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HIST 368 - Latin American History at the Movies
How has the popular cinema industry portrayed Latin American History? What can we learn from these depictions? In this class we watch and analyze feature films from the United States and Latin America which grapple with various events and issues in Latin America. Through these films, we both critically analyze historical developments in Latin America as well as the assumptions and biases which go into the making of a film on Latin America. Through this process, we develop a deeper appreciation for the complexities which embody Latin America and the problems which the region faces.
Credit(s): 4
When Offered: (spring only)
Course Attribute(s): - Honors Scholar Course.
- History major Latin American History course.
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
- This course fulfills the Intercultural Interconnecting Perspective of the Dialogues.
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HIST 369 - Women in Latin American History
This course assesses the continuities and changes in the lives of Latin American women through the lens of gender. We examine concepts that have structured Latin American beliefs about gender including honor and shame, and machismo and marianismo, and examine issues of gender relations, sexuality, and political involvement. How do beliefs about gender and gender roles relate to social structures including race, class and political structures, and how have these beliefs changed over time? By the end of the course, students should have a clearer understanding of how gender influences historical change and historical continuity in Latin America.
Credit(s): 4
When Offered: (spring, alternate years)
Course Attribute(s): - Honors Scholar Course.
- History major Latin American History course.
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
- This course fulfills the Intercultural Interconnecting Perspective of the Dialogues.
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HIST 374 - History of American Law
This course focuses on the development of law in the United States, circa 1600-2000, and the connections between law and other aspects of American history. The field of legal history includes the study of the causes, development, and effects of the principles and realities underlying all aspects of law; legal institutions such as courts, legislatures, and administrative agencies; public policy; charters and constitutions; procedures and administration involved in law; important court decisions and the issues and laws that shaped them; written laws, individually and collectively; and the relationships between all of these aspects of law and society, the economy, culture, the environment, and many other aspects of the world.
Prerequisite: A 100 or 200 level U.S. history class is recommended
Credit(s): 4
Course Attribute(s):
- This course meets the Missouri Statute Requirement.
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
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HIST 379 - Survey of Modern Europe I
Europe from c. 1400 to 1789, a synthesis of political, social, economic, and cultural developments from the Renaissance to the outbreak of the French Revolution.
Credit(s): 4
Course Attribute(s): - Honors Scholar Course.
- History major European History course.
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
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HIST 380 - Survey of Modern Europe II
Europe from 1789 to the present. Political, social, economic, and cultural trends in the history of Europe from the outbreak of the French Revolution to the present.
Credit(s): 4
Course Attribute(s): - Honors Scholar Course.
- History major European History course.
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
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HIST 381 - Russia from the Earliest Times until 1861
A survey from the origins of the Russian state in the Ninth Century to the crises of the Nineteenth Century that led to the era of great reforms.
Credit(s): 4
Course Attribute(s): - Honors Scholar Course.
- History major European History course.
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
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HIST 382 - Late Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union
A survey of the final years of the tsarist state from the 1860’s through the fall of autocracy, followed by the seven decades of Communist rule in the 20th Century.
Credit(s): 4
Course Attribute(s): - Honors Scholar Course.
- History major European History course.
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
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HIST 384 - Peoples of the Russian Empire and Former Soviet Union
This course explores the national and ethnic diversity of the Russian Empire and former Soviet Union, territory that comprises one-sixth of the world’s land surface. We examine the impact of imperial and communist rule on a variety of peoples, as well as the resilience and strategies of survival that kept their cultures alive.
Credit(s): 4
Course Attribute(s): - Honors Scholar Course.
- History major Asian History and European History course.
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
- This course fulfills the Intercultural Interconnecting Perspective of the Dialogues.
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HIST 390 - Andean History
This course presents a cultural and political history of the Andean Region of South America, focusing primarily on the area currently covered by the countries of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. The themes we analyze include the influence of geography on the evolution of early indigenous civilizations, the cultural impact of the conquest, land and labor systems, popular resistance movements, revolutionary military governments, guerrilla warfare, drug wars, and the politicization of ethnic identities.
Credit(s): 4
Course Attribute(s): - Honors Scholar Course.
- History major Latin American History course.
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
- This course fulfills the Intercultural Interconnecting Perspective of the Dialogues.
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HIST 391 - Latin American Revolutions
This course presents a critical comparative analysis of Twentieth Century revolutionary theories and movements in Latin America. What were the socio-political conditions in each of these countries that led to a revolutionary situation? What were the differing responses to those conditions? What did these revolutions seek to accomplish? What were the outcomes of these revolutionary changes? The goal of this class is to acquire a more complex understanding of the nature of exploitation and oppression in Latin America and the continuing struggles for social justice.
Credit(s): 4
Course Attribute(s): - Honors Scholar Course.
- History major Latin American History course.
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
- This course fulfills the Intercultural Interconnecting Perspective of the Dialogues.
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HIST 392 - Mexican History
This course surveys the history of Mexico from the earliest human inhabitation to the present. A goal is to understand Mexico from the perspective of the Mexicans rather than from the point of view of the United States. It is important to understand, however, that Mexico is not a singular homogenous entity; there are “many Mexicos.” In particular, this course emphasizes the creation of Mexican identities, the role which Indigenous peoples and women have played in that creation, and how that role has changed over time.
Credit(s): 4
Course Attribute(s): - Honors Scholar Course.
- History major Latin American History course.
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
- This course fulfills the Intercultural Interconnecting Perspective of the Dialogues.
