The Economics and Politics of Digital Di
Econ & Politics of Dig Di
You cant disrupt any industry without dislodging its incumbents. And no incumbent goes down without a fight. Sometimes those fights happen in court. But usually, they take place in the halls of government: in city councils, state legislatures, municipal regulatory agencies, even local community boards. For 90% of technology startups, not understanding how to anticipate, handle and solve your coming regulatory problems is just as problematic as not being able to hire engineers or raise venture funding. Failure to anticipate politics can be fatal. However, there is a playbook for startups to disrupt and thrive. This class is designed to teach its students exactly how. Working in groups, students pilot new industries through the regulatory process, navigating the halls of power and the economics of disruption by analyzing the regulatory and political obstacles in their way. Students will figure out how to properly assess their opponents, develop and execute the right narrative in the media, build a grassroots movement, effectively lobby elected officials, regulators and political staffers, overcome entrenched interests standing in their way, and ideally, not only win legality for their idea, but build a regulatory moat to box out potential competitors.
- Department: Business Economics
- W 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert Greenlee
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Epidemiology of Malaria
EPIDEMIOLOGY OF MALARIA
Malaria imposes a profound burden on public health and inhibits economic growth. It is distributed over 90 countries accounting for an annual estimate of 400 million cases and over one million deaths, most of them in children. Pregnant women are more vulnerable to malaria, resulting in infection, miscarriages, severe anemia, maternal mortality and low birth weight. Low birth weight poses the greatest risk for neonatal death. The disease also affects non-immune immigrants, refugees and displaced populations during their movement from non-endemic to endemic areas. Resistance to anti-malarial drugs and insecticides by the Plasmodium human parasites and Anopheles vector mosquitoes respectively is widespread. This course examines the ecological and epidemiological characteristics of malaria, transmission dynamics, economic costs of malaria, available intervention strategies and the global challenge of its control.
- Department: Epidemiology
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Instructor:
Awash Teklehaimanot
Info - 3 points
Social Epidemiology
SOCIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
This course focuses on the branch of epidemiology concerned with how social arrangements, processes, and interactions shape the population distribution of health and disease and produce social inequalities in health. The sub-discipline of social epidemiology has grown dramatically in the past decade and, while still evolving as an interdisciplinary enterprise, it is now an established field of etiologic inquiry, both incorporating and influencing the conventional theories, methods, and principles of epidemiology. This course will familiarize students with the key theories, concepts, methods, findings, and ongoing debates in social epidemiology. Through lectures, readings, and discussion we will review the major social determinants of health, the theories and empirical evidence with respect to how social conditions “get under the skin,” and the methodological challenges involved in measuring social phenomena and making causal inferences about the relationship between social factors and health. By the end of the course students will understand the theoretical, substantive, and methodological parameters of this growing sub-discipline of epidemiologic inquiry, and be able to evaluate both its strengths and limitations.
- Department: Epidemiology
- R 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
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Instructor:
Lisa Bates
Info - 3 points
JEWS AND RELIGION IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY A
Jews, Religion & American
In what ways has religion been deployed as an analytical category in 20th century American history? Through a case study of how Jews and antisemitism have been conceptualized, theorized and narrated within the annals of American history, we will ponder what to American historians think about religion. What is the heuristic value of such a category? We will also research in Columbia’s archives to see how Jews and Judaism are discussed. This course will also introduce students to the theoretical innovations in the field of contemporary religion and to suggest ways that the study of religion intersects, intervenes and complicates the fields of American urban, cultural, and political history.
- Department: History
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rebecca Kobrin
CULPA: 7 Info - 4 points
The Credit Superhighway
The outstanding notional amount of debt instruments in the world is well over $100 trillion which makes it larger than the global equity markets. Credit, is actually what makes the world go around yet it gets much less billing and excitement than other asset classes. If you think credit is just fixed income, I have a few hedge fund managers you should meet Some of them will be our occasional guest speakers!
