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.
• 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
• 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.
• W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Zohn Rosen
  Info
• 3 points

Workshop on Facilitating Meaningful Reen

WRKSHP:FACILITATING REENT

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Ilene Strauss
  Info
• 2 points

MANAGERIAL NEGOTIATIONS

• Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
• FM 6 p.m.-9:15 p.m.
• 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.
• Instructor: Catherine Foster
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• 1.5 points

PLAYWRITING III

• Department: Theatre Arts
• R 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 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.
• 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
• W 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Ari J Markenson
  Info
• 1.5 points

SUZUKI - RESEARCH ARTS

SUZUKI - RA

• Department: Theatre Arts
• F 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Instructor: Kimberly K Phillips-Fein
  Info
• 4 points

ANLYTC&MNGR DECISION MAKING II

• Department: Executive Classes in HPM
• Instructor: Kai Ruggeri
  h-index: 22 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE

• Department: Rehabilitation Medicine (RMED)
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Instructor: Magda Schaler-Haynes
  Info
• 3 points

Landmark Criminal Trials

LANDMARK CRIMINAL TRIALS

• Department: Law
• 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.
• 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
• Instructor: Latisha M Hanson
  Info
• 1-8 points

PLAYWRIGHT-DRAMATURG WORKSHOP

ADAPTATION

• Department: Theatre Arts
• T 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 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.
• Instructor: Rodney K McKinney
  Info
• 1.5 points

MANAGERIAL & ORG BEHAVIOR

• Department: Executive Classes in HPM
• 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.
• Instructor: Yuna S Lee
  Info
• Instructor: Julius L Chen
  Info
• 3 points

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
• 1 points

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
• 1 points

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

• Department: Executive Classes in HPM
• 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.
• 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.
• Instructor: Paul W Thurman
  h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

PLAY REWRITING & DEVELOPMENT

• Department: Theatre Arts
• M 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• 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.
• 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
• 3 points

Consulting Practice

CONSULTING WORKSHOP

• Department: Health Policy & Management
• 3 points

TRANSFORMATION ECONOMIC MODELS IN HLTHCA

• Department: Executive Classes in HPM
• 1.5 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Instructor: Jeanne M Stellman
  h-index: 34 Info
• Instructor: Rebecca R Sale
  Info
• Instructor: Jeanne M Stellman
  h-index: 34 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
• Instructor: Sarah Ashcroft-Jones
  Info
• 3 points

S SCIENCE AND THE COURTS

• Department: Law
• 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.
• 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 and policy. After introducing the principles, practices, and underlying assumptions of law, policy, and rights, the class offers students the opportunity to use human rights tools in documentation of health-related human rights violations and formulating programs, policy responses, and advocacy strategies to violations. A wide range of issues - sexual and reproductive rights, HIV/AIDS, health problems of criminalized populations, the intersection of the environment and health, and others - are explored to illustrate the importance of sustained human rights inquiry and analysis in public health.

• Department: Population and Family Health
• W 4 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Marta L Schaaf
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• 1.5 points

The Regulation of Sport: Competitive Bal

THE REGULATION OF SPORT

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Jennifer Rodgers
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• 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.
• Instructor: Sabrina Opiola McCauley
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• 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.
• Instructor: Andrea M Flynn
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• 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 but essential pre-analysis tasks often overlooked in the research training process. These include: Data entry, data cleaning, and data transformation. 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 SPSS in each class session. Reflecting the focus on skill building, this course includes weekly homeworks using SPSS.

• Department: Population and Family Health
• W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• 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
• M 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• 1.5 points

Planning Child Survival Programs

PLANNING CHILD SURVIVAL P

Child mortality has steadily declined over the last century. In 1918, approximately one in three children died before the age of five. Today, that number is one in twenty. Global progress is however marred by tremendous disparities, and much more progress is possible. Students in the course will learn about the conditions that affect children in high-mortality settings; review the evidence base for major child survival interventions; and examine the practical issues related to their implementation. Students will look at these issues from a global, national, and program perspective, ranging from the impact of global policies, to the track record of national strategies, to key program management skills they will need to be effective. These skills include monitoring, evaluation, communication, cross-cultural understanding, leadership and human resources. Students will also learn about relevant cross-cutting areas of knowledge, such as health systems, community health, child development, crisis settings, aid effectiveness, inequality, and power dynamics.

• Department: Population and Family Health
• T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Emmanuel D'Harcourt
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• 1.5 points

ENTRPRNSHP & COMM DEVT CLN

• Department: Law
• 3 points

ENTRPRNSHP & COMM DEVT CLN

• Department: Law
• 4 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
• W 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Kyle R MacDonald
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• 1.5 points

ADV ENTREPENEURSHIP & COMM DEVEL CLINIC

• Department: Law
• 1-4 points

DNP SEMINAR IN PEDIATRIC PRIMARY CARE II

DNP SEM IN PED PRIM CARE

This is the second of three consecutive seminars designed to build upon knowledge from DNP Seminar I with a continuation of focus on clinical decision making and evidence-based practice for the provision of primary care to the pediatric patient across settings. Utilizing the clinical encounter format and CUSON DNP Competencies in Comprehensive Care as a framework, the student will analyze clinical decisions, appraise, and apply evidence for best practice using patient cases from practicum.

• Department: Nursing
• M 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• 2 points

Orthotics

This 8-week course during the second year of the DPT curriculum, is the first of a pair of courses on orthotics and prosthetics in physical therapy. This course presents information on the types, components, and appropriate prescription of orthotics in the management of patients. Principles of biomechanics will be utilized to understand the application, evaluation, and prescription of orthotics in the context of patients/clients with musculoskeletal and neuromuscular dysfunctions of the trunk, upper- and lower-extremities.  

