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EDUC 305 - Teaching Elementary Social Studies through the MA Frameworks
This course introduces prospective teachers to social studies education in elementary and early childhood classrooms and the basic methods and materials for teaching the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values of the social studies. Students investigate the rationale and purposes for social studies and create personal philosophies related to the teaching of social studies. Students also become familiar with the MA History and Social Science Frameworks, demonstrate their understanding of various teaching methods and strategies for early childhood and elementary classrooms, and incorporate “best practice” into their teaching of the content found in the MA Curriculum Frameworks. Emphasis is placed on integrating social studies with the language arts, supporting young students in developing multiple perspectives, and meeting the needs of a variety of learning/language styles and abilities.
Prerequisites & Notes
EDUC 210, EDUC 327
Credits: 3
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EDUC 327 - Methods for Teaching Reading and Language Arts in Early Childhood and Elementary Classrooms
Reading, writing, listening, and speaking are integrated through a balanced approach to teaching reading and language arts. Through coursework and classroom teaching, students analyze the reading theory, research, and practice. Topics include first and second language acquisition, emergent literacy, phonemic awareness, phonics, organizing literacy instruction, assessment, and evaluation. Course requirements include 50 hours of supervised pre-practicum experience.
Prerequisites & Notes
A passing score on at least one subtest of the MTEL Communication and Literacy test.
Credits: 4-4.5
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EDUC 625 - Independent Study Proposal Design
This seminar assists students in completing the independent study proposal for a Master in Education (M.Ed.) degree. Students are required to complete the full proposal and prepare to submit the proposal to the Institutional Review Board.
Prerequisites & Notes
RSCH 610
Credits: 2
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EDUC 627 - Teaching and Assessing Literacy Across the Content Areas
Participants prepare to teach children how to read through analysis of the reading process and of different approaches to reading instruction. Specifically, balanced and structured approaches to literacy instruction are examined in conjunction with well-established theories and models (e.g., the Simple View of Reading, Scarborough’s Reading Rope). Emphasis is placed on assessment, data analysis, and adapting the teaching of reading and writing to meet the needs of diverse learners. This course addresses the Initial licensure standard for early childhood, elementary, and special education teachers in relation to the Massachusetts ELA Curriculum Frameworks.
Prerequisites & Notes
NONE
Credits: 3
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EDUC 630 - Literacy in the Content Areas
Reading, writing, listening, and speaking are integral to teaching literacy across the content areas. Through readings, online assignments, and applications to classroom teaching, students will analyze reading theory, research, and practice in relation to their content area(s)/discipline(s). Topics will include first and second language acquisition, content literacy, disciplinary literacy, components of balanced and structured literacy approaches, literacy assessment, data analysis, and strategies for integrating and differentiating literacy instruction into specific content areas.
Prerequisites & Notes
NONE
Credits: 3
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HSCI 260 - Human Disease and Chronic Illness
This course is a study of common and significant human diseases, including aspects of disease epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment. This course provides an overview of basic disease processes, as well as an examination of diseases by organ system and diseases that affect multiple organ systems simultaneously. Attention is given to the basic terminology required to communicate effectively with medical personnel and to comprehend medical reports.
Prerequisites & Notes
Bioscience I and Bioscience II (BIOL 121/123 and BIOL 122/124)
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A&P Concepts I and A&P Concepts II (BIOL 130/132 and BIOL 131/133)
Credits: 3
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HSCI 320 - Health Assessment
In this course, students familiarize themselves with the range and variety of techniques used in assessing health-related conditions and states, including disease screening, diagnostic testing, and quantifying subjective aspects of health status. Students learn how health assessments are developed, validated, and implemented, and how health professionals use the results of these assessments to inform subsequent interventions to improve patient and public health. The role of health assessment in the context of epidemiologic research is discussed.
Prerequisites & Notes
HSCI 225 - Biostatistics
Credits: 3
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HUSB 100 - Intro to Human Services
This course provides an overview of the knowledge, skills, and ethical values necessary to be an effective human services professional. The course emphasizes human needs and social problems; provides a historical perspective of the development of the human services; and addresses learning theories related to the Human Services profession.
