COLLEGE OF PUBLIC SERVICE Dr. Mario Azevedo, Interim Dean Jackson Medical Mall, Suite 301 350 West Woodrow Wilson Drive Jackson, MS 39213 Telephone: (601) 979-8836 Fax: (601) 979-8837 e-mail: [email protected]

Departments School of Health Sciences DEPARTMENT OF ◆ Communicative Disorders COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS ◆ Behavioral and Environmental Health ------◆ Epidemiology and Biostatistics ◆ Health Policy and Management Dr. Nola Radford, Professor and Interim Chair 3825 Ridgewood Road, Box 23 School of Policy and Planning Jackson, MS 39211-6453 ◆ Public Policy and Administration Phone: (601) 432-6717 e-mail: [email protected] ◆ Urban and Regional Planning

Faculty School of Social Work Dr. B. Sutton, Assistant Professor ◆ Doctoral Program in Social Work

◆ Master’s Program in Social Work The Department of Communicative Disorders offers

programs leading to the Master of Science degree in Mission Communicative Disorders and the Bachelor of Science The mission of the College of Public Service is to degree in Communicative Disorders. Students educate a diversity of students for the highest quality enrolled in the master’s program are trained to screen, professional service in collaboration with the public assess, identify, diagnose, refer, and provide and private sectors, and to develop local, national, and intervention, habilitation/rehabilitation to persons of international leaders in the professional academic all ages and cultural/ethnic backgrounds, with, or at disciplines in the Schools of Policy and Planning, risk for, disorders of articulation, fluency, voice, Health Sciences, and Social Work. cognition, language, swallowing, hearing and other

disabilities. Students learn to counsel educate Goal individuals with communicative disorders, their The primary goad of the College is to provide families, caregivers and other service providers to undergraduate and graduate education to students select, prescribe, dispense assistive, augmentative and which promotes the development of intellectual alternative communication devices and other leaders in the identification, conceptualization, and communication prostheses, and to provide services dissemination of knowledge related to services in the supporting the effective use of these devices. professions.

------Accreditation SCHOOL OF HEALTH SCIENCES The Master of Science degree program in Communicative Disorders is accredited in Speech- Dr. Emeka Nwagwu, Professor and Interim Language Pathology by the Council on Academic Associate Dean Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Jackson Medical Mall Pathology of the American Speech-Language-Hearing 350 West Woodrow Wilson Drive, Suite 320 Association (ASHA). Students who successfully Jackson, MS 39213 complete the program meet the academic and clinical Phone: (601) 979-8806 requirements for a license in Speech-Language Fax: (601) 979-8809 Pathology granted by the Mississippi State Board of E-mail: [email protected] Health, for the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology awarded by ASHA, and School Mission the Mississippi Educator Standard Class AA The mission of the School of Health Sciences is to Vocational license. provide quality education and leadership in community-based research and practice. Through Mission collaboration with communities, the School will The mission of the Department of Communicative promote health and prevent disease and disability with Disorders is to provide quality education to diverse special emphasis on the underserved and at-risk preprofessional and graduate students who are populations in Mississippi, the nation, and the world. majoring in Communicative Disorders. The program

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will: (a) prepare preprofessional students for entry into or ethnicity, age, gender, religion, national the graduate program; and, (b) guide graduate students origin, sexual orientation or disability. to (i) acquire the knowledge and develop the skills,  ◆ Encourage students to develop high standards competencies and attitudes that are essential for the of integrity, responsibility and ethics, so that prevention of communicative disorders and the safe they (a) hold paramount the welfare of patients and effective practice of entry-level speech-language they serve; (b) provide services only in areas in pathology, (ii) develop the ability to analyze, which they are competent; and, (c) adhere to synthesize, and evaluate data, and to conduct research, the fundamentals of ethical conduct. (iii) provide professional and public services to local,  ◆ Prepare students for advanced programs of state, national, and world communities, (iv) continue study in communicative disorders. their professional growth by exploring developments ◆ Advocate the pursuit of continued professional in the profession and learning new models of growth through continuing education. management, and (v) develop an understanding and ◆ Offer educational programs that will (a) appreciation of ethnic and cultural diversity, and the promote the maintenance of current knowledge impact of such diversity on normal and disordered and skills of speech-language pathologists in communication. the Jackson area, state, national and world commun ities; and (b) provide the general Program Objectives public with information regarding the The objectives of the Master of Science in prevention, nature, diagnosis and treatment of Communicative Disorders Program are to: communication and swallowing disorders.  ◆ Educate students to independently, effectively ◆ Provide professional and public services to and safely: (a) differentiate between normal and local, state, national and world communities. abnormal communication, as well as normal and abnormal swallowing patterns; (b) Admission Requirements diagnose and treat persons of all ages who have Admission is competitive. Applicants must meet the speech, voice, cognitive, language, following requirements for regular admission: communication and swallowing disorders;  ◆ A baccalaureate degree in speech-language and, (c) habilitate/rehabilitate infants, pathology from a regionally accredited children and adults with hearing loss. college or university. Students may be  ◆ Equip students to ask relevant questions and admitted with baccalaureate, master’s or provide appropriate information to patients, their specialist degrees in professions other than families, care givers and other service speech-language pathology but first providers regarding the prevention, diagnosis must complete specified prerequisite courses and management of disorders of human with a grade of “B” (on 4-point scale) or better. communication and swallowing.  ◆ A cumulative grade point average (GPA) of  ◆ Facilitate clinical experiences that will train 3.0 (on 4-point scale) for courses completed students to provide clinical services in a during the junior and senior years, and a variety of settings including community cumulative GPA of 3.0 (4-point scale) at the clinics, hospitals, private practices, and undergraduate level. university settings.  ◆ A satisfactory Graduate Record Examination  ◆ Prepare students to meet the academic and (GRE) score. clinical requirements for licensure granted by  ◆ A personal typewritten statement that includes the Mississippi State Department of Health and the applicant’s (a) understanding of the the Certificate of Clinical Competence in profession of speech-language pathology; (b) Speech-Language Pathology awarded by reasons for pursuing graduate study in ASHA. speech-language pathology; (c) professional  ◆ Guide students to evaluate developments in the goals; (d) strengths that will contribute to professions, and conduct research in (a) the success in the graduate program at Jackson normal processes of language, speech, hearing State University; (e) limitations, if any, that and swallowing; and, (b) the prevention, may need to be addressed in order to diagnosis and treatment of disorders of human successfully pursue graduate studies in communication and swallowing. speech-language pathology; and (f) past  ◆ Assist students to develop sensitivity to and an work experiences, if any, that have appreciation of diversity in society, so that they helped to prepare the applicant for graduate (a) take into consideration individual studies. differences in the provision of clinical  ◆ At least three letters of recommendation from services, (b) do not discriminate in the speech-language pathology instructors and/or delivery of services on the basis of race or clinical supervisors. 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these letters from instructors in their major another program must have that program’s director area of study.) verify the number of clock hours in each clinical  ◆ A satisfactory score on the Test of English As category, the amount of supervision that was provided, A Foreign Language (TOEFL) from and the names and ASHA membership numbers of the international applicants and those for whom clinical supervisor(s) before or at the time the student English is a second language. enrolls in the graduate program at Jackson State University. Transfer of academic (course) credit and [Conditional admission may be given to a student who clinical clock hours must be approved in writing by the has earned a cumulative GPA of at least 2.50 - 2.99 Department of Communicative Disorders. (on 4-point scale) for courses completed during the junior and senior years. The student must earn regular Degree Requirements status with a GPA of 3.00 in the first semester of full- A student pursuing the Master of Science degree in time enrollment or the first 12 hours of graduate Communicative Disorders is required to: work.] 1. Complete at least 51 semester hours (including no more than 6 semester hours of clinical Prerequisites practicum) with a cumulative average of B (on a Applicants with baccalaureate, master’s or specialist 4.0 scale) or better. In addition to the core degrees in professions other than speech-language curriculum (45 semester hours), the student must pathology must complete courses in the areas listed successfully complete a thesis, or a project, or below with a grade of “B” or better, before regular additional coursework. admission is obtained: Thesis Option. The student must enroll in CMD 590: Thesis, for a total of 6 semester hours, Courses Semester Hours successfully complete a thesis, and the Final Oral Anatomy and physiology of the speech mechanism 3 Examination. Speech science 3 Project Option. The student must enroll in Phonetics 3 CMD 589: Master’s Project, for 6 semester Normal language development 3 hours, and successfully complete a project. Audiology 3 Additional Coursework Option. The student must successfully complete an additional 6 Additionally, applicants must have successfully semester hours of electives within the completed: Department, selected with the approval of the a. One course in biological science, and academic advisor. one course in physical sciences, and 2. Acquire the knowledge and skills required for the one course in college level mathematics. Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech- b. Courses in behavioral and/or social sciences Language Pathology (CCC-SLP) by ASHA. for a total of 6 semester hours. Additionally, the student must successfully complete all clinical clock hours required at the Prerequisite courses in the professional area taken time of graduation by (a) the Department of more than 10 years before the initiation of the Communicative Disorders, (b) the Mississippi graduate program may not be accepted. State Board of Health for licensure, and (c) ASHA for the CCC-SLP. Transfer of Credits 3. Successfully complete the Graduate English The Department of Communicative Disorders may allow Competency (and ENG 500, if required) and the transfer of a limited number of credit hours providing written Comprehensive Examinations. Students criteria specified by the Graduate School and the who choose the thesis option must successfully Department are met. A maximum of 9 graduate semester complete a Final Oral Examination. hours of course credit earned with a grade of B (on 4.0 scale) or better in approved speech-language pathology Plan of Study for the Master of Science in or audiology courses may be transferred providing the Communicative Disorders course content is commensurate with the requirements of this program and the credit hours were earned within the For Use by Students in the Full-Time Program immediate past five years from a program accredited by the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology Year 1: Fall Semester and Speech-Language Pathology. The applicant must CMD 510 Advanced Articulation and apply for transfer of credit with 30 days of notification of Phonological Disorders 3 acceptance into the program and prior to enrollment. A CMD 527 Seminar in Child Language Disorders I 3 maximum of 25 clinical observation hours and 50 CMD 532 Methods of Research 3 clinical clock hours obtained in another program may be CMD 537 Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology 3 allowed providing national certification and state CMD 540 Advanced Clinical Practice in SLP 1 licensure criteria for clinical supervision were met. A PHS 500 Introduction to Public Health Disciplines 1 student who wants to transfer clinical clock hours from 14

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Spring Semester Year 3: Fall Semester CMD 528 Seminar in Child Language Disorders II 2 CMD 535 Augmentative and CMD 530 Seminar in Acquired Disorders of Alternative Communication 3 Language I 3 CMD 540 Advanced Clinical Practice in SLP 1 CMD 541 Advanced Clinical Practice in SLP 1 CMD 570 Seminar in Aural Rehabilitation 3 CMD 565 Seminar in Fluency Disorders 2 7 CMD 575 Seminar in Organic Speech Disorders 3 Spring Semester PHS 500 Introduction to Public Health Disciplines 1 CMD 545-549 Advanced Clinical Practice in SLP 3 12 Elective/Thesis/Project 3 7 Summer Semester 49 CMD 525 Dysphagia 3 CMD 531 Seminar in Acquired Disorders of PHS 500* Introduction to Public Health Disciplines 3 Language II 3 Total Hours 52 CMD 542 Advanced Clinical Practice in SLP 1 Notes. PHS 500 Introduction to Public Health Disciplines 1 1. Part-time students must complete PHS 500 for a 8 total of 51 hours for the degree. Year 2: Fall Semester 2. Part-time students will be required to take a leave CMD 535 Augmentative and of absence from work and be available for a full- Alternative Communication 3 time practicum during the third year of study. CMD 543 Advanced Clinical Practice in SLP 1 CMD 570 Seminar in Aural Rehabilitation 3 Academic Requirements CMD 578 Seminar in Voice Disorders 3 Core Courses Hours 10 CMD 510 Advanced Articulation and Spring Semester Phonological Disorders 3 CMD 544-545 Advanced Clinical Practice in SLP 2 CMD 525 Dysphagia 3 Elective/Thesis/Project 6 CMD 527 Seminar in Child Language Disorders I 3 8 CMD 528 Seminar in Child Language Disorders II 2 Total Hours 52 CMD 530 Seminar in Acquired Disorders of Language I 3 For Use by Students in the Part-Time Program CMD 531 Seminar in Acquired Disorders of Language II 3 Year 1: Fall Semester CMD 532 Methods of Research 3 CMD 532 Methods of Research 3 CMD 535 Augmentative and CMD 537 Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology 3 Alternative Communication 3 6 CMD 537 Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology 3 Spring Semester CMD 565 Seminar in Fluency Disorders 2 CMD 527 Seminar in Child Language Disorders I 3 CMD 570 Seminar in Aural Rehabilitation 3 CMD 565 Seminar in Fluency Disorders 2 CMD 575 Seminar in Organic Speech Disorders 3 5 CMD 578 Seminar in Voice Disorders 3 Summer Semester CMD 540 Advanced Clinical Practice in CMD 525 Dysphagia 3 -549 Speech-Language Pathology 6 CMD 531 Seminar in Acquired Disorders of Electives Language II 3 CMD 515 Counseling in Speech-Language Pathology 1 CMD 542 Advanced Clinical Practice in SLP 1 CMD 519 Audiology for the 7 Speech-Language Pathologist 3 Year 2: Fall Semester CMD 523 Assessment and Evaluation in CMD 510 Advanced Articulation and Speech-Language Pathology 3 Phonological Disorders 3 CMD 550 Professional Issues in CMD 578 Seminar in Voice Disorders 3 Speech-Language Pathology 1 6 CMD 555 Speech-Language Pathology in Spring Semester the Medical Setting 2 CMD 528 Seminar in Child Language Disorders II 2 CMD 558 Seminar in Multicultural Issues 2 CMD 575 Seminar in Organic Speech Disorders 3 CMD 563 Research & Clinical Instrumentation 2 5 CMD 572 Communication Behaviors and Summer Semester the Aging Process 2 CMD 530 Seminar in Acquired Disorders of CMD 580 Business and Management Aspects Language I 3 of a Speech-Language Pathology CMD 543 Advanced Clinical Practice in SLP 1 Practice 2 Elective/Thesis/Project 3 CMD 582 Special Problems in 7 Speech-Language Pathology 2-4 CMD 585 Independent Study 3-6

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CMD 589 Master’s Project 3-6 speech/hearing science or permission of instructor. PHS 500 Introduction to Public Health Disciplines 3 Students will learn the etiology, signs, symptoms, and differential audiological findings in infants, children NOTE: During each semester in which clinical clock and adults with a variety of auditory disorders. The hours are earned, the student must enroll in theory, methodology and procedures in differential Advanced Clinical Practice in Speech- diagnosis and test interpretation, including the Language Pathology (CMD 540-549). appropriate modification of test procedures to However, no more than 6 semester hours may accommodate the patient’s chronological age, be counted towards the required 51 semester intellectual age, cultural differences, physical and hours. emotional states will be examined. The assessment and management of persons with central auditory Clinical Practicum Requirements processing disorders will be explored. The student must successfully complete all clinical CMD 523 Assessment and Evaluation in Speech- clock hours required at the time of graduation by (a) Language Pathology: (3 Hours) Prerequisites: the Department of Communicative Disorders, (b) Courses in normal language development, articulation Mississippi State Board of Health for licensure, and disorders, and language disorders or permission of (c) ASHA for the Certificate of Clinical Competence instructor and academic advisor. Students will learn to in Speech-Language Pathology. Additionall, the select, critique, administer, score and interpret student must acquire all required clinical skills standardized tests while also learning compensatory specified in the new certification standards before the strategies to help reduce the impact of cultural bias. student will be cleared for graduation. The Procedures for informal and naturalistic assessment Department operates the Central Mississippi Speech, will be reviewed. The integration of informal and Language and Hearing Clinic. The student must formal data to develop appropriate recommendations complete the clinical clock hours at this Clinic and at will be emphasized. other off-campus clinical sites assigned by the CMD 525 Dysphagia: (2 Hours) Prerequisite: Department. Course in anatomy and physiology of the speech mechanism. Students will learn the normal anatomy The current cumulative clinical practicum and physiology of swallowing in infants, children and requirements are specified below: adults. The etiology, signs and symptoms of ◆ At least 25 clock hours of clinical observation dysphagia, as well as screening, instrumental must be completed before beginning the clinical assessment and non-instrumental evaluation practicum. procedures will be explored. Management, including ◆ In addition to the observation, a minimum of counseling and sensitivity to cultural differences, 375 clock hours of supervised clinical models of service delivery, indications and methods of practicum must be successfully completed, of oral and non-oral feeding, nutritional issues, and which 325 clock hours must be earned in the prevention of complications will be investigated. The graduate program. student will learn to assess the effectiveness of treatment by using relevant outcomes. DESCRIPTION OF COURSES CMD 527 Seminar in Child Language Disorders I CMD 510 Advanced Articulation and (3.0 Hours) Prerequisite: Course in normal language Phonological Disorders: (3 Hours) Prerequisites: development. This course will address normal Course in phonetics. Students will develop the skills communication development in children from birth to to effectively assess, plan, and implement appropriate age three. Students will develop an understanding of intervention strategies for persons presenting with the major etiologies of language disorders in infants articulation and/or phonological disorders (including and toddlers across cultures. Assessment and with functional or organic etiology) as well as regional strategies, including the infusion of technology, for or cultural dialectal variations of speech sound those presenting with disorders as well as for the at- production. risk child will be discussed. Skills to informally and CMD 515 Counseling in Speech-Language formally determine the present communicative level of Pathology: (1 Hour) Prerequisites: Permission of an infant or toddler using non-standard methods, such instructor and academic advisor. This course will as play-based assessment will be addressed. Strategies explore the social, emotional, cultural and vocational for helping families from diverse backgrounds effects a communication disorder may have on participate in the successful implementation of speech individuals, their families and significant others. and language services to infants and toddlers will be Students will learn appropriate techniques and shared. Policies impacting service delivery to this strategies for counseling children, adolescents and population and their families will be explored. adults presenting with conditions impacting CMD 528 Seminar in Child Language Disorders communication. Students will also learn how to II: (2 Hours) Prerequisites: Course in normal counsel and interact with families (immediate and language development. Students will develop an extended), case managers and other service providers. understanding of the etiologies of language delay and CMD 519 Audiology for the Speech-Language disorders in children, and the impact of language Pathologist: (3 Hours) Prerequisite: Course in impairment on the learning process. Formal and

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informal assessment and intervention strategies as well data will be explored. The student will be guided in as treatment outcomes will be discussed. Students developing an intuitive understanding of clinical will develop awareness of issues pertinent to service research methodology and integrating it with core delivery including cultural diversity, preparation of statistical concepts and techniques. individualized educational programs, literacy, CMD 535 Augmentative and Alternative assessment of progress, behavior management, Communication: (3 Hours) This course focuses on collaboration and infusion of technology. Various approaches to the development of augmentative and group processes and structures required for successful alternative modes of communication for individuals of service delivery will be recognized. Legislation and all ages with limited oral communication. The skills policies impacting services to school aged children to effectively evaluate, select and properly use a will be explored. variety of gestural and symbol-based communication CMD 530 Seminar in Acquired Disorders of systems will be developed. Factors that affect Language I: (3 Hours) Prerequisites: CMD 537 or assessment and treatment, such as, severity, age, equivalent. This course will explore the incidence, cultural differences, nature of disorder, etc. will be ethnocultural differences and etiology of impairments discussed. that jeopardize acquired language as a result of insult CMD 537 Neuroanatomy and Neuro-physiology: (3 to the central nervous system. The characteristics of Hours) The neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of different types of aphasias, as well as the effects of the central and peripheral nervous systems will be right hemisphere damage, including neglect, attention, discussed with emphasis on structures that control linguistic, communicative, cognitive and affective language, speech and swallowing. The student will deficits will be explored. Students will acquire learn about the normal embryonic development of the knowledge of standardized and functional assessment nervous system, and the critical periods of of communication to ascertain the individual’s susceptibility to teratogenic agents. The neurological abilities and impairments. Treatment approaches and examination and pertinent diagnostic issues including strategies (including the infusion of technology) that variations in different countries and cultures will be promote compensation for deficits and promote investigated. Signs, symptoms and sequelae of recovery of function will be explored. Issues pathological agents will be correlated with clinical including counseling and educating patients, family implications. Rehabilitation issues will be addressed. members, significant others and care givers specific to CMD 540-549 Advanced Clinical Practice in the patient’s diagnosis, management plan, prognosis Speech-Language Pathology: (1-6 Hours) The and discharge will be discussed. student will provide supervised screening, diagnostic CMD 531 Seminar in Acquired Disorders of and treatment services to persons of all ages, from Language II: (3 Hours) Prerequisites: CMD 537 or culturally diverse backgrounds, presenting with equivalent. This course will address the incidence, speech, language, cognitive, swallowing, or hearing pathophysiology, as well as communicative, mood and disorders. Clinical experiences will include behavior changes in persons with dementia (including assessment and treatment planning, report writing, oral Alzheimer’s disease), and those with traumatic brain and written communication with other professionals injury across various cultures. The physiologic, and family members, client/family education, and cognitive, auditory and motor speech characteristics, counseling. Clinical sites will vary depending on as well as the language, pragmatic and discourse student needs, interest, competency, and availability. abilities of these individuals will be investigated. The CMD 550 Professional Issues in Speech- social impact on the individual and the family will be Language Pathology: (1 Hour) Prerequisite: reviewed. Professional services provided to the Permission of instructor and academic advisor. This individual and care giver, including differential course will focus on topics such as professional diagnosis, assessment and rehabilitation, and the standards, quality improvement, outcome measures, infusion of technology will be discussed. Direct and ethical considerations, funding sources, third party indirect communication management approaches, reimbursement, work force issues, health care including individual and group therapy, stabilization legislation, as well as the role of professional strategies, the use of assistive and augmentative organizations in developing policies that impact devices, and collaboration with other health care speech-language pathology. Approaches to planning, professionals will be explored. Educational managing and marketing speech-language pathology intervention and transition to school/work after services in various communities, cultures and practice traumatic brain injury, as well as efficacy, ethical and settings will be discussed. legal issues pertaining to both disorders will be CMD 555 Speech-Language Pathology in the examined. Medical Setting: (2 Hours) This course will prepare CMD 532 Methods of Research: (3 Hours) The students to work in medical settings with professionals student will learn to read critically and evaluate and patients of all ages and cultural backgrounds. The research in normal and disordered speech, language, organizational structure of institutions such as hearing and swallowing processes. The principles of managed care organizations, home-health agencies, research, research designs, issues in conducting long-term care facilities, and acute, subacute and unbiased research, types of research, observation, rehabilitation hospitals will be explored. Students will measurement, statistical treatment and reporting of

