PUBH-HBP 685: Field Experience in Health Behavior and Health Promotion
Offered every quarter
Description: Placement in a public health agency or related site for supervised practice experience.
PUBH-HBP 720: Preventing Disease and Promoting Health through Behavioral Science
Autumn Quarter
Description: Examination of behavioral and social science concepts as the basis for public health practice; topics include transferring knowledge, motivating and aiding behavior change efforts, and working with the community.
Faculty: Pirie
PUBH-HBP 725: Behavioral Sciences for Health Care Managers
Spring Quarter
Prerequisite: MHA degree required
Description: Conceptual frameworks and strategies for behavioral and social change efforts, with applications for health care management
Faculty: Steinman
PUBH-HBP 793: Individual Studies in Health Behavior and Health Promotion
Offered every quarter
This course is graded Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory (S/U).
Faculty: Various
PUBH-HBP 820: Foundations of Health Behavior and Health Promotion
Winter Quarter
Description: Overview of the field of health behavior and health promotion; introduction to historical origins, philosophical underpinnings and scientific basis of the field.
Faculty: Love
PUBH-HBP 821: Community Health Assessment
Winter Quarter
Description: Models of community health assessment; skills in identifying, analyzing and integrating information concerning community resources and needs.
Faculty: Steinman
PUBH-HBP 822: Settings and Special Populations
Autumn Quarter
Description: Critical characteristics of principal settings in which health promotion interventions occur and populations to which they apply, such as youth, elderly, racial and ethnic minorities.
Faculty: Love
PUBH-HBP 824: Program Evaluation in Public Health
Autumn (PEP) and Spring Quarter
Description: Examination of evaluation models for public health programs; exploration of philosophical and scientific issues in evaluation; and skill-building in both qualitative and quantitative evaluation methods.
Faculty: Pirie
PUBH-HBP 825: Adolescent Health Issues
Spring Quarter
Description: Overview of health issues affecting adolescents; current public health practices designed to respond to these issues.
Faculty: Steinman
PUBH-HBP 826: Substance Abuse Prevention
Spring Quarter
Description: History of substance abuse prevention efforts; theoretical foundations and elements of successful programs.
Faculty: Love
PUBH-HBP 827: Program Planning and Implementation
Spring Quarter
Description: Evidence linking behavioral and psychosocial factors to health and illness; development and implementation of interventions; ethical issues in planned behavioral and social change efforts.
Faculty: Katz
PUBH-HBP 828: Cancer Behavioral Science
Winter Quarter
Description: Overview of behavioral issues associated with cancer at the individual and community levels.
Faculty: Katz
Faculty: Paskett
PUBH-HBP 850: Public Health in Action
Winter Quarter
Description: Service learning course designed to provide an opportunity to participate in organized service activity that is connected to specific learning outcomes, meets identified community needs, and allows structured time for students to reflect on the connection of the service learning experience to learning.
Faculty: Love