The course will introduce and expand students’ knowledge of orthoses used in physical therapy for upper-extremity, lower-extremity, and trunk dysfunctions. Emphasis will be placed on applying biomechanical principles, the available evidence base, and clinical evaluation and management considerations underlying the clinical decision-making of orthotic prescription and clinical care for individuals with range of orthopedic and neurologic dysfunctions. Particular attention will be paid to developing gait assessment skills to allow evaluation of gait abnormalities that can be affected with orthoses. This course requires development of clinical problem-solving skills to determine orthotic solutions and a comprehensive plan of care.

• Department: Physical Therapy
• 2 points

Qualitative Data Analysis

QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS

While the collection of qualitative data is widespread and growing in public health research, the credibility and quality of data analysis suffers from an absence of system and rigor in recording, organizing, categorizing and interpreting qualitative findings. Focusing in particular on interview data, this course introduces a variety of approaches to qualitative data analysis, and encourages their application through hands-on group work and homework assignments.

• Department: Population and Family Health
• M 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephanie A Grilo
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• 3 points

Digital Technology & Health Across The L

DIG TECH & HLTH ACRSS LIF

Digital technology is permeating nearly every sphere of public health, from the way that hospitals store and share records, to the way that parents interact with and ultimately raise their children. Understanding how new technologies present potential opportunities for intervention across the life course is a critical area of study for future health practitioners and researchers. This course will also cover how digital technologies can increase health risks.

Course topics will span the lifecourse (children, adolescents, adulthood and end-of-life) and the globe. Specific topics of study will include: immunization registries, text-based interventions and teen pregnancy; media and youth development; HIV, sexual behaviors, and cell phones; mobile dating and sexual health; mobile technology in displaced and refugee populations; diversity, technology and life transitions.

After completing this course, students will be well positioned to understand the current digital technologies, and to create and critique the technologies of the future. Students will be able to effectively analyze research studies and identify developmental and technological characteristics that contribute to risk and opportunities for protection. Students will formulate initiatives that reduce the potential risks and maximize potential protective characteristics using current health technology.

• Department: Population and Family Health
• W 4 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Philip J Kreniske
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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
• F 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Alina Potts
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• 1.5 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
• R 4 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Marlene O Riquelme
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• 3 points

Painting in Sixteenth-Century Japan

PAINTING IN 16TH CENTURY

Japan’s brief Momoyama period (1573-1615) is often characterized as an “age of gold,” an era in which politically powerful warlords commissioned lavish works of art. During the 150 years between the Ōnin War and establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate in the early 17th century, a series of military rulers unified the warring Japanese states, and for the first time in Japan’s history engaged briefly with the world beyond China through contact with European missionaries and merchants. The same warlords participated in every sphere of cultural life, sponsoring the construction of lavish fortresses and temples, contributing to the development of the arts of Tea and Noh drama, and encouraging the importation of printed books from China and Korea. This course will explore the art of painting in the Japan’s “era of unification.” We will concentrate on the gilded screens and panel paintings that temples, castles, and palaces, but will also study fan paintings, portraiture, and genre painting in order to comprehend the profound impact that this pivotal era would have on all succeeding periods of Japanese art.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew P McKelway
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• 4 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
• R 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Yolande A Cadore
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• 1.5 points

SEMINAR ANIMAL LAW

• Department: Law
• 2 points

REHEARSAL AND PRODUCTION

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Linda Marvel
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• 3 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

SEMINAR SUPREME COURT

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Devora Whitman
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• 2 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
• M 4 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
• 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
• T 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• 3 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
• T 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Ryan M Mateo Sharnbroich
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• 1.5 points

SCENE STUDY II

SCENE STUDY II: CHEKHOV

• Department: Theatre Arts
• M 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Moises Kaufman
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• 3 points

Pediatric Primary Care Nursing III: Dida

PED PRIM CARE NUR III:DID

This required course in the PNP program introduces the advanced student to the provision of health care to children with special health care needs, including mental health.  Emphasis is placed on the collaborative role of the PNP in the patient-and-family-centered medical home.  The importance of palliation in the delivery of health care to children with chronic conditions and special health care needs is highlighted. The course will provide the student with the knowledge base to recognize and manage common chronic conditions in the pediatric population.

• Department: Nursing
• M 1 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
• 2 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
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Eric Urban
  CULPA: 12 Wikipedia Info
• 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
• M 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Cody Richard
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• 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
• W 4 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Justin Feldman
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• 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
• R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Sabrina C Hermosilla
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• 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
• W 11:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Sara E Casey
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• 0-1 points

Tutorial in Population and Family Health

TUTORIAL POPULATION AND F

• Department: Population and Family Health
• Instructor: Stephen P Kachur
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• 0-6 points

Capstone Paper-Heilbrunn Department of P

CAPSTONE

The Capstone Paper requires students to demonstrate their abilities to think and communicate clearly, reflect on their new knowledge and training, and make professional contributions to their main fields of interest, with guidance from faculty capstone readers. It serves as the final piece of evidence that the student is prepared to practice as a public health professional. The value of a well-researched and well-written Capstone Paper extends far beyond the MPH degree. Effective organizations depend upon staff members who can design needs assessments, programs, evaluations, and strategic plans, and document them in writing. Policy advocates seek professionals to articulate complicated public health evidence and ideas in briefs, articles, reports, and monographs. Doctoral programs look for students who can conceptualize, analyze, and communicate complex, interdependent health circumstances. Capstone Papers stand as concrete examples of students’ mastery of substantive areas, as well as proof of their competencies in key public health skills.
The department will share the Capstone handbook with students, which includes details about the options to meet the Capstone paper requirement.

• Department: Population and Family Health
• 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
• T 4 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Lauren S Chernick
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• 1.5 points