Please check the Class Schedule or contact the center for specific course availability for each semester:
DEPTHBSS NUMBER4100 NAMEIntroduction to health education
Determinants of health; relationship between health and human behavior; the role of health education as a strategy in health promotion and disease prevention; selected issues and problems.
Instructor: John Allegrante
DEPTHBSS NUMBER4102 NAMEPrinciples of epidemiology in health promotion
Principles and methods of epidemiologic investigation; application of epidemiology to prevention and control of disease, using health education.
Instructor: Charles Basch
DEPTHBSS NUMBER4110 NAMEHealth promotion for children and adolescents
Basic topics in promoting child and adolescent health; relationships between school, family, and community in promoting the health status of school-age children.
Instructor: Charles Basch
DEPTHBSS NUMBER4111 NAMEAddictions and dependencies
Social-psychological, cultural, clinical, and pharmacological factors associated with the use of psychoactive drugs and other compulsive behaviors.
Instructor: Barbara Wallace
DEPTHBSS NUMBER4112 NAMESocial policy and prevention
Analysis of current national health policy, its social, economic, and political determinants, and implications for health education.
Instructor: John Allegrante
DEPTHBSS NUMBER4113 NAMEHuman sexuality education
Explore human sexuality from a variety of perspectives; explore students' own attitudes about human sexuality and how they affect them personally and Profess-sionally; examine methods of teaching and designing sexuality education programs.
Instructor: Margot Hodes
DEPTHBSS NUMBER4114 NAMEHealth promotion for multicultural populations
Health status, needs, and problems of multicultural populations in urban environments and sensitivity to these issues in effective programs.
Instructor: Barbara Wallace
DEPTHBSS NUMBER4115 NAMEHealth promotion for aging adults
Changes in aspects of health during the middle and later years; recent developments in the field of gerontology as well as legislation and community organization designed to meet health needs of aging persons.
Instructor: Ray Marks
DEPTHBSS NUMBER4116 NAMEHealth education for teachers
As part of teacher certification in New York and other states, students must be trained in the following health areas: reporting child abuse, instruction in alcohol and other drugs, and school violence prevention. This course satisfies these requirements and reviews theory and research on children's health and health behavior change. Students will learn how to develop health-related lesson plans and how to identify, prevent, or intervene on behalf of children at risk or presenting with social-emotional or physical health problems.
Instructor: Katherine Roberts
DEPTHBSS NUMBER4117 NAMEHIV/AIDS epidemiology and education
The role of schools, parents, and communities in educating youth about AIDS and human sexuality; review of methods and resource materials for providing such education; consideration of controversial issues surrounding these topics.
Instructor: Margot Hodes
DEPTHBSS NUMBER4118 NAMERelapse prevention for problem behaviors
Theory and techniques of relapse prevention across a range of addictive behaviors. Topics include relapse prevention for psychoactive substance use, eating disorders, gambling, and sex.
Instructor: Barbara Wallace
DEPTHBSS NUMBER4120 NAMETopics in health education
Review and synthesis of current knowledge on a selected topic related to health, such as teenage suicide, child abuse, violence, teenage pregnancy and mental health.
Instructor: William Kernan
DEPTHBSS NUMBER4121 NAMEDeath education
Designed to increase awareness/insight of the multidimensional aspects of death, dying, and bereavement. Gain skills as health care professionals in dealing with death, its causes, treatment of life-threatening illness, including AIDS, suicide, and violent death. Explore customs across cultures, afterlife beliefs, near-death experiences, and ethical issues.
DEPTHBSS NUMBER4122 NAMEWomen's health
Explore health issues as they relate to the female body and psyche including: body image, weight control, substance abuse, HIV, cancer, reproductive health, contraceptives, abortion, domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and lesbian health issues with attention paid to the media and women's health.
Instructor: Maya Korin
DEPTHBSS NUMBER4123 NAMEViolence and its Prevention
This course covers the nature and prevention of invisible and covert, as well as visible and overt violence, including intrapersonal, interpersonal, family, community, gang, school, societal and international manifestations.
Instructor: Barbara Wallace
DEPTHBSS NUMBER4130 NAMEAlcohol and health
Background and theory related to alcohol use and misuse; health and social consequences of alcohol misuse; consideration of special populations, such as children of alcoholics; review of alternative approaches to prevention and treatment.