Prerequisites & Notes
None
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HUSB 101 - Administration I
This course examines the dynamics, strategies and tactics of legal policies, personnel work and the development of a healthy work climate
Credits: 3
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HUSB 105 - Diversity in America
This course introduces students to social construction theories across race, ethnicity, disability, gender, social class, and sexual orientation in society. Students critically examine how the intersectionality of human diversity leads to the disadvantaging and oppression of marginalized groups. In addition, students study the ways that hegemonic forces maintain the dominant group’s privilege, economic status, and power within American society.
Prerequisites & Notes
None
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HUSB 109 - Group Dynamics
This course focuses on the behavior of individuals within group structures, and provides a theoretical framework for group behavior. Small group and experiential techniques are used to explore and understand the stages of group development, roles and expectations, conflict resolution, goal setting, and evaluation of outcomes.
Prerequisites & Notes
NONE
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HUSB 111 - Education, Work and Social Welfare
N/A
Credits: 3
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HUSB 112 - Social Factors on Health
N/A
Credits: 3
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HUSB 117 - Volunteerism and Human Services
This course explores the impact of volunteerism on the delivery of human services. Through a study of its historical context, students examine the current applications of volunteerism as an economic human resource and critical support mechanism for the delivery of human services. Each student analyzes at least one human service agency and the ways in which volunteers contribute to the effective functioning of the agency.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 126 - Social Service Networks
This course looks at how people are referred to various agencies, how information about them is used, the obligations agencies have to follow up on referrals, and whether or not the agencies work cooperatively to solve human service problems, It also provides a theoretical understanding of networking.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 130 - Introduction to Community Organizing
NEW- This course introduces students to a theoretical foundation of community organizing. The course explores the perspectives and strategies of activism, volunteerism, advocacy and sustainability relative to community organizing. Students learn how to develop and use social networks in establishing coalitions and stakeholder engagement.
Prerequisites & Notes
NONE
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HUSB 132 - Intro to Nonprofit Organizations (NPOs) and Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Developing Countries
This course is an introduction to philanthropic issues related to Nonprofit Organizations (NPOs) and Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) operating in developing countries. The course focuses on the interrelationship of philanthropic, nonprofit, and non-governmental organizations opperating alongside private and public sectors to deliver goods and services in the international context. Factors such as revenue sourcing, government regulation, overseas support, and faith-based service provisions are explored to determine their impact on the sustainability of NPOs and NGOs in developing countries.
Prerequisites & Notes
NONE
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HUSB 135 - International Organizations
This course focuses on the interrelationships of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the global-political landscape. The considerable control and influence on these organizations on the social, political and economic and international order is examined.
Prerequisites & Notes
NONE
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HUSB 138 - Critical Thinking through Literature
This course uses current literature to illustrate alternative ways of thinking about the human condition and making sense of social issues. Discussion compares and contrasts students’ present experiences with personal, institutional and cultural structures, assumptions and norms with the perspectives introduced in the literature. Students explore views that are grounded in body, mind, emotion and spirit with the goal of clarifying and enhancing their own critical processes. The course involves structured experience, imagery, discussion, reading, writing, and creative expression.
Prerequisites & Notes
None
Credits: 3
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HUSB 142 - Law and Legal Advocacy
N/A
Credits: 3
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HUSB 143 - Contemporary American Literature
This course examines recent American literature and its engagement with social and cultural issues. Students read literary works from diverse perspectives, gain an understanding of twentieth-century cultural and intellectual history, participate in discussion boards with classmates, and write original essays on works of literature.
Prerequisites & Notes
NONE
Credits: 3
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HUSB 201 - Theories of Oppression
This course focuses on theoretical frameworks that illustrate how power is used to maintain the idealism of “just” social, political, and economic structures, which at the same time are agents of oppression. Students in this course explore how oppression is applied to a given individual or group, as well as how it is interconnected to factors including class, race, gender, identity, and religion, thus creating interdependent social and structural systems that result in disenfranchisement.
