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SPRING 2001
Practicum and Doctoral Research Instruction EPIDEMIOLOGY
GENERAL PUBLIC HEALTH HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT
BIOSTATISTICS POPULATION AND FAMILY HEALTH
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES SOCIOMEDICAL SCIENCES
PRACTICUM and DOCTORAL INSTRUCTION REGISTRATION:
 CALL # COURSE # COURSE TITLE/INSTRUCTOR POINTS DAY TIME TERM OR
QUARTER
PERMISSION
76098 P0001 Public Health Practicum  0     Term P
76650 P0002 Public Health Residency 0 Term  P
77498 P9980 Doctoral Research Instruction 1-10     Term P
GENERAL PUBLIC HEALTH:
 CALL # COURSE # COURSE TITLE/INSTRUCTOR POINTS DAY TIME TERM OR
QUARTER
PERMISSION
78398 P6001 Perspectives in History & Philosophy of Public Health in the United States/Fruchtbaum 3 3:00-5:00 Term  
81698 P6011 (1) Public Health Law/Grad 2 T 5:30-7:30 Term
83197 P6094 Tutorial in Dental Health/Albert 1-6      Term  P
86646 P8093 Tutorial in Social Medicine/Strelnick 2 T 6:00-7:30 Term  P
  P6090,
P8090
P9090
Tutorials in General Public Health/ Faculty 1-6     Term  P
(1) Class will meet in Law School on Morningside Campus.
BIOSTATISTICS:
 CALL # COURSE # COURSE TITLE/INSTRUCTOR POINTS DAY TIME TERM OR
QUARTER
PERMISSION
93602 P6104 Introduction to Biostatistical Methods/Desai 4 M&W 10:00-12:30 Term
P
27211  P8104  Probability/Ying 3 T&R 6:10-7:25 Term P
64704 P8109 Statistical Inference/Cheung 3 T&R 10:30-11:45 Term P
81794 P8110 Applied Regression II (Topics in Biometry)/Begg 3 F 2:30-5:00 Term P
88979 P8111 Linear Regression Models/Jin 3 M&W 5:45-7:00 Term P
96947 P8113+ Wavelets: Concepts and Applications in Statistics/Ogden 3 T&R 10:30-11:45 Term
P
79288 P8116 Design of Medical Experiments/Heitjan 3 W&F 2:30-3:45 Term P
87786 P8120 Analysis of Categorical Data/Troxel 3 T 3:00-5:30 Term P
19707 P8133 Sequential Experimentation/Levin 3 F 9:30-12:00 Term
P
61578 P8140 The Randomized Clinical Trial/Friedwald 3 M 2:30-5:00 Term P
16601 P9108 Statistical Modeling for Data Analysis II/Gelman 4 T&R 1:30-3:00 Term P
19708 P9110-01 Theory of Statistical Inference II/Rabinowitz 4.5 M&W 10:45-12:00 Term P
61784 P9110-02 Theory of Statistical Inference II/Chen 4.5 M&W 4:00-5:15 Term
P
  P6190,
P8190,
P9190
Tutorials in Biostatistics/Faculty 1-6     Term P
 +Wavelets: Concepts and Applications in Statistics This is course is meant to provide students with both a solid background in the foundations of wavelets and a detailed overview of a variety of statistical applications. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to evaluate whether wavelets will be useful in new problems, and if they are, to work out basic methods of applying wavelets to such situations. The course will primarily consist of class lectures/discussions with a focus on applications and case studies. Computer demonstrations will be used to enhance lectures. Students will be evaluated based on performance on out-of-class assignments and in-class exams.
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES:
General Courses:
 CALL # COURSE # COURSE TITLE/INSTRUCTOR POINTS DAY TIME TERM OR
QUARTER
PERMISSION
27351 P6300* Environmental Health Sciences/Brandt-Rauf (Core course) 3 R &
F
1:00-5:00
2:00-5:00
Executive
Format
 
