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  • 3.00 Credits

    Prepares educators and helping professionals whose work involves promoting healthy sexuality in children, young people and adults. Also provides detailed investigation into important aspects of teaching sensitive issues related to human sexuality. Students practice, critique, develop, and evaluate sexuality education processes and resources. Dual listed with HLED 4025. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of instructor.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course invites students to apply principles of community and public health in rural and frontier Unites States settings. It outlines challenges and assets that a rural or frontier setting brings to improving community health. It is designed to assist students to bridge gaps that rural settings face and create a plan for improvement within their chosen community or state. Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission from instructor.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This class provides an overview of emergency management. It teaches students skills that will help the prepare themselves, their families, and their community for natural and human made disasters. The class emphasis will be on active learning via role-playing assignments, communication planning, and personal preparedness plans. Prerequisites: HLED 5027: Graduate standing, HLED 4027: HLED 3020, OR Senior Standing, OR permission of the instructor. Cross-listed with HLED 4027.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Identifying, understanding, and working with unique needs and assets of communities is emphasized, including ethnic, religious, and social structures. Planning and implementation of community health programs is stressed. Open but not limited to students interested in the following areas: healthcare, health promotion, public health, the schools. Dual listed with HLED 4050. Prerequisite: a minimum of 6 hours of coursework within the College of Health Sciences or min. of 9 hours of coursework within selected major.
  • 1.00 - 3.00 Credits

    Designed to develop master of science level graduate students into critical consumers of research. An additional purpose is to develop research skills to the level necessary to complete a master of science Plan B paper. Dual listed with KIN 5080. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Focuses on methods and techniques for evaluating and conducting research. Potential and completed research problems are analyzed and evaluated. Research processes are reviewed with emphasis on application. Standards for writing literature reviews and research proposals are also emphasized. Cross listed with KIN 5085. Prerequisite: admission to the UW Division of Kinesiology and Health's graduate program.
  • 1.00 - 3.00 Credits

    Provides flexible credit for students who wish to undertake intensive study of a special problem identified in a regular class. Cross listed with KIN 5097. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Reviews the coordinated program (CSHP) model and identifies research that supports the eight components of the model. Prepares students to advocate for CSHP and to develop the school infrastructure necessary to carry out such a program. Also prepares individuals to work with school from job settings outside the school. Dual listed with HLED 4130. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of instructor.
  • 3.00 Credits

    In this course, students identify and evaluate environmental hazards, using current case studies in environmental health to illustrate how global ecosystems are intrinsically related to human health. It introduces students to environmental justice, toxicology, risk assessment, risk management, (eco)systems thinking, and the practice of environmental health professionals.
  • 1.00 - 6.00 Credits

    Graduate students in kinesiology and health work intensively on current issues and problems, and may pursue specific areas of emphasis. Although a total of 8 hours is permitted under this number, only 6 hours are allowed by the Division of Kinesiology and Health toward a student's graduate program. Cross listed with KIN 5586. Prerequisite: graduate standing.