This course builds on the concepts and techniques introduced in the MHA curriculum and integrates them with a decision making focus in a variety of healthcare problems and settings. Case analysis will be used extensively to develop an opportunity for the student to apply appropriate skills in an unstructured environment.

An analysis of selected issues with special significance for health administration.

This course provides a multi-disciplinary approach to hunger studies. Students will develop a written paper and professional seminar on a current hunger-related issue.

Students will engage in experiential learning in a pre-approved volunteer, internship, study abroad, or paid work experience related to the world fight against hunger and social injustice.

Supervised practice in health care facilities. Course focuses on patient assessment, diet planning, care plan implementation, and nutritional evaluation. Fulltime medical nutrition therapy experience at an assigned facility with the opportunity to gain entry level experience while seeing a variety of patients with varied disease states.

Supervised practice in foodservice systems management in a variety of food service operations. Experience involves participation in management functions including procurement, production, financial and human resources management, marketing, and training.

In-depth application of foodservice systems management in a variety of food systems operations. Provides variety of experience in operations, financial, and managerial aspects of food services.

This course provides an in-depth clinical application of the principles of dietetics. The course will focus on the team concept of patient care and provide advanced dietetics practice with the opportunity to test and evaluate results.

This course serves as an introduction to the skills and techniques required to be an effective helper, broadly defined, but generally focused within a counseling context. Didactic and experiential training is provided for initial counseling, interviewing (listening), and relationship building skills.

This course will provide students with an overview of the theory and applications of advanced psychometric methods. A psychometric method focuses on advanced psychometric methodologies used in methodologically- oriented studies in educational measurement and evaluation techniques. The goal of this course is to prepare students to analyze data using advanced psychometric methods. It covers topics in the areas of Rasch Modeling, Item Response Theory, Structural Equation Modeling, Advanced Survey Techniques, and Latent Variable Modeling (as well as additional techniques).