60800  P6310 Principles of Molecular Biology/Freyer 3 T-Lec
R-Lec F--Lab
1:00-2:00
2:00-3:00
9:00-12:00
Term
P
77650  P6313 Physiology/Asokan 3 T 2:00-4:00 Term
P
83597  P6325 Medical Ecology/Despommier 3 R 12:00-2:00 Term
P
88701  P8301 Gene Environment Interactions in Human Disease/Orjuela 3 W 9:00-11:00 Term
P
92110  P8319 Biological Markers of Chemical Exposure/Santella 3 W 3:00-6:00 Term
P
97002  P9300 Topics in Environmental Sciences/Graziano 4 W 12:00-3:00 Term
P
98499  P9350 Master's Essay in Environmental Health Sciences I/Faculty 1   Term
P
 78539 P9351 Master's Essay in Environmental Health Sciences II/Faculty 2      Term
P
 83288 P9370 Journal Club in Environmental Health/Santella 1 M 3:00-4:00 Term
P
  P6390,
P8390,
P9390
Tutorials in Environmental Health Sciences/Faculty 1-6     Term
P
* Class will meet on the following dates: 1/18, 1/19, 2/22, 2/23, 3/22, 3/23, 4/19, 4/20, 5/17, 5/18, 6/21 and 6/22.

Toxicology Concentration:

 75527 P8306 Environmental Hygiene/Andrews  3 T 6:00-8:00 Term
P
11032 P8308 Molecular Toxicology/Catz 3 W 6:00-9:00 Term
P
 11801 P8312 Systemic Toxicology/Zheng 3 T 4:00-6:00 Term
P
Medical Physics and Health Physics Concentration:
16298  P8310 Health Physics/Christman 3 R 5:00-8:00 Term
P
17602  P8333 Radiation Oncology Practical Experience/Wuu 3 TBA 7 hours/wk TBA P
21099  P8340 Diagnostic Radiology Applications/TBA 3 TBA TBA Term P
 22105 P8356 Radiopharmaceuticals in Medical Imaging/Wang 3 W 4:00-6:00 Term P
 23003 P8360 Basic Experimental Methods & Nuclear Instrumentation/Arbo 3 W 5:30-9:30 Term P
27254  P8365 Nuclear Medicine Application/Esser 3 TBA TBA Term P
28300 P9319 Nuclear Medicine and Radiopharmacology/Esser 3 T 5:00-7:00 Term P
26536 P9330 Diagnostic Radiological Physics/TBA 3 M 4:00-6:30 Term P
EPIDEMIOLOGY:
CALL # COURSE # COURSE TITLE/INSTRUCTOR POINTS DAY TIME TERM OR
QUARTER
PERMISSION
86852  P8405 Genetics in Epidemiology/Ottman 3 M 3:00-5:00 Term P
87647  P8406 Epidemiology of Communicable Diseases/Moore/Weisfuse 3 W 9:30-12:30 Term P
  P8409 Supervised Teaching Assistance/Faculty 1-3   Term P
93703  P8411 Reading Seminars in Psychiatric Epidemiology II/Cohen/Stueve/Pilowsky 3 M 3:00-5:00 Term
P
81795  P8417 Selected Problems of Measurement in Epi/Link 3 T 9:00-11:30 Term P
86040
 

94274
 
 
 
 
 

12149
15852
16497
17100
17752

P8438 Sec 01

P8438 Sec 02
 

P8439 Labs:

Sec 01
Sec 02
Sec 03
Sec 04
Sec 05

Epidemiology II: Design & Conduct of Observational Epidemiology/Schwartz

Sec 01 - 1/22 and 4/30 Class will meet from 9:00-12:00
Sec 02 - 1/22 and 4/30 Class with will meet from 2:00-5:00

STUDENTS MUST ALSO REGISTER FOR ONE LAB SECTION

  M/Lec
 

M/Lec
 
 

M/Labs:
 
 
 
 

 

9:00-11:00
 

2:00-4:00
 
 
 
 
 

7:00-8:00am 8:00-9:00 11:00-12:00
12:00-1:00
1:00-2:00

Term
 

Term

P
 

P

21450 P8440 Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Diseases/Diez-Roux 3 T 2:00-4:00 Term
P
68696 P8442 Epidemiology and Control of Tuberculosis/Schulger/El-Sador/Pablos-Mendez 3 W 5:30-8:30 Term
P
82297 P8470 Epidemiology of Alcohol and Drug Disorders/Hasin 3 W 2:00-4:00 Term
P
27447  P9400 Principles of Epi IV/Factor-Litvak 4 F 9:00-12:00 Term P
28301  P9419 Master's Essay in Epi I/Faculty 1   Term P
27034  P9420 Master's Essay in Epi II/Faculty 2     Term P
24704  P9446 Faculty Seminar in Psychiatric Epidemiology/Schwartz 1 R 12:30-2:00 Term P
94275  P9480 Research Seminars in Epidemiology/Shapiro 0.5 F 2:00-3:30 Term P
73340 P9493 Topics in Epidemiology of Neurological Disorders/Sacco/Hauser 3 M 5:00-7:00 Term
P
  P6490,
P8490,
P9490
Tutorials in Epi/Faculty 1-6     Term P
61447 P8715 Breast Cancer as a Public Health Issue/Senie/Yaker 3 M 10:00-12:00 Term
P
HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT:
CALL # COURSE #  COURSE TITLE/INSTRUCTOR  POINTS DAY TIME  TERM OR
QUARTER
PERMISSION
78040  P6508 Health Policy and the Political System/Brown  3 M 1:00-4:00 Term
P
86285 P6529 Accounting and Budgeting for Health Administration/Schwartzben 3 T 5:30-8:30 Term
61699  P6530-01 Issues and Approaches in Health Policy and Management/Sparer (Core course) 3 W 5:30-8:30 Term  
76997 P6530-02 Issues and Approaches in Health Policy and Management/Sparer (Core course) 3 M 5:30-8:30 Term
P
88980
 
