Provides an introduction to the University, college, and health professions to enhance students' understanding of self and the decisions they make academically and socially as members of the University's diverse, multicultural community. Group activities and individual assignments along with active participation in a learning community help students adjust to life on an urban campus, develop a better understanding of the learning process, acquire essential academic skills, and make connections with the faculty and students in the college.

HSCI

College: An Introduction

Examines the fundamental role of nutrition in promoting health and how lifestyle and the socioecological model work together. Covers the physiological functions of energy-providing nutrients in the body and interrelationships, including the key functions of macronutrients and micronutrients. Introduces the use of two different diet assessment tools to assist individuals in selecting food for health promotion. Offers students an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to make healthy choices and the role nutrients have on a person’s wellness.

BIOL

PHSC

Human Nutrition

Explores the fundamental role of nutrition in promoting health. Offers an overview of nutrient functions, compositions, and digestion/absorption. Relates concepts covered in class to current topics of interest in nutrition. Offers students an opportunity to discuss their dietary behaviors in relation to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

Contemporary Issues in Nutrition

Introduces students to the Bouvé Cooperative Education Program and provides them with the opportunity to develop job-search and career-management skills. Offers students an opportunity to perform assessments of their workplace skills, interests, and values and discuss how they impact personal career decisions. Students also have an opportunity to prepare a professional-style résumé, learn proper interviewing techniques, and gain an understanding of the opportunities available to them for co-op. Introduces career paths, choices, and career decision making. Familiarizes students with workplace issues relative to their field of study and teaches them to use myNEUCOOL database in the job-search and referral process. Presents and discusses co-op policies, procedures, and expectations of the Bouvé Cooperative Education Program and co-op employers.

Professional Development for Bouv&#233; Co-op

Designed for health professionals to increase their knowledge and skills in advanced nutrition in health and disease. Builds on a foundation of nutrition and introduces nutrients and their physiological impacts, including the nutritional guidelines for good health and disease prevention. Through case studies, offers students an opportunity to interpret nutrition in the prevention and treatment of diet-related health problems, such as obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.

Advanced Nutrition in Health and Disease

Explores the role nutrition plays in promoting and improving health in the community. Examines modern aspects of public health nutrition in the healthcare system by applying the principles of nutrition to design policies, behavior, program planning, food insecurity, marketing, and children and adult nutrition programs. Offers students an opportunity to develop and deliver nutrition education to various populations in the community, including school-age children, college students, and the elderly population.

Public Health Nutrition in the Community

Interdisciplinary Seminar on Rural Health: This seminar addresses current issues in rural health, utilizing Maine, the nation’s most rural state, as a case example. The seminar will focus on interdisciplinary approaches which identify rural health issues, address root causes of diseases, and develop sustainable policy and programmatic interventions to improve health outcomes of individuals, families and communities in rural areas.  Topics addressed will include models of rural health care delivery, rural public health practices, rural public policy and health reform, the role of health technologies in rural practice, and health issues faced by vulnerable rural populations (including immigrants and migrant workers). The overall goal of this course is to critically analyze the complex contextual factors that must be addressed to sustainably improve health outcomes in rural settings.  This course is open to all students, regardless of major or year.

Special Topics

Offers students an opportunity to integrate their coursework, knowledge, and experiences into a proposal for a spring semester capstone experience. Students propose their health science culminating experience from options in the form of developing and implementing their own project with faculty mentor support or participating in a faculty-led seminar.

Health Science Capstone Introduction

Offers students an opportunity to integrate their course work, knowledge, and experiences into a project that results in a written report and presentation regarding an issue within the field of health or healthcare. The project is a culminating experience in the health science program. Includes working with a mentor in a field experience in public health education or health policy, public affairs, social service, or other healthcare environment in which the student is qualified. Requires students to present their projects to the seminar class and possibly to the agency or group with which they are working.

Health Science Capstone&#8212;Service

Offers students an opportunity to integrate their course work, knowledge, and experiences into a project that results in a written report and presentation regarding an issue within the field of health or healthcare. The project is a culminating experience in the health science program. Students may choose to participate in an ongoing research project or create and implement their own research project as their capstone project. Requires students to present their projects to the seminar class and possibly to present a poster at a professional/research expo.

Health Science Capstone&#8212;Research

Offers intensive study on the public health approach to a specific, relevant issue. Through a combination of close readings of empirical literature and interactive class discussion, students critique public health approaches and policies regarding the topic of the seminar. Requires students to complete an in-depth study, write a paper, and present their findings on a topic of interest within the larger discussion.

Health Science Capstone Seminar

Introduces students to the generation of real-world evidence (RWE) from real-world data (RWD) collected through different forms of observational health data. Examines how RWE is used to inform regulators and other stakeholder groups in life sciences and healthcare. Emphasizes the role of team science in executing an RWE analysis.

Introduction to Real-World Evidence

Introduces students to design principles behind data modeling in life sciences and healthcare. Examines and compares approaches to common data models across different research communities. Explores the rationale for popular data models through the use of industry case studies.

Foundations of Data Models

Surveys approaches to observational research across pharmacoepidemiology, emphasizing approaches used by the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics community.

Methods for Observational Research 1

Prepares health professionals to effectively communicate principles of diet and nutrition to their clients and the public. Covers public health promotion strategies, techniques used to teach diet and nutrition, and behavioral theories used in diet and nutrition intervention. Emphasizes clinical applications for the treatment of weight disorders, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, eating disorders, and nutrition in the life cycle.