Credits: 3
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AEXS 651 - Quantitative Biomechanics of Movement
The process of quantitative biomechanical analysis is examined, with emphasis on human motion and its mechanical interaction with the environment. Applications are drawn from normal locomotive, occupational, sport, and pathological movements. Instruction is provided in cinematographer and force platform laboratory procedures for use in kinematics and kinetic analysis projects.
Prerequisites & Notes
MSCI 319/321 or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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AEXS 652 - Data Acquisition and Signal Analysis in Movement Sciences
This course is designed to present theory and procedures used in computerized, real-time data acquisition and subsequent signal analysis. Practical experience is gained through the use of hardware and software packages designed for that purpose. Applications are drawn from representative data acquisition tasks used in movement sciences research.
Prerequisites & Notes
BASIC or FORTRAN computer programming experience or permission of instructor.
Credits: 2
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AEXS 670 - Strength and Conditioning
This course is designed to provide students with information for the design and implementation of a successful strength and conditioning program. Emphasis will be placed on assessment, description and analysis of sport movement, and designing weight training programs to enhance performance variables. This course will assist those students who desire to take the National Strength and Conditioning (CSCS) Exam. However, this course is not a preparation course for the exam.
Credits: 3
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AEXS 672 - Medical Physiology
This course focuses on the pathophysiology of selected diseases. The diseases covered include cardiac, pulmonary, and renal disease. This information is important for those who have an interest in clinical exercise physiology.
Prerequisites & Notes
AEXS 603 - Cardiovascular Physiology and Exercise
Credits: 3
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AEXS 675 - Graded Exercise Testing and Electrocardiography
This course is designed to instruct students in the acquisition and interpretation of both resting and exercise electrocardiograms. Students are taught to identify various supraventricular and ventricular dysrhythmias. This course is also designed to acquaint students with the procedures involved with exercise testing and prescription for healthy and diseased populations.
Prerequisites & Notes
AEXS 603 - Cardiovascular Physiology and Exercise
Credits: 3
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AEXS 677 - Stress Management
This course provides comprehensive and advanced treatise of stress management. The concept of stress, the psychophysiology of stress, the measurement of stress, the relation of stress to mental and physical health and performance, prevention and intervention in stress management, and special topics related to stress are discussed.
Prerequisites & Notes
BIOL 130-131, 132-133.
Credits: 3
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AEXS 678 - Sport and Exercise Psychology
This course is designed to provide the student with the theory basis of human behavior in sport settings with an emphasis on the cognitive aspects of behavior. Areas to be discussed are sport personology (including personality, motivation, achievement, and attributions), anxiety/arousal, attentional focus, and social/cultural manifestations of sport (including humanism, youth sport, aggression, cooperation/ cohesion, and leadership).
Credits: 3
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AEXS 679 - Applied Sport and Exercise Psychology
This course provides opportunity for investigations into current skill enhancement techniques from sport psychology. Direct application in sport through classroom learning and supervised field experience is emphasized. Performance enhancement techniques, including goal setting, imagery and relaxation, self talk, attributions, visualization, and mental practice, are employed as the student practices psychological skills training with an athlete.
Prerequisites & Notes
AEXS 678 - Sport and Exercise Psychology
Credits: 3
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AEXS 680 - Advanced Strength and Conditioning
This course provides students with information to complement and illustrate material taught in AEXS 670. Emphasis is placed on theory and methodology of training and preparing athletes for competition.
Prerequisites & Notes
AEXS 670 - Strength and Conditioning
Credits: 3
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AEXS 681 - Internship in Strength and Conditioning
The purpose of this course is to provide students with the appropriate setting for the application of the principles of strength and conditioning which are taught in the AEXS 670 course. Emphasis is placed on instruction and performance of the Olympic lifts, core strength lifts, abdominal/low back training, as well as balance and proprioception training. Students are expected to complete 100 hours of fieldwork in the Springfield College Strength and Conditioning facility.
Prerequisites & Notes
ESSS majors only.
