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PSYC 7305 - Biological Models of Cognition
This seminar examines animal models that have been developed to study neurobiological mechanisms of cognition. Topics to be covered include goal-directed learning, decision-making, navigation, action selection, motivation, working memory and addiction. Each section will cover a specific cognitive process, the development and validation of animal models to study this process and a discussion of identified neurobiological mechanisms. Prerequisites: Psyc 2200 or 4200.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7310 - Human Neuroscience
This class will broadly survey human neuroscience methodology and applications to various fields of psychology. We will cover topics in clinical, cognitive, social and developmental neuroscience.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7400 - Practicum to Intervention and Ethics
This course has a two-fold purpose. First, it is designed to provide a working introduction to the ethical issues, principles, and techniques of psychotherapy and supervision. Second, will explore psychology’s history and development and then investigate the role of History and Systems on our current psychotherapy.
Credits: 2
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PSYC 7410 - Practicum to Intervention and History and Systems
This course has a two-fold purpose. First, it is designed to provide a working introduction to the ethical issues, principles, and techniques of psychotherapy and supervision. Second, will explore psychology’s history and development and then investigate the role of History and Systems on our current psychotherapy.
Credits: 2
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PSYC 7420 - Psychological Intervention I
An overview of psychotherapy process and outcome research, ethnicity issues in psychotherapy and ethical considerations. Begins the survey of adult psychotherapy. Emphasizes a problem-focused, rather than a treatment-focused perspective. Three lecture hours, practicum in supervised intervention. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 4
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PSYC 7430 - Psychological Assessment
Topics include strategies of assessment, issues of reliability and validity, test construction; theory and practice of individual, couple, family, and community assessment techniques, including testing, interviewing, observation; and assessment research. Three lecture hours, two lab hours. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 4
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PSYC 7440 - Psychological Assessment
Topics include strategies of assessment, issues of reliability and validity, test construction; theory and practice of individual, couple, family, and community assessment techniques, including testing, interviewing, observation; and assessment research. Three lecture hours, two lab hours. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 4
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PSYC 7450 - Psychological Intervention II
Concludes the problem-focused survey of adult psychotherapy. Provides a survey of therapy focused on relationship issues in the family, including couples therapy, divorce issues, and especially, child and family therapy. Three lecture hours, practicum in supervised intervention. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 4
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PSYC 7470 - Experimental Psychopathology
Reviews symptomatological, classificatory, and epidemiological issues, and surveys the psychological, behavior-genetic, and psychophysiological literature in abnormal psychology. Emphasizes adult psychopathology. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7475 - The Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues in Research and Practices
Will examine psychological theory, methodology, and interventions from the vantage of ethnic minority issues.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7480 - Community Psychology and Prevention Science I: Research and Consultation
Introduces the broad area of community psychology and prevention science. Topics include social ecology and primary prevention; conceptions, strategies, and tactics of social intervention; the creation of settings; and interventions in the education, mental health, mental retardation and criminal justice systems. Weekly seminar meetings and participation in community laboratory required. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7481 - Practica in Community Psychology and Prevention Science
The Practica in Community Psychology and Prevention Science aims to prepare students for a career in one of three settings: academia, industry, or government. To achieve this aim, students are required to design two 1-year fieldwork practica with a local, state, or federal agency, supervised by a laboratory instructor. Prerequisites: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7501 - Contemporary Issues: Cognitive Psychology
Discusses contemporary developments in psychological theory, methods, and research. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in psychology or instructor permission.
Credits: 2
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PSYC 7502 - Contemporary Issues: Neuroscience and Behavior
Discusses contemporary developments in psychological theory, methods, and research. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in psychology or instructor permission.
Credits: 2
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PSYC 7503 - Contemporary Issues: Community Psychology
Discusses contemporary developments in psychological theory, methods, and research. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in psychology or instructor permission.
Credits: 2
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PSYC 7504 - Contemporary Issues: Ethics and Clinical Psychology
Discusses contemporary developments in psychological theory, methods, and research. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in psychology or instructor permission.
Credits: 1
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PSYC 7505 - Contemporary Issues: Developmental Psychology
Discusses contemporary developments in psychological theory, methods, and research. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in psychology or instructor permission.
