Courses
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
ODP 521 ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY 3.0 Credit(s)
Survey of the field of organizational psychology including such topics as organizational theories, role theory, leadership, motivation, ethical principles, and interpersonal/intergroup processes.
Offered: Module 1 All Years
ODP 510 QUANTITATIVE METHODS & STATISTICS 3.0 Credit(s)
Provides a basic understanding of quantitative research methodology, techniques like survey research, and descriptive and inferential statistics as tools in the field along with the ethical application of appropriate statistical methods and the interpretation of analyses.
Offered: Module 1 All Years
ODP 545 SOCIOCULTURAL DYNAMICS, DIVERSITY & OSR 3.0 Credit(s)
Overview of theory and practice of belongingness, wellness, and diversity in organizations; examination of the impact of changing workforce demographics on current and future productivity and competitiveness of organizations; and review of theories and practice of organizational social responsibility.
Offered: Module 6 All Years
ODP 515 QUALITATIVE & MIXED METHODS RESEARCH 3.0 Credit(s)
This course will focus on qualitative research methods and their applications in organizational research, as well as the use of mixed methods approaches.
Offered: Module 2 All Years
ODP 551 ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS & DESIGN 3.0 Credit(s)
This course challenges students to embrace a systems view of leadership and change at the organizational level. Students compare, contrast, and critique organizational design and assessment models. Organizational systems and design models are applied and designs utilized to effect change in the organization. Students are required to apply their own models of organizational change, strategy, and organizational capacity building to their work experiences or current workplaces or scenarios.
Offered: Module 4 All Years
ODP 530 PERSONNEL PSYCH, ASSESS, SELECT & DEV 3.0 Credit(s)
Survey of the field of personnel psychology including such topics as psychological research, employment law, hiring practices, professional and work assessment, selection, and development, and ethical principles.
Offered: Module 3 All Years