Credits: 2 - 6
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AEXS 682 - Strength and Conditioning Fieldwork I
This is a supervised field-based experience that familiarizes students with the conditions, practices, and environmental settings where aspired vocational roles are conducted. Placement for fieldwork is made and must be approved by the coordinator for health/fitness fieldwork. The experience is arranged on an individual student basis and should reflect the student’s professional and career aspirations.
Prerequisites & Notes
Completion of appropriate coursework and permission of advisor and fieldwork coordinator. CPR and CSCS certifications are recommended.
Credits: 1
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AEXS 683 - Strength and Conditioning Fieldwork II
This is a supervised field-based experience that familiarizes students with the conditions, practices, and environmental settings where aspired vocational roles are conducted. Placement for fieldwork is made and must be approved by the coordinator for health/fitness fieldwork. The experience is arranged on an individual student basis and should reflect the student’s professional and career aspirations.
Prerequisites & Notes
Completion of appropriate coursework and permission of advisor and fieldwork coordinator. CPR and CSCS certifications are recommended.
Credits: 2
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AEXS 684 - Fieldwork in Sports Nutrition
This course is designed to give students an opportunity to apply the scientific principles that they gained in the MSCI 440/640 course (Nutrition and Athletic Performance). Students are assigned to an athletic team to assist members of that team in developing a better understanding of the role that nutrition plays in enhancing their performance.
Credits: 1-2
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AEXS 686 - Health and Fitness Fieldwork
This course is a supervised field-based experience in an appropriate work site. The work experience is arranged on an individual basis and must reflect a new dimension consistent with career aspirations. The
student becomes involved with on-the-job training through active observation and participation in programs, projects, and practices. Placement must be made and approved by the health/fitness program coordinator.
Program requirements must be completed or concurrent.
Credits: 1-8
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AEXS 692 - Independent Study
This course is intended to meet the doctoral degree requirements in the health science and physical education programs. A project is planned by the student and conducted under faculty supervision. It may involve a research project, development of curricula materials, a review of literature, or other appropriate activity. A written proposal is required.
Credits: 2
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AEXS 692 - Independent Study in Applied Exercise Science
This course is intended to meet the non-thesis master’s degree requirements in the health science and physical education programs. A project is planned by the student and conducted under faculty supervision. It may involve a research project, development of curricula materials, a review of literature, or other appropriate activity. A written proposal is required.
Prerequisites & Notes
ESSS majors only. Approval of major advisor and faculty supervisor required.
Credits: 2
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AEXS 694 - Special Topics: Professional Seminars
This course is devoted to the analysis and synthesis of selected problems, issues, or special topics facing physical education and sport. Students may take a maximum of four semester hours in PHED 550 and PHED 688 within a master’s program.
Credits: 1-3
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AEXS 695 - Internship in Clinical Exercise Physiology I
In this course, graduate students have the opportunity for hands-on application of their didactic instruction. Students are exposed to a variety of clinical experiences as they interact with patients having or recovering from cardiac, pulmonary, metabolic, musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, immunological/hematological conditions at an approved site.
Prerequisites & Notes
CPR/AED and permission of instructor
Credits: 1
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AEXS 696 - Internship in Clinical Exercise Physiology II
In this course, graduate students have the opportunity for hands-on application of their didactic instruction. Students are exposed to a variety of clinical experiences as they interact with patients having or recovering from cardiac, pulmonary, metabolic, musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, immunological/hematological conditions at an approved site.
Prerequisites & Notes
CPR/AED and permission of instructor
Credits: 1
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AEXS 697 - Internship in Clinical Exercise Physiology III
In this course, graduate students have the opportunity for hands-on application of their didactic instruction. Students are exposed to a variety of clinical experiences as they interact with patients having or recovering from cardiac, pulmonary, metabolic, musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, immunological/hematological conditions at an approved site.
Prerequisites & Notes
CPR/AED and permission of instructor
Credits: 1
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AEXS 698 - Internship in Clinical Exercise Physiology IV
In this course, graduate students have the opportunity for hands-on application of their didactic instruction. Students are exposed to a variety of clinical experiences as they interact with patients having or recovering from cardiac, pulmonary, metabolic, musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, immunological/hematological conditions at an approved site.
