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2010-2011 Graduate Catalog 
    
2010-2011 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Psychology

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • PSYC 5707 - Advanced Behavioral Neuroscience

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisites: Psychology 3707. A laboratory-based course outlining how the brain interacts with the rest of the body to determine our behavior. Lecture, discussion, and laboratory sessions are integrated to introduce students to modern methods of psychophysiological research as it applies to neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neuroendocrinology, and biofeedback instrumentation. Areas covered will include the physiological bases of learning, memory, sleep, dreaming, emotion, psychopharmacology, and psychopathology. Classroom discussions will be augmented with readings from recent research articles. (spring)


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  • PSYC 5717 - Advanced Behavioral Neuroscience

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisites: Psychology 3707. A laboratory-based course outlining how the brain interacts with the rest of the body to determine our behavior. Lecture, discussion, and laboratory sessions are integrated to introduce students to modern methods of psychophysiological research as it applies to neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neuroendocrinology, and biofeedback instrumentation. Areas covered will include the physiological bases of learning, memory, sleep, dreaming, emotion, psychopharmacology, and psychopathology. Classroom discussions will be augmented with readings from recent research articles. (spring)


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  • PSYC 5817 - Introduction to Psychological Testing

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: Psychology 1310, 3100. A history and overview of the standardized evaluation methods commonly used in the assessment of individuals and groups. Topics covered are validity, reliability, and statistical concepts for the evaluation and interpretation of test data. The student is given an overview of ability tests, interest tests, and personality tests. Experience is provided in the administration, scoring, and interpretation of selected tests.


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  • PSYC 5870 - Interviewing Techniques in Psychology

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: Psychology 4320,  PSYC 5220 , and permission of instructor. This class will introduce students to the history of clinical psychology and will review legal, professional, and ethical issues confronting the psychological examiner working in a mental health setting. In addition, the areas of mental status evaluation, psychopharmacology, and behavioral assessment will be reviewed. Students will be taught fundamental interviewing skills and will participate in supervised interviews. (fall)


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  • PSYC 5950 - Methods of Psychological Research

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: Psychology 2810 and  PSYC 5210  or permission of instructor. All psychology graduate students must complete an acceptable thesis to receive a master’s degree in psychology. The purpose of this course is to assist the student in this undertaking by providing information on how to select a research problem and how to prepare a final research report. Numerous skills must be developed and cultivated in order to complete a thesis, such as understanding how to use the library or computer search services and how to prepare, analyze, and interpret research findings. Each student will be required to prepare a research prospectus in this course. (spring)


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  • PSYC 5990 - Readings and Research

    (1-3 credits)
    Students who are not enrolled in other coursework but require the use of university facilities and/or faculty guidance for studies, research, or preparation of a prospectus MUST enroll for Readings and Research. Variable credits (1-3) of Readings and Research may also be used, as approved by student’s advisory committee in conjunction with other coursework, to document such activities as development of research and scholarly skills that would not be appropriately covered by other types of independent study. Readings and Research credits do not count toward degree requirements. Grading of Readings and Research will be either satisfactory completion (S), satisfactory progress (SP), or unsatisfactory (U).


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  • PSYC 6410 - Covariate Structural Modeling

    (3 credits)
    This course introduces covariance structure analysis. It begins with the notion of a casual structure underlying a set of observable covariances. It will discuss the implications of random measurement error in linear regression models, the concept of unobservable variables, and review some of the elementary principles of classical test theory. Concepts will be applied using the popular AMOS structural equation modeling software.


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  • PSYC 6870 - Evidence-based Interventions

    (3 credits)
    Permission of the instructor is required for enrollment in this course. This course will provide a detailed overview of evidence-based psychological interventions for common adult disorders (with some overlap into adolescent/childhood disorders). Empirically supported treatments and cognitive-behavioral approaches will be particularly emphasized. Major topics covered in this class will include: perspective on valid assessment; intervention approaches with empirical support; differing modes of treatment (i.e., couples therapy, group therapy); and the application of empirically supported treatments in various settings such as those found in medical primary care and mental health center sites.


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  • PSYC 7010 - Clinical Psychology Practicum

    (1 credit)
    Prerequisites: Permission of the Director of Clinical Training. This course provides clinical psychology doctoral students with clinical training under the supervision of a departmental faculty member. Direct clinical services, including assessment, consultation, and intervention are provided by the advanced students under the auspices of the ETSU Behavioral Health and Wellness Clinic. Successful completion of one semester of this course is a pre-requisite to enrolling in PSYC 7910  Clinical Psychology Externship.


