Courses in Health Sciences Education

"P" refers to a course prerequisite and "C" to a course that must be taken concurrently.

AHLT Z298 Credit by Experience

AHLT Z299 Credit by Credentials

AHLT Z477 Teaching Methodology in Health Sciences Education (3-5 cr.) P: EDUC P255 or equivalent, EDUC H340 or equivalent, EDUC M300 or equivalent if teacher certification is sought. Teaching methods and techniques and choices of material and equipment, with emphasis on evaluation.

AHLT Z486 Student Teaching in Health Sciences Education (10-12 cr.) P: AHLT Z477, AHLT Z497, two years of experience in health specialty. Each student assumes responsibility under a supervising teacher for teaching in a cooperating secondary, postsecondary, or technical program.

AHLT Z490 Topics in Health Sciences Education (1-3 cr.) Permission required. Special electives offered by the faculty. Prerequisites vary with topic. Honors credit may be available. Students may repeat this course as long as the topic changes each time of enrollment.

AHLT Z497 Principles and Purposes of Health Sciences Education Programs (3 cr.) Historical, legislative, and theoretical foundations of health occupations training and service. Emphasis on roles, responsibilities, and functions of the health occupations/ sciences educator.

AHLT Z501 Scientific Inquiry Applied to Health Sciences Education (3 cr.) Analysis and interpretation of data, introduction to theory of advanced statistical techniques, and principles of research design appropriate to didactic, student laboratory, or clinical settings.

AHLT Z507 Evaluation in Health Sciences Education (3 cr.) Principles of construction and interpretation of written achievement tests and other evaluative procedures applied to allied health education in academic, laboratory, and clinical settings.

AHLT Z518 Occupational Education to Health Care Delivery Systems (3 cr.) Historical development of educational and training programs for health sciences/occupations education with emphasis on the educational routes leading to credentialing of a practitioner. Investigation of selected educational trends.

AHLT Z525 Curriculum and Instruction in Health Sciences Education (3 cr.) Principles of curricular construction and design. Content, materials, and methods of instruction in allied health sciences.

AHLT Z526 Workshop: Selected Topics in Health Sciences Education (1-3 cr.) Individual and group study dealing with current topics for improving teaching and practice in the allied health sciences.

AHLT Z530 Clinical Education and Performance Evaluation in Health Sciences Education (3 cr.) Analysis of health care facilities as instructional sites. Emphasizes the educational purpose of clinical experiences, effective use of sites, and legal aspects of clinical educational and clinical performance evaluation.

AHLT Z540 Continuing Education of Health Care Professionals (3 cr.) Orientation to the processes of continuing education as they relate to health care professions, with emphasis on professionalization as a process and its implications for continuing education. Includes exploration of processes of needs determination and instructional episode planning, design, implementation, and evaluation.

AHLT Z590 Individual Study in Health Sciences Education (1-3 cr.) Analysis of select readings; study of health sciences education/ allied health sciences research; or critique of research problems, methodology, or theoretical bases with faculty guidance.

AHLT Z594 Administration in Health Sciences Education (3 cr.) Principles of effective organization, supervision, and administration of educational programs in the health sciences. Techniques of program management, budgeting and accounting, and records and reports applied to educational programs in allied health sciences.

AHLT Z595 Practicum in Health Sciences Education (3-6 cr.) Relating educational theory to practice through developmental activities or supervised teaching experience in an allied health setting. Emphasis upon planning, structuring, and evaluating learning experiences.

AHLT Z599 Thesis in Health Sciences Education (3-6 cr.) Individual investigation in the form of an organized scientific contribution or a comprehensive analysis in a specified area related to health sciences education.

The following graduate courses are integrated into the graduate program.

AHLT W510 Trends and Issues in Allied Health (3 cr.) A seminar course to review pertinent literature and other sources of information as a basis for discussing trends and issues affecting the therapeutic professions and the health care delivery system.

AHLT W520 Research Methodology in Allied Health (3 cr.) P: Graduate-level statistics course. Fundamentals of research methodology, design, techniques, and procedures applicable to research problems in the allied health disciplines. Introduction to computer data analysis.

AHLT W560 Topics (1-3 cr.). Permission required. Prerequisites vary with topic. Exploration of a selected topic related to allied health science disciplines at an advanced level. May be repeated once for credit if topics differ.

AHLT W570 Research Communication in Allied Health Sciences (3 cr.) P: consent of major advisor. Focuses on the conceptualization and writing of research communications in a variety of formats including but not limited to abstracts, peer-reviewed original publications, theses, and grant submissions. Limited to allied health students.