Strategic Issues in Health Care Quality

STRATEGIC ISSUES IN HEALT

This course examines the movement to health care quality in the US, providing students with definitions of quality and a historical perspective on quality initiatives. Primary focus of the class is on quality initiatives in the past 10 years, including efforts by the Institute of Medicine, Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research, various accrediting organizations (e.g. NCQA), and employer-based initiatives such as HEDIS and Leapfrog. There will be in depth analysis of establishing and measuring the quality of health care in various organizational settings, on risk management and legal issues, and on recent efforts to link quality with pay for performance.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• Instructor: Catherine Foster
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• 1.5 points

Strategic Issues in Health Care Quality

STRATEGIC ISSUES IN HEALT

This course examines the movement to health care quality in the US, providing students with definitions of quality and a historical perspective on quality initiatives. Primary focus of the class is on quality initiatives in the past 10 years, including efforts by the Institute of Medicine, Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research, various accrediting organizations (e.g. NCQA), and employer-based initiatives such as HEDIS and Leapfrog. There will be in depth analysis of establishing and measuring the quality of health care in various organizational settings, on risk management and legal issues, and on recent efforts to link quality with pay for performance.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• 1.5 points

Strategic Issues in Health Care Quality

STRATEGIC ISSUES IN HEALT

This course examines the movement to health care quality in the US, providing students with definitions of quality and a historical perspective on quality initiatives. Primary focus of the class is on quality initiatives in the past 10 years, including efforts by the Institute of Medicine, Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research, various accrediting organizations (e.g. NCQA), and employer-based initiatives such as HEDIS and Leapfrog. There will be in depth analysis of establishing and measuring the quality of health care in various organizational settings, on risk management and legal issues, and on recent efforts to link quality with pay for performance.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• Instructor: Catherine Foster
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• 1.5 points

PLAYWRITING III

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Charles Mee
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• 3 points

Healthcare Services for Vulnerable, At-R

HLTH SERV FOR VULNERABLE,

The current systems for the delivery of health services in the United States often fall short of addressing the health needs of many people living in the communities they cover and in so doing contribute to health status disparities. The objective of this course is to help students develop a framework to understand the needs of traditionally under-served populations and the challenges facing the delivery systems that handle these groups. This course has two major foci. The first is understanding who the “vulnerable” populations are as it relates to access to needed health services and disparities in health status. The interaction between health care systems and health care disparities will be explored. Particular attention will be paid to issues surrounding poverty, literacy, immigrant health care and several vulnerable sub-populations including gay-lesbian, homeless and prison. The second focus is service delivery for individuals traditionally under-served. This component includes an examination of organizations and provider (particularly physician)-patient relationships. Students will have the opportunity to move from the classroom to the street, observing, first-hand, several hospital and community-based arrangements.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• Instructor: Sharen I Duke
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• 1.5 points

Governance, Health Law & Ethics

GOVERNANCE,HEALTH LAW & E

This course is intended to provide students with the legal framework governing health care administration, management and policy. Students will analyze case law, and selected statutes relevant to health care administrators, providers, and consumers of care. Students will be exposed to the evolution of laws and the ethical, practical and political impact of laws in the management of health care institutions.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• Instructor: Ari J Markenson
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• 1.5 points

SUZUKI - RESEARCH ARTS

SUZUKI - RA

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Shanga Parker
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• 0 points

Management Challenges in the Evolving He

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An examination of the complex and evolving healthcare and insurance system from the perspective of managed health care and insurance companies, hospital systems, IPAs, physicians, employers, patients, and pharma companies. This course will focus on the interplay among these key stakeholders. There will be four guest speakers from the healthcare industry who will help the students apply their readings and discussions to real challenges.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• Instructor: William E Gold
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• 3 points

Advanced Healthcare Finance: Valuation a

ADVANCED HEALTHCARE FINAN

This advanced course builds upon foundational principles of healthcare finance and shifts the analytical focus to financial management from the perspective of health insurers and managed care organizations. Students examine how financial strategies, methodologies, and quantitative analyses are applied within the health insurance industry to support premium rate development, reimbursement design, and value-based payment models.

The cpurse emphasizes the financial and operational dynamics between payers and providers, including the economic incentives, cost-containment mechanisms, and revenue optimization strategies that influence performance across both sectors. 

Through applied exercises and case-based analysis, students develop a practical understanding of how payment rates are calculated, negotiated, and structured between providers and payers. Students learn the impact to contracting decisions and profitability, network configuration, care delivery incentives, and overall healthcare affordability

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• Instructor: Jonathan Reese
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• 3 points

Managing Human Capital in Health Systems

Manage Hum Capital in Hlt

Managing professionals is crucial to the success (or failure) of health care organizations because the provision of services primarily relies on human decision-making and interaction. Health care professionals determine the level of quality as well as the costs associated with health care services directly or indirectly. The goal of this course is to introduce students to the functions and issues associated with managing human resources in health care organizations through in class exercises and outside of class assignment that demonstrate the human resource challenges that graduates may face as health care executives in the future. Significant attention is given to: 1) workforce issues, 2) understanding legal issues related to the employment setting, 3) selection and retention of employees, 4) establishing performance standards and evaluating performance, and compensation, and 5) understanding the use and effects of monetary and non-monetary incentives in human resources management in the United States and globally.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• Instructor: Steven B Katz
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• 1.5 points

HEALTHCARE FINANCE

• Department: Executive Classes in HPM
• Instructor: Julius L Chen
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• 3 points

Is Bigger Better? An Analysis of Consoli

Consolidation in HC Indus

This course examines one of the most significant but relatively recent developments in the healthcare market place: the trend toward increased consolidation of healthcare providers into larger practices and into vertically integrated delivery systems, as well as the parallel trend toward consolidation of health insurance companies into fewer, but much larger entities. It will draw upon economic theory, empirical research, and health policy and economic analysis to explore the implications of these developments, coupled with other emerging trends, on healthcare market competition, prices, profits, expenditures, and consumer welfare

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• Instructor: Todd B Richter
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• 1.5 points

DIRECTED STUDIES IN PLAYWRITING

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• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Lynn Nottage
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• 3 points

Public Health Law

PUBLIC HEALTH LAW

In this course we explore constitutional law through the lens of public health policy. We examine the relationships and tensions between individual and collective concerns. We evaluate public health issues from an American legal perspective to determine the constitutional soundness of the health promotion objective. In this course we consider multi-disciplinary factors and how they interact with issues of federalism, morality, economics and the politics of science. Readings include case law and related legal materials, in addition to writings by public health practitioners, historians, sociologists, economists and philosophers. Core topics include, among others, constitutional law and major constitutional cases relating to public health, economic analysis in law, tort litigation in public health, historical public health law perspectives, health promotion campaigns, property regulation, privacy protection, various case studies including immunization, civil commitment, infectious disease, tobacco policy and abortion law. Guest speakers provide additional current perspectives from practitioners.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• Instructor: Magda Schaler-Haynes
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• 3 points

PLAYWRIGHT-DRAMATURG WORKSHOP

ADAPTATION

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Seth Bockley
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• 3 points

Strategic Planning for Health Insurance

STRAT PLAN FR HLTH INSUR

Strategic Planning for Health Insurance Plans is designed to provide students with a broad and deep understanding of safety-net health insurance plan operations and management. Students will have the opportunity to manage plan finances, set benefit designs, and establish actuarially sound premiums, all while operating within the constraints of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In a very abbreviated period of time, student will be completely immersed in real-world situations where they will be forced to make appropriate decisions which will either sustain or submerge the health plan. In addition to expanding their knowledge base about the health insurance industry, students will enhance their competency develop in a number of areas including analytical thinking, strategic orientation, collaboration, and communication. The 21 hours of course work will contain a blend of lectures, class work and a group project. Students will be evaluated on class participation (20%), learning reviews (quizzes (30%), and a group project (50%).

