(3 Cr.) An examination of the definition, causes, and theories associated with the problem of elder abuse and neglect. Relevant research regarding the historical perspectives, recognition of abuse and neglect, assessment techniques, and interventions will be presented.
(3 Cr.) An examination of legal challenges older Americans are facing as they plan their later years and seek to maximize their quality of life. These challenges include age discrimination in employment, housing alternatives and options, financial management and planning, medical needs and attention, and consent, and long-term care.
(3 Cr.) Examination and application of the guidelines, issues and choices associated with housing disruption and relocation of the elderly. (Same as Family and Consumer Sciences 4035. Formerly Gerontology 5003 and Sociology 5003, Gerontological Housing and Aging.)
(3 Cr.) Application of concepts of nutrition directed toward improving nutritional status and health. Federal, state and community programs will be discussed. (Same as Family and Consumer Sciences 4036.)
(3 Cr.) Examines the conceptualization; selection and protection of participants; data collection, analysis, and presentation; ethical issues; and strengths and weaknesses of qualitative research. (Same as SOCL 4052)
GERO 4060 - Public Health Issues Across the Life Span
(3 Cr.) Provides foundational knowledge and skills necessary to address public health issues across all age groups and populations covering a life span with a special focus on geriatric issues. Prerequisites: Instructor or Program Director permission required.
(3 Cr.) This course focuses on an inter-professional team approach to person-centered evidence-based diagnosis, assessment, and interventions for different types/forms of dementia syndromes with an emphasis on Alzheimer’s dementia.
GERO 5002 - Lifestyles Issues and Resource Management in Aging
(3 Cr.) A sociological investigation into leisure activities among the aged, issues in pre-retirement and retirement, managing resources, holistic health and lifestyle changes, nutrition, and stress reduction. (Same as SOCL 5002.)
(3 Cr.) A review of the fundamental aspects of biological aging; age-related anatomical and physiological changes displayed by humans and other mammals at the molecular, cellular, and organismic levels. (Same as BIOL 5010.)
(3 Cr.) An examination of social aspects of adjustment to aging, attitudes toward aging, social-psychological and sociological theories of aging, successful aging, family patterns, intergenerational relationships, leisure, and retirement. Attention will be given to demographic changes, middle age, minority aged, and adult socialization. (Same as SOCL 5012. Formerly Sociology 5010 - Sociology of Aging.)
(3 Cr.) This course will examine the current state of gerontological knowledge about each of the federally designated minority group populations: African Americans, American Indians, Asian/Pacific Islanders, and Hispanics. Each student will have the opportunity to explore the state of knowledge about a particular group or a research issue across populations. Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor.
(3 Cr.) An examination of ethnic and cultural variations in physical and mental health status among minority aged individuals. Topics include morality, morbidity, social and environmental influences oh health status, individual risk factors, functional impairment, and the relation of these issues to the use of health care services.
(3 Cr.) The study of communication processes among gerontological professionals, staff, patients, healthcare providers and administrators. Emphasis on research strategies and practical learning experiences as tools for facilitating interaction. (Same as CMST 5026.)
(3 Cr.) This course focuses on identifying, examining, and describing grief and bereavement experienced due to different types of losses experienced by people across their lifespan. Course topics will include a description and examination of grief and bereavement related to different types of life situations and life experiences.
(3 Cr.) This course will focus on the different types of assessment tools and intervention methods used by professional grief care managers to address functional managment of normal and complicated grief.
(3 Cr.) An investigation of geriatric care management techniques in different healthcare and social program settings. Details are given on the social significance of human resources and skill building for conducting assessment, care, and case management for senior clients for achievement of goals. The course will prepare students for certification in geriatric care and case management. Prerequisites: Permission of Department Head.
GERO 5045 - Ethnic and Cultural Variations in Service Delivery
(3 Cr.) An examination of ethnic and cultural factors influencing the planning and delivery of health and social services to the aged and handicapped. Topics include important service delivery issues such as estimating service needs; theoretical models of service utilization; barriers, outreach and targeting; diverse cultural values, culturally appropriate service modalities; and impact of cultural values on planning, policy, and practice.
(3 Cr.) A review of the various types of community based care with attention to the types of environments and services offered, the process of entry into care systems, physical and socio-emotional care, relations between residents and staff members, and social relationships inside and outside of care facilities. Health and quality of care, medical ethics, environmental health, and the delivery of services are addressed. (Same as SOCL 5065. Formerly Introduction to Long-Term Care.)
