NOTE: Certain courses and programs require the use and/or handling of hazardous materials or equipment. Students are expected to follow all safety instructions and to take the required safety precautions including, but not limited to, the use of personal protection equipment (PPE) during the course or program to prevent incidences of injury to self or other students.
Health
HLTH 3300 - First Aid and Safety Education
3 credit hours(Same as PHED 3300.) Deals with first aid measures, accident prevention, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Addresses issues related to drug use/abuse and related acts of violence. Satisfactory completion of the course qualifies the student for Emergency Care and Safety Institute Standard First Aid and CPR certificates. NOTE: If taking online, student must take skills test with instructor in order to receive certification.
HLTH 3320 - Assessment in Community and Public Health
3 credit hoursBasic preparation for health educators in community and public health programs with an emphasis on identifying and solving problems. Concentrates on the role of the health educator in needs assessment, effective communication, and the management of public health concerns.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: BIOL 2030/BIOL 2031 or BIOL 2010/BIOL 2011 and BIOL 2020/BIOL 2021 with grade of C or better. Introduces the foundations of organ systems and disease. Includes information on symptoms, diagnosis, and the impact of both infectious and noninfectious disease on organ systems.
2 credit hours(Same as PHED 3760.) Prerequisite: Beginning Swimming or pass a swimming assessment (must take before drop/add period ends). Designed to provide knowledge and skills needed for physical educators and recreational leaders to teach water safety.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: MATH 1710 with grade of C or better. Introduces the foundations of biostatistics for public health. Specific topics will include epidemiological study designs, hypothesis testing procedures, data visualization and statistical analyses. Emphasis will be placed on proper data collection, usage, and analyses for public health.
HLTH 4080 - Alternative Therapy in Athletic Training
3 credit hours(Same as ATHT 4080.) Examines the didactic and psychomotor concepts of various alternative and complementary therapies as they relate to the profession of athletic training.
9 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of department; must be taken after major classes. On-site practical experience in an exercise science/health promotion program. Note: Students may enroll in a maximum of an additional 4 credit hours while enrolled in HLTH 4250.
HLTH 4260 - Curriculum and Teaching Methods in Health Education
3 credit hoursCurriculum planning and teaching methods for prospective school, community, and public health personnel who aspire to teach health education.
HLTH 4280 - Instructor’s Course in First Aid and CPR
2 credit hoursPrerequisite: HLTH 3300 or current Red Cross certification in multi-media first aid and CPR or standard first aid. Organization, planning, and teaching American Red Cross safety course. Red Cross instructor certification for successful completion. NOTE: Student must have current First Aid and CPR certification.
3 credit hoursOffers preparation for leadership roles in school health services, instruction, and emergency situations, with special emphasis on evaluation.
3 credit hours(Same as PHED 4340/REC 4340.) Planning, teaching, and participating in individual and group fitness programs for the adult. Offers preparation for administering and interpreting assessments of related components with understanding of physiological principles related to exercise in the adult. Major lifetime wellness activities covered.
3 credit hoursAssists individuals in developing, implementing, and evaluating human sexuality curricula and programs for schools (K-12) and other educational venues.
3 credit hoursApplies and extends the knowledge base of health care for women and provides students with the knowledge to help them enhance their own and others’ health.
HLTH 4400 - Drugs and Violence in Health Education
3 credit hoursOffers an understanding of the nature of drugs, relationships people form with drugs, and consequences of those relationships. Relationship of drugs to acts of violence considered as well as educational programs addressing issues related to drug use/abuse and acts of violence.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: HLTH 3320 and HLTH 3240 with C- or better. Historical and contemporary health education philosophy and theories, Health Objectives for the Nation, the Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) process, ethical issues, diversity issues, and practice in various setting.
1 credit hourPrerequisite: An introductory course in computer literacy or equivalent with instructor permission; corequisite: HLTH 4451. Understanding and competency using a variety of technology applications related to the profession. Students required to enroll in corresponding lab during the same semester.
3 credit hoursEpidemiologic analysis including measures of disease frequency, measures of effect, association and causation, sources of inaccuracy, experimental and observational study designs.
3 credit hoursOffers preparation for individuals to assume roles as school health coordinators. Emphasizes comprehensive school health and how it fits into K-12 education.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: HLTH 4430 with a minimum grade of C; junior or senior standing. Concepts and procedures used for applied measurement and evaluation in health and human performance settings. Basic statistics, reliability and validity, measurement instruments in field and laboratory settings, and the administration of a variety of tests within discipline.
