3credit hoursProgram planning, theories and models of health education and promotion, development of interventions, and program implementation, including mission, goals, objectives, and activities of health education and promotion programs. Introduces needs assessment and program evaluation.
3credit hoursHealth promotion knowledge as well as the ability to impart this knowledge to the lay population. In-depth information will be covered regarding lifestyle and its relationship to risk factors for cardiovascular disease and cancer.
3 to 6credit hours(Same as EXSC 6880/PHED 6880/LSM 6880.) On-site practical experience in an exercise science, health promotion, or sport management program. Those with extensive work experience will develop, implement, and conclude a project (research or applied) in consultation with the major professor.
HLTH 6950 - Advanced Methods of Community Health Education
3credit hoursReview of program planning, development of interventions, and implementation of programs. Budgeting, needs assessment, and evaluation of health education and promotion programs covered.
HLTH 6970 - Advanced Methods in Human Sexuality Education
3credit hoursMethodology, teaching techniques, and the organization of sexuality education programs for schools (K-12) and other community settings. Additional emphasis directed to concepts and information about human sexuality education, i.e., the psychological, physiological, sociological, and ethical aspects.
3credit hoursAdvanced study in epidemiological analysis, methods, and critique with an emphasis within the field of health and human performance. Areas include epidemiology and chronic disease, public health, exercise science, and sports medicine.
HHP 6610 - Research Methods in Health and Human Performance
3credit hoursLocation of information, methods of research, methods of collecting data, application of the computer in analyzing data, and preparation and presentation of a research paper.
HHP 6700 - Data Analysis and Organization for Human Performance
3credit hoursPertinent skills needed to analyze and organize research data through introduction of concepts, principles, techniques, and activities that lead to the appropriate organization and analysis of research data collected for health and human performance.
HHP 6999 - Comprehensive Examination and Preparation
1credit hoursOpen only to students who are not enrolled in any other graduate course and who will take the master’s comprehensive examination during the term. The student must contact the graduate advisor during the first two weeks of the term for specifics regarding the details of this comprehensive examination preparatory course. Credit may not be applied to degree requirements.
HHP 7300 - Current Measurement Issues in Health and Human Performance
3credit hoursPrerequisites: HHP 6610 and HHP 6700 or equivalent. Advanced applications of measurement theories (i.e., item response theory), test construction, statistical techniques, and computer software for measurement research in the area of health and human performance.
2credit hoursCareful supervision given to actual teaching, clinical, or research experience. Assignment by department or chair of candidate’s committee. S/U grading.
2credit hoursCareful supervision given to actual teaching, clinical, or research experience. Assignment by department or chair of candidate’s committee. S/U grading.
1 to 6credit hoursAssignment by department or chair of candidate’s committee. Selection of a research problem, review of pertinent literature, collection and analysis of data, and composition of dissertation. Once enrolled, student should register for at least one credit hour of doctoral research each semester until completion. S/U grading
HHP 7700 - Advanced Data Analysis and Organization for Human Performance
3credit hoursPrerequisites: HHP 6610 and HHP 6700 or equivalent. Skills and understanding necessary to read, conduct, report, and interpret advanced data analytical techniques using data from HHP. Practical and written assignments, presentations, examinations, and projects will furnish doctoral student with tools necessary for data analysis associated with dissertation requirement.
HHP 7710 - Experimental Design in Human Performance
3credit hoursPrerequisites: HHP 6610 and HHP 7700 or equivalent. Skills and understanding necessary to evaluate designs used in HHP research literature. Practical and written assignments, evaluation of current research, examinations, and projects; knowledge and skills for planning appropriately the design for future research projects.
HHP 7999 - Comprehensive Examination and Preparation
1credit hoursOpen only to students who are not enrolled in any other graduate course and who will take the master’s comprehensive examination during the term. The student must contact the graduate advisor during the first two weeks of the term for specifics regarding the details of this comprehensive examination preparatory course. Credit may not be applied to degree requirements.
3credit hoursExploration 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.