Credits: 2
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PSYC 7506 - Contemporary Issues: Social Psychology
Discusses contemporary developments in psychological theory, methods, and research. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in psychology or instructor permission.
Credits: 2
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PSYC 7507 - Contemporary Issues: Quantitative Psychology
Discusses contemporary developments in psychological theory, methods, and research. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in psychology or instructor permission.
Credits: 2
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PSYC 7600 - Social Psychology
Surveys the major empirical and theoretical concepts in social psychology.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7605 - Self-Knowledge and the Adaptive Unsconscious
In this course we will examine self-knowledge from a scientific perspective, based on research in social, personality, cognitive, and developmental psychology.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7610 - Advanced Research Methods in Social Psychology
Surveys various research approaches to social psychological problems; discusses selected methodological issues; and practices designing and criticizing research techniques on assorted psychological topics. Prerequisite: One semester of graduate statistics and PSYC 7600 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7615 - Graduate Research Methods
Completion of this course will provide a foundation for the practice of science. We will wrestle with the fundamental issues for designing and executing a program of research, and in the interpretation and reporting of the research results.
Credits: 4
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PSYC 7630 - Nonverbal Communication and Deception
Research and theory in the psychology of nonverbal communication and deception. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7635 - Psychology and Law
Will investigate 10 topics for which psychology has (or might have, or might think it has) things to say to the legal system. Our goal is to learn about the current state of affairs in both domains and propose ways to facilitate the exchange of knowledge between the two disciplines. Topics include eyewitness testimony; confessions; jury decision making, implicit biases; punishment; affective forecasting and decision making about the future. Prerequisites: Background in either (cognitive or social) psychology or in law.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7670 - Longitudinal Data Analysis
This course will provide an introduction to the principles and methods (e.g., multilevel models, mixed-effects models, latent growth curve models) for the analysis of longitudinal data. Emphasis will be on data analysis and interpretation. Participants should be familiar with the general linear model (regression, analysis of variance) prior to taking this course.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7700 - Approaches to Quantitative Methods in Psychology
Many psychological theories nowadays are formulated mathematically. In this course we will survey a variety of approaches to modeling in perception (such as signal detection theory), cognitive psychology (categorization learning) and social psychology. The course has two prerequisites: a course in calculus, and a knowledge of a programming language.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7705 - Multi-Level Modeling
In this course, we will introduce some simple Multi-Level models, introduce some properties of those and some methods to fit data to these models. In the second part, we will advance to more complex multi-level model with possible overlaps between lower levels and non-normal multi-level models.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7710 - Quantitative Methods I: Probability and Statistical Inference
The course covers mathematical foundations of psychology and statistical techniques used in behavioral science, in particular foundations of linear algebra, probability theory, information theory, statistical testing, normal models, and special, frequently used cases of normal models (t-test). The course has three lecture hours and two laboratory hours that teaches computational aspects of the course in R.
Credits: 4
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PSYC 7720 - Quantitative Methods II: Experimental Design
Includes Chi-square tests for contingency tables, correlation, multiple regression, analysis of variance of one-way and factorial designs including repeated measures experiments, and analysis of covariance. Extension work with SPSS and MANOVA computer routines. Prerequisite: PSYC 7710 or equivalent.
Credits: 4
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PSYC 7725 - Affective Aspects of Behavior
This course will provide students exposure to current knowledge in the area of affect, mood, and emotion, including research on models of emotion and emotion regulation, historical and developmental perspectives on emotion, and prominent measures and methods used to advance understanding of affective sciences. This will include basic research on affect and healthy emotional functioning, along with research on psychopathology and mood disorders.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7740 - Practicum to Intervention and Multicultural Issues
This course has a two-fold purpose. First, it is designed to provide a working introduction to the ethical issues, principles, and techniques of psychotherapy and supervision. Second, will explore psychology’s history and development and then investigate the role of History and Systems on our current psychotherapy.
Credits: 2
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PSYC 7750 - Practicum to Intervention and Supervision
Designed to provide a working introduction to the ethical issues, principles, and techniques of psychotherapy and supervision. Additionally, case conceptualization, designing intervention plans, and active listening skills are introduced and practiced. Individual psychotherapy with adolescents and adults will be the primary focus of this aspect of the course.