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  • PSYC 7110 - Primary Care Psychology II

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: PSYC 7100  Primary Care Psychology I. This course is the sequel to PSYC 7100 . It is designed to provide the advanced student with a comprehensive analysis of the public policies, clinical trends, and empirical literature relevant to the provision of behavioral and mental health services within an integrated primary care model with emphasis on rural and frontier areas. The psychologist’s role in providing assessment of common primary care problems and in providing interventions in primary care will be thoroughly explored.


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  • PSYC 7300 - Mental Health Care Consultation/Administration

    (3 credits)
    This course focuses on health policy and health care functioning as it applies to mental health services and integrated primary care with specific focus on the roles of the psychologist as health care administrator and consultant. Sociopolitical features of the health care system, the role of primary care in our current health care system and differences from the mental health system, and similarities and differences in various primary care settings are included.


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  • PSYC 7410 - Advanced Child Psychopathology

    (3 credits)
    This course is an advanced course in psychiatric disorders of childhood and adolescence. Focus is not only on diagnostic criteria used in identifying these disorders, but on normal and abnormal development models. Methods of assessing childhood behavior problems, including clinical interview of child and parent, parent and child checklists, and structured observation are covered, as well as the most effective treatment strategies.


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  • PSYC 7500 - Cultural Anthropological Applications to Rural Practice

    (3 credits)
    This course examines beliefs about illness, healing, and the body with an emphasis on cultural influences. Lectures and readings will use case materials drawn from North America, Africa, Central and Latin America, the Pacific, and Asia. The course will begin by distinguishing physical “disease” from the cultural understandings of “illness” and will explore the ways that cultural conceptions shape the experience of illness and mental illness. Cross-cultural examples will be utilized to explore culturally defined perceptions and definitions of mental disorders.


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  • PSYC 7550 - Community Assessment and Intervention

    (3 credits)
    This course covers key concepts in clinical community and health psychology with particular focus on assessment of community mental and behavioral health issues and design and evaluation of interventions which improve health and prevent disorders in general and special populations. Particular attention will be paid to rural communities and how assessments and interventions can be tailored to fit cultural and social contexts.


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Public Health

  
  
  
  • PUBH 5030 - Overview of Public Health

    (3 credits)
    This course provides an introduction to public health concepts and practice by examining the philosophy, purpose, history, organization, functions, tools, activities, and results of public health practice at the national, state, and community levels. The course also addresses important health issues and problems facing the public health system. Case studies and a variety of practice-related exercises serve as bases for learner participation in real world public health problem-solving simulations.


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  • PUBH 5050 - Health Care Accounting and Finance

    (3 credits)
    This course applies the concepts of accounting and finance within the context of the health care industry. Course coverage includes basic accounting and finance principles and how these principles are applied in the health care arena. Topical coverage includes financial statement preparation and analysis, cash flow analysis, cost behavior and control, capital acquisition, budgeting, reimbursement mechanisms, and managed care.


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  • PUBH 5110 - Community Health Assessment Research

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: Prior or concurrent registration in PUBH 5200  and PUBH 5400  or permission of the instructor. Assessing appropriate demographic and health-related data are foundational to addressing health problems in a responsive and effective way. This hands-on course provides students with the opportunity to develop and apply strategies for identifying and prioritizing individual and community health status, risks, and needs. It includes development, administration, analysis, and interpretation of qualitative and quantitative needs assessment strategies including stakeholder interviews, focus groups, and survey questionnaires, which are included in a written assessment report. Students select a real world health problem and population to be the focus of assessment research during the semester and in subsequent related courses: PUBH 5120  and PUBH 5130 .


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  • PUBH 5120 - Health Program Planning and Evaluation

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: PUBH 5110  or permission of the instructor. This course focuses on the planning of specific health programs and services to meet needs identified in PUBH 5110 . Students are guided through the process of developing a written proposal focused on a health intervention using evaluation methods to determine its effectiveness. Once the program is formally proposed, students develop and pretest program content, materials, and evaluation tools targeting the identified population and community health issue investigated.


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  • PUBH 5125 - Rural Health Research and Practice

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: PUBH 5400  Principles of Epidemiology or permission of instructor. PUBH 5200 Social and Behavioral Foundations of Public Health or permission of instructor. Corequisites: PUBH 5377  — Health Communications or permission of instructor. This interdisciplinary course with nursing, medicine, public health and other disciplines is the first of a two-semester series of courses which allows students to develop an understanding of rural health issues using community based participatory research methodology and theory relevant to health sciences. Student and faculty teams partner with rural communities to assess health priorities and develop plans to address identified needs. Both quantitative and qualitative evaluative methods are utilized to assess and analyze health status indicators using appropriate technology.