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learn appropriate protocols, abbreviations, and physiological and cognitive changes will be reviewed. universal precautions used in most medical settings. The influence of attitudes and expectations, the effects CMD 558 Seminar in Multicultural Issues: (2 of cultural, psychological and pharmaceutical Hours) This course will focus on the historical variables, the role of genetic factors and deleterious origins, rules and features of nonstandard English environmental influences will be analyzed. dialects. Normal language and speech acquisition in Appropriate modifications in assessment and speakers from culturally/ethnically and linguistically management procedures to meet individual needs in diverse groups will be examined. Strategies to different health care settings, including the use of distinguish individuals with communication group treatment and a collaborative management differences from those with communication disorders approach will be discussed. Counseling and assistance will be identified. Students will learn about current provided to caregivers and members of the extended clinical standards and practices associated with service social support network will be explored. delivery to speakers from different backgrounds in CMD 575 Seminar in Organic Speech Disorders: respect to race or ethnicity, age, gender, national (3 Hours) Prerequisites: Courses in anatomy and origin, sexual orientation and disability. physiology of the speech mechanism, neuroanatomy, CMD 563 Speech and Clinical Instrumentation: (2 neurophysiology and articulation disorders or Hours) This course includes work in the speech permission of instructor. This course is a science lab and in the clinic where students will obtain comprehensive study of the theory and research hands on experience in the use of equipment to study related to underlying neurological pathology, salient the acoustics of speech and hearing. Students will also features, confirmatory signs, diagnosis and treatment learn the proper use of instruments in research of motor speech disorders across the life span. The activities and clinical assessment/intervention etiology and classifications of congenital orofacial procedures. Experience in instrumental measurement anomalies and dentofacial growth problems, genetics and analysis of physical, physiological, perceptual and of clefting and associated syndromes, including those acoustical aspects of normal and abnormal speech typically associated with specific racial and ethnic production will provide valuable insight in groups will be explored. Acoustical, perceptual and understanding theoretical concepts introduced in other instrumental measures in assessment, as well as courses. models of service delivery and management CMD 565 Seminar in Fluency Disorders: (2 Hours) procedures will be discussed. Pediatric care and Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and academic feeding of the newborn with a cleft, and complications advisor. Current as well as historically relevant associated with clefting and craniofacial disorders will theories of stuttering and its etiology will be be reviewed. considered. Students will develop skills to identify CMD 578 Seminar in Voice Disorders: (3 Hours) and classify various types of dysfluencies as well as Prerequisites: Courses in anatomy and physiology of the social, emotional, cultural, vocational, and the speech mechanism and speech science. This economic impact of stuttering. Assessment and course includes a comprehensive study of the models intervention strategies for children, adolescents and of voice production, as well as organic and functional adults who stutter will be presented. voice disorders across the life span in culturally CMD 570 Seminar in Aural Rehabilitation: (3 diverse populations. Etiology, signs, symptoms, and Hours) Prerequisites: Courses in audiology and perceptual correlates of vocal pathologies and normal language development. This course is an management will be discussed. The art of assessment advanced exploration of the critical role of hearing in including perceptual ratings and the use of normal language, speech and psychosocial contemporary equipment will be explored. development. The effects of hearing loss on Interdisciplinary collaboration in planning and communication across the life span, and the monitoring treatment will be investigated. importance of early intervention and counseling will Communication and swallowing management of be investigated. Assessment of oral, signed and tracheotomized and ventilator dependent children and written language, speech and voice production, adults, as well as assessment and rehabilitation of auditory discrimination and perception, and speech head/neck cancer patients will be examined. reading skills will be discussed. Scales used to assess CMD 580 Business and Management Aspects of a specific communication breakdown and resultant Speech-Language Pathology Practice: (2 Hours) attitudes will be identified. Treatment options and This course provides business and practice communication strategies, including the use of management principles and procedures for starting and amplification systems, assistive listening devices, managing a speech-language pathology practice, or in sensory aids and cochlear implants will be explored. buying/selling an existing private practice. Topics of Pertinent legislative and multicultural issues will be discussion include market analysis, marketing plan, reviewed. Assessment and management of auditory operation and organizational plan, financial analysis, processing disorders will be addressed. risk management, office automation, and personnel CMD 572 Communication Behaviors and the issues. Procedures for proper bookkeeping and Aging Process: (2 Hours) Current research and accounting, strategies in pricing, and financial theory concerning age-related changes in planning will be examined. Issues such as communication and swallowing due to anatomical, reimbursement, negotiating service contracts,

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continuous quality improvement, and risk abatement GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN will be discussed. PUBLIC HEALTH CMD 582 Special Problems in Speech- Language Pathology: (2-4 Hours) Prerequisite:  ◆ Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) Permission of academic advisor and instructor. This  ◆ Doctor of Public Health (Dr.P.H.) course has varying content dealing with issues, trends and topics of current interest. Content will be The Public Health Program is comprised of the developed based on assessed needs, interests and goals following three departments. of a group(s) of students. CMD 585 Independent Study: (3-6 Hours) DEPARTMENT OF Prerequisite: Permission of academic advisor and BEHAVIORAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH instructor. This course allows for the exploration of Dr. Mohamed Shahbazi, Associate Professor topics and/or issues based upon assessed needs, and Chair interest and goals of the individual student under the 350 West Woodrow Wilson Drive, Suite 2301B guidance of a faculty member. Typically, such a study Jackson, MS 39213 will concentrate on an area not covered in other Telephone: (601) 979-8806 courses, or an area in which the individual student has Fax: (601) 979-8809 developed particular interest and wishes to explore E-mail: [email protected]. beyond what was covered in another course(s).

CMD 589 Master’s Project: (3-6 Hours) Candidates Faculty for the Master of Science degree in Communicative Dr. C. Arthur, Professor Disorders may choose to complete a creative project Dr. D. Brown, Assistant Professor within the student’s professional area under the Dr. S. Leggett, Associate Professor supervision of a graduate advisor within the Dr. G. Cannon-Smith, Assistant Professor Department. It is expected that this project will Dr. S. Omari, Associate Professor contribute to the knowledge base of the profession. Dr. G. Prater, Professor CMD 590 Thesis: (3-6 Hours) Candidates for the Dr. S. Spence, Associate Professor Master of Science degree in Communicative Disorders may choose to present a thesis that embodies DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND BIOSTATISTICS independent research. The topic must be within the Dr. Mario Azevedo, Professor and Chair student’s major professional area and must be 350 West Woodrow Wilson Drive, Suite 320 approved by the student’s thesis advisor within the Jackson, MS 39213 Department. It is expected that the research will Telephone: (601) 979-8789 contribute to the knowledge base of the profession. Fax: (601) 979-8802 e-mail:[email protected]

Faculty Dr. O. Ekundayo, Associate Professor Dr. M. Payton, Associate Professor Dr. I. Perkins, Professor Dr. H. Taylor, Clinical Professor

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT Dr. ‘Emeka Nwagwu, Professor and Chair 350 West Woodrow Wilson Drive, Suite 2301A Jackson, MS 39213 Telephone: (601) 979-8809 Fax: (601) 979-8802 e-mail: [email protected]

Faculty Dr. J. Bennett, Assistant Professor Dr. A. Bhuiyan, Assistant Professor Dr. B. Johnson, Assistant Professor Dr. S. Ochou, Assistant Professor Dr. F. Okojie, Professor Dr. M. Younis, Associate Professor

Mission The mission of the Public Health Program The mission of the School of Health Sciences is to provide

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quality education and leadership in community-based Concentration in Epidemiology research and practice. Through collaboration with Epidemiology prepares students for careers as communities, the School will promote health and scientific researchers, practical field investigators, prevent disease and disability with special emphasis health officers, research program directors and on the underserved and at-risk populations in managers, and other research areas of public health. Mississippi, the nation, and the world. Epidemiologists work closely with biostatisticians in designing and analyzing research studies. This Goals concentration is designed for students to acquire a Instructional Goal: To provide students with thorough understanding of epidemiological methods, discipline-specific and core competencies in the statistical principles, and computer software essential public health services. To achieve this goal, applications to apply to the practical fields of public the program will prepare individuals at the masters’ health. It offers students an opportunity to acquire and doctoral levels through mentoring and training in specific skills in designing research studies and public health with a focus on the underserved and at- knowing how to collect data, analyze, and interpret risk populations in Mississippi, the nation, ant the research studies. world. Concentration in Research Goal: To provide leadership and advance Health Policy and Management social justice through evidence-based scientific The degree concentration in Health Policy and inquiry, generate knowledge in the reduction of risk Management prepares students for careers in public and prevention of disease and disability among the health policy and healthcare management. This underserved and at-risk populations in Mississippi, the concentration provides the student core competencies nation, ant the world. in management, strategic planning, marketing, human resource management and motivation. Students Service Goal: To provide technical expertise, evaluate the role of governmental institutions in the advocacy, and translational resources to internal policy process; examine policy models; and learn how stakeholders (university, school, departments, health policy in the United States is uniquely different program) and external stakeholders (local, national from that of other countries. Financial aspects of and global communities, public agencies, and the health care are offered to those in the discipline that private sector). plan to be future managers. Social and legal principles impacting healthcare delivery in the United States are MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH (M.P.H.) other core components. ------This range of work includes healthcare, preventive Admission Requirements and regulatory agencies, community health promotion Applicants must be admitted to both the Division of service organizations, health policy organizations, and Graduate Studies and the MPH Program. To facilitate an array of health-oriented public, not-for-profit, and determination of admissions to into the MPH Program, private groups. The concentrations for the Master of applicants must send materials to both the Division of Public Health are as follows. Graduate Studies and the MPH Program. Applications may be found on-line with the Division of Graduate Concentration in Studies (http://www.jsums.edu/~gadmappl) and the Behavioral Health Promotion and Promotion various departments in the School of Health Sciences. Behavioral Health Promotion and Education focuses Applicants will only be admitted once a year during on the health related behavior of individuals in the the Fall semester. context of sociocultural structures, communities, healthcare systems, and family units. Of particular Regular Status interest is how health-related behaviors of individuals ◆ Baccalaureate degree from an accredited college are determined by and interact with conditions in the or university with a 3.00 cumulative grade point social, political, cultural, economic, physical, and average. International students must meet biological environment to influence health status. equivalent standards and possess a satisfactory Emphasis is placed on identifying, evaluating, and score on the Test of English as a Foreign diminishing unhealthy behaviors and promoting Language (TOEFL) Examination. positive personal health. This concentration seeks to ◆ A personal statement of professional goals. integrate and apply public health theories and methods ◆ Three letters of reference must be submitted to problems of human health. Assessment, planning with the completed application forms, which and evaluation with emphasis on sociocultural aspects may be obtained from the Division of Graduate of health are the core themes of the study of health Studies. promotion and education. Conditional Status Conditional status may be assigned to students who have a cumulative a GPA of 2.50-2.99 (on a 4.0 scale) and are admitted to a degree program.. Students must

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earn regular status during the first semester of full- degree may be taken in the student’s concentration or time enrollment, or in the first 12 credit hours of part- from other specializations of individual preference, as time enrollment courses by acquiring a 3.00 GPA approved by the concentration faculty advisor. All which must be completed within one year of students must complete a public health residency in conditional admission. the field. As a component of the “capstone” and integrating experience, an applied master’s project s Transfer of Credits and Other Requirements required focusing on the student’s concentration area. A maximum of 9 graduate semester hours earned with The other component of the “capstone” is the required a “B” or higher may be transferred from Jackson State master’s comprehensive examination. University programs and other institutions toward MPH degree. Transfer credit is made upon the The MPH curriculum requires 6 core courses or 18 recommendation of the chair of the major department, credit hours (3 hours per course) for all students. Each the academic college dean or designee and approval of department assures that students take 5 required the Dean of the Division of Graduate Studies. specialization courses or 15 credit hours for the advanced study in a specific public health Scholarships and Graduate Assistantships concentration: Behavioral health promotion and Financial support may be offered to matriculating education, epidemiology, and health policy and students holding regular admission status and promotion. maintaining a 3.0 program GPA as determined by the department. In order to remain eligible for financial Elective courses are offered in each concentration. assistance, students must maintain a minimum 3.00 Students may complete their three courses or 9 credit cumulative GPA and remain in good professional hours of electives within these specializations or other academic standing (e.g., achieve a passing score on the graduate level courses by advisor approval. Graduate Area Comprehensive Examination). Only full- time students are eligible for assistantships offered by the The Program will assist in the placement of students MPH Program. in field training which will account for 3 credit hours. Students will be place at least one full semester and Academic Performance commit a minimum of 400 clock hours during the Once admitted to the MPH program, graduate semester under the supervision of a professional students are required to maintain a 3.0 GPA to public health preceptor and faculty mentor. The continue studies in good academic standing. location and specific residency activities will be worked out individually between the student and field MPH Curriculum work organization with approval by the faculty Full-time students can usually complete the member of record, prior to initiating the experience. curriculum in two years. Part-time students usually Comprehensive “guidelines” following the requires two additional semesters to complete the requirements of CEPH accreditation will be employed program.. Most students are expected to graduate by the program. They will include appropriate within three years. Students acquire the necessary covenants of mutual obligation between the university professional knowledge, skills and competencies that and the field agency through a written of affiliation qualify them for employment in public health and agreement. The purpose of this experience is to health service organizations in their specialized provide students with opportunities to apply and disciplines. The program must be completed with a demonstrate their acquired knowledge and skill 3.0 or higher cumulative GPA for the minimum 45 competencies in a public health setting as practice credit hours. The curriculum has four major preparation for professional employment or doctoral components: core courses, required concentration studies upon graduation courses, electives, and the field practicum. Graduation Requirements The core courses include the following basic subject Students culminate their study program by taking PHS studies as required by the CEPH: a) philosophy and 508- Public Health Internship. PHS 506 must be historical basis of public health concepts; b) statistical completed in the semester prior to taking the field basis of population health demography and practicum. A minimum of 45 semester hours with a quantitative, computer-based problem solving; c) cumulative average of 3.0 or ‘B’ (on a 4.0 scale) or epidemiological foundations of public health; d) social higher are required to earn the MPH degree. The and behavioral determinants of community and Graduate Comprehensive Examination must be taken personal health status; e) environmental and biological before graduation. The Graduate English Competency factors in public health; and f) management theory and Examination must be taken during the first semester of practice of health and human services. graduate studies at Jackson State University, must be passed before graduation. Students who fail this test Required courses in each of the three concentrations must successfully complete English 500-Advanced assure thorough grounding in the particular public Laboratory Writing during their second semester of health discipline in which the student chooses to enrollment. qualify. 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Master of Public Health Curriculum *With approval from the faculty advisor and course instructor, a student may take elective courses from other Behavioral Health Promotion and Education academic units at Jackson State University. Core Courses Semester Course Title Hours Health Policy and Management PHS 501 Public Health and Behavioral Science 3 Core Courses Semester PHS 502 Public Health Policy and Administration 3 Course Title Hours PHS 503 Biostatistics and Computer Applications 3 PHS 501 Public Health and Behavioral Science 3 PHS 504 Environmental and Occupational Health 3 PHS 502 Public Health Policy and Administration 3 PHS 505 Principles of Epidemiology 3 PHS 503 Biostatistics and Computer PHS 506 Research and Quantitative Methods 3 Applications 3 Hours 18 PHS 504 Environmental and Occupational Health 3 Required Courses PHS 505 Principles of Epidemiology 3 PHS 531 Health Behavior, Promotion and Education 3 PHS 506 Research and Quantitative Methods 3 PHS 532 Community and Patient Health Education 3 Hours 18 PHS 533 Wellness and Health Promotion Required Courses Management 3 PHS 511 Organizational Design and Behavior 3 PHS 534 Communication and Health PHS 512 Public Health Policy, Law and Ethics 3 Education Marketing 3 PHS 513 Financial Management of Health PHS 535 Behavioral Change Program Services 3 Strategies 3 PHS 514 Health Information Management Hours 15 Systems 3 *Elective Courses 9 PHS 515 Marketing Public Health and Strategic Capstone Course Planning 3 PHS 508 Public Health Residency 3 Ho urs 15 Total Hours 45 *Elective Courses 9 Capstone Course *With approval from the faculty advisor and course instructor, PHS 508 Public Health Internship 3 a student may take elective courses from other academic units at Total Hours 45 Jackson State University. Students in Behavioral and Environmental Health may pursue an environmental health * With approval from the faculty advisor and course emphasis by including the following three courses (as electives) instructor, a student may take elective courses from other in their plan of study towards their total of 45 hours for the academic units at Jackson State University. MPH degree: PHS 543-Occupational Health and Safety Management, PHS 544- Environmental and Occupational Important Notice for all MPH Students: For Toxicology, and PHS 545- Environmental Policy and students entering the MPH Program on a full-time Occupational Health Regulations. basis in the Fall 2008 and after, the full time plans

must be followed in each of the concentrations. Epidemiology Concentration Students entering the MPH Program on a part-time Core Courses Semester basis in the Fall 2008 and after, the part-time plans Course Title Hours must be followed in each of the concentrations. Full- PHS 501 Public Health and Behavioral Science 3 time students are admitted for full-time study to one PHS 502 Public Health Policy and Administration 3 department only. Transfer from (1) full-time to part- PHS 503 Biostatistics and Computer Applications 3 time student status, or, (2) part-time to full-time PHS 504 Environmental and Occupational Health 3 student status, must be applied for and approved by 0 PHS 505 Principles of Epidemiology 3 the department of origin. Change of department must PHS 506 Research and Quantitative Methods 3 be approved by both the department chairs of the Hours 18 originating department and of the transfer department. Required Courses Transfers are not automatic. PHS 521 Advanced Seminar in Epidemiology 3

PHS 522 Multivariate and Probabilistic Statistics 3 Behavioral Health Promotion and Education PHS 523 Chronic and Infectious Disease Full-Time Plan of Study Epidemiology 3 Core Courses –First Year Semester PHS 524 Statistical Methods for Applied Fall Semester Hours Epidemiology 3 PHS 501 Public Health and Behavioral Science 3 PHS 525 Epidemiology of Minority and PHS 502 Public Health Policy and Administration 3 Special Populations 3

Hours 15 PHS 504 Environmental and Occupational Health 3 Elective Courses* 9 Elective 3 Capstone Course 12 PHS 508 Public Health Internship 3 Spring Semester Total Hours 45 PHS 503 Biostatistics and Computer Applications 3

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PHS 505 Principles of Epidemiology 3 Epidemiology Concentration PHS 506 Research and Quantitative Methods 3 Full-Time Plan of Study Elective 3 Core Courses –First Year Semester Hours 12 Fall Semester Hours Concentration Courses- Second Year PHS 501 Public Health and Behavioral Science 3 Fall Semester PHS 502 Public Health Policy and Administration 3 PHS 531 Health Behavior, Promotion and Education 3 PHS 504 Environmental and Occupational Health 3 PHS 532 Community and Patient Health Education 3 Elective 3 PHS 533 Wellness and Health Promotion Mngt. 3 12 Elective 3 Spring Semester 12 PHS 503 Biostatistics and Computer Applications 3 Spring Semester PHS 505 Principles of Epidemiology 3 PHS 534 Communication and Health Education PHS 506 Research and Quantitative Methods 3 Marketing 3 Elective 3 PHS 535 Behavioral Change Program 12 Strategies 3 Concentration Courses – Second Year PHS 508 Public Health Internship 3 Fall Semester 9 PHS 521 Adv anced Se minar in E pidemiol ogy 3 Total Hours 45 PHS 522 Multivariate and Probabilistic Statistics 3 PHS 523 Chronic and Infectious Disease Behavioral Health Promotion and Education Epidemiology 3 Part-Time Plan of Study Elective 3 Core Courses 12 First Year Semester Spring Semester Fall Semester Hours PHS 524 Statistical Methods for Applied PHS 501 Public Health and Behavioral Science 3 Epidemiology 3 PHS 525 Epidemiology of Minority and PHS 502 Public Health Policy and Administration 3 Special Populations 3 6 PHS 508 Public Health Internship 3 Spring Semester 9 PHS 503 Biostatistics and Computer Applications 3 Total Hours 45 PHS 505 Principles of Epidemiology 3 Hours 6 Epidemiology Concentration Summer Part-Time Plan of Study Electives 6 Core Courses Second Year First Year Semester Fall Semester Fall Semester Hours PHS 504 Environmental and Occupational Health 3 PHS 501 Public Health and Behavioral Science 3 Elective PHS 502 Public Health Policy and Administration 3 PHS 506 Research and Quantitative Methods 3 6 Elective 3 Spring Semester 6 PHS 503 Biostatistics and Computer Applications 3 Concentration Courses PHS 505 Principles of Epidemiology 3 Spring Semester 6 PHS 531 Health Behavior, Promotion and Education 3 Summer Semester PHS 532 Community and Patient Health Education 3 Electives 6 6 Summer Second Year PHS 533 Wellness and Maternal Child Health Fall Semester Promotion 3 PHS 504 Environmental and Occupational Health 3 Elective 3 PHS 506 Research and Quantitative Methods 3 6 6 Third Year Concentration Courses Fall Semester Spring Semester PHS 534 Communication and Health Education PHS 524 Statistical Methods for Applied Marketing 3 Epidemiology 3 PHS 535 Behavioral Change Program PHS 525 Epidemiology of Minority and Strategies 3 Special Populations 3 6 6 Spring Semester PHS 508 Public Health Internship 3 Total Hours 45

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Summer Semester Second Year PHS 523 Chronic and Infectious Disease Fall Semester Epidemiology 3 PHS 504 Environmental and Occupational Health 3 PHS 506 Research and Quantitative Methods 3 Elective 3 6 6 Concentration Courses Fall Semester Spring Semester PHS 521 Advanced Seminar in Epidemiology 3 PHS 511 Organizational Design and Behavior 3 PHS 522 Multivariate and Probabilistic Statistics 3 PHS 512 Public Health Policy, Law and Ethics 3 6 6 Spring Semester Summer Semester PHS 508 Public Health Internship 3 PHS 513 Financial Management of Health Total Hours 45 Services 3 Elective 3 Health Policy and Management 6 Full-Time Plan of Study Fall Semester Core Courses –First Year Semester PHS 514 Health Information Management Fall Semester Hours Systems 3 PHS 501 Public Health and Behavioral Science 3 PHS 515 Marketing Public Health and Strategic PHS 502 Public Health Policy and Administration 3 Planning 3 PHS 504 Environmental and Occupational Health 3 6 Elective 3 Spring Semester 12 PHS 508 Public Health Internship 3 Spring Semester Total Hours 45 PHS 503 Biostatistics and Computer Applications 3 PHS 505 Principles of Epidemiology 3 DESCRIPTION OF COURSES PHS 506 Research and Quantitative Methods 3 Core Courses Elective 3 PHS 501 Public Health and Behavioral Science (3 12 hours) This course introduces public health organization and practice, including history, concepts, Concentration Courses – Second Year legal basis, purposes, programs and trends in the Fall Semester evolving of public and private sectors of social and PHS 513 Financial Management of Health preventive medicine in America. It discusses various Services 3 behaviorally-related health determinants, and presents PHS 514 Health Information Management a number of theories/models to change behaviors at Systems 3 individual and gro up levels. PHS 515 Marketing Public Health and Strategic PHS 502 Public Health Policy and Administration Planning 3 (3 hours) This course presents an overarching Elective 3 introduction to national legislative issues and policy 12 processes together with the managerial functions and Spring Semester practices in public and private healthcare PHS 511 Organizational Design and Behavior 3 organizations. Study emphasis is on the essentials of PHS 512 Public Health Policy, Law and Ethics 3 how executive and supervisory managers PHS 508 Public Health Internship 3 professionally perform their roles in the work of 9 leading systemw ide teamwork, strategy building, Total Hours 45 reengineering, resource acquisition, and market effectiveness in competitive environments. Health Policy and Management PHS 503 Biostatistics and Computer Applications Part-Time Plan of Study (3 hours) This course introduces the principles and Core Courses methods of statistical analysis. Topics include First Year Semester hypothesis testing, confidence limits, sample size, Fall Semester Hours statistical tests of inferences, and simple linear and PHS 501 Public Health and Behavioral Science 3 multivariate analysis. Statistical software packages PHS 502 Public Health Policy and Administration 3 such as SPSS and Stata will be used in illustrating the 6 basic principles of data analysis. Spring Semester PHS 504 Environmental and Occupational Health PHS 503 Biostatistics and Computer (3 hours) This course introduces major community Applications 3 health concerns and problems in the related fields of PHS 505 Principles of Epidemiology 3 environmental and occupational health with an 6 emphasis on disease and disability. Students will Summer Semester review and analyze the policy and ecological change Electives 6 implications of these two public domains.

