Please check the Class Schedule or contact the center for specific course availability for each semester:
HBSS4100 Behavior & Social Science Foundations of Health Education
Determinants of health; relationship between health and human behavior; the role of health education as a strategy in health promotion and disease prevention; selected issues and problems.
Instructor: John Allegrante
HBSS4102 Principles of epidemiology in health promotion
Principles and methods of epidemiologic investigation; application of epidemiology to prevention and control of disease, using health education.
Instructor: Charles Basch
HBSS4110 Health promotion for children and adolescents
Basic topics in promoting child and adolescent health; relationships between school, family, and community in promoting the health status of school-age children.
Instructor: Charles Basch
HBSS4111 Addictions and dependencies
Social-psychological, cultural, clinical, and pharmacological factors associated with the use of psychoactive drugs and other compulsive behaviors.
Instructor: Barbara Wallace
HBSS4112 Social policy and prevention
Analysis of current national health policy, its social, economic, and political determinants, and implications for health education.
Instructor: John Allegrante
HBSS4113 Human sexuality education
Explore human sexuality from a variety of perspectives; explore students’ own attitudes about human sexuality and how they affect them personally and professionally; examine methods of teaching and designing sexuality education programs.
Instructor: Margot Hodes
HBSS4114 Competence with Multicultural Populations: Research & Practice
Health status, needs, and problems of multicultural populations in urban environments and sensitivity to these issues in effective programs.
Instructor: Barbara Wallace
HBSS4115 Health promotion for aging adults
Changes in aspects of health during the middle and later years; recent developments in the field of gerontology as well as legislation and community organization designed to meet health needs of aging persons.
Instructor: Ray Marks
HBSS4116 Health education for teachers
As part of teacher certification in New York and other states, students must be trained in the following health areas: reporting child abuse, instruction in alcohol and other drugs, and school violence prevention. This course satisfies these requirements and reviews theory and research on children’s health and health behavior change. Students will learn how to develop health-related lesson plans and how to identify, prevent, or intervene on behalf of children at risk or presenting with social-emotional or physical health problems.
Instructor: Katherine Roberts
HBSS4117 HIV/AIDS epidemiology and education
The role of schools, parents, and communities in educating youth about AIDS and human sexuality; review of methods and resource materials for providing such education; consideration of controversial issues surrounding these topics.
Instructor: Margot Hodes
HBSS4118 Principles of Health Related Behavioral and Social Change: Initiation to Maintenance
Theory and techniques for initiating and maintaining change for a variety of addictive and problem behaviors, including a focus on integrating relapse prevention, stages of change, and motivational interviewing. Attention is also paid to facilitating social change in varied organizational settings.
Instructor: Barbara Wallace
HBSS4120 Topics in health education
Review and synthesis of current knowledge on a selected topic related to health, such as teenage suicide, child abuse, violence, teenage pregnancy, and mental health.
Instructor: William Kernan
HBSS4121 Death education
Designed to increase awareness/insight of the multidimensional aspects of death, dying, and bereavement. Gain skills as health care professionals in dealing with death, its causes, treatment of life-threatening illness, including AIDS, suicide, and violent death. Explore customs across cultures, afterlife beliefs, near-death experiences, and ethical issues.
HBSS4122 Women's health
Explore biologic and environmental influences on women’s health risks and disease. Additionally, students will acquire knowledge to evaluate clinical studies in the literature and gain basic understanding of the process of planning and developing women’s health promotion programs.
Instructor: Araxi Pasagian-Macaulay
HBSS4123 Violence and its Prevention
This course covers the nature and prevention of invisible and covert, as well as visible and overt violence, including intrapersonal, interpersonal, family, community, gang, school, societal, and international manifestations.
Instructor: Barbara Wallace
HBSS4130 Alcohol and health
Background and theory related to alcohol use and misuse; health and social consequences of alcohol misuse; consideration of special populations, such as children of alcoholics; review of alternative approaches to prevention and treatment.
