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  • 3.00 Credits

    Three-credit graduate course that introduces core concepts in community and public health. Using practical exercises and problem based learning, students will investigate how social structures shape our health and how to alter them to improve community health.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Focusing on epidemiological questions generated by the student, this course introduces concepts essential to understanding epidemiology, the foundational science of public health. It is focused on using existing epidemiologic data to inform your work in public health.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Students learn how to effectively build support for improving the health of their communities. Support includes funding, coalition and partnership building, effective communications with the public and policy makers, and participatory project planning with community stakeholders. In addition, this course will cover how to establish project evaluation frameworks. Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission from instructor.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prepares educators and helping professionals whose work involves promoting healthy sexuality in children, young people and adults. Also provides detailed investigation into important aspects of teaching sensitive issues related to human sexuality. Students practice, critique, develop, and evaluate sexuality education processes and resources. Dual listed with HLED 4025. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of instructor.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course invites students to apply principles of community and public health in rural and frontier Unites States settings. It outlines challenges and assets that a rural or frontier setting brings to improving community health. It is designed to assist students to bridge gaps that rural settings face and create a plan for improvement within their chosen community or state. Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission from instructor.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This class provides an overview of emergency management. It teaches students skills that will help the prepare themselves, their families, and their community for natural and human made disasters. The class emphasis will be on active learning via role-playing assignments, communication planning, and personal preparedness plans. Prerequisites: HLED 5027: Graduate standing, HLED 4027: HLED 3020, OR Senior Standing, OR permission of the instructor. Cross-listed with HLED 4027.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Explores the variety of theories related to health education/promotion, comparing and contrasting them when necessary, synthesizing them when appropriate. An additional purpose will be to apply these theories to either a research problem/question or a practice setting. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
  • 3.00 Credits

    The stress process and its relationship to the concept of total health. The physical and psychological effects of stressors and individual appraisals are explained using theoretical models and practical examples. Students learn how to personally identify and manage stress in a healthy manner. Emphasis is placed on learning effective skills to reduce harmful effects of stress. Dual listed with HLED 4040. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Identifying, understanding, and working with unique needs and assets of communities is emphasized, including ethnic, religious, and social structures. Planning and implementation of community health programs is stressed. Open but not limited to students interested in the following areas: healthcare, health promotion, public health, the schools. Dual listed with HLED 4050. Prerequisite: a minimum of 6 hours of coursework within the College of Health Sciences or min. of 9 hours of coursework within selected major.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Develops management and leadership expertise of individuals in a variety of health related, educational and exercise and sport organizations. Prerequisite: Junior status, 2.50 GPA. Dual listed with HLED 4070. Cross listed with PEPR 4070/5070.