Prerequisites & Notes
CPR/AED and permission of instructor
Credits: 1-3
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ARTS 622 - Asian Arts and Culture
This course provides a survey of the arts of Asia, specifically India, China, and Japan from prehistory to modern times. Lectures and discussions focus on the traditional arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture, as well as the art of Feng Shui, Ikebana, Calligraphy, Haiku, Bonsai, Raku, and martial arts. Students have an opportunity to work directly with some of the art forms. Students are exposed to the aesthetics as well as the philosophical basis of these Eastern Arts.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 670 - Advanced Studio in Ceramics
This course is an advanced clay course including the use of the potter’s wheel as a method of producing functional as well as sculptural objects. As basic skills are acquired, various advanced forms are introduced. Students may also choose to work in a purely sculptural tradition. Students experiment with various materials and building techniques, researching information with a multicultural view in conjunction with assigned projects.
Prerequisites & Notes
ARTS 223 or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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ATPY 504 - Printmaking for the Art Therapist
In this course, students learn traditional and innovative printmaking techniques, utilize materials and equipment, and understand limits and advantages of printmaking as a therapeutic modality in clinical sites. Students are required to produce prints in various media, apply techniques to selected client populations in a written paper, and produce a final book project.
Credits: 3
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ATPY 507 - The Psychology of Art and Artists
This course integrates concepts and theories of art education, art therapy, and art history. Students learn the parameters and potential fusion of these disciplines. Discussions of the analysis of art by nineteenth and twentieth century artists who experienced psychological problems, as well as the utilization of art history in therapeutic practice with clientele, are the essence of the course.
Credits: 3
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ATPY 508 - Art Therapy for the Elderly
This course teaches the student to utilize art therapy as a tool to work with the physical, psychological, and social needs of the elderly. It focuses on materials and methodologies that the art therapist uses to assist the elderly in expressing these needs nonverbally through the art process.
Credits: 2
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ATPY 510 - The Therapeutic Aspects of Clay
This course demonstrates techniques and tools to utilize clay as a therapeutic medium. It introduces methods and theories of art therapy utilizing clay as a tool for healing. Technical and theoretical information is covered in depth, along with the integration of clay as a vehicle to express social and political concerns.
Credits: 3
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ATPY 600 - Art Therapy/Counseling with Children and Adolescents
This course focuses on preventive art therapy and treatment methods of various childhood psychological and behavioral disorders. Students review theories of child and adolescent development with special consideration of psychological issues occurring in childhood and adolescence. Case studies and hands-on experience with children enhance the practical application of art therapy with this age group.
Credits: 3
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ATPY 601 - Art Therapy and Psychological Assessment Techniques
Students explore assessment techniques available in treatment during individual and group art therapy sessions, including use of art materials, content analysis, and the evaluation process. Students study psychological assessments and appraisal techniques that have influenced the field of art therapy. Lectures focus on issues and principles of art therapy and psychological assessment; provide a historical perspective; focus on identification (DSM), etiology, and diagnosis using such techniques; and review basic intake procedures. Current issues and trends in psychological and art therapy assessments are evaluated.
Credits: 2
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ATPY 602 - Painting for the Art Therapist
This course focuses on the art of art therapy. The formal elements of art are utilized by artists/art therapists to help convey the motive and psychological atmosphere of their work. Students are required to develop work based on an extensive exploration or thematic approach addressing these concerns.
Credits: 2
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ATPY 603 - Sculpture for the Art Therapist
This course focuses on utilizing the elements of sculpture in the therapeutic milieu. Students explore a variety of innovative sculpture-making media and processes. They research and design techniques appropriate for healing. They also exercise these techniques to develop and extend their own artistic abilities and expressions.
Credits: 2
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ATPY 605 - Drawing and Mixed Media for the Art Therapist
This studio course focuses on utilizing the elements of art in the therapeutic milieu. Students explore a variety of drawing media and collage. Research on art as healing accompanies the studio component.
Credits: 2
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ATPY 606 - Art Therapy/Counseling in our Digital World
This course introduces students to the digital world of art therapy and counseling; its ethics, approaches, applications and emerging technologies. Exploration of hand held digital apps to narrative video therapy and digital photography are integrated with clinical practice. Students gain an understanding of the challenges and benefits of social media, the digital therapeutic relationship, and strategies for art therapist/counselor’s digital presence and social media use in practice; networking and community building.