HLTH 4870 - Methods of Communicating and Marketing Health Education
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: HLTH 3320, HLTH 3240, and HLTH 4430 all with a minimum grade of C-. Theory and practice of planning, implementing, and evaluating marketing and communication programs in community and public health education. Includes a review of health communication theories, social marketing, assessment of population needs, coalition-building, health literacy, health advocacy and campaign design, implementation, and evaluation.
HLTH 4900 - Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) Review
1 credit hourFor Health majors; to be taken with HLTH 4990. Responsibilities and competencies on the Certified Health Education Specialist examination.
1 to 3 credit hours(Same as ATHT 4920/EXSC 4920/PHED 4920/LSTS 4920.) Independent study topics based on a study plan prepared in cooperation with a faculty supervisor. Culminates in a formal paper and/or comprehensive examination. Application forms must be completed and approved prior to enrollment. A maximum of three credit hours may be applied toward degree.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: HLTH 4260; corequisite: YOED 4020. Supervised field-based experience the semester prior to Residency II (student teaching). Teacher candidates will spend one full school day a week engaged in research-based best practices under the collaborative supervision of highly effective mentor teachers and university faculty. Seminars constructed around effective teaching skills and a variety of co-teaching models.
6 to 12 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of department and must be taken after all major classes are complete. If the 12-hour option is chosen, no other courses may be taken except for HLTH 4900. On-site practical experience in a community health agency.
HETH 3100 - Community Healthcare: Issues and Services
3 credit hoursExamines common health issues faced by individuals, families, and communities, as well as programs and services that address health issues. Emphasis on health promotion, health maintenance, illness prevention among populations, and resources available and/or needed.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: MATH 1530. Introduces the research process and basic health research concepts. Includes overview of methodology, types of research, and application of research process through literature review and written research proposal.
HETH 3120 - International Health: Problems and Issues
3 credit hoursExplores the impact of public health practices around the world at the individual, community, and global level. Emphasis on factors that contribute to health, access to health, healthcare delivery, and the burden of both communicable and noncommunicable disease.
3 credit hoursExamines managerial and leadership concepts, issues, roles, and functions as applied to the role of the healthcare professional in various settings.
3 credit hoursIntroduces the structure, financing, and delivery of services in the U.S. healthcare system. Topics include public and private insurance, various health services, health service providers, health policy, characteristics of the healthcare workforce, and issues related to law and ethics.
3 credit hoursHEBR 1020 or permission of instructor. An intermediate course in reading, writing, and speaking Hebrew as well as aural comprehension at the intermediate level.
3 credit hoursA survey of Western humanity from the earliest cultures to 1715. May be used to satisfy one part of the General Education Humanities and/or Fine Arts requirement. HIST 1010 is NOT a prerequisite for HIST 1020.
3 credit hoursA survey of Western humanity since 1715. May be used to satisfy one part of the General Education Humanities and/or Fine Arts requirement.
3 credit hoursA global approach to history, with cultural interchange as a major thematic focus; reasons for the rise and decline of civilizations. May be used to satisfy one part of the General Education Humanities and/or Fine Arts requirement. HIST 1110 is NOT a prerequisite for HIST 1120.
3 credit hoursThe impact of Western expansion upon the indigenous civilizations of Asia, Africa, and the Americas; their mutual interchange in the creation of the modern world. May be used to satisfy one part of the General Education Humanities and/or Fine Arts requirement.
3 credit hoursSurvey of the political, economic, social, cultural, and diplomatic phases of American life in its regional, national, and international aspects. HIST 2010 discusses the era from the beginning to 1877. HIST 2020 discusses the era from 1877 to the present. These courses are prerequisite for all advanced courses in American history and satisfy the General Education History requirement. HIST 2010 is NOT a prerequisite for HIST 2020. TBR Common Course: HIST 2010
3 credit hoursSurvey of the political, economic, social, cultural, and diplomatic phases of American life in its regional, national, and international aspects. HIST 2010 discusses the era from the beginning to 1877. HIST 2020 discusses the era from 1877 to the present. These courses are prerequisite for all advanced courses in American history and satisfy the General Education History requirement. HIST 2010 is NOT a prerequisite for HIST 2020. TBR Common Course: HIST 2020
3 credit hoursThe role of the state in the development of the nation. May be used to satisfy one part of the General Education History requirement. TBR Common Course: HIST 2030
3 credit hours(Same as AAS 2040 and AST 2040.) The role of African Americans in establishing and shaping the American nation. Covers their historical development and contributions to American art, music, literature, and religion.
