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Music Theory |
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MUST 231 - Theory III Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall
Analysis, part-writing, and figured bass realization and harmonization covering the extended harmonic vocabulary of the nineteenth century including modulation, altered chords, chromatic harmony, and modes. Prerequisite: MUST 112 , MUST 132 . Corequisite: MUST 211 . |
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MUST 232 - Theory IV Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Spring
Literature, analysis and theoretical concepts of music since 1900. Emphasis will be placed on computer applications in music. This course satisfies the computer literacy requirements for music majors seeking teacher certification. Prerequisite: MUST 231 . Corequisite: MUST 212 . |
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MUST 233 - Jazz Theory and Improvisation Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 2 Terms Offered: Fall, odd years
Introduces the fundamentals of jazz theory and improvisational techniques, emphasizing in-class improvising in various jazz styles and formats. Prerequisite: MUST 231 . |
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MUST 331 - Counterpoint Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 2 Terms Offered: Fall, odd years
The study and analysis of late 17th and early 18th century polyphony with emphasis on stylistic composition in two and three parts. Prerequisite: MUST 232 . |
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MUST 332 - Forms and Analysis Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 1 Terms Offered: Spring
An analytical study of selected compositions from the late 17th through the early 20th centuries. Prerequisite: MUST 232 . |
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MUST 333 - Jazz Composition and Arranging Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 2 Terms Offered: Spring, even years
Explores the technical and creative aspects required to compose and arrange various jazz works ranging from small combo to a traditional big band. Prerequisite: MUST 233 . |
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MUST 432 - Orchestration and Arranging Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 2 Terms Offered: Fall
Ranges, transpositions, timbres, and individual characteristics of band and orchestra instruments, with experience in scoring for small ensembles, full band, and orchestra. Prerequisite: 12 hours of music including MUST 231 , MUST 231 , or by permission. |
Nursing |
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NURS 308 - Global Healthcare Lecture Hours: 3 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Summer
A study of healthcare delivery systems, quality of healthcare, and the impact of socioeconomic factors and culture on the delivery of healthcare through readings, discussion and interviews. Field experience will be gained through service-learning activities and observation within a medical community. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Corequisite: Participation in required shadowing, observation, and service components. Same as BIOL 308 , CHEM 308 , and CSD 308 . May be used to satisfy University Requirements. |
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NURS 320 - Evidence-Based Gerontologic Nursing Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 2 Terms Offered: Summer
Evidence-Based Gerontologic Nursing presents the specialized knowledge and application needed by professional nurses to provide safe, quality, and evidence-based care to the older adults. Prerequisite: NURS 360 and NURS 361 . |
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NURS 330 - Pharmacology in Nursing Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall, Spring
Pharmacology in Nursing introduces students to the nurse’s role in safe medication administration and error prevention for the highest potential health outcomes. Medication classes and nursing implications will be discussed. Prerequisite: Admission to the School of Nursing. Course fee. |
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NURS 337 - Applied Pathophysiology Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Applied pathophysiology introduces students to an understanding of disease physiology and clinical manifestations in adults and children with the application of the focused assessments and patient histories needed in safe nursing practice. Prerequisite: Admission to the School of Nursing. Course fee. |
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NURS 350 - Clinical Skills I: Fundamentals of Nursing Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 12 Credit Hours: 4 Terms Offered: Fall, Spring
Clinical Skills I introduces students to the competencies needed to understand and apply the evidence-based clinical reasoning, assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation within the nursing scope of practice to adult patients across the continuum of care. The course includes simulation and clinical experience in a variety of health care settings. Prerequisite: Admission to the School of Nursing. Corequisite: NURS 352 . Course fee. |
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NURS 351 - Nursing Assessment and Diagnostics Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall, Spring
Nursing Assessment introduces students to the knowledge, judgment, skills, behaviors, and attitudes of holistic, comprehensive, and focused assessments needed to plan, implement, and evaluate strategies to achieve the highest potential health outcomes. Prerequisite: Admission to the School of Nursing. Course fee. |
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NURS 352 - Evidence-Based Fundamentals of Nursing Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall, Spring
Evidence-based Fundamentals of Nursing introduces students to the knowledge, judgment, skills, behaviors, and attitudes needed to understand and apply the evidence-based clinical reasoning, implementation, and evaluation within the nursing scope of practice. Prerequisite: Admission to the School of Nursing. Corequisite: NURS 350 . |
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NURS 360 - Clinical Skills II: Acute Medical-Surgical Nursing Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 12 Credit Hours: 4 Terms Offered: Fall, Spring