Credits: 2
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ATPY 610 - Ethical Issues in Art Therapy / Counseling
Professional standards, legal obligations, and ethical conflicts in art therapy and mental health counseling are discussed and debated. Issues of managed healthcare and malpractice insurance are discussed. Additional topics include the interrelationship between psychotropic medication and artistic rendering, and research regarding the correlation between medication and creativity. Standards in clinical mental health counseling public policy are debated.
Credits: 3
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ATPY 612 - Family Therapy in Counseling/Art Therapy
This course introduces students to the use of art processes within the framework of systemic and contextual family therapy and familiarizes students with clinical family therapy models through the process of art therapy. Students develop clinical models and follow case studies utilizing art therapy with families or with an individual family member. The benefits and applications of art therapy with family therapy, within specific limitations of clinical settings, are examined.
Prerequisites & Notes
Permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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ATPY 619 - Art Therapy with Special Needs Populations
This course is designed for individuals who are interested in working with multi-diagnoses individuals through art therapy. Various therapeutic approaches in art therapy, as well as psychological and educational aspects of providing services to special needs populations are discussed. Students discover how art therapy can be used as an educational tool as well as a therapeutic modality.
Credits: 3
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ATPY 630 - Multicultural Issues in Art Therapy / Counseling
The social, political, and multicultural concerns that arise in the practice of art therapy are addressed in this course. Topics include, but are not limited to, multicultural issues in art assessment, art therapy treatment, ethics, family art therapy, and art therapy with various clientele.
Prerequisites & Notes
ATPY 610 - Ethical Issues in Art Therapy / Counseling
Credits: 3
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ATPY 646 - Art Therapy/Counseling and Substance Use Disorders
The purpose of this course is to gain knowledge in the area of Art Therapy/Counseling and Substance Use Disorders. An art therapist utilizes the metaphor to empower clients to view their circumstances from a different perspective. Students will learn how to assess clients utilizing art therapy techniques, and determine an appropriate treatment plan. Students will be able to present a case utilizing art therapy techniques, determine appropriate level of care, identify behaviors and actions associated with substance use diagnoses.
Credits: 3
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ATPY 688 - Special Topics in Art Therapy
This course examines various current professional issues, theories, mediums, and experientials in art therapy. Specific units concentrate on content areas that enhance and augment student learning beyond the basic graduate art therapy courses.
Credits: 1-3
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ATRN 612 - Advanced Therapeutic Exercise and Modalities
This is an advanced course for students in the Athletic Training Rehabilitation Track in the Graduate Athletic Training Program. The topics included in this course concentrate on the use of therapeutic exercise and modalities in the rehabilitation of injuries to the physically active. Current research is an integral part of the course.
Prerequisites & Notes
students in the Athletic Training Master’s Degree program or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 3
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ATRN 620 - Athletic Training Clinical Education
Course content is divided into three modules: 1) Athletic Training Clinical Education, 2) Current Policies and Procedures in Clinical Education, 3) Clinical Instructor Educator (CIE) Seminar. Students explore these topics through seminar, research, class and web-based discussion.
Prerequisites & Notes
students enrolled in the Athletic Training Master’s Degree program or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 3
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ATRN 682 - Seminar in Athletic Health Care
This seminar format course examines current topics and issues in athletic health care. Topics include: prevention and management of injuries to the physically active, professional preparation, credentialing of the athletic trainer and reimbursement for athletic training services.
Credits: 3
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ATRN 686 - Fieldwork in Athletic Training
This fieldwork experience provides the athletic training graduate student the opportunity to gain clinical experience in one of three concentrations: 1) Athletic Training Administration, 2) Athletic Training Professional Preparation, and 3) Athletic Training Rehabilitation. Fieldwork experiences are supervised by NATABOC certified and state licensed athletic trainers. May be repeated for a maximum of eight (8) semester hours of credit.
Prerequisites & Notes
Students enrolled in the Athletic Training Master’s Degree program.