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HIST 393 - History of Science I: From Ancient Greece to Isaac Newton
Introduction to basic topics in the history of science from ancient Greece to Isaac Newton. Students read a variety of primary and secondary sources covering three time periods: the origins of western science in Greece and the Middle East, the nature of science in medieval Islam and medieval Europe, and the Scientific Revolution in Europe (1500-1700). Emphasis is placed on the historical, philosophical, and religious influences on the emergence of western science. Previous knowledge of science or history is helpful, but not necessary.
Credit(s): 4
Course Attribute(s):
- Social Perspectives course for the Dialogues.
- Honors Scholar Course.
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
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HIST 394 - History of Science II: From Isaac Newton to Watson and Crick
Introduction to basic topics in history of modern science from Isaac Newton to the present. Topics include the Chemical Revolution, the rise of the atomic theory, Darwin and evolution, Einstein and relativity, and Watson and Crick on DNA. Emphasis is placed on the historical, philosophical, and religious influences on the practice of modern science. Previous knowledge of science or history is helpful, but not necessary.
Credit(s): 4
Course Attribute(s):
- Social Perspectives course for the Dialogues.
- Honors Scholar Course.
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
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HIST 424 - National Development of the United States (1785-1820)
Major problems encountered by the American people in the struggle to establish a strong national state.
Credit(s): 4
Course Attribute(s): - Honors Scholar Course.
- History major United States History course.
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
- This course meets the Missouri Statute Requirement.
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HIST 429 - Intellectual History of Modern Europe
A survey of the intellectual history of Europe from the Seventeenth Century to the present, designed to acquaint students with the major thinkers, schools of thought, political doctrines, and organizing ideas of the period.
Credit(s): 4
Course Attribute(s): - Honors Scholar Course.
- History major European History course.
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
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HIST 432 - Emergence of Modern America, 1877-1917
The political, economic, and social developments of the United States in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.
Credit(s): 4
Course Attribute(s): - Honors Scholar Course.
- History major United States History course.
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
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HIST 434 - History of Japan I
The origin and development of the Japanese culture: its social, political, religious and economic aspects from ancient times to the end of the Tokugawa period (1868).
Credit(s): 4
Course Attribute(s): - Honors Scholar Course.
- History major Asian History course.
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
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HIST 435 - History of Japan II
History of modern Japan from the Meiji Reform to the present. Emphasizes political, social, and intellectual developments, including Japan’s modernization and her role in today’s world.
Credit(s): 4
Course Attribute(s): - Honors Scholar Course.
- History major Asian History course.
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
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HIST 438 - America in the Revolutionary Era
A seminar introducing students to historical research through a study of the American Revolutionary period, c. 1759-1789. Common readings in Eighteenth Century political culture, the emergence and transformation of resistance into revolutionary movements, popular ideology and mobilization, the social impact of war, and the creation of republican governments.
Credit(s): 4
Course Attribute(s): - Honors Scholar Course.
- History major United States History course.
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
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HIST 439 - Colonial American History
A topical study of the cultural and social development of the American colonies before 1750 including the interaction of European and Native American cultures, problems of settling regional societies, the origins of slavery, family life and labor, and economic integration within the Empire.
Credit(s): 4
Course Attribute(s): - Honors Scholar Course.
- History major United States History course.
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
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HIST 448 - History of China I
An intensive investigation of Chinese history from ancient times to the mid-19th Century. Emphasizes classical Chinese thought, political, socio-economic, and intellectual developments of ancient China, and the contributions of Chinese ancient culture to world civilization.
Credit(s): 4
Course Attribute(s): - Honors Scholar Course.
- History major Asian History course.
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
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HIST 449 - History of China II
An intensive investigation of modern Chinese history from the mid-19th Century to the present. Explores interactions between China and the West, the rise and development of Nationalism and Communism, democracy and modernization in China, important political leaders and recent political events, and China’s position in the modern world.
Credit(s): 4
Course Attribute(s): - Honors Scholar Course.
- History major Asian History course.
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
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HIST 471 - Internship: History
On-the-job specialized training in fields generally accepted as needing history field experience to complement the student’s academic training. May be taken on a pass/fail basis only.
Credit(s): 3 to 12
NOTE: A special application procedure is required and must be completed the semester prior to starting the internship.
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HIST 472 - Internship Evaluation and Analysis
Research, evaluation, and analytical analysis of internship experiences. Prearrange one semester before enrollment.
Credit(s): 1 to 4
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HIST 485 - Readings in History
Selected readings in one or more fields of history to be assigned by the instructor. Minimum of six books to be read for each hour of credit. A maximum of 2 credits is allowed for the undergraduate history major.
Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
Credit(s): 1 to 4
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HIST 497 - History and Theory
A survey of themes and problems in Western historiography from antiquity to the present. It examines the history of historical writing and engages in a historical analysis of the theory, presuppositions, and implications of historical practice. The purpose of the course is to make students familiar with the scholars, texts, and debates in the field as well as the impact of theory on the representation of the past.
Prerequisite: Junior status.
Credit(s): 4
Course Attribute(s): - Honors Scholar Course.
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
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HIST 498 - Capstone: Senior Seminar in History
Senior Seminar is the capstone for History majors. Combining and building on the knowledge and research skills you have acquired, it culminates in a major, independent, original research project that is subject to rigorous academic standards. Passing the course proves that you have understood what it means to be a historian and earned your degree in History.
Prerequisite: History major with senior standing.
Credit(s): 4
Course Attribute(s):
- Honors Scholar Course.
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
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HIST 551 - Advanced Topics in History
Reading and/or research in selected topics in U.S., European, or Non-Western History. This course may be repeated for additional credits as long as there is no duplication of topics covered by previous enrollments.