- Department: Finance
- FM 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
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Emerging Infectious Diseases
EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEA
In recent years, a number of infections have appeared for the first time, while many others have spread rapidly to new areas; these are termed emerging infectious diseases". HIV/AIDS, SARS, the recent Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), human infections with H5N1 and H7N9 avian influenza, and a number of others are recent examples. Infectious causes have also been implicated in such chronic diseases as gastric ulcers and certain cancers. This course examines the concept of emerging infectious diseases and our current understanding of emergence. The course will consider methods for identifying and studying emerging pathogens, factors responsible for disease emergence, and methods for surveillance and intervention.
- Department: Epidemiology
- W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Stephen S Morse
h-index: 41 Info - 3 points
Epidemiology of Chronic Disease Seminar
EPI OF CHRONIC DISEASE SE
The primary objectives in this course are to learn to systematically review and summarize primary research in chronic disease epidemiology, to synthesize scientific evidence to establish causal inference, and to understand how this evidence relates to scientific decision making for improving health outcomes. In this course, we will evaluate 4 topics in the epidemiology of chronic diseases. By the end of the semester, students will improve their ability to interpret the literature on current topics in chronic disease epidemiology and will be able to evaluate how the evidence can inform health decision making and causal inference. Readings will be based upon publications highlighted in the Dean’s Seminar Series on Chronic Disease and the Department of Epidemiology’s Chronic Disease Cluster seminars.
- Department: Epidemiology
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Instructor:
Lauren C Houghton
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Approaches to American Material Culture
How shall we approach the vast collection of artifacts left by Americans in the eighteenth through twentieth centuries? What can silver tea services, Amish quilts, rubber telephone receivers or ebony Art Deco coffee tables tell us about the people who designed, produced and used them? How can we understand the sourcing and transformation of raw materials as culturally embedded practices that reinforce, contest or evolve power dynamics between members of different human communities? What role have everyday objects played in mediating Americans’ relationships to the natural world? How can the study of material culture deepen our understanding of U.S. entanglements with global history?
In this graduate seminar we will explore the methods used by art historians and others to explore the meanings of material culture. The class will involve several visits to local collections and each student is expected to produce an 18-20 page research paper on a single object or class of objects.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Hutchinson
CULPA: 9 Info - 4 points
Epidemiologic Methods in Global Mental H
EPI MTHDS GLBL MENTL HLTH
Mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) disorders are substantial drivers of the global burden of disease. The burden is particularly high in low-and-middle-income countries (LMIC) where over 80% of persons in need of MNS services go untreated. Yet for decades, attention to MNS epidemiologic research in LMIC was scarce relative to both psychiatric epidemiology studies conducted in high-income countries as well as infectious disease epidemiology studies in LMIC. Recently, however, the emerging field of global mental health has been recognized by international agencies, including the United Nations (via the Sustainable Development Goals) and the World Health Organization (via the Mental Health Action Plan) as major funding agencies, including NIH, CDC, and the UK MRC have followed suit in prioritizing global mental health research.
As the field has emerged, challenges in how to appropriately conduct public mental health research in LMIC contexts have surfaced. Such challenges require the appropriate application of epidemiologic methods in order to accurately measure and describe MNS problems in LMIC and evaluate and implement intervention approaches. Epidemiologic methods to be discussed in this course include: complex survey designs to measure MNS prevalence in humanitarian and emergency settings; validation of mental health screening tools in the absence of a gold standard criterion among culturally diverse populations; evaluation of MNS intervention effectiveness using experimental and non-experimental designs; novel methods for assessing clinical competency and intervention fidelity of lay mental health providers in LMIC; and implementation science tools, designs, and analysis approaches for translating evidence-based interventions into practice in LMIC.
The course is designed to complement Priorities in Global Mental Health (P6813), which provides a broad overview of priority issues in global mental health, and epidemiologic methods series courses (e.g., Quant Core Module / P6400, and Epidemiology II). The course is also designed to be practical in the sense that the intent is for students to learn the ‘how to’ of conducting global mental health epidemiologic studies in the field. Each lecture will apply a core epidemiologic method or concept (e.g., information and selection bias; survey, cohort, case-control, and RCT study designs; effect modification; and causal inference) to the field of global mental health. Through lectures, int
- Department: Epidemiology
- W 10 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
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Jeremy C Kane
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S. ESG Disclosures: International and U.
