Courses

PA 610 CLINICAL ROTATION ELECTIVE   5.0 Credit(s)
This five-week clinical course is selected by the student from a variety of surgical or medicine specialties, or subspecialties, such as oncology, cardiology, dermatology, hospitalist medicine, etc. The student will be able to recognize conditions treated in these specialties and become aware of medical or surgical indications requiring referral to specialty care. Students will gain experience in professional communication with patients, patient families, and supervising physicians within an interprofessional healthcare team.
Offered: All Semesters All Years

PA 611 MASTERS CAPSTONE PROJECT SEMINAR   1.0 Credit(s)
This seminar will focus on preparing the student to begin the Masters Capstone Project (MCP). Development of a topic of interest for a real-life/actual community issue and development of a research question for the Service Learning Project is the primary objective of MCP Seminar. In small groups, students will meet with the Director of Research and/or their faculty research advisor and select a community service learning project and question, as well as identify and meet with an appropriate external/community advisor for their topic.
Offered: All Semesters All Years

PA 612 MASTERS CAPSTONE PROJECT   5.0 Credit(s)
This course builds on first-year courses (Evidence-Based Practice, Healthcare Delivery, and Population Health & Wellness) and is designed to allow the PA student to complete a Masters Capstone Service Learning Project in the community under the guidance of the research advisor and approved community advisor. The Masters Capstone project is two-fold: (1) Community Project: In small groups, students will develop a community service learning project based on a real-life community need. Using evidence-based practice and population health promotion, students will develop a research question, conduct a literature search, analyze the literature, then develop and implement the community service learning project. Students will present a scholarly poster on their topic, and submit their poster to state and national PA organizations (ConnAPA or AAPA); and (2) Scholarly Paper: Student will identify an evidence-based clinical, global health, or PA education question, conduct a literature search, analyze the literature, and develop a scholarly paper of publishable quality for a peer-reviewed journal (i.e., JAAPA, Clinical Review, PA Professional, Journal of PA Education, etc.).
Offered: All Semesters All Years

PA 613 GRADUATE SEMINAR   2.0 Credit(s)
This seminar will focus on specific requirements for entering professional clinical practice. Course topics include PA Scope of Practice; laws and licensure regulation; preparing for, acquiring, and maintaining national certification; preparing for job interviews; and medical-legal issues and medical malpractice. Through guided discussion in lecture and small group settings, students explore and discuss requirements and competencies for the physician assistant profession, as well as leadership and growth within the profession. Prerequisites: Completion of the pre-clinical year of Physician Assistant Studies or program permission.
Offered: All Semesters All Years

PA 614 SUMMATIVE EVALUATION   0.0 Credit(s)
The purpose of this course is to evaluate the student completing the Master of Physician Assistant Studies program to ensure the student has both broad and specific clinical knowledge, and to verify the student is prepared to enter clinical practice. Within the final four months of PA program completion, the student must demonstrate integration of knowledge and patient care skills obtained from coursework into the needed competencies for PA clinical practice, which include medical knowledge, interpersonal skills, patient care skills, practice-based learning, and professionalism. Prerequisite: Completion of the preclinical year, currently enrolled the clinical phase of education, and within four months of completing the Physician Assistant Program.
Offered: All Semesters All Years

HINF 615 POPULATION HEALTH   3.0 Credit(s)
Population health focuses on the health and well-being of entire populations. Populations may be geographically defined, such as neighborhoods, states, or countries, or may be based on groups of individuals who share common characteristics such as age, gender, race-ethnicity, disease status, employee group membership, or socioeconomic status. With roots in epidemiology, public health, and demography, a key component of population health is the focus on the social determinants of health and "upstream" collaborative interventions to improve population health and variance, identify and reduce health disparities, and reduce healthcare costs. Given the shifting health care environment-from fee-for-service to value-based care-health administrators and managers who are able to apply epidemiological and demographic tools to measure, analyze, evaluate and improve population health will be well positioned for positions in healthcare as the field continues to evolve. Prerequisite: Take HINF-501
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