Clinical Skills II: Acute Medical-Surgical Nursing facilitates-student competencies needed to understand and apply the evidence-based clinical reasoning, assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation within the nursing scope of practice to patients in acute care simulation and clinical experience in a variety of acute health care settings. Prerequisite: NURS 350 and NURS 352 . Corequisite: NURS 361 Course fee. |
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NURS 361 - Evidence-Based Acute Medical-Surgical Nursing Lecture Hours: 4 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 4 Terms Offered: Fall, Spring
Evidence-Based Acute Medical-Surgical Nursing facilitates student learning of knowledge, judgments, skills, and behaviors to implement evidence-based clinical competencies in professional nursing practice. The course will focus on patents requiring hospitalization in a variety of medical-surgical settings. Prerequisite: NURS 350 and NURS 352 . Corequisite: NURS 360 Course fee. |
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NURS 370 - Clinical Skills II: Community and Population Health Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 6 Credit Hours: 2 Terms Offered: Spring only
Clinical Skills II: Community and Population Health introduces students to competencies needed to apply evidence-based nursing standards within the scope of nursing practice to groups, communities, or populations across the continuum of care, using simulation and clinical experiences in a variety of health care settings. Prerequisite: Completion of Level I of the School of Nursing. |
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NURS 380 - Nursing Research for Evidence-Based Practice Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall, Spring
Nursing Research for Evidence-Based Practice introduces students to the knowledge, judgments, skills, and behaviors to initiate, analyze, and apply nursing research and evidence-based standards to nursing practice in health care environments. Prerequisite: Admission to the School of Nursing. |
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NURS 430 - Clinical Skills III: Mental Health Nursing Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 6 Credit Hours: 2 Terms Offered: Fall, Spring
Clinical Skills III: Mental Health Nursing introduces students to the competencies needed to understand and apply the evidence-based nursing practice to patients with mental health and psychosocial issues in a variety of health care settings. Prerequisite: NURS 360 and NURS 361 . Corequisite: NURS 431 . Course fee. |
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NURS 431 - Evidence-Based Mental Health Nursing Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 2 Terms Offered: Fall, Spring
Evidence-Based Mental Health Nursing introduces mental health, cognitive pathophysiology, and psychosocial issues of patients of all ages in a variety of health care settings along the continuum of care. Prerequisite: NURS 360 and NURS 361 . Corequisite: NURS 430 . Course fee. |
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NURS 450 - Clinical Skills III: Maternity and Pediatric Nursing Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 12 Credit Hours: 4 Terms Offered: Fall, Spring
Clinical Skills III: Maternity and Pediatric Nursing presents competencies needed to apply evidence-based nursing practice to childbearing women and children of all ages across the continuum of care. The course provides simulation and clinical experiences in a variety of health care settings. Prerequisite: NURS 360 and NURS 361 . Corequisite: NURS 453 . Course fee. |
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NURS 453 - Evidence-Based Maternity and Pediatric Nursing Lecture Hours: 4 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 4 Terms Offered: Fall, Spring
Maternity and Pediatric Nursing introduces students to competencies needed to implement holistic, comprehensive, and safe nursing practice on childbearing women and children of all ages across the health continuum, and in a variety of health care settings. Prerequisite: NURS 360 and NURS 361 . Corequisite: NURS 450 . |
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NURS 464 - Nursing Leadership and Management Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall, Spring
Nursing Leadership and Management introduces evidence-based concepts and competencies in nursing leadership and management to promote safety and quality care within complex health care systems. Prerequisite: NURS 360 and NURS 361 . A writing-intensive and capstone course. Course fee. |
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NURS 475 - Clinical Skills IV: Advanced Medical-Surgical Nursing Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 18 Credit Hours: 6 Terms Offered: Fall, Spring
Clinical Skills IV: Advanced Nursing facilitates student competencies needed to apply the evidence-based leadership/management skills, and nursing process for safety and quality care in high acuity simulation and complex care settings. Prerequisite: NURS 320 , NURS 360 , and NURS 361 . Corequisite: NURS 476 . Course fee. |
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NURS 476 - Evidence-Based Advanced Medical-Surgical Nursing Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall, Spring
Advanced Medical-Surgical Nursing facilitates student learning of competencies required to implement evidence-based safety and quality care to patients with complex needs in professional nursing practice. Prerequisite: NURS 320 , NURS 360 , and NURS 361 . Corequisite: NURS 475 . Course fee. |
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NURS 477 - Evidence-Based Community and Population Health Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 2 Terms Offered: Fall, Spring
Community and Population Health introduces students to the competencies and roles of community health and public health nursing for disease prevention, health promotion, health maintenance, health restoration, and health surveillance for communities and targeted populations in a variety of community health care settings. Prerequisite: NURS 360 and NURS 361 . Course fee. |
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NURS 498 - Integration of Evidence Based Nursing Practice Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall, Spring
Integrates all nursing competencies in complex multiple patient care situations for individual and health care system effectiveness. Prerequisite: Senior standing. May not be taken until the final semester of the nursing program. All NURS 300-level courses must be successfully completed. Course fee. |
