Courses
COU 599 ACCREDITATION ASSESSMENT 0.0 Credit(s)
This course represents the assessment fee for CMHC students
Offered: Modules All Semesters All Years
OT 562 PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION II 1.0 Credit(s)
Personal transformation II is a continuation of the course you began last semester. This course will again require self-reflection and will begin to relate your self- reflection to the process of professionalization and building of professional identity in 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
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
MPH 527 MATENAL AND CHILD HEALTH 3.0 Credit(s)
Maternal and child health is an essential component of population health and wellness. The course explores how current policies, recommendations, and research influence health disparities, and risk for disease in specific populations. Health promotion and disease prevention are relevant to many disciplines and in several areas. During the course, students will apply principles of maternal and child health in various population settings.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
MPH 560 CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH 3.0 Credit(s)
Students will gain an understanding of the relationship between climate change and health as well as adaptation and mitigation strategies for minimizing climate change's impact on health outcomes.
Offered: As Needed All Years
CM 575 SPORTS MEDIA INDUSTRY 3.0 Credit(s)
This graduate-level course explores the contemporary sports media industry through the lens of professionals working within it. Students will engage critically with the structures, practices, and challenges that shape today's sports media landscape-from traditional broadcast networks and print outlets to digital platforms, streaming services, and emerging content ecosystems. A hallmark of the course is a series of guest speakers representing diverse roles across the industry, including producers, journalists, play-by-play announcers, digital strategists, executives, and alumni working in the field. These sessions provide firsthand insights into current trends, ethical considerations, technological innovation, and career pathways within sports media. Through discussions, reflective writing, and applied projects, students will analyze key issues such as media rights, athlete storytelling, brand management, audience engagement, and the evolving relationship between sports organizations and media partners. By the end of the course, students will gain a deep understanding of how the sports media industry operates and where their own skills and interests fit within it.
Offered: Module 5 All Years
SW 526 CLINICAL FOUNDATION: THE CHANGE PROCESS 3.0 Credit(s)
This course introduces students to the social work profession, its ethical foundations, and its role in addressing complex social conditions through Integrated Practice and the Planned Change Process. Using a person-in-environment framework, students examine how social, economic, cultural, and structural factors shape human experience and inform social work interventions with individuals, families, groups, communities, and organizations
Offered: Module 1 All Years
SW 542 CORE INTEGRATED INTERVENTION SKILLS I 3.0 Credit(s)
This course emphasizes the integration and application of skills in engagement, assessing and intervening with individuals, families, and groups using the generalist perspective, while recognizing the impact of culture and identity in practice and in the planned change process.
Offered: Module 2 All Years
SW 532 CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE PRACTICE 3.0 Credit(s)
In this course, students will explore human behavior and family functioning through an anti-oppressive, person-in-environment framework that explicitly considers cultural identities, power dynamics, access to privilege, and structural inequities. Students will develop the skills to critically analyze how systems of oppression-including racism, colonialism, nativism, ableism, and classism-shape individual and family development across biological, social, psychological, and spiritual dimensions.
Offered: Module 2 All Years
SW 528 UNDERSTANDING DIVERSITY IN SW PRACTICE 3.0 Credit(s)
This course examines human diversity through an intersectional lens, grounded in an explicitly anti-racist, anti-oppressive social work framework. Students critically analyze how power, privilege, and oppression - particularly racism and other structural forces - operate across individual, institutional, and systemic levels, with attention to their impact on lived experience and access to resources. MSW students are prepared to engage in ethical, justice-oriented practice by developing foundational competencies in advocacy, empowerment, and anti-oppressive assessment and intervention across micro, mezzo, and macro contexts.
Offered: Module 1 All Years
PA 500 PATHOPHYSIOLOGY 1.5 Credit(s)
This course for Physician Associate students develops a deep, clinically oriented understanding of how disease alters normal physiology across major organ systems. Students study general pathophysiologic mechanisms-including inflammation, infection, ischemia, neoplasia, immune dysfunction, and genetic abnormalities-at both the cellular and organ levels, and learn how these changes disturb homeostasis and produce characteristic clinical presentations. The course is explicitly designed to integrate with concurrent and follow-on principles-of-medicine coursework by reinforcing the physiologic basis for disease presentation, diagnostic reasoning, and therapeutic decision-making.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
PA 527 DIAGNOSTIC MEDICINE III 2.0 Credit(s)
This is the third of three courses designed to develop a functional understanding of the appropriate uses and interpretations of clinical diagnostic testing, to include serologic, microscopic studies, and radiographic interpretation. Students will learn to select, interpret, and apply appropriate laboratory, imaging, and other diagnostic tests and determine clinical significance. Skills will be developed through lecture and structured small-group workshops.
Offered: Late Spring & Summer Semesters All Years
PA 526 PATIENT ASSESSMENT III 2.0 Credit(s)
This is the third in a series of three courses designed to develop the knowledge and skills required to elicit, perform, and document the complete medical history and physical exam with use of appropriate equipment, proper exam techniques, and accurate medical terminology. Students will learn the skills needed to recognize normal anatomy, normal anatomical variation, and disease states. The course will provide an overview of the medical record as well as development of writing and oral presentation skills. History-taking, physical examination, clinical reasoning skill, and documentation skills will be developed through lecture and structured small group workshop exercises.
Offered: Late Spring & Summer Semesters All Years
PA 525 MEDICAL SCIENCE III 4.0 Credit(s)
This is the third in a series of three courses designed to develop an understanding of homeostasis and the relationship of physiology, pathophysiology, and human genetic concepts of disease as they pertain to each organ system or area of medicine covered in the third trimester in PA 506 Principles of Medicine III. This course will incorporate anatomy within a clinical context with an emphasis on important anatomical structure and function relevant to the physical exam, diagnosis, and development of disease and in the anatomical relationships of structures to each other. Lectures, discussions, anatomy lab participation, case studies, and a multimedia approach will be used to present the material.
Offered: Late Spring & Summer Semesters All Years
PA 528 PRINCIPLES OF MEDICINE IV 5.0 Credit(s)
This is the fourth in a series of four courses designed to provide the study of human diseases and disorders by organ system, using a lifespan approach from newborn to the elderly. Course includes epidemiology, etiology, history, clinical signs and symptoms, differential diagnosis, diagnosis, diagnostic studies, therapeutic management, prevention, and prognosis of disease in clinical medicine. Organ systems covered include women's health/OBGYN, pediatrics, emergency medicine and surgery. Emphasis will be on disease processes common to primary care practices using lecture, case study, and a problem-based learning approach. Lectures and case study formats will be utilized to introduce the PA student to the epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis and pertinent differential diagnosis, medical decision-making and management of common conditions in each of these disciplines. Lectures are intended to supplement the reading assignments, and it is expected that each student will read the pertinent chapters in the text. Additional handouts and materials may be distributed by instructors at their discretion.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
PA 529 PHARMACOLOGY IV 2.0 Credit(s)
This is the fourth in a series of four courses designed to provide the student with an understanding of the mechanisms by which drugs alter the function of living cells to relieve symptoms and physiologic manifestations of disease. This course will begin with an introduction to general principles of pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics, and then concentrate expressly on the pharmacotherapeutics germane to the organ system modules covered in this trimester. At the end of the course, students will understand the general properties of drug categories and prototypical drugs used to treat diseases of these body systems and apply these pharmacologic concepts to clinical situations. Using lecture and case study, special emphasis will be placed on the development of problem-solving and medical decision-making skills as they relate to the clinical use of pharmacotherapeutics. This course will be a hybrid course of digital and on-campus learning
Offered: Fall Semester All Years