Credits: 2
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PSYC 7755 - Advanced Practicum in Supervision and Consultation
This course is designed to provide students with a context for supervision and consultation through sharing with each other their experiences with various clients, providing peer supervision to each other (with the instructor in the room), receiving immediate feedback from the instructor regarding their supervision of each other, and receiving feedback from each other, at the end of the course.
Credits: 1
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PSYC 7760 - Introduction to Applied Multivariate Methods
Introduces major statistical methods used for the data analysis of multiple measures. Includes elementary matrix algebra, multivariate regression (canonical correlation; multivariate analysis of variance and covariance; and discriminant analysis and classification), correlational methods (principal components and exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis), and the analysis of multivariate contingency tables using log-linear models. Emphasizes concepts, issues, and examples over mathematical derivations. Prerequisite: PSYC 7710-7720 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7765 - Fundamentals of Statistical Computing for Behavioral and Social Scientists
This course will provide students with a basic understanding of statistical computing and programming using the R language. Students will learn methods of integrating the computational skills they acquire into a workflow making the process from analysis to publication more efficient.
Credits: 1
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PSYC 8040 - Forum on Scientific and Professional Ethics
Studies scholarly writings, empirical research, and current developments relating to ethics in psychology, and relevant ethical codes and regulations influencing the conduct of scientists and educators. Focuses on recognizing and resolving ethical dilemmas in academic and research settings. Prerequisite: second-year standing in a graduate program in the Department of Psychology or instructor permission.
Credits: 1
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PSYC 8200 - Internship in Teaching Neuroscience
Students will collaborate with instructor in co-teaching an advanced level undergraduate course, Psyc 4200 Neural Mechanisms of Behavior, which is concurrently taught. Student responsible for preparing, presenting and assessing three topics from Psyc 4200 syllabus. Objective is to provide a formal environment to obtain teaching experience, while allowing the student to explore different teaching techniques in an advanced survey course setting.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 8610 - Psychological Study of Children, Families and the Law
To acquaint the student with various issues in the law that have an impact on children and with psychological research and practice regarding children and families that is germane to legal policy. The course is based in developmental, clinical and community psychology theory and research. Prerequisite: instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 8650 - Social Development
Analyzes current theory and research in social and personality developments from infancy through adolescence. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 8670 - Cognitive Development
This course reviews current and classic literature concerning theory and experimental findings in cognitive development across infancy and childhood.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 8725 - Life-Span Development: Methodological Issues
The course is focused on key methodological issues associated with the study of development from a life-span perspective. Includes the conceptualization of research problems, research design, measurement, and data analysis and modeling and promotes the acquisition of skills in formulating and executing life-span research.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 8730 - Dynamical Systems Analysis
This course intends to give the student a practical working understanding of some of the techniques for data analysis of dynamical systems in psychology. The course will concentrate on the development and testing of dynamical systems models for behavior and learning practical methods for fitting models of continuous time differential equations for real world data. Prerequisites: R and Structural Equation Modeling.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 8735 - Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling
Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling provides an introduction to statistical modeling with latent variables and multivariate outcomes. Path analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, multivariate regression, growth curves, and longitudinal mediation and moderation will be covered using the free open source OpenMx software running in R.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 8997 - Nontop Res: Pract to Inter & History and Systems
Research designed to provide an in-depth exploration into psychology’s history, the development of important Systems of thought, and the historical and current relationships with philosophy, as well as an investigation of the role of History and Systems on our current theories and techniques of psychotherapy and ethics.
Credits: 1
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PSYC 8998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Thesis
For master’s research, taken before a thesis director has been selected.
Credits: 1 to 12
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PSYC 8999 - Non-Topical Research
For master’s research, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.
Credits: 1 to 12
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PSYC 9501 - Topical Research
Independent laboratory research undertaken with advisor. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory and can be repeated. Instructor permission required.
Credits: 1 to 12
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PSYC 9502 - Topical Research
Independent laboratory research undertaken with advisor. Graded and can be repeated. Instructor permission required.