S. ESG Disclosure Intl US
- Department: Law
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Seminar in Social Determinants of Health
SEMINAR IN SOCIAL DETERM
Seminar for students in the Social Determinants certificate program
- Department: Epidemiology
- F 11:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lisa Bates
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S. Advanced Problems in Administrative L
S. Adv Problems in Admin
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- Department: Law
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Thomas W Merrill
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Midwifery Clinical Competency Skills I
MIDWIFE CLIN COMPETNCY SK
Clinical skills preparation is essential before a student enters clinical practicum. A variety of skills relevant to antepartum, well woman gynecology, and intrapartum care are taught and then practiced in simulation settings and peer practice.
- Department: Nursing
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Independent Study in Nurse-Midwifery
IND STUDY NURSE MIDWIFERY
- Department: Nursing
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Instructor:
Rebekah L Ruppe
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The Performative Object
The 1960’s and ‘70s witnessed an explosion of performance works in the visual arts. Departing from precedents in the early 20th century, performance during this period is marked both by its international reach and breadth of artistic experimentation: process painting, extreme bodily acts, textual scores, video and audio recordings, sculptural installations, ritualistic drawings, and direct political interventions, proposing complex relations between object, process, and act. This course explores this history and its legacy through the lens of two contributing factors: first are political events, upheavals and revolutionary movements that erupted across the globe, generating artistic performance as protest and activism; and second is an emergent media culture characterized by technologies of repetition and recording, resulting in performance works that are defined through reproduction rather than liveness, while taking inspiration from experimental film, music, and dance. To explore these themes, the class will examine select case studies of individual artists, movements and collectives: among which include the NY based Guerilla Art Action Group; Japanese Gutai and international Happenings; Brazilian neo-Concretism; South Korean Experimental art (
silheom misul
); as well as video, audio, photographic and durational works (by Ana Mendieta, Bruce Nauman, Adrian Piper, Tehching Hsieh, etc.), to name a few. In final research papers, students will trace this genealogy, examining contemporary performance works that are realized variously through networked and digital forms, uncapturable ephemerality, or direct social action.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Janet L Kraynak
Info - 4 points
Lifecourse Epidemiology
LIFECOURSE EPIDEMIOLOGY
Life course epidemiology is the study of exposures, both physical and social, that occur during the periconceptional period, during gestation or during early childhood and adult health and disease risk. This course will examine conceptual models and identify study designs appropriate for a variety of life course research questions, as well as the limitations of these designs. Understanding the approaches to the life course, the development and evaluation of epidemiologic research designs related to the life course, and the contextual models and their relevance for the design and evaluation of research studies will be covered using a combination of lectures, case studies and small group work.
- Department: Epidemiology
- W 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
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Instructor:
Daniel Belsky
h-index: 47 Info - 3 points
DNP Clinical Seminar in Midwifery I
DNP CLIN SEM IN MIDWIFERY
This course will introduce the student to the epistemology and scholarship of practice and to lifelong learning. Using the DNP Competencies in Comprehensive Care as the framework, students will analyze clinical decision-making and utilization of evidence for best clinical practices in a variety of reproductive health settings. Individual plans for guided study will be mapped for each student. Clinical review and discussion of interesting, complex cases from the practice environment will facilitate the students’ development of the knowledge base and skills essential to the role of the nurse midwife.
- Department: Nursing
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Dissertation Proposal Seminar I
Individual work with an adviser to develop a topic and proposal for the Ph.D. dissertation.