 
 

72848
22701

P8502 (1)
 
 

P8503 Labs:
Sec-01
Sec-02

Research Techniques and Applications in Health Services Administration/Remler

STUDENTS MUST ALSO REGISTER FOR ONE LAB SECTION

3 R
 
 

R/Labs:

9:00-11:00
 
 
 

11:00-12:00
12:00-1:00

Term
P
61534  P8510(2) Quality of Health Care/Cunningham 3 M 6:00-9:00 Term P
72455 P8511 Health Care Policy: Lessons from the States/Sparer 3 W 9:00-12:00 Term
P
73402  P8519 Masters Essay in Health Policy and Management/Faculty 0-3     Term P
76501  P8533 (3) Health Care Financial Management/Wilson 3 T 2:00-5:00 Term P
77499  P8541 (4) Technology Assessment and Economic Evaluation/Zivin 3 R 1:00-4:00 Term P
80846  P8557+ Organizational Behavior/Dubbs 3 W 1:00-4:00 Term
P
82749  P8575 Cross-National Health Policy/L. Brown/Gelijns 3 T 1:00-4:00 Term P
86102  P9502 (5) Doctoral Seminar/TBA 0.5 T 5:00-8:00 Term P
  P6590,P8590, P9590  Tutorials in Health Policy and Management/Faculty 1-6     Term P

 *  Taught via distance learning. Limited to 35 students. Students must sign up in division.
(1) Prerequisite: P6103 or P6104 Biostatistics (Core course) or instructor's permission. Lecture 9:00-11:00. Students must register for a Lab.
(2) Limited enrollment. Division permission required.
(3) Limited enrollment Division permission required. Prerequisite P6529 Accounting and Budgeting.
(4) Prerequisite: P6503 Introduction to Health Economics and P6103/P6014 or instructor's permission.
(5) Class will meet the last Tuesday of each month.

+ P8557 Organizational Behavior The course provides a systematic exploration of organizational principles, practices and insights relevant to the management of health service organizations. Through lectures, discussions, group exercises and case analyses, students will examine issues such as: the nature of health services organizations and associated managerial roles; aspects of the managerial role such as motivation, leadership, and conflict management; internal organizational issues including work design and power; and organizational performance.
 