3credit hoursExamines international conflicts from the Seven Years’ War through the War of 1812 while emphasizing political, social, intellectual, and economic developments in the new United States.
3credit hoursThe major political, social, and economic developments in the awakening of American nationalism, Jacksonian Democracy, expansionism, and the Mexican War.
3credit hoursThe 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.
3credit hoursThe increasing involvement of the United States in world affairs from World War I through World War II and of the social and political consequences of economic complexity which resulted in prosperity, depression, and the New Deal.
3credit hoursThe 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 the United States in world affairs and the changing role of government.
3credit hoursThe Southern rim of states from a nineteenth-century American outpost to the modern pacesetting position in economics, culture, racial relationships, and politics with such leaders as King, Nixon, Carter, and Reagan.
3credit hoursHistory of the United States West with an 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.
3credit hoursThe major themes that have created and recreated southern culture from the colonial period to the present. Major social, political, and economic factors that made and remade the region through time.
3credit hoursAn intensive survey of the progress of medieval civilization with emphasis on Byzantine, Moslem, and Germanic cultures in the Middle Ages.
HIST 5212 - Intellectual and Cultural History of Early Modern Europe
3credit hoursMajor trends and movements in artistic, literary, social, economic, political, scientific, and religious thought in cultural context and diffusion in society; how these trends and movements have changed European concepts since the Enlightenment. Begins about 1200 to establish a background and then focuses on 1400 to 1789.
HIST 5213 - Intellectual and Cultural History of Modern Europe
3credit hoursMajor trends and movements in artistic, literary, social, economic, political, scientific, and religious thought in cultural context and diffusion in society; how these trends and movements have changed European concepts since the Enlightenment. Begins about 1650 to establish a background and then focuses on 1789 to the present.
3credit hoursSurvey of political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural developments of Italy, France, England, Germany, and the Low Countries during the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries.
3credit hoursSurvey of political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural developments of Italy, France, England, Germany, and the Low Countries during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
3credit hoursThe evolution of the German states from their Indo-European origins to their unification in a single German nation in 1871 with particular emphasis on the history of German men and women since the Middle Ages. History of Austria and its possessions also included.
3credit hoursThe history of Germany from national unification in 1871 through its reunification in the contemporary world. Course emphasizes major social, cultural, political, intellectual, and economic developments of the period as they relate to both German men and women. History of the Austro-Hungarian empire (1867-1918) and the modern Austrian state also included.
3credit hoursEnglish history from earliest times to the end of the American Revolution, with emphasis on major political, economic, cultural, and social developments.
3credit hoursSurvey of British political, economic, diplomatic, military, and cultural developments from the end of the Napoleonic era to Gladstone’s retirement in 1894.
3credit hoursThe political, military, imperial, economic, and social history of a changing Britain in its century of total war, imperial decline, and economic readjustment.
3credit hoursThe development of the Near East, the rise and spread of Islam, the Ottoman Empire, European imperialism in the Near East, contemporary developments. Emphasis on cultural contributions of the Near East to western civilization.
3credit hoursSurvey of Japanese history from the formation of the first Japanese political state to the country’s emergence as a post-World War II economic superpower.
3credit hoursSurvey of Chinese history from antiquity to the present People’s Republic, stressing social history and the unique cultural features defining China’s civilization.
3credit hoursThe indigenous societies present before European colonization and the first encounters in Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America. Analysis of political structures imposed by the Spanish as well as the social and cultural implications of colonialism and miscegenation
3credit hoursExamination of colonial background of Latin America, moving to an exploration of economic, political, social, and cultural developments in Latin America since independence.
HIST 5530 - Latin American-United States Relations
3credit hoursRelations between the United States and Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with emphasis on the effect of cultural differences on inter-American diplomacy.
3credit hoursExamines political, social, and cultural developments reflected in Egyptian artistic, literary, and architectural works within the context of the 3,000 years from the Predynastic Period through the Ptolemaic Dynasty (3200–32 B.C.E.).
