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Department of Public Health Offerings

This summer the Department of Public Health (H) at OSU offers a wide array of courses, intensive sessions, workshops, and experiences designed to help schools, communities, health-related organizations and the business community meet the health challenges of the next decade.

H 421/521 Mental Health (3)
Examination of social, governmental, legal and individual mental health issues. Brief overview of some major mental disorders.

H 431/531 Health Care Marketing (3)
Principles, elements and methods of marketing health care services. Role of the consumer, governing body, administration and medical staff as well as impact of professional ethics.

H 474/574 Pub Health & Violence in Soc (3)
Examination of violence as a major public health issue. Historical, social, environmental, economic, behavioral and psychological aspects of assaultive violence, spousal abuse, rape and sexual assault, child abuse, child sexual abuse, suicide, the effects of the media on violence, drug abuse and violence, and related public health problems in contemporary American society. Emphasis on health and the efficacy of current efforts aimed at ameliorating these problems and potential for alternative public health models for prevention and intervention.

H 489/589 Emergency and Disaster Management (3)
Study of preparedness, response, recovery and business resumption strategies, activities and applications needed to effectively deal with emergency and disaster incidents.

H 491/591 ST/Economic Analysis and Management Information Science (3)
Provides a fundamental understanding of economic analysis as applied to occupational safety, health and environmental management issues and practices. The course offers economic analysis as a useful tool for changing how proposals for investments in practices to confront and manage occupational safety, health and environmental issues are put together and presented within the organization’s overall investment allocation decision-making process.

H 491/591 ST/Assisted Living: Residential Care (3)

See OSU's Schedule of Classes for a complete listing of Health (H) courses offered at OSU this summer.

Other Health Professional Offerings

BI 311 Genetics (4)

BI 314 Cell & Molecular Biology (4)

PHL 205 Ethics (4)

PHL 444/544 Biomedical Ethics (4)

Z 331/332/333 Human Anatomy & Physiology (3)

Z 341/342/343 Human Anatomy & Physiology Lab (2)

Z 441/442/443 Advanced Human Anatomy & Physiology Lab (2)

Z 451 Functional Anatomy of the Human Muscular System (4)

Mathematics

The Department of Mathematics offers a wide variety of courses in the summer. Several of these courses may be of particular interest to professionals in other fields. Mathematics of Interest to Professionals in the Biological and Life Sciences

MTH 256 Applied Differential Equations (4)
First order linear and nonlinear equations, and second order linear equations; applications to electric circuits and mechanical oscillators; introduction to the Laplace transform and higher order equations; introduction to linear systems of differential equations, eigenvalues and normal modes; applications appropriate for science and engineering.

MTH 306 Matrix and Power Series Methods (4)
Introduction to matrix algebra, determinants, systematic solution to linear systems, eigenvalue problems convergence and divergence of series of functions, Taylor series expansions of basic functions used in calculus, convergence tests for power series, error estimates for truncated series used in practical approximations.

MTH 341 Linear Algebra (3)
Vector spaces; linear transformations and matrices; systems of linear equations; some applications.

MTH 351 Introduction to Numerical Analysis (3)
Introduction to the computation of approximate numeric solutions to mathematical problems that cannot be solved exactly: analysis of errors; root finding for nonlinear equations in one variable; interpolation of functions; numerical integration.

See OSU's Schedule of Classes for complete listing of Math (MTH) courses offered at OSU this summer.