HBSS4140 Developing workplace health promotion programs
Provides a comprehensive step-by-step process to designing, implementing, and evaluating health promotion programs at the workplace.
Instructor: John Allegrante
HBSS4141 Health and illness in cross-cultural perspective
Examination of the role of healing and medicine, both historically, and cross-culturally and of the utility of considering cultural practices and beliefs when designing health education programs.
Instructor: William Kernan
HBSS4901 Research and independent study in health education
Permission required. Research and independent study under faculty direction. Proposals must have prior approval of a faculty member.
Instructor: John Allegrante
HBSS 5000 Health promotion in higher education
This course will explore the complex issues and challenges facing those working to enhance the quality of student health and student learning at college and universities.
Instructor: William Kernan
HBSS5110 Determinants of health behavior
Theory-based analysis of the cultural, social-psychological, and social-structural determinants of health-related behaviors; implications for planned change at individual, small-group, and community levels.
Instructor: Kathleen O'Connell
HBSS5111 Planning health education programs
Process of developing social, epidemiological, behavioral, and educational diagnoses; principles of planning, implementing, and evaluating health education interventions.
Instructor: Ray Marks
HBSS5112 Social marketing and health communications
Principles and theories of marketing and communication applied to health education. Practice in developing and evaluating health communications.
Instructor: Ray Marks
HBSS5113 Community health analysis and intervention
Survey and analysis of concepts, issues, strategies, and methods relevant to community health analysis and intervention.
HBSS5115 Assessment and counseling for health promotion
Assessment of clients’ health-compromising behaviors to reduce relapse and facilitate referrals to mental health staff; interventions for motivational counseling, psychoeducational group, and focus group formats are covered.
Instructor: Barbara Wallace
HBSS5116 Social relations, emotions, and health
Covers theory and research on the effects of social relationships and emotions on health. Reviews and evaluates the use of social support and expressive writing interventions for treating chronic health problems, such as heart disease, cancer, and arthritis, or acute illnesses, such as upper respiratory infections. Also considers the role of emergent technologies in supportive-expressive therapies.
Instructor: William Kernan
HBSS5408 Practicum in individual health advisement
Individual and small group practice in the application of basic principles of counseling in the area of health problems.
Instructor: John Allegrante
HBSS5410 Practicum in health education
Permission required. Advance registration required in the semester prior to taking the course. Intensive field experience in a community setting. Essay required at end of field experience.
Instructor: John Allegrante
HBSS5510 Seminar in health education
Current problems, issues, and trends in health education.
HBSS5710 Supervised teaching in health education
Permission required. Advance registration required in the semester prior to taking the course. Supervised health teaching in a school. Essay required at end of teaching experience.
Instructor: Charles Basch
HBSS6100 Program Evaluation
Theory, methods, and problems of measurement and evaluation; standards for evaluation of health, education, and related social programs; skills in critical evaluation of research and evaluation reports.
Instructor: Charles Basch
HBSS6145 Health psychology
Topics include social learning theory, attribution, and attitudes as they apply to health promotion, disease prevention, reactions to illness, and adherence to treatment regimens.
Instructor: Kathleen O'Connell
HBSS6500 Research grant writing for health and behavior studies
Techniques of research grant preparation with emphasis on National Institutes of Health grants will be covered. Students will prepare an actual grant. In addition, funding agencies, the budgeting process, building research teams, the review process, responding to reviewers, and resubmitting grants will be covered.
HBSS6510 Research seminar in health education
Permission required. Review of research literature, methods, and problems in health education.
Instructor: John Allegrante
HBSS6901 Research and independent study in health education
Permission required. Open to matriculated doctoral students. Research and independent study under faculty direction. Proposals must have prior approval of a faculty member.
Instructor: John Allegrante
HBSS7501 Dissertation seminar in health education
Permission required. Open to certified doctoral candidates only. Development and presentation of doctoral dissertation proposals.
Instructor: John Allegrante