Intercultural communication is increasingly an integral part of everyday professional life. This course responds to this emerging social reality by aiming to help professionals develop knowledge and skills to observe, interact with, speak and listen to, interpret, analyze, read, and write about people with different cultural backgrounds. To this end, the course requires each student to conduct a mini-ethnographic project in the context of her/his everyday professional life.

The overall goal is for students to develop a deeper understanding of the interconnected issues that influence the health of populations and how to analyze approaches to improve health. This course uses current public health issues to understand evidence-based medicine and public health interventions.

Overview of sheet metal forming and related manufacturing processes, emphasizing practical applications in the automotive industry. Fundamentals of sheet metal forming mechanics, including large-strain plastic deformation, flow rules, formability, and workability. A thorough survey of sheet metal forming methods, including deep drawing, stretching, blanking, bending, etc. Significant design considerations will be integrated with every forming process and real-world case studies will be presented to emphasize course contents.

This 4-week course provides an opportunity for an in-depth multispecialty experience in an outpatient setting for fourth year medical students interested in women's health. Students will be exposed to specialty services with an emphasis on women's health as ell as primary care for women. Students will spend the majority of their rotation seeing patients in the UK Women's Health Internal Medicine clinic, which provides primary care services to women in the region.

The Addiction Medicine Elective explores the continuum of prevention and treatment resources utilized by individuals with substance use disorders. Students will conduct interviews and develop treatment plans with patients in a variety of settings under the supervision of faculty preceptors. While working with the inpatient addiction medicine consult service, students will perform initial consult evaluations with appropriate supervision by the consult service attending.

This course employs a mixture of presentations, activities and selected outside assignments to teach and demonstrate the application of basic lean tools and the development of a lean system as taught by the University of Kentucky Lean Systems Program using Toyota as the benchmark. Working in teams, students will produce their own products and develop a lean operations environment within a simulated factory environment through a series of activities designed to follow the levels of development required to ultimately create a sustainable Just-in-Time lean system.

This course is designed to provide students with an overview of Toyota's Quality Assurance program and teach fundamental quality tools. This skill-set is critical to help achieve operational excellence through effective systematic problem-solving. This course follows Kaoru Ishikawa's Guide to Quality Control to teach the basic quality tools including histograms, graphs, check sheets, Pareto graphs, scatter diagrams, cause and effect, frequency diagrams, and control charts. Students will develop a basic understanding and competency by manually applying each tool multiple times.

Globally, investors, policymakers, and philanthropists are increasingly utilizing market- based social enterprise solutions to address major social problems in affordable basic services for the poor (health, education, housing, financial inclusion) or to improve environmental sustainability and increase in renewable energy. "Social entrepreneurship" is an emerging discipline to convert these practices into systems-level change. In this course, students will apply critical thinking towards solving social problems.

This course is about social network analysis in organizational settings. Topics include mapping organizational networks (such as the pattern of friendships), detecting communities or cliques, assessing individuals' centrality, collecting network data, and optimizing team structures. This course is designed to help students assess, diagnose, analyze and manage organizational networks.

Immunotherapy, the application of immunologic principles to the clinic, often called "Bench to Bedside", has led to significant objective clinical responses and prolonged time to tumor progression or recurrence in a subset of cancer patients. The current class will discuss basic immunologic principles and show how they apply to the tumor setting. In addition, the class will demonstrate how immunologic mechanisms can be exploited in the treatment of cancer. The semester will be divided into three stages including: 1.