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• Instructor: Rodney K McKinney
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• 1.5 points

MANAGERIAL & ORG BEHAVIOR

• Department: Executive Classes in HPM
• Instructor: Yuna S Lee
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• 3 points

Managerial and Organizational Behavior

MANAGERIAL/ORGANIZATL BEH

This course has two overall goals. The first is to increase your effectiveness in understanding and managing individuals and teams in health care organizations. The course’s second goal is to prepare you to effectively design organizations. Effective managers not only must lead individuals and teams: they also must ensure that their organizations are well-designed to deliver the results that their strategies promise. This entails developing knowledge and skills to analyze key issues in organizational structure, power and politics, culture, and change.
The course combines conceptual and experiential approaches. We draw on several sources of knowledge to accomplish course objectives: (1) conceptual frameworks and research findings from the social sciences; (2) case studies; (3) roles plays, videos and exercises; and (4) your own work and personal experiences. The class will be highly interactive, and active participation in discussions is expected.
The course selectively surveys ideas and frameworks from the social sciences and explores their implications for leadership and managerial practice.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• Instructor: Yuna S Lee
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• Instructor: Julius L Chen
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• 3 points

Strategic Management

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

Over the semester, the course considers questions of Mission and Vision (What areas, activities, or business(es) should we be in?") and questions of Strategy and Operations ("How can we perform or compete effectively in this area?"). It covers both strategy formulation ("What should our strategy be?") as well as strategy implementation ("What do we need to do to make this strategy work?"). The course also addresses several additional issues that are critical to the strategic management "process" (e.g.. designing planning systems, managing contention). The course emphasizes the multiple, related requirements of the leader/manager's job: analysis, creativity, and action.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• Instructor: Paul W Thurman
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• 3 points

Comparative Strategic Management

COMP STRATEGIC ANALYSIS

Students apply advanced strategic frameworks and concepts to real-world, complex, strategic problems involving multiple healthcare sectors, institutions, players and/or disciplines/functions. Specific objectives include: the ability to conceptualize and model a complex, multi-faceted, multi-player healthcare strategic challenge in simple language and in a coherent framework that supports analyses and resolution; a deepened understanding of the inherent complexity and interdependency of the major challenges--economic, political, strategic, and operational--facing the healthcare industry and specific sectors, institutions, and players within the industry; the ability to apply strategic analysis and other curricular concepts and tools and field work experience to complex healthcare industry/management problems; the ability to think critically about issues, perspectives, and potential strategic options, using sophisticated analytical and problem-solving tools and informed judgement to formulate recommendations for presentation to senior healthcare executives and policy-makers; : the ability to formulate a set of strategic options--addressing the multiple health industry players and interconnected challenges--for consideration;
the ability to critique a number of strategic options available to a health industry/healthcare executive team (or multiple, interconnected teams) and conclude which sets of options may be optimal given internal institutional competences and external political, policy, and economic realities

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• Instructor: Paul W Thurman
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• 3 points

PLAY REWRITING & DEVELOPMENT

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: James Ijames
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• 3 points

Managing Public Health Non-Profits

MANAGING PUB HLTH NON-PRO

Directing a public health non-profit requires knowledge of a variety of diverse content as well as organizational skills. This class will focus on leadership, facilitating change, human resources, strategic planning, grantwriting/fund-raising and assessing program effectiveness that public health professionals working as managers encounter on a regular basis. Students will have the opportunity to develop strategies for responding to daily management situations. The goal of the class will be to provide students an experience that will directly translate to working in public health organizations.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• Instructor: Sharen I Duke
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• 1.5 points

Consulting Practice

CONSULTING WORKSHOP

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• 3 points

Consulting Practice

CONSULTING WORKSHOP

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• 3 points

Consulting Practice

CONSULTING WORKSHOP

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• 3 points

Consulting Practice

CONSULTING WORKSHOP

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• 3 points

Consulting Practice

CONSULTING WORKSHOP

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• 3 points

Consulting Practice

CONSULTING WORKSHOP

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• 3 points

Entrepreneurship for Healthcare Managers

ENTREPRENEURSHP-HLTH CARE

In recent years, entrepreneurship has gained enormous popularity, even becoming accepted as a means to address pressing social and environmental issues. A significant percentage of our economy is now based on small businesses, and an entrepreneurial career is more likely and possible than ever before. Even in a more traditional corporate career, entrepreneurial skills can serve a manager well as companies that see out new opportunities. The benefits of entrepreneurship are abundant: the creativity to grow and manager your own business, the freedom of time, the potential to accumulate significant wealth and the possibility of making the world a better place. How does it happen? How can we take an idea and a blank piece of paper and transform them into an operating business with customers, cash flow and profits?
This course will break the process into discernible steps and skills. It will teach skills in opportunity identification and evaluation as well as an understanding of the steps and competencies required to launch a new business. The focus will be on scalable businesses that are large enough to attract professional investors.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• Instructor: Asha Saxena
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• 1.5 points

HIST-AMER CAPITALISM SNC 1760

• Department: History
• Instructor: Richard John
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• 4 points

Pivot: Professional Strategic Communicat

PIVOT: PROFESS STRAT COMM

The Pivot_Professional Development is required for full-time MHA and MPH degrees in the Health Policy & Management (HPM) department. It is one component of the Professional Development Program (PDP), a comprehensive, co-curricular effort aimed at developing personal and professional skills to prepare students to enter the workforce successfully and to begin to develop necessary skills to be successful in their careers. The course will meet over three semesters for a total of 1.5 credits. Semester one will focus on self-discovery and personal branding, semester two will hone in on building skills to get your practicum and succeed in your practicum, and the third semester will largely focus on the full-time job search and the first 90 days on the job. Pivot will be complemented by Practicum Day, mock interviers, data software workshops and Career Service seminars.

The two main goals of this course are to develop skills needed to shape your professional self and develop the skills to find and thrive in a job. This course will help you achieve these goals by providing the tools to: (1) develop a professional persona (2) sharpen professional communication (3) collaborate effectively as a team member and (4) clarify career objectives.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• 0.5 points

Pivot: Professional Strategic Communicat

PIVOT: PROFESS STRAT COMM

The Pivot_Professional Development is required for full-time MHA and MPH degrees in the Health Policy & Management (HPM) department. It is one component of the Professional Development Program (PDP), a comprehensive, co-curricular effort aimed at developing personal and professional skills to prepare students to enter the workforce successfully and to begin to develop necessary skills to be successful in their careers. The course will meet over three semesters for a total of 1.5 credits. Semester one will focus on self-discovery and personal branding, semester two will hone in on building skills to get your practicum and succeed in your practicum, and the third semester will largely focus on the full-time job search and the first 90 days on the job. Pivot will be complemented by Practicum Day, mock interviers, data software workshops and Career Service seminars.
The two main goals of this course are to develop skills needed to shape your professional self and develop the skills to find and thrive in a job. This course will help you achieve these goals by providing the tools to: (1) develop a professional persona (2) sharpen professional communication (3) collaborate effectively as a team member and (4) clarify career objectives.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• 0.5 points

