Review of communication sources, channels, messages, reception, and effects, diffusion of health information, adoption of preventive health behavior, and mass media and social change patterns.

Major methodologies useful in health research. Topics include philosophy of scientific investigation, field research, participant, survey research, experimental design, construction of questionnaires, and attitudes scales; the format for writing a research prospectus.

Special investigational or research problems for M.P.H. candidates or advanced students. Scope of the work can be varied to meet specified conditions.

Students choose a topic to research on their own under the guidance of a faculty advisor who will then grade the final written report.

Concepts of program evaluation and their application to the health field. Emphasis on theoretical concepts and their application to development of practical skills in program evaluation.

Survey of socio-behavioral theories commonly used in public health education interventions at the individual, group, and community levels.

This course will present students with an overview of the book as object during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance (roughly 1300-1650). Rather than considering the text inside books, we will investigate physical books themselves, as sites of artmaking, collecting, magic, religious devotion, technology, political controversy, and scholarly inquiry. The class will involve hands-on interaction with books (in the form of facsimiles) of the periods discussed.

This course is an examination of race and gender as an introduction to History and its methods. It is intended to provide students with skills useful throughout their college career, particularly in an HFA (Humanities and Fine Arts) track. We will use race and gender as analytical frameworks to understand history and relate it to our present world. This will include topical discussions on feminism, masculinity and war, slavery and emancipation, and Civil Rights. Students will explore a relevant topic of their choosing throughout the semester to hone their research abilities and interests.

This course is an examination of race and gender as an introduction to History and its methods. It is intended to provide students with skills useful throughout their college career, particularly in an HFA (Humanities and Fine Arts) track. We will use race and gender as analytical frameworks to understand history and relate it to our present world. This will include topical discussions on feminism, masculinity and war, slavery and emancipation, and Civil Rights. Students will explore a relevant topic of their choosing throughout the semester to hone their research abilities and interests.