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HED (0834) 373 - Essentials of Healthful Living
Credits: 3.00
Examine basic issues in health and explores values, attitudes, and behaviors conducive to a healthier lifestyle.
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HED (0834) 375 - Issues in Consumer Health
Credits: 3.00
Learn about becoming better health consumers by acquiring the information and skills necessary to make better use of the health care system.
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HED (0834) 500 - Health Educ Elective
Credits: 1.00 to 6.00
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HED (0834) 501 - Dynamics of Substance Abuse
Credits: 3.00
Examine the problem of substance abuse by studying its psychological, legal, and pharmacological aspects. Explore various methods of prevention and rehabilition.
Free Note: Open only to Jr’s Sr’s,and Grad Students
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HED (0834) 504 - Comprehensive Hth Ed For Sec Educators
Credits: 3.00
Examine the skills and knowledge necessary to develop and teach a comprehensive, secondary level health education program. This course will address the Guidance Document for Achieving the New York State Standards in Health Education. National and State Standards will be included.
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HED (0834) 505 - Multidimensional Aspects of Stress
Credits: 3.00
Investigation of theoretical and practical aspects of human stress and stress management. Using a multidimensional model of health and an experiential approach to learning, students will analyze stress from both a professional and personal perspective
Free Note: Open only to Jr’s Sr’s and Graduate Students
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HED (0834) 506 - Health And Nutrition
Credits: 3.00
Examine nutritional theory and information as they impact on the health of the individual and the society. Study the nutritional needs throughout the life cycle, dietary needs of people with health problems, and common eating disorders. Pre-service and in-service teachers will the skills to teach health education standards.
Free Note: Open Only to Jr’s Sr’s and Graduate Students
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HED (0834) 507 - Youth and Violence
Credits: 3.00
Students will investigate current health issues of school aged children in relation to violence. Analyze prevention, intervention and research regarding what schools are and can be doing about victims and bullies. Course meets NYS Dignity for All Students Act Mandate, SAVE and Mandated Training Related to Child Abuse.
Free Note: Open to only Juniors, Seniors, and Graduate Students
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HED (0834) 508 - Introduction to Comprehensive Health Education
Credits: 3.00
This course allows students to examine the foundations of health education, national and state health education standards and effective teaching strategies to address all level learners. Health literacy is explored and a skills-based approach to teaching health is practiced and evaluated.
1. Explain comprehensive school health education.
2. Identify critical functional knowledge in health education that ensures a quality program.
3. Develop a skill based lesson plan for health education instruction*.
4. Present a skill based lesson plan for health education instruction
5. Explain factors that help develop attitudes and norms to adopt and maintain a healthy lifestyle.*
6. Explain the importance of the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC), Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS), and Healthy People Initiative to school health education.
*Students will develop a lesson plan that includes functional knowledge, affective and cognitive objectives with authentic assessments to measure objectives that contribute to development of beliefs and norms that contribute to a healthy lifestyle.
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HED (0834) 509 - U.S. Health Care System
Credits: 3.00
Analyze characteristics and developments in the health system, with specific focus on elements that impact on prevention issues.
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HED (0834) 520 - Special Topics
Credits: 3.00
This class is designed to provide the student with justification for health promotion programs as a means to stabilize health care costs, improve worker productivity, boost morale, reduce long and short term disability costs, decrease errors, and demonstrate a favorable return on investment.
Free Note: Open only to Jr’s Sr’s and Graduate Students
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HED (0834) 538 - Student Teaching Hth Ed
Credits: 6.00
Required to spend 16 weeks in K-12 school setting as the capstone experience for uncertified teachers in the health education teachers program. Placement is fulltime, five days per week. Work with a cooperating teacher, who is chosen by the school and the University, and a supervising professor from the University.
Free Note: See Department for Application Deadlines Seminar,Wednesday 4:30pm
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HED (0834) 550 - Social & Cultural Issues in Health Education
Credits: 3.00
Examine health issues confronting various minority groups in American society. Analyze the impact of culture and ethnic identity on the understanding and treatment of particular health related problems.
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HED (0834) 551 - Contemporary Health Issues
Credits: 3.00
Examine critical health issues affecting individuals, families, and communities. Analyze the causes and prevention strategies that draw from social science, medical, epidemiological, and education research.
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HED (0834) 552 - Research and Technology in Health Education
Credits: 3.00
Learn different research methods and analyze and critique existing research. Study issues in assessment and evaluation. Focus on research studies and issues in health education and utilize the latest technology to analyze data and present information.
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HED (0834) 553 - Mind/Body Dimensions in Health
Credits: 3.00
Examination of bio-psychosocial issues in health and an exploration of attitudes, values, beliefs and behaviors with respect to these issues. The implications and the critical importance of the bio-psychosocial health paradigm as it applies to health status and health education will also be examined.
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HED (0834) 557 - Health Promotion for Children and Adolescents
Credits: 3.00
Learn about the theory and concepts surrounding health promotion and risk reduction programs for youth. Meets the NYS mandate for learning about child abuse and violence prevention.
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HED (0834) 571 - Health Issues for Elementary School Educators
Credits: 3.00
Study the cognitive issues and educational methods in health education appropriate for the elementary classroom teacher. Course work in drug education violence prevention and child abuse will satisfy NYS Certification mandates for elementary teachers. New York State Standards will be included.
