Moves through individual, group, and organizational levels of behavior, drawing on concepts and practices from the field of Organizational Behavior (OB). Provides a basic understanding of one's own and others' behavior, particularly in teams, and enhances students' ability to communicate and work effectively with others, including core leadership skills. Prerequisites: Admission to HSM Graduate Certificate; and completion of PSHM 5010 or 5020.

This course is an introduction to clinical ethics, which concerns the identification, analysis, and resolution of ethical problems arising in patient care. The course deals with two tiers of ethical problems occurring frequently in the clinical setting: those that are present in every clinical encounter and special problems that arise with particular patients.

Examines how informatics in the healthcare industry improves patient care, health outcomes, efficiency, quality & evidence-based decision making; evaluates challenges and strategies for healthcare managers in implementing health information systems & their costs, benefits, and impacts in healthcare organizations. Analyzes key issues in data management, security, privacy and confidentiality. Prerequisite: Admission to HSM Graduate Certificate

Independent research for undergraduate students enrolled in the BA/BS/MPH 5 year program or other programs that may be related to Public Health or Ethics.

Explores public safety leadership concepts and essential approaches needed in forging lasting, collaborative relationships with the public they serve. Students will analyze complex social and security issues. While maintaining a mindset of sociocultural awareness and sensitivity, students craft solutions to those public issues by applying advanced knowledge of public safety planning, management, and response. Prereq: Admission to MPS Degree Prog.

Introducing the questions, methods, and arguments that organize work in the Environmental Humanities (EH), this graduate seminar is open to MA and PhD students from any discipline, including the sciences and social sciences. There are no prerequisites. ENVH 6000 serves as the required course for the Graduate Certificate in Environmental Humanities, yet is open to graduate students not pursuing the Certificate.

This interdisciplinary course introduces students to advanced research methods for investigating issues in European Studies. Each student will develop a research proposal and paper on a specific disciplinary topic under the supervision of a faculty member in that discipline, with the requirement that the paper include significant insights from at least one other discipline.

This course covers the practice of data science practice, including communication, exploratory data analysis, and visualization. Also covered are the selection of algorithms to suit the problem to be solved, user needs, and data. Case studies will explore the impact of data science across different domains.

Leadership and Public Policy foundational skills course.

This course examines the ethical issues arising around big data and provides frameworks, context, concepts, and theories to help students think through and deal with the issues as they encounter them in their professional lives.