(3 Cr.) This seminar will take a comprehensive look at what is known about informal, family caregiving in the U.S. Assignments will identify who assumes care, the types of problems caregivers confront, caregiving tasks, caregiver appraisal of the situation, caregiver burden, and the psychological, social, work, and health consequences of caregiving. Attitudes towards and use of services will also be addressed. To the extent possible, the seminar will cover what is known about caregiving in each of the major populations: African American, American Indian, Asian & Pacific Islander, Latino, and non-Hispanic whites.
(3 Cr.) Analysis of the Older American’s Act, national and state programs on aging, and other legislative/congressional acts: their effects on research, training, and grant development in the field of gerontology. (Same as SOCL 5067. Formerly Analysis of Programs and Practice in the Aging Network.)
(3 Cr.) An examination of legislation that provides the foundation for the aging network, the programs and services available, and the theories that help predict service use by elders. Relevant research regarding social context of community resource delivery, community, support, and long-term care services, and the future of programs and services for the older adult will be presented.
(3 Cr.) Integration and application of research designs used in gerontology; examines the impact of research on programs, policy, and planning; attention given to grant writing for research support. Prerequisites: Undergraduate methods course or approval of gerontology graduate coordinator. (Same as SOCL 5075.)
(3 Cr.) In depth analysis and discussion of significant contemporary issues in aging. Will cover state-of-the question issues on timely topics in gerontology. May be repeated for credit as topics vary up to a maximum of nine hours. Prerequisites: Approval of Instructor.
(3 Cr.) An intensive analysis of the theories of aging that have been advanced by researchers in the social and behavioral sciences from 1950 to the present. Classic statements and formulations are complimented by more recent theoretical discussions and empirical tests of each theory. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
(3 Cr.) An overview of the departments and their functions, personnel issues, fiscal resources, ethics, facility maintenance, nutrition, and medical/social service terminology, and relations with families, volunteers, and residents.
(3 Cr.) In-depth examination of Federal, state, and local regulatory agencies, their mandated policies and procedures, and enforcement. Prerequisites: GERO 5087.
(3-6 Cr.) A field experience for those graduate students interested in research experience or applied aspects of gerontology. Students will be assigned to a program involving research activities, service provision, or administration of programs related to the aging and aged populations. Prerequisites: Consent of Instructor. (Formerly Sociology 5090.)
(3 Cr.) This course is a required capstone course for the Master’s degree in Gerontology. In consists of a modular sythesis of the course material covered in the degree program. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and/or Program Director.
HLST 5000 - Interprofessional Leadership in Healthcare
(3 Cr.) This course will offer students a comprehensive, relevant perspective on interprofessional leadership and management as related to healthcare. Students will explore interprofessional concepts and stress application to healthcare settings. The student will gain knowledge of various types of leaders, principles of teamwork pertinent to healthcare quality and safety improvement systems. The emphasis is on values and ethics of interprofessional practice, roles, and responsibilities, interprofessional communication skills and team work to manage outcomes and improve quality.
HLST 5001 - Research Methods for Health Professionals
(3 Cr.) The course is designed to provide students with a perspective on the history of medical research and the methods of scientific inquiry. The course develops the skill of selecting and applying a research model to a problem in healthcare. Research methods are introduced with an emphasis on survey design, statistical tests, data collection, and analysis. The components of evidence-based practice (EBP) as a framework for clinical decision-making are introduced.
(3 Cr.) This course introduces core concepts and principles of leadership, teamwork, change management, creativity and innovation. Using results from standardized assessment inventories, students participate in tailored activities to strengthen their self-knowledge and skill acquisition for interprofessional leadership development and professional advancement. Students engage in an interprofessional project at their worksite.
(3 Cr.) This course emphasizes the integration of leadership thinking and behavior with strategic planning in healthcare. Students have the opportunity to review work projects and how communications, perceptions, behaviors, culture, and current events impact the outcome of projects and initiatives. Relationships between organizational dynamics, culture, history, and leadership are explored through the lens of strategic change initiatives in healthcare settings. Specific strategies are considered and students begin to explore new ways of looking at leadership and their own behaviors in order to successfully implement strategies.
(3 Cr.) This course addresses the role of research in health professional practice including conduct of research, research sources utilization, and principles & models of EBP. Emphasizing critical appraisal of healthcare research and research from other scientific disciplines as evidence, knowledge development activities address translation of research in practice, the evaluation of practice, and activities aimed at improving the reliability of healthcare practice and outcomes for individuals and populations. Students will examine issues, organizational factors, and healthcare outcomes with an emphasis on inter-professional teams as related to their practice area.
HIST 5004 - The Rise of Southern Nationalism, 1846-1861
(3 Cr.) The developing split between the northern and southern sections during and after the War with Mexico over slavery and its expansion, the tariff, states rights, transcontinental railroads and other issues gave rise to the South seeing itself as a distinctive minority section, which should develop its own nationhood. Other topics to be reviewed will include politics, economics, religion, education, society, and culture.
