The purpose of this clinical practicum is to provide the student with the opportunity to plan and provide community based nursing care and a population based intervention.

499 - seminar

Individual, interpersonal, and group behavior in an organizational context. Encourage a broadened awareness of one's own and others' behavior in managerial roles, while improving managerial skills. Prerequisite: MANAGMNT 301.

This course will focus on innovation to address social determinants of health challenges in healthcare. For example, during COVID telemedicine has seen a tremendous growth and application in healthcare. However, the question to explore is can we design more inclusive telemedicine, remote patient monitoring, or other remote/digital health technologies. For more specific examples, can blood pressure cuffs be put on if the patient has only one arm, or how can a person in a wheelchair weigh themselves on a Bluetooth scale? Are there issues for people of color etc.

What are the likely effects of proposed social policies? Should an environmental pollutant be considered a health risk? How can one manage to sensibly synthesize multiple strands of evidence of criminal wrongdoing, discrimination, or liability to reach a sound judgment? Human intuition is easily led astray when tasked with judging probabilistic and causal arguments at the heart of these and other such questions. In some cases, mental training may help us better avoid the pitfalls to careful reasoning under uncertainty.

This course will summarize the physical activity epidemiologic methods and study design. Students will critically review published epidemiologic papers and assess the validity of their design and their inferences. Additionally, the student will learn the role of meta-analytic methods in gathering evidence to guide public health guidelines and programs. Students will be introduced to the skills required for evidence synthesis, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses.

Equivalent to the second half of Japanese 126 in content. Further emphasis on the basic skills in Japanese as listed above. Prerequisite: JAPANESE 110.

Development of individual skills necessary for designing, implementing, testing and modifying larger programs, including: design strategies and patterns, using functional and object-oriented approaches, testing and program verification, code refactoring, interfacing with libraries.

American fiction from the colonial period to the present. The course may focus on a small or large time period, and it will consider the language and form, method and content that mark a distinctly American tradition.

Seminar-sized course in literary and rhetorical criticism. Organized around themes, it stresses analysis from critical and theoretical perspectives that sharpen understanding of texts, their contexts, and our reading of them. This course fulfills the Junior-Year Writing Requirement. See the English Department course description guide for various sectional sub-titles and descriptions. https://www.umass.edu/english/undergraduate-english-courses