For course descriptions of Allied Health, see these topics listed alphabetically
throughout this Directory of Courses:
| 100.
Introduction to Allied Health Professions
Semester and hours by arrangement. One credit. Open only with consent
of instructor.
Overview of health professions, team approach to health care delivery. |
| 101. Health and Wellness
Either semester. Three credits. Open to all students in the University.
Wellness, holistic health, mind-body connection, health and wellness
models, mental wellness, positive self-concept, preventing heart disease
and cancer, licit and illicit lifestyle drugs, stress management, diet,
nutrition, weight control, aerobic and anaerobic exercise, healthy lifestyle
behaviors, applications to life. |
| 102. Peer Health Education
First semester. Three credits.
This course fosters skills that will prepare the student to function
effectively as a peer health educator. Content includes leadership
and communication skills, and a working knowledge of health-related topics
such as stress management, body image, body art, sexuality, and other contemporary
issues. |
| 115. Introduction
to the Health Professions
Semester and hours by arrangement. Three credits.
Introduction to the Allied Health professional curriculum through special
topics. |
| 195. Special Topics Lecture
Either semester. Credits, prerequisites, and hours as determined by
the Senate Curricula and Courses Committee. May be repeated for credit
with a change in topic. |
| 200. Drugs and Society
Either semester. One credit. Two class periods for seven weeks. Priority
given to Allied Health and Education students.
Overview of drugs in America, co-dependence, the role of the counselor,
psychological and physiological addiction, cocaine, heroin, marijuana,
psychoactives, over-the-counter drugs, prescription drugs, AIDS. |
| 202. Clinical Biomechanics
First semester. Three credits. Open only to Orthotics and Prosthetics
Students.
An introduction to fundamental biomechanical principles through a review
of concepts from applied physics with an application to technically relevant
problems. |
| 203.
Aging: Implications for Health Professionals
Either semester. Three credits. Three hours of lecture.
Age-related physiological changes and pathologies, psychological function
in health behaviors and care, role change and transition, health care issues,
therapeutic relationships. |
| 204. Conversational
Spanish for the Health Professional
Either semester. Three credits. Three hours of lecture. Open to Allied
Health students and students in other health-related fields (i.e. nursing,
nutritional sciences, pharmacy); others with consent of instructor.
Basic conversational skills, medical terminology, patient/client interviewing
skills, cultural factors affecting health care delivery. |
| 214.
Medicinal Plants of Asian Origin and Culture
(Also offered as AASI 214.) First semester. Three credits.
A review of the plant species of Asian origin and culture currently
studies for nutraceutical and functional properties by biomedical and agricultural
researchers. Strategies for successful cultivation and use of these "green
immigrants" in North America. |
| 215.
Critical Health Issues of Asian Americans
(Also offered as AASI 215). First semester. Three credits. Palaniswamy
Examination of critical health issues affecting Asian American sub populations.
Topics to include gender specific health problems; cultural issues; and
health care issues. |
| 216. Asian Medical Systems
(Also offered as AASI 216.) Second semester. Three credits. Palaniswamy
Examination of traditional medical systems of Asian origin and their
prevalence in the United States. Topics to include popular medical systems:
Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chinese, Indian and Japanese Herbal
Medicine; the values and beliefs of different models. |
| 220. Cancer and Your Health
(Formerly offered as CYTO 220.) First semester. Three credits. Three
hours of lecture. Prerequisite: One course in Biology or concurrent enrollment
in a Biology course.
This course introduces cancer risk education, causes, early detection,
prevention, and public education. |
| 237. Women's Health
and Health Care
Either semester. Three credits.
Exploration of topics in women's health from a holistic interdisciplinary
perspective. Consumer and provider focused. |
| 241. Research
for the Health Professional
Either semester. Three credits. Three hours of lecture. Prerequisite:
A course in statistics; open only to Allied Health majors; others with
consent of instructor.
Research questions/hypothesis, finding and using research literature,
ethical considerations, research design, sampling, measurement, reliability
and validity, descriptive and inferential statistics, computer analysis
of data, evaluating research, reviews of literature and proposals. |
| 241W. Research
for the Health Professional
Prerequisite: A course in statistics; ENGL 105 or 110 or 111 or 250.
Open only to Allied Health majors; others with consent of instructor. |
| 242. Counseling
and Teaching for the Health Professional
Either semester. Three credits. Three hours of lecture. Open only to
Allied Health and Nutritional Science students; others with consent of
instructor.
Learning theory and counseling strategies; role of health professional
as teacher and counselor; communicating with special groups, individuals
and groups. |
| 243. Health
Care Issues for the Health Professional
Either semester. Three credits. Three hours of lecture. Open only to
Allied Health students; others with consent of instructor.
Individual, community and institutional health care needs and issues
from a bio-medical and socio-cultural point of view. The health care delivery
system; health and its relationship to poverty, ethnicity, life-cycle events,
ethics, etc. |
| 244. Management
for the Health Professional
Either semester. Three credits. Three hours of lecture. Open only to
Allied Health and Nutritional Science students; others with consent of
instructor.
Basic management principles and concepts of planning, organizing, supervising,
controlling and evaluating in health care environments. Leadership, motivation,
supervision, time management, labor relations, quality assurance/proficiency,
financial management. |
| 280. Safety and
Health Management
First semester, alternate years. Three credits. Three hours of lecture.
This course encompasses the principles of managing occupational safety
and health programs from development, implementation through evaluation. |