May 19, 2024  
2019-2020 Graduate Catalog 
    
2019-2020 Graduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

Courses


 

Civil and Environmental Engineering

  
  • CIVE 8398 - Doctoral Research

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CIVE 8399 - Doctoral Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CIVE 8498 - Doctoral Research

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CIVE 8598 - Doctoral Research

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CIVE 8699 - Doctoral Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 6.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CIVE 8999 - Doctoral Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 9.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0

Classics

  
  • CLAS 6305 - Fifth-Century Athens: Readings in Intellectual, Literary, and Political History

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or PB status

    Overview of intellectual trends and political history of fifth-century BCE Athens, including development of democracy, birth of tragedy, Persian Wars, Athenian Empire, court system, Peloponnesian Wars, and death of Socrates. Taught in English.
  
  • CLAS 6350 - Law and Society in Ancient Rome

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or Post B.A. status.

    A survey of key Roman legal ideas and texts from the archaic period to the late Republic and early Empire. Special attention paid to the law’s relation to Rome’s religion and changing social and political structures. Through Cicero the course explores the situation of the practicing advocate in complicated times. Ends with a look at later Roman jurisprudence.
  
  • CLAS 6366 - Greek Art and Archaeology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or PB status

    Survey of ancient Greek art and archaeology connected to the Trojan War from the Bronze Age to the early Hellenistic Period with emphasis on its relationship to traditional myths and Classical literature.
  
  • CLAS 6374 - Women in the Ancient World

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or post B.A. status.

    Women’s lives from the Graeco-Roman world. Analysis and comparisons of literary texts and archaeological evidence in their cultural and historical context.
  
  • CLAS 6381 - Latin Classics in Translation

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or Post-baccalaureate

    Works of Latin literature read in conjunction with current scholarship and modern theorists. Taught in English.
  
  • CLAS 6382 - Classical Antiquity in Cinema

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or Post Baccalaureate status.

    Examination of the way modern cinema adapts themes from Classical literature and uses them to explore contemporary issues.

Clinical Research

  
  • CLIR 5310 - Fund of Biostats & Data Mgmt

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0

Clinical Sciences and Administration, Pharmacy Administration

  
  • PHCA 6180 - Seminar in Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or consent of Instructor.

    Provides doctoral students an opportunity to present and discuss advanced topics within the field of Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy.
  
  • PHCA 6181 - Seminar in Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or consent of instructor.

    Provides doctoral students an opportunity to present and discuss advanced topics within the field of Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy.
  
  • PHCA 6198 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

  
  • PHCA 6199 - Thesis

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • PHCA 6219 - Issues in Health Services

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    A survey course for students with an administrative interest, which develops the linkage between structure, manpower, access, and utilization of health services.
  
  • PHCA 6297 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • PHCA 6298 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • PHCA 6309 - Principles & Practice Community Health

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing, or consent of instructor.

    Applications and analysis of public health concepts, history, current context, and techniques in pharmacy administration.
  
  • PHCA 6310 - Sas Applications in Statistics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing, or consent of instructor.

    Practical experiences in conducting statistical analysis using the SAS statistical package to analyze, evaluate, and report data.
  
  • PHCA 6311 - Financial Aspects of Hcm

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    This course examines both micro and macro aspects of financial management of health care systems. Approaches to financial record keeping, financial analysis and budgeting will be reviewed. Financial policies implemented by governmental and private third parties will be critically analyzed.
  
  • PHCA 6313 - Drug Use Management

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    Overview of drug use in health systems including joint commission, practice management, operations, formulary management, human resources, and marketing.
  
  • PHCA 6314 - Health Sys Mang Managed Care

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    Comprehensive review and discussion of health system strategic management, managed care concepts, changing health care paradigms, and marketing of services as part of a strategic plan for health care activities.
  
  • PHCA 6315 - Healthcare Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    Review of marketing concepts, techniques, and strategies. Introduces theories and models for interpretation and prediction of buyers’ motives, attitudes, and responses and integrates information into marketing strategies. Addresses strategic planning for effective market problems and effective direction and control of marketing operations.
  
  • PHCA 6317 - Secondary Data Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing, or consent of instructor.

    Principles and applications of secondary data analysis in pharmacy administration research with focus on methodologies for processing and analyzing national survey and administrative data.
  
  • PHCA 6318 - Designing Clinical Research

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor

    Principles of designing and conducting clinical trials for drugs, devices, and behavioral sciences.
  
  • PHCA 6319 - Strategic Healthcare Management

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor

    Discussion of principles, requirements, and practices of planning in the management of health care organizations.
  
