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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 489/589 Emergency and Disaster Management (3)

The Department of Public Health also offers a series of theoretical and applied courses of interest to professionals.

H 199 ST/Drugs in Sport (one-day seminar)
Examines issues related to ergogenic aids and performance enhancing drugs in sport today. Discussion centers upon different ergogenic aids and the reason why athletes use. Students will have opportunities to develop skills to examine the relative worth, health risks and ramifications for using and abusing different performance aids. Perceptions and experiences of current and former elite athletes from different sports will be introduced to illustrate the topics covered.

H 199 ST/Sexual Violence Prevention by Peers (3)

H 474/574 Pub Health & Violence in Soc (3)

H 491/591 ST/Economic Analysis and Management Information Science (3)
This course is designed to provide 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.

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.