Prerequisites & Notes
None
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HUSB 203 - Administration: Finances
N/A
Credits: 3
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HUSB 206 - Public Relations for Community Organizations
This course introduces the concepts of organizational communication, communication management, and public relations ethics for community-based organizations. This course focuses on how to navigate the complexity of institutional messaging in all forms of social media, while being responsive to a multitude of community concerns and stakeholders.
Prerequisites & Notes
NONE
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HUSB 210 - Political Economy, Democracy & Community Development
This course examines the role of democracy in relation to income and wealth inequality. Students learn how diverse communities and other stakeholders struggle to address these systemic inequalities, as well as how these inequalities result in issues including health disparities, poverty, limited access to healthy food, and high crime rates. The course examines the root causes of such disparities.
Prerequisites & Notes
NONE
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HUSB 211 - Effective Parent- Child Relationships
This course enables students to apply their understanding of effective parent-child relationships in a relevant and realistic manner to their work with clients and life. Contemporary theories about parent-child relationships are explored.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 221 - Interviewing Techniques
The course enables students to acquire interviewing skills, develop sensitivity to the frustrations experienced by persons seeking help through the counseling process, acquire self-knowledge and awareness, and understand the necessity of confidentiality in the counseling relationship.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 224 - Human Services Organizations
N/A
Credits: 3
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HUSB 225 - Dynamics of Case Management
This course explores the principles and practices of case management. The course provides the beginning human service worker with practical information about brokering, consumer advocacy, and mobilization of services, with special attention on the consumer.
Prerequisites & Notes
NONE
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HUSB 226 - Urban Politics and Decision-Making
This course examines the political and economic forces shaping American cities and suburban areas. In this context, issues such as competition between cities and suburbs, state-city and federal-city relations, regime theory, and residential segregation are reviewed. The history of urban governance and the impact of public/private partnerships are also discussed.
Prerequisites & Notes
NONE
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HUSB 227 - Intake & Referral
N/A
Credits: 3
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HUSB 229 - Elementary Supervision
N/A
Credits: 3
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HUSB 236 - Self Awareness & Development
This course is an introduction to the study of changes and continuities in physical, emotional and cognitive development throughout the lifespan. The course also addresses social and cultural factors that influence growth and development.
Prerequisites & Notes
NONE
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HUSB 242 - Public Health and Health Education
N/A
Credits: 3
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HUSB 245 - Managing Nonprofits and Nongovernmental entities in a Global Context
This course focuses on managing Nonprofit Organizations (NPOs) and Nongovernment Organizations (NGOs) in the 21st-century and understanding the demands of operating in a globally oriented management sphere. Students learn how executives use local culture and external variables to effectively navigate their organizations in complex political, economic, ideological, and ethical settings.
Prerequisites & Notes
NONE
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HUSB 255 - Transformational Alternatives: The Complexities of Ethical Actions
N/A
Credits: 3
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HUSB 256 - Health and Society
N/A
Credits: 3
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HUSB 257 - Health Care and Aging I
N/A
Credits: 3
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HUSB 260 - Race & Justice
The course examines how race, religion, and social consciousness influence social structures over time. The understanding of power and accountability as shaped by the intersectionality of these variables is examined, and the impact of these forces on Human Services delivery systems is explored.
Prerequisites & Notes
NONE
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HUSB 268 - Fundamentals of Program Evaluation
This course familiarizes students in different types of program evaluation, including needs assessment, formative research, process evaluation, monitoring of outputs and outcomes, impact assessment, and cost analysis. This course augments current concepts, models, and strategies to evaluate public and human services programs. Students gain practical experience through a series of exercises involving the design of a conceptual framework, development of indicators, analysis of computerized service statistics, and development of an evaluation plan to measure impact.
Prerequisites & Notes
NONE
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HUSB 275 - Healing in Cross Cultural Perspective
N/A
Credits: 3
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HUSB 309 - Leadership in Human Services
Students explore historical and contemporary models of leadership and management within a context of unequal power relations and ongoing struggles for social justice. The course provides the opportunity for students to learn and apply their social background, cultural sensitivity, and social emotional intelligence (SEI) to form a professional identity.
