This General Education course addresses fundamental questions, ideas, and methods of analyses in the social and behavioral sciences with relevance to the area of public health. It introduces students to the cultural, social and behavioral factors that impact disease epidemiology and transmission of communicable diseases, that are determinants of diseases, and that effect health inequities. It introduces students to systems thinking and systems simulation modeling in disease prevention.

Students will learn about sports-related mild traumatic brain injury (i.e., concussion) and postconcussion syndrome. They will learn about the cause, symptoms, assessment, and recovery of sports-related concussion. The class will discuss controversies about concussion. There will be a focus on the neuropsychological aspects of the condition.

Randomness and uncertainty exist in our daily lives as well as in every scientific investigation. This course helps students better understand randomness and uncertainty and gives them tools to make more informed decisions under uncertain situations.

We will discuss that our intuition is often wrong when assessing uncertain situations, leading us to make wrong decisions. We will provide real life examples where even professionals have misjudged chances and probabilities.

This course will explore the integral role that creativity, imagination, and curiosity play in a fulfilling life and successful career. It will challenge you to move outside of your existing comfort zone through creative activities and discussions and help you recognize the value and power of being an imaginative, forward-thinking individual.

Clinical Psychology has become a very popular professional opportunity for those interested in providing psychological services. Based on psychological science, the field offers a multitude of vocational possibilities ranging from laboratory experiments to the provision of psychological assessment and psychotherapy for child, couples, families and adult individuals. This course offers a broad and general introduction to clinical psychology.

This course focuses on introductory statistical techniques frequently used in health sciences research, use of analytic software and database creation and management.

A beginning course in modern standard Chinese (Mandarin). Introduction to the romanization phonetic system of Chinese (Hanyu pinyin), essential sentence structures, basic vocabulary, and approximately 180 traditional characters. Basic skills in listening, reading, and writing. Content and structure same as first half of CHINESE 126.

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