Public Health (PBHL)

PBHL 1910:   Personal and Community Health  
Public Health  
A comprehensive personal health course, including principles and practices of healthful living for the individual. The course focuses on practices for individual health-related behaviors and outlines how to improve overall health through nutrition, fitness, stress management, and maintaining an overall healthy lifestyle.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 1950:   Foundations of Public Health  
Public Health  
Designed to prepare prospective directors, managers, and administrators for leadership in community and public health settings. This course will examine the role of health promotion, including current trends and issues. Technical and conceptual skills of leadership will be discussed and applied toward health promotion programs in industry, hospital, community, and health agencies. Historical and philosophical foundations of health focusing on the principles of the discipline and preparation for service as a professional. Professional ethical issues will be discussed.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 2030:   First Aid and CPR  
Public Health  
Safety instruction and practices in the methods as prescribed in the American Red Cross standard and advanced courses.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
Course Fees:
$50.00
  
PBHL 3000:   Environmental Health  
Public Health  
Designed to promote the acquisition of environmental health knowledge and skills for application in community/public health education settings. Course content will address human environmental factors that affect ecological health and environmental health education and promotion strategies.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 3050:   Program Plan. and Evaluation  
Public Health  
This course will provide an understanding of health promotion assessment and intervention strategies in contemporary health issues. Competency development in formulating and implementing health programs; includes understanding community organization and sustaining programs. This course also examines the methods used by health-promotion professionals to determine how and why health behavior programs work. Formative, process, impact, and outcome evaluation methods will be covered.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 3070:   Public Health Study USA  
Public Health  
A public health experience to tour selected domestic industries, organizations, communities, seminars, associations or conferences.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 3120:   Behav. Aspects of Weight Mgmt  
Public Health  
An examination of different behavioral aspects of weight loss and weight gain. Several methods will be discussed and insight will be provided into the healthy approach of weight loss and weight gain.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 3170:   Public Health Study Abroad  
Public Health  
Students will participate in an immersive, field-based study abroad program focusing on public health outside of the United States. Through guest lectures and speakers, site visits, excursions, and cultural activities, this program will help students gain knowledge and skills related to global health. This program is suitable for students with an interest in topics including public health, health care, sustainability, education, nutrition, community development, equity, and a multitude of other areas.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 3190:   Global Health  
Public Health  
This course will examine major global health challenges, programs, and policies. Current and emerging global health priorities, including emerging infectious diseases, poverty, conflicts and emergencies, health inequity, health systems reforms, and major global initiatives for disease prevention and health promotion will be examined.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 3520:   Basic Epidemiology  
Public Health  
An introduction to epidemiology, including factors governing health and disease. The course will focus on demographics, distribution, etiology and patterns of disease, disability, or physiological conditions within populations.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 3999A:   Special Topics in Health  
Public Health  
Selected health topics in public health will be covered including current national or global trends, issues, and impacts of public health. May be repeated for up to 6 hours.  
3 - 6 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 4700:   Practical Apps. in Pub. Hlth  
Public Health  
Professional experience in a community health setting/agency. The student works under faculty supervision with a professional in health education/health promotion who serves as a mentor. May be repeated for up to 6 hours of credit.  
3 - 6 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 4900:   Independent Study in PH  
Public Health  
This course is designed to provide a student with an opportunity to gain or enhance public health knowledge and to explore an area of interest related to public health research, community or fieldwork.  
