Undergraduate Catalog
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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

Health Behavior and   Administration


Levels

2000     3000     4000


HLTH 2101.  Healthy Lifestyles.  (3)   A health survey course with emphasis on health behavior, decision making and knowledge.  (Fall, Spring, Summer) 

HLTH 3000. Topics in Health Behavior and Administration. (1-3) Prerequisite:  Consent of the instructor.  Prerequisites and credit hours vary with topics.  Special topics for intermediate level undergraduates.  May be repeated for credit as topics vary.  (On demand) 

HLTH 3101.  Foundations of Public Health.  (3)  Introduction to the field of public health, including its history, content areas, scope, and paradigms of professional practice.  (Fall, Spring)

HLTH 3110. Health Risk Reduction for Practitioners.  (3) The art and science of planning, implementing and evaluating health risk reduction strategies, methods and programs.  (On demand) 

HLTH 3115.  Health and the Aging Process.  (3)  Crosslisted as GRNT 3115 and NURS 3115.  Examination of the physiologic processes of aging as a normal life experience.  Study of psychological, nutritional and general health issues designed to facilitate high-level awareness.  (Fall)

HLTH 3140.  Behavior Change Theories and Practice.  (3)  Prerequisites: PSYC 1101. Principles of behavior change programming and health consulting through an understanding of program planning and evaluation, the origins of various human behavior, contributing factors, issues in adherence and compliance and modern behavior change theories.  (Spring) 

HLTH 4000.  Special Topics in Health Behavior and Administration.  (1-3)  Prerequisites and credit hours vary with topics.  Special topics for advanced undergraduates.  May be repeated for credit as topics vary.  (On demand) 

HLTH 4120.  Mental and Emotional Well-being. (3)  Examines mental and emotional health from the perspective of the health educator's role as a facilitator of mental and emotional wellness. (On demand) 

HLTH 4122. Drugs and Society. (3) Teaching methodology, knowledge and skills for affecting appropriate behaviors through the study of use, misuse and abuse of natural and synthetic chemicals in today's society. (On demand) 

HLTH 4124. Safety Through the Life Span. (3)  Prerequisite: Consent of the Department.  Introduction to accident/injury prevention emphasizing personal responsibility for health care with a focus on psychosocial development and a wellness approach to safety management. (On demand) 

HLTH 4126. Adolescent Sexuality and Family Life Education. (3) Designed for teachers, counselors, school nurses, administrators and others responsible for family life education programs in school, with focus on adolescent sexuality issues. (On demand) 

HLTH 4128.  Environmental Health:  A Global Perspective.  (3) Teaching methodology, knowledge and skills for affecting appropriate health behaviors through study of the causes and effects of contemporary environmental problems. (On demand) 

HLTH 4136. Health Product and Service Consumerism.  (3) Teaching methodology, knowledge and skills for affecting appropriate health behaviors through emphasis on the individual consumer at the health marketplace.  (On demand) 

HLTH 4299.  Epidemiology.  (3) Prerequisite:  Permission of the instructor. Traditional aspects of epidemiology, including practical disease concepts, epidemiological measures of health status, mortality and morbidity rates and ratios, descriptive statistics, research design, cohort studies, case-control studies, prospective, and retrospective analysis.  (Fall) 

HLTH 4300.  Global Health Issues (3). Introduces general principles of international health including historical aspects, sources of international health data, environmental and social approaches to global health issues, and economic and policy issues.  Features topics such as infectious disease; violence, war and genocide; famine and obesity; gender health issues; global health disparities.  (Spring) 

HLTH 4800.  Independent Study.  (1-6)  Prerequisites:  Permission of the instructor and the Department.  Directed individual study that may take the form of initiating, designing, and conducting an original research problem, or a critique and synthesis of existing research.  May be repeated for credit.  (On demand) 

HLTH 4900.  Undergraduate Research. (1-4) Prerequisite: Consent of the Department.  Enables juniors and seniors to initiate research projects in their field of interest.  May be repeated for credit.  (On demand)


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