Prerequisites & Notes
NONE
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HUSB 314 - Counseling from a Racial Perspective
N/A
Credits: 3
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HUSB 316 - Psychology of Women: Theories and Pratices
N/A
Credits: 3
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HUSB 318 - Cross Cultural Perspectives in Social Services
The purpose of this course is to engage students in analytical discussions of whether human services delivery systems are culturally sensitive. Best practices and the challenges with designing, evaluating, and operating a culturally sensitive human service delivery system are explored.
Prerequisites & Notes
NONE
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HUSB 323 - The Process of Practical Polices
N/A
Credits: 3
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HUSB 325 - Policies and Philosophy of Education
N/A
Credits: 3
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HUSB 326 - Family Counseling and Understanding Diverse Cultures
N/A
Credits: 3
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HUSB 339 - Preventive Holistic Health
N/A
Credits: 3
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HUSB 350 - Race, Religion, and Culture
N/A
Credits: 3
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HUSB 366 - Cultural and Political Thought of Third World People
N/A
Credits: 3
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HUSB 368 - Social Philosophy
N/A
Credits: 3
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HUSB 401 - Health & Human Services Policy
Health & Human Services Policy examines public policy as an intellectual exercise, focusing on how and why policy is developed, applied, and evaluated. Key topics include institutional uses of policy, theories of the policy process, and practical approaches to policy analysis. The policy areas examined include Social Security, healthcare, housing, and child welfare. Each policy area is examined in both a historical and modern context to illustrate the evolution of policies in America.
Prerequisites & Notes
None
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PAST 670 - Inpatient Medicine
The Inpatient Medicine clerkship is a four week clinical experience that provides the foundation for clinical evaluation and treatment of general medical patients. Training includes assessment of inpatient populations and their medical problems. Students learn clinical presentation of general medical problems, evaluation, therapeutic intervention, and methods of documentation. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, daily morning and work rounds and in-hospital overnight call.
Prerequisites & Notes
Successful completion of all ACRs and all fifth year PAST courses.
Credits: 4
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PAST 671 - Inpatient Medicine II
Inpatient medicine II is a four week clinical experience that is a continuation of inpatient medicine I and provides the foundation for clinical evaluation and treatment of general medical patients. Training includes assessment of inpatient populations and their medical problems. Students learn clinical presentation of general medical problems, evaluation, therapeutic intervention, and methods of documentation. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, daily morning and work rounds and in-hospital overnight call.
Prerequisites & Notes
None
Credits: 4
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PAST 672 - Family Medicine
The family medicine clerkship is a four week clinical experience that provides the principles of clinical diagnosis and management of general medical problems in the adult and pediatric ambulatory setting. Training includes assessment of outpatient populations and their medical problems. Students learn clinical presentation of general medical problems, evaluation, therapeutic intervention, and methods of documentation. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, daily office or clinical hours (including weekends), medical coverage of hospitalized patients, and evening and weekend on-call hours.
Prerequisites & Notes
Successful completion of all ACRs and all fifth year PAST courses.
Credits: 4
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PAST 673 - Family Medicine II
The family medicine clerkship II is a four week clinical experience that is a continuation of family medicine I and provides the principles of clinical diagnosis and management of general medical problems in the adult and pediatric ambulatory setting. Training includes assessment of outpatient populations and their medical problems. Students continue to learn clinical presentation of general medical problems, evaluation, therapeutic intervention, and methods of documentation. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, daily office or clinical hours (including weekends), medical coverage of hospitalized patients, and evening and weekend on-call hours.
Prerequisites & Notes
None
Credits: 4
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PAST 674 - Emergency Medicine
This course is a four week emergency medicine clerkship with the purpose of providing practical clinical experience in the care of acute medical and surgical emergencies. Students develop an understanding of the concept of triage in an emergency situation. Additionally, students have the opportunity to assess patients of all ages with a variety of problems. Attention is given to the psychosocial and economic factors influencing each patient’s current and future care.