(3 Cr.) The Civil War is considered to have been the first modern war. This course will examine how the war transformed warfare in general, the strategy pursued by both the Union and Confederate forces, major campaigns and battles, and the personalities of the opposing leaders.
HIST 5008 - Louisiana in the Civil War and Reconstruction
(3 Cr.) A detailed study of the Civil War and Reconstruction in Louisiana and the role the state and its people played in those events. Special emphasis will be placed on military activity during the war and politics and race relations during Reconstruction.
(3 Cr.) A social and intellectual history of the United States from colonial times to the present with emphasis on ideas and social forces which have shaped the American mind and society.
(3 Cr.) This course will investigate the causes, development and impact of the American Revolution upon both domestic and western European societies. An emphasis will be placed upon the evolution of republican thought as well as the Tory/conservative reaction. The course will also focus upon the revolutionary changes in the South and within Native-American communities.
(3 Cr.) A social and intellectual history of Western Civilization from early society to the present. Emphasis on the major social, philosophical, scientific, and religious ideas that have affected the development of social institutions and intellectual trends in modern times.
HIST 5032 - Seminar in Society and Culture in Early Modern Europe
(3 Cr.) This course examines the theories and practices of elite and popular culture in early modern Europe from the Renaissance through the French Revolution. Specifically, it addresses issues concerning the Family, Crime, Women, Religion, the Witch-craze, and changing European perceptions of Death.
(3 Cr.) A survey of the major developments in the world over the last few decades. This course will concentrate on the problems and developments of the Gulf War, the computer revolution, the former Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the rise of communist China, the former Yugoslavia, majority rule in South Africa, nuclear proliferation in the Cold War and after, and the Arab-Israeli dispute. Prerequisites: Graduate Status.
(3 Cr.) This course will confront the background, events, and consequences of the extermination of European Jews during World War II. Prerequisites: Graduate Status.
(3 Cr.) An examination of the causes, conduct, and immediate aftermath, of World War II giving attention to major military campaigns and experiences of war as seen by military leaders and combatants in Asia, Europe, and the Pacific. Prerequisites: Graduate Status.
(3 Cr.) The growing sectional conflict between the industrial North and the agrarian South; secession; major wartime problems of the Union and the Confederacy; principal military campaigns in the War’s various theaters; the significance of the Civil War in American History. Prerequisites: Graduate Status.
(3 Cr.) This course examines the development of the U.S. Military and the wars it fought from the American Revolution through the Civil War. Prerequisites: Graduate Status.
(3 Cr.) This course examines the development of the U.S. Military and the wars it fought from the end of the Civil War to the present. Prerequisites: Graduate Status.
(3 Cr.) This course offers an overview of Native American history from pre-Columbian times to the present. Topics include Native American culture, interaction with Europeans, and relations with the US government. Prerequisites: Graduate Status.
(3 Cr.) A social history class, which will concentrate on four main communities established in North America: New England, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the Appalachian frontier. The role that religion, Trans-Atlantic influences, and the environment played in the formation of these communities will be considered, as will their different reactions to Native Americans, slaves, and the role of women. The Anglo-American imperial relationship to 1775 will also be reviewed. Prerequisites: Graduate Status
(3 Cr.) The history of the American Revolution, placing it within the Trans-Atlantic community, its impact upon domestic society, and its influence upon the revolutionary generation of England, Ireland, and Europe generally. In considering political developments, attention will also focus upon the Revolution’s impact upon women, Native-Americans and the institution of slavery. The course will conclude with a review of the Articles of Confederation and the weaknesses of the early Federal Union. Prerequisites: Graduate Status.
(3 Cr.) An investigation into the complex character of Jefferson, his political impact upon the Republic and the ambiguous legacy he left after 1826. Andrew Jackson will be considered as a symbol of a new democratic age. The new Jacksonian spirit will be reviewed in the light of social reform movements, 1815 to 1840. The course will also consider Native-American cultures and the changing attitudes towards slavery. Prerequisites: Graduate status.
(3 Cr.) An examination of the history of African Diasporic magic and religion, with emphasis on their development in the American South. Topics under investigation will include the practices’ roots in African, European, and Native American beliefs; continued evolution from colonial times to the present; and place in folk and popular culture. Prerequisites: Graduate status.
(3 Cr.) The political, economic, and social development of the antebellum South. Settlement patterns; sectional distinctiveness; political ideology; development of slavery and the plantation system; abolitionism and slavery defense; and the growth of southern nationalism. Prerequisites: Graduate Status.