3 credit hours(Same as AST 2050 and AAS 2050.) The role of African Americans in shaping the American nation and creating a twentieth-century racial identity. Covers their historical development and examines their contributions to American art, music, literature, and religion.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. A detailed analysis of a topic pertinent to U.S. history. Topics vary from year to year. May be taken more than once for credit with different topic.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. A seminar course exploring selected topics and problems in the African-American experience since 1619. Possible topics include the Great Migration, the life and work of Malcolm X, Pan-Africanism, Caribbean enslavement, the African American church, the African American woman, African American education, and the Harlem Renaissance. May repeat for up to six credit hours.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030 Literature, arts, social sciences, and popular culture examined with regard to a particular topic (such as the history of morality or the history of cultural rebellion) in order to understand how Americans have reacted to conflicting values in society. May be taken more than once for credit with different topic (up to six credit hours).
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. Detailed examination of a particular topic important to the region’s society, life, and development. May be taken more than once for credit with different topic.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. Particular emphasis on land warfare; examines battles, campaigns, and wars and the military’s relationship to American governmental, societal, technological, and managerial patterns.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. Students research primary and secondary sources on local, family, or Middle Tennessee State University history or historical topic for which primary sources readily available. Cameras, laptop computers, and audio equipment provided; students work in iMovie or more advanced filmmaking technology. Oral history methodology discussed. NOTE: Students must have a basic competence with current computer hardware and software.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. Exploration and colonization of North America, relations between Native Americans, Europeans, Africans, and colonial societies in the context of the Atlantic world from 1492 to 1760.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. Examines the period from the Seven Years’ War through the War of 1812, while emphasizing political, social, intellectual, and economic developments in the new United States.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. Major political, social, and economic developments in the awakening of American nationalism, Jacksonian democracy, expansionism, and the Mexican War.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. Examines various causes of the war, the military and political history of the war years, and the legacy of the war in Reconstruction, the Lost Cause, and American social and economic developments through World War I.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. The nature and consequences of the shift of the United States from an agrarian to an urban and industrialized society between Reconstruction and World War I.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030.The increasing involvement of the United States in world affairs from World War I through World War II and the social and political consequences of economic complexity which resulted in prosperity, depression, and the New Deal.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. The major social, political, economic, and diplomatic developments in the history of the United States from 1945 to the present with particular emphasis on the role of government.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. Emphasis on the area west of the Mississippi River from pre-contact to the twenty-first century. Explores major social, political, economic, and environmental issues with particular attention to race, class, gender, and the original inhabitants.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. Major themes that have created and recreated Southern culture from the Colonial period to the present. Explores the major social, political, and economic factors that made and remade the region through time.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. History of health and sickness in the United States from 1607 to the present and the increasing influence of science and public policy on the delivery of health care and the practice of medicine.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. Traces environmental change in America from European contact to the present and from wilderness to suburbia. Explains impact of growth, settlement, and resource exploitation on our national landscape and institutions.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. Explores the nature of religion as experienced in American history focusing on the questions “How has religion affected America?” and “How has America affected religion?” Emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and on the contact of and exchanges among traditions such as Protestant/Catholic Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Eastern religions, and Animism.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. An analysis of the historical development of American architecture and of architecture as evidence of America’s cultural, social, economic, and technological growth from 1607 to the present.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. Development and growth of cities and suburbs from the colonial period to the present with particular emphasis on urban institutions, problems, politics, culture, and society.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. The role of sport in American society from the colonial era to the present, with emphasis on how sporting activities reflect political, cultural, and economic characteristics of various time periods.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. United States American Indian history from before European contact to the present with emphasis on issues important to native peoples and their active participation in a constantly changing world.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030.The mass movement of farm families into the interior of North America before 1860. Emphasis on Native American life, frontier politics, society, and culture, as well as the subsequent development of a “frontier myth” celebrating this folk migration.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. Examines class, ethnicity, family life, and community in America from the colonial period to the present.
HIST 4740 - American Cultural and Intellectual History
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. Explores the major issues in American cultural and intellectual history through an examination of American literature, philosophy, social sciences, fine arts, and popular culture.
HIST 4750 - African American Social and Intellectual History
3 credit hours(Same as AAS 4750 and AST 4750.) Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. The changing ideology of race and the socioeconomic status of African Americans in the American experience; contributions to the culture and institutions of the United States.