Credits: 3
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ATRN 688 - Special Topics in Athletic Training
This course provides an opportunity for discussion of specialized topics and current issues of relevance to Athletic Trainers. Topics are offered on a variable basis. A student may register for this course for credit more than once, provided the topic is different each time.
Credits: 1-3
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ATRN 692 - Independent Study in Athletic Training
This course is intended to meet the non-thesis master’s degree requirements in the health science and physical education programs. A project is planned by the student and conducted under faculty supervision. It may involve a research project, development of curricula materials, a review of literature, or other appropriate activity. A written proposal is required.
Prerequisites & Notes
Approval of major advisor and faculty supervisor.
Credits: 2
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BIOL 276 - Medical Genetics
This course introduces the field of genetics as necessary to understand current applications of medical interest. The transmission of hereditary information during cell division and sexual reproduction are discussed followed by the delineation of various inheritance patterns and the use of pedigree analysis. The molecular bases of traits are revealed, including genetic mutations and how they lead to disease. Finally, recombinant DNA technology, genome analysis, and other current genetic topics are discussed with respect to genetic testing / screening and the treatment of genetic disorders. Though fundamental principles in genetics are taught in this course, the main focus will be on the basis, diagnosis, and treatment of genetic disorders.
Credits: 3
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BUSM 600 - Selected Applications of Accounting
This course offers an in-depth study of accounting for the graduate student with no previous accounting background. The emphasis is on the preparation, interpretation, and use of financial statements for profit and nonprofit organizations. A management-oriented approach to accounting procedures is utilized.
Credits: 3
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BUSM 610 - Financial Management of Healthcare Organizations
This course explores specific skills in modern financial management. The course covers the fundamental skills of identifying financial weaknesses and problem-solving in the healthcare sector. Special emphasis is on fund raising, budget control, and fund management. Analytical skills are enhanced in the subject areas of profitability and asset management. Financial reporting criteria are discussed and case study analysis is included.
Credits: 3
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BUSM 611 - Accounting for Decision Making
This course emphasizes financial and managerial accounting concepts and terminology used in corporate policy setting and decision-making. Managerial planning and problem solving through the interpretation and evaluation of financial statements are emphasized. Analytical tools such as variance and ratio analysis are highlighted. The course develop skills associated with the communication and dissemination of managerial reports and recommendations.
Credits: 3
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BUSM 620 - Strategic Management of Healthcare Organizations
This course explores specific issues and concepts in long-term strategic planning to ensure exemplary healthcare delivery. Skills in identifying opportunities and weaknesses in organizational development in the healthcare sector are taught. Special emphasis is on organizational and human resource development, client-based needs assessment, and asset utilization.
Credits: 3
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BUSM 625 - Marketing Management
Marketing Management emphasizes the utilization and understanding of modern marketing strategies. Through real world exposure, the marketing process is examined including marketing research, consumer behavior, market segmentation, strategic planning, and the marketing mix-product, price, place, and promotion. Through working on real life marketing plans, students gather data, analyze marketing options, and prepare workable solutions.
Credits: 3
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BUSM 630 - Management in Long-Term Healthcare Organizations
This course studies the problems of organizational effectiveness in long-term healthcare organizations and the impact of public policy, accreditation, regulation, and reimbursement on their operating policies and practices.
Credits: 3
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BUSM 635 - Operations and Information Management
This course focuses on the business processes, procedures, and strategies used to transform various inputs into finished goods and services through an intensive study of the strategy, design, and operation of productive systems. The course also focuses on information, the design of systems used to manage it, and the benefits to be derived from it in an organizational and management context.
Credits: 3
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BUSM 642 - Financial Management
Financial Management covers modern financial theory and the financial analysis techniques used to run business organizations effectively and efficiently. The course provides knowledge of Capital Markets and current financial events necessary to enable the student to make competent and effective business decisions as a leader of a business entity. The Efficient Market Hypothesis, the Capital Asset Pricing Model, and Efficient Asset Pricing are covered. Harvard Business School cases are employed to integrate financial issues into an appropriate managerial context.