Prerequisite: Senior or graduate-level status.
Credit(s): 4
Course Attribute(s): - Honors Scholar Course.
- History major General History course.
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
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HIST 554 - Independent Studies: History
An opportunity for students to organize and conduct research projects of their own choice with the help of faculty supervision.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Credit(s): 1 to 4
Course Attribute(s): - Honors Scholar Course.
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
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HIST 600G - Topics in World History
Graduate reading and/or research in selected topics of world or regional history. May be repeated for credit under different topics.
Credit(s): 1-4
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HIST 601G - Graduate World History
This course makes MAE students familiar with the field of world history—the significant scholars, texts, and debates along with the principal categories of analysis that animate them—the better to inform future teaching of world history in high-school classes. It also requires students to apply this knowledge to preparing high-school materials and activities.
Credit(s): 6
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HIST 610G - Topics in US History
Graduate reading and/or research in selected topics of world or regional history. May be repeated for credit under different topics.
Credit(s): 1-4
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HIST 611G - Civil Rights Movement
Following the almost total abandonment of African Americans by the North and the federal government in the final decades of the nineteenth century, the burden of redeeming the legal and political rights that many of them had briefly enjoyed during the Reconstruction Era fell upon African Americans themselves. This course examines how the African-American struggle for racial equality developed from resistance to the further hardening of racial demarcations in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era South—marked by spiraling racial violence, the proliferation of segregation laws, and widespread political disenfranchisement—into a full-blown assault upon the ideological and institutional edifices of white supremacism during the mid-twentieth century, it evaluates the contributions made by the main individuals, groups, and organizations associated with the modern civil-rights movement. It also assesses the movement’s successes and failures, legacies and limitations.
Credit(s): 4
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HIST 618G - Twentieth-Century Latin America
Graduate readings and seminar in topics of twentieth-century Latin American history with emphasis on the development of oral and written reporting techniques including the writing of a research paper. May be repeated for credit under different topics.
Credit(s): 4
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HIST 639G - Seminar in Asian History
Directed study in selected topics of Asian History. AS: Asian History
Credit(s): 3
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HIST 3000 - Topics in World History
A course which deals with topics in World history; topics varies by semester and instructor. May be repeated for credit under different topics.
Credit(s): 4
Course Attribute(s):
- This course fulfills the Intercultural Interconnecting Perspective of the Dialogues.
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
- Honors Scholar Course.
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HIST 3160 - United States in the Age of the World Wars, 1914-1945
The interwar period was an age of contrasts: the 1920s was characterized by isolationism, economic growth, limited government, and social conflict mostly drawn along cultural lines; the 1930s were years of increasing internationalism, economic hardship, big government, and intense class conflict. This course provides an in-depth analysis of major social, economic, political, and diplomatic developments in the United States between the beginning of World War I and the end of World War II. It focuses upon how both elite and ordinary Americans perceived and responded to phenomena like prohibition, the Great Depression, and an increasingly perilous international scene.
Credit(s): 4
Course Attribute(s):
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
- Honors Scholar Course.
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HIST 3169 - Life and Presidency of Harry S. Truman
The University’s namesake, Harry S. Truman, was the thirty-third president of the United States and the only person from Missouri to attain the nation’s highest political office. Truman’s presidency witnessed dramatic events in both domestic and foreign affairs. Abroad, America was engaged in the end of World War II, the beginning of the Cold War, and the Korean War. At home, Truman faced the challenges of demobilization and conversion to a peacetime economy, increasingly fraught race relations, and fractious debate over immigration policy. This course examines and evaluates Truman’s record and legacy. The course includes a one-day field trip to the White House Decision Center at the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in Independence, Missouri.
Credit(s): 4
Course Attribute(s):
- Honors Scholar Course.
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
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HIST 3320 - Eugenics in America
If scientific discoveries reveal how to genetically engineer populations that are less prone to age-old physical and mental illnesses, it is not immoral to ignore this new knowledge? This was the main question posed by the assortment of scientists, philosophers, politicians, and social activists who comprised the eugenics movement during its late-nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century heyday. This course examines the history of the American eugenics movement from its origins, in the ideas of Lamarck, Darwin, Galton, and Mendel, to its culmination in government policies and legislation affecting marriage, birth control, and immigration, among other things.
Credit(s): 4
Course Attribute(s):
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
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HIST 3321 - Red Scares: Anticommunism in the United States, 1919-1957
This course examines the similarities and differences between the First Red Scare (1919-20) and the Second Red Scare (1946-57). It explores this origins, characteristics, and legacies, as well as the extent of continuity between them, especially in terms of ideology and personnel. In addition to exploring the roles of key individuals implicated in conducting anti-radical witch-hunts–notably A. Mitchell Palmer, Joseph R. McCarthy, and J. Edgar Hoover– the course examines the victims and opponents of the two red scares. The course also examines how the red scares have been depicted in popular culture, particularly in literature and movies.
Credit(s): 4
Course Attribute(s):
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
- Honors Scholar Course.
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HIST 3810 - Survey of Latin American History
This course will introduce major themes in the history of Latin America from the arrival of the first people in the Americas to the present. It presents a survey of Indigenous civilizations, the European conquest, colonization, African slavery, independence movements, nineteenth-century liberal reforms, and twentieth-century revolutions. Among the issues we will examine are class structures, gender, constructions of race and ethnicity, inequality, leadership styles, ideologies, democracy, revolutions, religion, and popular movements. Rather than analyzing Latin America from a North American point of view, we will scrutinize how Latin Americans view themselves and how their culture, economics, and politics have developed in different directions than the United States and Europe.