DEPTHBSS NUMBER4140 NAMEDeveloping workplace health promotion programs
Provides a comprehensive step-by-step process to designing, implementing, and evaluating health promotion programs at the workplace.
Instructor: John Allegrante
DEPTHBSS NUMBER4141 NAMEHealth and illness in cross-cultural perspective
Examination of the role of healing and medicine, both historically and cross-culturally and of the utility of considering cultural practices and beliefs when designing health education programs.
Instructor: William Kernan
DEPTHBSS NUMBER4901 NAMEResearch and independent study in health education
Permission required. Research and independent study under faculty direction. Proposals must have prior approval of a faculty member.
Instructor: John Allegrante
DEPTHBSS NUMBER5000 NAMEHealth promotion in higher education
This course will explore the complex issues and challenges facing those working to enhance the quality of student health and student learning at college and universities.
DEPTHBSS NUMBER5110 NAMEDeterminants of health behavior
Theory-based analysis of the cultural, social-psychological, and social-structural determinants of health-related behaviors; implications for planned change at individual, small-group, and community levels.
Instructor: John Allegrante
DEPTHBSS NUMBER5111 NAMEPlanning health education programs
Process of developing social, epidemiological, behavioral, and educational diagnoses; principles of planning, implementing, and evaluating health education interventions.
Instructor: Ray Marks
DEPTHBSS NUMBER5112 NAMESocial marketing and health communications
Principles and theories of marketing and communication applied to health education. Practice in developing and evaluating health communications.
Instructor: Ray Marks
DEPTHBSS NUMBER5113 NAMECommunity health analysis and intervention
Survey and analysis of concepts, issues, strategies, and methods relevant to community health analysis and intervention.
Instructor: Lesley Rennis
DEPTHBSS NUMBER5115 NAMEAssessment and counseling for health promotion
Assessment of clients' health-compromising behaviors to reduce relapse and facilitate referrals to mental health staff; interventions for motivational counseling, psychoeducational group, and focus group formats are covered.
Instructor: Barbara Wallace
DEPTHBSS NUMBER5116 NAMESocial relations, emotions, and health
Covers theory and research on the effects of social relationships and emotions on health. Reviews and evaluates the use of social support and expressive writing interventions for treating chronic health problems, such as heart disease, cancer, and arthritis, or acute illnesses, such as upper respiratory infections. Also considers the role of emergent technologies in supportive-expressive therapies.
Instructor: William Kernan
DEPTHBSS NUMBER5408 NAMEPracticum in individual health advisement
Individual and small group practice in the application of basic principles of counseling in the area of health problems.
Instructor: John Allegrante
DEPTHBSS NUMBER5410 NAMEPracticum in health education
Permission required. Advance registration required in the semester prior to taking the course. Intensive field experience in a community setting. Essay required at end of field experience.
Instructor: John Allegrante
DEPTHBSS NUMBER5510 NAMESeminar in health education
Current problems, issues and trends in health education.
DEPTHBSS NUMBER5710 NAMESupervised teaching in health education
Permission required. Advance registration required in the semester prior to taking the course. Supervised health teaching in a school. Essay required at end of teaching experience.
Instructor: Charles Basch
DEPTHBSS NUMBER6100 NAMEMeasurement and program evaluation
Theory, methods, and problems of measurement and evaluation; standards for evaluation of health, education, and related social programs; skills in critical evaluation of research and evaluation reports.
Instructor: Charles Basch
DEPTHBSS NUMBER6145 NAMEHealth psychology
Topics include social learning theory, attribution, and attitudes as they apply to health promotion, disease prevention, reactions to illness, and adherence to treatment regimens.
Instructor: Kathleen O'Connell
DEPTHBSS NUMBER6510 NAMEResearch seminar in health education
Permission required. Review of research literature, methods, and problems in health education.
Instructor: John Allegrante
DEPTHBSS NUMBER6901 NAMEResearch and independent study in health education
Permission required. Open to matriculated doctoral students. Research and independent study under faculty direction. Proposals must have prior approval of a faculty member.
Instructor: John Allegrante
DEPTHBSS NUMBER7501 NAMEDissertation seminar in health education
Permission required. Open to certified doctoral candidates only. Development and presentation of doctoral dissertation proposals.
Instructor: John Allegrante
DEPTHBSS NUMBER8900 NAMEDissertation advisement in health education
Permission required. Individual advisement on doctoral dissertations. Fee to equal 3 points at current tuition rate for each term.
Instructor: _ Faculty/Staff