Courses

OT 576 TRANSFORMATION THROUGH HUMAN OCCUPATION APPLICATION IN ADULT & GERIATRIC PHYSICAL DIS   5.0 Credit(s)
This course is designed for graduate occupational therapy students and will support development of clinical skills pertaining to evaluation, treatment planning and implementation, and documentation. This course is the second in a series of three that are scaffolded by level of complexity. The problem-based and team-based learning methods will be utilized to conduct classroom activities in this course. Students will be presented with clinical case studies prompting consideration of scientific evidence in relation to areas of occupation, client factors, performance skills, performance patterns, contexts/environments, and activity demands as well as culture, spirituality, and the meaning of occupations will also be considered. Case studies and assignments will encourage students to adopt a holistic view of clients and their caregivers during evaluation and treatment planning, and communication skills required to work on an interprofessional healthcare team. Transformation through Human Occupation: Application in Adult & Geriatric Physical Disabilities will place specific emphasis on hands-on learning and practical skills development utilized with adult and geriatric clients.
Offered: Late Spring & Summer Semesters All Years

OT 577 FIELDWORK IB   1.0 Credit(s)
The purpose of this third trimester course is for the student to integrate academic learning with clinical practice. It is designed to enhance clinical reasoning processes by integrating knowledge from previous educational and work experiences with current courses and weekly fieldwork experiences. Service-learning includes community engagement and reflective practice. Students are engaged in personal and professional growth and development through service-learning and fieldwork, while embracing a vision for occupational and social justice. Service-learning is a pedagogy and instructional practice that is threaded across the occupational therapy curriculum. Fieldwork occurs in combination with PBL, lab, and seminar will focus on reflective processes, therapeutic relationships, ethical practice, and other professional issues for working with mental health clients with a variety of needs for occupational therapy services. Self-directed, collaborative learning and class participation are essential aspects of this course. Students will engage in both service-learning and fieldwork during the semester. Each student will attend a six- or eight-week adult/geriatric rehabilitation experience during this semester. Prerequisite: Take OT-529
Offered: Late Spring & Summer Semesters All Years

OT 578 PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION III   1.0 Credit(s)
Personal transformation III is a continuation of the course you began in your first and second semester. This course will again require self-reflection and will begin to relate your self- reflection to the practice of occupational therapy. We believe that the process of becoming an occupational therapist in this program will transform you. You will be continuing to document this transformation in your portfolio. Prerequisite: Take OT-525 and OT-562
Offered: Late Spring & Summer Semesters All Years

CM 550 SPORTS COM. IN DIGITAL AGE   3.0 Credit(s)
This course teaches effective communication strategies and techniques within an organizational and professional context for the sports industries. The course uses the professions of public relations and journalism as its foundation. Special attention is given to the ways in which digital media and communication technologies are used by professional communicators in these fields with an emphasis on writing and layout for web distribution.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

CM 551 SPORTS, CULTURE & THE MEDIA   3.0 Credit(s)
Sporting culture impacts the American public through economic and ideological institutions that structure our perceptions of the world. In contemporary society, sport is both big business and personal recreation, and yet, despite its influence on American culture, sport remains a relatively unexplored segment of popular culture. In this class we will pay particular attention to the images and narratives of sporting media that construct representations of class, masculinity, gender, and nation in and around everyday mass-mediated athletic activities. This course is an examination of sports and media in our everyday lives.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

CM 555 SPORTS MEDIA PRODUCTIONS   3.0 Credit(s)
This course is a multimedia production course that teaches students the tools and skills necessary to produce and manage content in the contemporary sports communication environment. In particular this course focuses on building video and audio production skills. Students will develop, shoot, and edit multimedia HD productions.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

CM 556 SPORTS EVENT PRODUCTION   3.0 Credit(s)
In this course, students will acquire the fundamental skills needed to produce live multimedia sports events. Students will move through various production roles such as camera operators, technical directors, titles and graphics supervisors, and more as they become proficient in the skills necessary to capture and distribute live video of sporting events.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

CM 561 STUDIO SPORTS BROADCASTING   3.0 Credit(s)
This course will introduce students to basic methods and technologies of sports media television studio production. Students will learn how to operate studio cameras and use lighting instruments, as well as the fundamentals of audio engineering, planning and managing a television studio production, and creating a sports television show from pre-production to post-production.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

CM 562 SPORTS JOURNALISM   3.0 Credit(s)
Students develop the skills to produce both written and multimedia sports stories as they analyze current sporting media and construct their own work. Throughout this course, students will be partnered with specific SHU athletic teams and will cover their games throughout the semester.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

CM 565 SPORTS COM. & SOCIAL MEDIA   3.0 Credit(s)
This course explores the role of social media in the sports industry. In this course, students will interrogate the sociological impact of these new media platforms on sports communication and develop the skills necessary to create integrated, ethical, and professional social media campaigns.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

CM 566 SPORTS MEDIA IN A PROF CONTEXT   3.0 Credit(s)
In this course, students will examine the role of sports media industries and their impact on content and professional advancement through sports organizations. This course explores ethics in a professional context as well as the foundations of the sports media industry and its relation to the communications field.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

HINF 551 LEADING & INFLUENCING WITH IN   3.0 Credit(s)
Leaders and managers at all levels in organizations must influence others to enable achievement of the organization's objectives. Leading and influencing with integrity requires understanding of one's self, other people, the situational and cultural context, as well as both current and future impacts of actions taken. Through course learning experiences students develop individual and organizational strategies to influence others, shape culture, manage change, negotiate, and facilitate employee engagement and performance so organizations can contribute to society in ways that are effective, responsible, and sustainable. Course also known as WGB 612.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

NU 522 STAT. METH. NURSING RESEARCH   3.0 Credit(s)

Offered: Summer 1 Semester All Years

HINF 505 HEALTHCARE OPERATIONS   3.0 Credit(s)
Health care organizations face numerous challenges, including rising costs, increasing complexity, and quality issues, all while confronting an increase in demand for limited resources. This course examines the operations of the entire healthcare organization and its management, including the role of strategic planning and governance, clinical and nonclinical support services, quality improvement, environment-of-care and facilities management, personnel and staffing, finance, information technology, and marketing.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

SLP 500 SPEECH SOUND DISORDERS   3.0 Credit(s)
The purpose of this course is to provide focused study of disordered speech-sound production including functional articulation disorders, phonological processing, and developmental apraxia of speech. Methods of assessment of articulation and phonological production, as well as a range of approaches to improving speech sound accuracy and intelligibility will be presented. Relations of phonological development to literacy will be emphasized. The impact of a range of genetic, motor, and cognitive disorders on speech sound production will be addressed. The impact of cultural and linguistic differences on speech sound development and disorders will be highlighted. Lecture/discussion/problem-based learning format.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years