Graduate Program

Preparation in practice to meet needs and situations when basic first aid care is needed. Students eligible for standard first aid certification and CPR Certificate.

Exploration of the major areas of health information pertinent to understanding how to achieve, maintain and promote positive health. Topics covered include mental health, drugs, human sexuality, prevention and control of diseases, nutrition, consumer health and ecology.

This course is designed to familiarize students about the HIV/AIDS epidemic with HIV/AIDS awareness including: basic information, prevention, history, compassion, legal issues, testing and societal implications.

Basic knowledge about human sexuality including anatomical, physiological, psycho-social and ethical components. Reproduction, contraception, sexually transmitted disease, sexual health and sexual dysfunctions are among areas examined.

For those considering becoming health majors or minors in school health or community health. Exploration of the basic philosophy and fundamental practices currently utilized in health education.

The course will cover methods of resolving conflict situations and methods of preventing conflict. Students will learn to design educational strategies that can be implemented as part of a classroom curriculum.

The course content will include specific strategies for preventing unintentional injuries in young children. Students will examine specific principles for the development of new strategies that will address unintentional injuries.

The course will examine strategies that have been successful in preventing violence. Students will examine the literature to understand the principles to use in the development of strategies for the prevention of violence.

Course will examine a psychological framework that is the cause of a dysfunctional lifestyle and create a psychological framework that can result in the improvement in the quality of living.

This course will provide an understanding of theoretical principles of various health behavior theories that explain the adoption of health-compromising and health-promoting behaviors.

Introduction to the field of public and community health, origins and design of the U.S. public health system and its role in population based health.

Prepares students to design and implement evidence-based interventions for disease prevention and health promotion in public health settings.

Examines basic principles for the development of effective strategies for substance use prevention programs for youth. Evidence of principles used in successful programs from research literature will be provided.

This course develops professional competencies in program planning, implementation and evaluation related to community and school health education/promotion.

Prerequisite: 260 and 362.

Restriction: HED majors only.

Prepares students to design and implement evidence-based interventions for disease prevention and health promotion in public health settings.

An introduction to content in the area of death and dying: the dying process, grief, types and alternatives to funerals, out-of-body experiences, types of death and community resources available for support.

Deals with multiple causes of stress and its resolutions. Emphasizes chief stressors of adults, self-responsibility for change, holistic approach, emotional/mental methods of stress reduction.

Course provides an overview of the health beliefs of people in NM with an emphasis towards Latino/Hispanics, Native Americans, African Americans, Asians and Anglos. Examines health behavior as influenced by health beliefs and practices.

Concerned with the process of aging as it affects physical activity and the potential of physical activity in adjustment to the process of aging.

Planned and supervised professional laboratory or field experiences in agency or institutional setting.

Restriction: permission of instructor.

This course explores multiple theories and models and their application in the development of health promotion programs to support change within individuals, families and communities.

(Also offered as PEP 507)

Emphasizes an understanding of different research designs, their level of sophistication and their application from both a theoretical and practical point of view.

(Also offered as PEP 509)

Introduction to principles of public relations publicity and crisis management in HPER and sports administration.

Provides student with program management and administrative skills such as leadership style, communication techniques, problem solving, motivational strategies, budgeting, goal setting, grant writing essentials, and evaluation pertaining to the field of school and community health.

Prepares students to design and implement evidence-based interventions for disease prevention and health promotion in public health settings.

Course examines the multifaceted components of community health in NM urban/rural communities. Provides an opportunity for critical dialogue with NM Communities and health professionals working with them to address health issues impacting them.

Examines innovative thinking and emerging trends in healthcare and patient advocacy.

An overview of community health, its role in public health and current trends in community-based research. Examines different methodologies for conducting academic and community-based research.

Designed to provide the graduate student with competencies in program planning and evaluation. Principles of the PRECEDE model and grantsmanship skills will be utilized to develop a mock proposal on a health-related topic.

Prerequisite: graduate status in Health Education.

Designed to introduce students to statistics of diseases. Course surveys various research designs used in discovering and tracking diseases as they affect a human population.

Designed to provide graduate students in Health Promotion and related fields: competencies in major measurement/evaluation systems in HP and HE.

Explores multiple causes of stress and its resolutions. Emphasizes chief stressors of adults, self-responsibility for change, holistic approach, emotional/mental methods of stress reduction.

Course focuses on conducting a critical analysis of health literature using various databases and social cultural frameworks for analyzing health issues as influenced by cultural health beliefs in conducting research with diverse and multicultural communities.

Concerned with the process of aging as it affects physical activity and the potential of physical activity in adjustment to the process of aging.