Credits: 1 to 12
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PSYC 9560 - Teaching Psychology-Review Sessions
Will introduce you to be being a teaching assistant at UVA. This course is designed for grad students in their first teaching experience who will serve as Review TAs–that is, student contact through office hours and review sessions, but you are not responsible for a course section. You will learn some issues of class organization at UVa (such as the use of Collab) as well as more nuanced skills you’ll need in teaching students effectively.Prerequisite: GSAS
Credits: 1
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PSYC 9561 - Teaching Psychology-Sections
This class is to continue your education in teaching of psychology. Course is designed to acquaint you with issues particular to the teaching of a section of a larger lecture course. Will cover classroom management, grading, and pedagogical techniques. It’s very difficult to evaluate ones own teaching, so everyone will videotape their teaching at one occasion, and we will spend time learning to evaluate classroom practice through observation. Prerequisite: PSYC 9559-1 or PSYC 9560
Credits: 1
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PSYC 9562 - Teaching Psychology-Courses
This course is designed to help students learn how to design a course from scratch. It is presumed that before you take this course, you have led sections for at least two semesters, and have taken Psyc 9561. We will consider course planning from start to finish: factors that influence the topic of a course, purposes and implementation issues for various pedagogical methods, and functions of different methods of assessment.
Prerequisite: You have led sections for at least two semesters, and have taken PSYC 9559-1 or Psyc 9561. GSAS.
Credits: 1
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PSYC 9940 - Readings in Psychology
Readings in Psychology
Credits: 1 to 12
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PSYC 9942 - Readings in Psychology: Causation in Law
Independent study.
Credits: 1 to 12
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PSYC 9980 - Practicum in Case Consultation
Supervision in case assessment, evaluation, and intervention. Emphasizes issues involved in case management; types of issues and decisions that may affect the outcome of intervention; pragmatic issues in dealing with people referred as clients; consultation procedures with referral agencies; and liaisons with community agencies. Student performance is evaluated on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 1 to 7
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PSYC 9998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected.
Credits: 1 to 12
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PSYC 9999 - Non-Topical Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.
Credits: 1 to 12
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PHS 5000 - Introduction to Biostatistics
Covers the fundamentals in medical statistics including descriptive statistics, estimation, hypothesis testing, precision, sample size, correlation, problems with categorization of continuous variables, multiple comparison problems, and interpreting of statistical results. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5010 - Fundamentals of Epidemiology
Introduces the field of Epidemiology and the methods of epidemiologic research. Students learn how to interpret, critique, and conduct epidemiologic research, including formulating a research question, choosing a study design, collecting and analyzing data, controlling bias and confounding, and interpreting study results. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5015 - Qualitative Methods for Community and Global Health
Designed to introduce undergrads to a graduate level coursework. This course advances methodological and cultural competency in the design and implementation of community health qualitative research investigations. Coursework provides opportunities to practice specific methodologies such as surveys, interviews, focus groups, case studies, and historiographies in accordance with standards of rigor (e.g., reliability, generalizability, validity). Prerequisites: Instructor Permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5050 - Public Health Policy
Explores the legitimacy, design, & implementation of a variety of policies aiming to promote public health & reduce the social burden of disease & injury. Highlights the challenge posed by public health’s pop-based perspective to traditional ind-centered, autonomy-driven approaches to bioethics & const. law. Other themes center on conflicts between PH & pub morality & the relationship between PH and social justice. Prerequisites: Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
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PHS 5052 - Mental Health, Law & Policy
The Mental Health Law & Policy course explores historical and contemporary mental health law and policy in order to address several current areas of law and policy reform. A public health perspective is applied to issues traditionally viewed through an individual-centered, autonomy-driven lens. Topics are reviewed to introduce students to relevant issues, but are also explored through a public health ethics framework.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5070 - Introduction to Health Care Informatics
Explores nature and functions of health informatics, the current state of the science, present and future applications, and major issues for research and development. Includes information processing and management, decision support, computer-based patient records and information systems, standards and codes, databases, outcomes research, and the generation and management of knowledge. Also surveys current developments in instructional technology. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5080 - International Health Policy
Addresses the questions of what makes a good health system, how we know whether a health system is performing well, and what makes a health system fair through a comparison of the financing, delivery, and operation of health systems throughout the world. Focuses on differences both in health system performance (as measured by death, disability, morbidity, access, and patient satisfaction) and in health system inputs. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5090 - Health Care Economics
