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Faculty seminars are used to explore the role of the professional nurse through discussions with nurse leaders, group discussions, critical thinking exercises, values clarifications and self discovery.

Clinical practicum involves experiences with providing and managing nursing care to selected clients with restorative health care needs. Emphasis on providing nursing care to sick clients. Concurrent with NURSING 432. Prerequisite: successful completion of all Level I and Level II requirements.

The aim of this course is to provide a foundation of fundamental statistical computing concepts and practice using the R statistical computing language. Students will learn the basics of using R to create, import, export, manage, visualize and analyze data.

This course is designed to give students a broad overview to pertinent topics in the field of global maternal and child health. Topics covered include causes of maternal and infant mortality, treatment of malaria in pregnancy, HIV and pregnancy, infant nutrition, maternal and child nutrition, gender roles, and cultural and religious concepts in relation to working in a global setting. This course will explore approaches to public health programming that acknowledge and incorporate cultural differences.

The purpose of this course is to prepare exploratory track students to achieve academic success at UMass. The curriculum will aim to orient students to the health science fields and the major options within, assist students with major exploration outside of the health sciences, create strategies for academic success, transition to campus life and learn how to effectively navigate and utilize campus resources.

Public health and the health sciences are incredibly broad and diverse fields, especially as the fields constantly evolve to address the health issues that face people across the globe. Finding your "niche" in health requires some exploration, taking advantage of opportunities, and planning for the future. Throughout the semester, we will explore different areas of public health such as nutrition, communication disorders, physical activity, community health, and health policy.

The Human Genome Project identified 25,000 genes that carry instructions to make proteins, responsible for the structure, function and regulation of our body?s organs and tissue. This course will explore the second genome, the epigenome, which guides the operation of our genes. If we think of our genes are hardware, the epigenome can be viewed as the software capable of providing functional controls guiding how, where and when our genes are expressed. Epigenetics mechanisms that help to control gene regulation through molecular switches and markers will also be examined.

This course is designed to teach fundamentals of toxicology with an emphasis on food toxicology. Topics to be discussed include mechanisms of toxicity, absorption, metabolism, distribution and excretion of food toxins, dose-response relationships, major mechanisms of toxicity, sources and major groups of food toxins, toxicity testing methods and risk assessment.

The aim of this course is to provide students with the skills necessary to tell interesting and useful stories in real-world encounters with data. Specifically, they will develop the statistical and programming expertise necessary to analyze datasets with complex relationships between variables. Students will gain hands-on experience summarizing, visualizing, modeling, and analyzing data. Students will learn how to build statistical models that can be used to describe and evaluate multidimensional relationships that exist in the real world.