  • PHCA 6320 - Medication Safety and Quality Improvement

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

    Overview of medication safety and quality improvement in health systems including prevention and reporting of adverse events, total quality management, and patient safety.
  
  • PHCA 6337 - Human Subjects Research and Research Ethics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Prerequisites or consent of instructor.

    An in-depth analysis of research ethics related to the responsible conduct of human subjects research and regulatory issues including the relevant federal agencies.
  
  • PHCA 6396 - Masters Project

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

    Project proposal approved by major advisor and two committee members. Project developed in the area of pharmacy administration research.
  
  • PHCA 6397 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • PHCA 6398 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

  
  • PHCA 6399 - Masters Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • PHCA 6497 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 4   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • PHCA 6498 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • PHCA 6598 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • PHCA 6601 - Pharm Health Sys Practicum

    Credit Hours: 6.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 6
  
  • PHCA 6602 - Pharm Health Sys Practicum

    Credit Hours: 6.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 6
  
  • PHCA 6603 - Pharm Health Sys Practicum

    Credit Hours: 6.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 6
  
  • PHCA 7111 - Research Practicum

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing, or instructors consent.

    A structured research internship experience in the pharmaceutical or health care industry.
  
  • PHCA 7180 - Seminar in Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or Consent of Instructor.

    To provide doctoral students an opportunity to present and discuss advanced topics within the field of Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy.
  
  • PHCA 7181 - Seminar Pharm Administration

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing, or consent of instructor.

    Review and evaluate recent advances in pharmacy administration literature and the pharmacy profession.
  
  • PHCA 7199 - Master Thesis

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    Students are expected to write and submit a thesis on research conducted as required by the University of Houston and as a requirement for partial fulfillment of the MS degree program.
  
  • PHCA 7211 - Research Practicum

    Credit Hours: 2
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing, or consent of instructor.

    A structured research internship experience in the pharmaceutical or health care industry.
  
  • PHCA 7299 - Master Thesis

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    Students are expected to write and submit a thesis on research conducted as required by the University of Houston and as a requirement for partial fulfillment of the MS degree program.
  
  • PHCA 7301 - Advanced Regression Analysis Methods

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: PHCA 7308 or Consent of Instructor

    . Applications of multiple regression methods, regression diagnostics, variable selection, model building strategies, and assessment of model fit in pharmaceutical health outcomes research with emphasis on linear, logistic, and proportional hazards regression.
  
  • PHCA 7302 - Scientific Writing and Grants

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: PHCA 7307 , graduate standing, or consent of instructor.

    Planning, preparation and evaluation of effective research manuscripts (articles) and grant proposals in pharmacy administration research.
  
  • PHCA 7303 - International Health Care Syst

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing, or consent of instructor.

    Review delivery models, economic, political, and other pertinent aspects of various international health care systems in an effort to better understand the range of options available for health care delivery.
  
  • PHCA 7304 - Adv Pharmacoeconomic Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: PHCA 7313 , graduate standing, or consent of instructor.

    Advanced topics in computer-assisted decision analytic modeling including design of design trees, sensitivity analysis, Markov, Bayesian, and run-time models with examples in pharmaceutical and pharmacy research.
  
  • PHCA 7305 - Social and Behavioral Aspects in Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly/Same as: PHCA 6305 Pharmacy Administration and Management I
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

    Introduces social and behavioral concepts in pharmaceutical health outcomes and policy. A case-based discussion approach with pre-assigned reading material.
  
  • PHCA 7306 - Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Quality

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly/Same as: PHCA 6306 Pharmacy Administration and Management II
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

    Critical examination and discussion of pharmaceutical health outcomes and quality of pharmaceutical care issues in practice, policy, and research.
  
  • PHCA 7307 - Research Methods in Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly/Same as: PHCA 6307 Research Methods in Pharmacy Administration
    Prerequisite: PHCA 7308 or Consent of Instructor.

    Principles of research methods and its application to conduct and analyze research topics in pharmaceutical health outcomes research. Included are computer applications, design of survey questionnaires, and proficiency in analyzing programs/policies.
  
  • PHCA 7308 - Biostatistics and Experimental Design

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly/Same as: PHCA 6308 Biostatistics: Experimental Design
    Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or Consent of Instructor.

    Application of concepts, methods, and statistical approaches for the design and analysis of health outcome research studies. Introduces multivariable techniques to facilitate further study of these methods in advanced course.
  
  • PHCA 7310 - Teaching Practicum in Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or Consent of Instructor.

