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Dr. James Pappas
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LSTD 5003 - Introduction to Graduate Interdisciplinary Studies (Online)
The present introductory seminar is designed to orient you to being a graduate student in a university. This, of course, is an extension of your previous college work as an undergraduate but there are significant differences. As a graduate student you will be expected to be more independent in your scholarship and to do work that shows more originality than was required as an undergraduate. You will learn to pursue knowledge on your own and to critically evaluate information as you discover it. In short, you will learn how to learn, how to think, and how to create. Some parts of this course will provide you with information. Other parts will help you develop skills. At the end, you will be prepared to make the most of the other courses and activities that are involved in the program.
LSTD 5013 - Interdisciplinary Foundations (Online)
All MLS students read and write reports on a series of interdisciplinary texts as common background for the MLS program.
The readings in this enrollment are designed to reinforce an interdisciplinary approach to graduate studies as well as lay the foundation for your interdisciplinary enrollments and future thesis or project research.
This course also serves to introduce paradigms, the underlying formulations which provide the structure for understanding and interpreting information.
LSTD 5123 - Strategic Planning and Evaluation in IHHS (Online)
An interdisciplinary inquiry into the concepts of strategic planning and evaluation in the human and health services organizational settings. This will include a study of the strategic planning, implementation skills, and the evaluation process; and of various models and approaches to designing and conducting strategic planning, including specific techniques for conducting environmental scans, SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats), strategic issue identification, and strategy formulation.
LSTD 5133 - Cultural, Social and Diversity Issues in IHHS (Online)
An interdisciplinary inquiry into cultural, social and other diversity issues that human and health services professionals will encounter in the process of providing services to their clients/patients. Exploration of how one's cultural and social environment impacts one's belief system. Successful delivery of service will depend upon the depth of understanding by personnel with regard to various belief systems.
LSTD 5153 - Ethics in Interprofessional Human and Health Services (Online)
An interdisciplinary inquiry into the nature of ethics, especially in the context of multicultural healthcare; the kinds of moral problems within this landscape and how rational thinking can guide ethical thought in ways that address the challenges in healthcare policy and reform.
LSTD 5163 - Cross Cultural Health Issues in Interprofessional Human and Health Services (Online)
This course explores multiple issues in the field of international health using a multidisciplinary perspective while including particular countries as examples. Students will be exposed to the perspective that human lives are affected by larger, societal level influences that often are beyond our immediate individual control. We will explore the ways in which structural level variables influence human health, including economic, historical, cultural, political, and psychosocial factors. For example, we will see the role that war has played in the high rates of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Moreover, we will consider the influence of behavioral patterns on certain health outcomes. Throughout the course we will focus on the role of globalization in influencing international health patterns and outcomes. It is hoped that this course will not only provide students with the opportunity to learn about the subject material and other cultures, but in the process develop their writing abilities and critical thinking skills.
LSTD 5790 - Geriatric Issues in Interprofessional Study (Independent Study)
This course will introduce health and developmental issues pertaining to human geriatric populations, provide specific challenge areas for focusing on both problems and potential solutions, and highlight positive, recreational and self-actualizing activities and pursuits available to geriatric populations.
LSTD 5790 - Physchological Aspects of Disabilities in Interprofessional Human and Health Services (Online)
This course is designed to examine the struggles in which persons with disabilities have been engaged and the barriers they have had to overcome, as well as the barriers they continue to face in their quest to obtain the freedoms that persons without disabilities so freely enjoy. The following areas will be examined in some detail: disenfranchisement of persons with disabilities; attitudes toward persons with disabilities; Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and other legislative actions; disability rights movement; self concept and self esteem, role of family; and intervention strategies.
LSTD 5890 - Investigative Interdisciplinary Studies (Independent Study)
Exploration of special issues and/or problems related to the student's program of study; variable content. May be repeated with change of content; maximum credit nine hours.
LSTD 5903 - Research Methods (Online)
This class develops and expands the concepts introduced in Interdisciplinary Foundations. We will underscore the conceptual frames for thinking about inquiry and research. It will do this by exploring recent issues, theoretical approaches, and professional concerns specific to the area of study in which you will be doing research.
LSTD 5913 - Qualitative Research Methods in Interdisciplinary Studies (Online)
An interdisciplinary inquiry designed to acquaint students with qualitative research methods in interprofessional human and health services. The student will be familiar with the most common forms of qualitative research including how to design a study; ethical issues that must be recognized and appropriately addressed; and analysis of qualitative data.
LSTD 5960 - Directed Readings in Interdisciplinary Study (Independent Study)
An in-depth study of literature on a topic related to the student's program of study; variable content. May be repeated with change of content; maximum credit nine hours
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