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NURS 612 - Scientific Underpinnings to Practice Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 The course explores theoretical foundations of advanced nursing practice and complementary disciplines. This course focuses on applying theoretical and conceptual frameworks to guide decision making that enhances health for culturally diverse populations. Students will examine, critique, and evaluate appropriate theories as the basis for the highest level of nursing practice. Course fee. |
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NURS 621 - Advanced Pathophysiology Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 2 This course provides an advanced understanding of pathophysiology as a foundation for advanced nursing practice. Students will integrate knowledge of biological sciences, cellular biology, tumor biology, genetics and genomics, immunology, and disease pathogenesis across the lifespan. Prerequisite: NURS 612 . Course fee. |
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NURS 622 - Leadership, Communication, and Collaboration within Interprofessional Teams Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 1 This course provides students with the knowledge and skill to lead change and positively influence organizational processes and outcomes. Students will evaluate leadership principles, organizational processes, and communication skills to lead quality improvement and patient safety initiatives within health care systems. Prerequisite: NURS 612 . |
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NURS 631 - Advanced Health Assessment and Promotion Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 2 This course expands knowledge and clinical experiences in physical examination, risk assessment, and health promotion of diverse clients across the lifespan. Students will explore the interactions of cultural, developmental, biopsychosocial, and socio-cultural contexts and their resultant health effects. Prerequisite: NURS 612 . Course fee. |
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NURS 636 - Quality Improvement in Healthcare Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 1 This course provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to design, implement, and evaluate quality improvement initiatives within healthcare systems. Students will employ quality improvement methodologies as they identify a complex nursing case issue and the needed variables for tests of change in the clinical setting. Course concepts will include quality improvement strategies for creating, sustaining, and measuring change within interprofessional teams to improve patient-centered healthcare quality, safety, and cost effectiveness. Prerequisite: NURS 612 . |
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NURS 647 - Advanced Pharmacology Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 This course expands the students’ knowledge and skills of pharmacologic therapies of common health conditions across the lifespan. Students will utilize concepts of advanced pharmacotherapeutic management and evidence-based treatment guidelines into nursing practice. Course content illustrates the relationship of pharmacotherapeutic agents on pathophysiologic responses and physical examination findings of altered health states. Prerequisite: NURS 612 . Course fee. |
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NURS 648 - Translating Evidence into Practice Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 This course expands the students’ knowledge and skills of pharmacologic therapies of common health conditions across the lifespan. Students will utilize concepts of advanced pharmacotherapeutic management and evidence-based treatment guidelines in nursing practice. Course content illustrates the relationship of pharmacotherapeutic agents on pathophysiologic responses and physical examination finding of altered health states. Prerequisite: NURS 612 . |
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NURS 655 - Advanced Clinical Practice Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 This course provides the student a clinical immersion experience which will integrate the knowledge gained during the first year of the BSN-DNP track coursework. Students will conduct a comprehensive and systematic assessment, plan, intervention, and evaluation of a complex health or illness concern to improve patient or healthcare outcomes. Course content will include advanced diagnostic reasoning and clinical decision-making while translating the evidence into practice. Prerequisite: NURS 612 . Course fee. |
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NURS 701 - DNP Role Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 This course analyzes the roles and responsibilities of DNPs and the competencies required for practitioner, leader, advocate, collaborator, and clinical scholar. Students will apply theoretical/conceptual frameworks that support implementation of the DNP role in a variety of health care delivery settings and evaluate their effectiveness. Course fee. |
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NURS 703 - Informatics to Improve Patient Care Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Students explore information technology and patient care technologies to improve patient outcomes in a variety of settings. Students focus on designing databases for clinical projects and collecting and analyzing appropriate and accurate data in order to predict and analyze outcomes of care. Further, students use this analysis to identify gaps in evidence for practice and thus, improve patient care delivery. Prerequisite: NURS 701 . Course fee. |
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NURS 705 - Applied Statistics and Research in Nursing Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 This course explores research designs, improvement science, and statistical analysis to analyze evidence-based practice literature and protocols to improve healthcare delivery. As part of the course of study, students develop the need for a DNP scholarship project through a comprehensive literature review of an identified healthcare problem. Course fee. |
