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Preparing Professionals In Forensic Science And Analytical Genetics

This course will introduce and develop professional skills required for obtaining workplace employment in the areas of Forensic Chemistry/Toxicology and Forensic/Analytical Genetics. It will prepare students to understand workplace professionalism including proper use of social media, how to search and apply for jobs, and understand goal setting and the importance of work-life balance. Students will learn how to clearly articulate their skill sets, their understanding of their training and how to apply their training as professionals in the workplace environment.

Advanced Human Genetics

This course will train students in advanced genetics and the rapidly progressing and influential field of human genetics. Through lectures, the primary literature and review articles, students will gain in-depth knowledge of inheritance, genetic variation, genetic diseases and the impacts of epigenetic alterations and the environment. Students will gain advanced knowledge of contemporary methods used to investigate the human genome and their applications to genetic testing.

Writing Comics

Writing comics is a production class in which students write and draw their own comics and engage with the creative process on a personal level. This course focuses on the writing process from idea to publication, narrative, humor, and autobiographical comics. Drawing skills are not a pre-requisite.

Understanding And Communicating Environmental Health Risks

Public health practitioners and researchers require knowledge of how exposure to environmental and occupational contaminants can adversely affect the health of both current and future generations. Public health professionals also require skills to communicate clearly with multiple stakeholders about opportunities to assess, control, and/or prevent complex environmental health hazards. In this course, students will develop foundational environmental health concepts and build cultural competencies for effective stakeholder communication.

Analytics Methods For Healthcare Data

The course will discuss the use and importance of observational data, such as naturalistic real-world trials, patient registries, and health care claims. We will review issues involved in analyzing observational data (like selection bias or confounding) and common statistical solutions to those issues (e.g., propensity score matching). As a part of "hands-on" training experience, students will work with a subset of health claims data to gain experience in cleaning, managing and exporting data to statistical software.

Foundations Of Health Behavior II

This course will demonstrate how changes in health behavior can and do impact population-level indicators of morbidity and mortality. Within the context of the socioecological framework, students will focus on health behavior theories and interventions targeting the organizational, community, and societal levels of the framework, as well as multilevel interventions. Students will apply an intervention mapping approach to identify priority needs for health promotion and design health promotion programs.

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