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PHS 505 Principles of Epidemiology (3 hours) This PHS 512 Public Health Policy, Law and Ethics (3 course explores the science and practice of hours) This course provides an overview of principles epidemiology and its contributions to disease and policies relating to public health law and ethical detection, measurement, and prevention in clinical and applications. This course will explore federal laws public health settings. Specific topics includes and directives, along with state statutes and local measurement of disease frequency, measurement of ordinances. Recent case law from federal and state disease association, standardization, bias, and study courts will be used as illustrations. designs. This course also introduces the practical PHS 513 Financial Management of Health Services fields of epidemiology. (3 hours) This course explains important financial PHS 506 Research and Quantitative Methods (3 management techniques applicable to health care hours) This course introduces students to applied settings. Course materials will include the language research methods in public health. It emphasizes and function of financial management, analysis of an essential concepts, techniques and methods of research organization’s financial position, management of practice. Basic measurement procedures for analyzing working capital and current assets, budgeting, and the health data are examined through SPSS computer use of financial data for decision making. Students software, and the student is required to complete the will further their knowledge of computerized design of a research study. Prerequisites: PHS 503 information systems through class exercises. and PHS 505. Emphasis will be placed on the application of techniques to health services organizations. Students Capstone Courses will synthesize techniques through completion of an PHS 507 Applied Master's Project (3 hours) The analysis project and/or research paper in health Masters’ Research Project provides a culminating economic and financing. Prerequisite: HCA 450 or experience of the student’s scientific and professional instructor approvals. practice preparation, including proposal formulation of PHS 514 Health Management Information Systems the problem to be studied or an operational project to (3 hours) This course introduces students to systems be implemented with the evaluating conclusion and in managing for-profit and not-for-profit organizations defending report of the outcome. Prerequisite: PHS (such as manufacturing, banking, and health care 506 Research and Quantitative Methods organization) and emphasizes the role of information PHS 508 Public Health Internship (3 Hours) systems to increase productivity, to improve quality of Students conclude their MPH studies with a products and services, and to insure overall supervised field experience in their respective effectiveness or organizational operations. specializations. This supervised residency practice Appropriate application software will be used to operates for the full semester with a student analyze cases and complete the class project. commitment of a minimum of 400 clock hours with Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of computing skills. the placement organization, recognizing flexible PHS 515 Marketing Public Health and Strategic arrangements for the mutual benefit of all parties and Planning (3 Hours) This course examines an including possible compensation. The department, overview of the strategic planning process and state- student, preceptor and field setting will abide by a of-the-art marketing applications used by community formal affiliation agreement which provides policies health organizations. Marketing is viewed as a social and guidelines for the placement expectations and change opportunity for public health practitioners and responsibilities. It culminates with an analytical focus the analysis and design of market plans are studied. on the student’s concentration area. The report should As an extension of the marketing audit, several key emphasize the learning objectives and competencies planning strategies and methods are critically for the internship. Enrollment requires permission of reviewed for their relative value to managers and the advisor, the instructor of record, and chair. stakeholders in decision making of long-range and Completion of the course requires the agency’s short-terms system futures. preceptor’s evaluation. Epidemiology and Biostatistics Required Courses PHS 521 Advanced Seminar in Epidemiology (3 Health Policy and Management hours) The hallmark of the course is designing and PHS 511 Organizational Design and Behavior (3 presenting an epidemiological research study. hours) This course examines universal organizational Emphasis will be placed on the major types of theories which adapt to private healthcare and public epidemiological study designs: cross-sectional, case- health services. Students study a framework of control, cohort, and intervention studies. In addition, analysis looking at the management science diagnostic studies to evaluate screening programs will explanations of human behavior in these settings from be discussed. Prerequisite: PHS 505. the perspectives of individual worker and patient roles, PHS 522 Multivariate and Probabilistic Statistics group and team relationships, and global systems. (3 hours) This course addresses modeling and Topics include professional understanding of practical application of statistical principals in data organizational culture, conflict, strategic design, analysis. Statistical Software packages such as SAS change, measuring performance, and creating and SPSS will be used. Topics include probability alliances. distributions, simple linear regression, multiple linear

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regression, log linear modeling, logistic recession, PHS 533 Wellness and Maternal Child Health Poisson, and Cox-Proportional Hazard modeling. Promotion (3 hours) This course provides the Prerequisites: PHS 503 and PHS 505. historical perspective, organization and delivery of PHS 523 Chronic and Infectious Diseases maternal child health services as well as an analysis of Epidemiology (3 hours) This course introduces the major health determinants associated with the students to various fields of practical epidemiology. system of health care and health promotion for this This course primarily addresses the epidemiology of population. Ethical issues, cultural diversity, special cancer, cardiovascular, and infectious diseases. and vulnerable populations, disparate health outcomes, Prerequisite: PHS 505. environmental health and nutrtitional issues will be PHS 524 Statistical Methods for Applied emphasized while highlighted strategies to overcome Epidemiology (3 hours) This course reviews the barriers in health promotion and provision of care. basic statistical tools used in epidemiology research. PHS 534 Communication and Health Education The course includes: sampling and sample size Marketing (3 hours) This course provides an determination, methods to compute confidence overview of communication and marketing within a intervals and p-values for key epidemiological health education context. This course examines measures of association, and an overview of communication in health care settings, public health regression and statistical methods for analysis of data. campaigns, and cultural differences in communication. Prerequisite: PHS 503 and PHS 505. Prerequisites: Completion of all MPH core courses, PHS 525 Epidemiology of Minority and Special and PHS 531. Populations (3 hours) This course introduces the PHS 535 Behavioral Change Program Strategies (3 salient features of conducting epidemiological hours) This course examines the behavioral science research in special populations with a particular theories which underpin the fundamental ingredients emphasis on African Americans. This course covers of most change strategies in continuous health the epidemiology of diseases and conditions affecting program development. Several models/theories that racial/ethnic minorities, children and the elderly. are designed to alter behaviors are discussed. Other components include psychological and Theories and models of health perception, health behavioral factors and preventive services. promotion and education along and program planning, Prerequisite: PHS 505. research and evaluation are explored. Theories of individual health behavior (e.g., Health Belief Model); Behavioral Health Promotion and Education interpersonal theories (e.g., Social Cognitive Theory), PHS 531 Health Behavior, Promotion and and models for community level behavioral change Education (3 hours) This course provides a (e.g., PRECEDE-PROCEDE Model) are discussed; comprehensive understanding of health promotion and and their applications are shown through research, health education, concepts and applications. It offers practices, and actual projects that students undertake students an opportunity to develop a broad in targeted populations. Students also evaluate both understanding of social, cultural and psychological classroom case studies and the actual community factors as they affect health and health-related implementation of health behavior change programs. behaviors and outcomes at individual, family, and Prerequisite: PHS 531 Health Behavior Promotion group/community levels. Areas of responsibilities for and Education. health educators, as required by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing Electives (NCHEC) body, are discussed, and students gain PHS 516 Human Resources Management in Public competencies essential to pass the Certified Health Health (3 hours) This course examines the role of Education Specialist (CHES) examination. The CHES healthcare administrators and supervisors with respect related skills and competencies in combination with an to personnel interviewing, selection, orientation, MPH degree create better job opportunities at state performance counseling and appraisal; staff and national levels. development; leadership development; and related PHS 532 Community and Patient Health functions of human resources management. Issues of Education (3 hours) This course examines job analysis, labor relations, performance appraisal, professional health education practices in most training and development, and other concerns are community and individual settings where studied in relationship to the human resource process opportunities exist to acquire and behaviorally deploy system. personal health knowledge into action. Health risk PHS 517 Managed Care Networks and Public factors are studied using the socioecological paradigm Health (3 hours) This course introduces the dynamic as applied to a selected community. Furthermore, the impact that managed care has had on the delivery of roles of the health educator as a community advocate, healthcare services and cost containment features of facilitator and collaborator are explored. Patient the health plans that thrived in the 1990's. The student education in clinical settings focuses on equipping will become familiar with all aspects of managed care clinical personnel in the competencies and skills of (HMOs, PPOs, and POS) from effectiveness health promotion techniques. Prerequisites: measurement of these health care plans medical/loss Completion of all MPH core courses and PHS 531. ratios, profit margins and outcomes measurement to the effect on access to quality healthcare services.

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PHS 518 Policy Analysis of Health Legislation and assessment, self-care, patient-program readiness, Regulation (3 hours) This course identifies public institutional decision making, consumer culture, and policies that direct and or influence health care in the emotional stress management. This study leads to the United States. Health legislation and regulations that professional acquisition of skills to design and support the implementation of policies will be implement effective program planning, evaluation, analyzed. Policies will also be analyzed to determine and training of healthcare personnel and their patients. their strategic importance an implications for PHS 537 Medical Anthropology in Public Health (3 individuals, communities and organizations. hours) This course explores the fundamental PHS 519 Health Program and Evaluation (3 hours) relationship of anthropology to the art and science of This course provides an overview of theories and medicine and public health, broadly defined. application of program planning, implementation, and Readings and lectures emphasize the impact of evaluation for public health programs while anthropology on current modes of biomedical emphasizing essential components of program research; alternative systems of health and healing planning models and a range or evaluation objectives including culture-bound syndromes; the role of and designs. anthropologists in biomedicine and public health; PHS 526 Environmental and Occupational critical medical anthropology and the political Epidemiology (3 hours) This course introduces the economy of health; and the interplay between student to the application of epidemiological anthropology and other components of public health. principles to environmental and occupational health Concepts of efficacy, outcome, and healing are also problems. Topics include exposure assessment, study examined. design, and conduct of epidemiological studies in the PHS 539 Pain Issues in Public Health (3 hours) environment and work place, and the effect on the This course exposes students to the cross-cultural and healthy worker. Also examined will be public health aspect of pain and pain related issues epidemiological research on a range of known like assisted suicide, substance abuse, narcotic environmental and occupational hazards. Prerequisite: regulation, alternative therapy, palliative care and PHS 505. disability. Students will explore the roadblocks to PHS 527 Occupational Disease and Injury better pain management as they relate to the public Prevention (3 hours) This course introduces students and providers, discuss evidence based outcome to concepts and challenges of work related diseases measures, cost control issues, and pain in special and injury prevention. Students learn a systematic groups including minority populations. approach to the identification and clarification of PHS 541 Environmental Management and occupation risks and hazards and the quantification of Industrial Hygiene (3 hours) This course introduces exposure effects relationships with a view towards students to the basics of Environmental Management prevention. and Industrial Hygiene. The course will be divided PHS 528 Genetic Epidemiology (3 hours) This into two parts. Part I will help students understand the course focuses on the pattern of disease incidence in regulatory approaches, effects of pollution and the populations in order to infer the genetic basis of the source of pollutants, and the various environmental disease. This course includes studying the extent to management issues. Part II will place an emphasis on which environmental risk factors interact with genetic control of occupational health hazards that arise as a risk factors to increase susceptibility and manifestation result of work or during work. Prerequisites: PHS of disease. Prerequisite: PHS 505. 504. PHS 529 Psychosocial Epidemiology (3 hours) PHS 542 Environmental and Occupational Health This course provides an overview of the literature Risk Assessment (3 hours) This course assists the incorporating social and personality factors, cultural student in developing the skills necessary to assess, influences upon individual behavior, stress, and evaluate and recommend control measures to reduce related psychosocial factors as determinants of health. environmental and occupational risks. This course Health and illness determinants are multi-factorial and will involve the study of chemical exposures and the enmeshed in the social fabric and psychologic harmful actions of chemicals on humans. Students constitution of the person and may involve a complex will study scientific methods currently employed to interaction of the person and environment. assess human risks to environmental and occupational Psychosocial epidemiological models of chronic contaminants. disease will be discussed. Prerequisites: PHS 505. PHS 543 Occupational Health and Safety PHS 536 Health Education Competencies for Management (3 hours) This course introduces the Clinical Professionals (3 hours) This course field of safety, prevention management, and issues in examines the principles, methods and skills of occupational health. This course will provide the education and promotion practices in alternative health opportunity for the student to apply public health services and medical care settings. Students learn why principles and decision making skills with relation to and how health professionals are able to teach and prevention of injury and disease, health promotion, influence patient clientele roles and behaviors in and protection of worker populations from supportive healing interventions of the healthcare occupational hazards. environment. Clinical applications of health PHS 544 Environmental and Occupational promotion and education address risk factor Toxicology (3 hours) This course examines the basic

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concepts of toxicology and demonstrates how the concerns of minorities and the medical, psycho-social, basic principles are applied in occupational and and environmental factors influencing nutritional environmental regulations. Toxicology, the study of status. Topics in current controversies, chronic the adverse effects of chemical or physical agents on disease prevention, nutrition education, and health biological systems, is a pillar of both clinical medicine promotion are also covered. and public health. Students will acquire the PHS 556 Cultural Nutrition and Health Disparities armament to develop, interpret, and utilize (3 hours) This course addresses food and its role in the toxicological data for solving environmental and culture and food beliefs and practices of various occupational health problems. religious and ethnic groups in the United States. It PHS 545 Environmental Policy and Occupational emphasizes the impact of culture, socio-economic Health Regulations (3 hours) This course examines differences, and other factors on food practices and Federal laws and regulations concerning health beliefs to prepare students to provide culturally environmental and occupational health. This course sensitive services to communities and clients. will introduce students to State environmental policies PHS 557 Sports, Wellness, and Contemporary and occupational health regulations while and Nutrition Issues (3 hours) This course examines the emphasize implementation and compliance with scientific basis for diet and exercise recommendations, environmental and occupational health regulations and nutritional needs and concerns of athletes, ergogenic laws. Prerequisites: PHS 543. aids and nutrition supplements, eating disorders, PHS 551 MCH-Nutrition Program Management (3 health benefits and risks of vegetarian diets, and hours) This course provides application of core public promotion of physical activity and healthy eating health functions to the field of maternal and child habits. Current nutrition issues and controversies health and nutrition. Emphasis is on assessing covered include research in weight management and community nutrition-related assets and problems, obesity treatment, high protein, low carbohydrate and principles of grant writing, program planning, other weight loss diets, health benefits of administration, budgeting, and evaluation; and phytoestrogens and functional foods, food irradiation leadership skills. Use of the media and social and biotechnology, dietary supplements and marketing is also covered. alternative nutrition and herbal therapies. Modern and PHS 552 Women’s Health and Preventive ancient approaches to diet and exercise are explored. Medicine (3 hours) This course addresses PHS 561 Administration of Integrated Health and determinants of health, morbidity, and mortality across Hospital Systems (3 hours) This course focuses on several transitions of the life-span of women; explores the complex and essential interrelationships that exist biological, behavioral, environmental and societal within and among healthcare entities. The course will influences; and provides an integrated approach to (1) identify and study components of the healthcare women's health issues and public health policy, system (hospitals, clinics, home care agencies, hospice practice, and research. care, emergency medical services, etc.) and discuss the PHS 553 Child - Adolescent Health and Preventive interrelationships necessary for their survival and (2) Medicine (3 hours) This course analyzes child and explore the variety of arrangements (networks, adolescent public health issues, stressing the social, systems, alliances, etc.) used to integrate and manage developmental, and environmental determinants of these entities. The course illustrates that survival health status. The interrelationship of developmental within the healthcare industry is largely predicted issues, risk behavior, care-seeking behavior, and the upon an entity’s ability to partner with other effectiveness of adolescent programs and services will healthcare providers. be examined. PHS 562 Nursing and Mental Health Facilities PHS 554 MCH/Nutrition Programs and Public Administration (3 hours) This course focuses on the Policy (3 hours) This course integrates maternal and essential function of management and administration child health and nutrition programs and policies to within nursing and mental health facilities. Attention provide the foundation for advocacy and the will be given to the multitude of facets of management development of health services for women, children, and administration and the theoretical and practical and their families. The historical foundation, foundation of each facet. Attention will also be given organization, and delivery of maternal and child health to environmental factors, both internal and external, and nutrition services and the influence of public that managers must attend to within the nursing and policy are reviewed. Major issues such as cultural mental health environment. sensitivity, financing, unique needs of vulnerable PHS 563 Primary Care and Group Practice groups (such as minority populations and children Management (3 hours) This course focuses on with special health care needs) and the social and management issues pertaining to the primary care and environmental influences on health and the delivery of group practice settings in healthcare. This course will services are covered. deeply explore a variety of management aspects, PHS 555 Maternal and Child Nutrition (3 hours) stressing management implementation strategies and This course presents important aspects of growth and techniques in the practice setting. development, nutritional requirements and concerns, PHS 564 Comparative and International Health and dietary recommendations from conception to Systems (3 hours) This course introduces important adulthood. Emphasis is on the special nutritional methodological approaches to comparative analyses.

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For analytical purposes, the health systems of the course provides MPH students additional research world will be classified into four major categories. methods training and skills in their public health Important examples from each of these categories will concentration. Consent of the department chair be discussed. Specific objectives of the course are: to required. discuss the health system categories and their PHS 598 Contemporary Issues in Public Health (1- determinants; to identify important components of a 3 hours) This course highlights selective topics in health system; and to illustrate the health system public health relevant to today’s changing public categories by selecting country case studies. Health health forum and environment. The topics are care reform proposals of various countries will also be designed to encompass a broad range of public health discussed. issues. Thus, topics for discussion are addressed PHS 565 Health Care in Developing Countries (3 within each of the following core areas of public hours) This course introduces the students to health health: Behavioral Health, Biostatics, Environmental care in settings with severe resource constraints, rapid Health, Epidemiology and Health-Related Conditions, population growth, critical competing priorities, poor and Health Care Planning and Organization. data collection, and high disease burden. Students are PHS 599 Independent Study (1-3 hours) This is an prepared for effectiveness in international health by individual directed study in a specific concentration of studying infectious disease control, nutrition, public health selected by the student and approved by environmental health, health practices, and needs for the professor. sustainability as they apply to the tropical setting. PHS 601 Advanced Biostatistics and Computer PHS 571 Statistical Theory (3 hours) This course is Science Applications (3 hours) This course is an an introduction to the mathematical foundation of advanced, intermediate level course in biostatistics statistics and statistical theory. It provides an in depth with emphasis on statistical and analytical techniques coverage that includes probability theory, probablity important to researchers and practioners within the distributions, random variables, theories of statistical public health setting. This course provides in depth testing, interval estimation, and hypothesis testing The coverage of biostatistical methods including statistical course starts with defining a sample space and the inference, sample size calculation, and multivariate random variable then expounds to include distribution regression techniques. This course is offered as an and density functions and concludes with applications advanced PSH 701 with modification in the theoretical of hypothesis testing and confidence interval exercises and course expectations for examinations. estimation. Prequisites: PHS 503 or an equivalent Prerequisites: PHS 503, PHS 506 and PHS 572. introductory course in biostatistics. PHS 572 Statistical Computer Applications (3 hours) The purpose of this course is to teach two statistical computing applications: Statistical Packages for the Social Sciecnes (SPSS) and Statistical Analysis

Software (SAS). This course covers the basic and intermediate applications of these two statistical programming applications. For SPSS, students will learn the following: the basic components of the software (input, analysis and output interfaces), using the data editor, creating SPSS data file, create and recode variables, and set propertise of variables. For SAS, students will learn the following: components to a SAS program, syntax of SAS program, comment statements, the various features of the Data Step,

Procedure (PROC) Steps, common features of both Steps, and SAS Utilities will be covered in much detail. Students will apply the knowledge and skills acquired to the generation of statistical reports using descriptive statistics and related charts. The common feature of th PROC Step of statistical methods ranging from Descriptive Statistics through Analysis of Variance. PHS 587 Special Topics in Public Health (1-2 hours) This course enables students to pursue a topic or project of their choice in Public Health, such as health disparities, prevalent illnesses in Mississippi and the US, eg., diabetes and obesity, HIV/AIDS, cardiovascular ailments, and stroke; international health systems; interventional studies in public health; and tropical diseases, e.g., leprosy, onchoceriasis, trypansosomiasis, malaria, and yellow fever. The

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DOCTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH (Dr.P.H.) specific program requirements, and a minimum GPA ------of 3.0 on the highest degree earned.

The Doctor of Public Health is offered in a specific All students seeking admission to the program must concentration through the following departments: meet the following criteria:

1. Earned baccalaureate or master's degree from an Behavioral and Environmental Health accredited college or university. Dr.P.H. with a concentration in Behavioral Health 2. Completed DrPH program and Division of Promotion and Education Graduate Studies applications. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics 3. Overall GPA of 3.0 or above (on a 4.0 scale) on Dr.P.H. with a concentration in Epidemiology the highest earned degree. Department of Health Policy and Management 4. Transcripts from universities or colleges prior to Dr.P.H. with a concentration in Health Policy and program application. Management 5. A satisfactory score on the GRE.

6. Three letters of recommendation with at least Overview two from academic professionals. The Doctor of Public Health degree provides a 7. Statement of purpose reflecting applicant’s foundation of core and elective courses beyond the career goals in public health. Recommendation master’s degree that will prepare the student for by the program steering committee. leadership in public health research and/or practice. 8. For international applicants, satisfactory This includes a dissertation that involves independent performance on TOEFL by demonstrating oral study under a faculty mentor. The specific program at and written proficiency. Jackson State University focuses on eliminating 9. GRE Scores (as per concentration-specific disparities in health and healthcare. criteria).

The Dr.P.H. Degree Program will prepare students to Admission to the Division of Graduate Studies does assume leadership roles in public health, especially as not automatically guarantee admission to the Dr.P.H. research scientists, administrators, educators, or Program. Applications are accepted year round for practitioners. Such roles can be expected to include, admission each Fall. The priority deadline for the Fall but not be limited to, positions in organizations and admission is March 1. Applications received after that agencies such as universities, public health agencies, date cannot be guaranteed review for the current year hospitals, managed care organizations, pharmaceutical Fall admission. companies, research firms, and other settings where public health specialists are employed. Degree Requirements

The Dr.P.H. curriculum provides a broad grounding in The program will include advanced theoretical and overall public health knowledge and skills in addition practical studies in the specialized fields of public to an in-depth learning experience within the program health as well as the preparation of a dissertation. The concentrations. The curriculum represents an dissertation will establish the student as a competent interdisciplinary approach and bridging of academic researcher and scholar, capable of conducting and core areas. supervising independent research studies. Students will be trained to study public health from a The Doctor of Public Health Degree Program multidisciplinary perspective to appreciate the comprises two tracks. The first track (Dr.P.H.) is for disparities affecting minorities in terms of health and students who have received a master of public health healthcare services. degree or a master’s degree in a public health related

discipline within the last 10 years. The second track Students will master core competencies in public (MPH-Dr.P.H.) is for students who have not earned a health as well as specialized courses in their chosen master’s degree in public health or related discipline concentration. They will develop a high level of and who seek both the Master and Doctor of Public analytical (quantitative and qualitative research) skills, Health Degrees. The second track allows students to complemented by extensive breath of relevant graduate in approximately four years. leadership knowledge in research grant preparation, management, study implementation and evaluation. Community Research Practicum.