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NURS 712 - Epidemiology and Population Health Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 This course integrates concepts from Epidemiology and Population Health in order to improve aggregate and selected population health. The role of the DNP in improving population health through collaboration with groups, organizations, and networks, and the use of epidemiological applications and technology are emphasized. Prerequisite: NURS 701 , NURS 703 , and NURS 705 . Course fee. |
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NURS 714 - Genomic Implications in Advanced Practice Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 This course highlights the role that genetics play in numerous health conditions found in primary care and the implications of genomics in planning, implementing, and evaluating care. The role of health histories and genetic testing in the diagnosis and treatment of disease are explored, and students use the Evaluation of Genomic Applications in Practice and Prevention from the US CDC to expand their knowledge of genetics in primary care. Course fee. |
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NURS 716 - Healthcare Finance and Clinical Practice Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 This course explores the impact of healthcare finance and related policies on the development, implementation, and evaluation of advanced practice. Students apply principles of business, finance, and economics to ensure quality, cost-effective care. Course fee. |
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NURS 721 - Healthcare Policy and Clinical Practice Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 This course reviews healthcare policies that frame healthcare financing, practice regulation, access, safety, quality, and efficacy, in order to address issues of social justice and equity in healthcare. DNP students learn to be influencers of policy by integrating their knowledge of practice into the analysis of policy development process and engage in politically competent action. Course fee. |
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NURS 723 - Foundations of Integrative Healthcare Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 This course provides the framework for DNPs to integrate traditional medical treatment with alternative approaches to the treatment of conditions commonly treated in healthcare. Course fee. |
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NURS 727 - Population Health and Chronic Disease Management Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 This course provides an in-depth analysis of selected chronic care conditions treated in primary care, including assessment, diagnosis, treatment, evaluation, and patient education. Legal, ethical, psychosocial, and cultural implications and the role of a DNP will be considered. Course fee. |
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NURS 731 - Organizational and System Leadership Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 This course presents principles of practice management, including fiscal and organizational implications to balance productivity with quality care. Assessment of the impact of practice policies and procedures in meeting the needs of patients in primary care will be considered. Course fee. |
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NURS 733 - Healthcare Reform: Current Issues Affecting Nursing Practice Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 This course will examine and analyze the impact of the Patient Safety and Affordable Care Act. The evolution of the US healthcare delivery system toward Pay for Performance (P4P) in the US will be explored. Strategies to address the resulting ethical and legal dilemmas will also be analyzed. Course fee. |
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NURS 752 - DNP Project I Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 This course integrates principles of evidence-based research, improvement science, and information technology into the development of a DNP project. Theoretical frameworks which provide direction for DNP projects are also considered. Students develop a plan to address the problem of interest identified in a literature review developed in previous coursework. Students craft a mission, goals and objectives, as well as an action plan for the project. The action plan includes selection of a relevant population and evidence-based interventions. Students will serve as peer reviewers for colleagues’ projects. Prerequisite: Problem of interest (POI) and draft of mini proposal paper approved by chair. Project chair assignment completed. Course fee. |
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NURS 754 - DNP Project II Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 1.5 This course integrates principles of evidence-based research, improvement science, and information technology into the analysis and evaluation of a DNP project. Theoretical frameworks which provide direction for DNP projects are also considered. Students analyze and disseminate findings of their implementation plan used to address the problem of interest identified in a literature review developed in Advanced Research and Statistics and methodology completed in DNP Project I. Prerequisite: NURS 752 , completed proposal defense with signed evaluation on file, completed IRB approval letter on file, and Data Collection Inactivation Form filed with ACU’s Office of Research. Course fee. |
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NURS 756 - DNP Project III Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 1.5 This course is the second phase of the final course in the program. Students complete final edits to their project papers and prepare for editorial review and publication in the university’s Digital Commons database. Students also work on a manuscript for publication of their project findings that provides a brief overview of their project results and plans for contributions to nursing and medical sciences. Prerequisite: NURS 754 . |
Nutrition |
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NUTR 120 - Nutrition and Wellness Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall, Spring
Addresses current trends in nutrition (information and misinformation), food safety, world nutrition and hunger issues, and the impact of nutrients, diet, and weight control on health. It empowers the students to ask questions concerning nutrition and seek answers appropriately. May be used to satisfy University Requirements. |
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NUTR 221 - Introductory Nutrition Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall
Nutritional needs of various age groups and the influence of socioeconomic, cultural, and psychological factors on food and nutrition behavior presented in a descriptive survey of nutrient requirements and utilization by the human body. |
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NUTR 222 - Food Selection and Preparation Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 4 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall
Study of basic food science and culinary techniques. The student will demonstrate basic food preparation and presentation. Provides working knowledge of food selection, food safety and sanitation, pleasurable eating, sensory evaluation of food, and food regulations. |
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NUTR 224 - Nutrition for Exercise and Sport Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Spring
Provides comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date information concerning basic fundamentals of how the active individual can achieve optimal nutrition by fueling before, during, and after exercising. Examines how the athlete can use nutrition to achieve peak performance. |
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NUTR 322 - Biochemistry of Nutrition I Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall
Focuses on normal nutrition and physiological function. Applies biochemistry to nutrient use from consumption through digestion, absorption, distribution, and cellular metabolism. It integrates life processes from the cellular level through the multisystem operation of the whole organism. Prerequisite: CHEM 111 /CHEM 113 and CHEM 112 /CHEM 114 or CHEM 131 /CHEM 133 and CHEM 132 /CHEM 134 , BIOL 291 /BIOL 293 and BIOL 292 /BIOL 294 , and NUTR 221 . |
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NUTR 323 - Biochemistry of Nutrition II Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Spring only
Applies biochemistry to nutrient use from consumption through digestion, absorption, distribution, and cellular metabolism and integrates physiological processes from the cellular level through the multisystem operation of the whole organism. Prerequisite: NUTR 221 , NUTR 322 ; CHEM 112 /CHEM 114 or CHEM 132 /CHEM 134 . |
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NUTR 325 - Quantity Food Production and Service Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 4 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall
Provides working knowledge of food consumption issues and trends, menu planning, purchasing and procurement of food and equipment. Scheduling, food production, and delivery systems are addressed. The student will demonstrate ability to perform recipe modification and cost. Field experience required. |
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NUTR 327 - Nutrition Through the Life Cycle Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall
The study of each life cycle stage concerning nutritional foundations that are essential for positive development and health. It addresses the role of nutrition and factors that influence nutritional status. Nutrition assessment and disease states for each life cycle are studied. Prerequisite: NUTR 221 . |
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NUTR 328 - Community Nutrition Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall
Study of public policy development and current nutrition issues affecting public health. Provides working knowledge of assessment and treatment of nutritional health risks, food availability and access, and community nutrition programs. The student will demonstrate the ability to screen individuals for nutritional risk and determine nutrient needs of individuals and groups in the community. Prerequisite: NUTR 221 . |
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NUTR 401 - Nutrition Seminar Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 1 Terms Offered: Fall
Explores professional aspects of employment including health care policy and administration, code of ethics, standards of practice, performance improvement, and reimbursement issues. Personal portfolio will be developed. Required of nutrition majors. Prerequisite: Junior standing. A capstone course. |
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NUTR 421 - Nutrition Assessment and Education Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall
Provides information concerning objective measures of nutritional status and determination of responsiveness to medical nutritional therapy. Dietary counseling techniques are explored. Prerequisite: NUTR 221 and junior standing. A capstone and writing-intensive course. |
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NUTR 423 - Food Safety Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 1 Terms Offered: Spring
Provides accurate, science-based information on all aspects of handling food and incorporates the latest Food and Drug Administration Food Code in a realistic manner. The nationally recognized ServSafe examination by the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation will be administered for certification. Prerequisite: NUTR 222 . |
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NUTR 425 - Medical Nutrition Therapy I Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Spring
Provides working knowledge of pathophysiology related to nutrition care, medical nutrition therapies, assessment of need for adaptive feeding techniques, and nutritional pharmacology. The student will demonstrate the ability to interpret medical terminology and laboratory parameters, calculate and define therapeutic diets, determine nutrient requirements, and calculate enteral and parenteral formulations. Prerequisite: BIOL 291 /BIOL 293 , BIOL 292 /BIOL 294 ; NUTR 322 . |
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NUTR 426 - Food Science Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 4 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Spring
Study of experimental methodology, food additives and preservatives, principles of food processing, and biotechnology. Provides working knowledge of sensory and objective evaluation of foods. The student will demonstrate the ability to apply knowledge of functions of ingredients in food. Prerequisite: NUTR 222 . |
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NUTR 427 - Food System Organization and Administration Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Spring