1 - 3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Individual Study  
PBHL 5030:   Data Anlyt. and Methodologies  
Public Health  
This course will focus on the practical applications of analytical methods with R and PYTHON programming packages. Students will gain general knowledge of the analytic techniques, such as statistics, data mining, visualization of data and basic machine learning. This course will cover the applications in those methods through practice of R and PYTHON packages.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 5050:   Health Program Planning  
Public Health  
Integration and understanding of health promotion assessment, and intervention strategies in contemporary health issues. Competency development in formulating and implementing health programs; includes understanding community organization and sustaining programs.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 5060:   Health Equity  
Public Health  
The purpose of this course is to illustrate health disparities across a range of populations in the United States, position those disparities within the broader sociopolitical framework that leads to their existence, and most importantly present specific ways in which health equity solutions can be designed and implemented. This course will provide students with the basis to achieve greater health equity in their communities by reviewing current theoretical foundations, cultural context, and evidence-based models and interventions.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 5110:   Applied Statistics  
Public Health  
An introduction to statistics, the science of organizing, analyzing, and interpreting numerical data. Students will be required to use an SPSS to solve various statistical problems.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Independent Study, Lecture  
PBHL 5150:   Motivational Interviewing  
Public Health  
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a participant-centered health behavior counseling method for enhancing intrinsic motivation to change by exploring and resolving ambivalence. This course is designed to introduce students to the theory and techniques associated with the MI method, with consideration of diverse environments (community, worksite, health care, research) and varied behavioral issues (healthy lifestyle behaviors, chronic disease prevention). Students in this class will complete readings related to MI, gain additional information from lectures and discussions, and practice skills related to MI.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 5280:   Public Health Policy  
Public Health  
An introduction to the public health systems and policy issues. An overview of public health policy interventions, theoretical motivations, influence of the political, bureaucratic, and social environments in which policy decisions are made, and population health consequences of such decisions.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 5450:   Human Health and Illness  
Public Health  
This course is designed to engage students in critical thinking and discussion about population health and health disparities and to provide students with an understanding of how social factors contribute to racial/ethnic, socioeconomic, and other disparities in health and health care. We will also examine ways in which neighborhood and community context, as well as inequalities in socioeconomic status shape health and access to health care services. This class will also explore various human diseases and the role of the health educator/promoter in primary and tertiary prevention. The class is taught through a combination of lecture instruction, engaged discussion, critiquing of journal articles, film viewing, in-class exercises, and student presentations.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 5530:   Data Anlyt. and Methodologies  
Public Health  
This course will focus on the practical applications of analytical methods with R and PYTHON programming packages. Students will gain general knowledge of the analytic techniques, such as statistics, data mining, visualization of data and basic machine learning. This course will cover the applications in those methods through practice of R and PYTHON packages.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 5550:   Health Program Planning  
Public Health  
Integration and understanding of health promotion assessment, and intervention strategies in contemporary health issues. Competency development in formulating and implementing health programs; includes understanding community organization and sustaining programs.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 5560:   Health Equity  
Public Health  
The purpose of this course is to illustrate health disparities across a range of populations in the United States, position those disparities within the broader sociopolitical framework that leads to their existence, and most importantly present specific ways in which health equity solutions can be designed and implemented. This course will provide students with the basis to achieve greater health equity in their communities by reviewing current theoretical foundations, cultural context, and evidence-based models and interventions.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 5610:   Applied Statistics  
Public Health  
An introduction to statistics, the science of organizing, analyzing, and interpreting numerical data. Students will be required to use an SPSS to solve various statistical problems.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Independent Study, Lecture  
PBHL 5650:   Motivational Interviewing  
Public Health  
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a participant-centered health behavior counseling method for enhancing intrinsic motivation to change by exploring and resolving ambivalence. This course is designed to introduce students to the theory and techniques associated with the MI method, with consideration of diverse environments (community, worksite, health care, research) and varied behavioral issues (healthy lifestyle behaviors, chronic disease prevention). Students in this class will complete readings related to MI, gain additional information from lectures and discussions, and practice skills related to MI.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 5780:   Public Health Policy  
Public Health  
An introduction to the public health systems and policy issues. An overview of public health policy interventions, theoretical motivations, influence of the political, bureaucratic, and social environments in which policy decisions are made, and population health consequences of such decisions.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 5950:   Human Health and Illness  
Public Health  
This course is designed to engage students in critical thinking and discussion about population health and health disparities and to provide students with an understanding of how social factors contribute to racial/ethnic, socioeconomic, and other disparities in health and health care. We will also examine ways in which neighborhood and community context, as well as inequalities in socioeconomic status shape health and access to health care services. This class will also explore various human diseases and the role of the health educator/promoter in primary and tertiary prevention. The class is taught through a combination of lecture instruction, engaged discussion, critiquing of journal articles, film viewing, in-class exercises, and student presentations.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 6000:   Foundations of Public Health  
Public Health  
This graduate-level course introduces students to public health concepts as well as public health professional practice. Students will examine the origins and development of the modern public health system and the relationship of public health to the overall health system. This course will broadly cover topics that students will explore in future advanced public health coursework, including epidemiology, global and environmental health, health policy and administration, and planning, implementing, and evaluating public health programs.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 6030:   Data Analytics Methodologies  
Public Health  
This course will focus on the practical applications of analytical methods with R and PYTHON programming packages. Students will gain general knowledge for the analytic techniques, such as statistics, data mining, visualization of data and basic machine learning. This course will cover the applications in those methods through practice of R and PYTHON packages.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 6070:   Public Health Study USA  
Public Health  
A public health experience to tour selected domestic industries, organizations, communities, seminars, associations or conferences.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 6100:   Biostats for Pub. Hlth Pract.  