Free Note: Only open to Jr’s Sr’s and Graduate Students
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HED (0834) 587 - Grant Writing for Health Professionals
Credits: 3.00
Students will develop the knowledge and skills necessary to secure external funding through grant proposal writing. Focus will be on funding sources, the grant writing process, grant management/evaluation, and continued funding.
Free Note: This course is recommended for anyone preparing to work in a health-related setting or who may work in a setting funded by soft money.
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HED (0834) 601 - Contemporary Health Issues
Credits: 3.00
Examine critical health issues affecting individuals, families, and communities. Analyze the causes and prevention strategies that draw from social science, medical, epidemiological, and education research.
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HED (0834) 602 - Research and Technology in Health Education
Credits: 3.00
Learn different research methods and analyze and critique existing research. Study issues in assessment and evaluation. Focus on research studies and issues in health education and utilize the latest technology to analyze data and present information.
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HED (0834) 603 - Mind/Body Dimensions in Health
Credits: 3.00
Examination of bio-psychosocial issues in health and an exploration of attitudes, values, beliefs and behaviors with respect to these issues. The implications and the critical importance of the bio-psychosocial health paradigm as it applies to health status and health education will also be examined.
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HED (0834) 604 - Aspects of Human Sexuality
Credits: 3.00
Analyze the multidimensional aspects of human sexuality in relationship to human development and personal and social well being. The cognitive, affective and behavioral domains of sexuality will be examined.
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HED (0834) 606 - Health Education Foundations and Strategies
Credits: 3.00
Free Note: Departmental approval required to register for course.
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HED (0834) 607 - Health Promotion for Children and Adolescents
Credits: 3.00
Learn about the theory and concepts surrounding health promotion and risk reduction programs for youth. Meets the NYS mandate for learning about child abuse and violence prevention.
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HED (0834) 608 - Introduction to Comprehensive Health Education
Credits: 3.00
This course allows students to examine the foundations of health education, national and state health education standards and effective teaching strategies to address all level learners. Health literacy is explored and a skills-based approach to teaching health is practiced and evaluated.
1. Explain comprehensive school health education.
2. Identify critical functional knowledge in health education that ensures a quality program.
3. Develop a skill based lesson plan for health education instruction*.
4. Present a skill based lesson plan for health education instruction
5. Explain factors that help develop attitudes and norms to adopt and maintain a healthy lifestyle.*
6. Explain the importance of the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC), Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS), and Healthy People Initiative to school health education.
*Students will develop a lesson plan that includes functional knowledge, affective and cognitive objectives with authentic assessments to measure objectives that contribute to development of beliefs and norms that contribute to a healthy lifestyle.
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HED (0834) 608 - Introduction to Comprehensive Health Education
Credits: 3.00
This course allows students to examine the foundations of health education, national and state health education standards and effective teaching strategies to address all level learners. Health literacy is explored and a skills-based approach to teaching health is practiced and evaluated.
1. Explain comprehensive school health education.
2. Identify critical functional knowledge in health education that ensures a quality program.
3. Develop a skill based lesson plan for health education instruction*.
4. Present a skill based lesson plan for health education instruction
5. Explain factors that help develop attitudes and norms to adopt and maintain a healthy lifestyle.*
6. Explain the importance of the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC), Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS), and Healthy People Initiative to school health education.
*Students will develop a lesson plan that includes functional knowledge, affective and cognitive objectives with authentic assessments to measure objectives that contribute to development of beliefs and norms that contribute to a healthy lifestyle.
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HED (0834) 609 - Comprehensive Hth Ed For Sec Educators
Credits: 3.00
Examine the skills and knowledge necessary to develop and teach a comprehensive, secondary level health education program. This course will address the Guidance Document for Achieving the New York State Standards in Health Education. National and State Standards will be included.
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HED (0834) 610 - Health Preparation for Teachers
Credits: 1.00
Explore health issues such as chronic and communicable diseases, puberty, HIV/AIDS, tobacco, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, physical fitness, child abuse and abduction, mental health and violence. Satisfies NYS mandate in violence prevention, child abuse and substance abuse.
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HED (0834) 621 - Teaching Human Sexuality
Credits: 3.00
Examination of the socio/cultural, psychological, biological, and ethical dimensions of teaching comprehensive sexuality education. Theoretical concepts and practical applications of sexuality education will be explored to enable educators to develop and implement sexuality education.
Prerequisite 1: HED 601 HED 602 HED 603 HED 607 HED 650
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HED (0834) 627 - School Health Programs and Policies
Credits: 3.00
Examine the philosophy, principles, organization, and administration of school health programs. Projects involve assessing a school health program, proposing changes, implementing and evaluating interventions.
Prerequisite 1: HED 627
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HED (0834) 650 - Social & Cultural Issues in Health Education
Credits: 3.00
Examine health issues confronting various minority groups in American society. Analyze the impact of culture and ethnic identity on the understanding and treatment of particular health related problems.
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HED (0834) 653 - Environmental Health
Credits: 3.00
Develop a working knowledge of today’s issues in environmental health. Incorporate various activities and methods to enrich instruction in environmental health.