GLOBALIZATION & HEALTH POLICY

• Department: Executive Classes in HPM
• Instructor: Anoop M Raman
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• 1.5 points

Money, Politics & Law: Public Health and

PUBLIC HLTH & ABORTION PO

“Money, Politics & Law: Public Health and Abortion Policy” is a deep dive into health policy, health care finance, federalism, and regulatory and enforcement protocols through the unique lens of abortion. Public funding limitations, private insurance coverage restrictions and provider supply constraints are perpetually debated in health policy but remain critical leverage points influencing abortion care. With access alternately protected and eroded by courts, legislatures and regulators nationwide, abortion remains the single most controversial health care service in the United States. Although generally safe when performed legally and cost-effective relative to pregnancies carried to term, the future of abortion appears uncertain. Using abortion as a case study, students conduct a multi-disciplinary examination of legislative, executive and judicial branches of government in action.
In each of seven sessions, students will scrutinize facets health law and policy- from landscape view to microscopic dissection- to understand how abortion both mimics and is marginalized relative to other health care services. The course begins by exploring patterns of payment for abortion, selected abortion jurisprudence, federal statutes, key state laws and the regulatory frameworks affecting funding for abortion. How much does abortion cost? Who pays for it and how? Students focus on public financing limitations including the Hyde Amendment, Harris v. McRae and its state level progeny; private insurance coverage and coverage bans including the Affordable Care Act and implementing regulations; noninsurance based funding mechanisms for abortion services including out-of-pocket contributions, borrowed money, sliding scale negotiations, structured funds and philanthropy. Complex issues influencing the abortion provider supply including medical malpractice insurance, laws governing provision of care by non-physicians, and provider training pipelines are explored. This cutting edge health policy case study concludes by contextualizing US abortion policies among developed nations and examining abortion-related restrictions on US foreign funding.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• Instructor: Magda Schaler-Haynes
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• 1.5 points

Transforming the Delivery of Healthcare

TRANSFORM-DELIVERY-HLTHCR

This course provides an advanced, critical analysis of the delivery and payment of healthcare services in the U.S. with a specific focus on actions innovative healthcare providers and health insurers are
taking to improve the quality of patient care, manage the escalating costs of providing such care, and enhance business performance. It will analyze the attractiveness and feasibility of new approaches to address the challenges facing providers, payers and patients operating in an inefficient, misaligned, and fragmented healthcare system. Particular focus will be given to the impact of the 2009 HITECH Act as well as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010. There will be guest lectures by a variety of major leaders in healthcare business and policy. The course will be useful for students interested in careers in health system management, health insurance, HCIT, healthcare consulting & banking, private equity, investment management, health policy, entrepreneurship in the healthcare services sector and pharmaceuticals, medical devices & diagnostics.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• 1.5 points

The Politics and Policies of Humanitaria

POLIT & POLICY OF HUMAN A

With the Middle East and other regions of the world in political turmoil, and with the frequent occurrence of natural disasters and deadly epidemics, the demands on and the stakes involved with humanitarian aid in health grow steadily higher. Yet both historical and recent political and scientific controversies abound regarding how it should be planned and delivered. In this course, students will explore some of the most salient of these controversies and review concrete cases of intervention from Africa, Asia, the Americas, the Middle East, Europe and former Soviet Union. The twin objectives of the course are to provide students with: 1) a rigorous understanding of current policies and approaches to humanitarian aid in health, and 2) the analytical tools and historical perspective to participate, as public health professionals, in the field’s renewal. The course will be provided through a mix of lectures, discussion and debates. Major international UN and NGO practitioners will be invited to participate in the debates and a United Nations Headquarters tailored site visit will be organized.

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• Instructor: Laetitia Atlani-Duault
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• 1.5 points

Pedagogy of Sexuality Education

PEDAGOGY OF SEXUALITY EDU

Pedagogy of Sexuality Education will provide students with the background and skills they need to design, implement and evaluate effective sexuality education interventions. The course will emphasize teaching methodology for working with groups, and students will learn both theories of behavior change and techniques for influencing the key determinants that are relevant in encouraging sexual health. Further, all students will learn strategies for facilitating group learning, responding to the needs of students of various ages and developmental stages, and ways to engage parents. The course will include designing and delivering lesson plans and receiving substantive feedback from the other course participants and the instructor. The course will analyze emerging digital approaches to sexuality education and ways to translate what has been learned about effective in person sex education into digital strategies. We will also cover techniques for working effectively within tight time constraints and preventing controversy. The context in which young people are learning about sexuality as well as current dominant cultural scripts about sexuality will be examined.

• Department: Population and Family Health
• Instructor: Lindsay Fram
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• 3 points

Health and Human Rights Advocacy

HEALTH & HUMAN RIGHTS ADV

The class explores how laws, policies, and rights function to shape public health, with particular emphasis on the implications of this interaction for rights-based approaches to health programs, policy and advocacy. The course includes an introduction to the principles, provisions and underlying assumptions of law, policy and rights related to public health. Students then have the opportunity to use human rights tools and principles in documentation of health-related human rights violations and formulation of programmatic and advocacy responses to violations. A wide range of issues – HIV, health problems of criminalized populations, autonomy of people living with mental disorders, racial discrimination in health services and related policy, and rights-unfriendly practices of for-profit companies – are used to illustrate the importance of human rights inquiry and analysis in public health.

• Department: Population and Family Health
• Instructor: Marta L Schaaf
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• 1.5 points

Current Issues in Sexual Health

CURRENT ISSUES IN SEXUAL

This course will examine key issues in sexual and reproductive health and development over the life span. The issues included will represent positive as well as the more typical negative sexual and reproductive health outcomes and experiences. The examination will illustrate how issues in the field are often viewed as fitting with the reproductive health (RH) or the sexual health (SH) “box” and how a more integrated perspective would enhance our research questions, findings and policy/programmatic responses to these issues. It will also focus on gender, sexuality and sexual orientation, class and race/ethnicity as key intersectionalities that affect SRH outcomes and development.

• Department: Population and Family Health
• Instructor: Andrea M Flynn
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• 3 points

Quantitative Data Analysis

QUANTITATIVE DATA ANALYSI

In this course you will learn to develop and implement a quantitative data analysis plan and to interpret the results of quantitative analyses using datasets from actual evaluation studies. The early phase of the course will focus on necessary and essential pre-analysis tasks often overlooked in the research training process. These include: identifying and resolving dirty data including logical inconsistencies, and conducting simple and complex data transformations. The second half of the course focuses on conducting bivariate and multivariable statistical tests. This is an applied course, emphasizing skill building through hands-on work using STATA in each class session. Reflecting the focus on skill building, this course includes weekly homework using STATA.

• Department: Population and Family Health
• Instructor: Judith F Austin
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• 3 points

Outbreak Preparedness and Response in Re

OUTBR PREP/RESP IN RES-LI

This course explores the technical and programmatic characteristics of the communicable diseases most frequently encountered in international emergencies. Discussions will focus more on the epidemiological aspects of prevention and control and how these measures can be implemented in the exceptional circumstances that surround emergencies, rather than on etiological, diagnostic, and treatment considerations, although these will be mentioned as well. Particular emphasis will be put on community-based control and evaluation activities. Political, cultural, and economic characteristics of disease control will also be discussed. Classes will mix lecture, video presentations, group discussion, and case studies.

