This course is designed to expand student understanding of the theory and practice of leadership, conflict management, and decision-making. It is also designed to focus on issues of cohesiveness, trust, motivation, vision, and goals. Students must integrate their personal ethics and definition of leadership in various course assignments and projects
This course focuses on the emergence and persistence of community inequalities in contemporary American society. This begins by identifying, describing, and analyzing inequalities within and among American communities and then considering the implications for organizational and community processes. The essential questions that will guide this course are: How do we define, measure, and evaluate the differences among communities? What factors contribute to the emergence and persistence of the inequalities among communities?
This course is designed as a service-learning/community engagement experience. It is organized with a field component related to the student's area of interest and an in-class experience that provides students with the opportunity to share and process their field experiences and to learn and grow from them through a variety of interactive exercises, readings, films and guest presentations. At the heart of the seminar is the requirement for in-depth journaling and the recording of field experiences through fieldnotes.
The purpose of this course is to develop an overview and basic understanding of descriptive and inferential statistics. As a result, students will be able to organize and summarize quantitative data; interpret data; make generalizations from sample data to populations or theory; and, read and understand research reports.
Focus will be on the use of the most recently developed techniques and model systems in molecular biology for studying nutrient regulation of gene expression. Examples include current problems in nutrition such as models for engineering plants containing more desirable nutrient sources (fats); for studying effects of various nutrients in transgenic mice on tumor suppressor genes and oncogene expression, that are important in cancer prevention; and for studying nutrient effects on genes that modulate obesity.
This course explores the connection between the health of people and the natural and built environment. Focus is given to understanding the relationships between biological, chemical, and social factors that produce unhealthy environments that sicken individuals throughout their lifespan. The important influence of environmental policy and regulation to protect the health and safety of human populations is examined as well as the role of environmental justice in creating healthy communities.
Students enrolled in this course will participate in in-depth analyses of multiple large-scale disasters. This course will provide students with the knowledge necessary to participate in all phases of the crisis management process, as overseen by a health service organization. Case studies will be utilized heavily throughout this course and students will have the opportunity to engage in discussion with various health professionals from around Kentucky who engage in crisis management activities.
CPH 603 covers topics relating to applications of biostatistics in public health. It provides a conceptual introduction to statistical methods commonly used in public health practice. Topics include data visualization, summary statistics, statistical testing, estimation, confounding, and an introduction to regression (linear, logistic, proportional hazards).
The course provides students with the opportunity to visit various work sites and industries in the Appalachian region. This course will provide students with onsite, direct experience recognizing hazards and evaluating control measures to reduce occupational health and safety risks. This is a cross-disciplinary course for graduate students in occupational safety, industrial hygiene, environmental health, occupational health nursing, ergonomics, injury prevention, agricultural health and safety, occupational epidemiology and occupational medicine.
This course provides an overview of major topics in health law and policy. Students learn to prepare a policy analysis and present their findings to knowledgeable policy makers.
