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2018-2019 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
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2018-2019 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED PUBLICATION]

Course Descriptions

Many course descriptions include a designation of Term(s) Offered: with one or more of the following: Fall, Spring, Summer. This indicates the term(s) in which the course is typically offered and is intended to aid students in planning their programs of study. Departments reserve the right to change the term(s) in which a course is offered.
 

Health Administration (undergraduate)
  

  • HA 496 - Marketing and Competitive Strategy in Healthcare

    Credits: 3

    This course focuses on healthcare marketing and strategic planning in healthcare. The increasing complexity of the healthcare system dictates a need for an organized approach to strategy, and one that ties key market issues and needs to a definitive market position, quantifiable objectives, and finally to strategies and actions aimed at achieving the position and objectives. This course allows the student to learn such an organized approach to marketing and strategy. A strategic analysis and plan, as a means to introduce the principles and concepts of strategy applicable to healthcare, will be conducted.

    Prerequisite(s): HP 211 .

    Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer


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Health Informatics and Information Management
  
  

  • HI 302 - Enterprise Systems and Electronic Health Records (EHRs)

    Credits: 3

    Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are application systems that automate the activities of healthcare clinicians including physicians, nurses, physician assistants, and healthcare administrative staff. The increased use of EHRs has many challenges including complex data, high-security requirements, integration to multiple application systems, a distributed user base, and broad impact on how these users work. This course describes regulatory policies and implementation issues concerning Enterprise Systems and Electronic Health Records (EHRs). Students will be exposed to real-world use and deployment of EHRs through readings, discussions, hands-on labs and case studies.

    Prerequisite(s): HI 301 ; Health Informatics & Information Management major

    Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring


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  • HI 303 - Health Information Exchange (HIE) and Interoperability

    Credits: 3

    There is an urgent need for the exchange of healthcare information and an interoperable health system that empowers individuals to use their electronic health information to the fullest extent, enables providers and communities to deliver safer, and more efficient care, and promotes innovation at all levels. Students will gain an understanding of basic principles in healthcare system interoperability and infrastructure as well as architectural, business and operational models required to implement and manage a health information exchange (HIE). Students will be exposed to real-world examples to demonstrate concepts in practice.

    Prerequisite(s): HI 301 ; Health Informatics and Information Management major.

    Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring


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Health Professions
  
  
  
  
  

  • HP 236 - Eastern Medicine and Alternative/Complimentary Healthcare

    Credits: 3

    This is a course designed to study Eastern medicine and its influence on complementary healthcare therapies. Emphasis is on historical, cultural, social, research, and consumer interest influences on the evolving model of east-west healing and healthcare. Specific modalities will be studied with emphasis on utilization for self-care and their use in healthcare. Implications for changes in healthcare environments and healthcare provider roles also will be analyzed.

    USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-World Languages and Culture.

    Indiana Statewide Transfer General Education Core: Meets IN Statewide Core.
    Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer


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  • HP 314 - Audiology and Hearing Impairment

    Credits: 3

    This course covers topics in basic audiology and hearing impairment. Information covered will be informative for professionals who come in contact with hearing impaired individuals. Approximately five of every 1,000 babies are born with significant hearing loss. Hearing loss frequently accompanies other disabilities and is a normal development with the process of aging. Topics to be studied include: types and causes of hearing loss, social and emotional factors related to hearing loss, helpful communication strategies to use with hearing impaired persons, different types of amplification and management of such, and other equipment and services available for those who are hearing impaired.

    Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer


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  • HP 356 - Ethics and Healthcare in a Pluralistic Society

    Credits: 3

    The course will provide students with an ethical framework for decision-making in the context of a pluralistic society. Models and principles of ethical justification among a diversity of cultures and belief systems will be analyzed. Specific applications are made to concerns in clinical and healthcare management. Topics include the right to healthcare, community health ethics, end-of-life issues, and organizational ethics.

    USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Moral and Ethical Reasoning; Embedded Experience-Diversity.

    Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or consent of instructor.

    Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer


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  • HP 475 - Professionalism in Health Care

    Credits: 3

    This course provides information that is essential to the success of today’s health care professional.  It will give students the understanding of the importance of professionalism and the need to perform in a professional, ethical, legal and competent manner.  The student will develop and strengthen the professional traits and behaviors needed for today’s healthcare industry.  Knowledge of professionalism enhances the student’s ability to successfully secure employment in the healthcare arena and/or to pursue advanced education.