• Department: Population and Family Health
• 1.5 points

Pediatric Population Health in the Unite

PEDIATRIC POP HLTH IN THE

The health of children in the United States has been largely driven by confluence of scientific discovery and policy. But decision makers do not always approach policy from a scientific approach, partly because of differening educational and experentiual backgrounds which are commonly more focused on legal, regulatory, and/or political frameworks than science. It therefore behooves those practicing public health to understand the principal governmental agencies that impact pediatric populations, their main areas of focus, and the processes used to make decisions about resource allocation. Initial sessions in this course will thereby focus on gaining an understanding of key federal and state agencies and a review of example programs focused on pediatric populations. Students will be challenged to constructively critique existing programs and policy and suggest novel ideas which have the potential to improve child health and reduce disparities. They will be taught and expected to demonstrate some of the skills necessary to make convincing arguments to those lacking a public health background but whose influence on program and policy development is nonetheless significant.

• Department: Population and Family Health
• Instructor: Kyle R MacDonald
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• 1.5 points

Issues in School-Based Health

ISSUES IN SCHOOL-BASED HE

Class participants will be offered both a didactic experience and hands-on field exploration of the evolving public health mission and role of schools as an organized network for health education, medical care, and civic involvement. While the emphasis will be on the existing models of School Health available in the local urban New York area, students will also explore alternate school health models in rural, national, international, and global settings. This class is designed for MPH candidates from all departments who are looking to complete their graduate school experience through the integration and application of their skills sets with practical program experience on the field. Participants will work as a group with a community school to plan and develop a project proposal for funding and implementation. Students will interact with various local agency and community players in both the education and school health fields. This course will also expose candidates with an interest in school health, child health, health education and health promotion to local agencies and non-profits directly involved in education and school-related public health services.

• Department: Population and Family Health
• Instructor: Gazi Azad
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• 1.5 points

Qualitative Data Analysis

This course is designed as an advanced seminar/workshop for 2nd year master’s students in epidemiology who are seeking to strengthen their critical thinking skills and hone their abilities to effectively communicate public health content to varied audiences, for varied purposes, through scientific writing and oral communication. This course will provide practical experiences that reinforce core epidemiology skills, including data interpretation, data synthesis, and critical analysis of epidemiologic research, with an emphasis on logic and reasoning, scientific argumentation, and effective communication. Didactic lectures/presentations and course discussions will focus on identifying and appropriately citing scientific sources; making logical scientific arguments; effective argumentation; effective writing and oral presentation skills development/enhancement; identifying challenges to effective written and oral communication and strategies to address them; skills development in the peer-review process, and tailoring scientific presentations to various types of audiences and for various purposes. Students should have a public health topic or research question of interest before the start of the semester. Students who enroll in this class can be exempt from P9419, Master’s Thesis I.

• Department: General Public Health
• Instructor: Silpa Srinivasulu
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• 3 points

Qualitative Data Analysis

QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS

The collection of qualitative data is widespread and growing in public health research, however the credibility and quality of qualitative research rests upon utilizing systemic rigor in collecting, recording, organizing, categorizing, and interpreting qualitative findings. Focusing in particular on focus group data (though individual interview data can also be used), this course introduces a variety of approaches to qualitative data analysis, with a focus on applying thematic or framework analysis, and facilitates their application and manuscript development through hands-on group work and work outside of class.

• Department: Population and Family Health
• Instructor: Stephanie A Grilo
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• 3 points

Gender-Based Violence in Complex Emergen

GENDR-BASED VIOL-COMPLEX

This seven-week course explores the socio-cultural and political factors that contribute to the existence of gender-based violence and which lead to an increased occurrence of acts of gender-based violence in complex emergencies, with an emphasis on conflict zones. Students will develop a practical understanding of effective interventions for preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in different phases of complex emergencies. Specifically, students learn the conceptual framework for preventing and responding to gender-based violence and the practical framework for developing gender-based violence programming. Furthermore, students review strategies for incorporating critical elements of gender-based violence programming: coordination among humanitarian agencies; evidence-based programming; and engaging communities in programming.

• Department: Population and Family Health
• Instructor: Alina Potts
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• 1.5 points

Methods in Program Evaluation

Increasing demand for transparency and accountability, particularly with respect to donor-funded humanitarian programs, has heightened the need for skilled evaluators. To this end, students in this course will become familiar with various forms of evaluation and acquire the technical skills necessary for their development, design and execution through lectures and discussion, exercises, guest presentations and real-world examples. Specifically, students will discover evidence-based methods for identifying stakeholders, crafting evaluation questions, designing instruments, sampling and data gathering to achieve good response rates, analysis and synthesis of information for report-writing and case studies.

• Department: General Public Health
• Instructor: Vandana Tripathi
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• 3 points

Methods in Program Evaluation

METHODS IN PROGRAM EVALUA

Increasing demand for transparency and accountability, particularly with respect to donor-funded humanitarian programs, has heightened the need for skilled evaluators. To this end, students in this course will become familiar with various forms of evaluation and acquire the technical skills necessary for their development, design and execution through lectures and discussion, exercises, guest presentations and real-world examples. Specifically, students will discover evidence-based methods for identifying stakeholders, crafting evaluation questions, designing instruments, sampling and data gathering to achieve good response rates, analysis and synthesis of information for report-writing and case studies.

• Department: Population and Family Health
• 3 points

Environmental Justice Advocacy

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

In this course, students will learn about the disproportionate burdens of environmental contamination and resultant health disparities affecting marginalized communities across the United States and globally. The curriculum will explore the ways in which the environmental justice movement in the US has succeeded in implementing just forms of health research, progressive environmental health policies, and protections from racial/cultural injustice, as well as obstacles, policy impediments and potential paths forward. We will examine environmental health/justice theories and perspectives in the contexts of health impacts on various populations, including American communities of color and the socioeconomically disadvantaged, indigenous peoples, women and children. We will study climate change, natural disasters, urban pollution and segregation, extractive industries, and environmental sustainability. Students will be asked to critically examine these topics and also explore unresolved, chronic problems relating to environmental injustices and their health impacts.

• Department: Population and Family Health
• Instructor: Yolande A Cadore
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• 1.5 points

REHEARSAL AND PRODUCTION

R&P: ASM

The Materials, Chekhov, & 3rd Year PWF presentations provide an excellent opportunity for stage managers to apply the skills they have acquired through their classroom work and practical training. Each of these productions is attached to three separate “Rehearsal & Production” courses; as such, each requires stage managers to take the lead position as PSM (Production Stage Manager) and shepherd each of the following from pre-production and rehearsals through final presentation.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Linda Marvel
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• 1.5 points

REHEARSAL AND PRODUCTION

R&P: PSM

The Materials, Chekhov, & 3rd Year PWF presentations provide an excellent opportunity for stage managers to apply the skills they have acquired through their classroom work and practical training. Each of these productions is attached to three separate “Rehearsal & Production” courses; as such, each requires stage managers to take the lead position as PSM (Production Stage Manager) and shepherd each of the following from pre-production and rehearsals through final presentation.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Linda Marvel
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• 1.5 points