- Department: Music
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Julia Doe
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Joseph P Dubiel
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Kevin Fellezs
CULPA: 4
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Aaron A Fox
CULPA: 7
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Walter M Frisch
CULPA: 17
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Giuseppe Gerbino
CULPA: 12
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Knar Abrahamyan
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Mariusz Kozak
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George Lewis
CULPA: 10
Wikipedia
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Elaine Sisman
CULPA: 13
Wikipedia
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Benjamin A Steege
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Christopher J Washburne
CULPA: 31
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Ruth Opara
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19TH C U.S. HISTORY
This course offers a graduate level introduction to the literature of nineteenth century U.S. history. It uses a reading list of recently published and classic texts to help students map the critical questions and debates that have shaped the field. The list is designed to represent key methodological developments, including in gender and transnational histories. Taken as a whole, the course seeks to situate the United States within the nineteenth century world and to identify the broad set of historical forces that worked to define it. The course is designed to serve as an introduction to graduate study in American history, as preparation for Ph.D. field exams, and as a place to explore potential dissertation topics.
- Department: History
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Stephanie McCurry
CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
Photographies in Counterpoint
This course examines the impact of the display of different photographic practices around the world beginning in the 1990s on the heretofore universalizing discourse around photography and modernism. It will read certain canonical texts of photo criticism in counterpoint with research on African photography. We will also consider how the display of these photographs has heightened ethical questions around the competing rights of photographers and their subjects. Who has influenced whom?
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Zoe S Strother
CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
Analysis of Large-Scale Data
Large data sets provide crucial information for monitoring the health of our nation and evaluating public health policies. The principal goal of this course is for students to develop the skills to identify, process, and analyze these data to answer a specific research or policy question. The class is an applied, hands-on course that provides an introduction to several major health data sets and guides students in processing and analyzing these data. Students will hone computer and statistical skills developed in other research methods courses. Students with also gain insight into active research projects that utilize large scale health data sets via a series of guest lectures. By accessing data that measure health variables of current importance, the class provides a foundation for developing a variety of health policy research questions.
- Department: Health Policy & Management
- R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Zohn Rosen
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Kacie L Dragan
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Workshop on Facilitating Meaningful Reen
WRKSHP:FACILITATING REENT
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Ilene Strauss
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MANAGERIAL NEGOTIATIONS
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- FM 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Harborne Stuart
h-index: 10 Info - 3 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
- W 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
- W 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Catherine Foster
Info - 1.5 points
PLAYWRITING III
- Department: Theatre Arts
- R 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Charles Mee
Info - 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
- T 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sharen I Duke
Info - 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
- W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ari J Markenson
Info - 1.5 points
SUZUKI - RESEARCH ARTS
SUZUKI - RA
- Department: Theatre Arts
- F 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Shanga Parker
Info - 0 points
Management Challenges in the Evolving He
MGMT CHAL IN HLTH CARE &
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
- R 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
William E Gold
Info - 3 points
Advanced Healthcare Finance: Valuation a
ADVANCED HEALTHCARE FINAN
This course will take an in depth look at hospital finances using data from the New York area. Students will develop technical skills, learn hospital operations, and be asked to examine how structures created to optimize finance affects access to services for disparate patients across varying services.
Students will develop technical skills by creating their own excel models. Assignments will include budget and staffing models; financial plan projections; and cash-flow forecasts.
Students will also be asked to participate in a course long group research project that evaluates the nexus between healthcare reimbursement policy and access to services.
- Department: Health Policy & Management
- R 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jonathan Reese
Info - 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
- M 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Steven B Katz
Wikipedia Info - 1.5 points
New York City History
This reading and research course covers major themes in the history of New York City, with a focus on the twentieth century. We will look at the transformation of the city over the years that followed its consolidation in 1898; the ways New York was changed by the massive immigration of the first twenty years of the twentieth century; racial segregation in the city; the impact of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II on New York; urban renewal in the postwar years; deindustrialization and gentrification; and the economic, political, and social transformations of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Throughout, we will think about New York in relationship to other cities, and we will read classic works in urban history to gain comparative perspective. Finally, the course will feature archive visits and some walking tours to learn more about how to conduct research on New York City.