Prerequisites & Notes
Successful completion of all ACRs and all fifth year PAST courses.
Credits: 4
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PAST 675 - Obstetrics and Gynecology
This is a four week Obstetrics and Gynecology clerkship with the purpose of providing clinical experience in the evaluation and treatment of women. Experience is gained in the areas of family planning, pre, intra, and postpartum care, as well as routine gynecological care for sexually transmitted diseases, dysmenorrhea, and menopausal health. Students come to understand the effects that sexual activity, childbearing, and menopause have on a woman’s medical, emotional, and social well-being.
Prerequisites & Notes
Successful completion of all ACRs and all fifth year PAST courses.
Credits: 4
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PAST 676 - General Pediatrics
Pediatrics is a four week clerkship which provides the opportunity to assess medical and surgical problems that require both inpatient and ambulatory management of children. Time is spent giving students practical clinical experience in the ambulatory setting managing routine childhood illness and health maintenance, and with the medical team in the hospital at the time of delivery assessing the newborn and caring for children with more severe medical problems. Students learn to recognize the influences that family interactions can have on the course of the patient’s development, well-being, and illness.
Prerequisites & Notes
Successful completion of all ACRs and all fifth year PAST courses
Credits: 4
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PAST 677 - Psychiatry
The purpose of the psychiatry clerkship is to provide the student with clinical experience in the varied presentations of mental illness in inpatient and ambulatory settings. Students have an opportunity to evaluate, identify, and learn management of both acute and non-acute psychiatric patients.
Prerequisites & Notes
Successful completion of all ACRs and all fifth year PAST courses.
Credits: 4
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PAST 678 - General Surgery
During the general surgery clerkship, students learn management of surgical patients in hospital and ambulatory settings. These experiences include presentation and work-up of common surgical problems, surgical interventions, and the care of preoperative, operative, and postoperative patients.
Prerequisites & Notes
Successful completion of all ACRs and all fifth year PAST courses
Credits: 4
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PAST 679 - Preceptorship
The preceptorship is a four week clinical and non-clinical experience that provides opportunities in clinical evaluation and treatment of patients, and a more in-depth understanding of the daily administrative aspect of health care practices. Training includes assessment of a variety of patient populations and their health care problems. Students strengthen previously developed skills of data gathering from historic information, physical assessment, and therapeutic treatment planning. A broad exposure to the administrative aspects of the practice of medicine is emphasized.
Prerequisites & Notes
Successful completion of all ACRs and all fifth year PAST courses.
Credits: 4
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PAST 680 - Preceptorship II
Preceptorship II is a 4 week clinical and non-clinical experience that provides opportunities in clinical evaluation and treatment of patients, and a more in-depth understanding of the daily administrative aspect of health care practices. Training includes assessment of a variety of patient populations and their health care problems. Students strengthen previously developed skills of data gathering from historic information, physical assessment, and therapeutic treatment planning. A broad exposure to the administrative aspects of the practice of medicine is emphasized.
Prerequisites & Notes
None
Credits: 4
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PHED 721 - Research on Teaching K-12 Physical Education
This seminar-based course is designed to engage participants in investigating theory; historical, current, and future research trends; and research findings through a rigorous examination of literature on teaching and learning in K-12 physical education. Participants focus on enhancing skills and knowledge as consumers and producers of educational research while also evaluating findings to inform teaching and learning decisions.
Prerequisites & Notes
none
Credits: 3
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PHED 741 - Fieldwork in Physical Education Teacher Education
Fieldwork in Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) is designed to be completed concurrently with PHED 731: Seminar in PETE. Through practical experience, participants engage in responsibilities of physical education teacher educators, including working with undergraduate and/or master’s students in pedagogy or content-related courses, and/or supervising pre-service teachers in the field.
Prerequisites & Notes
PHED 731
Credits: 4
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PHIL 288 - Special Topics in Philosophy: Philosophy of Religion
Responding to changing currents in the field of philosophy, this course explores a topic of contemporary relevance.