Problems in Kano Painting

The graduate seminar “Problems in Kano Painting,” is a graduate seminar offered periodically to investigate the hereditary lineage of painters that dominated the field of painting in Japan’s late medieval and early modern eras. This semester we will begin with the work of Kano Motonobu and his grandson Eitoku, but will spend most of our time focused on their descendants at the turn of the seventeenth century, particularly Kano Sanraku and Kano Sansetsu. The seminar address the question of how this clan of painters managed to secure its position as official painters to Japan’s rulers for nearly three centuries—a phenomenon unique in the history of art. We will also explore such topics as the ways in which it expanded its painting repertoire beyond its origins in monochrome ink painting, what is meant by an “academic” painting tradition in the Japanese context, its systems of training, promotion, and the economics of their enterprise, and the institutionalization of the Kano project through the writing of art historical treatises.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• Instructor: Matthew P McKelway
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

Planning, Managing & Communicating For E

PLN MNG & COMMS

Evidence-based public health (M Plescia, AJPH 2019) includes making decisions based on peer-reviewed evidence, using data systematically, and disseminating what is learned. Conducting evidence-based public health that reflects the mission and values of the Department of Population & Family Health (PopFam) requires skills to: clarify gaps in knowledge and evidence to explicate how such gaps can be filled; solicit funding and community support for research projects that can inform public health practice; ensure applied public health research is feasible, and carried out efficiently and according to plan; and that the results and “lessons learned” are disseminated to guide next action steps.  This course will provide students with skills to engage in culturally competent public health work from the get-go – recognizing how to be attentive to inclusion and equity in generating research and evaluation questions, project management, and communication and dissemination. This course is designed as a complement to students’ experiences with research or program-based practica and their subsequent capstone/integrated learning experience (ILE); therefore, priority will be given to second-year PopFam students.

• Department: Population and Family Health
• 3 points

Child Development & Health Programs

CHILD DEVELOPMENT & HLTH

Childhood and adolescence are critical windows of opportunity in human development to influence health, learning and productivity throughout life. In the earliest years of childhood, survival, growth and development are interlinked; growth affects both chances of survival and the child's development, and all three are influenced by family care practices, resources and access to services. Adolescence is the second period of rapid growth when foundational learning associates with distinct neuro-maturational changes. Contributing to increased investment in the early years and adolescence are new demands related to changing economic, social, demographic, political and educational conditions. The course will focus on populations along the lifespan, thinking through child development and why and how programs positively affected health outcomes. Students will understand the role of early child development programs (ECD) in the achievement of improved educational success and improved long-term health. The course will also explore adolescence through a developmental lens and the complex life events and social constructs that can influence adolescent behaviors. Through interactive lectures, small-group discussions and debates, and presentations by established guest speakers, students will learn to analyze programs and services, including how we can work with parents, support young children and adolescents in time of emergencies, and work within the health care system through a variety of hospital, community, school and family-based approaches to promote health and positive development.

• Department: Population and Family Health
• 3 points

HISTORIOGRAPHY-LAT AM-MOD PER

• Department: History
• Instructor: Pablo Piccato
  CULPA: 22 h-index: 20 Info
• 4 points

Advanced Techniques in Global Health

Adv Techniques Global Hea

Global health has long been shaped by broader national interests and geopolitical forces. Global health practitioners must be able to adapt to an ever-changing landscape. Many in the sector are scrambling to do just that as resource flows and collaborative structures that have been relied upon for decades have been diminished in recent years and calls to redefine global public health reverberate. At its heart, however, are a set of essential practice activities that equip the global health workforce to deliver effective and equitable programs across borders and in challenging settings. This course builds on students’ foundational global health knowledge and experience with an emphasis on skills and techniques for successful public health practice in global settings. It will address competencies for the advanced certificate in global health as well as those defined in WHO’s 2024 Global Competency and Outcomes Framework for the Essential Public Health Functions. Units in this course are organized around 5 key domains from this framework: collaboration, decision making, community-centeredness, evidence-informed practice and communication. In each unit, students will learn and apply global health frameworks, as well as critical historical and theoretical perspectives in a series of guided readings, interactive lectures, asynchronous learning modules, in-class discussions, individual and group presentations, and case-based practice simulations where students apply graduate level advanced techniques in real-world global health settings.

• Department: Population and Family Health
• Instructor: Stephen P Kachur
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• 3 points

Global Health Practice Seminar 2

Global Health Pract Semin

This weekly seminar held during the Fall semester is required for all second-year MPH students enrolled in the Global Health certificate. Each certificate student is required to conduct a presentation synthesizing their applied practice experience (APEx), aligning field experience with skills and perspectives gained through coursework. Students present to their peers and Global Health faculty. Two student presentations will be scheduled per week. A sign-up sheet will be distributed at the first seminar session. In addition, this seminar will provide opportunities to meet with global health professionals and discuss methods for finding careers that align with skills and interests. This full-semester course is limited to students enrolled in the Global Health certificate.

• Department: Population and Family Health
• Instructor: Stephen P Kachur
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• 0.5 points

Training of Trainers of Public Health Pr

TRAINING OF TRAINERS OF P

The purpose of the course is to teach participants the key principles and skills needed to design, deliver, and evaluate participatory training activities for public health programs in the United States and in developing countries.

• Department: Population and Family Health
• Instructor: Ryan M Mateo Sharnbroich
  Info
• 1.5 points

SCENE STUDY II

SCENE STUDY II: CHEKHOV

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Brian Kulick
  Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN NUMBER THEORY

The course will cover various topics in number theory located at the interface of p-adic Hodge theory, p-adic geometry, and the p-adic Langlands program.

• Department: Mathematics
• 4.5 points

CURRENT ISSUES IN STAGE MANAGEMENT

PEOPLE AND PRACTICE

The function of a stage manager in the process of a musical – through the use of technological advances. This class will be an in-depth examination of how modern stage management contributes to this process through the implementation of seminal methodologies. Focus will be placed on how digital platforms can be used to support this process from beginning to end.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Michael Passaro
  Info
• 3 points

Epidemiological Methods for Measuring Hu

EPID MTHDS-MEAS HUM RTS A

The occurrence of murder, disappearances, and rape are common during complex emergencies and yet the rate of these events is rarely measured while the conflict is ongoing. In some cases, groups are denied life-sustaining services because of race, politics, or HIV status. Public health practitioners are uniquely situated and qualified to advocate for populations whose human rights and survival are threatened by the intentional actions of organized groups. This class will teach students techniques for detecting and estimating the rates of these major abuses of human rights in order to better advocate for the abused, and to permit the evaluation of programs designed to prevent such events. At the end of the course, students will be expected to be able to evaluate the sensitivity of surveillance systems, and undertake surveys, designed to measure the rates of violent deaths and rape. Classes will involve a combination of lectures, case studies, and a research project ending with a debate. Students will be evaluated based on class participation and a paper.

