Special and intensive study of selected topics in contemporary 20th and 21st century Latin American literature and culture. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 credits when taught under different subtitles.

This is the first course in the six-semester Patient-Centered Care Experience (PaCE) course sequence that is part of the pre-APPE curriculum. The PaCE course structure integrates PY1, PY2, and PY3 students into concurrent weekly laboratory sessions and intermittent complementary experiential fieldwork experiences. The course is designed to assist in developing the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to fulfill the professional and technical responsibilities necessary to provide patient-centered care and manage the medication use system.

This course examines the key issues that are associated with the discovery and development of entrepreneurial opportunities as it applied to venture creation. Some emphasis is placed on the role of the entrepreneur in society as it pertains to increasing economic and social welfare for others. Students will develop an understanding of entrepreneurship as it relates to the people, opportunity, context and deal aspects of the new venture creation process.

Full-time research that requires the student to remain off-campus for extended periods. Students enrolled in this course remain in full-time academic status. May be repeated to a maximum of 2 semesters.

Anthropologists have drawn on visual representation and analysis of human experience since the inception of the discipline, and are increasingly paying attention to what can be learned through the other senses as well.

A-S 285 is an introductory course in digital image capture that focuses on the still and moving image as an art practice. Students will learn the fundamentals of camera operation and editing software in order to visually communicate their creative ideas. Students will be introduced to contemporary lens arts practice through research and assignments. This course is essential for any student wanting to succeed in digital media and/or design. It is a prerequisite for many upper-level lens- based classes.

This course will provide students, in a seminar format for 6 sessions during the semester, presentations from occupational health and safety professionals from a variety of disciplines and experiences. The seminar is 2.5 hours long at each session. Knowledge regarding workplace exposures and related health outcomes will be provided. Students should acquire basic understanding of current topics in the fields of occupational medicine, nursing, safety, industrial hygiene, epidemiology, biostatistics, mining, and agriculture.

This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of occupational/environmental health nursing (OEHN). The history and value of OEHN will be explored. Standards and scope of OEHN practice will be examined. The roles of OEHNs within the framework of interdisciplinary professionals will be presented. Concepts and principles will be applied through field work and topic specific assignments. Legal and ethical issues are discussed.

This course is designed to introduce the interdisciplinary field of medical informatics to health information professionals. Medical Informatics is a developing field that essentially seeks to apply information and computing technologies to improve all aspects of healthcare, including patient care, research, and education.

This course is designed to advance the RN student's ability to use leadership and management theory in nursing practice within current and emerging organizational systems and across the continuum from health, illness, and returning to health. Leadership responsibilities, strategies, and skills for facilitating a healthy work environment that provides optimum patient/family outcomes and the development and self- actualization of staff will be addressed.