Students are required to spend a minimum of 100 Admission Requirements clock hours per semester in the community health Requirements for admission to the DrPH program research practicum. A minimum of three hours per include dual admission to the Division of Graduate week must be on site. The research practicum, which Studies and to the program itself, together with two begins the second semester of enrollment, requires official copies of transcripts from all colleges and/or three continuous, one-semester hour courses, which universities attended, a masters’ degree in Public culminates in the final semester. A written and oral Health from an accredited college or university, presentation of the community research project and the submission of a manuscript to a refereed journal

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for publication review are required to complete the their dissertation or taking any advanced courses in the third course. concentration. Upon admission into the program, students must Comprehensive Examination choose a concentration in public health for their To become a candidate for the Dr.P.H. degree a doctoral studies. The course requirements for the student must take and pass a written comprehensive concentrations of Behavioral Health Promotion and examination. The comprehensive examination must Education, Epidemiology, and Health Policy and be passed prior to approval of the dissertation Management are listed below. proposal. The examination will include core doctoral courses and information from each concentration. A Advanced Core Courses score of 80 percent or higher will be required for Semester passing. Course Title Hours PHS 701 Advanced Biostatistics Transfer of Credits and Computer Science Applications 3 Students accepted into the program can transfer up to PHS 702 Disease Pathogenesis and nine (9) credit hours from previous graduate work Behavioral Risk Factors 3 from a regionally accredited institution of higher PHS 703 Designing Research Studies on education. A maximum of nine graduate credit hours Minorities and Special Populations 3 may be transferred subject to the discretion of the PHS 704 Survey and Qualitative Research faculty, department chair, and dean. Methods 3 PHS 705 Advocacy and Public Health Policies 3 Course Requirements PHS 711-713 Advanced Biostatistics The course requirements for the two tracks of the Laboratory (I-III) 3 Dr.P.H. program are described below. Hours __ 18 Track 1. Candidates with a Master of Public Health Concentration Courses degree or a master’s degree in a public health Required Courses discipline. (See Specific Concentrations Below) 15 The curriculum is divided into advanced core courses Electives (Related to the concentration) 9 (18 credit hours), concentration courses (15 credit Hours __ hours), three elective (9 hours), a community research 24 practicum (3 credit hours), and a dissertation. The Community Research Practicum 3 advanced core courses (18 credit hours) are required Dissertation (maximum 15 credit hours) 15 for each concentration. The required concentration __ courses are specific to each concentration. Electives Total Hours (not including dissertation) 45 (9 credit hours) expand the student’s focus within a specific concentration. Although electives may be Concentration Courses selected from other disciplines, including non-public The course requirements for the concentrations of health degree programs, they must be related to the Behavioral Health Promotion, Environmental and concentration of interest and approved by the doctoral Occupational Health, Epidemiology, and Health program advisors. Policy and Management:

The community research practicum – the field Behavioral Health Promotion and Education 15 residency – is based on research and issues related to (Required Concentration Courses) each student’s concentration. The practicum allows BHS 711 Advanced Theories and Scientific students to develop insight into planning their Principles for Health Promotion dissertation so that research can be focused on and Education 3 addressing practical concerns in public health and the BHS 712 Behavioral and Psychosocial community. Epidemiology 3 BHS 713 Qualitative Research Methods Students are required to complete a minimum of 45 (SW 742) 3 credit hours plus a dissertation. Students with an MPH (Two of the following) or master’s degree in a public health-related discipline BHS 714 Clinical Trials and Interventional may transfer up to nine credit hours as electives. For Study Designs 3 successful completion of the program, all students are BHS 715 Research Seminar in Health Promotion 3 required to have taken an introductory course in each BHS 716 Social and Cognitive Bases of Behavior of the five core areas of public health: epidemiology, (PSY 606) 3 biostatistics, environmental and occupational health, BHS 717 Data Base Management Systems health policy and management, and behavioral health. (CSC 520) 3 Students who have not completed introductory core Epidemiology 15 courses must complete the courses prior to beginning (Required Concentration Courses) BIOS 711 Categorical Data Analysis 3

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EPI 711 Behavioral and Psychosocial of computer software packages in conducting Epidemiology 3 statistical procedures. The software packages include EPI 712 Clinical Trials and Interventional SPSS, SAS, Epi Info, GIS, and others. Emphasis is Study Designs 3 placed on selecting the appropriate statistical test and (Two of the following) the most appropriate analytical procedure. Advanced BIOS 712 Multivariate Analysis I (PSY 635) 3 Biostatistics Lab I course (PHS 711) must be taken EPI 713 Infectious Disease Epidemiology 3 simultaneously with this course. EPI 714 Nutrition and Genetic Epidemiology 3 PHS 702 Disease Pathogenesis and Behavioral Risk EPI 717 Environmental Epidemiology Factors (3 Hours) This course addresses the major (ENV 780) 3 behavioral factors causing diseases in the nation. The course focuses on cardiovascular disease, cancer, HIV, Health Policy and Management 15 and other chronic diseases. Disease pathology and (Required Concentration Courses) pathogenesis are described, and their major HPM 711 Strategic Leadership in Management determinants and behavioral risk factors are examined. of Human Resources 3 Current models and theories of disease prevention and HPM 712 Public Health Economics 3 health promotion are addressed. Students will learn HPM 713 Analysis of Health Legislation and how to implement effective strategies and Regulations 3 interventions to reduce risk factors and diseases. (Two of the following) PHS 703 Designing Research Studies for HPM 714 Evaluation of Performance and Minorities and Special Populations (3 Hours) This Quality of Health Service course examines unique health problems and concerns Organizations 3 among African Americans, rural populations, women, HPM 715 Decision Modeling 3 children, other minorities and special populations. It HPM 716 Seminar in Strategic Management describes basic study designs and their strengths and (MNGT 723) 3 limitations, and addresses specific cultural HPM 717 Managed Care Networks and Public competencies, research codes of ethics, and health Health 3 disparities. It also addresses strategies for designing studies and interventions involving lay community Track 2. Candidates without a Master of Public leaders, faith-based organizations, and innovative Health Degree or a master’s degree in a public health means to reach special communities. discipline. PHS 704 Survey and Qualitative Research Eligible students without a Master of Public Health Methods (3 Hours) This course explores descriptive degree or a master’s degree in a public health related research methods and emphasizes the importance of discipline may be admitted into the combined track for using a mixed approach of qualitative and quantitative the Master of Public Health and Doctor of Public techniques. Students are provided with an overview of Health Degree Program. These students will be able to survey research methodology. Questionnaire and apply for the MPH degree by the end of the third year, interview design, scale construction, methods of and the DrPH degree during the fourth year of administration, response rate, reliability matriculation. measurements, scale construction and validity are discussed. Also, specific qualitative methods and The combined track contains all the course techniques such as participant observation, requirements necessary for the completion of the interviewing, focus groups, and use of personal doctor of public health program, except the three documents and records are discussed. electives (9 credit hours total). Thus, 36 credit hours PHS 705 Advocacy and Public Health Policies (3 plus the dissertation will be required from the doctoral Hours) This course introduces advocacy and support curriculum. The five core courses (15 credit hours) measures for the promotion and formation of new and three concentration courses (9 credit hours) legislation and the establishment of public health selected from the master’s program curriculum will policies. Important federal, state, and international also be required, for a total of 24 credit hours. (Note legislation is analyzed. The course also addresses the that a minimum of 12 credit hours is required in the trends and processes by which public health programs concentration area of the doctoral program are established in the United States and around the curriculum.) Therefore, the MPH–DrPH track can be world. completed in four years with a minimum of 60 credit PHS 711-712-713 Advanced Biostatistics Lab I, II, hours plus the dissertation. and III (1 Hour per lab course) These laboratory courses accompany the Advanced Biostatistics and DESCRIPTION OF COURSES Computer Applications courses. The computer Interdisciplinary Courses laboratory courses provide practical experience with PHS 701 Advanced Biostatistics and Computer the computer software programs discussed in the class. Science Applications (3 Hours) This is an advanced The biostatistics course (PHS 701) and Lab I must be course in biostatistics with emphasis on statistical taken at the same time. Lab II and Lab III are taken inference, sample size calculations, and multiple during the following semesters. Each lab course is a regression techniques. The course emphasizes the use one-hour credit.

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PHS 750 Community Research Practicum (1-3 literature report on a specific topic in behavioral and Hours) This is a supervised community experience psychosocial epidemiology. A prerequisite for the where students participate in a community-oriented master’s students is PHS 505 Principles of service or practice to gain first hand knowledge of Epidemiology. Prerequisite for doctoral students is community issues and decision-making processes. In PHS 702 Disease Pathogenesis and Behavioral Risk the context of this experience, the student begins Factors. developing a research agenda that should be relevant BHS 713/SW 742 Qualitative Research Methods (3 to community needs and/or practices. Students are Hours) This course examines major qualitative required to register for the 1-credit hour practicum approaches that are most frequently applied to the during the second semester and maintain enrollment study of process in human service settings. Students each semester for three consecutive semesters, with learn how to conduct systematic investigations of in- the third semester culminating as the capstone depth, non-quantitative studies of individuals, groups, experience. A final paper of publishable quality is organizations, or communities. required for completion of the course and registering BHS 714/EPI 712 Clinical Trial and Interventional for the dissertation. Study Designs (3 Hours) This course reviews in PHS 755 Independent Study (Variable Hours) This greater detail the design, conduct, and evaluation of is an individually directed study in a specific clinical trials and cohort studies. In addition it concentration in public health selected by the student addresses errors and common methodological pitfalls and approved by the professor. using practical illustrations. The first half of the PHS 756 Special Topics in Public Health (1-2 course addresses clinical trials and the second half Hours) This course enables students to pursue a topic focuses on other interventional study designs. or project of their choice in Public Health, such as Prerequisites include PHS 521 Epidemiological Study health disparities, prevalent illnesses in Mississippi Designs and PHS 703 Designing Research Studies on and the US, eg., diabetes and obesity, HIV/AIDS, Minorities and Special Populations. cardiovascular ailments, and stroke; international BHS 715 Research Seminar in Health Promotion health systems; interventional studies in public health; (3 Hours) This course exposes graduates to current and tropical diseases, e.g., leprosy, onchoceriasis, research methods and practice in health promotion. trypansosomiasis, malaria, and yellow fever. The The course will consist of a series of guest lecturers. course provides DrPH students additional research BHS 716/PSY 606 Social and Cognitive Bases of methods training and skills in their public health Behavior (3 Hours) This course addresses the theories concentration. Consent of the department chair and research on attitude formation and change, required. attributional styles, prejudice, interpersonal PHS 798 Dissertation (3-15 Hours) Students will perception, group dynamics, self-regulation, and complete doctoral level research that demonstrates the cognitive styles. ability to conduct a rigorous project within a specific BHS 717/CSC 520 Database Management Systems concentration. The research topic, approved by the (3 Hours) This is an introduction to database concepts dissertation committee, should reflect the candidate’s including data independence, relations, logical and interest in a problem unique to public health. The physical organizations, schema, and subschema. completion of a minimum of 45 semester credit hours Hierarchical, network, and relational models, with is required before enrolling in this course. Enrollment description of logical and physical data structure must be continuous until the research experience representation of the database system are discussed. culminates in the successful defense of the Finally, normalization: first, second, and third normal dissertation. Prerequisite: Consent of the Chair of the forms of data relation and relational algebra, relational Dissertation Committee each semester of enrollment. calculus, data structure for establishing relations, and query functions are addressed. Behavioral Health Promotion and Education BHS 718/EPI 712 Clinical Trials and Intervention Concentration Study Designs (3 Hours) This is an in-depth course BHS 711 Advanced Theories and Scientific on the design, conduct, and evaluation of clinical trials Principles for Health Promotion and Education and cohort studies. In addition, it addresses systemic The course provides an extensive overview of current errors and common pitfalls using practical illustrations theories and models of health promotion and from various sources. The first half of the course education. In addition, it reviews the scientific addresses clinical trials and the second half focuses on evidence and principles supporting the foundation of other interventional study designs. Prerequisites health promotion and educational programs. include PHS 521 Epidemiological Study Designs and BHS 712/EPI- 711 Behavioral and Psychosocial PHS Designing Research Studies in Minorities and Epidemiology (3 Hours) This course provides an Special Populations. overview of social, personality, and cultural factors BHS 719/SW 744 Clinical Practices with Urban influencing behavior. It also addresses stress and Poor and Undeserved Populations (3 Hours) This related psychosocial factors as determinants of health course examines a range of modalities used in working and disease. Psychosocial and behavior models are with urban poor populations, including the use of also discussed. Doctoral students are required to empowerment strategies with women of color and analyze a specific data set and prepare a research victims of urban violence, use of group work models

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with parenting teens, and the diagnosis and treatment EPI 715/ MNGT 712 Applied Multivariate of Posttraumatic Stress Disorders (PTSDs). Analysis (3 Hours) This course offers doctoral Theoretical models and social work strategies that students a thorough analysis of the theory and have been applied in urban settings are critically applications of multivariate methods. Topics to be analyzed. covered include matrix algebra, factor analysis, canonical correlation, discriminant function analysis Epidemiology Concentration and multivariate analysis of variance. Prerequisite: EPI 711 Behavioral and Psychosocial MNGT 710 or equivalent. May substitute PSY 635. Epidemiology (3 Hours) This course provides an EPI 716/PPAD 610 Epidemiology and Toxicology overview of social, personality, and cultural factors for Public Managers (3 Hours) This course influencing behavior. It also addresses stress and introduces and teaches the concepts, theories, facts, related psychosocial factors as determinants of health and principles of the study, prevention and treatment and disease. Psychosocial and behavior models are of disease and poisons. The course includes discussed. Doctoral students will be required to conducting an epidemiological study. analyze a specific data set and prepare a research BIOS 712/PSY 635 Multivariate Method I (3 literature report on a specific topic in behavioral and Hours) This course covers multivariate analysis of psychosocial epidemiology. A prerequisite for the variance and covariance, canonical correlation, factor master’s students is PHS 505 Principles of analysis, discriminant function analysis, and selected Epidemiology. Prerequisites for doctoral students advanced topics. Prerequisite: PSY 502 may be substituted include PHS 505 and PHS 702 Disease Pathogenesis for MNGT 712. and Behavioral Risk factors. BIOS 713/ PSY 665 Multivariate Methods II (3 BIOS 711 Categorical Data Analysis (3 Hours) This Hours) Structural-equation models, log-linear models, course provides an in-depth review of the appropriate and selected advanced topics based on student needs biostatistical techniques for analyzing categorical data. and interests. Prerequisite: PSY 635. Included will be chi-square statistics, log-linear EPI 717 / ENV 780 Environmental Epidemiology analysis, and logistic regression. SPSS and/or SAS (3 Hours) This course is designed to provide students statistical software packages will be utilized. with the basic knowledge and skills required to Prerequisites: PHS 503 Introduction to Biostatistics develop and apply epidemiologic principles and and Computer Applications, PHS 701 Advanced concepts to the study of adverse effects of various Biostatistics and Computer Applications, and a environmental factors on both human and ecological multiple regression analysis course. health. Emphasis is put on the study of the health EPI 712 Clinical Trial and Interventional Study effects of physical, chemical and biological factors in Designs (3 Hours) This course provides an in-depth the external environment, broadly conceived from the review of the design, conduct, and evaluation of epidemiological point of view. As such, it enables clinical trials and cohort studies. In addition it students to interpret epidemiological data and addresses errors and common methodological pitfalls understand the approaches used in epidemiological using practical illustrations. The first half of the investigations of acute and chronic diseases. The course addresses clinical trials and the second half course also covers the basic methods and issues focuses on other interventional study designs. involved in epidemiologic investigations of disease Prerequisites include PHS 521 Epidemiological Study conditions in human populations. Designs and PHS 703 Designing Research Studies on Minorities and Special Populations. Health Policy and Management Concentration EPI 713 Infectious Disease Epidemiology (3 Hours) HPM 711 Strategic Leadership in Management of This course reviews infectious agents of public health Human Resources (3 Hours) This course provides importance. Included are vaccine-preventable theoretical and practical knowledge for managing the infectious diseases; diseases spread by personal human resources of public health organizations. contact, water, and food; and arthropod-borne diseases Topics include cultural and psychological factors and nosocomial infections. In addition, the emergency affecting recruitment, selection, placement, and preparedness system will be discussed and agents promotion; training and development processes; involved in bioterrorism will be addressed regarding performance appraisal methodologies; and job treatment and (PHS 702) prevention. Prerequisites are evaluation methods and compensation practices. PHS 505 Principles of Epidemiology, and Disease Factors promoting employee productivity and job Pathogenesis and Behavioral Risk Factors. satisfaction are explored. Legal concerns, including EPI 714 Nutrition and Genetic Epidemiology (3 the requirements for the validation of selection tools, Hours) This first half of the course addresses are covered. nutritional factors and their relationship to disease. HPM 712 Public Health Economics (3 Hours) This The second half involves a review of genetics, course examines factors determining the supply and inheritance, and molecular factors causing disease. demand for healthcare services. Markets for Prerequisites are PHS 505 Principles of Epidemiology, professional services, drugs, and insurance are and PHS 702 Disease Pathogenesis and Behavioral discussed. Competitive effects on efficiency, Risk Factors. effectiveness, and access are examined. The class

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discusses relevant theories of production, cost curves, HPM 723/ PPAD 660 Financial Management in market structure, and factor price determination. Public Organizations (3 Hours) The management of HPM 713 Analysis of Health Legislation and organizational resources is the focus of this course. Regulations (3 Hours) This course identifies and While local governments will be highlighted, the analyses legislation and regulations that determine principles and techniques have applications to all and/or influence healthcare access, delivery and public and quasi-public organizations. Prerequisite: practice. It focuses on the factors that influence policy PPAD 549 - Public Finance Administration or formulation and implementation. Students are equivalent. expected to analyze laws and regulations affecting the HPM 724/ MNGT 723 Seminar in Strategic health of populations at risk for major health Management (3 Hours) This course offers special problems. Examples of current issues covered are topics dealing with important issues in strategic Medicaid, Medicare, HIV/AIDS, family planning, and management. The course emphasizes global and cardiovascular disease. technological perspectives of strategic management HPM 714 Evaluation of Performance and Quality issues. in Health Service Organizations (3 Hours) This HPM 725/ MNGT 725 Seminar in Organizational course provides an overview of theories and designs Change (3 Hours) This course focuses on the human used fpr measurement and evaulation of the aspects of problems arising in technical, social, and performance of healthcare organizations. Emphasis is organizational arenas faced with the need to change. given to the importance of quality as a measure of The course includes detailed analyses of organizations performance. Strategies to insure continuous as systems, organizational leadership and change. performance improvement and excellence in delivery HPM 726/ MNGT 726 Seminar in Organizational of services are explored. Strategy and Decision Making (3 Hours) This course HPM 715 Decision Modeling (3 Hours) This course offers an overview of the theory and research in describes the application of the techniques of strategic management with a scholarly research analytical modeling to managerial decisions. The orientation on issues of both strategic content and course offers a study of data collection, presentation, process. The empirical study of these issues is and analysis including Bayesian inference, decision emphasized. matrices, and decision trees. HPM 727/ SW 724 Policy and Practice Issues in HPM 716 Administration of Integrated Health and Family and Children’s Services (3 Hours) This Hospital Systems (3 Hours) The course focuses on seminar is designed to provide students with an the complex and essential interrelationships that exist opportunity to explore policies, programs, services, within and among healthcare entities. This course will and related practice issues affecting families and 1) identify and study components of the healthcare children. It focuses on the nature of selected policies, system (hospitals, clinics, home care agencies, hospice the policy-making process, factors that influence care, emergency medical services, etc.) as well as the policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation interrelationships necessary for their survival. 2) It and approaches to policy analysis. Particular will explore the variety of arrangements (networks, emphasis is placed on the critical examination of systems, alliances, etc.) used for integrating and selected policy and practice issues related to families managing these entities. This course willa also and children. Students are expected to prepare a major illustrate the fact that survival within the healthcare analytical policy or practice issue paper. Examples of industry is largely predicated upon an entity’s ability current issues covered are the impact of welfare to partner with other healthcare providers. reform, Medicaid coverage, managed care, HPM 717 Managed Care Networks and Public homelessness, permanency planning for children at Health (3 Hours) This course introduces the dynamic risk, and research on the prevention of family and /or impact of managed care on the delivery of healthcare youth violence. services and the cost containment features of health HPM 728/SW 762 International Health Policy and plans that thrived in the 1990s. The student will Practice Issues in Social Welfare (3 Hours) This become familiar with all aspects of managed care course examines international health policy issues and (HMOs, PPOs, and POS) from effectiveness including trends and their implications for access to healthcare at of these healthcare plans medical/loss ratios, profit the international level. It explores issues of margins and outcomes measurements to their effects accessibility, affordability, attitudes and belief on access to quality of healthcare services. systems, and indigenous governmental and non- HPM 720/ PPAD 607 Management of Information governmental organizations. The course provides a Systems (3 Hours) This course familiarizes students seminar setting for conceptualization and organization with quantitative approaches that can be used to solve of theoretical concepts and constructs related to problems in public sector management. healthcare policy and service delivery paradigms with implications for practical utilization.

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------We believe each individual accepts responsibility for realizing his or her full potential and constantly works SCHOOL OF towards enhancing the capacity of others. POLICY AND PLANNING We realize the value of our individual role and service Dr. Otha Burton, Associate Dean but also believe we are part of something larger than 3825 Ridgewood Road our School. Jackson, MS 39211 ------Telephone: (601) 432-6865 THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC POLICY Fax: (601) 432-6862 AND ADMINISTRATION ------Departments Dr. Bennett A. Odunsi, Associate Professor and  ◆ Public Policy and Administration Acting Chair  ◆ Urban and Regional Planning 3825 Ridgewood Rd., Box 18 Jackson, MS 39211 The School of Policy and Planning is made up of the Telephone: (601) 432-6368 Department of Public Policy and Administration, the Fax: (601) 432-6322 Department of Urban and Regional Planning, and the Urban Studies Program. The School offers an e-mail: [email protected] undergraduate degree in Urban Studies, and master’s degrees in Public Policy and Administration and Faculty Urban and Regional Planning. Doctorate degrees are Dr. O. Burton, Jr., Associate Professor offered in Public Administration and Urban and Dr. J. Gilleylen, Assistant Professor Regional Planning. Dr. J . Kim, Assistant Professor

The School of Policy and Planning seeks to provide a The department offers a Master of Public Policy and vibrant, thriving learning environment for students, Administration (MPPA) degree and a Doctor of faculty and staff. The School seeks to address the Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Public Administration. growing complexity of urban problems in a supportive, interdisciplinary manner. All programs Educational Philosophy within the School are dedicated to and passionate The effort to allocate resources and the administration about enhancing each individual so that he or she is: of the allocation of resources is as old as the history of 1. Receptive to the world through the sharpening of humankind residing communally. However, the senses; academic discipline of American Public 2. Comprehending of the world through the exercise Administration is a comparatively new discipline, of intelligence; tracing its beginning to the late 1800's. From that time 3. Creatively envisioning other worlds through period to the present, the discipline of Public imagination; Administration has been linked, perhaps more than 4. Effective in the world through practice of skills; many others, to the ideological foundations of the 5. Supportive of sensitive responses to problems of American intergovernmental system. The major focus the environment. of any Public Administration Program of quality has, and continues to be on the administration of resources The School introduces a sense of the relationship of with equity. Indeed, the public servant then becomes communities and built form to culture, policy, and the noblest of all professions, practicing the noblest management, through the examination of theory, art. The nobility of public service and the practice, prototypes, patterns, and precedents. underpinning of the concepts of equity and the allocation of resources is the ethos which drives the We believe in a learning process that is integrated, philosophy of learning in the Public Policy and meaningful and implemented in a continuous-progress Administration Department at Jackson State. It is this manner where all learners are successful. The learning philosophy which we seek to engender in the PPA is designed to accommodate each person's needs, student. The Department of Public Policy and unique gifts and style of learning while ensuring the Administration is the historical principal unit at common core of student learning. Jackson State University which educates persons primarily for careers in the fields of public We believe in learning that strikes a balance between management and policy analysis and for service in comprehensive understanding and specialization, public, non-profit, and "quasi" public organizations. between theory and practice, and between academic Concomitantly, it is also the mission of the inquiry and professional pragmatism. An innovative Department of Public Policy and Administration to attitude toward the future of planning and design is serve as a resource to the Jackson State University emphasized and is explored through the classroom, community, the Jackson Metropolitan Area, the State group projects and field studies.