Reviews principles of economics most relevant to analyzing changes in health care provision and applies those principles to current health care institutions and their performance, trends in health care service delivery, and methods of forecasting future trends. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5095 - Health Policy in the United States - An Economic Perspective
This course uses an economic perspective to analyze the health policies and institutions that shape the health care system in the US. The consequences of current health care policies on health outcomes are discussed. The processes through which health policies are developed, implemented, and evaluated are analyzed.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5100 - Health Care Policy & Management
Seminar to introduce undergraduates to graduate level work. Examines the evolution of the U.S. health care system from a health policy and health values perspective, with an emphasis on the current health system. Topics include issues surrounding the financing, organization, and delivery of health care, including acess, coverage, cost, and quality of health services. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
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PHS 5102 - Introduction to Public Health Research: Population Data Analysis
This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge & skills needed to use population data to answer research questions. Students will utilize SPSS to access, evaluate, & interpret public health data. The course will give students an opportunity to generate hypotheses & variables to measure health problems. The course will also describe how the public health infrastructure is used to collect, process, maintain & disseminate data.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
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PHS 5103 - Epidemiologic Methods: Applications to Hlthy Lifestyles & Disease Prevention
This course is an overview of the methods of epidemiologic research with a particular focus on healthy lifestyles and disease prevention/ management. Topics include epidemiological measures & data analysis, study designs, bias, statistical inference, effect modification, & prevention/screening with applications to addressing such public health challenges as physical inactivity, obesity, tobacco use, metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabetes.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
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PHS 5130 - Introduction to Health Research Methods
Much of what we know about human health & health-related behavior is based on quant & qual research. This course involves students in the research process from start to finish, including formulating a research question; conducting a background literature review; choosing a study design; developing data collection tools; recruiting a study population; collecting data; assuring data quality; analyzing data; & interpreting & presenting results.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5184 - Global Health Policy & Practice
The Policy & Practices in Global Health Course will enhance the students’ understanding of the social, political, and economic context of common global health challenges and issues. The course will review case studies that review organizations’ responses to global health challenges and their successes and failures.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5185 - Global Health Research Methodologies
This course is designed to facilitate the development, implementation and data analysis of student initiatives sponsored by the Center for Global Health. Faculty-led seminars are designed to support the creation of rigorous and respectful interactions with the global health community. Prerequisite: CGH Scholar award
Credits: 1
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PHS 5186 - Comparative Health Care Systems
Provides a background for students who may be interested in learning about challenges & opportunities for improvement in health status for citizens in all countries. Although at the operational level, each national system is unique, there are common characteristics that permeate the design & structure of most health care delivery sectors. The major health reform activities occurring in developed & developing countries will be highlighted.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
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PHS 5200 - U.S. Healthcare: Policy, Organization, and Administration
Examines the U.S. health care system from health policy, health systems, and health administration perspectives, with an emphasis on current challenges facing the financing, administration, and delivery of health services. Using a case-based method, the course will employ lecture, discussion, and student-led group projects that encourage analysis of real-world scenarios in today’s complex health and medical environments. May be open to undergraduates as PHS 5200 with instructor permission. Prerequisite: instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5210 - Community Engagement for Research & Policy
This course is designed to introduce undergrads to a graduate level course. It will expose students to community-based factors that influence the health of populations and individuals. The principal objective of the class is to provide the rationale for meaningful engagement of diverse communities and introduce effective strategies that will enhance research and policy protocols designed to improve health status. Prerequisites: Instructor Permission
Credits: 1
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PHS 5212 - Community Health Assessment and Strategic Planning
This course will introduce ugrads to a grad level course. Concentrate on designing & completing comm hlth assessments & associated strategic planning to improve priority areas identified in these assessments. Emphasis will be on field work with local health departments. Students should be able to work independently as well as work well within multi-disciplinary groups.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 2
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PHS 5213 - Community Health Assessment and Strategic Planning II
Introduce undergraduate to graduate level work. This course builds on community health assessment strategies used in PHS 5212 to do fieldwork with local health departments. This course is open to student who were in PHS 5212 as wll as those who were not.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 2
