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Introduction To Gaming In Stem Education

This course is designed to study intersections between gaming and the teaching and learning of STEM disciplines in P-20 education. A primary focus will be on enhancing teachers' ability to use critically examine different gaming avenues and designs to augment STEM learning experiences. Throughout the course the relationship between theory and practice will be emphasized in an attempt to understand some of the complexities and challenges in addressing critical issues in STEM learning and teaching.

Knowledge And Society

As a foundational course to the Honors curriculum, Knowledge and Society takes a vested interest in helping students develop an appreciation for the pursuit of truth and knowledge. By exploring the links between subjective and social phenomena, students will gain a clearer understanding of the way inquiry and curiosity are implicated in our familial, cultural, historical, and political worlds. This course aims to foster an environment where students are equipped with the tools to confidently discern the assumptions, premises, and expectations of variant claims to knowledge and truth.

Survival Analysis

BST 661 provides an introduction to common concepts and methods used in the display and analysis of time to event data. Topics include censoring, hazard rates, estimation of survival curves, regression techniques, applications to human health studies.

Analysis Of Categorical Data

BST 663 is an applied first course in the analysis of categorical data. Topics for categorical data include methods for proportions, rates, ratios, relative risks, risk ratios, and odds ratios. Cochran-Mantel- Haenzel tests, exact tests, logistic regression, time to events and life table methods, and generalized least square methods will be discussed with applications in public health, clinical and translational trials.

Supporting Hospitalized Children

This course uses Child Life theory to address providing developmentally appropriate psychosocial and emotional support to hospitalized children and their families. Topics will include assessment, common stressors, therapeutic interventions, parent and sibling support, procedural preparation, pain management, and bereavement support.

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