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of Mississippi, the Nation, and developing areas track" for the MPPA degree program for students who throughout the World. do not meet the general admission requirement. The track establishes other criteria for gaining entry into Mission the program. The Department of Public Policy and Administration 1. The applicant must have graduated at least three seeks to prepare students for significant professional years prior to admission. and managerial positions. The curriculum is designed 2. The applicant must have a full-time employment to equip students with the skills of contemporary history of at least three years. public management, provide a broad understanding of 3. The applicant must provide a rationale in writing, the role of administration in the decision-making as a part of the career goals essay, which process, and provide a sound foundation in ethics. demonstrates to the Admission Committee that the Thus, the goals of the PPA Department are: applicant’s prior history in academia is not 1. To provide a cadre of highly trained individuals indicative of their graduate potential. who are committed to the notion of public 4. The applicant must enroll in nine hours of MPPA service in a variety of organizational settings; core/concentration courses, three enhancement 2. To develop advanced educational opportunities hours and obtain a 3.00 G.P.A. for students of public administration in an urban 5. The applicant must attend a personal interview if environment where a multiplicity of requested by the Admission’s Committee. governmental opportunities, interactions and practices are observed; and Program Curriculum 3. To fill the need for public, high-level executive Students must maintain an overall 3.0 average (4.0 management which exists in this state and the scale) and successfully complete the following in nation, particularly as this need relates to order to earn the Master of Public Policy and minorities and women. Administration degree:

Additionally, an important component of our mission Thesis Option: 39 hours is to serve as a resource to the greater community. 1. Complete 18 hours of required courses. Concomitantly, it is the goal of the department to 2. Complete 12 hours of coursework in one of eight produce high-quality research and provide technical (8) specialized areas of general public assistance which furthers progressive agendas. administration 3. Take at least one (1) three- (3) hour course Accreditation elective. The Programs with the Department of Public Policy 4. Complete 3-6 hours of internship or additional and Administration are accredited and rostered by the coursework if the student is in-service. National Association of Public Affairs and 5. Take and pass a comprehensive examination. Administration (NASPPA). (Given Spring and Fall only) 6. Write and defend a thesis orally (3-6 hours). The Master of Public Policy and Administration Degree Non-Thesis Option: 45 hours 1. Complete 18 hours of required courses. Program Objective 2. Complete 12 hours of coursework in one of The Master of Public Policy and Administration eight (8) specialized areas of general public degree is designed to prepare students for significant administration. professional and managerial positions primarily in 3. Take as least one (1) three-(3) hour course public agencies, governmental departments, and non- elective. profit and other administrative entities. 4. Complete six (6) hours of internship. 5. Take and pass a comprehensive examination. Admission Requirements (Given Spring and Fall only) Students wishing to enter the program must have a 6. Take six (6) additional hours (3 hours in a skill- B.A. or B.S. from an accredited college or university. based or research methods course and 3 hours in Program applicants should take the G.R.E. or the area of specialization). G.M.A.T., submit three letters of recommendation, academic transcripts, an MPPA application, and a Specializations: Students have the opportunity to university application. Students must have a 3.0 pursue the following program specializations: cumulative GPA for an unconditional admission. The Public Finance Department may require an oral and/or written Health Care Administration interview. Community and Economic Development Judicial Administration Alternative Admission Track Human Resource Management The Department of Public Policy and General Management Administrationhas deveoped an "alternative admission State and Local Government Environmental Management, Planning & Policy

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Students who enter the program without an PPAD 549 Public Finance 3 understanding of the American Intergovernmental Concentration Course 3 System, Research Methodology or Computer 9 Applications to Management will have to take Graduate Summer Session compensatory coursework which may not count PPAD 607 Management of Information Systems 3 towards the degree. Concentration, Internship or Elective 3 6 Only students admitted to a degree program may enroll in the Core Courses without prior approval. Second Year-Fall Semester Core Courses PPAD 549 Public Finance 3 Course Title Hours PPAD 576 Administrative Theory 3 PPAD 505 Principles of Public Administration 3 Concentration, Internship or Elective 3 PPAD 548 Public Personnel Administration 3 9 PPAD 549 Public Finance Administration 3 Spring Semester PPAD 551 Public Policy 3 PPAD 597 Internship 3 PPAD 576 Administrative Theory 3 Advanced Concentration Elective 3 PPAD 596 Research for Public Management 3 Concentration or Elective 3 Total Hours 18 9 Graduate Summer Session For additional information and requirements, please Concentration, Internship or Elective 3 see the Policy and Procedures Manual. 3 Total Hours 45 Curriculum Plans 1. General Management: Thesis Option 3. General Management: Thesis Option Full Time Plan: Two Years with Summer Part Time Plan: Three Years with Summers

First Year-Fall Semester Core PPAD 505 Principles of Public Administration 3 First Year-Fall Semester PPAD 551 Public Policy 3 PPAD 505 Principles of Public Administration 3 PPAD 596 Research for Public Management 3 PPAD 596 Research for Public Management 3 9 6 Spring Semester Spring Semester PPAD 548 Public Personnel Administration 3 PPAD 548 Public Personnel Administration 3 PPAD 549 Public Finance 3 PPAD 551 Public Policy 3 Concentration Course 3 6 9 Graduate Summer Session Graduate Summer Session PPAD 597 Internship 3 PPAD 607 Management of Information Systems 3 Concentration Course 3 Concentration Course 3 6 6 Second Year-Fall Semester Second Year-Fall Semester PPAD 549 Public Finance 3 PPAD 549 Public Finance 3 PPAD 576 Administrative Theory 3 PPAD 576 Administrative Theory 3 6 Concentration, Internship or Elective 3 Concentration 9 Spring Semester Spring Semester PPAD 509 Seminar in Executive PPAD 598 Thesis 3 Leadership Development 3 Concentration, Internship or Elective 3 Concentration Course 3 6 6 Total Hours 39 Graduate Summer Session PPAD 521 Black Perspectives in 2. General Management: Non-Thesis Option Public Administration 3 Full Time Plan: Two Years with Summers 3 Third Year- Fall Semester First Year-Fall Semester PPAD 549 Thesis 3 PPAD 505 Principles of Public Administration 3 3 PPAD 551 Public Policy 3

PPAD 596 Research for Public Management 3 Spring Semester 9 PPAD 549 Thesis 3 Spring Semester 3 PPAD 548 Public Personnel Administration 3 Total Hours 39

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degree program emphasizes the acquisition of a 4. General Management: Non-Thesis Option knowledge base in the discipline of Public Part Time Plan: Three Years with Summers Administration with an emphasis on policy making, planning, analysis, evaluation and program Core implementation. In addition to the urban First Year-Fall Semester concentration, students will select a concentration in PPAD 505 Principles of Public Administration 3 program management, policy analysis and/or PPAD 596 Research for Public Management 3 environmental management, planning and policy. This 6 degree is especially appropriate for persons in public, non-profit and "quasi-public" management settings. Spring Semester PPAD 548 Public Personnel Administration 3 Program Objectives PPAD 551 Public Policy 3  ◆ Provide a cadre of highly trained individuals who 6 are committed to the values and skills of public Concentration service in a variety of organizational settings; Graduate Summer Session  ◆ Provide advanced educational opportunities for PPAD 525 Urban Politics and Policymaking 3 students of public administration in an urban PPAD 597 Internship 3 environment where a multiplicity of 6 governmental operations, interactions and Second Year-Fall Semester practices are observed; and PPAD 549 Public Finance 3 ◆ Fill the need for public, high-level executive PPAD 576 Administrative Theory 3 management which exists in this state and the 6 nation, particularly as this need relates to Spring Semester minorities and women. PPAD 509 Seminar in Executive Leadership Development 3 Admission Requirements PPAD 670 Administration of Non-Profit The Doctor of Philosophy in Public Policy and Agencies 3 Administration Degree is one which demands sound 6 conceptual and analytical abilities. A solid educational Graduate Summer Session foundation and substantial academic and professional Elective 3 achievement are among the criteria upon which 3 applications for admission are evaluated. Third Year- Fall Semester PPAD 521 Black Perspectives in Specific prerequisites for admission include the Public Administration 3 followings: PPAD 597 Internship 3 1. A graduate-level degree from an accredited 6 institution with a grade point average of 3.5 as Spring Semester evidenced by an official transcript. PPAD 607 Management of Information Systems 3 2. GRE (verbal and quantitative), MAT or GMAT . Advanced Elective 3 3. Three letters of recommendation. 6 4. A career goals essay. Total Hours 45 5. Two samples of academic and professional writing. Doctor of Philosophy 6. For international students, a satisfactory score on in Public Administration the TOEFL. 7. A personal and/or telephone interview may be In 1992 Jackson State University commenced offering required. the Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Public Policy and 8. Other considerations such as work or life Administration. The program requires a minimum of experiences which are directly related to potential 60 semester hours of course work beyond the master's successful completion of the program may also degree. This 60 hours includes the dissertation. be factored into the admission review.

Mission of Program Admissions to the Ph.D. Program are granted once The Ph.D. program has an urban management as well per annum for the Fall Semester. other areas of concentration focus. Students are required to master a body of knowledge that centers Alternative Ph.D. Admissions Tracks around the public management aspects of urban The Admissions Committee reviews candidates' problems; urban minorities; urban development (both admission applications along with: GPA, letters of past and present); and analysis of social systems. The recommendation, writing sample, statement of program is designed to prepare persons for careers in professional goals, test scores, (GRE, GMAT or executive management, teaching, research, and other MAT) and work experience. Should a candidate fall positions of public responsibility. Concomitantly, this below the 3.5 minimum GPA, three alternative

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admissions tracks are possible. Regardless of the track other evaluative methods to determine the need for employed, each applicant must meet acceptable compensatory work. Compensatory work will not be standards as reviewed by the Admissions Committee. counted toward the major program of students.

1. GPA 3.4 - 3.49 and one of the following: Degree Requirements A) Test Scores (A GMAT or MAT may be A minimum of 48 semester hours above the Master's substituted for GRE.) degree, plus 12 hours in dissertation credits, is B)  Excellent writing sample required to complete coursework for the Ph.D. in C) Excellent work experience Public Administration. The 48 semester hours are 2. GPA 3.1 - 3.39 along with A and B below: divided as follows: A) two of the following:  ◆ 24 hours of public administration core ◆ Test Scores (A GMAT or MAT may courses be substituted for a GRE.)  ◆ 12 hours of urban management concentration ◆ Excellent writing sample courses ◆ Excellent work experience  ◆ 12 hours of elective concentration courses B) An oral and/or written competency  ◆ 12 hours of dissertation (which may be counted examination. toward the degree) 3. GPA 3.0 - 3.09 and all of the following: A) Excellent writing sample Areas of concentration are: Policy Analysis, B) Public and private sector management Program Management, Urban Management, experience in excess of 10 years Environmental Management, and Planning and Policy. C) An oral and/or written competency examination Public Administration Core D) Test Scores (A GMAT or MAT score Required Courses may be substituted for a GRE). Course Title Hours PPAD 605 Scope of Public Administration 3 For the writing sample, excellence assessment is PPAD 607 Management of Information defined by a committee’s assessment that the sample Systems 3 would be awarded a minimum of a B+ in a first- year PPAD 648 Human Resources Planning Ph.D. course. and Management 3 PPAD 660 Financial Management Excellent work experience is defined as a combination in Public Organizations 3 of duration in position and rank. Excellence is PPAD 676 Theories of Public Organizations 3 awarded to any combination of the following: PPAD 677 Public Policy Formulation  ◆ Four (4) or more years of (4 year-college) and Implementation 3 teaching experience in a management field at the PPAD 696-90 Advanced Research Methods instructor level or above and performance for Public Management I 3 evaluations of excellent. PPAD 696-91 Advanced Research Methods  ◆ Four (4) or more years as senior executive (CEO, for Public Management II 3 COO, VP, Facility Manager, or Department Total Hours 24 Head) of an organization employing 10 or more Urban Management Core (12 Hours) FTEs or which requires executive level skills PPAD 512 Intergovernmental Relations 3 such as fiscal and human resource management. PPAD 538 Community Political Processes 3  ◆ Eight (8) or more years of public sector PPAD 580 Administrative Law 3 employment in mid-level or higher positions. PPAD 582 City Planning and Political Process 3 The committee may consider combinations of the PPAD 586 Urban Problems, Non-Traditional above. Options & Techniques 3 *PPAD 585/685 Seminar in Urban Problems 3 Oral and/or written interviews are required for PPAD 612 Urban Management admission to the doctoral program. and Urban Services 3 PPAD 625 Urban Politics and Policy Making 3 Deficiencies PS 537 Urban, Social Change Students who matriculate successfully in the Ph.D. and Political Power 3 Program in Public Policy and Administration must SOC 620 Community Analysis 3 demonstrate a knowledge base of the American intergovernmental system, research methodology and Elective Concentrations computer applications, and fiscal resource and (Select 12 hours from the courses listed under one of budgeting administration. Persons entering the the following concentrations) program from academic disciplines without these subjects will be administered preliminary exams or

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Program Management *Required Course: Must take as least six hours in PPAD 504 Administration of concentration prior to enrolling in seminar course, Ambulatory Health Care Systems 3 unless granted an exemption. PPAD 562 Comparative Public Administration 3 PPAD 600 Health Care Finance 3 Qualifying Exam PPAD 608 Contemporary Topics A qualifying exam must be taken by students at the in Public Administration 3 completion of eighteen hours of course work in *PPAD 609 Seminar in Executive selected courses (see Policy and Procedure Manual). Leadership Development 3 This examination will determine the feasibility of a PPAD 636 Administration of Health Agencies 3 student continuing pursuit of the doctoral degree in PPAD 649 Human Resource Programs Public Policy and Administration. in Public Agencies 3 PPAD 650 State and Local Government Students who do not pass the qualifying exam will Budgeting and Finance 3 be asked to exit the program. PPAD 670 Administration of Non-Profit Organizations 3 Comprehensive Exam PPAD 681 Seminar in Community and A Comprehensive Exam will be administered by the Economic Development 3 Graduate Faculty. The student is expected to use the *PPAD 682 Seminar in Program examination to creatively demonstrate his/her ability Development and Evaluation 3 to integrate effectively the various fields of study and FNGB 511 Computer Applications apply them to his/her own professional area. The in Management 3 Comprehensive Examination will be administered Policy Analysis upon completion of course work and before the *PPAD 559 Seminar in Public Policy Analysis 3 submission of a dissertation proposal. PPAD 606 Quantitative Methods 3 PPAD 608 Contemporary Topics Dissertation and Defense in Public Administration 3 To be awarded the Doctor of Philosophy in Public PPAD 609 Seminar in Executive Administration degree, the candidate will be required Leadership Development 3 to present and have approved a dissertation on a *PPAD 682 Seminar in Program pertinent research problem in his/her area of Development and Evaluation 3 concentration, and pass an oral examination in defense *PPAD 508 Advanced Quantitative of the research. The student's plan for independent and Qualitative Research 3 research will be developed with the assistance and xxx “New Courses” 3 active participation of the student's dissertation committee. The dissertation must demonstrate the Environmental Management, Planning and Policy student's competency in scholarly research. PPAD 557 Environmental Law 3 *PPAD 560 Seminar in Politics Graduation Requirements of Environmental Administration 3 1. Completion of 48 hours of course work. PPAD 561 Governmental Regulation 2. Passage of the qualifying examination. of Natural Resources 3 (Given Fall and Spring only) *PPAD 609 Seminar in Executive Leadership 3 3. Passage of the comprehensive examination. PPAD 681 Seminar in Community (Given Fall and Spring only) and Economic Development 3 4. Maintenance of a GPA of not lower than 3.0 with (strongly suggested) no more than two grades of C. PPAD 610 Toxicology and Epidemiology 5. Completion and Defense of the Dissertation for Public Managers 3 Proposal and Dissertation. ECON 700 Environmental Economics 3 BIO 501 Environmental Science Sample Matriculation Schedule of a (strongly suggested) 3 Typical Ph.D. Student BIO 514 Methods of Environmental Analysis 3 Semester I UA 556 Regional Land Use and Planning 3 PPAD 605 Scope of Public Administration (C) UA 560 Eco Systems Management 3 PPAD 648 Human Resources Planning and ITHM 529 Environmental Toxicology Management (C) and Risk Assessment 3 (or Urban Management core course or Other Courses Elective concentration course) PPAD 697 Internship PPAD 696 Advanced Research Methods I. (C) PPAD 698 Dissertation Semester II PPAD 699 Independent Study PPAD 660 Financial Management in Public Organizations (C) (or Urban Management core course or Elective concentration course)

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PPAD 677 Public Policy Formulation and purchasing and contracting, personnel and financial Implementation (C) administration, reporting and public relations. PPAD 696-91 Adv. Research for Public PPAD 515 Metropolitan Government and Politics. Man. II (C) (3 Hours) Prerequisite: American Government. PPAD 676-90 Theories of Management in Public Political and structural elements of public and private Organizations (C) influences on policies like annexation, consolidation, Semester III regional development and planning are analyzed. PPAD 607 Management of Information Systems PPAD 516/616 The Administrative State. (3 Hours) (C) Prerequisite: Introduction to Public Administration. Qualifying Examination to be taken Political environment of public administration; Semester IV relation of bureaucracies to public opinion and Submission of the Plan of Study political pressure; relations among legislators, elected Semester V and VI executives, and civil servants are discussed. In subsequent semesters, the typical student will PS/PPAD 517. Seminar in Mississippi Government complete the Urban Core and Elective Concentration. and Politics. (3 Hours) Prerequisite: State and Local Student must sit for the Comprehensive examination Government or American Government. Special at the conclusion of all coursework. features of Mississippi governmental structure and Semester VII to X political process are reviewed. Upon successful passage of the Comprehensive PPAD 518/618 Seminar in State Politics. (3 Hours). examination the Dissertation is initiated. After the Prerequisite: State and Local Government. Student Dissertation is written and successfully completed, the examination of the organization, function, political student graduates. dynamics and policy outputs of state governmental systems. DESCRIPTION OF COURSES PPAD 519/619 Problems of State Administration. Notes: Courses offered outside the department may be taken (3 Hours) Prerequisite: State and Local Government. with prior approval. For additional courses, please see Policy Administrative operations in state government are and Procedure Manual. reviewed with emphasis on planning research, PPAD 504W Administration of Ambulatory Care purchasing and contracting, personnel and financial Systems. (3 Hours) An analysis of primary health care administration, reporting and public relations. as delivered in the United States and other countries. PPAD 520 Civil Rights Laws and Affirmative Various models of delivery are examined, e.g. vis Action. (3 Hours) This course is designed to introduce physician's office, Neighborhood Health Center, the students to civil rights laws passed in America Health Maintenance Organization, etc. since the 1960s. As such this course examines the PPAD 505 Principles of Public Administration. (3 national government's response to the claims of Hours) An analysis of the basic principles and racial/ethnic and language minorities. Every effort is practices of Public Administration in the United made to relate changes in civil rights laws to the States. Problems of structure, organization, general nature of incremental policy making in the administrative power, status and leadership are U.S. examined. Major actors in the struggle to control PPAD 521/621 Black Perspectives in Public bureaucracy are identified. Value systems, ethics and Administration. (3 Hours) Public Policy problems, application of administrative power are explored. perceptions and experiences of Blacks are examined PPAD 507. Quantitative Analysis. (3 Hours) along with the policy process. Broader questions Students are familiarized with the application of concerning systemic change, structural transformation relevant research techniques to the problems of public and historical built-in dilemmas are examined. The sector management and policy formulations. Required relationship between bureaucracy and the Black client for entering students without research or computer is explored. skills. PPAD 525/625 Urban Politics. (3 Hours) PPAD 508/698 Advanced Quantitative/ Qualitative Prerequisite: American Government and Urban Analysis. (3 Hours) Prerequisite: Research for Public Government. Community power and decision- Management or Advanced Research I. This course making; political leadership; the relationship of gives the students a higher level of skills in research citizens of their government; the urban bureaucracy, methodology. citizen participation; and delivery of services are PPAD 513 Intergovernmental Relations. (3 Hours) discussed. Prerequisite: American Government. Evolution of the PPAD 536/636 Administration of Health Agencies. American federal system; consideration of inter-unit (3 Hours) A general overview of health care systems, cooperation and conflict; review of administrative especially the free enterprise system utilized in issues like revenue-sharing, federal grants and America, is discussed, including a review of empirical regulations. studies of demand for health services; behavior of PPAD 514 Problems of County Administration. (3 providers, and relationship of health services to Hours) Prerequisite: State and Local Government. population health and how public input into health Administrative operations in county government are care organizations helps form public policy for health discussed; emphasis is placed on understanding care issues.

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PPAD 538 Community Political Processes. (3 government when trying to regulate use of natural Hours) Students analyze the political consequences of resources are examined. the underlying socio-economic forces operating in PPAD 562 Comparative Public Administration. (3 urban areas. Hours) Prerequisite: Comparative Government. PPAD 548 Public Personnel Human Resource Students analyze administrative processes and systems Administration. (3 Hours) Procedures and problems in various types of governments including operation of of governmental personnel administration are national plans, public enterprises, and rural reviewed. Emphasis on staffing, remuneration, career development. system, motivation, evaluation, collective bargaining, PPAD 568 Labor Management Relations In the and employee relations. Public Sector (3 Hours) Prerequisite: PS 371. The PPAD 549 Public Finance Administration. (3 course analyzes the development of labor unions at the Hours) Procedures for the control of public funds; national, state, and local government levels in the assessment and collection of taxes; public borrowing United States. (F) and debt administration; preparation, enactment, and PPAD 571 Program Development and Operation. audit of the budget are reviewed. (3 Hours) Prerequisite: Governmental Organization PPAD 550/650 State and Local Government and Administration Theory. The development, Budgeting and Finance. (3 Hours) Prerequisite: operation, and evaluation of public programs; Public Finance or equivalent. Students study the fiscal examination of various problem solving techniques; problems of urban areas and the scope of government and problems associated with new programs are fiscal activities, including revenue trends, taxing discussed. policies, cash flow management, debt management PPAD 572 Human Relations in Public and pension fund management. Employment. (3 Hours) Prerequisite: American PPAD 551 Public Policy. (3 Hours) Politics of the Government. The course develops understanding of policy process; nature, determinants, and effects of human problems in public agencies; focusing on public goods and services; formulation, collective bargaining, contract administration, implementation, and evaluation of public policies. personnel efficiency and morale, equal employment PPAD 552 Consumer Law. (3 Hours) The law as it and affirmative action procedures. affects the rights of creditors and debtors, with special PPAD 576 Administrative Theory. (3 Hours) emphasis on the problems of the poor, is studied. Organizational change, effectiveness, and allocation PS/PPAD 553 Constitutional Law and the processes in public agencies, are discussed. The Economic Enterprise**. (3 Hours) Prerequisite: PS theoretical models of open system, rationalist conflict, 423 Constitutional Law. Selected social and regulatory coalition-building and decision-making are examined, legislation and its constitutional foundations are with the aim of presenting a unified set of propositions analyzed. about organizations. PPAD 555 The Criminal Justice System. (3 Hours) PPAD 579 Administrative Behavior. (3 Hours) The The process of law enforcement from commission of a course examines administrative behavior and crime through sentencing, trial, incarceration, and government management with appropriate comparison rehabilitation. to private industry; analysis of principal elements of PPAD 557 Environmental Law. (3 Hours) the public administrator's job, such as planning Prerequisite: Introduction to Law or Constitutional procedures and work methods; evaluating and control Law. Federal and state regulations designed to protect programs and operations. the environment are reviewed. PPAD 580 Administrative Law. (3 Hours) Introduce PPAD 558 The Correctional System. (3 Hours) students to series of important issues in Administrative Principles of the formal behavior-control devices are Law. Issues and problems central to the field are examined with an emphasis on legal systems and the explored by an analysis of relevant literature. philosophical background of criminal justice. PPAD 582 City Planning and the Political Process. PPAD 559/659 Seminar in Public Policy Analysis. (3 Hours) A study of the planning process in urban (3 Hours) Prerequisite: Public Policy. This course and metropolitan areas, with particular attention to provides a general and conceptual overview of the governmental and administrative policies and the study of public policy as a major sub-field of public machinery for dealing with problems involving administration. Emphasizes the policy process and complex political, economic, and technological factors include methods and techniques of policy analysis. and the planning process as it affects Black people. PPAD 560 Seminar in Politics of Environmental PPAD 583 Urban Justice (3 Hours) Students study Administration. (3 Hours) Prerequisite: urban court systems and their actors and processes, Environmental Law. The contemporary aspects of including the impact of the courts on resolution of environmental problems as reflected in society, urban problems. politics and business that are faced by administrators PPAD 586 Urban Problems and Non-Traditional are discussed. Options. (3 Hours) An overview of the strategies, PPAD 561 Governmental Regulation of National tactics and techniques of municipal administration. Resources. (3 Hours) Prerequisite: Environmental Innovative models for approaching political issues Law. The legal and political problems faced by unique to municipalities and the impact of urbanization are discussed.