    A structured academic environment experience to prepare and teach lectures in an undergraduate course with the guidance of a professor.
  
  • PHCA 7311 - Research Practicum

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Prerequisite: graduate standing, or consent of instructor.

    A structured research internship experience in the pharmaceutical or health care industry.
  
  • PHCA 7312 - SAS Programming for Healthcare

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: PHCA 6310 or approval of instructor.

    Introduction to SAS programming language to manage and manipulate large health care databases. Students become proficient to pass the SAS programmer certification.
  
  • PHCA 7313 - Pharmacoeconomics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly/Same as: PHCA 6312 Pharmacoeconomics in Outcomes Research
    Prerequisite: PHCA 7306 or consent of instructor.

    An integrated course that provides students with knowledge and skills in pharmacoeconomics and health outcomes research with application to disease state management.
  
  • PHCA 7316 - Pharmacoepidemiology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly/Same as: PHCA 6316 Pharmacoepidemiology
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    Concepts, methods, and nomenclature in epidemiology and its applications to pharmaceutical health outcomes research.
  
  • PHCA 7396 - Masters Project

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: PHCA 6396 or consent of instructor.

    Preparation of written report about pharmacy administration project and oral defense to major advisor and two committee members. Bound report submitted to committee.
  
  • PHCA 7397 - Selected Topics in Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    To provide doctoral students with an opportunity to study advanced topics within the field of Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy.
  
  • PHCA 7398 - Special Problems in Pharmacy Administration Doctoral

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor

    The course is designed to provide doctoral students with an opportunity to study advanced special problems in the field of Pharmacy Administration.
  
  • PHCA 7399 - Masters Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • PHCA 7611 - Research Practicum

    Credit Hours: 6.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 18
    Prerequisite: graduate standing, or consent of instructor.

    A structured research internship experience in the pharmaceutical or health care industry.
  
  • PHCA 8180 - Advanced Seminar in Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or consent of instructor.

    To provide doctoral students an opportunity to present and discuss advanced topics within the field of Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy.
  
  • PHCA 8181 - Advanced Seminar in Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

    To provide doctoral students an opportunity to present and discuss advanced topics within the field of Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy.
  
  • PHCA 8198 - Doctoral Dissertation Research

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

    Doctoral Dissertation Research.
  
  • PHCA 8199 - Doctoral Dissertation Defense

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

    Doctoral Dissertation Defense.
  
  • PHCA 8297 - Selected Topics in Pharmacy Administration Doctoral

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or Consent of Instructor.

    The study of advanced selected topics within the field of pharmacy administration.
  
  • PHCA 8298 - Doctoral Dissertation Research

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

    Doctoral Dissertation Research.
  
  • PHCA 8301 - Behavioral Theories and Models in Pharmacy and Health

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: PHCA 7305  and PHCA 7306  , graduate standing, or consent of instructor.

    Discuss and appraise models and theories in pharmacy administration and management research focusing on social and behavioral aspects of pharmaceutical care.
  
  • PHCA 8302 - Advanced Research Methods in Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: PHCA 7308 or consent of instructor.

    To apply, conduct, and analyze classic and improved experimental, quasi-experimental, and observational study designs in pharmaceutical outcome research.
  
  • PHCA 8303 - Multivariate Analysis in Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: PHCA 7308 and 7301 or consent of instructor.

    Advanced statistical techniques for handling multiple dependent and independent measures in pharmaceutical health outcomes research such as factor analysis, multiple discriminant analysis, MANOVA, cluster analysis, canonical correlation, and structural equation modeling.
  
  • PHCA 8304 - Behavioral Health Serv Researc

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing, or consent of instructor.

    Applications of linking research questions common in behavioral sciences to appropriate analytic methods used to group people or objects and procedures that assess change over time.
  
  • PHCA 8305 - Risk Adjustment of Health Care Outcomes

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or Consent of Instructor.

    To interpret and apply patient risk factors, the Donabedian model, administrative and clinical data sources, comparisons across providers, propensity scoring, and estimating the effect of interventions in observational studies.
  
  • PHCA 8306 - Advanced Pharmaceutical Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or consent of instructor.

    Advanced concepts, practices, and strategies to market pharmaceuticals with emphasis on advertising, physician detailing, pricing, and new market access strategies for prescription products.
  
  • PHCA 8310 - Advanced Teaching Practicum

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Prerequisite: graduate standing, or consent of instructor.

    A structured academic environment experience to develop and teach lectures in a graduate course with the guidance of a professor.
  
  • PHCA 8311 - Proposal Development

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: graduate standing, or consent of instructor.