POPULATION & FAMILY HEALTH:
CALL #  COURSE # COURSE TITLE/INSTRUCTOR POINTS DAY TIME  TERM OR
QUARTER
PERMISSION
88101   P6610 Population Studies/McCarthy 3 T 2:00-5:00 Term
P
91403   P8614 Management of Health Care Organizations/A. Davidson 3 R 9:00-12:00 Term
P
92248  P8623 Quantitative Data Analysis: Service-Based Research II/Namerow 3 M 2:00-5:00 Term
P
76783   P8628 Public Health Aspects of Child Health/Findley 3 R 2:00-5:00 Term
P
83785   P8679 Investigative Methods in Humanitarian Emergencies/Waldman 2 W 2:00-5:00 2nd Quarter
(3/7-4/25)
P
88603   P8683 Psychosocial Impact of Forced Migration/Carballo 2 W 2:00-5:00 1st Quarter
(1/17-2/28)
P
  P6690, P8690,
P9690 
Tutorials in Population and Family Health/Faculty  1-6     Term
P
SOCIOMEDICAL SCIENCES:
CALL # COURSE # COURSE TITLE/INSTRUCTOR POINTS DAY TIME  TERM OR
QUARTER
PERMISSION
62953 P6700 Introduction to Sociomedical Sciences/Faculty
(Core course) 
3 R 5:15-7:15 Term  
94693  P6726 Tutorial: Social Aspects of Physical Disability and Rehabilitation/Kirchner 3 TBA TBA Term
P
11541  P6727 (DL) Preventive Health Behavior HPDP1/Murrman/Merzel 3 R 5:30-7:30 Term
P
11802  P6729 (1) Preventive Medicine and Public Health/Gemson/Elinson 3 R 10:00-12:00 Term P
13697  P6732* Health Promotion/Disease Prevention Seminar Series/R. Fullilove 1 W* 3:00-5:00 Term P
17800  P6741 Overview of Long-term Health Care services in Aging/Toner 3 R 5:30-7:30 Term
P
22349   P6781(2) The Use of Large Scale National Health Care Data Sets/Arons 3 M 11:00-2:00 Term
P
25850  P8704 Introduction to Medical Sociology/TBA 3 W 5:30-7:30 Term P
27402  P8705  (DL) Seminar in Evaluation of Health Programs/R. Fullilove 3 W 5:30-7:30 Term P
24705  P8709(4) Seminar in Sexuality, Gender, Health and Human Rights/Vance 3 M 4:00-6:00 Term
29597  P8712(5) Child and Family Policy II/Kamerman/Brooks-Gunn/Aber 3 M 5:10-6:50 Term
P
75534 P8713+ Critical Issues in Human Sexuality Across theLife Co 3 W 9:00-11:00 Term
P
61447 P8715+ Breast Cancer as a Public Health Issue/Senie/Yaker 3 M 10:00-12:00 Term
P
68003 P8716 Historiography: History of Medicine and Public Health/Rothman 3 T 10:00-12:00 Term
P
71602  P8718 Privacy, the State and Epidemic Disease: Policy Conflicts in AIDS and Tuberculosis/Bayer 3 W 1:00-3:00 Term P
 73199 P8719 Master's Essay/Master's Integrative Project in Sociomedical Sciences/Faculty 3        
81102 P8723+ Culture, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis/Bayer 3 T 1:00-3:00 Term
P
86103  P8731 Informal Social Networks/Litwak 3 W 3:00-5:00 Term
P
87948  P8741+ Globalization, Social Movements, and Community Health/Parker 3 W 11:00-1:00 Term
P
96051 P8743+ Living with Chronic Illness/Siegel 3 R 12:00-2:00 Term
P
88035 P8744 Caregiving in Chronic Illness: Psychosoical Prespectives/Raveis (Formerly P6743) 3 R 3:00-5:00 Term
P
11786  P8749 Immigrant Health/N. Kathuria 3 M 5:00-7:00 Term
P
11699 P8755 Introduction to Medical Anthropology/Marakowitz 3 R 1:00-3:00 Term
P
12749   P8758** Advanced Seminar on Theory and Research on Interpersonal Violence/Samples 3 M 1:00-3:00 Term
P
16951 P8767 Sec 01 Introduction to Health Psychology/Meyer 3 T 1:00-3:00 Term
P
18098  P8767 Sec 02 (1) (DL) Introduction to Health Psychology/Meyer 3 T 5:30-7:30  Term
P
22106  P8772 (6) Planning and Implementation of Health Promotion Programs -HPDP 2/Evans 3 T 3:00-5:00 Term
P
28147  P8780 Community Development: Linking Services, Training, Research and Activism/Indyk 3 R 7:45-9:45 Term
P
28703 P8786 Ethnographic Methods in Health Research/Clatts 3 T 5:30-7:30 Term
 P
28785  P8791 Tutorial: Self-Help Alternatives to Biomedical Therapies/Fisher 1-3 TBA TBA Term
P
75535 P8796 Tutorial: Review of Issues and Research in the Sociodental Field/Nikias 1-3 TBA TBA Term
P
23340  P8797 Tutorial: Review of Issues and Research on Compliance with Therapeutic and Preventive Regimens/Nikias 1-3 TBA TBA Term
P
22215  P8799 Research Proposal Writing/Dean 1-3 TBA TBA Term
P
69286 P9775 (7) Qualitative Research Methods II/M.Fullilove 3 M 3:00-5:00 Term
P
63042 P9780 SMS Doctoral Research Seminars/R. Fullilove 3 M 1:00-3:00 Term
P
P6790,P8790, P9790 Tutorials in Sociomedical Sciences/Faculty 1-3 TBA TBA Term
P
HP8510 Methods of Teaching in Health Care/Miller 2 F TBA 4 Fridays-TBA
P
G8604 Disease, Public and Empire: Comparative Perspectives/Stepan 4 R 11:00-12:50 Term
P
G8732 The Social History of America Medicine/Rothman 3 T 2:00-4:00 Term
 P
** For doctoral students only.