- Department: History
- T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kimberly K Phillips-Fein
Info - 4 points
ANLYTC&MNGR DECISION MAKING II
- Department: Executive Classes in HPM
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Instructor:
Kai Ruggeri
h-index: 22 Info - 3 points
ADVANCED EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE
- Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
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Instructor:
Katherine Dimitropoulou
Info - 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
- T 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Todd B Richter
Info - 1.5 points
DIRECTED STUDIES IN PLAYWRITING
DIRECTED STUDIES - PLAYWR
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- Department: Theatre Arts
- F 10:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lynn Nottage
Wikipedia Info - 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
- T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Magda Schaler-Haynes
Info - 3 points
Landmark Criminal Trials
LANDMARK CRIMINAL TRIALS
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
George P Fletcher
Wikipedia Info - 2 points
Prenatal and Postpartum Care Essentials
Prenatal & Postpartum Car
This course covers the broad scope of preconception, prenatal, and postnatal care including theoretical and practical knowledge for the essentially uncomplicated childbearing period. Routine care, risk assessment, and commonly encountered complications will be reviewed with a strong focus on the physiological, social, emotional, and educational components of preconception, prenatal, and postnatal care.
- Department: Nursing
- W 1 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Adena Bargad
Info - 2 points
Independent Study in Psychiatric Mental
IND STUDY IN PSYCH NURSIN
This independent study in PMH is designed to provide an opportunity for students to be mentored in their exploration of a topic of their choice in the area of psychiatry. Students are required to develop a focus for their study, followed by a thesis statement, outline, and literature review. Students may present an annotated literature review or a brief paper (3-5 pages) as their completed project.
- Department: Nursing
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Instructor:
Latisha M Hanson
Info - 1-8 points
PLAYWRIGHT-DRAMATURG WORKSHOP
ADAPTATION
- Department: Theatre Arts
- T 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Seth Bockley
Info - 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
- R 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rodney K McKinney
Info - 1.5 points
MANAGERIAL & ORG BEHAVIOR
- Department: Executive Classes in HPM
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Instructor:
Yuna S Lee
Info - 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
- W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
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Yuna S Lee
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Julius L Chen
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PT Management of the Running Athlete
PT Mgmt of the Running At
This course is designed to prepare students for evaluating and treating the running athlete. This course includes an overview of foot and ankle mechanics, lower quarter strength and flexibility examination, application of the Functional Movement ScreenTM, and use of Video Analysis to identify relevant pathomechanics observed during running. Students are introduced to the clinical setting by evaluating patients in the context of a simulated running clinic, prior to participating in the student-led, Columbia RunLabTM clinic. Here they engage in clinical reason discussions and advise runners on exercise programs and improvements to running form. Students participate in training sessions required for the clinic including HIPPA and Blood-borne Pathogens training.
- Department: Physical Therapy
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PT Management of the Running Athlete
PT Mgmt of the Running At
This course is designed to prepare students for evaluating and treating the running athlete. This course includes an overview of foot and ankle mechanics, lower quarter strength and flexibility examination, application of the Functional Movement ScreenTM, and use of Video Analysis to identify relevant pathomechanics observed during running. Students are introduced to the clinical setting by evaluating patients in the context of a simulated running clinic, prior to participating in the student-led, Columbia RunLabTM clinic. Here they engage in clinical reason discussions and advise runners on exercise programs and improvements to running form. Students participate in training sessions required for the clinic including HIPPA and Blood-borne Pathogens training.
- Department: Physical Therapy
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
- Department: Executive Classes in HPM
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Instructor:
Paul W Thurman
h-index: 11 Info - 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
- M 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Paul W Thurman
h-index: 11 Info - 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
- M 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Paul W Thurman
h-index: 11 Info - 3 points
PLAY REWRITING & DEVELOPMENT
- Department: Theatre Arts
- M 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
James Ijames
Info - 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
- T 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sharen I Duke
Info - 1.5 points
Consulting Practice
CONSULTING WORKSHOP
- Department: Health Policy & Management
- M 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
- M 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- W 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
- R 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
- R 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
- T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- None None-None
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Instructor:
Paul W Thurman
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Instructor:
Arthur Gianelli
Info - 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
- T 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
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Instructor:
Asha Saxena
Info - 1.5 points
Practicum in Advanced Clinical Assessmen
PRAC:ADV CLIN ASSESS/FAM
Utilizing a background in basic physical assessment, advanced practice nursing students apply the didactic content introduced in N8786 to this clinical practicum. Advanced physical assessment skills and the identification of abnormalities in the physical exam and appropriate documentation are emphasized with a focus on the ability to integrate systems appropriately. The complete pelvic exam is included. As well as complete male genital exam.