Credit(s): 4
Course Attribute(s):
- This course fulfills the Intercultural Interconnecting Perspectives of the Dialogues.
- This is a writing-enhanced course.
- Honors Scholar Course.
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HLTH 105 - Exploring Health-Related Careers
Students who have participated in, and completed, the Truman Institute’s Summer Talent Academy for Professions in Health (STAPH) complete an individual research project culminating in a research paper presented to the STAPH program advisor(s) during the fall semester immediately following the summer of their participation.
Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Summer Talent Academy for Professions in Health.
Credit(s): 1
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HLTH 145 - Topics in Public Health
Selected topics in public health. Topics will vary based on instructor’s interest areas. May be repeated up to 99 credits.
Credit(s): 1-3
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HLTH 150 - Nutrition in Health and Wellness
This course provides an introduction to basic human nutrition and the interdependence of nutrition and food on health, behaviors, and diseases. Energy expenditure, caloric intake, diet analyses, and food/diet controversies and issues are examined. This course includes an integrated service learning component.
Prerequisite: Health Science major or Health Studies minor.
Credit(s): 3
NOTE: Students may not receive credit toward graduation for both ES 245 and HLTH 150.
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HLTH 160 - Essentials of Stress Management
This course exposes each student to the concept of holistic stress management: the principles, theories, and skills needed to effectively manage personal stress, to understand the psychosomatic (mind-body-spirit) relationship, and to employ a holistic approach to stress management: cognitive strategies and relaxation techniques in both personal and public health arenas.
Credit(s): 2
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HLTH 195 - Lifetime Health and Fitness
The purpose of this course is to integrate material from human physiology, psychology, sociology, and nutrition to present an interdisciplinary framework for disease prevention and health promotion. The course focus is to promote a behavioral lifestyle change in which students integrate into their lives patterns of physical activity, health, and well-being.
Concurrent enrollment with HLTH 196 - Lifetime Physical Activities required.
Credit(s): 1.5
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HLTH 196 - Lifetime Physical Activities
This course is designed to introduce the student to a pattern of lifetime fitness and physical activity through a variety of activity modes. Regardless of activity mode, concepts of aerobic and anaerobic conditioning techniques are explored. Where appropriate, issues of safety, equipment, theory, technique and other factors are introduced.
Concurrent enrollment with HLTH 195 - Lifetime Health and Fitness required.
Credit(s): 0.5
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HLTH 198 - Personal Health and Fitness
The purpose of this course is to integrate material from a range of disciplines (but not limited to) human physiology, psychology, sociology, and nutrition to present an interdisciplinary framework for disease prevention and health promotion. The course focus is to promote a behavioral lifestyle change in which students integrate into their lives patterns of physical activity, health, and well-being.
Credit(s): 2
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HLTH 200 - Medical Terminology
Medical Terminology allows the student to develop mastery with terminology that is used in Allied Health occupations. In the process of developing mastery with medical terminology, a student has the opportunity to preview or review the fundamentals of anatomy, evaluate medical reports, and learn proper pronunciation of medical terms. The course is designed as a programmed learning and self-paced approach by body systems. Students who enroll in this course must be highly self-motivated, have good time management skills and possess the ability to understand and follow written instructions.
Credit(s): 1
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HLTH 245 - Substance Abuse Prevention
This course provides an overview of the field of substance abuse prevention, the public health model of substance abuse prevention, and health education/prevention theory and research. The course focuses on ‘What the Health Education Specialist Needs to Know and Be Able to Do’ in a systems approach to community-wide substance abuse prevention following the strategic prevention framework: asset/resource assessment, community readiness, capacity building, prioritizing/targeting efforts, planning/best practices, implementation, cultural competence, evaluation/core measures, and sustainability. Students may not receive credit toward graduation for both HLTH 245 - Substance Abuse Prevention and HLTH 265 - Drugs in Society. Students should take one course or the other.
Prerequisite: Exercise Science or Health Science major.
Credit(s): 3
When Offered: (spring only)
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HLTH 255 - Introduction to Community and Public Health
A survey of the methods and techniques by which community health workers identify and measure the scope and intensity of health problems. This course includes an integrated service learning component.
Prerequisite: Health Science or Exercise Science major.
Credit(s): 3
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HLTH 260 - Human Sexuality
This course uses a sex positive framework to address sexuality throughout the lifespan. During the course, students will explore topics relating to the history of sexuality in America, anatomy, the gender binary and different gender identities, sexual orientation, consent, sexual communication, contraception, the intersection of disability and sex, pleasure, sexually transmitted infections, and HIV.
Credit(s): 3
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HLTH 265 - Drugs in Society
Introduction to topics associated with drug-taking behavior, emphasizing drug education. Physiological and sociological aspects of drug-taking behavior are examined. This course meets requirements for the minor in Disability Studies. Students may not receive credit toward graduation for both HLTH 245 - Substance Abuse Prevention and HLTH 265 Drugs in Society. Students should take one course or the other. Health Science majors should generally not take HLTH 265.
Credit(s): 3
When Offered: spring only
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HLTH 270 - Health Systems and Consumers
This course examines advances, reforms, and challenges in the delivery of healthcare in the United States and around the world. Foundational concepts of health systems including health and disease, policy and economics are addressed in diverse countries such as France, the United Kingdom, Canada, Peru, Australia, Bangladesh, China, India, Japan, Russia, and Israel. Students will reflect on how healthcare is organized and delivered based on each country’s geography and culture, history of its health system and national issues related to healthcare cost, quality, access and innovation. The role and contributions of non-governmental organizations to global health are also addressed throughout the course.
Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in HLTH 255 - Introduction to Community and Public Health (or concurrent enrollment) and Health Science major.
Credit(s): 3
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HLTH 290 - Public Health Education Principles
This course content covers public health education history, philosophy, ethics, theories and models, settings, and professional organizations. The course is based on the seven areas of responsibility of a Health Educator which include assess needs; plan; implement; conduct evaluation and research; administer health education strategies, interventions, and programs; serve as a health education resource person; and communicate and advocate for public health education.
Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in HLTH 255 - Introduction to Community and Public Health (or concurrent enrollment) and Health Science major.
Credit(s): 3
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HLTH 315 - Contemporary Issues in Women’s Health
This course integrates feminism with public health to understand the health experiences of women living in the U.S. Using various lectures, discussions, and audiovisual materials, this course will explore some of the following topics: mental health, nutrition, sexual and reproductive health, anatomy, pregnancy and abortion, peri-menopause and menopause, violence, and environmental and occupational health.
Credit(s): 3
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HLTH 320 - Patient Education and Clinical Health Promotion
This course meets the ‘Selectives’ requirements for the Bachelor of Science in Health Science degree. In addition to an overview of patient education/clinical health promotion - what a Health Educator needs to know and be able to do in Patient Education, the course focuses on: patient and family education, JCAHCO standards/goals, the Health Educator/clinician’s role/responsibility, health education and learning theories, materials and counseling/teaching in health promotion, patient compliance and motivation, interdisciplinary collaboration, assessing health and learning needs, participation in collaborative decision-making and brief motivational interviewing (MI), chronic disease and chronic disease self-management (CDSM), MO’s CDSM Plan, selecting effective patient education materials/programs, resources for patients/clinicians/health educators, planning/delivery/evaluation of CDSMPs, and health policy. This course includes an Integrated Service Learning component.
Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in HLTH 290 - Public Health Education Principles and Health Science major.
Credit(s): 3
When Offered: (fall only)
Course Attribute(s): - This is a writing-enhanced course.
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HLTH 325 - Health Management and Policy
As an introduction to what an entry-level Health Education Specialist “needs to know and be able to do” in health management and policy, this course focuses on: Public Health (PH) System/Essential Services, Responsibilities/processes of management, Accreditation administration and management; PH Performance Management System; Elements of performance management: standards, measurement, progress, Quality Improvement; Implementing PH quality concepts; Evidence-based PH management and practice; Human Resources management, training and workforce development; PH financial management/grant writing/business plan; and Health policy analysis. This course will include an Integrated Service Learning (ISL) component.
Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in HLTH 255 - Introduction to Community and Public Health and HLTH 290 - Public Health Education Principles and Health Science major.
Credit(s): 3
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HLTH 330 - Community Nutrition for Special Populations
This course aids in the development of a basic foundation of knowledge and skills from which to apply the principles of community nutrition to various constituencies (elderly populations, children, impoverished populations, women, people with diabetes, etc.). As part of the integrated service learning component, course information is applied to aid in students’ understanding of local program planning, policies, resources, and nutrition issues specific to community nutrition for various populations. This course also presents material relevant to solving community nutritional and health problems, including program delivery, nutrition education, nutrition assessment, and planning nutrition interventions.
Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in HLTH 150 - Nutrition in Health and Wellness , ES 245 - Nutrition for Health, Fitness, and Sport , or NU 311 - Human Nutrition ; and Health Science, Exercise Science or Athletic Training major.
Credit(s): 3
When Offered: (spring, odd years only)
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HLTH 350 - Public Health Practicum
This course is designed to provide students with a structured opportunity to observe public health professionals in a work setting related to the student’s concentration for a minimum of 40 clock hours. Students typically shadow or assist a clinical health professional or other public health professional. Those in clinical settings are unlikely to have opportunities for hands-on experiences. Students in administrative settings are more likely to have active roles within the organization. Each student develops personalized learning objectives for her or his specific work setting based on the competencies of the Certified Health Education Specialist. Multiple assignments must be approved before beginning the practicum hours. Students are required to complete a number of written assignments reflecting on his or her observations and experiences in the workplace. The one credit course is repeatable for a cumulative total of 3 credits.
Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in HLTH 255 - Introduction to Community and Public Health and HLTH 290 - Public Health Education Principles , Health Science majors only, and consent of advisor and instructor.
Credit(s): 1
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HLTH 361 - Mental Health
This course explores the role that positive mental health plays in the achievement of optimal health and wellness; the role of the health educator, health education models/theories, and Healthy People 2020 in mental health. What the health educator needs to know and be able to do in the community mental health setting, programming skills, and other skill sets for the community health educator are presented and applied.
Prerequisites: (Grade of C or better in HLTH 290 - Public Health Education Principles or ES 195 - Instructional Strategies in Physical Education and Health ) and Health Science or Exercise Science major.
Credit(s): 3
When Offered: (fall only)
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HLTH 362 - Environmental Health
The course actively involves the student in the determination of environmental health concerns. It examines the impact of the environment on individual and population health, Healthy People 2020 objectives for environmental health, and the sources/etiology, effects, and control measures for selected environmental and personal safety hazards. This course includes an integrated service learning component.
Prerequisite: Junior or senior status and Health Science major, or permission of the instructor.
Credit(s): 3
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HLTH 374 - Independent Study in Health Science
Individualized study in specialized areas of Health Science.
Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in HLTH 290 - Public Health Education Principles , Health Science major, and consent of academic advisor and Department Chair.
Credit(s): 1 to 4
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HLTH 400 - CHES Exam Review
This course is required of senior Health Science majors to finalize their preparation to successfully pass their national certification examination (Certified Health Education Specialist-CHES). This course is taken during the fall or spring semester in which the student takes the CHES exam. Students must be registered for the CHES examination prior to the start of the course. Students must complete the CHES examination to receive credit for this course. All seven Areas of Responsibility of the Certified Health Education Specialist will be reviewed during this course.
Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in HLTH 440 - Capstone: Program Implementation and Evaluation (or concurrent enrollment) and senior Health Science major.
Credit(s): 1
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HLTH 405 - Global Public Health
Course explores disease prevention and health promotion in the global community. Current global health issues including global infectious disease initiatives, global nutrition, social determinants of health, and child and maternal health are addressed.
Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in HLTH 366 - Program Assessment and Planning (or concurrent enrollment) and health science major.
Credit(s): 3
When Offered: (fall only)
Course Attribute(s): - This course fulfills the Intercultural Interconnecting Perspectives course for the Dialogues.
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HLTH 410 - Health Communication Methods
This course helps students identify and apply the best practices in health communication. Using an array of communication channels, students select a health topic/issue corresponding with their HLTH 440 capstone project to create a persuasive health communication message in a culturally appropriate manner to a priority population in the community.
Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in HLTH 366 - Program Assessment and Planning (or concurrent enrollment) and Health Science major.
Credit(s): 3
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HLTH 440 - Capstone: Program Implementation and Evaluation
This course is designed to develop a more complete understanding and application of the skills and abilities needed by future health educators for program implementation and evaluation. A wide variety of learning activities and discussions focusing on the core competencies for entry-level health educators are employed in this capstone course. Topics presented emphasize a theoretical basis for planning, implementation, evaluation, and re-planning as an ongoing process. This course includes a planned culminating capstone project in which the student demonstrates skills and knowledge developed from his or her experiences within the Health Science program through an integrated service learning component. Students complete their Truman Portfolio in this course.
Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in HLTH 410 - Health Communication Methods or instructor permission.
Credit(s): 3
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HLTH 455 - School Health Programs
This course meets a Community/Public/Worksite Health Concentration Requirement for the Bachelor of Science degree in Health Science. This course allows students to experience what the community health educator needs to know and be able to do in the school health setting: advocate for Coordinated School Health Programs/Coordinated School Health Education; design, implement, and evaluate a coordinated school health program, examine the Missouri Assessment Program/Missouri School Improvement Program and where Coordinated School Health Programs fit, evaluate health education curricula and materials, discuss how Health and Physical Education relates to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Healthy/Active Living Framework, the Missouri Assessment Program, the Missouri School Improvement Program, the Show-Me Standards, the National Health Education Standards, and the Grade Level Expectations (GLEs); School Health Index/Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool/Physical Education Curriculum Analysis Tool, and Wellness Policy, and design a health lesson project. This course includes an integrated service learning component.
Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in HLTH 366 - Program Assessment and Planning and Health Science major.
Credit(s): 3
When Offered: (spring only)
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HLTH 460 - Internship in Health Education
This course is designed for Health Science majors to apply the responsibilities and competencies of the entry-level health educator in an internship setting, typically off-campus, for a minimum of 240 clock hours. Using academic advisor guidance, the student is responsible for securing an appropriate placement in a community, worksite or public health setting during the semester prior to registering for this course. During the internship, the student submits artifacts, logs and other assignments to verify practical experience(s) in the seven Areas of Responsibility of the Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES). In order to receive permission to enroll in the internship, the student must have declared a Health Science Concentration and complete and submit the required documentation prior to the specified semester deadlines.
Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in HLTH 410 - Health Communication Methods , mandatory attendance at one spring informational session if completing a summer internship, junior or senior status, consent of his or her academic advisor and HES Department Chair, minimum 2.0 cumulative GPA, and minimum 2.5 major GPA.
Credit(s): 6
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HLTH 467 - Introduction to Epidemiology
Increasing an understanding of epidemiological concepts, practices, and methods is a primary focus. Topics covered during the course are history of epidemiology, disease etiology, measures of morbidity and mortality, descriptive means of epidemiology, data uses in the field, study designs, measures of effect, data interpretation issues, screening guidelines, and epidemiological aspects of infectious diseases, work and the environment. A separate focus is placed on the ethics of research and the practice of analyzing data in epidemiological investigations.
Prerequisites: STAT 190 - Basic Statistics or STAT 290 - Statistics and grade of C or better in HLTH 366 - Program Assessment and Planning (or concurrent enrollment) or Statistical Methods minor.
Credit(s): 3
When Offered: (spring only)
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HLTH 470 - Research in Health Science
Directed student research in Health Science. Consent of academic advisor, research mentor, and Department Chair is required.
Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in HLTH 349 - Research Methods in Health Science .
Credit(s): 1 to 4
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HLTH 480 - Worksite Health
This course meets the Community Health/Public Health/Worksite Health Concentration requirements for the Health Science Major. The course examines worksite health promotion and health protection on the educational, organizational, and environmental levels. What the health educator needs to know and be able to do in the worksite health setting are covered and assessed. Students assess workplace needs for health promotion and occupational health programming; plan, implement, and evaluate intervention programming; administer safety and health programs; and serve as a workplace safety and health promotion advocate and resource person using the specific skill sets of the worksite health educator. This course includes an integrated service learning component.
Prerequisites: HLTH 366 - Program Assessment and Planning and Health Science major.