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PHS 5250 - Public Health Ethics: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
This interdisciplinary seminar focuses on the ethical dimensions of the choices societies and individuals make when addressing threats to and responsibilities for the public’s health. A range of philosophical theories and contemporary positions are examined to explore the complex concepts of “public” and “health.” Investigated are the impact of various understandings of the public, not only as a numerical population that can be defined and measured, but also as a political group that operates under legally defined obligations and relationships, and as a “communal” public with diverse cultural and moral beliefs. The various methods and content of public health ethics, including utilitarian perspectives and the role of the Code of Ethics for public health professionals are also examined. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5360 - Health Disparities
This seminar will explore the core issues and theoretical frameworks for the development of health policy and public health interventions to address health disparities. Students will examine the current epidemiological and social science evidence on both health status disparities and healthcare disparities among racial and ethnic minority populations, including data on mortality, longevity and life expectancy, quantitative and demographic analysis and access, and utilization of health services. The course also will explore the complex and poorly understood reasons for health disparities, which may largely reflect socioeconomic differences, differences in health-related risk factors, environmental factors, direct and indirect consequences of discrimination, and differences in access to health care. Finally, students will consider multifaceted ways to address disparities that focus on health care providers; health care delivery issues, such as access; and health system policies and regulations, such as insurance and quality improvement measures. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5380 - Environmental Health: Principles and Practices
Interdisciplinary approach to understanding, assessing, and controlling environmental factors that impact public health. Practical examples are used to help public health professionals understand how epidemiology, health surveillance, and exposure surveillance can be used to determine the potential for health problems that result from various environmental factors, and how monitoring and control techniques can reduce the impact of the environment on human health. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5385 - Environmental Health: Epidemiologic Perspectives
Seminar to introduce ugraduates to graduate level work. This course offers an intro to environmental health with a focus on environmental epidemiology. Through case studies on air, soil and water pollutants, students will examine concepts of study design, exposure assessment and issues of validity. Hands-on introduction to GIS.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5451 - Health Informatics for Quality and Safety
This course will provide an overview of the intersection between health informatics and healthcare quality and safety. We will review advancements and opportunities in both the measurement of quality and safety as well as the development and implementation of informatics-based interventions. Much of the course will focus on topics like electronic health records, clinical decision support, and tools to support population health.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 1
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PHS 5470 - Health Care Leadership & Management
Explore theories, concepts and methods for managing complex health care organizations; including leadership, governance, systems thinking, the role of teams and the challenges of change management. Explore concepts and methods for quality management. Cover basic topics in human resources and the financial management of health care organizations.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5500 - Special Topics in Public Health
Special Topics courses in Public Health Sciences.
Prerequisites: Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
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PHS 5600 - Quantitative Data Analysis in Public Health
Undergraduate level course primarily for 5 year BA/BS/MPH students, and others with Instructor consent. The course will introduce Public Health students to tools needed to utilize SPSS for quantitative data analysis. Instruction will include lectures, case study discussions and individual projects. Attendance, participation, a midterm exam and final presentation are required. Pre-requisites: Instructor Permission
Credits: 1
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PHS 5610 - Health Promotion and Health Behavior
Seminar to introduce undergraduates to graduate level work. Public Health is a multi-disciplinary field that attempts to help individuals and communities prevent illness and maintain & improve health. Explores the social and behavioral aspects of health as well as the relationship between health behavior and community, society and the global environment. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
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PHS 5620 - Built Environment & Public Health: Local to Global
How do sidewalks, block parties, food deserts, and transit systems impact our health? This course maps the intersections between architecture, urban planning, and public health that shape the built environment, health and well being of our local and global communities. Lectures and learning applications will present the evidence and its limits on topics such as food security, age-friendly cities, obesity, social equity and vulnerable population.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5621 - Health Impact Assessment
Students learn the procedures, methods, and tools associated with Health Impact Assessment (HIA) and systematically judge the potential and unintended effects of a policy, plan, program, or project concerning the built environment of a community. Students will propose, develop & execute a rapid form of HIA. Assignments will reflect typical HIA tasks culminating in a final report as a deliverable to community stakeholders.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
