Health Sciences

This course provides students with foundational knowledge and skills to plan, organize, and manage health services while investigating various epidemiologic methods.

This course provides an understanding of the formulation, adoption and implementation of public policy, and its effects on health care delivery. Students will examine federal, state, and local political processes and focus on the role of healthcare administrators, as well as other key stakeholders, in implementing health policies into operational and organizational strategies.

In this course, students will explore how ethics and legal issues impact corporate decision-making in the health care industry.  Students will identify, analyze and apply ethical and legal principles to resolve health care-related case studies.  Topics covered in this course include ethical principles in health care, health care regulatory and licensing laws, patient and staff protection laws, informed consent, end of life care and fraud/abuse.

This course is an introductory course to the discipline of public health, the areas of emphasis
include: what is public health, the analytical methods used in public health, areas of biomedical
issues in public health including: infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), along
with the social and behavioral factors that impact health, and current issues in environmental
health, climate change and bioterrorism, as well as the role of global health, the WHO and SDGs
goals and achievements.

This is an introductory athletic training course that deals with the prevention and care of injuries and illnesses as they relate to physical activity. Three hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory per week.

Provides an overview of theoretical and practical ethics with an emphasis on bioethics, while investigating medical professions and expectations. Major ethical theories are used to debate and write effectively about ethical dilemmas. Topics related to professionalism include career explorations, presentations, expectations for academic and professional success, and professional ethical standards.

This course provides a foundational interdisciplinary understanding in the main concepts of global health and the critical links between global health and social and economic development including poverty reduction, economic productivity, and peace promotion.  The course will be global in coverage but will focus health disparities from low - and middle - income countries as well as to current health disparities in the U.S.  Comparisons in health care systems and health outcomes will be addressed along with the major international health agencies and NGOS.  SDGS will be addressed along with differences in communicable and non-communicable diseases and demographic patters of disease burden.  Class activities will focus on challenging global health problems, and strategies to address them.  

A clinical approach to the human body with emphasis on the musculoskeletal system. Topics and skills included are palpations, range of motion testing, manual muscle testing, circulation testing, and neurological testing for the upper extremity.

This course explores genes and genetic expression in humans, genomic disorders, pedigree construction, screening, diagnostics, and disease management, as well as the implications for nursing healthcare professionals.

Covers principles and methods of public health and epidemiology including tenets, applications, and foci of modern public health and its integration with other health professions. Biological, behavioral, sociocultural, economic, and environmental factors associated with the etiology and distribution of disease are examined. Students will read, interpret and evaluate published epidemiologic studies.

This course introduces the students to the fundamental concepts of population-based health
promotion and the development of programs to meet those needs. It allows students to
understand the processes used in planning a health promotion program to primary populations
using the workplace, school, health care organization or community as the delivery point. In
doing so, this course integrates and applies many of the concepts learned in research, health
psychology & epidemiology and requires critical thinking, problem solving, decision making &
creative capacities.

Provides a study of human pathological processes and their effects on homeostasis. Upon completion, students should demonstrate detailed knowledge of pathophysiologic mechanisms, including etiology, physical signs and symptoms, progression, management, and prognosis of major human diseases. A three-hour weekly laboratory emphasizes gross and histologic pathology contrasted with normal tissue.

Serves as the capstone for Health Sciences. Students participate in seminar meetings on health professions-related topics appropriate to students nearing degree completion and admission into professional programs while completing a senior thesis in a declared area of health sciences. An annotated bibliography, formal written report, and presentation are required.

An internship is an opportunity to gain skills as well as experience in your field of choice, apply your gained knowledge in the field and build
relationships with those within the local community health setting.  The internship experience includes, but it is not limited to, those agencies
which employ health educators, nurses, trainers and other related jobs in a community/public health or worksite health promotion/wellness
nurses, trainers and other related jobs in a community/public health or worksite health promotion/wellness setting (public health units, voluntary health agencies, hospitals/clinics, hospital and corporate wellness centers, area health education centers, nonprofit health agencies, or as approved by the Health Sciences Program Coordinator). The internship is meant to be a time of service and innovation to the supervising agency, as well as a significant learning opportunity for the intern.