HINF 616 CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATICS & TECH.   3.0 Credit(s)
Consumer health informatics (CHI) is rapidly expanding and aims to give individual health care consumers, their families, and communities the information and tools that they need to become more engaged in their health and health care. In this course, students become familiar with a range of CHI applications, including the needs/problems that the applications address, their theoretical bases, their technical architectures, and relevant evaluation results. Students acquire an ability to evaluate existing applications intended to help individuals adopt and maintain health-protective behaviors and to generate theory-informed design and implementation strategies for CHI applications. Prerequisite: Take HINF-501
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

HINF 614 STRATEGIC APPLICATION OF IT IN HLTHCARE   3.0 Credit(s)
This course examines the strategic application of information technology in healthcare organizations. The course focuses on the challenges facing the healthcare informatics administration with respect to organizational structure, alignment with enterprise strategy, portfolio management, and regulatory compliance. In addition the course looks at how the application of IT can transform healthcare delivery in the current environment. Prerequisite: Take HINF-501
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

CS 650 BIG DATA ANALYTICS   3.0 Credit(s)
Big Data Analytics is about harnessing the power of data for new insights. The course covers the breadth of activities, methods and tools that Data Scientists use. The content focuses on concepts, principles and practical applications that are applicable to any industry.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

CS 651 TEXT-BASED ANALYSIS   3.0 Credit(s)
Given the dominance of text information over the Internet, mining high-quality information from text becomes increasingly critical. The actionable knowledge extracted from text data facilitates our life in a broad spectrum of areas, including business intelligence, information acquisition, social behavior analysis and decision making. In this course, we will cover important topics in text mining including: basic natural language processing techniques, document representation, text categorization and clustering, document summarization, sentiment analysis, social network and social media analysis, probabilistic topic models and text visualization. Prerequisite: Take CS-650
Offered: All Semesters All Years

CS 652 DATA SCIENCE ARCHITECTURE   3.0 Credit(s)
As the prolifération of data continues, Data-Driven Decision Making,  Machine Learning & Data Science continue to grow in importance.  To leverage data for these and other purposes, the architecture for data must support the proper ingestion, transformation, storage, and retrieval of data. In addition, data needs to be organized, catalogued, and stored to allow access by data scientists and other analytical users.  As technologists, we must consider many aspects of architecture.   This course will explore the various technologies and methodologies for ingestion, transformation, storage, and retrieval of data. Prerequisite: Take CS-650
Offered: All Semesters All Years

MK 652 WEB DESIGN FROM A MKTG PERSPECTIVE   3.0 Credit(s)
As organizations fully embrace a digitally-led, experience-driven economy, the lines between design, technology, and business have blurred more than ever. It's important for us to understand where they come together and learn how we as digital marketers can build our own foundation for using it to create compelling digital experiences that drive demand for brands. In this course, students will be taken on a journey through the modern web design process with the goal of giving students some hands-on design experience and a practical understanding for how to approach websites using modern-day marketing strategies
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

MK 662 ANALYSIS OF CONSUMER DECISIONS   3.0 Credit(s)
This course explores the tools and techniques used by marketers to analyze customer behaviors. It examines databases, analytics, metrics, software, and techniques applied by marketers to transform data into useful formats for the strategic decision-making process. Contents focus on technology tools for segmentation, target marketing and positioning, media selection, market share and estimation, sales forecasting, and other analyses. This course explores the use of machine learning algorithms in the developing of marketing models related to consumer segmentation, market basket analysis, customer lifetime value, predictive marketing, consumer choice, and pricing. Prerequisite: Take MK-661, MK-670
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

MK 672 INTRODUCTION TO BIG DATA   3.0 Credit(s)
This course will present a practical approach to the process of decision-making using big datasets as a result of acquired or aggregated data. Prerequisite: Take MK-661, MK-670
Offered: As Needed Contact Department

MK 674 SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING   3.0 Credit(s)
This course provides the practical knowledge and insights required to define objectives and strategies of social media marketing, identify and properly select the social media tools to engage consumers and effectively evaluate and measure the results of a firm's social media strategy. What is Search engine optimization (SEO) and giving a deeper understanding of the concept.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department