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HED (0834) 654 - Mass Communication in Health
Credits: 3.00
Analyze, apply, and evaluate the mass communication process incorporating electronic and non-electronic forms of media for community health education programs. Develop the knowledge and skills necessary to plan health education programs for various populations.
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HED (0834) 657 - Health Advocacy and Community Organizing
Credits: 3.00
Students will develop knowledge and skills to promote and improve health in communities and become effective advocates for health on local, state, and national levels. Goals include priortizing health information needs, developing advocacy strategies, delivering messages, and engaging in community organizing and advocacy to influence policy and promote health.
Free Note: This course is recommended for anyone preparing to work in a health-related setting or anyone committed to improving the health of a specific population.
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HED (0834) 701 - Substance Abuse Prevention
Credits: 3.00
Explore factors that can protect or put individuals at risk for substance abuse. Analyze current substance use data and examine the application of prevention research to schools and communities.
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HED (0834) 702 - Intervention Techniques For Health Educators
Credits: 3.00
Develop counseling skills and referral resources for crisis intervention. Examine and practice communication and conflict resolution strategies. For health educators working with children and youth.
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HED (0834) 703 - Dynamics of Teaching Health
Credits: 3.00
Analyze effective teaching strategies for use in various health education settings. Develop curriculum and capacity to plan, implement and authentically assess health instruction. This course will address the Guidance Document for Achieving the New York State Standards in Health Education. National and NY State Standards will be included. Field work included.
Prerequisite 1: HED 601 HED 602 HED 603 HED 607 HED 650
Free Note: Four of five cycle one courses (HED 601 , HED 602 , HED 603 , HED 607 , HED 650 ) must be completed prior to taking a cycle two course (HED 621 , HED 701 & HED 703 ) The fifth cycle one course must be taken concurrently
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HED (0834) 750 - Community Health Education: Planning and Implementation
Credits: 3.00
Study of the concepts and techniques used to plan, implement and evaluate community health education programs. Course materials will include contemporary theories and case studies.
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HED (0834) 751 - Fieldwork Internship in Community Health Education
Credits: 4.00
Supervised field experience in an agency engaging in community health education, such as federal, state, country and voluntary agencies and hospitals. Each student will select an area of particular interest and spend a minimum of 250 hours. There will be an agency supervisor and a University faculty coordinator.
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HED (0834) 791 - Independent Study
Credits: 1.00 to 6.00
Work with faculty advisor on special project or research initiative.
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HED (0834) 792 - Fieldwork Internship
Credits: 1.00
Be provided with a fieldwork placement to complete supervised observation hours.
Prerequisite 1: HED 703
Free Note: Students must post a completed fieldwork log to Moodle
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HED (0834) 795 - Changing Views of Masculinity And Femininity
Credits: 3.00
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HIN (0308) 324 - Technology in Health Sciences
Credits: 3.00
Students will acquire the knowledge necessary to understand biological and health informatics applications, develop familiarity with the use of computers and persistent data structures, communication or visualization of biological data, and IT-enhanced biology applications.
The students will be able to:
● Use correct terminology for computing and technology,
● Describe different types of data generated in healthcare,
● Describe predictive modeling,
● Define Learning Health Systems, wireless sensor networks, personalized medicine,
● Discuss the latest advances in medical science, informatics and healthcare applications,
● Analyze how the integration of data from many sources assists in making clinical decisions,
● Discuss how telehealth communication technologies support clinical care.
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HIN (0308) 501 - Computer Applications for Healthcare Managers
Credits: 3.00
The student will gain detailed knowledge of how computer applications interact within healthcare organizations, facilitate clinical decision making and how they are integrated into healthcare operations. Students learn the basics of Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Upon completion of this course, the successful student will be able to:
● Evaluate and understand the importance and application of information systems in functional areas of healthcare.
● Synthesize professional Word, Excel and PowerPoint files using appropriate features and that are specific to healthcare functions.
● Application of information science and technology to solve health informatics problems.
● Application of Excel, PowerPoint and Word technology methods and tools for solving a specific biomedical and health information problem.
● Evaluate the computer application tools from social, business, human factors, behavioral, and information sciences and technologies for designing, implementing, and evaluating health informatics solutions.
● Summarize the value of information literacy and lifelong learning, maintenance of skills, and professional excellence.
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HIN (0308) 502 - Introduction to U.S. Health Care Organization
Credits: 3.00
The course introduces students to the historical development, structure, operation, and future directions of the major components of the American health care delivery system. It will address the issues of access, quality, cost, and assess the contributions of medical technology, research, and societal values on our health care delivery system.,,
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HIN (0308) 601 - Human Interaction, Integrity and Interoperability
Credits: 3.00
This course prepares students for successful integration of health information systems into healthcare practice. Healthcare providers are central to successful integration. Three domains are addressed: challenges encountered in health information system implementation; considerations for integration of health information systems; and system design in the perspective of end users.
Prerequisite 1: HIN 502
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HIN (0308) 603 - Decision Support and Decision Support Systems in HIT
Credits: 3.00
This course prepares students for state-of-the-art clinical decision support systems. Four main domains are addressed: evidence-based decision making for knowledge generation; issues in representing knowledge; organizational, cultural, legal, and ethical issues in designing, using, and evaluating clinical decision support systems; and applications of clinical decision support systems used in healthcare.