- Department: Nursing
- 1 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
- M 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
- 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
- M 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
- 0.5 points
Seminar in Advanced Practice in Psychiat
SEM IN ADV PRAC PMH NURSI
This course will introduce the student to the epistemology and scholarship of practice and to lifelong learning. Using the DNP Competencies in Comprehensive Care as the framework, students will analyze clinical decision-making and utilization of evidence for best clinical practices in a variety of mental health settings. Individual plans for guided study will be mapped for each student. Clinical review and discussion of interesting, complex cases from the practice environment will facilitate the students’ development of the knowledge base and skills essential to the role of the psychiatric nurse practitioner.
- Department: Nursing
- M noon-1:50 p.m.
- 2 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
- M 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Magda Schaler-Haynes
Info - 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
- T 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
- 1.5 points
Tutorial in Health Policy and Management
TUTORIAL HEALTH POLICY &
For students who wish to acquire further knowledge and research skills in areas of special interest. Tailored to the particular needs and interests of individual students, they can take many forms - literature reviews, research projects, field experiences, other special studies, or learning experiences. The objective is to enrich the students program.
- Department: Health Policy & Management
- T 11:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
- WR 4 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
- TR 4 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
- None None-None
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Instructor:
Jeanne M Stellman
h-index: 34 Info -
Instructor:
Rebecca R Sale
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Instructor:
Jeanne M Stellman
h-index: 34 Info -
Instructor:
David Rosenthal
Info - 0-6 points
Advanced Practice in Psychiatric Mental
ADV PRAC IN PMH NURSING I
This course is designed to integrate foundation skills and strengthen the student's clinical practice in a variety of psychiatric mental health settings. The practicum is the first of two consecutive courses. Expectations of the clinical experience are direct patient contact (assessment, diagnosis, and treatment including medication management) and therapeutic interaction with staff, families, and systems. The student will develop a knowledge base and skills essential to the role of the advanced practice psychiatric nurse practitioner. Details of the practicum will be coordinated with the agency by faculty in line with courses objectives, agency objectives, and student education goals.
- Department: Nursing
- 5 points
Computing in Context: Health Policy
COMPUTING IN CONTEXT: HEA
This course consists of two components: a computer science component and a health policy-specific component. The first component consists of lectures, homework assignments, and in-class quizzes in the Department of Computer Science, which introduce students to algorithmic problem solving and implementing solutions in Python. These lectures will include students enrolled in context sections from other parts of the University, and assume no prior experience with programming whatsoever. They will be supplemented by a weekly lab at CUMC for Mailman students, which will focus on guiding students through practical examples/applications of the methods presented in the lectures. The second component of the class is context-specific, and includes a health policy analysis project, in which students apply programming methods learned in class to a health policy problem, as well as context lectures given at CUMC in the second half of the semester. These context lectures will focus on the ever-expanding role of computing and “big data” in health policy and healthcare, and will discuss recent research on these topics. Attendance for all lectures and labs is mandatory.
- Department: Health Policy & Management
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Instructor:
Sarah Ashcroft-Jones
Info - 3 points
S SCIENCE AND THE COURTS
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Jed S Rakoff
Wikipedia Info - 2 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
- M 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
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Instructor:
Lindsay Fram
Info - 3 points
PT Management of Cardiopulmonary Conditi
PT Mgmt Cardiopulmonary C
This 8 week course, during the fourth term of the DPT curriculum is the first of two courses on cardiopulmonary physical therapy. This course provides extended exposure to normal physiology and pathophysiology of the cardiovascular system.