Public Health  
This course introduces the principles of research methods, qualitative and quantitative data analysis and biostatistics, providing students a sound methodological foundation for public health practice.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 6170:   Public Health Study Abroad  
Public Health  
Students will participate in an immersive, field-based study abroad program focusing on public health outside of the United States. Through guest lectures and speakers, site visits, excursions, and cultural activities, this program will help students gain knowledge and skills related to global health. This program is suitable for students with an interest in topics including public health, health care, sustainability, education, nutrition, community development, equity, and a multitude of other areas.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 6200:   Emerging Issues in Public Hlth  
Public Health  
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to emerging, relevant public health topics.  
3 - 6 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 6250:   Research Design and Evaluation  
Public Health  
Basic design and application toward conducting research and evaluations in health promotion, park and recreation management, and exercise science. Emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of health-related research and focuses on understanding research design.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 6260:   Statistical Analysis I  
Public Health  
An introduction to descriptive and inferential statistical techniques with a particular emphasis on conceptual, computational, and computer applications in health, exercise science and recreation management.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 6350:   Theories in Health  
Public Health  
Selected health behavior theories and their application to public health will be covered. Using a social ecological framework, we examine theories, research, and interventions that aim to promote the health of individuals, communities, and populations.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
PBHL 6460:   Epidemiology  
Public Health  
An introduction to epidemiology, including factors governing health and disease. The course will focus on demographics, distribution, etiology and patterns of disease, disability, or physiological conditions within populations.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 6510:   Advanced Independent Study  
Public Health  
Development of special projects under supervision.  
1 - 3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Independent Study  
PBHL 6520:   Advanced Individual Study  
Public Health  
Development of special projects under faculty supervision.  
1 - 3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Independent Study  
PBHL 6530:   Independent Research  
Public Health  
Practical experience in the organization and conduct of a research project and reporting of the results.  
1 - 3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Independent Study  
PBHL 6650:   Spec. Topics in Hlth Behavior  
Public Health  
This course is designed to provide a concise review and interpretation of the health-behavior research and theoretical writing.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 6700:   Applied Epidemiology  
Public Health  
This course provides instruction and hands-on experience in the analysis and interpretation of data from epidemiologic studies. This course builds upon introductory courses in biostatistics and epidemiology. (In person, students are required to bring a laptop to class in this course.)  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
PBHL 6100 and PBHL 6460.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 6740:   Chronic Disease Epidemiology  
Public Health  
Survey of the epidemiology of chronic diseases including etiology, pathogenesis and risk; interpretation and application of epidemiology research literature.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
PBHL 6460.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 6750:   Adv. Thry. Appl Hlth Bhvr.  
Public Health  
This course focuses on the theoretical underpinnings of health behavior and health promotion strategies. Factors related to the initiation, maintenance, and change of health behaviors are reviewed in depth, and application of these principles to health promotion with individuals, groups, and communities are presented.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 6800:   Infectious Dis. Epidemiology  
Public Health  
Survey of the epidemiology of infectious diseases including etiology, pathogenesis and risk; interpretation and application of epidemiology research literature.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
PBHL 6460.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 6850:   Health Program Evaluation  
Public Health  
Graduate students will gain practical knowledge and skills in designing and implementing evaluations for public health programs. Students will learn the entire program evaluation process, starting with community assessment and program development as precursors to the participatory model for evaluation. Framing program evaluation in the context of community-based participatory research, this course will utilize case studies to teach best practices and end with students designing their own complete program evaluation.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 6980:   MPH Fieldwork & Capstone I  
Public Health  
MPH students will demonstrate competency in public health practice through an Applied Practice Experience (APE). The APE may be with a governmental, nongovernmental, nonprofit, industrial, and for-profit setting or appropriate university-affiliated settings. The purpose of this APE is to provide students with applied experiences in which they can demonstrate their public health competencies.  
1 - 6 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Internship  
PBHL 6996A:   MPH Fieldwork & Capstone I  
Public Health  
MPH students must complete an Integrated Learning Experience (ILE). This experience should demonstrate foundational public health knowledge and concentration-specific competencies. Through this capstone project, students will apply public health theories and principles learned in the classroom to an area of public health practice. MPH students will use this course to continue completion of their APE and ILE.  
1 - 6 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Independent Study  
PBHL 6996B:   MPH Fieldwork and Capstone II  
Public Health  
MPH students must complete an Integrated Learning Experience (ILE). This experience should demonstrate foundational public health knowledge and concentration-specific competencies. Through this capstone project, students will apply public health theories and principles learned in the classroom to an area of public health practice. MPH students will use this course to continue completion of their APE and ILE.  
1 - 6 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
PBHL 6997A:   Thesis  
Public Health  
No grade  
3 - 6 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Thesis