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PPAD 587 Problems in Public Administration. (3 PPAD 612 Urban Management and Urban Hours) Case studies are analyzed to illustrate the Services. (3 Hours) Students examine and analyze the major problems confronting top bureaucrats in public methods by which local public services are designed, agencies. Problems studied include administrative delivered and evaluated. policies and the relationship of public agencies to their PPAD 652 Urban History. (3 Hours) Focuses on the clients in specific administrative situations. growth of urbanism and the impact urbanization has PPAD 596 Research for Public Management. (3 had on the lives of Americans. Hours) Prerequisite: Quantitative Analysis or PPAD 660 Financial Management In Public equivalent. Empirical analysis for practical Organizations. (3 Hours) Prerequisite: Public administrative problems and the development of new Finance Administration or equivalent. The management techniques, including controlled social management of organizational resources is focus of experimentation; simulation of policy issues; this course. While local governments will be evaluation of future, alternatives. Diagnostic highlighted, the principles and techniques have examination must be passed. application to all public and quasi-public PPAD 597 Internship. (3 Hours) Prerequisite: organizations. Twelve hours graduate course work in Public PPAD 670 Administration of Non-Profit Administration prior to this individual work Organizations. (3 Hours) This course focuses on the experience in a government agency. (Prior approval role and character of private, non-profit organizations in the preceding semester) and their relationships with other sectors of the PPAD 598 Thesis (3 Hours) Prerequisite: Complete community. Examines the impact of recent public - coursework and comprehensive. particularly fiscal - decisions have had on service PPAD 599 Independent Study. (3 Hours) The delivery in the non-profit environment. Visiting student selects a research area which may be of benefit practitioners will make presentations to the class to his/her program. Topics must be approved by the throughout the course. faculty advisor and by the instructor selected by the PPAD 676 Theories of Public Organization. (3 student to supervise the research. Hours) This course exposes students of public-sector PPAD 605 The Scope of Public Administration. (3 organizations to prominent explanations and theories Hours) This class emphasizes the historical and of organizations as political, social and economic ecological factors influencing the development of the concepts. Major subject areas discussed are: 1) discipline of Public Administration, as well as theories of individual and group behavior; 2) theories contemporary trends. Students will discuss issues such of organizational structure; 3) theories of as privatization, the third sector ethnics, and executive organizational process. leadership. Some effort is directed toward providing a PPAD 677 Public Policy Formulation and comparative analysis in the context of public Implementation. (3 Hours) This course focuses on administration. problems of policy formulation, implementation, and PPAD 606 Quantitative Methods. (3 Hours) This evaluation. The participants will be exposed to such course familiarizes students with quantitative issues as seeing the need for policy issues, thinking approaches which can be used to solve problems in through goals and objectives, policy adoption, and public sector management. problems of implementation (including perceptive and PPAD 607 Management of Information Systems. real gaps between congressional intent and (3 Hours) Design and utilization of systems to assist bureaucratic interpretations. administrative information flows, data management, PPAD 681 Seminar in Community Development and computer application to public management. and Economic Development. (3 Hours) Provides PPAD 608 Seminar in Contemporary Topics in students with a basic understanding of the broad field Public Administration. (3 Hours) "Cutting edge" of community and economic development as carried information and contemporary trends and issues are out by the federal, state and local levels of explored. government, as well as the impact of neighborhood PPAD 609 Seminar in Executive Leadership. (3 development organizations. The course exposes Hours) Leadership as an area of academic inquiry and students to a variety of readings, and to regular visits skill development is the focus of this course. Students by practitioners. explore leadership from historical, behavioral, PPAD 682 Seminar In Program Development and political, and administrative perspectives. Evaluation. (3 Hours) This course teaches class Additionally, students engage in research and projects participants the principles of program development which will help to develop their skills as executive and provides an understanding of how evaluators can leaders. help make government more effective by producing PPAD 610 Epidemiology and Toxicology for timely information on the promise and performance of Public Managers. (3 Hours). Introduces and teaches existing programs. students the concepts, theories, facts and principles of PPAD 696-90 Advanced Research Methods I. (3 the study, prevention and treatment of disease and Hours) This is a research course in which participants poison. The course includes conducting an will use both qualitative and quantitative techniques to epidemiological study. address management problems. Students must take both semesters. (Pretest or evaluating or PPAD 606).

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PPAD 696-91 Advanced Research Methods II. (3 DEPARTMENT OF URBAN AND Hours) REGIONAL PLANNING PPAD 697 Internship. (3 Hours) Executive-level, ------"hands-on", work experience in selected organizations. (Students must apply in the previous Dr. Otha Burton, Jr., Associate Professor semester). and Chair PPAD 700 Independent Study. (3 Hours) The 3825 Ridgewood Road, Box 23 student is allowed to select a research topic of Jackson, MS 39211 interest. Prior approval must be granted. (See PPAD Telephone: (601) 432-6865 559). Fax: (601) 432-6862 PPAD 798 Dissertation. (3 Hours) This course is for e-mail: [email protected] students who are admitted to candidacy so that they may engage in writing of the dissertations. (Prior Faculty approval). Dr. M. Kumar, Assistant Professor Dr. E. Mereem, Associate Professor Dr. E. Santos, Assistant Professor Dr. J. Wesley, Assistant Professor

Mission of Program The Department of Urban and Regional Planning seeks to develop leaders in the field of city planning. The program will provide students with learning opportunities that will enable them to develop the intellectual qualities necessary for meeting the broad and varied range of problems and challenges associated with urban growth and development. The Department offers a Master of Arts degree and Doctor of Philosophy degree. The Master of Arts program consists of an inter-disciplinary curriculum of 49 semester hours, including practical community-based learning experiences and planing studios, while the Doctor of Philosophy consists of 48 semester hours. The Department has a special focus on increasing the number of under-represented groups and women in the profession. The rigorous program is designed for both full-time and part-time students. The program targets recognition at the regional, state, and national levels.

Program Objectives The Department concentrates upon the challenging issues and problems confronting planning professionals and scholars in the rebuilding of cities across the nation. Courses and studios offer challenging scholarly and practical work that focuses attention on real world solutions while respecting the ethical, skill, and plan development practices of the profession.

Master’s Program Admissions Requirements Admission to the graduate degree program in Urban and Regional Planning is governed by the regulation of the Division of Graduate Studies and Department. The following criteria must be met: 1. Admission to the Division of Graduate Studies. 2. A minimum grade point average of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale; 3. Satisfactory performance on the Graduate Record Examination or equivalent test; 4. Demonstrated promise for successful academic achievement in professional graduate work;

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5. For international students, indication of adequate #URP 541 Technical Skills of financial support and satisfactory performance on Composition and Communication 3 TOEFL demonstrating oral and written URP 542 Infrastructure and Community proficiency; Facilities 3 6. Three letters of recommendation; URP 543 Computer-Aided Design I: 7. Personal interview with a departmental faculty Introduction 3 member where practical. **URP 544 Design of Cities 3 URP 545 Computer-Aided Design II: Master's Degree Requirements Applications in Urban Design 3 The Department offers courses on a semester basis. URP 546 Site Development 3 Forty-nine credit hours are required for a master's #URP 547 Behavioral and Cultural Factors degree. A basic core and three areas of concentration in Planning and Urban Design 3 (Community Development and Housing, Environment Electives 9 and Land Use, and Urban Design) are offered. A Faculty Advisor’s approval required. thesis or major report option may be elected. A non- Internship credit summer internship is required of inexperienced *URP 570 Internship 3 students. Thesis or Non-Thesis Option (6 hours maximum in either thesis or non-thesis COURSE REQUIREMENTS FOR MASTER OF courses) ARTS IN URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING Thesis URP 560 Thesis Research 3 Core Courses URP 566 Master’s Thesis 3 (16 hours minimum) Semester Non-Thesis Course Title Hours Faculty Advisor’s approval required. *URP 500 History of Planning 3 *URP 502 Planning Theory and Practice 3 Notes *URP 504 Quantitative Analysis and Computers 4 *Required Course *URP 506 Legal Aspects in Planning 3 #Required Concentration Course *URP 508 Introduction to Urban Design 3 **Required Concentration Studio Course

Curriculum Plans Concentration Courses (15 hours minimum from one of the three concentration areas) 1. Community Development and Housing Community Development and Housing Concentration Concentrations: Non-Thesis Option #URP 520 Housing Policy 3 Full Time Plan URP 521 African American Community 3 #URP 522 Introduction to Community First Year-Fall Semester Development 3 URP 500 History of Planning 3 URP 523 Social Policy Planning 3 URP 502 Planning Theory and Practice 3 **URP 524 Neighborhood Revitalization 3 URP 520 Housing Policy 3 URP 525 Land Development Dynamics 3 9 URP 526 Citizen Participation 3 Spring Semester URP 527 Public Finance Planning 3 URP 504 Quantitative Analysis and Computers 4 URP 528 Economic Development Planning 3 URP 508 Introduction to Urban Design 3 URP 529 Planning in Local Government 3 URP 522 Introduction to Community Design 3 URP 551 Regional Planning 3 10 Summer Semester Environment and Land Use Concentration ENTR 580 Enterprenuership 3 #URP 530 Introduction to Environmental URP 555 Independent Study 3 Planning 3 6 #URP 531 Growth Management 3 Second Year- Fall Semester URP 532 Environmental Planning Ethics 3 URP 506 Legal Aspects in Planning 3 URP 533 Rural Land Use Planning 3 URP 524 Neighborhood Revitalization (Studio) 3 URP 534 Environmental Impact Assessment 3 URP 570 Internship 3 **URP 535 Comprehensive Planning 3 PPAD 549 Public Finance Administration 3 URP 536 Developing Nations Environmental 12 Planning 3 Spring Semester URP 537 Plan Implementation 3 URP 526 Citizen Participation 3 URP 538 Zoning and Land Use Regulation 3 URP 551 Regional Planning 3 URP 539 Risk Analysis 3 PPAD 505 Principles of Public Administration 3 Urban Design Concentration ECO 512 Microeconomics 3 URP 540 Historic Preservation and Conservation 3 12 Total Hours 49

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2. Urban Design Concentration Ph.D. Pr ograms Admissions Requirements Non-Thesis Option-Full Time Plan Admissions to the doctoral program in Urban and First Year-Fall Semester Regional Planning is governed by the regulations of URP 500 History of Planning 3 the Division of Graduate Studies and the Department. URP 502 Planning Theory and Practice 3 The following criteria must be met: URP 541 Technical Skills of Comp. and Comm. 3 9 1. Admissions to the Division of Graduate Studies Spring Semester at Jackson State University with a minimum URP 504 Quantitative Analysis and Computers 4 grade point average of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale; URP 508 Introduction to Urban Design 3 2. Satisfactory performance on the Graduate URP 530 Introducation to Environ. Planning 3 Record Examination or equivalent test. URP 547 Behav. and Cult. Factor in Planning 3 3. Promise for successful academic achievement at 13 the doctoral level. Summer Semester 4. For international students, indication of PPAD 514 Problems of City and County Admin. 3 adequate financial support and satisfactory 6 performance on TOEFL demonstrating oral and Second Year- Fall Semester written proficiency. URP 506 Legal Aspects in Planning 3 5. Three letters of recommendation. URP 542 Infrastructure and Comm. Facilities 3 6. Substantive statement of proposed research URP 543 Computer-Aided Design I 3 within one of the Department’s areas of URP 544 Design of Cities (Studio) 3 concentration. 12 7. When applicable, a description of professional Spring Semester experience and/or samples of previous scholarly URP 522 Introduction to Community Develop. 3 works. URP 545 Computer-Aided Design II 3 8. A personal interview with a departmental URP 546 Site Development 3 faculty when practical. URP 570 Internship 3 12 Candidacy Requirements Total Hours 49 Students must successfully complete a comprehensive examination and prepare and defend a proposal for 3. Environment and Land Use Concentration dissertatio n research prior to being declared a degree Non-Thesis Option-Full Time Plan candidate.

First Year-Fall Semester Ph.D. Degree Requirements URP 500 History of Planning 3 The Department offers courses on a semester basis. A URP 502 Planning Theory and Practice 3 basic core curriculum and three areas of concentration URP 538 Zoning and Land Use Regulation 3 (Community Development and Housing, Environment 9 and Land Use, and Urban Design) are offered. Thirty- Spring Semester six credit hours of course work beyond the master’s URP 504 Quantitative Analysis and Computers 4 degree are required prior to writing the dissertation. URP 508 Introduction to Urban Design 3 After completing these course requirements, students 7 may earn a maximum of twelve additional credit hours Summer Semester of dissertation credit. The Ph.D. is awarded after ITHM 524 Public Issues in Hazard. Waste Mang. 3 successful completion and defense of the dissertation. URP 570 Internship 3 PPAD 514 Problems of City and County Admin. 3 9 COURSE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE Ph.D. IN Second Year- Fall Semester URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING URP 506 Legal Aspects in Planning 3 URP 531 Growth Management 3 Core Course Semester URP 534 Comprehensive Planning (Studio) 3 Course Title Hours 9 URP 700 Historical development of Cities 3 Spring Semester URP 702 Theoretical Perspectives in Planning 3 URP 530 Introduction to Environ. Planning 3 URP 710 Advanced Statistical Methods 3 URP 532 Environmental Planning Ethics 3 URP 712 Research Methodology 3 URP 539 Urban Sprawl (Studio) 3 URP 714 Ethics in Planning Seminar 3 URP 555 Independent Study 3 Total Hours 15 ITHM 526 Environmental Regulations 3

12 Concentration Courses Total Hours 49 12 hours minimum from one of the three concentration areas.

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dynamics that created contemporary urban and Community Development and Housing Concentration regional spatial patterns, elements of physical The following seminars and studios would apply planning in relation to social, economic, and political toward this concentration, forces as well as the role of the urban designer in the URP 720 Urban Housing Policies planning process. URP 722 Community Development and Housing URP 724 Urban Revitalization Studio Community Development and Housing URP 726 Citizen Participation Strategies URP 520 Housing Policy. (3 hours) Thorough review URP 728 Local and Regional Economic of the problems and issues related to housing planning Development Strategies and policy dealing primarily with inter-relationships URP 760 Advanced Readings and interdependencies among socio-cultural, Environment and Land Use Concentration economic and physical aspects of housing. This The following seminars and studios would apply course focuses on the social, political, and economic toward this concentration, aspects of housing policy in the United States. URP 730 Environment and Land Use URP 521 African American Community. (3 hours) URP 735 Land Use Planning Studio Investigates processes of community development for URP 736 International Human Settlements their application in community building in African URP 737 Urban Implementation Strategies American communities. Explores the development of URP 760 Advanced Readings a model for development and discusses various roles of participants in the community development process. Urban Design Concentration URP 522 Introduction to Community The following seminars and studios would apply Development. (3 hours) Overview of the elements of toward this concentration, the community development process including URP 740 Foundations in Urban Design housing, economic development, education, public URP 742 Analytical and Evaluation Methods safety, social services, transportation, infrastructure, for Urban Design Research the environment, citizen participation and leadership. URP 744 Urban Design Studio This course places an emphasis on the application of planning methods and theory to the resolution of URP 746 Urban Design Doctoral Seminar community problems. URP 760 Advanced Readings URP 523 Social Policy Planning. (3 hours) Introduction to the theory and practices of social Electives 9 hours minimum policy planning with attention to spatial, policy, Faculty Advisor’s Approval Required resource, and advocacy relationships. This course Dissertation 12 hours maximum focuses on matters of social services, income URP 899 Dissertation maintenance, education, and health. URP 524 Neighborhood Revitalization. (3 hours) DESCRIPTION OF COURSES Exploration of planning and political activities that Core Area contribute to the restoration of older neighborhoods. URP 500 History of Planning. (3 hours) Impacts of economic, social, and political processes Introduction to the historical roots, periods, and that govern decision making and funding for personalities that have shaped the profession. A study revitalization efforts. in the development of the profession within the URP 525 Land Development Dynamics. (3 hours) context of urban American history. Emphasizes private decision making and development, URP 502 Planning Theory and Practice. (3 hours) public/private relationships, and regulatory activities. Overview of theories that have contributed to the This course explores patterns of land utilization from development of contemporary urban planning; the perspectives of the neighborhood, city, and theories introduced include rationality, advocacy, and metropolis. critical. Also studied are issues related to professional URP 526 Citizen Participation. (3 hours) ethics, race and class, and urban development. Introduction to the issues, policies, and techniques URP 504 Quantitative Analysis and Computers. (4 related to the role of citizens in the public decision hours) Introduction to the use of quantitative making process. Consideration will be given to reasoning and statistical techniques to solve planning legislative requirements for public involvement as and policy problems. This course focuses on well as the role of survey research in the citizen application of descriptive and inferential statistics, participation process. Techniques for developing local sampling, regression analysis,and modeling. capacity through citizen mobilization and a focus on URP 506 Legal Aspects of Planning. (3 hours) community building are explored. Introduction to the basis in constitutional, common, URP 527 Public Finance Planning. (3 hours) and statutory law for the authority of plan effectuation. Overview of the principle of public budgeting, capital This course delineates the legal and legislative bases budget planning and public finance strategies. This for planning at the local, state, and federal levels. course considers issues surrounding local development URP 508 Introduction to Urban Design (3 hours) and fiscal decision making as they relate to project This course provides an understanding of the planning, revenue sources and project evaluation.

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URP 528 Economic Development Planning. (3 the use of land-use regulatory tools and community hours) Strategies and tools for developing facilities in implementing the plan. employment, business ownership, and investment in URP 538 Zoning and Land Use Regulation. (3 local, state, and regional economies. This course hours) The theory, practice, and consequences of focuses on contemporary economic development zoning as a land use tool in the implementation plans. patterns and practices in central cities and urban areas This course includes the legal and administrative in the South. elements employed in zoning law, ordinance URP 529 Planning in Local Government. (3 hours) preparation, and other regulatory devices. Examination of the role of local government in the URP 539 Risk Analysis. (3 hours) Introduces city planning process. Special consideration is given to students to the concepts of risk and uncertainty and the functional areas of planning such as transportation, explores techniques for characterizing, framing, housing, neighborhoods, environmental constraints, estimating, and communicating environmental risks. and land use. This course covers both human-related and natural risks and hazards. Environment and Land Use URP 530 Introduction to Environmental Planning. Urban Design (3 hours) Comprehensive overview of the field and URP 540 Historic Preservation and Conservation. the efforts being made to organize, control, and (3 hours) Issues of revitalizing and preserving historic coordinate environmental, aesthetic, and uses of nature resources are explored. This course focuses on the and of man-made substances. This course focuses on history, context, methods, and public policies related the problems, potential solutions, and methodologies to historic preservation movements and programs. of public policy, law, and economics as they affect URP 541 Technical Skills of Composition and environmental issues in planning. Communication. (3 hours) Studio introducing graphic URP 531 Growth Management. (3 hours) communication (in two and three dimensions) as Techniques employed to manage growth-related visual organization and sequencing of the complex change and to implement plans. This course focuses and varied information considered in the decision- on matters of capital investment, development impact making process of planning. Exercise of cognitive and analysis, impact mitigation, ethical implications, and aesthetic judgement by selective use and drawing of alternative growth potentials. lines, planes, perspective, solids, shade, shadow and URP 532 Environmental Planning Ethics. (3 hours) color; including introduction to the examination of Investigation of the issues and affects of decision aesthetic, symbolic and cultural elements of design. making related to environmental justice. This course URP 542 Infrastructure and Community Facilities. focuses on the history of the development, cases, and (3 hours) Examines planning and policy issues advocacies for ethical decision making related to the surrounding public services and facilities. Topics environment. include the distribution of the benefits and costs of URP 533 Rural Land Use Planning. (3 hours) various public services and fiscal, traffic, and Small-town planning, rural populations, and environmental impacts of land development. development dynamics are explored. This course URP 543 Computer-Aided Design I: Introduction. focuses on the social, economic, political, and (3 hours) Studio introducing the concepts, issues and environmental factors that are employed by planners methods of computer-aided design as a tool in the to assist citizens plan for quality futures. planning and urban design process. A previous URP 534 Environmental Impact Assessment. (3 knowledge of computers is not required. (Prerequisite: hours) Reviews the theory and methodology of URP 541) evaluating the potential impacts of development on the URP 544 Design of Cities. (3 hours) Investigates the natural and social environments. This course gives development of physical form of cities through attention to the legal and planning practice elements of models, geographic landscape, and intentional human assessing environmental impacts. use. This course focuses on the manner in which URP 535 Comprehensive Planning. (3 hours) people exploit land and human experiences that Introduction to the theory and practice of urban and determine design principles. regional planning. Planning as a method of decision URP 545 Computer-Aided Design II: Applications making and strategic choice, goal setting, alternative in Urban Design. (3 hours) Studio stressing advanced development, and implementation solutions. concepts and methods in computer-aided design as URP 536 Developing Nations Environmental applied in urban design and site development. Topics Planning. (3 hours) Examines urban development include interactive and procedural approaches, issues and impacts in Third World nations. This parametric design, and integration of spatial modeling course explores issues of environmental quality, with other information-processing activities. Emphasis policy responses, housing production, biological is placed on the creation of three-dimensional models. diversity, agriculture, conservation, wildlife (Prerequisite: URP 543) management, and socio-economic pressures. URP 546 Site Development. (3 hours) Introduction to URP 537 Plan Implementation. (3 hours) Interactive site analysis, using environmental and engineering community and governmental dynamics in plan principles and modeling exercises to analyze and implementation are explored. This course focuses on understand the use of land for development purposes.

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This course focuses on elements of grading, drainage, contributing factors to the economic, social and and landscape architecture. ecological development of cities. The course will URP 547 Behavioral and Cultural Factors in require students to apply historical research Planning and Urban Design. (3 hours) Seminar methodologies in the analysis of urban concerning the relationship of social patterns, cultural agglomerations. values, and the formation of urban patterns. Explores URP 702 Theoretical Perspectives in Planning. (3 the complexities involved in giving expression to hours) Study of the advanced theoretical concepts in human needs and desires in provision of shelter and urban planning and the relationship between planning movement systems, possibilities and limitations of theory and social science precepts. Comparative building forms and public policies, and issues analysis of theories that stimulate planning thought involved in relating the human-made to the natural and philosophy. environment. URP 710 Adva nced Statistical Methods. (3 hours) The course is designed to offer state-of-the-art Other Courses procedures and paradigms in statistical applications. URP 550 Special Topics. (3 hours) Students electing Prerequisite: URP 502 or equivalent. to not pursue the thesis option may enroll in this URP 712 Research Methodology. (3 hours) Students course to conduct a special project topic. A maximum acquire a foundation in conceptualization, of three credits are allowed for this course. measurement, research design, prospectus preparation, URP 551 Regional Planning. (3 hours) This course data collection, approaches to data analysis, provides students with an in-depth understanding of documentation, and presentation of substantive regional planning - its historical roots, current research. practices, regionalism. Regional planning, URP 714 Ethics in Planning. (3 hours) In this course metropolitan planning, and similar terms are students examine the theory and practice of constantly being used by planners. What do these professional ethics. The principles of ethical thinking terms mean? How can they influence practice and and behavior in the planning profession are covered scholarship in this field? extensively. URP 555 Independent Study. (3 hours) Students wishing to explore an in-depth study of a topic not Community Development and Housing directly offered in the curriculum may enroll in this URP 720 Urban Housing Policies. (3 Hours) This course. A maximum of six credit hours of independent course examines the policies that impact housing study may be accrued. Permission of the faculty is systems in the United States. Factors contributing to required. housing shortages and housing costs are analyzed, and URP 560 Thesis Research. (3 hours) Students programs developed to address these issues are pursuing the thesis option must enroll in this course. evaluated. Additionally, the role of housing advocacy This course focuses on the methodology and is studied. techniques of writing a thesis, including the research URP 722 Community Development and Housing. and presentation of the document. (3 Hours) A thorough analysis and evaluation of the URP 566 Master’s Thesis. (3 hours) Students principles and practices of community development. electing the thesis option must obtain approval from Substantive areas of housing, economic development, the faculty for the prospectus. All requirements of the education, public safety, social services, Graduate School for submission dates must be met. transportation, infrastructure, the environment, citizen URP 570 Internship (3 hours) All students must participation and leadership will be selectively satifactorily complete a Professional Development covered. This course places an emphasis on the Assignment. The purpose of this internship is to application of planning methods and theory to the provide students with opportunities to engage in resolution of community problems. experiential learning with governmental agencies, URP 724 Urban Revitalization Studio. (3 Hours) In- non-profit organizations and private corporations that depth study of a selected problem related to urban confront and respond to planning problems and related revitalization. Students will be required to prepare a issues. Students completing a Professional detailed planning document addressing the Development Assignment funded by the Department redevelopment needs of a specific urban neighborhood must be enrolled in URP 570 Internship for one or area. Topics vary each semester depending on semester in order to receive three semester hours of research opportunities. Prerequisite: Specialization in credit. Students with prior experience in planning or a community development and housing. closely related field may take an additional three URP 726 Citizen Participation Strategies. (3 semester hours of elective in lieu of the internship Hours) This course provides an intensive study of the with the approval of the Master’s Program roles of citizen participation influencing the public Coordinator and Department Chair. planning process. Consideration is given to emerging methods and programs for public involvement as well Doctoral-Course as the role of survey research in the citizen Core Courses participation process. Techniques for developing local URP 700 Historical Development of Cities. (3 capacity through citizen mobilization and a focus on hours) Intensive investigation and discussion of major community building will be explored.