Credits: 3
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BUSM 650 - Leadership and Governance for Nonprofits
Leadership and Governance for Nonprofits teaches the knowledge and skills to lead nonprofit organizations, their boards and staff through an understanding of the theories and models of leadership, organizational behavior, volunteer management, and human resource management.
Credits: 3
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BUSM 651 - Leading Organizations and People
Organizational Behavior represents the human side of management. This course will provide the specific, necessary background and skills to make the managers of today and tomorrow as effective with the conceptual and human dimensions of management as they have been in the past with technical, functional dimensions.
Credits: 3
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BUSM 652 - Accounting for Nonprofits
Accounting for Nonprofits provides students with the accounting tools required to manage a nonprofit business. Major emphasis is on fund accounting concepts with the major concentration upon financial statements and their use in accounting management. The preparation and use of budgets and the impact of legislative actions are also covered.
Credits: 3
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BUSM 655 - Fund Development and Philanthropy
Fund Development and Philanthropy presents the principles, tools, and techniques of fundraising using a marketing foundation and a study of why individuals and corporations donate. It will encompass marketing, the principles of fundraising, and the tools and techniques to be used in fundraising, i.e., “the case statement,” grant writing, annual gift campaigns, planned giving, capital campaigns, and special events.
Credits: 3
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BUSM 660 - Law, Ethics, and Corporate Social Responsibility
The course provides students with an overview of the principles of common legal issues in business. Topics include contracts, negotiable instruments, business organization alternatives, and consumer and antitrust law. In addition, the course covers matters related to business ethics and corporate social responsibility. Through readings and case studies, students learn to identify ethical issues, explore ethical decision-making, and consider the role of the business enterprise and society.
Credits: 3
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BUSM 675 - Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship instructs entrepreneurship and an exploration of innovation, creativity and entrepreneurial history, economics and behavior on an individual basis and within the organization. Students will become familiar with current research, the basic theories, concepts, methods, and terminology used in the entrepreneurial process, patenting, intellectual property, and strategic planning. Students will learn how to formulate a business plan based on innovation development and be able to show the key components of an organization’s strategic plan incorporating innovation management.
Credits: 3
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BUSM 679 - Human Resource Management
This course serves as an introduction of Basic Human Resource Information and practices common in domestic (U.S.) businesses, nonprofit organizations, and healthcare agencies. The course is presented from three view points: the strategic focus of HR as it fits within the mission and vision of the business, the day-to-day practical and tactical elements of HR; and the impacts of Federal, State and local legislation on HR practices. In addition, global human resource practices will be presented.
Credits: 3
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BUSM 684 - MBA Internship
The MBA Internship provides students with practical work experience in a private, public, or nonprofit organization. It requires students to apply skills, principles and knowledge gained through the MBA curriculum in a professional setting. The internship aids in the transition from an educational to professional environment.
Credits: 3
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BUSM 688 - Special Topics
This course consists of a series of one semester hour graduate seminars which focus on current topics in healthcare management; students choose three in consultation with an advisor. Topics of current interest to students are offered on a variable basis. A list of topics includes, but is not restricted to: home healthcare, health insurance, occupational medicine, death and dying, managing a health maintenance organization, health policy, facilities planning, hospital administration, managing a CCRC, hospice management, and negotiation skills.
Credits: 3
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BUSM 690 - Global Strategic Management
This course is the culminating experience/capstone course for the Master of Business Administration degree. The course requires application of all previous learned educational experiences in accounting, economics, finance, management, and marketing. Extensive use of case analysis and strategic report writing is used to integrate all previous course materials in the analysis and resolution of complex strategic planning and management problems. The course develops a process for the entire life cycle of the strategy process and applies this process to real world and simulated strategic management situations found in the contemporary global marketplace.
Credits: 3
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BUSM 694 - Management of Compensation and Benefits
This course focuses on managing employee compensation in contemporary organizations. Students examine the current state of compensation decision-making and learn how to apply theoretical and research developments in their decisions. Specific content includes strategic perspectives associated with the design of compensation systems as well as the determinants of individual compensation packages.