• Department: Population and Family Health
• Instructor: Justin Feldman
  Info
• 1.5 points

Public Health and Humanitarian Action

PUB HLTH & HUMANITARIAN A

Humanitarian action has come to occupy a central place in world politics and a theory of rights rather than charity is now driving international assistance and protection in wars and disasters. Global events over the past two decades indeed suggest that the world needs a humanitarian system capable of responding reliably, effectively and efficiently across a full range of emergencies. Whether people are suffering as a result of an earthquake in China or organized violence in Darfur, the humanitarian response system is expected to reach them in a timely and informed manner. Global wealth suggests that it can; and, global morality says that it should. Success of humanitarian action depends upon political, technical and organizational factors. The practice of public health focuses on improving the technical and organizational capacities, but this course will display that political forces are equally essential for alleviating human suffering. Deep problems of political distortion and perennial problems of agency performance and practice continue to compromise global, impartial and effective humanitarian action. This course examines efforts to provide humanitarian assistance and protection in war and disaster crises. It combines the theoretical with the possible, highlighting constraints to action from the perspective of the humanitarian agency and professional worker in the field. Key public health priorities—including the major causes of disease and death and how best to detect, prevent and treat them--are examined. Particular attention is paid to human rights and humanitarian protection, including their nature, content, and linkages with public health assistance. Students will be exposed to current trends and debates, sides will be taken and defended, and the class will be enriched by the participation, contributions and challenges of the students.

• Department: Population and Family Health
• Instructor: Sabrina C Hermosilla
  Info
• 3 points

Forced Migration Practicum Seminar

FORCED MIGRATION PRACTICU

This course offers a forum for students to reflect upon and discuss their experiences in the practicum environment. Through discussion and presentation, students have the opportunity to integrate their practicum experience into the public health curriculum, as well as to incorporate input and perspectives from other students' experiences. Students who have previously completed their required practicum will deliver a professional presentation of findings from the research conducted or programmatic input provided during the internship. Through this mode of presentation and analysis, students hone their analytic skills, develop leadership capacity, and apply strategic communication techniques. This course forms a fundamental building block in the master's degree curriculum as students synthesize field-based learning with their classroom instruction and gain training for future leadership in public health.

• Department: Population and Family Health
• Instructor: Sara E Casey
  h-index: 16 Info
• 0-1 points

Capstone Paper-Heilbrunn Department of P

CAPSTONE

No syllabus.

• Department: Population and Family Health
• Instructor: Stephen P Kachur
  Info
• 0 points

Key Issues in Adolescent Sexual and Repr

ISS IN ADOLESC SXL/REPRO

This seminar will focus on key issues in adolescent sexual and reproductive health research both domestically and internationally. Using a Journal Club structure, students will discuss, dissect and debate recent and classic research papers – primarily through student-led discussions. Students will gain a greater understanding of the role of research in contributing to adolescent sexual and reproductive health advocacy, policy and programming in the U.S. and internationally. Students will also be able to effectively evaluate research designs and formulate initiatives promoting adolescent sexual and reproductive health. Through a combination of journal article reviews, occasional lectures, and group discussions, students will use science and research to inform their future career goals. Specific topics will include: abstinence-only until marriage policies, programs and funding; school-based health centers;LGBTQ youth; replicating successful interventions; and coital and non-coital sex.

• Department: Population and Family Health
• Instructor: Lauren S Chernick
  Info
• 1.5 points

Health Advocacy

HEALTH ADVOCACY

For anybody who’s spent even a little time in public health circles, it doesn’t take much effort to list the many societal ills that desperately call for action. What’s equally important, though, is answering the classic question that’s bedeviled advocates for centuries: “What is to be done?” This course will help us sharpen our answers to that question through study of recent advocacy efforts around CHIV/AIDS; climate change; reproductive rights; environmental justice/racism; mass incarceration and criminal justice reform, and others. Along the way, we’ll also learn about enduring dilemmas scholars have identified that confront all health advocates. These include: the costs and benefits of working within (versus outside of) formal politics; framing rhetoric to reach wider audiences; the virtues and drawbacks of confrontational direct action; public apathy towards “health” issues; oppositional movements at complete odds with theirs; and more recently, the potential of social media.
This course also contains a skills component, where students will learn basic legislative, legal, and media research that can aid advocacy efforts.

• Department: Sociomedical Sciences
• Instructor: Merlin Chowkwanyun
  Info
• 3 points

Evaluation Of Health Programs

EVALUATION OF HEALTH PROG

Program evaluation is an essential competence in public health. Across all areas of public health, stakeholders pose questions about effectiveness and impact of programs and interventions. This course will examine principles, methods and practices of evaluating health programs. A range of evaluation research designs and methods will be introduced and strategies to address challenges in real world program settings will be emphasized. The course will incorporate examples of evaluations of actual health programs and opportunities to learn through professional program evaluation experiences of the instructor. The combination of lectures, textbook readings, examples, discussions, in-class exercises, and an extensive applied group assignment to design an evaluation for a real program will help students gain evaluation skills and an appreciation for the art and science of program evaluation. The goal is for students to learn competencies required of an entry-level program evaluator, including design and implementation of evaluation studies and interpretation and communication of evaluation findings.

• Department: Sociomedical Sciences
• Instructor: Robert E Fullilove
  Info
• Instructor: Michael P McNeil
  h-index: 3 Info
• 3 points

SMS Thesis Proposal

SMS THESIS PROPOSAL

The Master's Thesis is the capstone requirement of all students in all tracks of the MPH program of the Department of Sociomedical Sciences (SMS). The thesis is intended to reflect the training you have received in the MPH program and demonstrate your ability to design, implement, and present professional work relevant to your major field of interest. Writing the thesis is an essential experience that could further your career development. Employers seek in potential employees with a MPH degree the ability to write articles and reports, and want to see evidence that you can design studies, analyze data, write a needs assessment, and/or design a health program. If you plan to continue your academic studies, developing expertise and demonstrating your ability as a writer are two important skills required of doctoral candidates. A well-written paper is a great asset that you can bring with you to a job interview or include in an application for further study. The thesis ought to demonstrate your ability to think clearly and convey your thoughts effectively and thereby provide an example of your understanding and insight into a substantive area in which you have developed expertise.

• Department: Sociomedical Sciences
• Instructor: Christian Gloria
  Info
• 1 points

COLL IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• Department: Economics
• 2 points

ROLE OF THE THEATRE PRODUCER

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• Department: Theatre Arts
• 3 points

MICROECONOMIC THEORY COLLOQ

Prerequisites: G6215, G6216, G6211, G6212, G6411, G6412. Students will make presentation of original research in Microeconomics.

• Department: Economics
• Instructor: Prajit K Dutta
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 2 points

Labor & Public Finance colloquium

Labor & Public Finance Co

Prerequisites: G6215, G6216, G6211, G6212, G6411, G6412. Students will make presentations of original research in Microeconomics.

• Department: Economics
• 2 points

Sociomedical Sciences Master s Capston

SMS Master's Capstone

The SMS Master’s Capstone course is required for all students in the Master of Science (MS), Accelerated Master of Public Health (MPH), and 4+1 MPH programs of the Department of Sociomedical Sciences (SMS). For MS students, the culminating high-quality written manuscript of this course involves original research or program evaluation based either on primary data collected by the student or secondary analysis of available data. For Accelerated and 4+1 MPH students, the culminating high-quality written manuscript of this course involves comprehensive review of the literature. The student’s work must focus within the field of sociomedical sciences and demonstrate integration of the coursework and training from the master’s program. Based on each student’s methods and areas of study, they will be matched with a faculty sponsor who will provide supervision and mentoring throughout the course.