Study of management theories and leadership. Provides working knowledge of financial management including interpretation of financial data, determination of costs, and budget preparation. Field experience required. |
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NUTR 428 - Medical Nutrition Therapy II Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall only
Provides working knowledge of pathophysiology related to nutrition care, medical nutrition therapies, assessment of need for adaptive feeding techniques, and nutritional pharmacology, including interpreting medical terminology and laboratory parameters, determining nutrient requirements, and calculating therapeutic diets and enteral and parenteral formulations. Prerequisite: BIOL 292 /BIOL 294 ; CHEM 112 /CHEM 114 or CHEM 132 /CHEM 134 ; NUTR 322 , NUTR 323 , and NUTR 425 . |
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NUTR 429 - Medical Nutrition Therapy III Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 5 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Spring
Provides working knowledge of health behaviors, ethics of care, reimbursement issues, health care policies, and quality improvement methods. The student will demonstrate the ability to complete comprehensive nutrition assessments, measure, calculate, and interpret body composition data, make appropriate nutritional recommendations, counsel patients concerning nutrition, and provide appropriate documentation. Field experience hours in a clinical setting required. Prerequisite: NUTR 428 . |
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NUTR 450 - Capstone in Dietetics Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 2 Terms Offered: Spring
In-depth study of domains of the Registration Examination for Dietitians. Students assess their learning needs and research topics to enhance critical thinking and application skills in the domains of Food and Nutrition, Clinical and Community Nutrition, Nutrition Diagnosis, Education and Research, Food and Nutrition Systems, and Management. This course should be taken the spring before graduation. Prerequisite: Senior standing in the NDPD concentration of the Nutrition major. A capstone course. |
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NUTR 620 - Dietetic Internship Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall, Spring
Provides working knowledge of the domains of dietetics: principles of dietetics, nutrition care for individuals and groups, management of food and nutrition programs and services, and food service systems. Prerequisite: Completion of Didactic Program in Dietetics Requirements and B.S. degree in Nutrition or related field. Must be admitted to the ACU Dietetic Internship. May be repeated for a total of 6 hours of credit. Course fee. |
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NUTR 621 - Nutrition Research Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Spring
Overview of the research process used to enhance evidence-based knowledge in the field of nutrition. Includes use of literature reviews, formulation of research questions and study designs, managing a nutritional study, preparing surveys and interviews, and interpreting quantitative and qualitative data. Formulation of research proposal and obtaining IRB approval. Prerequisite: Enrolled in Abilene Christian University’s Dietetic Internship Certificate program. |
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NUTR 622 - Weight Management I Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Summer
Provides working knowledge of pathophysiology, medical nutrition therapies, pharmacology, and surgical procedures related to overweight and obesity. The nutrition care process will be utilized throughout all aspects of nutritional care. Prerequisite: Completion of Didactic Program in Dietetics requirements. |
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NUTR 623 - Nutrition and Poverty Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall
Nutritional effects of poverty in the US and developing countries on physical, education and emotional status of individuals and families. Impacts of government and non-profit programs (including WIC, Food Stamps, and food banks) on nutritional outcomes. Students apply appropriate methods of assisting families with nutritional food choices and budgeting. Prerequisite: Enrolled in Abilene Christian University’s Dietetic Internship Certificate Program. |
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NUTR 624 - Weight Management II Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Summer
This course provides working knowledge related to overweight and obesity therapies including physical activity, pharmacology, and bariatric surgical procedures. Fad diets and dietary supplements for weight loss will be reviewed. The nutrition care process will be utilized. Prerequisite: Completion of Didactic Program in Dietetics requirements. |
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NUTR 625 - School Nutrition Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall
Students develop skills needed to direct a school nutrition program by providing healthy meal choices, nutrition education for students, and marketing plans that enhance the goals of school nutrition in a cost-effective manner while adhering to all federal and state regulations. Prerequisite: Completion of Didactic Program in Dietetics requirements. |
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NUTR 626 - Nutrition Assessment Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall
This course provides comprehensive information concerning the role of nutritional assessment in disease prevention and progression and information concerning objective and subjective measures of nutritional status, including anthropometrics, biochemical measurements, clinical parameters, and dietary assessment. |
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NUTR 627 - Nutrition for Diabetes Mellitus Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall
This course provides information concerning first-line therapy for diabetes, medical nutrition therapy. Current evidence-based recommendations and interventions are presented for Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes for different age groups and complicating conditions. Prerequisite: Completion of Didactic Program in Dietetics requirements. |
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NUTR 628 - Nutrition Education and Counseling Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Summer