This course covers some of the central topics in the philosophy of religion: What is the nature of God?; What are the conditions under which something counts as a religion?; Are there any good reasons to believe that God exists?; How about reasons to believe that God doesn’t exist?; What is the relationship between morality and religion?; Is religious experience sufficient to justify belief in God? The course explores answers to these questions as offered by philosophers and scholars of religious studies, and participants try to answer these questions throughout the semester.
Prerequisites & Notes
NONE
Credits: 3
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PHTH 504 - Anatomy of the Musculoskeletal System
Students learn human anatomy with emphasis on the skeletal, articular, and muscular systems. Using a regional approach, the course incorporates a study of typical and pathologic conditions of bone, muscle, and joint.
Prerequisites & Notes
None
Credits: 3
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PHTH 516 - Clinical Kinesiology
The focus of this course is the study of functional anatomy using a regional approach in which joint and muscle function are analyzed in detail. Topics covered include the clinical examination and mechanical analysis of posture and gait, developmental biomechanics, joint mobilization concepts and ergonomics. This course serves as the foundation for exercise prescription, movement analysis and other therapeutic interventions.
Prerequisites & Notes
DPT Student
Credits: 3
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PHTH 530/531 - Neuroscience
This course presents basic neuroanatomy and neurophysiology with an emphasis on issues that have clinical relevance to physical therapy rehabilitation. Emphasis will be placed on developing an understanding of the neurophysiological basis of human movement and motor control.
Prerequisites & Notes
None
Credits: 3
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PHTH 531 - Neuroscience Lab
This course presents basic neuroanatomy and neurophysiology with an emphasis on issues that have clinical relevance to physical therapy rehabilitation. Emphasis will be placed on developing an understanding of the neurophysiological basis of human movement and motor control.
Credits: 0
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PHTH 574 - Human Movement Across the Lifespan
In this course, participants will acquire an understanding of the requirements for production of skilled human movement behavior and human motor development. Students will explore concepts of motor control, motor learning, and motor development. Students will examine the processes that underlie changes in movement behavior over the lifespan, as well as the factors that influence those processes. Understanding of movement behavior as it applies to movement dysfunction and the practice of physical therapy will be emphasized.
Prerequisites & Notes
DPT Student
Credits: 3
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PHTH 604 - Clinical Medicine and Pathology
This course provides a survey of the medical approach to pathologies treated in medicine and surgery, with emphasis on those conditions addressed in internal medicine. Topics include cellular/ histological and genetic bases for pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, including the impact on human movement, and medical/surgical treatment. Emphasis placed on conditions encountered in physical therapy practice.
Prerequisites & Notes
DPT Student
Credits: 4
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PHTH 605 - Applied Anatomy and Musculoskeletal Imaging
This course incorporates an active-learning review of human musculoskeletal anatomy using teacher donors (cadavers). Content includes the identification of normal and pathological musculoskeletal anatomy using medical imaging. Using a regional approach, the course includes surface anatomy and clinical palpation.
Prerequisites & Notes
None
Credits: 3
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PHTH 610/611 - Foundations of Physical Therapy Practice
This course provides an introduction to the basic process and fundamental skills of physical therapy management. Students attain a working understanding of the role of the physical therapist in primary, secondary, and tertiary care and prevention, and to the conceptual frameworks that guide physical therapist practice. Students acquire competency in selected fundamental practice skills, including patient-client interaction, basic functional mobility, exercise, joint range of motion measurement, soft tissue mobilization, examination of vital functions and physical therapy documentation.
Prerequisites & Notes
None
Credits: 4
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PHTH 612/613 - Therapeutic Interventions
This course has two distinct modules. The first module will prepare students in the theory, selection, application, assessment, and documentation of the physical agents commonly used by physical therapists. In the second module, students study health promotion and wellness, including preventive interventions. Students apply basic physiological principles for prescription of exercise for individuals with differing health status across the lifespan. Therapeutic exercise equipment is discussed and explored, including aquatics. The course includes material on the application and promotion of basic nutrition principles by physical therapists for health promotion and wellness.