Credits: 3
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ECON 600 - Economic Aspects of Healthcare Organizations
This course introduces students to basic concepts of macroeconomics and microeconomics and examines the economic aspects of health services in terms of production, distribution, and institutional structure. Topics covered include: conditions affecting the demand for and the supply of medical care, delivery mechanisms, human resource management, the role of government regulation, and proposals to restructure the health care system in response to changing economic conditions.
Credits: 3
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ECON 601 - Economics of the Firm in Contemporary Society
In this course, microeconomic theory is applied to the analysis of the business firm. Principals from economics and business are developed and integrated, with emphasis on management decision-making and policy formation. Economic tools important for optimal decision-making and effective corporate/business management are studied. Key teaching points involve the exploration of the rationale for the economic tools and their roles in market power, demand forecasting, and risk management, among other critical management decisions.
Credits: 3
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EDUC 528 - Sheltered English Immersion
Today’s classrooms include ever-changing student populations with diverse languages and cultures in which the fund of knowledge to draw from in our teaching. This course is designed to address the national and state requirements that all teachers emphasize academic language and provide means for sheltering content in classrooms. Emphasis will be on the principles, theories and processes of second language acquisition, culturally responsive practice, and research-based strategies of instruction. English-language acquisition, the value of technology, and the use of assessments will be dressed throughout the course.
Credits: 3
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EDUC 555 - Early Childhood Curriculum and Care
Students examine the research for making thoughtful and informed decisions about early childhood education and care. Topics of study include: the importance of play; developing appropriate social/emotional, cognitive/language, and physical environments; working with infants, toddlers, preschoolers and primary-aged children; and the importance of working with families of young children. Students evaluate the impact of parenting roles and responsibilities on strengthening the well being of individuals and families.
Credits: 3
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EDUC 609 - Literature with Children
This course explores the characteristics of different genres in children’s literature. Students compare and contrast similar myths and narratives from different cultures and geographic regions. Students identify, analyze and apply knowledge of structure, elements, and themes of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in children’s literature.
Credits: 3
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EDUC 619 - Contemporary Issues in Education
This seminar addresses contemporary issues in education including, but not restricted to, education policy, academic standards, social justice, multicultural education, special education, curriculum, and schools in a changing society. Readings of contemporary writings in education, interaction with guest speakers, and viewing of videos which cover current educational issues form the basis of classroom discussion. This course encourages critical thinking, the formulation of clear arguments, and active listening skills.
Credits: 3
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EDUC 620 - Higher Education Law
This course is an exploration of the legal issues that affect the administration of postsecondary institutions. The major focus is on issues pertaining to the various constituents (students, faculty, administrators) of colleges and universities. Legal cases are analyzed from the perspectives of law, education, and public policy. While the course is open to any graduate student, it is designed primarily for those who will be faculty or administrators in higher education.
Credits: 3
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EDUC 626 - Education Research Project
This course builds on the research foundation established in Research 610, and specifically addresses educational research, including various qualitative methodologies (e.g., case study, observation, interviews, ethnography), with a focus on applied research methodology practical for educational settings (K-12 classrooms and schools, adult education, professional development, and other educational settings). Interpretation of research and its impact on professional practice are also studied. Students will design, conduct, analyze and present a research project.
Prerequisites & Notes
RSCH 610 - Foundations and Methods of Research
Credits: 2-3
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EDUC 627 - Teaching and Assessing Literacy across the Content Areas
Reading, writing, listening and speaking are integral to a balanced approach to teaching literacy across the content areas. Through readings, online assignments, and applications to classroom teaching, students will analyze reading theory, research and practice. Topics will include first and second language acquisition, differentiated instruction for a variety of learning styles and abilities, components of a balanced literacy program, strategies for integrating literacy instruction across the content areas, and assessment and evaluation, including the IEP process.
Credits: 3
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EDUC 628 - Sheltered English Immersion Instruction Across the Curriculum
The purposes of the course are to convey (1) the world of ELLs and their teachers, (2) the impact of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) in the classroom, and (3) teaching academic language and sheltering content across the curriculum. Strategies will be modeled, practice, and evaluated for use in classrooms from early childhood, elementary, middle school, to secondary level teaching. The course includes a pre-practicum component which students work in SEI educational settings to practice strategies introduced in class.
Credits: 3
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