* All courses are 3 credits
HED 4025
Health Services Research
Designed to help health services professionals read and critically
evaluate research in their respective fields.
The course will include basic principles of research design and
statistical analysis, and a survey of health
services research approaches including epidemiology, program
evaluation, case studies, curriculum development,
ethnography, and sociology/health psychology.
Prerequisites:
HED 4775 and HED 4805. Nurse
Anesthesia students: no prerequisites.
HED 4215
School Nursing Practice
This course is designed to provide an overview of the roles and
responsibilities of the school nurse. Methods
of assisting students with chronic medical and mental health
issues under both Chapters 14 and 16
will be addressed. Skills needed to develop health
education/health promotion activities which will strengthen
the link between good health and academic achievement will be
developed.
HED 4625
Employee Assistance and Occupational Health
An overview course designed to provide the knowledge and skills
necessary to help organize, develop, manage,
and evaluate employee assistance programs. Emphasis is placed on
the positive role of health promotion
as a preventive tool. Course explores the role of addictions,
family, financial, and legal issues in
the life of the impaired employee or student and codependent.
HED 4685
Health Education in HIV/AIDS
The retrovirus of AIDS, the people, and the society it infects are
the center upon which this course is based.
Current public health policy, ethics, and politics of AIDS are
examined. Emphasis is placed on skill-building
in health education, counseling, and referrals for persons with
AIDS, their families, and those
individuals who test positive. The school and corporate sectors
are explored, as well as high risk groups
and global AIDS.
HED 4705
Advanced Issues in Nutrition I
This core course is designed to address current nutritional issues
from a health education, basic management,
and marketing framework. Issues about safety of our food supply,
weight control strategies, diet
as it relates to disease entities such as cancer, cardiovascular
disease, and hypertension will be discussed.
Students will be actively involved in critiquing nutrition
information that is marketed to various
segments of the population. For
students in nutrition communication only.
HED 4725
Advanced Issues in Nutrition II
May be taken prior to HED 4705. For students in Nutrition
Marketing only.
HED 4735
Foundations of Consulting and Promotion in Nutrition
Theories and conceptual framework for developing a consulting
service. Nuts and bolts of small business theory
for free lancers and entrepreneurs. Business plans are included as
well as negotiations and client relationships,
ethics and politics of the phases of consulting, financial
management, balancing time, and protecting
against risk.
HED 4745
Experiential Counseling
Theories and applications of counseling. Conceptual emphasis on
the "here and now" phenomenologic theory.
Psychodrama is stressed. Ethics, risk reduction, and the
biopsychosocial/spiritual impactors on both
the counselor and the client are integral.
HED 4765
Managed Health Care
An introduction to managed care including current and evolving
models, terminology, and differences among
insurers and payer types. The course will focus on the use of
financial incentives to restrain health care
costs. The role of utilization review, peer review, provider
networks, case management, prescription drug
costs, and bundling of services will be presented.
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HED 4775
Program Planning for Wellness
A foundation course in the development of health education
programs for hospitals, work sites, community,
and schools. Discusses models for health behavior, assessment of
health education needs, design
and implementation of interventions, program marketing, and
evaluation of efficacy.
HED 4785
Concepts of Mental Health
Basic concepts of mental health and illness. A range of theories
and psychotherapies, and psychological aspects
of health, illness, and addiction are studied.
HED 4795
Women and Health Care
Inquiry into the health needs of women and their treatment by the
health care system. Study includes history,
role of women as healers, epidemiology, access to and utilization
of health care services, health research,
and legislation affecting women’s health issues.
HED 4805
Epidemiology and Community Health
A foundation course exploring the ways in which epidemiologic /
bio-psychosocial/spiritual factors affect the
health status and competence of individuals and groups. Principles
of epidemiology and current theories,
as they apply to health issues through the life cycle, are
reviewed. Examination of at-risk groups in
the population leads to the consideration of strategies aimed at
reducing premature mortality and morbidity
and enhancing health at home, school, workplace, and in the
community at large.
HED 4815
Concepts of Nutrition and Health
A comprehensive examination of the principles of good nutrition
during the life cycle. Emphasis is placed on
practical applications, including the use of food composition
theory to evaluate food intakes, regional, cultural,
and religious influences on food habits, fads, preventive health
promotion, and health restoration
through health education.
HED 4825
Principles of Administration
An introductory course to acquaint the learner with needs and
roles in supervisional activity. Management
styles, functions, and analyses, as well as behavioral theory, are
evaluated. Planning and decision-making,
dealing with the change process, motivation, coaching and
counseling techniques, performance
appraisal, and control are examined.
HED 4835
Aging in America
Areas of study include theories of aging,
bio-psychosocial/spiritual characteristics of older people, family
systems and
non-systems, resources, policy, legislation, and activism.
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HED 4845
Curriculum Strategies for Health Educators
Techniques combining the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor
domains in individual and group learning
are discussed. Leading models for curriculum development and
implementation are emphasized. Mechanics
for construction of goals, curriculum design, objective writing,
and learning behaviors are stressed.
Models for evaluation and needs analysis are examined. The role of
the trainer in the organization
is also explored, along with strategies for maximizing one’s
position in the organization. Ethical,
legal, and moral questions arising in the health education arena
are examined. Prerequisite: HED 4775.
HED 4855
(SOC 4825) Stress and Crisis Management
Study of health problems related to stress and exploration of
methods to reduce the impact of stressors to improve
bio-psychosocial health. Demonstrates how to identify, isolate,
and manage a crisis and how to foresee
future crises, as well as how to develop contingency plans.
Physiology of stress, relaxation, biofeedback,
fear control, and cognitive reacting are skills studied in
relation to stress management.
HED 4875
Human Sexuality
Content provides sexual awareness and personal growth in the area
of interpersonal sexuality. Through participation
in a variety of class activities, students increase comfort level
in communicating about sexual
attitudes, feelings, and behaviors. Sexually transmitted
infections, reproductive inefficiencies, and cultural
issues are discussed.
HED 4885
(SOC 4835) Addictions
The study of the nature, causes, and intervention of substance
abuse. Historical and sociocultural trends are
evaluated in view of current addiction theories. Emphasis is
placed upon the relation of addiction to family
and work environments, as well as the development of alternate
lifestyles.
HED 4955
Directed Research in Health Services
An opportunity to conduct a research project under the supervision
of a faculty member.
Note: students may
register for a directed research study only after (a) submitting a
research proposal to the program director; (b) arranging
for a faculty member to serve as mentor; and (c) receiving
explicit approval from the department chair.
HED 4895
Health Care of Children in Communities
Inquiry into the health needs of children and their treatment by
the health care system and the community.
Study includes history, epidemiology, access to and utilization of
health care services, school health,
and legislation affecting children’s health issues.
HED 5025
Fieldwork Practicum
Individually arranged with the Director. Objectives and proposal
are to be prepared by the student. The proposal
must be approved one month prior to registration. For
students in School Nursing only.
HED 6025
Integrative Capstone Course in Health Services
An integrative course in which students examine special topics of
particular interest in the volatile and challenging
health and human services environment. Subject competencies
obtained in previous coursework
are applied to analyze/synthesize the designated topics and
propose policy solutions or program
development initiatives. This should be the final course in the
curriculum. Prerequisite: all five core
courses and four administrative components. Offered in Spring
Semester only.
* All courses are 3 credits
