A focused study of a single composer, genre, or musical topic. May be repeated, with different subtitles, for up to 9 credits.

The purpose of this course is to examine methods and systems from the perspectives of modeling, simulation, and control of manufacturing facilities. The emphasis will be primarily on techniques that can be used to model and evaluate performance of systems. Students are encouraged to think critically about available technologies, identify relative strengths and weaknesses, and analyze the technologies toward developing improved solutions to factory control and information management problems.

This course focuses on developing the skills necessary to successfully facilitate teams to achieve sustainable change in healthcare systems. The course introduces the foundations of change management, key features of successful teams and factors that lead to team failures; and specific behaviors and communications that enhance effective team interaction. By the end of this course you will have a better understanding of team dynamics and the tools of implementation with special emphasis on applications to improve healthcare quality, safety, satisfaction and efficiency.

This course is a survey of electronic information resources for health professionals, including databases and Web resources, but with a focus on MEDLINE. Discussion of relevant controlled vocabularies, their use in formulating and executing search strategies, and alternative interfaces to MEDLINE are addressed. The course also includes reference management software, an evidence based health care component, and discussion of systematic reviews.

This is an introduction course in theoretical corporate finance for Ph.D. students. This course has the objective of introducing doctoral students to theoretical research in corporate finance. The emphasis will be on incomplete information models, though a few models driven by other considerations will also be studied.

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.