Graduate Course Descriptions
Dental Hygiene
DHYG 500 – Leadership in Dental Hygiene
This course focuses on the theories, concepts, and principles of leadership skills related to personal behavior, communication, organizational and leadership styles. This course explores the opportunity to develop leadership roles appropriate to the dental hygiene profession.
3 lecture hours, 3 semester credits
DHYG 502 – Evidence Based Research
This course is designed to prepare the student to utilize research as the foundation for clinical decision making. The practical application of evidence-based decision making to the clinical management of individual patients is explored.
3 lecture hours, 3 semester credits
DHYG 503 – Clinical and Didactic Educational Concepts
This course will introduce the graduate student to a procedure for developing a competency-based curriculum. The student will learn the steps in developing a lecture, module of instruction, and a course. Cognitive, affective, and psychomotor learning domains are addressed along with clinical teaching methodologies.
3 lecture hours, 3 semester credits
DHYG 504 - Clinical/Laboratory Teaching
This course will provide students with the practical knowledge and skills to function as a competent clinical/laboratory instructor. Psychomotor skill development and analysis, remediation of performance concerns, evaluation, and faculty calibration are areas stressed.
1 lecture hour, 4 clinic/laboratory hours, 3 semester credits
DHYG 505 - Didactic Student Teaching
This course will provide students with the practical knowledge and skills to function as a competent didactic instructor. Cognitive skill development and analysis, evaluation strategies, and faculty calibration are areas stressed.
1 lecture hour, 4 laboratory hours, 3 semester credits
DHYG 507 – Dental Health Services Administration/Management
This course is designed to familiarize the student with the administrative concepts necessary to effectively administer dental health facilities and departments. Emphasis is placed on leadership, decision making and problem solving skills. It examines political, social, and legal systems that affect dental hygiene administration and influence its role.
3 lecture hours, 3 semester credits
DHYG 508 – Curriculum Development and Assessment
This course provides the student with the study and development of models for dental hygiene curriculum design and implementation. The development and utilization of competencies and the evidence based instruction is emphasized.
3 lecture hours, 3 semester credits
DHYG 509 –Dental Public Health
This course is designed to prepare students for leadership roles in dental public health settings. Administration, grant writing, consumer advocacy, epidemiology, biostatistics, the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation stages of programs and alternative dental hygiene care is emphasized.
3 lecture hours, 3 semester credits
DHYG 512 - Dental Hygiene Advanced Practice
This course provides an in-depth lecture, laboratory and clinical aspect for the student interested in the role of the advanced dental hygiene practitioner. Expanded functions dental hygiene and the responsibilities of the midlevel dental hygienist are emphasized.
3 lecture hours, 8 laboratory/clinic hours, 5 semester credits
DHYG 516 - Concentrated Practicum
This course provides the student with the opportunity to intern in a site relevant to their area of concentration. Goals and objectives will be developed under the guidance of the director of the program and the mentor before the practicum is started.
1 lecture hour, 6 laboratory/clinic hours, 3 semester credits
DHYG 520 - Master’s Thesis
Original research in a chosen topic relating to the graduate student’s area of concentration will be studied, conducted, written and presented.
1 lecture hour, 8 laboratory/clinic hours, 4 semester credits
Graduate School of Education
EDUC 509 – Psychological Foundations in Education
This is concerned with the work of educations in general and teacher in particular. Topics include student characteristics (personality, growth and development, and adjustment, etc.), motivation, learning, measurement and evaluation, objectives and teaching methods.
3 lecture hours, 3 semester credits
EDUC 558 – Evaluation of Instructional Outcomes
This course gives students an orientation to the topics, issues, and concepts in the field of educational testing and measurement. Topics include methods for evaluating instructional programs, types of instruments for collecting data, and a variety of standardized, criterion-referenced, and performance-based assessments. The construction of teacher-made tests and the interpretation of different types of test scores are included.
3 lecture hours, 3 semester credits
EDUC 500 – Research Technique and Report Writing
A thorough study of advanced statistical procedures and experimental designs used in education, and of the major methods on non-experimental education research.
3 lecture hours, 3 semester hours
Graduate Studies in Business
ACCT 400 – Accounting Concepts
Introduction to principles of financial and managerial accounting including the measurement, processing, and communication of accounting information for use by a variety of users including business owners, managers, creditors, prospective investors, and others interested in the financial condition of an entity and the results of its operations.
3 lecture hours, 3 semester credits
MGMT 400 – Organizational Behavior
This course permits students to examine theory and practice of interpersonal, group process and organizational behavior. Individual and small group projects develop and illustrate principles of relationships, communications, role assignment, leadership and conflict management in organizations. Experiential designs permit learning through group participation, case analysis and individual problem solving.
3 lecture hours, 3 semester credits
MGMT 511 – Human Resources Management
An in-depth survey is offered of current theory, research and practice in the management of human resources in organizations. Job design, recruitment, selection, performance feedback, goal-setting, training, employee rights, safety, compensation and benefits issues are reviewed within the context of their application in the United States as a world standard for such practices, with comparisons to customs and practices in the international arena. Intensive library research into current human resource research is required.
Prerequisite: GSB430, 3 lecture hours, 3 semester credits
MGMT 570 - Foundation of Health Care Management
Nutrition
NUTR 560H – Developmental Nutrition
Nutritional considerations and health related concerns of growth and development. Special attention will be given to pregnancy/lactation, fetal/neonatal, and infant/pediatric stages of development. Nutritional needs of the adolescent and elderly will be discussed.
3 lecture hours, 3 semester credits
NUTR 560M – Clinical Epidemiology and Statistical Reasoning
This course is a description of analytical approaches for obtaining and interpreting biological data with emphasis on data analysis in the nutritional sciences. Biological variation, experimental design, data and fact differences, matching analysis to design, integrity in analysis, and bias in design and analysis will be considered in detail.
3 lecture hours, 3 semester credits
NUTR 560P – Botanical Medicine
This course is a study of the use of herbs in nutritional practice. Discussions on individual herbs will include botany, mechanism of action, pharmacological/toxicological properties, clinical application, product standardization, and recommended dosages.
3 lecture hours, 3 semester credits
Naturopathic Medicine
NCS 613 – Public Health/Epidemiology
This course covers the current environmental and public health concerns and issues. The course integrates health with diet, air and water pollutants, noise, and substance abuse, compares community hygiene and industrial hygiene, defines epidemiology, and recognition of major communicable and non-communicable diseases.
Prerequisite: NBS 522, 3 lecture hours, 3 semester credits
NHM 621 – Homeopathy
This course lays down the foundation of the basic laws and principles of Homeopathy upon which future courses will build. The principles as set forth by Hahnemann in his Organon are the bases of the course. The students will also become thoroughly acquainted with the use of Kent’s Repertory.
2 lecture hours, 2 credit hours
NPP 511 – History of Naturopathic Medicine
This course is a survey and introduction to the history and philosophy of Naturopathic Medicine as a distinct healing art as well as its fundamental roots: Botanical Medicine, Nature Cure, Physical medicine, Hydrotherapy, Homeopathy, Energy Medicine, and Ancient Healing systems from around the globe. We will also explore the politics of medicine, women and healing, psychoneuroimmunology, the philosophy of vitalism and mechanism, shamanic and entheogenic healing and encourage students to “live their philosophy” incorporating the precepts of Naturopathic medicine into their lifestyles.
2 lecture hours, 2 semester credits
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