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URP 728 Local and Regional Economic URP 746 Urban Design Doctoral Seminar (3 Hours) Development Strategies (3 Hours) An in-depth Discussion and critique of selected research work and examination and evaluation of strategies and tools for analytical methods involving issues of urban design. developing employment, business ownership, and Presentation and critique of research proposed by investment in local, state, and regional economics. members of the seminar. Prerequisite: Completion of This course allows students to conduct research on a Ph.D. core courses and required urban design specialized interest in the areas of economic concentration courses. development and finance, while gaining a greater understanding of the relationship between local and Other Courses regional economic development patterns and practices. URP 750 Professional Practice Issues in Planning. Environment and Land Use (3 Hours) The course is designed to study the most URP 730 Environment and Land Use (3 Hours) current and effective practices in the profession. A This course investigates the major competing theories range of considerations related to the techniques of and policies related to the built environment and intervention, methods of design, and public natural world. Methods of classifying and evaluating involvement in the planning and decision making the effects of pollution upon natural and social process are selectively covered. systems are discussed. URP 760 Advanced Readings. (3 hours) In this URP 735 Brownfields Planning Studio. (3 hours) colloquium students read and discuss the assigned Selective problems related to urban and/or rural issues books. The instructor facilitates the discussion. Each are presented. Students are required to prepare student will be responsible for at least two readings (individually or in teams) area or comprehensive plans and weekly discussions. that are designed to provide alternative solutions to URP 770 Independent Study or Research Practice identified problems. (3 hours) By arrangement with the advisor and URP 736 International Human Settlements. (3 approval with the faculty, students may pursue a topic Hours) An overview of conditions, policies, and of special academic or research interest. The programs that characterize living patterns in independent research must be at an advanced graduate international settings. Students are required to level and related to the field of planning. May be conduct research and make scholarly presentations repeated with change of topic. regarding the diverse settlements found in western and URP Doctoral Research Preparation (1-6 hours) non-western nations. The course is designed to specifically and exclusively URP 737 Urban Implementation Strategies (3 for those students who have completed all required Hours) The theories, practices and rationalizations for coursework, obtained permission to enroll from the planner involvement in the implementation of Department Chair, and seek time to prepare for the alternatives are investigated. Students are required to Comprehensive Examination. The course will permit present a formal strategy for the implementation of a qualified students to interact with faculty and planning proposal. colleagues to properly prepare for the Comprehensive Urban Design Examination. Permission from the Department Chair URP 740 Foundations in Urban Design. (3 Hours) is required. Examination of the social, physical and cultural URP 899 Dissertation (3 hours) Working with a determinants of form, pattern, and space that expresses faculty approved committee, the student is required to the heritage of urban design and city building; and the undertake dissertation research. Prerequisites: role of urban design in the fields of architecture, completion of all Ph.D. course work, approved landscape architecture and urban planning. dissertation proposal, and dissertator status with the Prerequisite: URP 700 or permission of the instructor. Graduate School. Course may be repeated provided URP 742 Analytical and Evaluative Methods of progress is being made on the dissertation. Urban Design Research (3 Hours) Exploration of the theoretical, methodological and practical issues of urban design, including urban space and morphology, conceptions of place, cognition, perception and information field theory. Students will gain a working competence in at least one of the methods analyzed. Focus on selected contemporary issues in commercial and neighborhood design and planning. Prerequisite: URP 740. URP 744 Urban Design Studio. (3 Hours) Systematic study of specialized subject matter leading to the design and effectuation of physical improvement plans, program design, and public policies. Synthesis of urban design and planning issues and research methods in a laboratory setting. Topics vary each year, depending on current planning interest and needs.

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SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK ------Dr. Leon Chestang, Interim Associate Dean Dr. Hebert Burson, Program Director Office: 3825 Ridgewood Road 3825 Ridgewood Road Jackson, MS 39211 Jackson, MS 39211Telephone: Telephone: (601) 432-6828 (601) 432-6819 Fax: (601) 432-6812 Fax: (601) 432-6827 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected]

Programs Faculty  ◆ Master of Social Work Dr. J. Brooks, Associate Professor Dr. P. Hammond, Clinical Instructor  ◆ Doctor of Philosophy in Social Work Dr. D. Holt, Associate Professor Dr. R. Mason, Professor Accreditation Dr. S. Omari, Assistant Professor The Master of Social Work is accredited by the Dr. O. Osby, Assistant Professor Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). Dr. G. Prater, Professor Dr. S. Spence, Professor Mission Dr. E. Williams, Associate Professor The mission of the School of Social Work is to Dr. E. Yoon, Assistant Professor provide opportunities for a diverse student population to earn social work degrees at the baccalaureate, Mission of the Master of Social Work Program master, and doctoral levels. Students are provided a supportive academic environment in which to acquire The mission of the Master of Social Work (M.S.W.) the knowledge, skill, values and ethics of the social Program is to provide leadership to clinical social work profession. The School also focuses on the work practice with children, youth, and families in development of leadership and scholarship in social both urban and rural areas. The program seeks to work practice. prepare social work practitioners who are responsive to the need for empowering services which promote The School’s goals are to produce graduates who will economic, political, and social justice for all groups, apply their knowledge and skills toward enhancing the especially those confronting discrimination and quality of life in the urban and rural environments and oppression. Thus, the program works to increase the to equip graduates to promote empowerment of pool of graduate social workers by recruiting the most vulnerable individuals, families, groups, organizations, promising students who reflect the diversity of the and communities at the local, national, and state, the nation, and the global community to international levels. Graduates will be prepared to matriculate in a nurturing academic environment. The address issues of social responsibility by program prepares students for successful scholarship, demonstrating a commitment to economic, political, leadership and advanced clinical social work practice and social justice and develop as leaders in social which exemplifies the values and ethics of the work practice, service, and scholarly activities. profession.

The goals of the M.S.W. Program are:

1. to prepare students for advanced clinical social work practice with children, youth, and families

in local, national, and global settings, with an

emphasis on addressing human needs at micro,

mezzo, and macro levels;

2. to prepare students for leadership roles in the

profession of social work and the social welfare

arena;

3. to prepare students to identify patterns, dynamics,

and consequences of social, economic, and

political discrimination and oppression and

promote appropriate change when necessary;

4. to prepare students for advanced clinical social

work practice in diverse organizational and social

contexts, with an understanding of the ways in which these contexts influence social work practice and with the ability to promote appropriate change when necessary; and 5. to provide students with a challenging

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educational experience that develops self- program requirements for a liberal arts awareness and assures the acquisition of the background, inclusive of courses in human knowledge, skills, scholarship, and values and biology and statistics; ethics necessary for competent advanced clinical  ◆ A cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 2.5 social work practice. on a 4.0 scale;  ◆ Academic and professional references; The objectives of the M.S.W. Program are to ensure  Written personal statement; that graduates:  ◆ Evidence of volunteer and/or work experience in the field of social work; 1. demonstrate the knowledge, skills, scholarship,  ◆ Official Graduate Record Examination (GRE) and values and ethics relevant to advanced scores. clinical social work practice in diverse  ◆ An interview with the Admissions Committee environments; may be required. 2. effectively use knowledge of self in social work practice; Admission to the Advanced Standing M.S.W. 3. effectively evaluate their practice in social Program is determined on a selective basis according work settings; the following criteria: 4. effectively evaluate and apply research findings  ◆ Applicant must be a graduate of a CSWE to practice; accredited baccalaureate program within the 5. demonstrate a commitment to competent past five (5) years. practice and scholarly contribution to the social  ◆ A letter grade of “B” or better in all social work work profession; courses. 6. utilize theoretical frameworks supported by  ◆ A cumulative grade point average of 3.0 on a empirical evidence in a way that responds to the 4.0 scale for undergraduate coursework. uniqueness of clients across the lifespan and the interaction with environmental influences; Applicants must be admitted to both the Graduate 7. demonstrate the ability to use supervision and School and the MSW Program. To facilitate consultation appropriate to advanced clinical determination of admission into the MSW Program, social work practice; applicants must send materials to both the Graduate 8. integrate into social work practice a knowledge School and the MSW Program. Admission materials of the historical development of the profession to be submitted to the Graduate School are as follows: and the differential impact of social, economic, and political policies; 1. Graduate School Admission Application; 9. demonstrate the ability to promote social, 2. Out-of-state Application fee of $25.00 if economic, and political justice; applicable; 10. practice without discrimination and with 3. Official transcript(s) from all colleges and sensitivity when serving diverse populations; universities attended; 11. demonstrate the ability to promote appropriate 4. Official copy of GRE score(s) taken within the change related to the influence of organizational last five years; and social contexts on advanced clinical social 5. Official copy of TOEFL Score(s), for applicants work practice; whose native language is not English; 12. utilize effective oral and written communication 6. Certified Declaration of Financial Support for skills; International Students. Sufficient funds to 13. apply critical thinking skills within the context cover expenses for one academic year should of advanced clinical social work practice; be placed on deposit with the Jackson State 14. demonstrate leadership skills and abilities in University Office of Fiscal Affairs; and practice settings; 7. Immunization record showing proof of 15. demonstrate the knowledge and skills immunization compliance for measles and appropriate to generalist social work practice rubella, if born after December, 1957. with systems of all sizes; and 16. demonstrate competent advanced clinical social Admission materials to be sent to the MSW Program work practice. are as follows: 1. Copy of the Graduate School Admission Admissions Criteria Application; Admission to the full-time and part-time MSW 2. MSW Program Application for Admission; Program is determined on a selective basis according 3. Official transcript(s) from all colleges and to the following criteria: universities attended;  ◆ A baccalaureate degree from an accredited 4. Three recommendation forms from instructors, college or university. Students may be admitted employers, supervisors, or professional with a baccalaureate degree in a field other than colleagues; social work or social welfare. Transcripts will be evaluated for the presence of courses that meet

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5. Copy of the TOEFL Score(s), for applicants whose native language is not English; Duplication of Course Content in the Professional 6. Personal Statement; Foundation Curriculum 7. Work Experience Form; Students may be exempt from courses in the 8. Signature Form; foundation curriculum that represent duplication of 9. Official copy of GRE score(s) taken with the last course content previously taken. The courses must five years; have been taken within five years of the date of the 10. Graduate School Application for Financial Aid; request for exemption, with a minimum grade of “B” 11. MSW Program Financial Aid Application; and, or 3.0 on a 4.0 point scale. 12. MSW Program First-Year Field Instruction Application. Each request for exemption must: (1) be made in writing to the MSW Program Coordinator and be Applicants with a social work degree granted outside submitted within 30 days of being notified of the United States must request and submit an acceptance into the Program; (2) specify the course Application for Evaluation of Foreign Credentials for which the exemption is requested; (3) be from the Council of Social Work Education, Foreign accompanied by an official copy of the graduate Equivalency Determination Service. The address is: catalogue from the institution at which the courses 1725 Duke Street, Suite 500 Alexandria, VA 22314- were taken that covers the year(s) the course was 3459. Their website is: http://www.cswe.org. A copy taken; and (4) be accompanied by a copy of the course of the evaluation is to be forwarded to the MSW syllabus, including bibliography and course Program Admissions. assignment(s). Requests received after the deadline stated above and/or do not meet the requirements Transfer Credits stated in this section will not be considered. The MSW Program will accept a limited number of transfer students each year. Transfer credits, up to 30 Following receipt of the request, a proficiency semester hours, may be accepted from a master's examination will be administered to determine the degree program accredited by the Council on Social student’s mastery of the content of the specified Work Education, based on a review by the MSW course. Proficiency will be determined by the student Admissions Committee. Applicants must meet the earning a grade of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale on the following requirements: examination administered.  ◆ Admission requirements of the MSW Program and the Graduate School at Jackson State The MSW Program Coordinator will notify students University; of the proficiency examination results in writing. The  ◆ Submit a letter of recommendation from the dean results of the examination are final and there is no or dean’s designee of the previous or appeal of the grade received on the examination. current MSW program relative to the student’s Students who do not earn a minimum grade of “B” or status during enrollment; and 3.0 on a 4.0 scale on the examination must take the course for which exemption was requested. Within 30 days of notification of acceptance into the Program and prior to enrollment, the student must Sixty semester credit hours are required for submit a written statement of intent to transfer credit completion of the MSW Degree. Therefore, students and the specific credit(s) for which transfer is who achieve a grade of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale on the requested to the MSW Program Coordinator. examination administered and are exempted from a specific course or courses are required to take such The request for transfer of credit(s) must be additional courses as may be required to meet the accompanied by an official copy of the graduate compulsory sixty credit hours to earn the MSW catalog from the institution at which the course(s) degree. Courses must be approved by the MSW were taken that covers the year(s) the course(s) Program Coordinator. was/were taken. For each course for which transfer credit is requested: Academic Performance  ◆ The course must have been taken within the past Passing Grades five years, Students must have a cumulative 3.0 grade point  ◆ The student must have earned a minimum grade average to graduate from the MSW Program. A grade of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale; and less than "C" or 2.0 is considered failure in a social  ◆ The name of the course and the course syllabus work course. Students may not receive a grade of "C" (including the bibliography) must be provided. in more than two courses.

Academic Credit for Life Experience and Work Probation Experience If a student's cumulative grade point average falls No academic credit for life and work experience is below 3.0, the student will be placed on academic given. probation. The student will have until the end of the subsequent semester of enrollment to attain a

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cumulative grade point average of 3.0. Failure to complete the final field placement during the Spring attain the required cumulative grade point average by and Summer terms/sessions. the end of the probationary period will result in dismissal of the student from the MSW Program. The If the student plans to enroll full-time, the program probationary period in the MSW Program is defined as strongly advises against simultaneous full-time one subsequent semester of enrollment in the program employment, which generates barriers to the after the cumulative grade point average falls below a completion of field instruction and class attendance. 3.00. A three-year part-time curriculum is offered, requiring six semesters and one summer for completion of the Repeating Courses 60 credit hour MSW program. If the student plans Students may repeat only one course in the program part-time enrollment and is employed full-time or with the recommendation of the advisor and approval part-time, the program strongly advises the student to of the program coordinator. Students desirous of this consult with his/her employer regarding arrangements option must submit a written request to the program to complete field instruction during the regular work coordinator during the subsequent semester or day. term/session in which the student is enrolled. The advisor must indicate support (or non-support) of the An advanced standing curriculum is offered which request in writing to the program coordinator. When a requires one summer and two semesters to complete student is allowed to repeat a course, both grades will requirements for the MSW Degree. Advanced show on the transcript and both grades will be used in standing students must be enrolled as full-time computing the cumulative grade point average. students throughout the program, beginning in the Graduate Summer Term. Field instruction begins in Graduate English Competency Examination the Graduate Summer Term. Graduate students are required to take this examination during the first semester of graduate To enroll in field practicum, a student must provide study to demonstrate competency in the areas of documentation of professional liability insurance. English grammar and usage and general writing skills. Please contact the School of Social Work for the Students with unsatisfactory performance on this required minimum liability coverage. examination must enroll in English 500 and attain a letter grade of "B" or 3.0 to pass this course. This The following are the academic requirements for Field requirement must be met before a student can take the Instruction: comprehensive examination. 1. Students must maintain a 3.0 cumulative grade point average and a 3.0 or grade of “B” in all Advanced standing students are required to take the practice courses to be eligible for Field Graduate English Competency Examination during the Instruction. Students who do not have a 3.0 summer session in which they enroll in the MSW cumulative grade point average in courses Program. required to meet the compulsory 60 credit hours or approved equivalency to earn the MSW Social Work Licensure Examination degree, will not be eligible to enroll in a Field All MSW students must take the Association for Instruction course. Students course must earn a Social Work Boards (ASWB) Intermediate-Level minimum grade of “B” or 3.0 in all of the Examination for Licensed Master Social Workers practice courses. (LMSW) status as a prerequisite for graduate 2. Students are required to earn a 3.0 in all of the clearance. Field Instruction courses. Students may repeat one Field Instruction course in which a grade of Degree Requirements less than 3.0 is earned. Students who fail to earn The MSW Program offers a two-year full-time a minimum grade of 3.0 may not enroll in curriculum. Foundation courses are offered in the first subsequent Field Instruction courses and are year, and the second year focuses on clinical practice subject to dismissal from the MSW with children, youth, and families. Students are program. required to successfully complete 60 credit hours to earn the MSW degree. The last 30 hours must be TWO-YEAR FULL-TIME CURRICULUM taken in residence at Jackson State University. Field instruction placements are required and conducted Year One-Fall Semester concurrently (two days per week during the first year), SW 581 Social Work Practice I 3 for students enrolled in the full-time curriculum. Part- SW 571 Social Welfare Policy I 3 time students are required to complete a concurrent SW 560 Human Behavior and the field placement during the second year of enrollment. Social Environment (HBSE I) 3 All students are required to do a block field placement SW 510 Ethics and Social Work Practice 3 (i.e., four days a week) in the Spring of the final SW 591 Field Instruction I 3 semester in which they are enrolled in the MSW 15 Program. Part-time students have the option to

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Spring Semester Fall Semester SW 582 Social Work Practice II 3 SW 584 Intervention with Children SW 572 Social Welfare Policy II 3 and Youth 3 SW 561 Human Diversity (HBSE II) 3 SW 586 Family Intervention 3 SW 555 Research Methods I 3 6 SW 592 Field Instruction II 3 Spring Semester 15 SW 589 Urban Poverty: Intervention Year Two- Fall Semester Approac hes 3 SW 584 Intervention with Children and Youth 3 SW 594 Field In struction 6 SW 585 Psychopathology and 9 Clinical Social Work Practice 3 Total H ours 60 SW 556 Advanced Research Methods 3 SW 586 Family Intervention 3 ADVANCED STANDING CURRICULUM SW ___ Social Work Elective 3 15 Graduate Summer T erm Spring Semester SW 583 Integrated Social Work Practice 3 SW 573 Social Welfare Policy Affecting SW 593 Field Instruction 3 Children, Youth, and Families 3 SW 510 Ethics and Social Work Practice, or SW 589 Urban Poverty: Intervention SW ___ Social Work Elective 3 Approaches. 3 9 SW 594 Field Instruction 6 Fall Semester SW ___ Social Work Elective 3 SW 584 Intervention with Children and Youth 3 15 SW 585 Psychopathology and Clinical Total Hours 60 Social Work Practice 3 SW 556 Advanced Research Methods 3 SW 586 Family Intervention 3 THREE-YEAR PART-TIME CURRICULUM SW ___ Social Work Elective 3 15 Year One-Graduate Summer Session Spring Semester Courses SW 510 Ethics and Social Work Practice 3 SW 573 Social W elfare Policy Affecting 3 SW 560 Human Behavior and the Social Children, Youth and Families 3 Environment (HBSE I) 3 SW 589 Urban Poverty: Intervention 6 Approaches 3 Fall Semester SW 594 Field Instruction 6 SW 561 Human Diversity (HBSE II) 3 SW ___ Social Work Elective 3 SW 571 Social Welfare Policy I 3 15 6 Total Hours 39 Spring Semester SW 572 Social Welfare Policy II 3 DESCRIP TION OF COURSES SW 581 Social Work Practice I 3 SW 591 Field Instruction I 3 Note: Prerequisites ap ply primarily to students enrolled for a 9 degree in the MSW Program. Please consult the MSW Year Two-Graduate Summer Session Program for changes in course prerequisites, course content and course numbers. SW 582 Social Work Practice II 3 Practice SW 592 Field Instruction II 3 SW 581 Social Work Practice I (3 Hours) This 6 course provides an introduction to social work practice Fall Semester methodology and the professional use of self in SW 555 Research Methods I 3 combination with the generalists practice approach to SW xxx Social Work Elective 3 social work with individuals, families, and small 6 groups, and within the context of communities and Spring Semester organizations. SW 556 Research Methods II 3 SW 582 Social Work Practice II (3 Hours) SW 573 Social Welfare Policies Affecting Prerequisite: SW 581(Social Work Practice I), SW Children, Youth and Families 3 560 (Human Behavior and the Social Environment), 6 and SW 591 (Field Instruction I). This course must be Year Three-Graduate Summer Session taken concurrently with SW 592 (Field Instruction II). SW 585 Psychopathology and Clinical It continues the theory and skill development that Social Work Practice 3 began in SW 581 (Social Work Practice I) by SW xxx Social Work Elective 3 providing more in-depth knowledge and challenging 6 learning situations in order for students to

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progressively build their practice capacities, and to meet the needs of the urban poor, who are socialization skills in the profession of social work. disproportionately people of color. It addresses the SW 583 Integrated Social Work Practice multiple and negative impacts of urban poverty on (Advanced Standing). (3 Hours) Prerequisite: children, youth and families and their functioning in Acceptance into advanced standing. This course is a the social environment. Community-oriented and review and refinement of practice skills and family-centered services in schools, churches, public professional knowledge provided in the foundation housing projects, and neighborhood service centers are curriculum content of the MSW program. The course examined in regard to their individual and collective focuses on the application and transformation of potential to improve the lives of at-risk children and generalists knowledge and skills to prepare for entry their families. Particular attention is given to into the concentration curriculum. This bridging continuing and contemporary urban problems of foundation course provides an opportunity for students substance abuse, violence, teen pregnancy, school to develop critical thinking skills and apply dropouts, unemployment and underemployment, and empowering practice decisions in professional practice the impact of welfare reform on families and their settings with all sizes of client systems. Special functioning in the community. emphasis is placed on the reciprocal interactions between individuals and their environments toward the Policy engagement of personal and community strengths. SW 571 Social Welfare Policy and Services I (3 SW 584 Intervention with Children and Youth (3 Hours) This first required course in the Social Policy Hours) Prerequisites: All foundation courses. This area examines the history and development of social course is designed to provide advanced clinical welfare policy and services in American society, with practice knowledge and skills for intervention with a major focus on the evolution and contributions of children and youth, primarily in the context of the professional social work to this development. urban environment. Special needs and vulnerabilities Emphasis is placed on the dynamic relationship of these populations are addressed. Students are given between social welfare policy and services and the orientations to the human services agencies primarily modern, post-industrial society in the context of social concerned with the complex issues and difficulties work values and ethics and the pursuit of economic, faced by these populations, and the implications of political, and social justice. service delivery arrangements for clinical practice. SW 572 Social Welfare Policy and Services II (3 Attention is directed to skills needed for the provision Hours) Prerequisites: SW 571 (Social Welfare Policy of services to children and youth in the context of and Services I), SW 560 (Human Behavior and the their families and communities and to programmatic Social Environment I) and SW 510 (Ethics and Social and advocacy activities on their behalf. Work Practice). This course builds on the SW 585 Psychopathology and Clinical Social Work introductory and historical content of SW 571 and Practice (3 Hours) Prerequisites: All foundation focuses on the use of various conceptual frameworks courses. This course focuses on the clinical assessment to analyze and study current social welfare issues. of children, youth, and families. Students will learn Significant contemporary issues in social welfare approaches of assessment to evaluate human behavior policy will be examined with particular attention to the and functioning throughout life course development, promotion of economic, political, and social justice with special attention to vulnerable and diverse with due consideration to needs and concerns of populations. Particular attention will be directed to populations-at-risk and diverse groups. Permeating the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental the course is consideration of content on ethnic groups Disorders (DSM-IV) as the major assessment tool and oppressed populations which are assessed as the utilized in human services. most disadvantaged in American society, and how SW 586 Family Intervention (3 Hours) they are differentially affected by various social Prerequisites: All foundation courses. The focus of policies. this course is on intervention with families. Advanced SW 573 Social Welfare Policy Affecting Children, skills are developed in areas of social work Youth, and Families (3 Hours) Prerequisites: All practitioner roles, strength-based assessment, and foundation courses and SW 584 (Intervention with specific models of intervention with families. Special Children and Youth), SW 585 (Psychopathology and attention is given to comparative approaches to Clinical Social Work Practice), SW 556 (Advanced couple and family intervention; relevant recent Research Methods), SW 593 (Field Instruction research findings related to family therapeutic Advanced Standing) and SW 586 (Family approaches; the influences of environmental, ethnic, Intervention). This course builds on the foundation and cross-cultural variables; and ethical dilemmas in course SW 572 (Social Welfare Policy and Services work with families. II) which provides an analysis of current policy SW 589 Urban Poverty: Intervention Approaches. arrangements and what needs to be done to affect (3 Hours) Prerequisites: All foundation courses and policies that promote economic, political, and social SW 584-Intervention with Children, Youth, and justice. In SW 573, students are challenged to think Families, SW 585- Psychopathology, and SW-587- critically and creatively about how to best accomplish Family Intervention. This capstone course focuses on policy initiatives in keeping with social work values developing services and programs especially tailored and ethics. Students will observe hearings and