Students design effective nutrition education presentations appropriate for different ages and lifestyles. Motivational interviewing and behavior theories are used to guide clients to improved nutrition behaviors. Appropriate evaluations are designed to measure effectiveness of education and counseling approaches. Prerequisite: Completion of Didactic Program in Dietetics requirements. |
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NUTR 629 - Nutrition and Integrative Medicine Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Summer
This course equips dieticians and others providing nutritional advice to look at human beings as whole persons. Individual nutritional needs are affected by genetics, environment, dietary choices, exercise, and lifestyle patterns as well as stress and trauma. Evidence-based research includes digestive, absorptive, and hormonal imbalances. |
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NUTR 632 - Nutrition for Eating Disorders Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Spring
This course provides an overview of the various eating disorders, evidence-based treatment therapies, specific counseling techniques that are effective with clients, and tips for working with families. Students utilize case studies and current peer-reviewed journal articles to evaluate various approaches while developing a personal philosophy of treating Eating Disorders. |
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NUTR 633 - Nutritional Genomics Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Spring
This course provides information concerning how diet and genotype interactions affect phenotype. Students will learn to apply nutritional genomics through interpretation of genetic test results and to make personalized nutrition recommendations that result in health benefits and not harm to individuals. Prerequisite: Completion of Didactic Program in Dietetics requirements. |
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NUTR 634 - Practice Skills and Current Issues Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Spring
This course provides instruction in honing skills for entry-level dietetics in various areas of the field. Regulations affecting dietetics are reviewed. The Code of Ethics, Scope of Practice, and Standards of Professional Performance are applied to practice. Current issues will be reviewed. Prerequisite: Completion of Didactic Program in Dietetics requirements. |
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NUTR 635 - Nutrition for Exercise and Sport Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Summer
Provides comprehensive, evidence-based information concerning fundamentals of how the active individual can achieve optimal nutrition by appropriate fueling for various sports and activity choices. Includes information on body composition, energy balance, food choices, and supplements before, during, and after exercise. Prerequisite: Formal acceptance for progression into the Master of Athletic Training program or completion of the Didactic Program in Dietetics at an accredited university and admission to the graduate school at ACU. |
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OCCT 601 - Musculoskeletal Anatomy Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 1 Credit Hours: 4 Terms Offered: Fall
Learn the core content of human musculoskeletal anatomy with an emphasis on upper extremity anatomy. Comprehend kinesthetic principles of movement in normal populations to provide a foundation to later apply to diseased or abnormal anatomy. Lecture and lab. Prerequisite: BIOL 291 and BIOL 292 or equivalent of Anatomy and Physiology I and II with labs (8 hours). |
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OCCT 603 - Foundations of OT Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 2 Terms Offered: Fall
Learn the concept of occupation based on the historical and theoretical foundations of the occupational therapy profession. Learn standards of practice, practice framework, values, and responsibilities of the occupational therapy practitioner. Engage in events to promote advocacy and awareness of profession. Lecture. |
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OCCT 605 - Theory in OT Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall
In this course, the learner will critique and discuss many of the theoretical perspectives commonly used in occupational therapy practice, including those that focus on occupation-based practice. This course will also provide students the opportunity to apply theoretical perspectives to occupational therapy assessment and treatment planning, compare and contrast theoretical perspectives, and make an educated decision about which perspectives best meet the needs of the client and the frame work of the profession. The overarching theme of the course is the importance of occupation in the promotion of health and the prevention of disease and disability. |
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OCCT 607 - Intro to Making Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 1 Credit Hours: 4 Terms Offered: Fall
Learn the process of innovation as it relates to design theory, assistive technology, and activity analysis to support occupational performance, participation, health, and well-being of occupational therapy clients. Conduct activity analyses and complete design projects for varied client needs. Lecture and lab. |
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OCCT 611 - Adult Populations in OT I Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 1 Credit Hours: 2 Terms Offered: Spring
This is the first of two courses to learn occupational therapy assessment, evaluation, and intervention skills based on applicable theoretical reasoning for the adult client that is limited in occupations due to physical and or cognitive impairments. Lecture and lab combined. |
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OCCT 617 - Social Conditions Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 2 Terms Offered: Fall
Learn the process of service and advocacy as it relates to the occupational performance, participation, health, and well-being of at-risk populations. Engage in service learning inclusive of case studies and reflective journals to examine clients who are at risk for experiencing social injustice and/or occupational deprivation due to various global, social, and political factors. Lecture and field experience. |
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OCCT 631 - Neuroscience Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Spring
