Online Degree Programs

Course of Biological Sciences at Auburn University

College: Auburn University
Department: Biological Sciences
Course: Biological Sciences
Title: BIOL 6375 Marine Science For Elementary School Teachers (3). LEC. 3. Pr., 6 hours in basic biological science and departmental approval. Principle-centered training in a broad spectrum of subjects relating marine science to health, reading, social studies, language, arithmetic, science and art. Taught at Gulf Coast Research Laboratory.

Early Childhood Instruction Course> Atlanta Christian College

ECI 303 Health and PE for Early Childhood (2)
A course designed to expose the student to health education and physical education activities in the early childhood grades, with emphasis on giving the student experience in actually teaching physical education activities. All students will become infant and child CPR certified by the Heart Association as partial fulfillment of course requirements. Prerequisite: TEP Block 1 courses. Prerequisite or co-requisite: other TEP Block 2 courses. (2nd)

Course Title Credit Area
NUTR 330 Introductory Nutrition 3 Science
NUTR 331 Nutrition for Health 3 Science
NUTR 405 Nutrition in Health and Disease 3 Science
NUTR 406 Modern Concepts in Nutrition 3 Science
NUTR 495/496 Nutrition Projects 3 (each) Science

Undergraduate Course> Athabasca University

Health Studies (HLST) 301
Alternative Therapies (Revision 1)

Credits: 3 - Science
Prerequisite: HLST 200 or equivalent. Nurses and other students with a background in health sciences do not require a prerequisite.
Centre: Centre for Science
HLST 301 has a Challenge for Credit option

Undergraduate Course> Athabasca University

Health Administration (HADM) 400
Health Care Law (Revision 1)

Credits: 3 - Applied Studies
Prerequisite: HADM 369, PHIL 333, PHIL 335, HSRV 311, any 300 level Nursing course or professor approval is required.
Centre: Centre for State and Legal Studies
HADM 400 has a Challenge for Credit option.

Overview

Health Care Law is a rapidly growing field of study, research, and education. Health care and human service professionals are seeing it as increasingly relevant to clinical practice and to policy-making. Distinctive characteristics of Canadian health law and health policy are frequently misunderstood or confused with the American context.

The building blocks of legal analysis are essential to getting the most from this course. This means identifying legal issues, understanding what sources and statements of law matter most, knowing how to access those sources, and knowing how to apply legal principles to factual cases. In this course, we will move, unit by unit, through this learning process, beginning with sources of law, moving to issue identification, then to legal analysis, and then to the application of law to facts. Two short written assignments will focus more on the learning of process than on legal knowledge.

Outline
Unit 1: Introduction to Health Law
Unit 2: Health Law and the Canadian Health Care System
Unit 3: Health Law and Health Professional Regulation
Unit 4: Clinical Practice and Legal Liability
Unit 5: General Principles of the Law of Consent
Unit 6: Specific Problems of the Law of Consent
Unit 7: Health Information Law
Unit 8: Reproductive Decision-Making
Unit 9: Life’s End Decision-Making
Unit 10: Health Law and Genetics

Undergraduate Course> Athabasca University

Health Administration (HADM) 315
Health and Community Development (Revision 2)

Credits: 3 - Social Science
Prerequisite: None.
Precluded course: HADM 315 may not be taken for credit if credit has already been obtained for NTST 315.
Centre: Centre for State and Legal Studies
HADM 315 has a Challenge for Credit option.

Overview

HADM 315 is designed to introduce students to the historical, theoretical, and practical framework of community development (CD), and to the implementation of CD programs or projects conducted in communities in Tanzania, Ghana, Bangladesh, Canada, and Chile. This course further examines the effectiveness of the community development process in addressing the social and economic needs faced by people in these countries. Finally, the course examines how community development relates to primary health care.
Outline

Unit 1: The History and the Conceptualization of Community Development
Part 1: The African and Asian Experience
Part 2: The Conceptualization of Community Development

Unit 2: Community Development Practice: A Comparative Perspective
Part 1: The African and Asian Experience
Part 2: The Canadian and Latin American Experience
Part 3: Women in Development

Unit 3: Primary Health Care and Community Development
Part 1: Community Organizing for Development Process
Part 2: Primary Health Care and Community Development: A Conceptual Overview
Part 3: Primary Health Care Practice

Undergraduate Course of Applied Studies > Athabasca University

Applied Studies (APST) 235
Practicum: Clinical Practice

Overview

APST 235 is a residency/field placement for health development administration students. The course is designed as a practical educational and training experience that will assist students to synthesize the contents of courses in the first year of the University Certificate in Health Development Administration program.

The course is designed to help students apply their theoretical knowledge to a practical application in the field. The course provides students with an exposure to a typical future work environment and helps students to identify their career goals–both academically and professionally.

Students will work with an agency or organization and complete the project that is a community-based survey, needs assessment, and program evaluation. Students taking this course are expected to work independently with minimum supervision.

Undergraduate Course of Anthropology > Athabasca University

Anthropology (ANTH) 499
Medical Anthropology
Overview

ANTH 499 examines the notion that health and illness are not entities in themselves, but rather culturally constituted means of both representing and shaping human experience and reality. The course looks at different medical systems within particular cultural contexts. It also investigates several important themes including healers, medical pluralism, Indigenous medicine, the political economy of health and illness, the medicalization of social life, and the relationship between belief and the construction of clinical realities. The main theoretical approaches in medical anthropology are analyzed in the context of their strengths and weaknesses, which helps explain the ideologies and practices behind each system.
Outline

The course consists of the following seven units.

Unit 1: Introduction to Medical Anthropology

Unit 2: Theoretical Perspectives in Medical Anthropology

Unit 3: Biomedicine as a Cultural Category

Unit 4: Quantifying Health and Illness

Unit 5: The Social and Political Determinants of Health

Unit 6: Healers and their Patients in Ethnographic Context

Unit 7: Magic, Religion, and Healing

Unit 8: Cross-cultural Psychiatry

School of Life and Health Sciences >MPharm Degree Course> Aston University

MPharm Final Year

The final year has a theme of pharmaceutical practice and focuses on the clinical use of medicines and the optimisation of the use of medicines for individual patients. Teaching will be supported by hospital based learning and the use of advanced clinical simulation software. There will be two main clinical themes: individual patient care including prescribing and complex multi-disease states and public health – the role of pharmacy in improving the health of the nation. These will be supported by advancing science modules focusing upon new methods to target drugs to precise sites of action and a module focusing upon new technologies in pharmaceutical care e.g. gene therapy. All final year students complete an extended research project which may be laboratory or professionally based

School of Life and Health Sciences >MPharm Degree Course> Aston University

MPharm Third Year

In your third year you will complete your study of applied pharmacology and therapeutics by considering the pathophysiology and treatment of drugs affecting the central nervous system. You will conclude of study of medicinal chemistry, will extend your understanding of how drugs can be delivered to the body and how medicines are prepared and reach the market. You will learn to integrate and use your pharmaceutical knowledge in a course designed to further develop your clinical skills. More importantly, you will conclude your study of law and ethics during this year.