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HIN (0308) 610 - Introduction to Health Informatics
Credits: 3.00
Students are introduced to the fundamental concepts and knowledge in the field of health informatics. Topics covered include, but are not limited to main information technology applications, electronic health records, personal health records, data standards, health information exchange and future of health informatics applications.
The students will be able to:
• Develop the familiarity and comfort of using common medical terms and describe body structures using correct anatomical, positional and directional terms.
• Provide the complete meaning of a medical abbreviations and communicate with health care professionals utilizing proper medical terminology.
• Discuss the role of various health informatics professionals and summarize the informatics drivers and trends.
• Describe how Health Information Exchange (HIE) and Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) impact health care delivery and the practice of health care providers.
• Identify the core elements that comprise an EHR system and describe the major goals of meaningful use.
• Identify health informatics data standards and 12 possible steps to choosing an EHR system.
• Describe and apply privacy, confidentiality, and security under the tenets of HIPAA Privacy Rule.
• Analyze the increasing professionalization of informaticians and health information technology professionals including training programs and professional organizations.
• Evaluate the barriers to adoption of health information technology that the HITECH act is designed to address.
• Analyze and synthesize how ongoing developments in health informatics can affect future uses of health care data.
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HIN (0308) 620 - Health Analytics, Big Data and Natural Language Processing
Credits: 3.00
Students will analyze and evaluate various aspects of health analytics and big data analytics. Topics covered include descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics, translating healthcare problems as an analytics problem, and the use of natural language processing to gain insights from electronic health records and other open text formats.
The students will be able to:
• Develop techniques and processes for data-driven decision-making.
• Build, verify and test predictive data models.
• Analyze patterns in large amounts of data in information systems and how to use these to draw conclusions.
• Design and develop modeling solutions for clinical decision-making.
• Discover how to answer strategic and operational questions using basic analytic techniques.
• Analyze and compare metadata and its importance within an organization, and data extraction technologies.
• Apply natural language processing concepts to gain insight into electronic records and other open text formats
• Practice individual investigations in chosen topics.
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HIN (0308) 630 - Telemedicine Applications, Digital Health and m-Health
Credits: 3.00
Students will acquire the basic knowledge necessary to understand telemedicine and mobile health applications, develop familiarity with new methods to provide clinical care, track and manage health outcomes and make healthcare delivery personalized, precise and efficient, and understand the various techniques used for data transfer in health care services.
The students will be able to:
● Analyze the concept of telemedical systems.
● Evaluate hardware and software tools employed for data exchange.
● Apply the basic communication system and tools in telemedical instrumentation.
● Identify available telehealth technologies and the role they play in healthcare delivery.
● Identify strategies that contribute to effective telemedicine program development.
● Describe the purpose, attributes, and functions of patient monitoring systems.
● Analyze how the integration of data from many sources assists in making clinical decisions.
● Discuss how telehealth communication technologies support clinical care.
● Define an information system.
● Evaluate specialized information systems.
● Analyze the latest advances in medical technology and develop new clinical informatics system models.
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HIN (0308) 641 - Standards for Clinical Interoperability in Healthcare
Credits: 3.00
Students will be introduced to interoperable patient-centered health information technology that makes the data available to clinicians in a timely way. Students will learn the fundamental concepts of multi-disciplinary care planning, explore the technical principles of intra- and inter-organizational health interoperability and identify various interoperability standards in use.
The students will be able to:
• Identify health information technology (HIT) interoperability needs and priorities.
• Recognize the special requirements for implementing healthcare interoperability projects.
• Articulate the issues that health information exchange (HIE) is indented to address.
• Evaluate the concept of patient-driven care coordination and list technologies that can be used to determine care decisions.
• Compare and contrast the barriers and challenges achieving interoperable health information technology practices.
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HIN (0308) 650 - Practicum in Hth Care Information Tech
Credits: 3.00
Provides seminar and practical experience in the observation, participation in, and critical analysis of various roles and functions of Health care Information Technology professionals. Students will complete a minimum of 150 hours in practicum work during site visits.,,
Prerequisite 1: HIN 502
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HIN (0308) 660 - Health Information, Privacy and Security
Credits: 3.00
An introductory course focused on the meaning and ramifications of health information and privacy; from the perspective of the patient, provider, employer, health-insurer, business, legal, and government. Strategic emphasis will placed on utilization of a practical framework, integrating ethical fundamentals of patient privacy, emergency preparedness, and data storage and recovery.
Upon completion of this course, the successful student will be able to:
● Demonstrate strategic knowledge regarding evolution of HIPAA, HIPAA Compliance, Omnibus Rule, and HITECH Act
● Assess the ‘Ethical’ domain of Health Information Technology, Protected Health Information, the Electronic Medical Record, Health Information Exchange, and Meaningful Use.
● Understand, demonstrate and defend case examples of the relationship between Privacy and Security
● Create and illustrate understanding on how to perform a Privacy Rule Gap Analysis and Risk Analysis related to ‘Data Storage and Recovery’
● Demonstrate knowledge of how to Write Effective Privacy Policy
● Identify and debate issues from the perspective of: the Health Care Provider; the Healthcare Insurer; the Employer; and the Business Associate
● State why it is important for an organization to craft Security Incident Procedures and a Contingency Plan as it relates to ‘Emergency Preparedness’
● Describe what is involved in designing a successful educational, training, and awareness program for effective HIPAA regulation compliance
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HIN (0308) 670 - Health Management Information Systems and Organizational Behavior
Credits: 3.00
The students will explore management of information systems in healthcare. The student will explore the technical and organizational behaviors unique to improve patient care. The ethics of technology use will be explored as applied to decision making and the consequences of changes through the analysis of case studies.
