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Practicum In Clinical Leadership And Management

Students will gain practical general training and experiences in the healthcare workplace with a focus on exposure/experience in clinical leadership and management. The CLM faculty in coordination with the practicum coordinator will arrange these experiences with the site employer/personnel and develop an individualized plan for the student at each site. The plan relates the workplace training and experiences to the student's general and technical course of study.

Elites In Cross-Cultural Perspective

This course examines elites in different areas of the world paying special attention to what defines them as power holders, their sub- cultures, histories, strategies of class reproduction, and relations to subaltern groups.The class will also explore the critical perspectives gained from studying up, as well as the theoretical and methodological difficulties of doing this kind of work.

Bacterial Pathogenesis

This course will examine the pathogenic mechanisms used by bacteria to cause human disease. Bacterial virulence factors & host susceptibility factors will be discussed, with an emphasis on understanding the techniques that can be used to identify these traits in newly emerging pathogens.

Public Health Capstone

This course will provide Bachelor of Public Health (BPH) students a culminating experience through a practice-based simulation of community health assessment and community health improvement strategies grounded in the Evidence-Informed Decision-Making model. Students will use a synthesis of the BPH program's core coursework (epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental health, population health management and policy, and health behavior) augmented by concepts of health equity and systems thinking.

Maternal And Child Health Information And Data Systems

This course will equip participants with basic skills in identifying, accessing, interpreting and utilizing U.S. maternal and child health data systems at the national and state level. Participants will learn the essential ways that secondary data sources inform public health practice and how to interpret and present information from these sources. They will also learn key skills in data interpretation, data linkage, working with small numbers, stratifying data by population sub- groups and examining trends over time.

Clinical Gerontology

This course is an interdisciplinary introductory course in gerontological health and the healthcare system which examines the processes of normal human aging, the common diseases and disorders that affect older adults, and aging in the context of the US healthcare system. Special emphasis will be place on physical function and the ability to participate in desired roles and activities as well as societal supports and barriers to health among older adults in the US. The course will highlight areas of importance for those who will be working and/or conducting research with older adults.

Italy From Fascism To The Present

This course is designed to give students a comprehensive overview and a good understanding of contemporary Italy. Through group activities, oral presentations and written assignments based on various literary excerpts, movies, and cultural readings, students will analyze and reflect on the main historical events and characters, along with cultural and economic trends that shaped Italy in the 20th century, starting with the period of Fascism and WWII.

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