    Applications of grant writing skills to develop and submit a proposal using the NIH format.
  
  • PHCA 8314 - Secondary Analysis of National Health Surveys

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Doctoral standing.

    Principles and applications of secondary data analysis of national healthcare surveys.
  
  • PHCA 8316 - Advanced Pharmacoepidemiology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: PHCA 6316 or Consent of Instructor.

    Design and conduct of advanced pharmacoeipemiological studies with a focus on operationalization and analytical issues in Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes Research.
  
  • PHCA 8320 - Patient Reported Outcomes

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Doctoral standing.

    To provide an in-depth understanding of the assessment analysis and interpretation of patient-reported outcomes (PROs). The course involves a case-based discussion approach with pre-assigned reading on topics associated with understanding PROs, their development, measurement, analysis, and use in quality of life evaluation and clinical trials.
  
  • PHCA 8397 - Advanced Topics in Pharmacy Administration Doctoral

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor

    The course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to study advanced special problems in the field of Pharmacy Administration.
  
  • PHCA 8398 - Doctoral Dissertation Research

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 9
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

    Doctoral Dissertation Research.
  
  • PHCA 8698 - Doctoral Dissertation Research

    Credit Hours: 6.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 18
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor

    Doctoral Dissertation Research.

Communication Sciences and Disorders

  
  • COMD 6198 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of director.

    A course designed for graduate students who wish to pursue special studies for which a course is not organized.
  
  • COMD 6230 - Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Communication Sciences and Disorders or consent of the instructor.

    Study of the identifying characteristics, etiologies, prevalence, assessment, and treatment of individuals with autism spectrum disorders.
  
  • COMD 6240 - Augmentative and Alternative Communication

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Communication Sciences and Disorders and consent of the instructor.

    Overview of augmentative and alternate communication (AAC) with specific focus on access methods, message representation, and practical application for individuals with a variety of communication disorders.
  
  • COMD 6261 - Research and Critical Thinking

    Credit Hours: 2.00
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2.0   Lab Contact Hours: 0.0
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Communication Sciences and Disorders (COMD) or consent of the instructor.

    Critical evaluation and interpretation of research underlying theory, assessment, and treatment of communication disorders.
  
  • COMD 6298 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of director.

    A course designed for graduate students who wish to pursue special studies for which a course is not organized.
  
  • COMD 6321 - Swallowing Disorders

    Credit Hours: 3.00
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3.0   Lab Contact Hours: 0.0
    Prerequisite: COMD 2376 or equivalent and graduate standing in Communication Sciences and Disorders or by instructor approval.

    Study of normal swallowing physiology and biomechanics and the evaluation and treatment of swallowing disorders.
  
  • COMD 6325 - Professional Issues in Literacy for Speech Language Pathologists

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    This course is an in-depth analysis of the disorders of language that affect the development and maintenance of literacy across the lifespan.
  
  • COMD 6326 - Motor Speech Disorders

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in Communication Sciences and Disorders.

    Assessment and management of motor speech disorders in adults, including apraxia of speech and degenerative neurological disorders; physiological systems contributing to reduced intelligibility; and differential diagnosis of the dysarthrias.
  
  • COMD 6328 - Acquired Cognitive Disorders

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in Communication Sciences and Disorders.

    Study of the etiologies, prevention, assessment and treatment of acquired cognitive disorders such as those due to traumatic brain injury, right hemisphere stroke, aging and dementia.
  
  • COMD 6334 - Aphasia & Related Com Disorder

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in Communication Sciences and Disorders.

    Symptomatology, diagnosis and treatment of acquired neurogenic communication disorders including aphasia, alexia, agraphia and agnosia.
  
  • COMD 6372 - Remediation of Childhood Language Disorders

    Credit Hours: 3.00
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3.0   Lab Contact Hours: 0.0
    Prerequisite: Graduate status in major or consent of instructor.

    Principles, methods, and procedures in the assessment and treatment of children with primary or secondary language disorders.
  
  • COMD 6387 - Voice Disorders

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: COMD 2376 and COMD 4385 or equivalents, or consent of instructor.

    Evaluation and management of vocal disorders including etiology, assessment, and treatment strategies.
  
  • COMD 6397 - Sel Topics in Comd

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

    In-depth study of a specific area.
    May be repeated for credit with permission of program head.

  
  • COMD 6398 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of director.

    A course designed for graduate students who wish to pursue special studies for which a course is not organized.
  
  • COMD 6399 - Masters Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0   Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: graduate standing. Master’s Thesis.

    May be repeated for credit.

 

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