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  • PUBH 5130 - Consulting and Implementation of Health Programs and Services

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: PUBH 5120  or permission of the instructor. Building on experiences in previous courses in the program sequence, this course focuses on implementation and evaluation of specific health programs and services that students have designed for community and organization settings. The course integrates guided consultative activities involving group process, training, interpersonal communication, and organizational and community development. The final product is a written research report of the health promotion intervention.


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  • PUBH 5135 - Rural Health Projects

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: PUBH 5125  Rural Health Research and Practice or permission of instructor. In this course students from nursing, medicine, public health and other disciplines work in interdisciplinary teams to develop a community-based health proposal in collaboration with their rural community partners. Through implementing and evaluating the proposed community-based project, students gain hands-on experience in using participatory methods to promote the health of a selected rural population. Students enhance their formal presentation skills through presenting the results of their communitybased health project.


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  • PUBH 5330 - Statistical Methods in Epidemiology

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: PUBH 5310  and PUBH 5400 . This is an intermediate class in basic statistical methods used with epidemiological research. This basic skills class focuses on the theory and rationale of the statistical methods used for data analysis. Specific statistical methods will be presented, as well as exercises to refine the student’s skill with data analyses. The class content is presented from a practical perspective. The emphasis of the course is on understanding the fundamental measures, principles of hypothesis testing, and statistical interpretation. A general knowledge of statistics and epidemiological methods is expected, as well as basic computer literacy (SAS or SPSS specifically), and familiarity with intermediate-level biostatistics. The class is taught through lectures and classroom exercises to promote these applied skills. This course does not require intensive memorization (e.g., of formulae); rather it aims to provide in-depth training for epidemiological reasoning, calculations, and research methods using statistical analyses and contemporary technology.


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  • PUBH 5360 - Clinical Research: Design and Analysis

    (3 credits)
    This intermediate-level biostatistics course presumes the completion of PUBH 5310  and PUBH 5400  or similar content (e.g., topical content from medical and nursing school is acceptable). The design and analysis of clinical trial data is the central content area for this class. Specialized time-series methods used for clinical studies (e.g., sequential methods) are developed considerably as are the multivariable regression techniques of survival, and proportional hazards. Course content related to studies involving human subjects, (e.g., IRB, and HIPAA details) are included. The practical skills of composing “Methods” sections for research proposals and for professional literature publications are instructed and practiced. Sample size estimation and repeated measures (e.g., stopping rules) solutions are given particular coverage that may appeal to medical and nursing researchers.


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  • PUBH 5370 - Categorical Data Analysis

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    Focus on theory and methods for analysis of categorical response and count data including contingency tables, logistic regression, loglinear modeling of association structures, the Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel approach to detecting conditional association, linear predictor modeling using weighted least squares, tests of marginal homogeneity, generalized linear models, models for matched pairs, generalized mixed linear models etc. The statistical package SAS is used extensively in this course. Beginning in Spring 2011


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  • PUBH 5405 - Epidemiology II

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: PUBH 5400 . The purpose of this course is to further develop the methodological concepts underlying the science of epidemiology. The material covered is intended to broaden and extend the student’s understanding of the elements of study design, data analysis, and inference in epidemiologic research, including issues related to causation, bias, and confounding. The primary aim of the course is to provide a working knowledge of the fundamentals of epidemiology as well as to serve as a foundation for more advanced study of epidemiologic methods. The course consists of lectures and workshop sessions. The workshop sessions are designed to reinforce the concepts and topics covered in the lectures.


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  • PUBH 5457 - Emerging Technologies for the Health Professions

    (3 credits)
    This course prepares health professionals for the ever changing technological workplace demands, introducing new technologies with practical applications. Students are taught skills to present and manipulate information in the electronic age and reduce repeated task/events into time-saving solutions. Health education and training strategies are combined with emerging digital tools to develop training components.


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  • PUBH 5460 - Environmental/Occupational Epidemiology

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: PUBH 5400  and ENVH 5100 , or permission of the instructor. This course introduces students to epidemiologic investigations of environmental and occupational health problems. Topics include both traditional and innovative subjects and strategies, such as the health effects associated with air and water contaminants, toxic waste sites, lead, and radiation, as well as environmental exposures that have received attention only recently, such as Agent Orange and electromagnetic fields. The course emphasized epidemiologic methods, particularly exposure assessment, modeling, cluster analysis, and sources of bias. Students gain experience in the critical review and design of related epidemiologic studies.


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  • PUBH 5470 - Spatial Epidemiology and Geographical Studies of Health

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: PUBH 5310  and PUBH 5400  or equivalent content. This course instructs students in the special application of geographic pathology and data analysis techniques to interface with Geographic Information Systems. Much of the course content rests upon a grasp of epidemiological reasoning, e.g., outbreak investigation. The course focuses on non-parametric methods, for both exploratory analyses and peculiar data configurations. Emphasis is also placed on analyses using the techniques from the specialized software: CLUSTER. Advanced methods of analysis associated with contemporary surveillance applications are previewed (e.g., SATSCAN, BIOSENSE).