 *    Seminar dates: to be arranged.
 DL To be taught via distance education technology.
(1)   Limited to 30 students.
(2)   Limited to 23 students.
(3)   P8705 prerequisite. Biostatistics P6103 or P6104; SMS HPDP students must take P6727-HPDP I prior to taking 
       P8705 and must take P8772-HPDP 2.
(4)   Students must fill out application form.
(5)   This is the second in a 2-semester sequence; to be offered at Morningside Campus.
(6)   Prerequisite: Biostatistics and Epidemiology core courses, and P6727- Preventive Health Behavior, and Permission.
(7)   Prerequisite P8775 Qualitative Research Methods I. Limited to 10 students.
 **   To be offered at the Law School

+P8713 Critical Issues in Human Sexuality Across the Life Course This course is designed to help students understand the major theories and principles guiding an understanding of human sexuality as well as recent developments in sexuality research; develop an understanding of methodological and assessment health. The course emphasizes a developmental approach to human sexuality across the life course and a biopsychosocial model as a basis for understanding sexuality and health. The course consists of presentations by invited faculty with expertise in human sexuality; active student participation is encouraged. Students are assigned required for each lecture. Five essays will be assigned throughout the semester; grading on each essay will comprise 20% of the total course grade.

+P8715 Breast Cancer as a Public Health Issue This course provides a multi disciplinary overview the complexity of breast cancer from the public health economics, consumer advocacy, law, ethics, health education, government, insurance, media. Topics will address the magnitude of the disease from issues faced jointly by patients, their families and health care providers. The course will combine lectures by faculty and guests and student presentations.

+P8723 Culture, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS This course offers a broad overview of the historical development of social science research on sexuality and sexual health. It is divided into three main parts. The first section of the course examines early attempts (in the late nineteenth and early to mid twentieth centuries) to develop a science of sexuality that would be capable of providing objective and empirically-based understandings of sexuality and sexual behavior as opposed to what were perceived to be the value-laden and moralistic understanding of religious belief or traditional popular culture. The second part of the course focuses on the more contemporary development of social science research on sexuality and sexual health, particularly during the 1960's and 70s (but prior to the HIV/AIDS epidemic), in disciplines such as anthropology, sociology and social psychology. Finally, the third part of the course focuses on the significant changes that have taken place in sexuality research following the emergence of AIDS, exploring the increasing engagement between social science research and public health programming as well as the constitution of sexual health as a new field of specialization.

+P8741 Globalization, Social Movements, and Community Health This course offers a broad overview of the most important social, cultural, political, and economic transformations taking place at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century, and explores the implications of these changes for community health in major urban centers in the United States as well as internationally. It focuses on the multiple dimensions of globalization, as well as the impact of globalization for the development of new social movements at the community level. It examines the ways in which processes associated with globalization, such as growing disparities in income distribution and the disappearance of work for major sectors of the urban population, have impacted upon community health problems. It explores the possibilities for community mobilization, advocacy and activism within this broader social context, and assesses the extent to which community health might be conceptualized as an issue of social justice within the contemporary global system.

+P8744 Living with Chronic Illness This course will review models of coping and psychosocial adaptation to chronic illness. The focus will be on the understanding the adaptive tasks (e.g. identity reconstruction, stigma management, adherence to treatment regimens, symptom management) posed by these illness and various coping strategies individuals employ in an effort to master these tasks. Factors (e.g. sociocultural beliefs, illness representations or schema, access to resources) that influence individuals' psycho social accommodation to diverse chronic illness will be examined. The opportunities for stress-related growth and benefit finding among those living with chronic illness will also be examined. There will be a strong emphasis on understanding patients' perspectives on their "lived" experience with chronic illness.

REGISTRATION:

PhD students in Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Environmental Health Sciences, Sociomedical Sciences
 

99996 RESI 0006 G 001 1 RESIDENCE UNIT
99997 RESI 0007 G 001 RESIDENCE UNIT (three or fewer courses)
77775 EXRS 0005 G 001 EXTENDED RESIDENCE F/T
77776 EXRS 0006 G 001 EXTENDED RESIDENCE P/T
88883 MTFC 003 G 001 MATRICULATION & FACILITIES F/T
88884 MTFC 004 G 001 MATRICULATION & FACILITIES P/T
60003 DISS 003 G 001 DISSERTATION DEFENSE F/T
60004 DISS 004 G 001 DISSERTATION DEFENSE P/T