Upon completion of this course, the successful student will be able to:
• Evaluate the role of technology in healthcare from the perspective of information creation and use.
• Analysis of management information systems implementation and communication.
• Analyze MIS resources using case studies and information system paradigms.
• Application of technology ethics (privacy and patient confidentiality).
• Analysis of Decision Making using Healthcare management tools.
• Application of information science and technology to solve health informatics problems.
• Knowledge awareness of the value of information literacy and lifelong learning, maintenance of skills, and professional excellence.
• Evaluate successful leadership teams that envision goals, set priorities, manage change, make decisions, communicate, serve as a symbol of one who is willing to take risks and has credible expertise, and guide others by motivating other leaders as well as those who will follow.
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HIN (0308) 680 - Database Design and Modeling for Health Informatics
Credits: 3.00
Students will explore detailed knowledge of how computers function in a healthcare setting; specifically data modeling, Hierarchical and relational databases, systems analysis, project management, structured query languages (SQL), Online analysis and processing (OLAP) and data warehousing.
Upon completion of this course, the successful student will be able to:
• Analyze the design of information systems performed by healthcare professionals.
• Evaluate system analysis and design teams.
• Analyze the design of simpler and smaller information systems.
• Evaluate the latest software in the Information System field to complete analysis, design and modeling tasks.
• Apply Primary and foreign keys.
• Analysis of Database normalization.
• Application of OLAP, Data warehousing and Structured Query Language in Healthcare
• Application of information science and technology to solve health informatics problems.
• Synthesize database designs and models for solving a specific biomedical and health information problem.
• Apply database designs and models from social, business, human factors, behavioral, and information sciences and technologies for designing, implementing, and evaluating health informatics solutions.
• Interpret the value of information literacy and lifelong learning, maintenance of skills, and professional excellence.
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HIN (0308) 681 - User Experience Research Methods for Health Informatics
Credits: 3.00
Students will be introduced to the patient and user experience and identify the most appropriate research methods to evaluate the interactions between physical, social, cognitive, and psychological human behavior, and health informatics applications. Topics covered include statistical analyses to improve patient and user experience, and perform data analyses.
The students will be able to:
● Analyze interactions between human behaviors (social, cognitive, physical, and physiological) and information technologies and use statistical analyses to evaluate patient and user experience.
● Interpret the organization of qualitative and quantitative data.
● Synthesize new methods to evaluate patient and user experience.
● Use statistical analyses to interpret the effects of patient engagement and disease management systems.
● Analyze the nature, purpose, and types of statistics for analyzing data.
● Select the appropriate analysis strategies to evaluate the quality and outcomes of treatments using different health informatics systems.
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HIN (0308) 690 - Consumer Health Informatics and Healthcare Quality Improvement
Credits: 3.00
Students are introduced to the fundamental concepts and knowledge in the field of consumer health informatics. This course will focus on the connections between health and information behavior models and evaluate how Internet and emerging technologies impact patients, health systems and healthcare providers.
The students will be able to:
● Analyze the emergence of personal health records and their implications for patients and health systems.
● Identify and describe major types of factors found to influence patients’ health-related behaviors.
● Interpret the interrelationships between information and health behavior.
● Synthesize how consumerism influence the development of new health informatics systems and medical devices.
● Evaluate the role of genomics in consumer health informatics.
● Analyze how clinicians and patients use technology to improve the quality of care.
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HIN (0308) 691 - Clinical Research Informatics
Credits: 3.00
This Clinical Research Informatics course will provide the student a deep exploration, integration, and application of information technology across healthcare settings. The theoretical framework for CRI uses three conceptual components: 1) collaborative research development in health informatics, 2) bio-informatics, and 3) clinical research workflows.
Upon completion of this course, the successful student will be able to:
● Utilize both a conceptual and strategic command of the ‘Digital Transformation of Clinical Research’ and the research environment
● Identify key foundations for research, and types of clinical research environments
● Demonstrate knowledge of ‘Data Management’ as a support function of research
● Identify methods of participant recruitment using an informatics approach
● Utilize Regulatory and Sponsor Reporting and Administrative Compliance
● Develop and defend a clinical research workflow and communication proposal
● Apply knowledge of electronic health record (EHR) systems, and become familiar with data mining and natural language processing techniques
● Define a study sample population, sample size, inclusions and exclusion criteria
● Differentiate specific elements of a computable study protocol
● Validate, describe, and demonstrate impact of data quality that may affect research results
● Corroborate value awareness of information literacy and life-long learning, maintenance skills, and professional excellence.
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HIN (0308) 694 - Business of Healthcare Informatics
Credits: 3.00
This course addresses the management of information systems in healthcare; using American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) model. Exploration of organizational healthcare delivery system will be scrutinized, including; quality through technology, legal, performance, risk, utilization. Practical context encompasses, data exchange, storage, retention, destruction, indices and registries, applied to decision making.