• Department: Sociomedical Sciences
• Instructor: Christian Gloria
  Info
• 3 points

FINANCIAL ECONOMICS COLLOQUIUM

• Department: Economics
• 2 points

THEATRE MANAGEMENT SEMINAR: PRODUCING PA

Over the last twenty years, as both funding and new work development models in the not-for-profit theater have changed, various partnerships among theater-makers have sprung up to support the creation of new work. In the current post-pandemic climate, partnerships are more urgent and necessary for most productions and producers. Over the course of seven conversations, we will explore what makes a successful collaboration, as well as current models for collaboration/partnership (both “traditional” and “non traditional”) within the industry. We’ll explore the best practices for seeking, structuring, and maintaining healthy partnerships so that you can get a project from inception to production, with the “right people on the bus.” This topic will be explored through discussion of current practices, case studies, and interviews/discussions with producers who have recently partnered with others.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: John Haas
  Info
• 1.5 points

Theories and Perspectives on Sexuality a

THEOR & PERSP ON SEXUALTY

This course will provide an overview of theoretical perspectives and concepts relevant to the study of sexuality, particularly as they relate to public health. This entails exploring perspectives from across the social sciences, with an emphasis on sociology, anthropology, and histroy, and somewhat more limited reference to work in psychology and political science. Drawing upon assigned readings, lectures, discussions and individual assignments, students will develop the capacity to identify the strengths and limitations of perspectives used to frame research and interventions related to sexuality. Although the substantive focus of this course is the theorization of sexuality, over the course of the semester we will address a more fundamental question in public health – namely, what shapes ‘health behaviors’? Developing a sophisticated conceptualization of why people engage in behaviors that have detrimental health consequences, or conversely why they fail to take health-enhancing actions, lays the foundation for effective health promotion policies and programs. Because a great deal of sexual health promotion programming draws implicitly on behavioral science and interpersonal-level determinants of health practices, a goal of this course is to counter-balance that through an emphasis on the broader structural and institutional determinants of sexual practices.

• Department: Sociomedical Sciences
• Instructor: Martez Smith
  Info
• 3 points

Social and Economic Determinants of Heal

SOCL & ECON DETERMNTS OF

Disparities in health and illness related to social and economic inequality in the U.S. Theoretical and empirical research on factors linked to class, gender, racial and ethnic differences that have been hypothesized to explain the generally poorer health and higher rates of mortality among members of socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. Concepts, theories and empirical evidence will be examined to expand our understanding of the impact of structural factors on health behavior, lifestyles and outcomes.

• Department: Sociomedical Sciences
• Instructor: Kim J Hopper
  Info
• 3 points

Race and Health

RACE AND HEALTH

Over the 17 years that I have taught this course, I have tried to present students with articles that would provide an exposure to the growing body of research, commentaries, and critiques that discuss the relationships between race, ethnicity, and health. The premise upon which our work is based is rather simple: race is highly correlated with health status, but after many years of investigating this association, researchers are not entirely clear what this association means, nor are they clear how to use their research to improve the lot of people of color who are at risk for a wide variety of health conditions. Put more precisely, we don’t know what it is about someone’s race that causes the excess morbidity and mortality that is observed among members of so many ethnic minority groups. Typically, in the first class of the semester, students find this to be a puzzling way of defining the key issues in race and health. Given the dynamics of last year’s presidential elections where race played a huge role, it seems all the more bizarre to suggest that race is a concept of limited value to the science of public health. To students born in this country or who have lived here for an extended period of time, nothing could be more obvious than the fact that race matters. Racism is a fact of American life, and that its victims should suffer poorer health status than mainstream Americans seems almost self-evident. As the semester progresses and as the critique of current health research about race becomes more pronounced in the readings, students of all races, I hasten to add often feel compelled to say: “I don’t care what the articles say, race MATTERS!!!!!” Agreed. Race does matter, and it often matters in ways that are intensely personal, painful, and gut-wrenching. But the point of this course is not to deny the student’s personal experience of race, but rather to ask you to look beyond such experiences to develop a science of public health that specifies how and in what way race “acts” to cause the excess morbidity and mortality we observe in so many communities of color.

• Department: Sociomedical Sciences
• Instructor: Robert E Fullilove
  Info
• 3 points

Propaganda, Russia, & The World Informat

Propaganda, Russia & Info

Prerequisite: Instructor-Managed Waitlist. 
Propaganda, Russia and the World Information War is a highly current guide to propaganda and disinformation, the geopolitical impact of information, and how false, weaponized narratives threaten the world's news and information environment. 

The course teaches how propaganda and disinformation work, the most effective ways to counter them, and the effects of artificial intelligence. The course draws many of its examples from information operations by Russia, but also considers operations by state and private actors worldwide. This includes overt and covert activities by Western governments, including in the Ukraine war.

The course also discusses information at a more philosophical and sociological level. How do we receive and process information? Can there actually be more than one truth? What is the future of the world’s information climate given all the political, social, and technological stresses on it?

The course is aimed at students with interests in geopolitical analysis involving Russia or any region; the techniques of public persuasion, in any context; or in countering propaganda and disinformation.

Interested students are encouraged to contact the instructor at 
tjk17@columbia.edu
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• Department: International and Public Affairs
• Instructor: Thomas Kent
  Info
• 3 points

Introduction to Medical Anthropology

INTRO TO MEDICAL ANTHROPO

Overview of medical anthropology, the examination of health, disease, and medicine in the context of human culture. Examine the relationship between culture, structural factors, and health gain ways to utilize ethnographic, anthropological, and qualitative data in health interventions, policy, and evaluation gain critical skills in evaluating the adequacy and validity of formulations about 'culture' and 'tradition' in health programs and research become familiar with range of work on culture and health, domestically and internationally acquire skill in utilizing data about culture and health at macro and micro levels.

• Department: Sociomedical Sciences
• Instructor: Kim J Hopper
  Info
• 3 points

METHODS IN MIDDLE EAST HISTORY

This graduate seminar will examine key themes and methods in Middle East History. It is intended to provide graduate training for advanced students who plan to pursue a dissertation topic on or related to Middle East history. Please contact the professor first if you wish to apply for this course.

• Department: History
• Instructor: Marwa Elshakry
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED SEMINAR IN THEATRE MANAGEMENT

ADV SEMINAR IN THEATRE MG

Aspects of the commercial theatre with perspectives from Executives of The Shubert Organization.

The Shubert Organization owns 17 Broadway, 6 Off-Broadway and 2 “road” theatres. It is a multi-million dollar company with significant real estate holdings, a substantial investment portfolio, a major ticketing operation and over 1,500 employees. But whether you are dealing with a 1,750-seat theatre or a converted garage, the issues are the same: What shows should be produced/booked? How to find an audience for them? How to make the most of ever-advancing modes of technology? How to contend with artistic, financial, organizational and legal challenges? The fundamental question: How to present the finest work in the best possible circumstances for the largest number of people in order to achieve the greatest artistic and financial return possible?

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Charles Flateman
  Info
• 3 points

Community-Based Participatory Research

Comm-Based Participatory

Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) has received growing attention over the past several decades as international, domestic, funding agencies and researchers have renewed a focus on an approach to health that recognizes the importance of social, political, and economic systems to health behaviors and outcomes. The long-standing importance of this approach is already reflected in the 1988 Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) landmark report The Future of Public Health and many other publications. The report indicates that communities and community-based organizations are one of six potential partners in the public health system and that building community-based partnerships is a priority area for improving public health. CBPR is not a method but an approach to research and practice that involves the active collaboration of the potential beneficiaries and recognizes and values the contributions that communities and their leaders can make to new knowledge and to the translation of research findings into public health practice and policy. CBPR is a collaborative approach to research that recognizes the value of equitably involving the intended beneficiaries throughout all phases of research and/or intervention design, implementation, and evaluation. CBPR is also an important approach to advance health and social equity and is essentially a way to promote and operationalize health and social equity in research settings.