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  • PUBH 5525 - Health Services Organization and Delivery

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: PUBH 5500  or permission of the instructor. This course focuses on the identification and analysis of factors and interrelationships which influence the operation of health care organizations with specific attention to local health departments, hospitals, multi-institutional systems, integrated health systems, and strategic alliances. These organizations will be viewed and discussed comparatively with other types of health service agencies.


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  • PUBH 5590 - Strategic Planning for Health Care

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: PUBH 5505  or permission of the instructor. This course applies the concepts of strategic planning within the context of the health care industry. Issues associated with competing in a changing health care environment are explored with a focus on the development of solutions to problems associated with this change. The strategic management of health care delivery will be addressed from a variety of perspectives, ranging from those of the insurance industry, to public facilities, to large health care networks, to small practices of health care providers.


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  • PUBH 5970 - Public Health Monograph

    (6 credits)
    Prerequisites: Permission of student’s academic advisor. In this course, students prepare a substantive paper on one or more aspects of public health theory or practice. The content may be based on any of several approved sources of data, including assessment and intervention methodologies completed within the Trilogy courses, or extensive review of the literature. All monographs will be prepared in a format appropriate for publication in an appropriate public health targeted medium.


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  • PUBH 5990 - Readings and Research

    (1 credit)
    Prerequisites: Permission of student’s academic advisor. Students who are not enrolled in other coursework but require the use of university facilities and/or faculty guidance for studies, research, or preparation of a prospectus MUST enroll for Readings and Research. Variable credits (1-3) of Readings and Research may also be used, as approved by student’s academic advisor in conjunction with other coursework, to document such activities as development of research and scholarly skills that would not be appropriately covered by other types of independent study. Readings and Research credits do not count toward degree requirements. Grading of Readings and Research will be either satisfactory completion (S), satisfactory progress (SP), or unsatisfactory (U).


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  • PUBH 6100 - Environmental Concerns in Public Health

    (3 credits)
    This course provides students with an in-depth understanding of the major environmental issues impacting the public’s health in the 21st century. Emphasis is placed on the influence of selected environmental agents of physical, chemical, biological, and ergonomic origin. The role of environmental risk assessment and policy and the prevention of environmentally-induced illnesses are examined in view of their impact on communities.


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  • PUBH 6110 - Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health and Disease

    (3 credits)
    This course presents an in-depth analysis of factors contributing to health and disease in populations. It addresses concepts of health promotion, disease prevention, and health protection in light of modifiable and nonmodifiable risk factors, including lifestyle behavior patterns, personality and cognitive processes, cultural and spiritual forces, socioeconomic status, age, race, gender, and environmental exposure. Students will explore relationships of these health determinants within the context of selected social and behavioral theories.


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  • PUBH 6130 - Public Health Leadership, Policy Development, and Ethics

    (3 credits)
    This course introduces the conceptual, methodological, and ethical foundations of public health leadership leading to the development and analysis of public health policy at the federal, state, and local levels. An applied systematic approach to the practice of public health policy will be used, focusing on establishing evaluation criteria, identifying policy alternatives, using criteria to analyze alternatives, implementing the proposed policy, and evaluating the outcomes.


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  • PUBH 6150 - Evaluation Research in Public Health

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: PUBH 5350  and PUBH 5405 . This course focuses on all parts of the evaluation process as it applies to the field of public health. Outcome identification will be included as an integral part of this process. Both theoretical and applied perspectives within public health practice are covered, including design, conduct, and outcomes identification for public health program evaluations. The important components of study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, and report writing are addressed.


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  • PUBH 6160 - Systems Approaches to Public Health Issues

    (3 credits)
    This course uses a problem-based learning approach to systems thinking and modeling for critical public health concerns. Students integrate key population level theories (e.g., ecological, PRECEDE, organization, communication) with systems theory in a multilevel investigative process of public health assessment, organization, and evaluation. Case studies and interdisciplinary teamwork provide the tools for student inquiry and the resulting narrative and written reports.


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  • PUBH 6170 - Research Applications in Public Health

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: PUBH 5350  and PUBH 5405 . This advanced applications course emphasizes the development of proficiency in data management using common software packages used by public health professionals: Excel, Epi-Info, and SAS. Students will learn procedures for graphics preparation, significance testing, subgroup comparisons within target populations, reporting findings, and interpretation of results. Emphasis will be placed on the processing of public health data and preparing analytic products from them. In the process of their work, students will access emerging as well as existing public health databases and other resources of the Public Health Information Network.


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