Upon completion of this course, the successful student will be able to:
● Assess and exemplify the role of technology in healthcare from the perspective of utilization and management.
● Defend a practical understanding of American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) model.
● Delineate significance of management information systems implementation, communication, data transfer, storage, and security.
● Elucidate importance of legal aspects of information technology; including fraud and abuse, patient privacy and confidentiality.
● Debate key issues regarding interrelationship of organizational ethical standards, issues, and challenges.
● Demonstrate knowledge of information management: including strategic, operational, and disaster planning; organizing the work environment and people; as well as communication and conflict resolution.
● Interpret the information system life cycle, system architecture, and the electronic health record (EHR)
● Examine financial budgeting, third party payers, and payment methodologies.
● Demonstrate awareness of the value of information literacy and lifelong learning, maintenance of skills, and professional excellence.
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HIN (0308) 701 - Capstone: Hth Care Information Tech
Credits: 3.00
The student will synthesize and apply knowledge acquired throughout his or her graduate study. The student will identify a topic of interest related to the specialty area and complete an evidence-based project that identifies a problem, reviews the relevant literature and details an action plan for addressing the identified problem.,,
Prerequisite 1: HIN 502
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HIS (0136) 101 - Western Civilization I
Credits: 3.00
The Whys and Wherefores of History: its nature and functions; why historians are critics as well as recounters of the past. Religion, culture, politics, and society will be surveyed, and selected ‘heroes’ and crises in Western culture from the Greeks to Galileo will be studied.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Distribution Requirement Humanities
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HIS (0136) 102 - Western Civilization I I
Credits: 3.00
This course examines the Whys and Wherefores of History: its nature and functions; why historians are critics as well as recounters of the past. It surveys religion, culture, politics, and society, and selected “heroes†and crises in Western culture from Galileo to Iraq War II.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Distribution Requirement Humanities
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HIS (0136) 103 - American Civilization To 1865
Credits: 3.00
Study North American history from the colonial period through the American Civil War. Explore social and cultural interactions between diverse peoples, economic trends, and political developments including the formation of the United States.
Distribution Requirement Humanities
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HIS (0136) 104 - American Civ Since 1865
Credits: 3.00
Study the United States history from the Civil War through the present. Examine race relations from Reconstruction to today, industrialization, the Great Depression, the rise of the United States to world power, and social and cultural trends such as the rise of feminism, the new right and mass culture.
Distribution Requirement Humanities
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HIS (0136) 105 - World Civilizations I
Credits: 3.00
Study a ‘macro historical’ introduction to the civilizations of the world from their inception to about 1500. Examine parallel developments, as well as cultural diffusion within and among civilizations of Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Distribution Requirement Humanities
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HIS (0136) 106 - World Civilizations I I
Credits: 3.00
Examine the traditional societies and their interrelation in the post-Columbian period. Study Iberian, Ottoman, Chinese, Indian, and West African states. Explore the re-emergence of traditional societies in an age of fluid communication.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Distribution Requirement Humanities
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HIS (0136) 124 - Social & Cultural History of U.S. II
Credits: 3.00
A survey of United States history that focuses upon historical actors in popular culture through the analytical lenses of race, power, public rituals, artistic expression and myth, from the Reconstruction period to the twentieth century.
Distribution Requirement Humanities
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HIS (0136) 201 - Sophomore Seminar Research Skills
Credits: 3.00
Required of all majors in the sophomore or junior year.,Research techniques, historiography, and the historical method.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 COMMUNICATION–WRITTEN Gen Ed Learning Goal 2 INFORMATION LITERACY Distribution Requirement Humanities
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HIS (0136) 204 - Black History in the United States to 1865
Credits: 3.00
This course explores the African origins, the forced removal of Africans to the Americas, the development of slavery, and the resistance to that institution. We will also explore the free black communities that Black Americans developed. Finally, we will examine the role of Black Americans in the Civil War.
Distribution Requirement Humanities
Free Note: This course is also listed as
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HIS (0136) 205 - Black History in the United States 1865 to Present
Credits: 3.00
This course examines the history of Blacks from 1865 to the present. Emphasis is placed on post-Reconstruction historical problems, Jim Crow, self help, enlarged dimensions of racial conflict, the Harlem Renaissance, post-war years, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Black Power Movement.
Distribution Requirement Humanities
Free Note: This course is cross-listed with
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HIS (0136) 206 - History of East Asia I
Credits: 3.00
This course examines the beginnings of East Asian civilization to 1600. While China’s influence during this era is undeniable, we will also examine how Japan and Korea developed their independent cultures. Topics include the diffusion of religion, ideas, and people across the region, as well as conflict and war.,,
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Distribution Requirement Humanities
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HIS (0136) 207 - History of East Asia II
Credits: 3.00
This course examines China, Japan, and Korea from 1600 to present. Topics include these three countries’ struggles to preserve their independence during the age of imperialism, the Asia-Pacific War, the re-establishment of national identities in a post-revolutionary, post-colonial and post-atomic world order and dilemmas faced today in the region.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Distribution Requirement Humanities
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HIS (0136) 210 - Modern China
Credits: 3.00
Students will explore the social, cultural, and religious developments surrounding the fall of Imperial China in 1911, the failure of the Guomindang to create a viable republic, the victory of the Chinese Communists, and the events leading to the Tiananmen Massacre.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Distribution Requirement Humanities
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HIS (0136) 211 - Gender in Modern China
Credits: 3.00
Students will examine how modern China’s gender identities have been shaped by China’s rich history. Through excerpts in literature, diaries, music and film, the course will explore gender through Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, and Chinese healing, amidst changes chronicling China’s last dynasty, nationalism, Maoism, the Cultural Revolution, and contemporary capitalism.
