This course allows MPH students to tackle an Environmental Health problem using the skills and educational resources they have developed during their first year of coursework, during their practicum experience, and in their other professional experiences (employment, internships, volunteer work, etc.). Students will select a problem they can study or research in depth over a period of 10-12 weeks.

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

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

This course provides an introduction to the field of multi-media (e.g., air, water, soil, food) environmental health risk assessment and how society incorporates risk assessment findings into regulations and policy.

Concepts of control methods used by environmental health and engineering practitioners. Topics include water, wastewater, solid wastes, food sanitation, vector control, housing, and accident control measures.

This course is designed for undergraduate students who are registered with Disability Services. It teaches successful time management skills, learning strategies, utilizes active/critical reading techniques, information analysis, critical thinking, effective writing, testing strategies, study methods and self-advocacy.

This course is designed to provide graduate students with a broad and integrated understanding and advanced graduate-level knowledge in the biological bases that effect human behavior, emotions, development and learning. This course will facilitate a comprehensive understanding of physiological processes that influence perception, cognition, emotion, learning and motivation. Specifically, the course will introduce student to the structure and physiology of the brain, hormonal influences on behavior, affective bases of behavior, and roles of psychopharmacology.

What do movies like Mean Girls, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Freedom Writers teach us about education? Do the way films represent school, students, and teaching reflect or reproduce our views about particular students and schools? What and how do movies teach us and why does it matter? This course introduces students to selected essential topics in modern educational theory and practice using depictions of teachers, students, and schools in movies as springboards for inquiry (Gen. Ed. SB, DU)

The purpose of this course is to allow graduate students to apply research skills and knowledge to a research project in the area of higher education.