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legislative sessions on state and local levels directed for social work practice. Emphasis is given to the toward the enhancement of living conditions in the importance of demographic, biopsychosocial and urban environment. cultural variables in the conduct of ethically based research. Human Behavior and the Social Environment SW 560 Human Behavior and the Social Field Instruction Environment: HBSE I (3 Hours) Using ecological, SW 591 Field Instruction I (3 Hours) SW 581 systems, and developmental frameworks, this course (Social Work Practice I) is taken concurrently with emphasizes the influence that individual and SW 591. SW 571 (Social Welfare Policy and Services environmental circumstances have on shaping I), SW 560 (Human Behavior and the Social individual and family dynamics across the life course. Environment) and SW 510 (Ethics and Social Work This foundation course is designed to provide students Practice) are taken concurrently or before SW 591. with selected theoretical perspectives on the This course involves a supervised instruction setting in development, dynamics, and growth of individuals and a human services delivery setting and includes an families within their environmental context. integrative seminar. Practice tasks and activities are SW 561 Human Diversity: HBSE II (3 Hours) designed to develop identification with the profession Prerequisites: SW 560 (Human Behavior and the Social of social work and beginning capacity for generalists Environment), SW 571 (Social Welfare Policy and Services social work practice. Students are helped to develop I), and SW 510 (Ethics and Social Work Practice). This self-awareness and appreciation for the role of course examines various issues of diversity (e.g., research in evaluation and direction for practice. ethnicity, culture, socioeconomic status, gender, SW 592 Field Instruction II (3 Hours) Prerequisites: sexual orientation, disability, religion) across life SW 510 (Ethics and Social Work Practice), SW 560 course development with emphasis on the impact of (Human Behavior and the Social Environment), SW oppression and discrimination by society-at-large and 571 (Social Welfare Policy and Services I), SW individuals. Selected organizational and community 581(Social Work Practice I), and SW 591 (Field theories are examined in relation to institutional Instruction I). This course is taken concurrently with impacts on various oppressed groups. In this regard, SW 582 (Social Work Practice II). The course special attention is given to the plight of African includes an integrative seminar and places emphasis Americans. on a continuous progressive development and integration of knowledge and skills for generalists Research practice in working with individuals, families and SW 555 Research Methods (3 Hours) Prerequisites: small groups, communities, human services settings SW 581 (Social Work Practice I), SW 571 (Social and organizations. Students continue to develop self- Welfare Policy and Services I), SW 560 (Human awareness and an appreciation for the role of research Behavior and the Social Environment I), SW 510 in the evaluation of practice. (Ethics and Social Work Practice), and SW 591 (Field SW 593 Field Instruction (Advanced Standing) (3 Instruction I) The foundation research course provides Hours) Prerequisites: Acceptance into the Advanced an introduction to the principles and methods of basic Standing Program. The advanced standing field social work research. Students are introduced to instruction course is taken concurrently with SW 583- concepts of problem formulation, measurement, Integrated Social Work Practice, the advanced research design, sampling, data collection, and data standing bridging course. This course focuses on the analysis as employed in basic research. Particular application and transformation of generalists practice attention is directed to social work research that knowledge and skills to clinical practice knowledge addresses the economic, political, and social needs of and skills with children, youth and families. people of color and populations-at-risk in American SW 594 Field Instruction (6 Hours) Prerequisites: society. This course is designed to prepare students to All foundation courses. This course is designed as a understand and appreciate scientific research as a block placement and is taken in the Spring of the final valuable tool in furthering professional capabilities semester in which the student is enrolled in the MSW and in contributing to the development of the growing Program. This course is taken concurrently with SW body of knowledge in social work practice. 589 (Urban Poverty: Intervention Approaches). This SW 556 Advanced Research Methods (3 Hours) field instruction course is focused on clinical practice Prerequisites: All foundation courses. This course is with children, youth, and families and designed to designed to assist students in understanding and facilitate development of clinical practice competency applying scientific research methods in clinical and includes an integrated seminar. practice settings. It builds on the research knowledge of the foundation research course. Students in this Special Course course are expected to become proficient in the SW 510 Ethics and Social Work Practice (3 Hours) methods and basic principles of conducting and This course is designed to orient students to values evaluating empirical research related to clinical and ethics of the profession and to promote their practice. In this course, students participate in guided internalization of the profession's values and ethics. research projects which require a review of relevant Ethical issues and dilemmas in social work practice research, data collection and analysis and implications have become much more numerous and challenging in

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recent years, due in large measure to technological of adult development will be explored from a advancements, especially biomedical technology; the psychological perspective within the content of trend toward an increasing proprietary emphasis in societal change. A critical indepth analysis of adult human services delivery; and specifically, social work development and its challenges and opportunities is practice; and conservative ideology that undergirds required for successful completion of the course. much of the current American social policy. SW 547 Clinical Intervention with the Elderly (3 Particular attention is directed toward ethical issues Hours) The most important goal for social service and dilemmas as they relate to social work malpractice professionals is to improve the quality of life for older and liability. people through effective intervention on their behalf. This course will focus on skill development and Independent Study knowledge and understanding of older persons’ SW 596 Independent Study (3 Hours) This is an behavior through the public health model of individually directed intensive study in an area of preventive intervention at the primary, secondary, and social work practice which is selected by the student. tertiary levels. Interventive strategies and case studies The independent study selection is made in will be utilized in the course to develop skills for accordance with the curriculum plan of the MSW working with the elderly in institutions and in the Program and is approved by the student’s faculty community. Models of clinical social work practice advisor and the Master of Social Work Program with the elderly are critically analyzed. Coordinator. SW 548 Public Policy Issues in Aging (3 Hours) This course provides an analysis of legislative policy Electives and organized social welfare services and resources SW 515 Child Abuse and Neglect: Protective for the elderly as a social group in society. The Services (3 Hours) This course focuses on assessment political, economic, and social realities of aging that and intervention skill development for social work identify the elderly as requiring public policy solutions practice with children and families who have will be examined. Social policy analytical experienced abuse and neglect or are at-risk of abuse frameworks are employed to assess the legitimacy of and neglect. Clinical intervention strategies and aging as a social issue/problem and its impact on dilemmas in role expectations of social work social institutions (family, social, political, economic, practitioners are analyzed. Attention is given to cultural). evaluation and use of research content in prevention SW 549 Independent Study: Special Topics in and intervention services and programs. Aging (3 Hours) A primary focus of this course is its SW 520 Forensic Social Work (3 Hours) This course emphasis on the study special topics in aging in the focuses on issues common to the discipline of social behavioral, biological, and social sciences. In this work and the law. The course will include and regard, with faculty direction, students will explore, introductory review of the law, the American justice build upon and contribute to the knowledge base in system, and basic constitutional principles. Family- aging and individual well-being. Students will engage related issues-such as, the protection of children, in research through the independent study process in education, adoption, custody and support, marriage, specific areas of interest in gerontology to increase divorce, domestic violence, juvenile law, competency knowledge and skills for policy and/or practice with and guardianship-will be explored. Experiential the aged. components of the course are designed to prepare SW 550 Introduction to Social Gerontology (3 social work professionals for effective practice vis-a- Hours) This course is designed to give students a vis the intersections of social work and the law. general overview of social gerontology as a branch of SW 521 Crisis Intervention (3 Hours) The theory knowledge in the field of gerontology. Social and methods of crisis intervention and subsequent gerontology concerns itself with psychosocial and consultation are examined in this course. Particular economic aspects of the aged individual and the social attention is given to the various contemporary problems encountered from living in both formal and techniques of intervention, consultation, referral, and informal societal groupings. The interaction of these resolution. Assessment techniques used in the aspects and groupings and the services established and intervention process are explored and skills practiced. considered for the aged through public and social SW 545 Administration in Social Welfare (3 Hours) policy will be discussed. This course is designed to enhance the student’s SW 557 Applied Research Methods (3 Hours) awareness and understanding of the basic knowledge This course is designed for the implementation and and principles which guide the administrative process analysis of the research project. The project is to be of social welfare agencies. Administrative skills are conducted, when feasible, in the student's field setting. taught in relation to the clinical practitioner as well as Students will have the opportunity to explore to other administrative roles. approaches to data collection and analysis and apply SW 546 Adult Development: Young Adulthood, descriptive and inferential statistical measures to data Middle Years and Aging (3 Hours) This course will sets. Students will be responsible for the computer focus on contemporary theories of adult development. processing of data using appropriate statistical It will highlight the stages of development for young software packages. adults, middle-age and older persons. The processes

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SW 587 Advanced Social Work Practice with DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Groups (3 Hours) Prerequisites: All foundation IN SOCIAL WORK courses. The advanced social work practitioner is ------required to demonstrate group skills in a wide range of social situations. The foundation practice courses Dr. Susie A. Spence provide the basic skills for this course while the Professor and Program Director advanced practice with groups course expands, 3825 Ridgewood Road elaborates, and adds to the student's knowledge and Jackson, MS 39211 skills. The focus of this course is on the development Telephone: (601) 432-6811 of knowledge and skills in the delivery of preventive, Fax:(601) 432-6827 developmental, and remedial group services for at-risk e-mail: [email protected] populations of varying ages and social situations.

Faculty PLEASE NOTE: ALL STATEMENTS IN THIS CATALOG DESCRIPTION OF THE MSW Dr. J. Brooks, Associate Professor PROGRAM ARE ANNOUNCEMENTS OF CURRENT Dr. H. Burson, Assistant Professor POLICIES AND ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT Dr. D. Holt, Associate Professor NOTICE BY PROPER AUTHORITY. Dr. R. Mason, Professor Dr. S. Omari, Associate Professor Dr. O. Osby, Assistant Professor Dr. G. Prater, Professor Dr. E. Yoon, Assistant Professor

Mission The mission of the program is to prepare students for leadership roles as scholars in social work education and research who will advance knowledge about social work and social welfare to assist in resolving urban and rural issues facing families, communities, and the global society. The program focuses on theory building and assessment, research methods, social

work education, and critical analysis and assessment of social problems, social welfare policy and social work practice models/perspectives. In addition, students are guided in developing a sound knowledge base regarding a substantive area of interest.

Objectives The objectives of the program are consistent with the mission. They focus on ensuring that students acquire:

• an analytical understanding of the history,

philosophy, education, and ethical underpinnings of the social work profession and social welfare; • advanced knowledge and skills necessary to conceptualize, synthesize, analyze, and evaluate social issues and social welfare policies; • knowledge of behavioral and social science theories and skills to analyze and assess their application to social problems and social work inquiry;

• a firm grounding in advanced social science and social work research; • an understanding of how political and social issues (e.g., oppression and discrimination) influence social work and their impact on families, communities, and society in general; • a sound knowledge base regarding a substantive research area of interest.

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Admissions Requirements maintain a "B" or better cumulative grade point Admission to the program is on a selective basis and average in all course work applied toward the degree. is determined by the following criteria: • master's degree in social work from a program Repeating Courses accredited by the Council on Social Work Students may repeat only one course in the program. Education or a master’s degree in a They must enroll in the course the next semester or related discipline; term/session in which the course is offered. When a • admission to the Division of Graduate Studies at student repeats a course, both grades will show on the Jackson State University; transcript and both will be used in computing the • 3.3 or above G.P.A., 3.0 or above undergraduate cumulative grade point average. G.P.A. • satisfactory performance on the Graduate Probation Record Examination (GRE) or Miller The probationary period in the Ph. D. Program in Analogies Test (MAT) taken within the past Social Work is defined as one subsequent semester of five years; enrollment in the program after the cumulative grade • for international applicants, satisfactory point average falls below 3.0. performance on TOEFL by demonstrating oral

and written proficiency; If a student’s cumulative grade point average falls • for applicants with the M. S. W. Degree, below 3.0, the student will be placed on academic professional competence as evidenced by at probation the subsequent semester of enrollment. The least two years of post-M.S.W. experience student will have until the end of the probationary preferred; period to raise the cumulative average to 3.0. If the • statement of purpose reflecting applicant's student fails to achieve a minimum cumulative grade philosophy of social work and educational point average of 3.0 by the end of the probationary goals; period, the student will be dismissed from the • scholarly or professional paper demonstrating program. the applicant’s conceptual, analytical, or research ability; • three letters of references (two academic and Unsatisfactory Course Work and Dismissal one professional); A student whose course work is unsatisfactory (below • curriculum vitae; and 3.0 cumulative grade point average) at the end of the • interview with the Program Admissions probationary period, as defined in the program, will be Committee (contingent upon initial dismissed from the program. assessment). Residency Requirement The minimum period of residency for the degree in The deadline for the Fall admission is social work is one year or the equivalent of enrollment March 1. Applications received after that date for two consecutive semesters. The student must be cannot be guaranteed review for Fall admission full time and therefore must take at least nine credit hours each semester counted toward residency. The Transfer of Credits student must meet the minimum residency A maximum of nine graduate credit hours, excluding requirement prior to taking the comprehensive credit applied toward previous degrees, may be examination. transferred from graduate degree programs at Jackson State University or other accredited universities to Time Limit fulfill the elective requirements. Students must complete all degree requirements within seven years from the time of admission into The transfer of relevant graduate course work will the program. The average length of time for only be considered if a grade of "B" or better, on a completion of doctoral programs in social work is 4.5 four-point scale, has been earned, and the course has years. The actual amount of time required for been completed within the last five years. completion will vary according to factors such as Transfer credit for courses taken prior to entering the clarity of objectives upon entering the program and program must be approved during the first semester of while moving through the process, prior preparation enrollment by the advisor and program director. for research and knowledge building endeavors, and Transfer credit applied toward the doctoral degree time for self-directed learning. after admission to the program must be approved prior to taking the course by the advisor and program Leave of Absence/Re-admission director. Any student who is in good standing may request a leave of absence for a period of up to one year. The Academic Performance request must be submitted in writing to the program The student must achieve a grade of "B" or better in director for the time period in which the student plans all courses in the core curriculum. The student must to be absent from the program. The request must

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outline the reason(s) for the leave and the time period around three major components: core curriculum, involved. electives, and dissertation.

Students must apply for re-admission to the program Core Curriculum if more than 12 consecutive months have elapsed since The core curriculum consists of 39 credit hours. The enrollment. An application for re-admission requires courses focus on the history and philosophy of social the submission of all material required by the program welfare, social welfare policy, with emphasis children at the time the applicant requests re- admission. and their families, social work behavioral and social Applications for re-admission will be considered with science theory, research methods, statistics, and social the other new applications. work education. Degree Requirements Core Courses Electiv es Semester Course Title Hours The elective courses offer students an array of SW 700 Doctoral Proseminar 3 subject-specific content to develop a substantive area SW 705 Social Welfare History and Philosophy 3 of interest that complements the core curriculum and SW 710 Macro Theory 3 supports the dissertation work. Students may select, in SW 711 Micro Theory 3 consultation with the advisor, a total of 12 credit hours SW 714 Social Work Education Seminar: of courses offerings in social work and a related Issues & Processes 3 discipline in the Graduate School at Jackson State SW 720 Research Methods I 3 SW 722 Statistical Methods I 3 University or at other universities. SW 721 Research Methods II 3 SW 723 Statistical Methods II 3 Comprehensive Examination SW 724 Policy and Practice Issues in Family Students take the comprehensive examination upon and Children’s Services 3 successful completion of the core curriculum. The SW 725 Statistical Methods III: examination places emphasis on a comprehensive Advanced Quantitative Methods 3 synthesis of material covered in the core courses, with SW 742 Qualitative Research Method 3 special attention to the student's ability to SW 760 Research Practicum in Family conceptualize, integrate, and communicate knowledge. and Children Studies 3 In case of fa ilure, the student may be permitted only Total Hours 39 one additional opportunity to take the examination.

Electives Admission to Candidacy Students may select, in consultation with the advisor, The student enters candidacy for the degree after a total of 12 credit hours of courses offerings in social successfully completing the comprehensive work and a related discipline in the Graduate School at examination which is administered after successful Jackson State University or at other colleges or completion of the core courses. universities. Certification of Dissertation Proposal Dissertation Hours Candidates must submit a dissertation proposal to Following admission to candidacy, students must their dissertation committee for approval prior to continuously register for a minimum of three implementing the research. dissertation hours per semester (six credits hours per year) until completion of the dissertation. The proposal must be approved by the University’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) whenever human Curriculum subjects are proposed for use in the dissertation The curriculum is built upon the knowledge base of research. In cases where animal subjects will be used the social work profession and its values and in the study, the research protocol must be approved principles. It also draws upon theoretical and empirical by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee knowledge from related disciplines that is helpful in (IACUC). the formulation, analysis, and solution of social problems. Particular instruction focuses on theory Dissertation building and assessment, research methods, social Candidates for the degree are required to complete a work education, critical analysis and assessment of dissertation that demonstrates their ability to conduct social problems, social welfare policy and social work rigorous scientific inquiry. The dissertation topic practice models/perspectives, and knowledge should emanate from the candidate's interest in a development in a substantive area of interest. problem or issue relevant to social work or social welfare. The dissertation is expected to represent a The curriculum consists of a minimum of 51 credit substantial contribution to social work knowledge. hours, excluding the dissertation hours. It is organized

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Oral Defense philosophical issues related to theory building in Upon completion of the dissertation, an oral clinical practice are explored. Through an analysis of examination is required. The purpose of the the theoretical knowledge base of social work practice examination is to assess the candidate’s ability to with individuals, families, and other small groups, this present and defend a conceptually and course prepares students for subsequent use of theory methodologically rigorous dissertation that contributes in practice-focused research. to social work knowledge. No student is permitted to SW 714 Social Work Education Seminar: Issues defend the dissertation unless all requirements of the and Processes (3 Hours). This course examines Ph.D. Program in Social Work, the School of Social content, context, and processes in social work Work, the College of Public Service, and the Division education. It critically analyzes current issues and of Graduate Studies have been satisfied. future trends in social work education. Among the areas covered are accreditation, values and ethics, The student passes the oral defense when all educational and professional organizations, curriculum dissertation committee members indicate agreement development, methods of instruction and ancillary by signing the appropriate form. educational roles. (Prerequisite: SW 700) SW 720 Research Methods I (3 Hours). This Description of Courses research course provides students with a foundation SW 700 Doctoral Proseminar (3 Hours). This for understanding and conducting scientific inquiry in seminar is designed to enhance the students’s social work. It covers the research process, critically matriculation in the doctoral program and their examining problem formulation, use of the literature, preparation for leadership roles as social work theoretical and conceptual framework development, scholars and educators. As a backdrop, it provides an researchable questions, hypothesis development, overview for discussion of higher education in general research design, sampling procedures, measurement, and doctoral education as a major focus of study in and data collection. Students also consider the ethical, social work education. Students engage in dialogue philosophical, and other dimensions of research that and related activities considered essential to their are essential to understanding the role of research in success in the program and preparedness for their social work. prospective roles as faculty in the academy. SW 721 Research Methods II (3 Hours). This SW 705 Social Welfare History and Philosophy (3 advanced research methods course is a continuation of Hours). This course examines the evolution of social the first research course. It encompasses an in-depth welfare in American society and focuses on current study of qualitative and quantitative research, issues and trends in the development and delivery of including grounded theory, biographical life history, various social welfare programs and services. Further, phenomenology, ethnography, content analysis, the course critically analyzes the history, philosophy, survey research, and experimental, quasi- and evolution of professional social work and social experimental, and non-experimental designs. welfare values, practices, policies, and organizations Emphasis is placed on measurement, sampling, data in the United States. The effects of social, cultural, analysis, and other relevant issues. The strengths and political, and economic factors on the development weaknesses of both qualitative and quantitative and implementation of social welfare policies, research are examined. The integration of both programs, and services are examined with particular approaches to build a common body of knowledge is emphasis on African Americans and other historically also covered. (Prerequisites: SW 720 and SW 722) oppressed populations in the United States. The SW 722 Statistical Methods I (3 Hours). This course development and impact of professional social work explores data analysis issues at the bivariate level and are also examined in the above context. how data are affected by various statistical problems. SW 710 Macro Social Science Theory (3 Hours). It emphasizes the application of both qualitative and This course critically examines and assesses macro quantitative statistical reasoning, description, social science theories and explores how they are inference, and theoretical underpinning as well as the applied to social problems in social welfare and social interpretation of the procedures used in the context of work. Selected theories are identified and examined, social work research. The statistical knowledge base conceptual and philosophical assumptions assessed, is augmented by the use of the computer for statistical values considered, and empirical evidence analyzed. analysis procedures. Particular attention is given to issues of inequality and SW 723 Statistical Methods II (3 Hours). This oppression in relation to race, gender, and class. This course builds on the first statistical methods course. It course prepares students for use of macro theories to concentrates on the multivariate statistical procedures guide their research. to provide an integrated and in-depth applied approach SW 711 Micro Behavioral and Social Science to multivariate data analysis and linear statistical Theory (3 Hours). This course examines human models in social work research. Particular emphasis is behavior theories and theoretical approaches to child placed on the procedures involved with multiple and family studies in social work. The course traces independent and dependent variables used the development of major theoretical approaches in simultaneously in a comprehensive design. The the social and behavioral sciences and examines course utilizes computer programs for statistical emerging schools of thought. Conceptual and

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analysis procedures. (Prerequisites: SW 720 and SW supervisor, advisor, practicum director, and doctoral 722) program chair for approval. (Prerequisites: SW 720 SW 724 Policy and Practice Issues in Family and and 722) Children's Services (3 Hours). This seminar is SW 761 Seminar in Child and Family Welfare: An designed to provide students with an opportunity to International Perspective (3 Hours). This seminar explore policies, programs, services, and related explores child and family welfare issues in the practice issues affecting families and children. It international arena. It provides a forum for students to focuses on the nature of selected policies, the policy- engage in an in-depth study and analysis of child- making process, factors that influence policy focused or family-focused social welfare policy issues formulation, implementation, and evaluation and in a selected country (e.g., Keyna, Ghana, South approaches to policy analysis. Particular emphasis is Africa, England, Mexico, Jamaica, and Sweden). placed on critical examination of selected policy and Implications for social work practice, policy practice issues related to families and children. initiatives, and research are examined. (Prerequisites: Students are expected to analyze a major policy SW 724) affecting families and children and prepare a related SW 762 International Health Policy Issues (3 policy or practice issue paper. Examples of current Hours). This course examines international health issues covered are the impact of welfare reform, policy issues and trends and their implications for medicaid coverage, managed care, permanency access to health care at the international level. It planning for children at risk, and research on the explores issues of accessibility, affordability, attitudes prevention of family and/or youth violence. and belief systems, and indigenous governmental and SW 725 Statistical Methods III: Advanced non-governmental organizations. The course provides Quantitative Methods (3 Hours). This course builds a seminar setting for conceptualization and on the previous methods courses. It concentrates on organization of theoretical concepts and constructs advanced quantitative statistical procedures to provide related to health care policy and service delivery an integrated and in-depth applied approach to data paradigms with implications for practical utilization. analysis and linear statistical models in social work SW 770 Dissertation (3-15 Hours). Students will research. Particular emphasis will be placed on higher complete a major conceptually and methodologically level statistical methods involved with multiple rigorous research project of interest that contributes to independent and dependent variables used social work knowledge. The topic of the dissertation is simultaneously in a comprehensive design. approved by the dissertation committee. Familiarity with the use of SPSS for data analysis is required. (Prerequisites: SW 720, SW 721, SW 722 ------and SW 723). NOTE: All statements in this catalog description of SW 732 Independent Study (3 Hours). Prior to the Ph.D. Program in Social Work are announcements enrollment, students must develop an independent of current policies and are subject to change. study plan and obtain the support of a faculty member ------willing to serve as the instructor. The plan should be in support of the student’s area of specialization and clearly specify outcomes to be achieved upon completion of the project. SW 742 Qualitative Research Methods (3 Hours). This course examines major qualitative approaches that are most frequently applied to the study of process in human services settings. Students learn how to conduct systematic investigations of in-depth, non- quantitative studies of individuals, groups, organizations, or communities. (Prerequisites: SW 720 and 721) SW 754 Health Policy Issues in the United States (3 Hours). This course examines national health policy trends and their implications for access to health care at the state and local levels. It explores issues of accessibility, affordability, and availability, and their implications for social work. SW 760 Research Practicum in Family and Children Studies (3 Hours). This individualized learning experience is designed to provide students with "hands on" research experience prior to the dissertation project. Students work with their advisors in selecting an ongoing research project and principal investigator for supervision of their work. Students develop and submit a work plan to the practicum

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