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PHS 5630 - Healthy Appalachia: A Community-based Participatory Research Partnership
This course will introduce undergrads to a graduate level course. It will examine the relationship between Appalachian culture, economic development, education and health in far Southwest Virginia and explore the process for the design and implementation for collaborative, community-based research. It will expose the student to the methodologies of community organizing, partnership development and community based research. Prerequisites: Instructor Permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5640 - Advanced Management Communication
Develops writing and speaking skills while increasing student understanding of how managers communicate with diverse audiences. Covers communication with the public, investors, and employees. Special topics include media relations, communication ethics, and crisis communications. Practice for communication events such as speaking at a press conference, briefing a small group, telling professional anecdotes, and preparing for a media interview.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5701 - Bench to Bedside: FDA & Regulatory/Translational Science Seminar
Provides an overview of key background, issues & topical considerations in regulatory science & translational activities. It is aimed at graduate & post-graduate clinicians, researchers & public health students who have a desire to raise their understanding about the regulatory framework for the development of new products, as well as emerging trends in research & development of products to improve human health.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 1
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PHS 5705 - Recent Advances in Public Health Genomics
The course will cover human genetics and genomics, including the human/mammalian genome variation, determination of genomic variation on phenotype and disease risk, mapping and characterizing genetic variants on phenotype, determining the putative impact of genetic variants on gene expression (transcriptomics, epigenomics), the promise and implications of genome science on precision medicine and the ethical, legal & social implications.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5810 - West Indies Health Care: Disaster Preparedness, St. Kitts & Nevis
The participants in this course held in the West Indies, will study the fundamentals of emergency care and disaster preparedness through exploration of existing preparedness infrastructures in St. Kitts and Nevis.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5815 - Social Determinants of Child Health
Participants will learn and apply the tenets of social determinants of child health as they explore and analyze child asthma challenges in St. Kitts and Nevis. Culturally respectful engagement will be emphasized in the assessment of existing resources and the development of community-based health education materials sensitive to the priorities of the indigenous people of St. Kitts and Nevis.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5817 - Global Public Health Policy, Ethics & Governance
Public Health challenges increasing cross national boundaries & require global strategies & orgs. to address them. Provides an intro to global pub. hlth. policy through site visits & seminars with hlth profs. at such international orgs in Geneva as the WHO & the UN. Explore the impact of the contextual factors that influence the global burden of disease, including political, econ, env. & cultural aspects of globalization.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
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PHS 5818 - UVA in the Dominican Republic: Dominican Public Health
Students will explore some of the basic tenets of global public health while experiencing the realities of life and public health during two weeks in the Dominican Republic. The course is comprised of 9 instructional modules. Course material will be enhanced through hands-on learning field trips and community service projects.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5820 - Ethical & Methodological Issues in Public Health Research
Course reviews both quant & qual methods but its emphasis will be on qual methods. How do these different research traditions relate to each other? The course will be closely integrated with the Public Health Practicum/Field Placement. This methods course will help to initiate & guide the work done in the field research projects .
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
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PHS 5821 - Practicum in Public Health Field Research/ South Africa
Students will participate each day in an ongoing, real-world research project. Projects will be highly multi-disciplinary & may include questions, theory & methods from anthropology, epidemiology, health systems, political science, sociology, gender studies, education psychology & dev. studies. If approved by MPH Director, course may be used in lieu of PHS 8900 for MPH Degree seeking students.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
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PHS 5825 - Global Public Health: Challenges and Innovations
Covers principles, measurements, cross-cutting themes, the burden of diseases, & innovative efforts to improve global health. Explores links between health & development, culture, the environment, poverty, education, & demographic characteristics. A combination of lectures, case studies & other small group activities are used. Students develop an appreciation of how global health pertains to their lives & learn about career opportunities.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5840 - Human Subjects Research: Methodology, Ethics & Regulations
Course will introduce undergrads to graduate level research & study. Explores methodological, ethical & regulatory issues in research involving human subjects. Responsible conduct of research, clinical research, hist. & phil. framework of research ethics, the role of IRB, informed consent, assessing risks & benefits, research involving vulnerable populations, protecting participant safety & privacy, comm. based research, & FDA research.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 1
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