This seminar will focus on a specific area of public policy selected by the instructor. Possible topics include health care policy, environmental policy, urban policy and design, and mass media and public policy. Topic and instructor will vary from semester to semester. May be repeated to a maximum of nine credits under different subtitles.

A systematic analysis of interpersonal behavior. Topics covered include social-cognitive aspects of interpersonal relations (e.g., expectancies, attribution), personal relationships (e.g., friendship, romance), and small-group dynamics (e.g., minority influence, cooperative learning).

Study of the acquisition, production, and perception of human language. The relationship between linguistic theories and experimental data will be critically examined.

This course is designed to present an analysis of issues related to the role of physical therapy in long term care. Course emphases will include the implications of financing models, payer mix, the role of the federal and local governments, trends in delivery models, utilization of appropriate skill mix, and decision making related to cost and service availability. Consideration will include both home and institutional settings in relation to care provision.

Assessment and management approaches will be presented. A treatment framework will be developed from assessment approaches. The student will utilize a problem solving approach to select and implement specific therapeutic interventions. Lecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours per week.

Provides advanced supervised clinical experience appropriate to student's level of preparation in specialty. Forty to sixty clinical hours for one credit hour. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.

This course is designed to present a broad series of topics central to the understanding of human skeletal muscle physiology and therapeutic interventions. Course emphases will include muscle physiology rather than anatomic factors enabling the clinical implications of the dynamic alterable nature of muscle to be central. Included in these implications are aging, disease and injury processes, and therapeutic interventions/strategies.

This course investigates strategies the brain uses to plan and execute a movement. These strategies will be examined in the context of normal movement, changes associated with aging, and changes associated with neurological disorders.

An analysis of current trends in pediatric physical therapy from birth through adolescence. Topics include the impact of motor development, motor control, and motor learning on PT intervention; current medical surgical and pharmacological interventions; models of service delivery; supervision and delegation in various pediatric environments; fitness and the disabled child; evidence-based practice; and documentation of functional outcomes.

This course is an application and research oriented investigation of current issues in neurological physical therapy.