Credit(s): 3
When Offered: (spring only)
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IDSM 175 - Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies
Students explore the theoretical and practical meanings of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity through readings, discussions, and an individual project focused on the student’s own planned course of study.
Credit(s): 3
Course Attribute(s): - This is a writing-enhanced course.
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IDSM 240 - Student Led Topics
An interdisciplinary topics course that enhances the standard Truman curriculum. This class is developed and led by a student preceptor under the guidance, supervision, and final authority of a faculty mentor. Each syllabus is approved by governance for a single offering. May be repeated for up to six credits. No more than six credits of SC/coursework will count toward graduation.
Credit(s): 1-3
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IDSM 250 - Italian American Experience in Film
This is a film course that addresses various aspects of Italian American immigration, culture, and assimilation as expressed through film and supported by texts. This course explores the historical context of the big Italian immigrations to the United States; various aspects of Italian culture that helped and/or hindered the survival of the newcomers; and the progression of Italian Americans from a subaltern minority, victimized by racism, to an assimilated group whose culture and contributions are an important part of the American cultural tapestry. It also analyzes the image of Italians and Italian Americans in popular culture, focusing on film.
Credit(s): 3
Course Attribute(s): - Arts & Humanities Perspectives and Intercultural Interconnecting Perspectives course for the Dialogues.
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IDSM 300 - Folklore Colloquium
Folklore Colloquium is a half-credit course in which faculty and students come together to discuss issues and strategies essential to the collection and/or interpretation of folklore. The course meets once a month for two hours. Each meeting involves a reading, listening, viewing, writing or collecting assignment, and each is led by a selected faculty member. Course is graded Pass/Fail. Folklore minors must take the course twice, for a total of one credit.
Prerequisite: sophomore status or above.
Credit(s): 0.5
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IDSM 301 - Global Issues Colloquium Study
In this course, students prepare for, attend, and reflect on Global Issues Colloquiums. The colloquium topics vary from semester to semester. Students will be assigned readings before each colloquium and will craft questions for presenters. Students will either write short reflections on each colloquium, or participate in discussions (in person or online). Grades are Pass/Fail and may be repeated for up to three credits. Up to two credits may be counted in the International Studies Minor.
Credit(s): 1
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IDSM 320 - Ethics of Food
A discussion-based course that surveys the rich and diverse viewpoints surrounding moral principles in relation to food. Subjects discussed include ecology, economics, agriculture/food technology, theology, and philosophy. Subjects are explored starting from the question of “How ought we act?”
Credit(s): 3
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IDSM 350 - Preceptor:
Teaching and associated duties, including guided reflection, for student-led learning under the supervision of a faculty mentor, including those serving as preceptors for student-initiated courses. The number of credits should be no more than the student-led experience itself. Approval of the Director of Interdisciplinary Studies is required for enrollment. May be repeated.
Credit(s): 1-3
When Offered: Hybrid
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IDSM 351 - Interdisciplinary Global Health Seminar
This seminar course integrates aspects of global health through an exploration of biomedical and sociohistorical perspectives that influence health disparities; specific themes vary with each iteration. Emphasis is placed on reviewing and integrating information from current scholarly, peer-reviewed literature sources into students’ semester-long service-learning projects. Each directed project takes action in resolving a global health issue that incorporates ideas presented in the course. The course may be repeated, as long as there is minimal or no duplication of topics covered by any previously attended iteration, as judged by the instructor(s) of record. An interest or background in global health issues is desirable.
Credit(s): 2
When Offered: (spring only)
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IDSM 352 - Topics in Interdisciplinary Studies
An interdisciplinary topics course that enhances the standard Truman curriculum. This class is developed and led by Truman faculty or approved staff according to a syllabus approved for a single offering. May be repeated for up to six credits.
Credit(s): 1 to 3
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IDSM 360 - Museums: Object and Collections Management
An introduction to museum studies focusing on collections and the study of objects themselves, including aspects of museological practice such as registration, environmental management, preservation and conversation, and research and display.
Credit(s): 3
Course Attribute(s): - This is a writing-enhanced course.
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IDSM 361 - Exhibition and Museums: Planning and Practice
Study of the planning and preparation of museum exhibits and issues of museum education and programming.
Credit(s): 3
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IDSM 370 - Preceptor
Teaching and associated duties, including guided reflection, for student-led learning under the supervision of a faculty mentor, including those serving as preceptors for student-initiated courses. The number of credits should be no more than the student-led experience itself. May be repeated for up to 12 credits.
Prerequisite: Approval of the Director of Interdisciplinary Studies is required for enrollment.
Credit(s): 1-3
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IDSM 400 - Readings in Interdisciplinary Studies
An opportunity for the student to earn credit toward the Interdisciplinary Major by readings or other work on topics not covered in available course offerings; directed and evaluated by appropriate faculty.
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies, and a written learning agreement signed by student, instructor, and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies.
Credit(s): 1 to 3
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IDSM 431 - Cognitive Science Readings
An independent study course where a student produces a reflective essay geared towards synthesizing the threads of cognitive science as part of their program of study and demonstrating the contribution of their work to their understanding of the field of cognitive science.
Completion of 9 hours towards the Cognitive Science Minor.
Credit(s): 1
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IDSM 432 - Child Studies Capstone
After completing at least nine (9) credits, but preferably twelve (12) credits, in the minor, students will write and revise an 8-12 page reflective paper in consultation with a faculty member from the Child Studies Minor Committee or another faculty member approved by the Committee. The paper will examine how coursework, research, service learning, and/or internship experience in the minor have contributed to the student’s interdisciplinary understanding of the physical, psychological, cognitive, and social development of children; the creation and critique of art and media focused on and directed towards children; and the political debates and social policies that influence children. It will also explore how completing the Child Studies minor will contribute to the student’s future academic and personal endeavors.