Prerequisites & Notes
None
Credits: 3
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PHTH 627 - Professional Practice Issues I
Education in physical therapy occurs with individuals, groups and the public. The focus of this course is on the development of objectives, teaching and learning experiences and communication in PT practice. Students have an opportunity to develop and present instructional materials for use in PT practice while incorporating culture, cultural identity, self-reflection and self-directed learning.
Prerequisites & Notes
DPT student
Credits: 2
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PHTH 628 - Professional Practice Issues II
This course focuses on the roles and responsibilities of a physical therapist within the health care system. Methods of health care delivery and issues of access, cost, quality, and financial resources are examined. The impact of the local and national socio-cultural status, political climate, economy and legislative trends is addressed. Ethical decision making, interprofessional standards of patient-centered care and additional professional issues are covered.
Prerequisites & Notes
DPT Student
Credits: 4
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PHTH 635 - Integrated Clinical Experience I
This course involves integrated clinical education experiences and seminars to facilitate the integration of content across courses and cumulatively. Students are required to utilize evidence-based practice for clinical decision making and present clinical information using the Physical Therapy Patient / Client Management Model and the ICF Model.
Prerequisites & Notes
DPT Student
Credits: 2
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PHTH 636 - Integrated Clinical Experience II
This course involves integrated clinical education experiences and seminars to facilitate the integration of content across courses and cumulatively. Students are required to utilize evidence-based practice for clinical decision making and present clinical information using the Physical Therapy Patient / Client Management Model and the ICF Model.
Prerequisites & Notes
DPT Student
Credits: 2
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PHTH 637 - Integrated Clinical Experience III
This course involves integrated clinical education experiences and seminars to facilitate the integration of content across courses and cumulatively. Students are required to utilize evidence-based practice for clinical decision making and present clinical information using the Physical Therapy Patient / Client Management Model and the ICF Model.
Prerequisites & Notes
DPT Student
Credits: 2
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PHTH 642 - Foundations of Physical Therapy Practice IV - Management of Balance and Gait Disorders
Students explore common causes of balance and gait dysfunction. Students gain skill in physical therapy diagnosis and management of disorders of balance and gait. Students also acquire the knowledge and skills needed for the application of orthotic and prosthetic devices for extremity and spinal disorders.
Prerequisites & Notes
DPT Student
Credits: 3
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PHTH 654 - Evidence-Based Practice and Clinical Research I
This is the first of a two-part sequence of courses that provide the student with a foundation in scientific inquiry as it relates to clinical practice. This course incorporates an overview of methodologic issues in physical therapy research. Students will use current PT literature sources to analyze concepts that include the theoretical basis underlying research studies, research ethics, research design, sampling and research and statistical methods.
Prerequisites & Notes
DPT Student
Credits: 3
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PHTH 655 - Evidence Based Practice and Clinical Research in Physical Therapy II
This is the second of a two-part sequence of courses that provide the student with a foundation in scientific inquiry as it relates to clinical practice. This course develops student skills and critical appraisal of empirical literature. Students will use current PT literature sources to explore the use of best research evidence and outcomes measurement. Concepts are integrated with principles of epidemiologic research to facilitate an understanding of population health issues. Students gain an understanding of evidence-based approach to physical therapy practice, and its integration with clinical expertise and patient values.
Prerequisites & Notes
DPT Student
Credits: 3
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PHTH 656 - Applied Research in Physical Therapy I
In this seminar, students examine clinically based applications of empiricism. Students read, integrate, analyze, summarize, abstract and apply material from primary source journals by engaging in student-led journal club type discussions. Students learn the basics of the scholarly process, peer review and dissemination.
Prerequisites & Notes
DPT Student
Credits: 2
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PHTH 658 - Integrated Clinical Experience IV
This course involves integrated clinical education experiences and seminars to facilitate the integration of content across courses and cumulatively. Students are required to utilize evidence-based practice for clinical decision making and present clinical information using the Physical Therapy Patient / Client Management Model and the ICF Model.