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HIS (0136) 215 - Tudor and Stuart England
Credits: 3.00
This course covers the English Renaissance and Protestant Reformation, the development of the English constitution and common law, the English civil war and revolution of the seventeenth century, and the foundation of England’s colonial empire.
Distribution Requirement Humanities
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HIS (0136) 216 - Modern Britain
Credits: 3.00
This course covers the development of representative and democratic institutions, Britain as the world’s first industrial country, Britain as a world naval and imperial power, and post-imperial and post-industrial Britain.
Distribution Requirement Humanities
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HIS (0136) 217 - The Middle Ages
Credits: 3.00
This course investigates the principal social, economic, political and cultural forces shaping Europe between the 5th and 15th century. Students will examine the variety and vitality of medieval experience through the documents and cultural artifacts of various social groups, including men, women, clergy, rulers, nobility, peasantry, merchants, Jews and Muslims.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Distribution Requirement Humanities
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HIS (0136) 218 - Renaissance And Reformation Europe 1300-1648
Credits: 3.00
This course covers the Italian Renaissance as an urban, secular development and the Northern Renaissance that contributed to a program of Christian Reform. The course will also cover the Protestant reformation as a European religious schism. It will deal with the Reformation as a religious movement with far reaching political and social implications for Europe and America.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Distribution Requirement Humanities
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HIS (0136) 221 - Latin America I
Credits: 3.00
Study the major indigenous civilizations such as Incas, Aztecs, and Mayas in Latin America and with the development of the area after the ‘discovery,’ conquest, and colonization by the Iberians.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Distribution Requirement Humanities
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HIS (0136) 222 - Latin America II
Credits: 3.00
This course surveys the history of Latin America (including the Caribbean) from the Wars of Independence to the current period (c. 1808-2011), with some background information on the colonial period. Topics include the challenges of state formation, foreign interventions, U.S.-Latin American relations, and twentieth-century social and political revolutions.,
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Distribution Requirement Humanities
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HIS (0136) 223 - The Caribbean
Credits: 3.00
This course covers the main topics, themes, and debates in Caribbean history from the period just before the Spanish invasion to the political and social upheavals of the twentieth century. Topics include European colonialism (Spanish, French, and English), plantation slavery, abolition movements, ethnic relations, migration, revolutions, natural disasters and tourism.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Distribution Requirement Humanities
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HIS (0136) 227 - XIX Century Europe 1815-1918
Credits: 3.00
This course explores 19th Century Europe from the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to the end of World War I in 1918. Major themes will include: the Industrial Revolution, European states’ expansion into Empires, nationalism, new social classes, women’s growing public presence, and the challenge to a single objective truth.
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HIS (0136) 230 - American Diplomatic History I
Credits: 3.00
Learn about American foreign policy and diplomatic relations from Colonial times to the beginning of the 20th century. Explore the cultural, political, and historical perspectives.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Distribution Requirement Humanities
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HIS (0136) 231 - American Diplomatic History II
Credits: 3.00
Study the American foreign policy and diplomatic relations: the roles of the United States in world politics since 1900. Analyze major events and policies including World War I and the Versailles settlement, American ‘isolationism’, and the Cold War.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Distribution Requirement Humanities
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HIS (0136) 233 - Early America: 1492-1680
Credits: 3.00
This course will surveythe early period of American history from the Elizabethan period to the aftermath of the Seven Years’ War. Geographically, it will focus on North America, with occasional forays into the Caribbean. It will center on two mainthemes: migrations-of enslaved Africans and a range of European groups(especially the French, Dutch and English)-and exchange of commodities and ideas between Europeans and Native Americans.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Distribution Requirement Humanities
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HIS (0136) 237 - Europe 1870-1918
Credits: 3.00
This course examines European political and social history in the age of Bismarck, Einstein, Freud and Lenin, including the effects of nationalism, imperialism, socialism, mass literacy, and total war on peoples of Europe and the world.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Distribution Requirement Humanities
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HIS (0136) 238 - Europe 1918-1945
Credits: 3.00
This course examines the era of Mussolini, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Churchill, and the Second World War. We will emphasize the social and political consequences of the Russian, German, and Nazi Revolutions, the experience of total war, and the origins of the Holocaust.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Distribution Requirement Humanities
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HIS (0136) 239 - Europe Since 1945
Credits: 3.00
This course examines Europe’s crucial post-World War Two period in which it rebuilt and adjusted to its relative decline in an era of superpower domination. Topics covered include postwar purges, reconstruction, the Cold War, decolonization, supranational institutions leading to today’s European Union, socio-economic and cultural change, and domestic politics.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Distribution Requirement Humanities
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HIS (0136) 240 - Fascism and Nazism
Credits: 3.00
Students will learn about the radical right-wing political movements of early twentieth century Europe with a focus on Italian Fascism and German Nazism from their late nineteenth-century origins to their demise in World War Two. Students will study them through secondary and primary sources.