Exploration of pathophysiological changes of the cardiovascular system and of evaluative techniques for identifying these changes will provide the student with knowledge critical to decision making in contemporary clinical practice. The course will cover examination, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, intervention, and outcomes for patients with various cardiopulmonary disorders. This course will be given in a hybrid-learning format consisting of asynchronous on-line video lectures, as well as in person classroom and lab time for higher-level activities to solve problems and apply what has been learned outside the classroom to new situations. Students will need to prepare before a class session and then apply what was learned in face-to-face class meetings.
- Department: Physical Therapy
- 3 points
PT Management of Cardiopulmonary Conditi
PT Mgmt Cardiopulm Cond I
This 10 week course, during Term 7 of the DPT curriculum is the second of two courses on cardiopulmonary physical therapy. This course provides extended exposure to cardiac and thoracic surgical interventions, their physical therapy, an understanding of medications, ventilators and pacemakers.
Exploration of pathophysiological changes of the cardiovascular system and of evaluative techniques for identifying these changes will provide the student with knowledge critical to decision making in contemporary clinical practice. The course will cover surgical interventions for cardiac and pulmonary diagnosis, including transplant and ventricular assist devices. Medications and support (ventilators) will be discussed and the implications to PT care explored. This course will be given in a hybrid-learning format consisting of asynchronous on-line video lectures, as well as in person classroom time for higher-level activities to solve problems and apply what has been learned outside the classroom to new situations. Students will need to prepare before a class session and then apply what was learned in face-to-face class meetings.
- Department: Physical Therapy
- 2 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
- W 4 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marta L Schaaf
Info - 1.5 points
The Regulation of Sport: Competitive Bal
THE REGULATION OF SPORT
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Jennifer Rodgers
Info - 2 points
Fundamentals of Pediatric Primary Care I
Fund Pediatric Prim Care
This is one of two consecutive seminars designed to introduce the DNP student to the fundamental principles of pediatric primary care. The focus of this course is the development and application of critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and introduction of the CUSON DNP Competencies as essential components of the PNP role. Utilizing case scenarios representing pediatric acute and chronic disease processes students will begin to analyze clinical decisions and apply evidence for best practice.
- Department: Nursing
- M 4 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sabrina Opiola McCauley
Info - 1 points
PT Management of Orthopedic Conditions I
PT Mgmt Ortho Cond III
This is the third in a series of four courses on orthopedic physical therapy. This course emphasizes differential diagnosis, clinical decision-making, and development and implementation of a plan of care for patients demonstrating musculoskeletal dysfunction of the upper extremities.
This course applies the Patient Management Model to musculoskeletal conditions associated with the upper extremities. Examination, intervention, progression and outcome assessment of the upper extremity is linked with diagnostic imaging and conservative and surgical management. Interventions integrate joint and soft tissue manual therapy techniques with therapeutic exercise. Emphasis is placed on clinical decision-making and evidence-based practice in individuals with orthopedic conditions. Exercise applications that are utilized throughout lifespan that address identified impairments; activity and participation limitations are emphasized. Students will apply clinical decision-making strategies to practice, design, modify and progress exercise programs with proper biomechanical alignment and proper muscle balance for optimal performance. This course will be given in a flipped hybrid-learning format consisting of synchronous classroom time, synchronous small group team meetings, asynchronous on-line video lectures. The active learning strategies facilitate “thinking on your feet.” Students will need to prepare before a class session and then apply what was learned in face-to-face class meetings as well as the video lectures.
- Department: Physical Therapy
- 3 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
- T 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
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Instructor:
Andrea M Flynn
Info - 3 points
PT Management of the Adult with Neurolog
PT Mgmt of Neuro Cond I
This 8-week course during the fourth term of the DPT curriculum is the first of a two-part series which applies the Patient Management Model to adults with neuromuscular conditions, in particular acquired brain injury disorders, stroke, and traumatic brain injury.
Examination, intervention, progression and outcome assessment for stroke and traumatic brain injury disorders are linked with diagnostic imaging and management via medical and surgical methods. Emphasis is placed on clinical decision-making and evidenced-based practice in individuals with neurological conditions.
- Department: Physical Therapy
- 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
- W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Judith F Austin
Info - 3 points