This course is designed to provide students the opportunity to experience the practical application of gerontology in such domains as government, administration and clinical environments. In addition, the student will gain in-depth experience with the organization and an introduction to problems in applied research. Students will work under the supervision of a gerontology faculty member to coordinate efforts, establish timelines for completion, and determine grading criteria. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits. Approval of the Director of Graduate Studies required.

This course prepares graduate students to be PI on a state, federal, other large competitive grant. Students prepare and critique proposal.

HEALTH CARE NEEDS This course provides a base of core knowledge and experience in interdisciplinary services and supports for persons with developmental disabilities and/or special health care needs and their families. This course is structured in an interdisciplinary seminar format, illustrating the application of each discipline's expertise to the needs of persons with disabilities and their families. Lecture, three hours per week.

Students will study scientific techniques and accepted research methodologies in human environmental science research. Emphasis is placed on understanding the research process and developing the skills necessary to evaluate and implement research methods and design procedures.

This survey course is designed to introduce students to the health professions through a broadly based context provided by various lecture topics, assigned readings, in-class activities, examinations and one out-of-class written assignment. Trends in health practice, accreditation and certification requirements, health care delivery environments and assumptions about health and disease will be explored in relation to health manpower development.

This course will address the development of the past and current US health policies within the context of historical, economic, cultural, and political environments. The political process and the roles and responsibilities of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government will be examined. The power and influence that politics, money, the media and special interest groups have had, and continue to have, upon the development of national and state health policies will be discuss and analyzed.

A multidisciplinary seminar directed to topics of major concern in humanistic studies and to include consideration of culture, literature, history and landscape.

A comprehensive study of the management principles which apply to the rooms division of a hotel property that includes front desk and housekeeper operations, reservations and billing, accounting procedures and public relations.

This course highlights the importance, growth, and economic impacts associated with convention/trade shows to hotels, restaurants, visitors and convention centers, museums, airlines and local governments.

This course is designed to provide students with a thorough overview of tourism planning at the local, regional, national, and international levels. It provides a variety of practical planning theories, procedures and guidelines to meet the diverse needs of travelers, destinations communities, tourism and hospitality organizations, public, non- governmental organizations, and the private sector.