3credit hoursMedical developments and in particular the relationship between medicine and society. Examines two medical traditions: the West and China. Discussions not only on major developments in medicine but also of the systems of healing in these cultures and comparison of the different roles medicine played within these societies. Also investigates the impact of Western scientific medicine on the various systems of traditional medicine.
3credit hoursExamines quantitative reasoning in historical research. Covers historiographical questions and practical research skills. Includes historical causality, historical change over time, data preparation, sampling, and the interpretation of quantitative data.
3credit hoursTraces environmental change in America from the Puritans to the present and from wilderness to suburbia. Explains impact of growth, settlement, and resource exploitation on our national landscape and institutions.
3credit hoursExplores 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, and Animism.
3credit hoursAn 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.
3credit hoursA survey of the 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.
3credit hoursThe 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.
3credit hoursUnited States American Indian history from pre-contact to the present with emphasis on issues important to native people and on their active participation in a constantly changing world.
3credit hoursA survey of the lives and achievements of men and women most prominent in American history. Selected biographies and autobiographies read and analyzed.
3credit hoursStudies the mass movement of farm families into the interior of North America before 1860, with particular emphasis on Native American life, frontier politics, society, and culture, as well as the subsequent development of a frontier myth celebrating this migration.
HIST 5740 - American Cultural and Intellectual History
3credit hoursExplores the major issues in American cultural and intellectual history through an examination of American literature, philosophy, social sciences, fine arts, and popular culture.
HIST 5750 - African American Social and Intellectual History
3credit hoursThe changing role and status of African Americans in American life and the contributions to the culture and institutions of the United States.
HIST 5760 - America Divided: Race, Class, and Gender
3credit hoursInteraction of race, class, and gender in the lives of Americans within historical frameworks; how such interactions have shaped American social and political institutions.
3credit hoursExamines women’s roles in the United States from colonial times to 1890, emphasizing the experiences of women of different classes, races, and ethnic groups with work, family, and politics.
3credit hoursExamines women’s roles in the United States since 1890, emphasizing the experiences of women in different classes, races, and ethnic groups with work, family, and politics.
3credit hoursA comparative study of the social, intellectual, cultural, political, and economic history of women’s lives in Great Britain, France, Germany, and Russia since 1700.
3credit hoursExamines the connections between modern colonialism and the development of third-world feminisms. First focuses on conquest and colonialism and the consequences for third-world women of that process, then moves to postcolonial societies and expands to include women’s political, economic, and social roles in the three regions of Africa, China, and Latin America.
3credit hoursExamines various aspects of the military, diplomatic, social, economic, and cultural changes caused by the global cataclysm of World War II.
HIST 5850 - Material Culture Resources in World History
3credit hoursA survey of the architecture, furniture, tools, utensils, weapons, ceremonial objects, etc., of the world’s major civilizations. Provides a basis for studying how various cultural styles have influenced the development of our own material culture resources.
3credit hours(Same as ANTH 5860.) Introduces the disciplines of historical archaeology, including examination of archaeological evidence, historical documentation, and interpretation of evidence.
3credit hoursAn introduction to history’s major schools of thought. Through reading, class discussion, and essays, students explore critical interpretations in American, European, and non-Western history.
3credit hoursSharpens comprehension of historical interpretation by exploring, through reading, research, and class discussion, possible alternative explanations for specific historical events and themes.
3credit hoursAnalyzes scholarly literature on a major topic in the history of the United States. May be taken more than once for credit with different topic.
3credit hoursIntensive primary source research and scholarly writing in United States history. May be taken more than once for credit with different topic.
HIST 6220 - Seminar in Public Programming for Historical Organizations and Archives
3credit hoursExamines the theory and practice of educational outreach and public programming for historical organizations. Designed to provide in-depth study in reference services, outreach, history education, advocacy, exhibit development, and assessment for a variety of cultural institutions.
3credit hoursExamines theory and methodology of oral history, including in-depth examination of the relationship of history and memory; explores oral history in texts, films, websites, and museum exhibits. Students focus on how to conduct professional quality oral history interviews, how to process the materials, and how to organize a professional project.