Learn the core structure and function of the brain and how these apply to the development, remediation, and compensation for physical, mental, cognitive, perceptual, neuromuscular, behavioral sensory skills, and functions. Lecture and lab. Prerequisite: Life Span Development and OCCT 603 . |
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OCCT 635 - Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics Lecture Hours: 4 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 4 Terms Offered: Fall
Develop essential knowledge, attitudes, and skills in occupational therapy practice for pediatric populations. Acquire clinical reasoning in occupational therapy assessment, intervention planning, and implementation methods for pediatric populations. Corequisite: OCCT 636 . |
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OCCT 636 - Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics Lab Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 2 Credit Hours: 2 Terms Offered: Fall
Application of clinical reasoning and hands-on abilities in occupational therapy assessment, intervention planning, and implementation methods for pediatric populations. Corequisite: OCCT 635 . |
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OCCT 637 - Research Process in OT I Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 2 Terms Offered: Spring
Learn the processes of innovation for a continued development of a body of knowledge through research for occupational therapy practice, quantitative and qualitative research methods. Produce valid evidence-based reviews of occupational therapy practices and explore scientific literature related to occupational therapy. Lecture. Corequisite: OCCT 643 |
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OCCT 638 - Adult Populations in Occupational Therapy II Lab Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 2 Credit Hours: 2 Terms Offered: Spring
Application of clinical reasoning and hands-on instruction in occupational therapy assessment, evaluation, and intervention skills based on applicable theoretical reasoning for the adult client that is limited in occupations due to physical and/or cognitive impairments. Corequisite: OCCT 639 . |
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OCCT 639 - Adult Populations in Occupational Therapy II Lecture Hours: 4 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 4 Terms Offered: Spring
Learn occupational therapy assessment, evaluation, and intervention skills based on applicable theoretical reasoning for the adult client that is limited in occupations due to physical and/or cognitive impairments. Prerequisite: Life Span Development and OCCT 603 . Corequisite: OCCT 638 . |
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OCCT 641 - Health Conditions Seminar Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 2 Terms Offered: Spring
Learn core content of common medical conditions that benefit from occupational therapy services. Presentation will include guest lectures from local physicians in their area of specialty. Learn ways that clients access occupational therapy services, the role of occupational therapy in health literacy, and use of telehealth in occupational therapy. Lecture and seminar. Prerequisite: Life Span Development. |
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OCCT 643 - Mentored Research Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 1 Terms Offered: Spring, Summer as needed
Initiate the processes of innovation through scholarly inquiry by engagement in research relevant to occupational therapy. Under the tutelage of a faculty mentor, conduct a review of literature and design a research proposal. Seminar. Corequisite: OCCT 637 |
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OCCT 651 - OT for Mental Health and Wellness Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 1 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Summer
Learn occupational therapy assessment, evaluation, and intervention skills based on applicable theoretical reasoning in mental health. Identify and perform mental health assessments as they correlate with common behavioral health disorders and their effect on occupation. Lecture and lab. Prerequisite: Abnormal Psychology. |
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OCCT 655 - Mental Health and Wellness Fieldwork Level 1 and Documentation Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 1 Credit Hours: 2 Terms Offered: Summer
Learn features of practice settings, documentation practice of occupational therapy for mental health and community settings. Through field experiences, acquire beginning competency in application of occupational therapy clinical reasoning and intervention implementation and develop an understanding of the needs of the client in this population. Accurately reflect this reasoning in documentation. Field experience and seminar. Prerequisite: OCCT 617 , OCCT 603 , OCCT 601 , OCCT 607 , OCCT 690 , OCCT 637 , OCCT 639 . |
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OCCT 661 - Hand and Upper Extremity Conditions Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 2 Terms Offered: Fall
Learn assessment, evaluation, and intervention skills for common conditions of the shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand that limit occupation. Prerequisite: OCCT 601 and OCCT 639 . Corequisite: OCCT 662 . |
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OCCT 662 - Hand and Upper Extremity Conditions Lab Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 2 Credit Hours: 2 Terms Offered: Fall
Application of assessment, evaluation, and intervention skills for common conditions of the shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand that limit occupation. Learn use of therapeutic modalities. Fabricate commonly use orthoses. Corequisite: OCCT 661 . |
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OCCT 670 - Group Process Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 1 Credit Hours: 2 Terms Offered: Summer
Learn the process of group development and dynamics including communication, conflict resolution, and the influence of culture and contexts on group process. Learn to effectively utilize a service-based approach and therapeutic use of self with psychosocial frames of reference and theories of group development while actively leading and participating in group activities. Lecture. Prerequisite: OCCT 603 , OCCT 607 , OCCT 617 , OCCT 639 , OCCT 641 . |
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