Focuses on the scope and nature of work in the nutrition field, including higher education pathways, career opportunities, professional roles, skills, responsibilities, and ethics. Includes guest presentations by various nutrition professionals and networking opportunities.
Linguistic, cultural, and systemic barriers impede the health of individuals and can be costly to society at large. This course provides skills and strategies to advance language justice and equip monolingual and multilingual health workers to work cross-culturally by providing services that are culturally and linguistically appropriate, and through advocacy that promotes systemic changes, empowering self and clients.
Designed for students pursuing the Community Health Worker Certificate who are interested in working with communities in the areas of nutrition education, food security, and justice. Overview of trends, policies and resources that will enable students to advocate and promote the health of diverse communities.
Public health perspectives on diverse types of violence, with a focus on trends over time, causes and risk factors of violence, and resiliency, in order to develop strategies for violence prevention. Trauma and other consequences of violence will be examined. Community-based advocacy skills for violence prevention are introduced and practiced in this course.
This course is designed for students in the health, justice, or social service fields. It includes an examination of types of trauma, an analysis of the ways trauma affects survivors, an exploration of building resiliency, various approaches to recovery, and person-centered skills to support recovery.
This is an in-depth review of Health Information Management principles to prepare Health Information Technology (HIT) graduates for the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) National Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) examination. The focus is on reviewing materials, test-taking and study strategy. Students use a variety of resources to prepare for the national exam. It is recommended that students take this course within six months of sitting for the RHIT exam.
The political, social, artistic, and cultural history of people of African-American descent in the United States from their African beginnings to the Civil War. Covering the development of African-American culture and heritage from ancestral West Africa.
An introduction to Earth�s history and the methods and tools used in its study and interpretation. Includes topics such as the formation and growth of continents, the creation and destruction of ocean basins, and the evolution of life on Earth as represented by the fossil record. Emphasis on the geologic and life history of North America. Includes a lab component.
This course examines Pacific Islander migrations to the United States mainland including the history, culture, and politics of Hawai'i and U.S. Pacific territories. It explores indigenous cultures and American experiences of Pacific Islanders from Guam, American Samoa, Palau, Marshall Islands, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti, New Zealand, and Australia.
An introduction to fluid statics and the basic laws of fluid flow; conservation of mass, momentum and energy. Applications of the
basic laws to internal and external incompressible flow, including specific topics in pipe flow systems, centrifugal pumps and fans,
streamlining, fluid flow meters, psychometrics of air and water-vapor mixtures, and basic elements of air conditioning. Use of psychometric instruments and psychometric charts to graphically analyze processes.