This course seeks both to increase student knowledge of the historical topic and improve student skills in reading, interpreting, and writing about history. More specifically, in this course students will: 1. Demonstrate in discussion, exams, and written assignments knowledge of the general course of and most important events, personalities, and themes in the history of modern European fascism; the generic characteristics of fascist political movements and regimes; and the most important conclusions of the latest historical scholarship on fascism. 2. Improve their ability to interpret historical evidence (both written and visual primary sources). 3. Improve their ability to critically read historical scholarship. 4. Improve their ability to write about history.
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HIS (0136) 245 - History of the Soviet Union
Credits: 3.00
Examine the nature of political and social reform and the impact on society and culture from the emancipation of the serfs under Alexander II through the traumas of industrialization. Explore Gorbachev’s attempted reforms, and the final collapse of the Soviet Union, and the continued legacies of Soviet rule.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Distribution Requirement Humanities
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HIS (0136) 250 - Geography in History
Credits: 3.00
This course examines geographical factors that have impacted the course of history in different physical settings ranging from the arid zone of the nomads to the wet river basins of the settled agricultural communities. It will compare interactions on land and across the world’s major bodies of water and integration around sea and ocean basins.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Distribution Requirement Humanities
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HIS (0136) 259 - Introduction to the History of Islam
Credits: 3.00
This is a general overview of Islamic history from 7th century to the present focusing on cultural, historical and religio-political factors, emphasizing: diffusion of Islam, institutional formations within states, rise of regional cultures, emergence and decline of dynasties, colonial encounters, Islamic revival and contemporary developments in the Muslim world.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Distribution Requirement Humanities
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HIS (0136) 260 - African Diaspora in the Muslim World
Credits: 3.00
Students examine the African diaspora of slavery, migration, pilgrimage within the context of ideas of social hierarchy in the Muslim world from seventh century onwards. The survey extends from North Africa to West and South Asia and covers topics ranging from ethical debates and economics of slave trade or abolition.
This course seeks both to increase student knowledge of the African diaspora of slavery, migration and pilgrimage etc within the Arab/Muslim world and at the same time improve student skills in reading, interpreting, and writing about history. More specifically, in this course students will demonstrate in discussion and written assignments:
Students would be able to:
a. compare and contrast the experience of slaves or people of African ancestry in their host countries based on the accounts that will be examined.
b. understand factors shaping migration, voluntary and involuntary, to the Near Eastern region and elsewhere.
c. analyze comparatively specific cases of diasporic memory in music in North Africa and the Near East and the role they play in diasporic identity formation
d. examine comparatively models of abolition and why slavery was so difficult to eradicate in some places compared to others
e. explore forms of social injustice and examine occupational and hierarchical roles that are associated with post-slavery societies in which people with identifiable African features have to negotiate their place and their status in their new societies
Improvement in their ability to interpret historical evidence. This means that at the conclusion of this course students will be able to:
Identify primary sources and distinguish between primary and secondary sources and be able to critically read and interpret them
Write papers with clear arguments that are supported by evidence and good analysis
Identify writer’s perspective in presentation of information and who, for whom, where, and when this writing was done
Build a central argument that indicates why the topic they have selected is important and what its constituent parts will be
Craft their paper in a way that shows flow of argument, including paying attention to topic sentences, transitions in between paragraphs, and constructing good introductions and conclusions
Properly cite and footnote references in their paper following the guidelines provided in the Chicago Manual of Style.
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HIS (0136) 261 - African History I
Credits: 3.00
This is the first of a two-part introductory series in African history from pre-history to 1800. It discusses the origins of humankind, the development of civilization in Africa, and other general continental themes; it will then focus on ancient African states and societies and their evolution into the modern era.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Distribution Requirement Humanities
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HIS (0136) 262 - African History II
Credits: 3.00
The course, covering the period from 1800 to the present, focuses on changes in indigenous African cultures and states, colonialism and its aftermath, and issues facing independent Africa. Due to the size of the continent and diversity of cultures in Africa, this course covers mainly broad themes and case studies.
Gen Ed Learning Goal 1 GLOBAL LEARNING/CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Distribution Requirement Humanities
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HIS (0136) 263 - Colonial America 1680-1763
Credits: 3.00
Beginning in 1680, the various colonies of North America were increasingly stable and prosperous members of a British empire. In addition to imperial conflicts, Indian diplomacy, and the development of slavery, this course will examine the cultural history of America in the period through novels, images, and material culture.
Distribution Requirement Humanities
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HIS (0136) 264 - The American Revolution
Credits: 3.00
Students will read, write, and discuss the brief and pivotal period between 1763 and 1800. Readings and assignments will cover the political and military context of the American Revolution, the experience of woman, native peoples, and Africans during the Revolutionary period, the debate over the Constitution, and other themes.
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HIS (0136) 266 - Civil War and Reconstruction 1848-77
Credits: 3.00
Students will examine the origins, conduct, and consequences of the American Civil War. Through lecture, discussion, and primary and secondary sources, students will study how the United States changed between the 1840s and the 1870s, paying particular attention to the social, cultural, political, economic, and diplomatic developments of that era.
Distribution Requirement Humanities
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