    Prerequisite(s): HP 211 ; Junior or Senior status or permission of Chair. Must be admitted in the BSHS specialty track.

    Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer


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  • HP 480 - Internship in Health Professions

    Credits: 1, 2, or 3

    This course provides an internship for junior or senior student Health Services majors who meet the perquisites. An opportunity to gain valuable insight and understanding of current topics in the healthcare environment while they assist the healthcare business reach its organizational goals will be provided. Interns will function as valuable, student members of a healthcare-related management team. The experience will lead students to a deeper appreciation of the nature of the healthcare field. Both leadership and team work opportunities will be sought, and the student intern will have a chance to think on his/her feet while participating in practical workplace situations. The University will work closely with the participating healthcare organization to customize an experience for the intern that meets the needs of the healthcare organization without compromising academic goals or the student’s academic progress.

    Prerequisite(s): Students must have completed a background profile and health requirements, have completed 75 credit hours, have successfully completed HP 475 , have a cumulative GPA of 2.75 or better, and consent of instructor. For students in the Health Promotion Worksite Wellness specialty track or Health Promotion Worksite Wellness minor they must also have successfully completed HP 305  and HP 306 .

    Repeatability: Repeatable to a maximum of six credit hours.
    Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer


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History
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  • HIST 287 - Social Studies Methods

    Credits: 3

    This course serves as an introduction to history teaching methods. The primary goal of this course is to familiarize students with the tools, techniques, and methods required in a 21st century social studies classroom. Students will learn a variety of best teaching practices as they relate to the various Social Studies content areas, as well as understanding citizenship education, teaching for social justice, and global diversity, broadly defined. The course is designed so that students will learn how to create effective, innovative, and student-centered lesson plans, which are grounded in the standards, reflect best classroom practices, and incorporate multiple learning styles. Students should come away from this class with a better idea of what it means to teach history as well as a variety of ways to approach teaching it.

    Term(s) Offered: Spring


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  • HIST 336 - African American History to 1865

    Credits: 3

    This course explores the history of African-descended people in the United States from their first arrival in the North American colonies through the end of slavery during the U.S. Civil War. We will investigate the ways African Americans fashioned new worlds and cultures while living under the enormous constraints of slavery and discrimination. Struggles for freedom, full citizenship, and alternative political visions, and the role of such struggles in shaping African Americans’ identification with each other as a people, will be a focus throughout. We will also treat differences of class and gender within African American communities. Course materials will include both primary and secondary sources, and as we examine these sources we will consider various methods for discovering and interpreting the history of people whose voices are not always easily found in the historical record.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 201 and sophomore standing

    Term(s) Offered: Fall


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  • HIST 362 - History of Paris

    Credits: 3

    This course surveys the political, cultural and social history of Paris from the late Middle Ages through contemporary times.  Among the topics to be covered are the roles of the Catholic Church and the French monarchy in the city’s affairs; the growth in population beginning in the seventeenth century; the city’s history of revolutions from 1789 through 1871; and long-term developments in architecture and urban planning.  Among the political and cultural figures to be examined are Etienne Marcel, Henri IV, Louis XVI, Maximilien Robespierre, Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, Louis Michel and Simone de Beauvoir.

    Prerequisite(s): One 100-level history course and sophomore standing.

    Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered


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  • HIST 365 - Crusades

    Credits: 3

    An intensive study of the holy wars between Western Europe and Islam that took place in the Holy Land and Europe from the late eleventh century to the late fifteenth century. Special emphasis is placed on an analysis of the crusading ideal, the motivations of the crusaders, the changes in crusade ideology, as well as Muslim response to Christian military attacks. Cross-cultural exchanges between Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the territories affected by the crusades also are examined.

    Prerequisite(s): sophomore standing.

    Indiana Statewide Transfer General Education Core: Meets IN Statewide Core.
    Note: this course may count in Area II or Area III of the history major or minor.
    Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered


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  • HIST 399 - Independent Study in History

    Credits: 3

    Special reading tutorials or independent research projects proposed by upper-division history majors to provide in-depth study with a specific faculty mentor within the history department. The course may be applied to any one of the appropriate history elective categories: U.S., Europe, or world history.

    Prerequisite(s): Students wishing to enroll in HIST 399 must receive the approval of and develop with a faculty mentor a written contract for work to be completed; approval of the contract by the history department chair is also required.

    Repeatability: A maximum of six hours in independent study may apply towards a major in history; no more than three hours of HIST 399 may be directed by the same instructor.
    Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered


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