(3 Cr.) The westward movement in America from 1607 to 1890, emphasizing the process of pioneering and the influence of the frontier on American institutions. Prerequisites: Graduate status.
HIST 5165 - Ancient Egyptian Religious Texts and Beliefs
(3 Cr.) Introduction to ancient Egyptian religious texts and beliefs from the Old Kingdom period down to the New Kingdom. Prerequisites: Graduate status.
(3 Cr.) This course deals with the social history of Egypt. Biographical texts provide insight into the lives of the common man. Prerequisites: Graduate status.
(3 Cr.) An introduction to the material culture, cultural history and cultural processes of the Biblical world, with an emphasis on the connection between archaeology and the Bible. Prerequisites: Graduate status.
(3 Cr.) Discovery, exploration, and settlement; Spanish and Portuguese colonial systems; political, economic, and social development including the wars of independence. Prerequisites: Graduate Status.
(3 Cr.) The Latin American states from independence to the present; internal problems and progress; international relations. Prerequisites: Graduate Status.
(3 Cr.) This course is intended as a broad survey of Egyptian history, culture, and archeology from the Old Kingdom to the Roman period. It is an introduction to the social, economic, cultural, and religious developments of the first nation-state in the world. Prerequisites: Graduate status.
(3 Cr.) Egypt, Sumer, Assyria, Babylonia and other civilizations in the Ancient Near East from 3100 B.C.E.; Greece from the Mycenaean Period through Periclean Athens. Emphasis on archaeological evidence, political developments, cultural accomplishments. Prerequisites: Graduate Status.
(3 Cr.) Ancient Rome from Romulus through the early Empire, with an emphasis on the development of Roman traditions during the Republic and the transition from Republic to Empire under the Julio-Claudians. Roman government, class structure, and the significance of important historical figures will be emphasized. Prerequisites: Graduate status.
(3 Cr.) The social, cultural, religious, political, and economic history of Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance. Particular attention is devoted to the Church, feudalism, manorialism, political institutions, and the rise of towns and capitalism. Prerequisites: Graduate status.
(3 Cr.) The transition in Western civilization from the medieval to the modern era, 1300 to 1648; cultural, economic, social, religious, and political developments of the era. Prerequisites: Graduate status.
(3 Cr.) A survey of the political, social, economic and cultural history of France from the origins of the French Revolution to the collapse of the radical Paris Commune in 1871. The course will explore the vast changes in France that transformed it from a pre-industrial state of peasants and aristocrats to a world of modern industry and technology. Prerequisites: Graduate status.
(3 Cr.) This course will examine the social, political, economic, and cultural development of the lands traditionally known as Poland, Hungary, Bohemia, and Ukraine from the late Middle Ages to the present. This course will introduce the main forces and personalities that shaped Eastern European history in the past and continue to shape it today. Prerequisites: Graduate status.
(3 Cr.) Specialized study of topical events in history. Content varies. A. Canada; B. Local and Family History; C. Miscellaneous Subjects. Prerequisites: Graduate status.
KINS 4042 - Health and Physical Education Program Development
(3 Cr.) This course is designed to foster the examination, discussion, and creation of health/physical education program development. Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor.
LEC 7015 - Advanced Content Methodology and Techniques
(3 Cr.) This course analyzes and evaluates content-specific methods, techniques, and trends for early childhood, elementary, middle, and secondary education.
LEC 7016 - Problems and Issues in Curriculum and Instruction
(3 Cr.) This course analyzes and evaluates current curriculum concepts and designs as well as major trends in curriculum and instruction for K - 12 settings.
(3 Cr.) Strategies are presented to identify relevant funding sources at the local, regional, and national levels and to prepare, submit, and manage effective proposals.
LEC 7018 - Principles and Practices in Instructional Supervision
(3 Cr.) Strategies and techniques of supervising instruction are presented and reviewed. Models of supervising instructional programs are analyzed, interpreted, and evaluated.
LECC 7005 - Decision-Making for School Improvement and Accountability
(3 Cr.) Various problem-solving models and decision-making strategies are examined, applied in authentic educational settings, and evaluated for their impact in the area of school improvement and accountability. (Same as LECL 7005)
LECC 7006 - Communication and Collaboration in Problem Solving
(3 Cr.) The primary objectives of this course are to present methods and styles of communication which facilitate positive interpersonal communication and to introduce techniques and methods of conflict resolution which can be effectively utilized by administrators and faculty. Conflict resolution will focus on relationships between administration and faculty, faculty and faculty, faculty and students, students and students, and administration/faculty and parents/public. (Same as LECL 7006)