Prerequisite: Students should have completed 9 credits in the minor before enrolling in the capstone. It should be completed with a grade of “C” or higher.
Credit(s): 1
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IDSM 475 - Interdisciplinary Studies Capstone
This course brings together students pursuing a wide range of self-designed majors. Students review their experiences in terms of their initial stated expectations, and pursue individual capstone projects in cross-disciplinary, critical collaboration with other students and the instructor of record, with input where appropriate from the student’s program mentor.
Prerequisites: IDSM 175 - Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies and interdisciplinary studies major.
Credit(s): 3
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IDSM 520 - Introduction to Sustainability: From Science to Society
This course begins by investigating the scientific knowledge informing our sense of ecological challenges to sustainability, including climate change, loss of biological diversity and ecosystem services, and invasive species. Primary literature provides most of the resources for this portion of the course. The course then proceeds to address responses to these challenges, from local grassroots efforts to international treaties. Here, various sources are relevant, addressing diverse endeavors ranging from the building of a seed savers network; to considering regional and national carbon trading schemes (and legislation/regulation); to international efforts to minimize species introductions, ozone-depleting atmospheric pollutants, and greenhouse gas emissions.
Credit(s): 3
NOTE: This course is taught by the Institute for Academic Outreach.
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IDSM 520G - Introduction to Sustainability: From Science to Society
This course begins by investigating the scientific knowledge informing our sense of ecological challenges to sustainability, including climate change, loss of biological diversity and ecosystem services, and invasive species. Primary literature provides most of the resources for this portion of the course. The course then proceeds to address responses to these challenges, from local grassroots efforts to international treaties. Here, various sources are relevant, addressing diverse endeavors ranging from the building of a seed savers network; to considering regional and national carbon trading schemes (and legislation/regulation); to international efforts to minimize species introductions, ozone-depleting atmospheric pollutants, and greenhouse gas emissions.
Credit(s): 3
NOTE: This course is taught by the Institute for Academic Outreach.
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IDSM 521 - Applied Sustainability: Optimizing Value From Concept to the Boardroom to the Bottom-Line
This course will examine the practical application of implementing sustainability in business, land use, products and daily life. We will study best practices, lessons learned, barriers, opportunities risks management and rewards of implementing sustainability in this increasingly complex field and dynamic and changing legal and regulatory environment. Included will be the exploration of topics such as socially responsible investing (SRI), environmental and social governance (ESG), the triple bottom-line, cradle to cradle, sustainable real estate development and sustainable community development, and sustainable facilities management. Examples of innovative business models and sustainable enterprise software tools will be touched upon as ways to enhance longer-term value, capitalize on opportunities, manage risks, and bridge the split incentive dilemma that sustainability often times presents in the short-term.
Credit(s): 3
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IDSM 521G - Applied Sustainability: Optimizing Value From Concept to the Boardroom to the Bottom-Line
This course will examine the practical application of implementing sustainability in business, land use, products and daily life. We will study best practices, lessons learned, barriers, opportunities risks management and rewards of implementing sustainability in this increasingly complex field and dynamic and changing legal and regulatory environment. Included will be the exploration of topics such as socially responsible investing (SRI), environmental and social governance (ESG), the triple bottom-line, cradle to cradle, sustainable real estate development and sustainable community development, and sustainable facilities management. Examples of innovative business models and sustainable enterprise software tools will be touched upon as ways to enhance longer-term value, capitalize on opportunities, manage risks, and bridge the split incentive dilemma that sustainability often times presents in the short-term.
Credit(s): 3
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INDV 100 - The Truman Experience
Students in The Truman Experience prepare themselves to be successful at Truman State University by researching University resources and policies, and by thinking about and critically discussing common issues faced by new students. Topics covered may include academic integrity, library resources, time management, choice of major and degree planning. The course is graded pass/fail.
Credit(s): 1
When Offered: (spring only)
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INDV 101 - Truman Week
INDV 101 is the academic component of Truman Week. It provides students the opportunity to interact closely with a professor and a small group of classmates while becoming familiar with the university. The learning community established during Truman Week continues through the fall semester as a regular full-length fall semester class. The class is designed to help students acquire and develop the skills necessary for long-term success and personal well-being. Topics vary by instructor but all students receive a self-guided tour of the library, a library database exercise, an introduction to the Career Center and campus resources, and an advising technology workshop. The course is graded pass/fail.
Credit(s): 1
When Offered: (fall only)
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INDV 105 - Exploring American Academic Culture
International students participating in academic institutes organized by the University explore topics related to American culture, the culture of American academic communities, the process for applying and gaining admission to American universities, and the role of the English language in describing the academic culture and communicating scholarly ideas to others.
Prerequisite: Registration is restricted to students enrolled in an international institute or academy, who are non-degree seeking students. Students must meet the minimum English language proficiency requirements established by the program to be enrolled.
Credit(s): 0-3
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INDV 110 - Skills for Academic Success
Taught by academic advisors in a discussion-oriented atmosphere, the course assists students in developing skills for academic success. The course covers reading and understanding textbooks; listening, concentration, and note-taking strategies; understanding arguments and critical thinking; effectively managing time and avoiding procrastination; preparing for and taking tests; and understanding and confronting obstacles to learning.
Credit(s): 2
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