Prerequisites & Notes
DPT Student
Credits: 2
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PHTH 662 - Physical Therapy Management of the Pediatric Patient
This course covers the foundations of physical therapy services for children, adolescents, and their families in various service delivery settings. Theories of normal and pathological development will be the foundation from which the assessment and management of various etiologies will be discussed. Standardized assessment, evidence based interventions, and physical therapy management strategies specific to pediatrics will be covered. Psychosocial, ethical and legal factors specific to the pediatric client will be included.
Prerequisites & Notes
DPT Student
Credits: 3
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PHTH 669 - Biopsychosocial Approaches in Physical Therapy
Biopsychosocial approaches focus on physical therapists as part of a team of providers with an aim of ameliorating disability and promoting activity, and participation. In this course students develop physical therapy interventions considering both individual and population solutions that incorporate the biopsychosocial model and the interprofessional team and contrast these interventions to the traditional medical model of care.
Prerequisites & Notes
None
Credits: 1
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PHTH 688/689 - Physical Therapy Management of Integumentary Conditions
In this course, students will study patient/client management concepts pertaining to disorders of the integumentary system across the lifespan. Major topics include physical therapy assessment and management of integumentary dysfunction associated with burns, traumatic injury, infection, vascular disease, pressure/mechanical wounds and lymphedema. Current trends in the treatment of acute and chronic wounds are also explored. Students are expected to use scientific evidence to support patient management strategies.
Prerequisites & Notes
None
Credits: 2
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PHTH 694 - Practice Management in Physical Therapy I
This course introduces students to the basic concepts and principles of management as they apply to the physical therapist administrative responsibilities and services delivery. Included are fiscal management and the associated regulations, compliance, legal practice standards including fraud and abuse and the potential differences in these areas across the various physical therapy practice settings.
Prerequisites & Notes
DPT Student
Credits: 1
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PHTH 700 - Practice Management in Physical Therapy II
This course introduces students to concepts and principles of management and leadership as they apply to core healthcare administration topics and management of physical therapy services. Included are organizational structure and management concepts, fiscal management, ethical and legal issues, personal and institutional standards of excellence, and quality assurance/assessment.
Prerequisites & Notes
None
Credits: 2
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PHTH 702 - Practice Management in Physical Therapy III
This course prepares students to provide consultation to individuals, groups or organizations for service delivery, administration and management of physical therapy services. Included are advocacy, consultation, and program development as related to physical therapy practice.
Prerequisites & Notes
None
Credits: 2
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PHTH 726 - Applied Research in Physical Therapy II
Either in a small group or individually, students conduct a supervised investigation of a selected problem related to the field of Physical Therapy. Presentation of the findings is done in written and oral format to faculty, peers and clinicians.
Prerequisites & Notes
DPT Student
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PHTH 776 - Terminal Clinical Experience I
This is the first of three consecutive full-time terminal clinical experiences. They are each ten weeks during the third professional year. These clinical experiences can occur in: medical centers, teaching hospitals, community hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, extended care facilities, school systems, home health, or private practices.
Prerequisites & Notes
None
Credits: 8
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PHTH 777 - Terminal Clinical Experience II
This is the second of three consecutive full-time terminal clinical experiences. They are each ten weeks during the third professional year. These clinical experiences can occur in: medical centers, teaching hospitals, community hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, extended care facilities, school systems, home health, or private practices.
Prerequisites & Notes
None
Credits: 8
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PHTH 778 - Terminal Clinical Experience III
This is the third of three consecutive full-time terminal clinical experiences. They are each ten weeks during the third professional year. These clinical experiences can occur in: medical centers, teaching hospitals, community hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, extended care facilities, school systems, home health, or private practices.
Prerequisites & Notes
None
Credits: 8
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PROJ 350 - Practicum I
This course allows students the opportunity to apply the skills and knowledge acquired in an academic setting to a human service organization that serves individuals, groups, and/or families. This course focuses on the implementation of a participatory action-based research project that involves students working collaboratively with a community-based organization. This course requires 175 practicum hours as partial fulfillment of the 350 hours of required field experience for the Human Services program.
Prerequisites & Notes
HUSB 109 & 305
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