Courses
PA 521 CLINICAL SKILLS & PROCEDURES 2.0 Credit(s)
This course will prepare the student for the upcoming clinical year. The focus will be on procedures including sterile technique, venipuncture, IV placement, injections, airway management and endotracheal intubation, nasogastric tube placement, lumbar puncture, urinary bladder catheter insertion, bandaging, casting and splinting, local anesthesia, and wound management and closure. Instruction for this course will consist of lectures and structured small group clinical skills exercises.
Offered: Obsolete - Summer Semester All Years
PA 522 HEALTHCARE DELIVERY 1.5 Credit(s)
This course is designed to expose the student to current trends in the U.S. healthcare system. The focus of instruction will be given to healthcare delivery systems and policy, healthcare information systems, interprofessional healthcare teams, patient centered medical homes, and healthcare outcomes. As the student transitions from the didactic to the clinical year, topics on patient safety, prevention of medical errors, risk management, and quality improvement germane to clinical practice will be discussed. Instruction on reimbursement, coding, and billing will also be taught in this course. Instruction for this course will consist of lectures and small-group discussions. This course will be a hybrid course of digital and on-campus learning.
Offered: Obsolete - Summer Semester All Years
PA 523 MEDICAL SPANISH 2.0 Credit(s)
This course is designed to improve students' communication in clinical situations with patients whose native language is Spanish. The focus of the instruction will be on learning basic conversational skills in order to elicit clinical histories, conduct physical examinations, and give instructions to Spanish-speaking patients. Instruction for this course will consist of lectures and class discussion.
Offered: Obsolete - Summer Semester All Years
SLP 514 SCREENING AND DIAGNOSTICS I 1.0 Credit(s)
This course will introduce students to methods of screening and diagnostic practice in speech-language pathology. Students will develop case-based assessment plans, review a range a assessment measures, practice giving tests, record and analyze language samples, and prepare diagnostic reports. Students will participate in screening, assessment and diagnostic activities in the form of role playing, standardized patient, simulation, and supervised clinical experiences. Lecture, laboratory and clinical practicum formats wiLL be included.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
SLP 515 SCREENING AND DIAGNOSTICS II 1.0 Credit(s)
This course will provide students with experience in developing assessment plans, administering and scoring tests, writing clinical reports, and assigning diagnoses in speech-language pathology. Students will write assessment plans, analyze, compare and contrast assessment instruments, transcribe, analyze and interpret communication samples, administer a range of assessment instruments, write diagnostic reports in standardized patient, simulation and supervised clinical activities. Lecture, laboratory and clinical formats will be used.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
CJ 516 COMMUNITY BASED CORRECTIONS 3.0 Credit(s)
This course addresses issues related to juvenile and adult offenders managed in community settings, to include the empirical effectiveness and social consequences of policy.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
CM 563 SOCIAL MEDIA & JOURNALISM 3.0 Credit(s)
Students in this course will learn of the social, historical and ethical issues that surround and evelop journalism focusing on the expansive impact of social media. These issues be examined and analyzed in connection to the professional world in which the students will enter. Through applied learning, the course will give students a foundation in engaing with digital tools that help shape the message needed to inform the mass audience. Students will produce, podcasts, blogs and use other forms of soical media to address these issues.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
CM 598 FILM FORM AND STRUCTURE 3.0 Credit(s)
In this course, students improve their understanding of cinematic storytelling through close examination of film style and form. They examine the structure and aesthetics of different types of visual media, including documentary and narrative forms, as well as the relationship between adapted material, screenplays and completed films. Students develop their analytical skills while gaining a deeper understanding of effective cinematic storytelling.
Offered: Fall Semester Contact Department
EDR 569 STRUCTURED LITERACY I 3.0 Credit(s)
This course employs a structured synthetic (sound-by-sound) approach for teaching word decoding and spelling, incorporating traditional phonics and Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic-Tactile (VAKT) methodology, and is particularly effective for struggling students and students who have been identified with dyslexia, or any of a variety of language-based learning disabilities. Participants examine procedures for teaching letters and sounds, utilizing the phonics generalizations to decode regular and irregular spelling patterns, and structures for teaching explicit comprehension. A clinical component provides a virtual platform for candidates to practice pedagogy for students having diverse needs. No Prerequisite.
Offered: Summer 1 Semester All Years
SLP 550T PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING FOR DYSPHAGIA TUTORIAL 0.0 Credit(s)
Prerequisite: Co-req SLP-550
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
AT 500 EMERGENCY CARE IN AT 3.0 Credit(s)
This course is designed to enhance students' knowledge, skills, and practice in development and implementation of evidence based emergency care plans. Current Position and Consensus Statements on Sudden Death in Sports, Exertional Heat Stroke, Emergency Planning, Care of the Spine Injured Athlete, Lightning Safety in Athletics, and others will be reviewed, critically discussed and practiced.
Offered: Late Spring Semester All Years
AT 532 EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICUM I 3.0 Credit(s)
Utilizing the injury-response cycle as a foundation for clinical decision-making, this course prepares students to investigate and analyze indications, contraindications, set-up procedures for therapeutic agents, including pharmacological influences that aid the healing of injury, and assistance in the rehabilitation process among the active population. Students will develop the ability to formulate clinical questions and identify best practice procedures for common medical conditions. Students will explore outcome measures to guide clinical decision-making based on principles of evidence-based practice, research skills and scientific writing. In addition, students will obtain clinical experience under the supervision and guidance of an approved preceptor. Prerequisite: Co-Req. AT-554 and AT-576
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
AT 554 ADV LOWER EXTREMITY INJURY MGT 6.0 Credit(s)
This course will focus on injury prevention techniques, injury evaluation processes, and injury management and treatment for lower extremity pathologies. Students will become proficient in taping, wrapping, bracing, evaluation procedures (subjective assessments, observation assessments, palpations, range of motion assessments, strength assessments, neurovascular examinations, and special tests), therapeutic modalities, and therapeutic exercises in the treatment of lower extremity pathologies. Co-Req. AT-532 and AT-576 Prerequisite: Co-Req. AT-532 and AT-576
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
AT 576 CLINICAL DECISION MAKING:NEURO PATHOLOG 2.0 Credit(s)
This course will focus on the recognition and management of head and spine pathologies. Students will become proficient in the identification of pre-disposing conditions as well as potential sequelae associated head pathologies. Prerequisite: Co-Req. AT-532 and AT-554 Prerequisite: Co-Req. AT-532 and AT-554;
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
AT 533 EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICUM II 3.0 Credit(s)
This course is designed to develop essential skills for conducting evidence-based practice. Through exploration of literature, patient's values and clinical experience, students will identify best practices for clinical application as it relates to assessment and treatment of the lower extremity. Through a problem-based model, students will develop the ability to formulate clinical questions, to search for and select relevant literature, and to analyze the clinical applicability and validity of the results. In addition, students will obtain clinical experience under the supervision and guidance of an approved preceptor. Prerequisite: Pre-Req. AT-532 Prerequisite: Pre-Req. AT-532
Offered: Spring Semester All Years