HIST 4755 - Race and Place: The Struggle for Fair Housing Since 1900
3 credit hours(Same as AAS 4755.) Prerequisites: HIST 2020 or HIST 2050. Examines the rise of various twentieth-century federal housing policies that made homeownership affordable for most Americans for the first time in the country’s history. Particular emphasis placed on the exclusionary nature of these policies, their generational implications, and the activism that ultimately contributed to their demise.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. Explores the distinctive histories of women across the breadth of American history. Instructors will choose specific events, issues, or themes to reveal the forces that shaped women’s experiences and actions.
1 to 3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. A detailed examination of a topic pertinent to European history. May be taken more than once for credit with different topic.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: HIST 1020 or HIST 1120. Explores the causes of the war; the conflict’s vast geographic extent; the dramatic changes in combat brought by such weapons as improved field artillery, poison gas, airplanes, and submarines; the war’s reworking of the values and structures of western civilization; the war’s long-lasting ripple effects in the Middle East, the former Russian Empire, Africa, the Pacific, and the newly powerful United States.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120.The progress of medieval civilization with emphasis on the period from 1100 to 1300.
HIST 4214 - Science, Religion, and Magic in Europe, 1500-1800
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Analyzes the relationship between science, religion, and magic during the Scientific Revolution with a special focus on the trial of Galileo. Surveys popular beliefs such as magic as well as major intellectual developments with a focus on changing attitudes towards nature, truth, and authority.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Examines the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural developments of Italy, France, England, Germany, and the Low Countries during the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Examines the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural developments of Italy, France, England, Germany, and the Low Countries during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120.The social, political, intellectual, cultural, and economic history of France from the origins of the Third Republic to the present.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Europe in the early twentieth century with emphasis on the expansion of democracy, continued industrialization, total war, and totalitarian ideologies.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Major European countries and European themes from 1945 to the present.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. History of Germany from national unification in 1871 through its reunification in the contemporary world. Emphasis on the major social, cultural, political, intellectual, and economic developments of the period as they relate to both German men and women. The history of the Austro-Hungarian empire (1867-1918) and the modern Austrian state also included.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Russian history from its beginnings to the end of the nineteenth century.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. A continuation of 4330 emphasizing the Revolution and the Soviet era.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Political, economic, diplomatic, military, and cultural developments from the end of the Napoleonic era to Gladstone’s retirement in 1894.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Political, military, imperial, economic, and social history of a changing Britain in its century of total war, imperial decline, and economic readjustment.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: 3 hours from HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Examines the major social, cultural, economic, and political developments in Irish history, focusing especially on the complex relationship between Ireland and England from the seventeenth century to the present.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Examines the political, economic, social and intellectual, and cultural development of the countries bordering the Mediterranean.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites:HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Medical developments and the relationship between medicine and society. Examines two medical traditions: the West and China. Focus not only on major developments in medicine but also on the systems of healing in these cultures; compares roles medicine played within these societies. Also investigates impact of Western scientific medicine on various systems of traditional medicine.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. A comparison of the social, intellectual, cultural, political, and economic history of women’s lives in Great Britain, France, Germany, and Russia/USSR in the modern era.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. A detailed examination of a topic pertinent to world history. Topics vary. May be taken more than once for credit with different topic.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. A major problem or political or social development in the contemporary Middle East. May be taken more than once for credit with different topic (up to six credit hours).
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: HIST 1020 or HIST 1120. Explores the causes of the war; the conflict’s vast geographic extent; the dramatic changes in combat brought by such weapons as improved field artillery, poison gas, airplanes, and submarines; the war’s reworking of the values and structures of western civilization; the war’s long-lasting ripple effects in the Middle East, the former Russian Empire, Africa, the Pacific, and the newly powerful United States.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: HIST 1110 or HIST 1120. Examines military, diplomatic, political, and cultural aspects of the Vietnam War. Causes of the war; interplay between military, diplomatic, and domestic policy; historical memory of the conflict through analysis of texts, oral histories, films, and material culture.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. An integrated examination of major themes and selected area studies of the twentieth century. Themes include the world system, colonialism, the Great Depression, both world wars, the cold war, emergence of independent countries, economic globalization and dependency, religious stirrings, urbanization, massive migrations, social revolution, and the postindustrial world.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Ancient Greece and Rome, from about 2,000 B.C. to A.D. 476, emphasizing the classical historians, Greek and Roman culture.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Examines the political, economic, social and intellectual, and cultural development of the countries bordering the Mediterranean.