• Department: General Public Health
• Instructor: Renata Schiavo
  h-index: 10 Info
• 3 points

Designing Public Health Interventions

DESIGNING PUBLIC HEALTH I

Behavioral and environmental factors are major determinants of today's most pressing health issues. Community-level behavior change and health promotion interventions are promising strategies to address these issues on a large scale. This course will provide an overview of program planning, implementation, and evaluation – essential public health services and fundamental competencies for professionals working in the field of public health. Although the PRECEDE-PROCEED model will be used as the framework for the course structure and individual assignments, other planning models will also be presented and discussed. By the end of the course, students will develop a deep understanding of the complex processes involved in organizing public health programs, and learn the skills necessary to create a program and evaluation plan in a local community.

• Department: Sociomedical Sciences
• Instructor: Christian Gloria
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• 3 points

Advancing Health Literacy

In an age of both information saturation and stark inequities in information capital, how can public health professionals empower communities to make informed health decisions? How can healthcare providers partner with patients and communities to advance health self-efficacy, reduce barriers to equity, and repair legacies of health disparities? This course examines the concept of health literacy and its relationship to both information comprehension and health outcomes. With liberatory pedagogy as both the course teaching modality and our guiding framework, we will interrogate how disrupt power inequities and differentials in access to information through the co-creation of knowledge between health sciences professionals and the communities they serve. We will explore validated instruments to measure health literacy; its implications for empowering and communicating with the public; policies for promoting health literacy; and frameworks for developing materials for multimedia contexts. Emphasizing the necessity of advancing health literacy to create equity, we will discuss adult learning theory, trauma-informed methods for empowered health behavior and decision-making, guidance for healthcare providers, and the promotion of health-literate policies to advance a truly just and health world.

• Department: General Public Health
• Instructor: Leah Hooper
  Info
• 1.5 points

Advancing Health Literacy

ADVANCING HEALTH LITERACY

Health Literacy is defined in Health People 2010 as “the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services for appropriate health decisions” In this course we will explore the multi-layered interactions between health and literacy. We will begin by examining the issues related to literacy in the US and transition to the concept of health literacy. We will discuss issues related to reading comprehension, and usability of health related materials. The class will evaluate the major health literacy assessment instruments, learning how to administer these for different populations. We will focus on the role of language and culture as confounders to health literacy. Time will be spent assessing and then developing appropriate health materials for print, visual, auditory and internet venues. The course will shift towards examination of different health situations utilizing a health literacy approach including the research participants and informed consent, health literacy and medication/adherence, patient-physician communication models, and risk comprehension. Finally we will examine special topics including emergency preparedness. The classes are designed to include a mixture of didactic lectures, analysis of reading materials, group discussion and exercises.

• Department: Sociomedical Sciences
• Instructor: Leah Hooper
  Info
• 1.5 points

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Whitney Estrin
  Info
• 3 points

COMPANY MANAGEMENT

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Kimberly M Shaw
  Info
• 3 points

INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Hera Suh
  Info
• 1.5 points

Seminar in Research and Professional Dev

SEM IN RESEARCH & PROF DE

This seminar is designed for pre-doctoral students from the Departments of Sociomedical Sciences, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Population and Family Health who have been accepted to the T32, on Social Determinants of HIV, a training grant sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health. Students in this T32 program are required to take this 2-year seminar (1 credit per semester). The seminar will highlight structural interventions designed to reduce the impact of HIV among underrepresented populations, professional development issues; funding mechanisms such as diversity supplements, diverse research careers for doctoral students in public health, and guest speakers who are experts in HIV structural interventions and social determinants of health. Students will lead many of the seminar discussions and they are given the opportunity to present their work in progress. Graded on a pass/fail basis.

• Department: Sociomedical Sciences
• Instructor: Gina M Wingood
  Info
• 1 points

INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY

Prerequisites: the instructors permission prior to registration. This is a survey course in international political economy. This course examines how domestic and international politics influence the economic relations between states. It will address the major theoretical debates in the field and introduce the chief methodological approaches used in contemporary analyses. We will focus attention on different types of cross-border flows and the policies and international institutions that regulate them: the flow of goods (trade policy), the flow of people (immigration policy), the flow and location of production (foreign investment policy), the flow of capital (financial and exchange rate policy), and the flow of pollution (environment policy). The goal of this course is to cover, in some depth, many of the main topics and readings in international political economy. The readings each week are designed to tackle some of the essential points of a substantive topic, as well as raise deeper methodological questions that have application to other issues and themes in the sub-field. Not coincidentally, a related goal is to partially prepare students for the IR Field Exam. To help with that, a number of recommended readings accompany each weeks topic.

• Department: Political Science
• Instructor: Nikhar Gaikwad
  h-index: 7 Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL PRODUCING & PRESENTING

INTL PRODUCING & PRESENTI

Theatrical experiences are more frequently crossing borders to not only share art around the world, but also to remain financially and culturally sustainable. This is the first course offered by the Theatre Program that looks at the vision and logistics of bringing theatre to places all over the world.

“The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.” -- Peter Brook,
On Directing

As theatre producers and managers, we’ll ask “Why and How” in a preliminary investigation into the missions and mechanics of producing international festivals and tours. We will consider our roles as members of the international performing arts community and our relationships to our artists, our audiences, and our international partners and colleagues.

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: John Haas
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• 1.5-3 points

Migration and Empire

This seminar explores key topics in the historiography of migration and empire. This includes slavery, abolition and indenture, quarantine and public health restrictions on migration, diaspora and displacements of the twentieth century, revolutionaries on the move, borders and border policing, the politics of guestworker programs, globalization, migration and development, among others. The course adopts a capacious understanding of Asia and Asian migrations, to facilitate thinking, reading, and writing across disciplinary boundaries. How did empires regulate migration? How were social and political identities shaped by imperial forces, and vice versa? What are the afterlives of the imperial regulation of migration? The final paper will be a literature review on a topic of your choosing.

• Department: History
• Instructor: Kalyani Ramnath
  Info
• 4 points

S CONTEMP CRITICAL THOUGHT

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• Instructor: Bernard E Harcourt
  Info
• 1 points

TPC-MIDDLE PERIOD-CHINESE HIST

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• Instructor: Robert P Hymes
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

SCI/TECH-LATE IMPER/MOD CHINA

The aim of this graduate course is to provide a broad introduction to science, medicine and technology in late imperial and modern China, and their relationship to the world. The course examines how the understanding and politics of technology, body, the natural world, and medicine undergo drastic reconfiguration from the late imperial period to the modern period. To understand this shift, we will consider questions of technology and imperialism, global circuits and knowledge transfer, the formulation of the modern episteme of “science,” the popularization and wonder of science, as well as commerce, politics and changing regimes of corporeality, in both the imperial and modern periods while placing close attention to the global context and transnational connections. In addition to getting a sense of the existing historiography on Chinese science, we will also be closely examining primary documents, pertinent theoretical writings, and comparative historiography. A central goal of the course is to explore different methodological approaches including history of science, translation studies, material culture, and global history. Reading ability in Classical Chinese and modern Chinese and facility in critical theory are all required.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• Instructor: Eugenia Lean
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• 4 points

DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM I

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Tom Slater
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• 3 points