HSC 5135 - Emotional Health Education
The importance of emotional health in achieving optimal health; the health educator's role in program development, supportive listening, referral strategies for counseling; development of communication skills; common emotional health problems and concerns.

HSC 5138 - Human Sexuality Education
Theory and practice in human sexuality education including psycho-sexual development, human reproduction, sexual relationships, dysfunction, therapy, legal and ethical issues, as well as teaching and facilitative techniques.

HSC 5142 - Drug Education
Social, behavioral, environmental, and historical perspectives on substance abuse; content, issues, and instructional strategies appropriate for health education regarding alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs in school and community settings.

HSC 5315C - Teaching Health in Elementary Schools
Examination of needed health education areas, lesson and unit planning methods and innovative approaches to health instruction, and evaluation of comprehensive school health education.

HSC 5536C - Medical Terminology for the Health Professions
Prereq: permission of instructor. "Literal" and "actual" meanings of medical and scientific terms. Anatomy, physiology, diagnostic, clinical, therapeutic, and pathology pictures presented with compound medical terms. Writings and pronunciation exercises augment visual format to provide interactive working knowledge of medical language.

HSC 5576 - Nutrition Education for Special Populations
Assessment of nutrition information needs for selected population groups; planning, implementation, and evaluation of nutrition education programs for school and community settings.

HSC 5606 - Spirituality and Health
Exploration of current research and theory about the relationship of spirituality and health/disease.

HSC 5657 - Health and End-of-Life Issues
Explores issues associated with death and dying including cultural, spiritual, and psychologial traditions that affect health decisions, behavior, and medical care. Emphasizes developing professional and personal skills for coping with end-of-life issues for oneself and for assisting others.

HSC 5925 - Behavioral and Environmental Determinants of Obesity
Using a population health perspective this course will explore the interactions among the range of individual/behavioral and environmental (social, physical, political) determinants of obesity. Broad objectives relate to the nature and extent of the problem; ideas for prevention and control; effective interventions to address obesity and its determinants including broad based policy development and implementation

HSC 5925 - HIV / AIDS Education

HSC 5925 - Information Technology in Health Behavior Research
Approaches to technology applications in health behavior research including integrating health education (theory and practice), compter science (hardware), and information science (software) in planning and conducting health behavior research. Develops skills to systematically search, evaluate, and manage literature, collect data, and prepare professional presentations in the form of printed reports, presentation software, 35mm slides, posters, and other formats.

HSC 5956 - Writing for Professional Publications
Procedures and practices in scholarly writing for health-related professional publications including topic selection, literature searches, internet applications, documentation, manuscript preparation, reasons for rejection, and legal and ethical considerations.

HSC 6037 - Philosophy and Principles of Health Education
History, philosophy, and ethics of the profession; theories of health behavior and principles of learning applied to health education; areas of professional specialization; roles and functions of professional health educators; credentialing and continuing education; future trends.

HSC 6216 - Environmental Health
Human interactions and the environment. How the environment, broadly defined, affects human health. Exploration of personal and local solutions to current environmental concerns.

HSC 6235 - Patient Health Education
Health education theory and principles applied to the primary health care setting, overview of agents and processes of disease with emphasis on program development for teaching protocols for specific diseases. Recent developments in patient education, e.g., out-patient programs and wellness centers.

HSC 6318 - Planning Health Education Programs
Development of innovative approaches to comprehensive health education including specifying program objectives, selecting appropriate instructional strategies and materials, employing group dynamics and communication skills, planning mass media campaigns, and evaluating program effectiveness.

HSC 6506 - Epidemiology
Epidemiological procedures used in the study of the origin, distribution, and control of chronic and communicable disease, with emphasis on the role of health education interventions in disease control.

HSC 6567 - Health Promotion and Programming in Gerontology
Planning, implementation, and evaluation of health maintenance and promotion programs for adult populations, with emphasis on the aging process.

HSC 6571 - Contemporary Issues in Health Promotion
Survey of contemporary issues related to lifestyle and health behavior such as emotional health, value systems, stress and depression, aging and death, drug abuse, physical fitness, weight control, consumer health, chronic and communicable diseases, human sexuality, and environmental health.

HSC 6575 - Women's Health Issues
Relevance for health promotion, prevention, education, and counseling.

HSC 6604 - Theories of Health Behavior and Practice in Health Education
Selected health behavior theories and application of these theories to practice of health education and health promotion.

HSC 6605 - Scientific Foundations in Holistic Health
Examination and interpretation of the holistic principles which influence and modify the health potential of the individual and the community.

HSC 6625 - Trends in International Health
A overview of problems and practices in international health including disease patterns and prevalence, contributing factors, organizational and governmental initiatives, and model programs, with special emphasis on problems amenable to health education interventions.

HSC 6629 - Health Promotion for Priority Populations
Prereq: graduate standing. Health issues confronting politically and socioeconomically disadvantaged groups and ethnic minorities.

HSC 6637 - Social Marketing and Health
Familiarizes students with current theory and knowledge in the field of social marketing applied to Health Education, and analyzes components and applications of marketing used for promoting health behavior changes strategies. Class sessions combine didiactic presentations with group discussions and in-class exercises.

HSC 6646 - Community Injury Prevention & Control
This course is designed to familiarize students with current theory and knowledge in the field of unintentional injury prevention and to prepare students to critically analyze current intervention strategies and explore new directions for unintentional injury prevention and control. Topics include: the importance of injury as a problem, historical and conceptual underpinnings of injury prevention, epidemiology of injury, mechanisms of injury, basic concepts of injury prevention, the role of the law in injury prevention, and the role of injury surveillance on unintentional injuries.

HSC 6695 - Worksite Health Promotion
Procedures involved in planning, implementing, and evaluating comprehensive health promotion programs at the worksite; factors in risk assessment and reduction; strategies and resources for employee health education; ethical issues in client relations.

HSC 6712 - Evaluating Health Education Programs
Models and strategies for conducting formative and summative evaluations of health education programs.

HSC 6735 - Research Methods in Health Education
Introduction to methods of health education research.

HSC 6850 - Internship in Health Education

HSC 6904 - Readings in Health Education

HSC 6905 - Independent Study in Health Education

HSC 6910 - Supervised Research

HSC 6935 - Current Topics in Health Education (Rotating Topics)

HSC 6940 - Supervised Teaching

HSC 6971 - Research for Master's Thesis

HSC 6973 - Project in Lieu of Thesis
Planning, implementation, and evaluation of a health education program intervention.

HSC 7904 - Advanced Readings in Health Education

HSC 7905 - Advanced Independent Study in Health Education

HSC 7937 - Advanced Seminar in Health Education

PET 5127 - Advanced Instructors of Adapted Aquatics
Art and science of effectively teaching aquatics to special populations. Aquatics teaching methods for individuals with physical, mental/emotional, sensory, medical, and health disabilities.

PET 5646 - Advanced Exercise Therapy and Adapted Physical Education
Art and science of effectively teaching exercise therapy and adapted physical education. Understanding specific medical health characteristics of common disabilities to determine best educational implications for exercise setting.

PET 5655C - Medical Aspects of Individuals with Disabilities
Teaching exercise therapy and adapted physical education to individuals of all ages with physical, mental, and healh disabilities.

PHC 6105 - Organization and Administration of Public Health Programs
Description of the organizational structure and function of local, state, and federal public health programs including official agencies, voluntary agencies, and health-related private sector activities in relation to current emphases on health promotion and chronic disease control.

HLP 7979 - Advanced (Pre-Dissertation) Research in Health Behavior

HLP 7980 - Doctoral Dissertation