Courses
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SAR HP 737: Instrumentation for Analysis of Motion
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Consent of Instructor - This course will provide a foundation in the use of equipment commonly used for human movement analysis. The curriculum will include in-depth discussion of motion capture, force platform, instrumented treadmill, and surface electromyography techniques. Additionally, students will be introduced to other technologies used for human movement analyses including inertial and wearable sensors, gait carpet, musculoskeletal modeling, dual fluoroscopy, and MR imaging. Hands-on lab activities will include working with relevant hardware and software. Students are required to sign up for both lecture and lab sections. The course includes a final project that requires understanding and use of some of the technologies discussed in the course. The course is for students who are currently using or are interested in using technologies for human movement analysis for research or industrial applications. -
SAR HP 770: Health Care Management - PT
This course will instruct and reinforce students in the fundamental theories and skills of health care management for the physical therapist. The course is designed with an intent of putting oneself in the shoes of a clinician as well as a manager, with acknowledgement that leaders in the health care environment are rarely able to ignore sound management principles and understanding of healthcare systems for long. Whether knowing what is being asked of you as a clinician, or being placed in a leadership position, many health and rehabilitation professionals will assume the role of a manager or have leadership responsibilities during the course of their career, often sooner than expected. The increasing rate of change in the healthcare environment is a major factor in this emphasis on leadership. This can take many forms, and an emphasis will be placed on how one can assume a position of leading in different avenues. This course will help foster the growth of an individual's knowledge and capacity to lead, in whatever form it takes. This course also develops and enhances the students' understanding of the health care system, the social and economic forces affecting the health care system, and its ability to function effectively. Additionally, the course will prepare students to enter the workforce by introducing them to a variety of tools and experiences that will enable them to manage organizations, programs, resources, and people more effectively. Emphasis in this course is on US and Massachusetts's policies and legislation, managing human resources, marketing, technology and information, accounting and finance, quality improvement, and measuring performance. Professionalism, ethics, and the APTA will be discussed as they relate to our course objectives. -
SAR HP 771: Foundations of Motor Control
The course includes discussion and synthesis of current theories of human action (performance, learning/plasticity, and development) with an emphasis on systems/constraints, dynamical systems and ecological psychology approaches to human action, perception, and action-perception coupling. It serves as an introduction to these theories. Emphasis is placed on understanding how to conceptualize and evaluate functional movement based on these theories. Student participation in class is essential and required reading should be completed prior to class so that each student can fully participate in discussion. -
SAR HP 804: Practicum: Teaching in the Health Professions
Graduate Prerequisites: Consent of instructor - Supervised academic teaching in the health professions. Development and implementation of a teaching unit. Critique of teaching styles. Development of a teaching portfolio. -
SAR HS 201: Introduction to Nutrition
This course focuses on the components of a healthy, well-balanced diet to meet nutritional needs and avoid deficiencies and excesses. The basic concepts discussed will include: MyPlate, food labeling, recommended nutrient intakes for all age and gender groups, weight management, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and lifecycle nutrition. Special emphasis will be on nutrition and disease prevention and applying the nutrition knowledge learned to everyday living. Note: students who take SAR HS251 Human Nutrition Science for credit cannot also take this HS201 course for credit. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry II, Oral and/or Signed Communication. -
SAR HS 210: Introduction to Critical Inquiry
This course demonstrates access to information resources in the biomedical sciences, including hard copy, on-line databases (e.g., LexisNexis, PubMed, OVID), and web searching and how to critically evaluate these information sources. Classes are hands-on learning using laptops. -
SAR HS 221: Research Experience
Conducting scientific research is often a multi-faceted experience involving not only the actual scientific experimentation, but also the reading and synthesizing of research, writing, oral presentation and other skills. The BU HUB curriculum is a means for establishing and requiring such experiences, therefore HUB units will be awarded to "Registered-in-research" students based on the level of research experience of the undergraduate. Thus, as a student progresses through additional semesters of research, new learning outcomes are achieved. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Research and Information Literacy. -
SAR HS 222: Research Experience
Conducting scientific research is often a multi-faceted experience involving not only the actual scientific experimentation, but also the reading and synthesizing of research, writing, oral presentation and other skills. The BU HUB curriculum is a means for establishing and requiring such experiences, therefore HUB units will be awarded to "Registered-in-research" students based on the level of research experience of the undergraduate. Thus, as a student progresses through additional semesters of research, new learning outcomes are achieved. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Oral and/or Signed Communication. -
SAR HS 230: Food Science
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASCH172, CASCH174 or CASCH204, SARHS 251, CASBI 114 or CASBI311. Cour se is limited to nutrition majors, or may be taken with the consent of instructor. - An in-depth didactic and laboratory review of the physical and chemical properties of carbohydrates, proteins, fats and water. Each macronutrient is discussed from its smallest starting molecule to its complex role in food items. Other related topics include food safety and food-borne illness, food preservation and processing, culinary techniques, food regulations and standards, food additives, food technology, and subjective evaluation of food. The laboratory requirement applies the food science principles through hands-on experiments in the kitchen setting. -
SAR HS 241: Research Experience
Conducting scientific research is often a multi-faceted experience involving not only the actual scientific experimentation, but also the reading and synthesizing of research, writing, oral presentation and other skills. The BU HUB curriculum is a means for establishing and requiring such experiences, therefore HUB units will be awarded to "Registered-in-research" students based on the level of research experience of the undergraduate. Thus, as a student progresses through additional semesters of research, new learning outcomes are achieved. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy. -
SAR HS 242: Research Experience
Conducting scientific research is often a multi-faceted experience involving not only the actual scientific experimentation, but also the reading and synthesizing of research, writing, oral presentation and other skills. The BU HUB curriculum is a means for establishing and requiring such experiences, therefore HUB units will be awarded to "Registered-in-research" students based on the level of research experience of the undergraduate. Thus, as a student progresses through additional semesters of research, new learning outcomes are achieved. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Critical Thinking. -
SAR HS 251: Human Nutrition Science
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASBI105 OR CASBI108) - This course provides an introduction in the scientific foundations of nutrition and focuses on the relationship between diet and health. Scientific information is presented in preparation for discussion of macro- and micro nutrients, including metabolism, and the role of nutrition in human health and disease. This course is intended for pre-health and nutrition majors. -
SAR HS 281: Nutrition Throughout the Life Cycle
Undergraduate Prerequisites: Prereq: SARHS251 & CASBI211 or CASBI315. Limited to nutrition majors o r with consent of the instructor. - This course focuses on the changing nutritional requirements from infancy, childhood, and adolescence throughout the geriatric years. Nutritional needs specific to pregnancy and lactation will be discussed. Emphasis is placed on understanding the behavioral, socioeconomic, and cultural factors associated with meeting nutrition requirements throughout the life span. -
SAR HS 300: Epidemiology I
Undergraduate Prerequisites: none - Examines the distribution of health and diseases across the population, and the factors that impact health. Which group of people is more likely to experience a heart attack or develop diabetes? Do our level of education, race or income impact our health and our life expectancy? This course studies how we approach understanding disease distribution within the population. Through in class presentations, real world examples, exercises and discussions students become proficient in research methods, disease screening, and infectious disease outbreak investigation. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Quantitative Reasoning II, Scientific Inquiry II. -
SAR HS 310: Management of Food and Nutrition Services
Undergraduate Prerequisites: (SARHS230) Course is limited to nutrition majors in the dietetics track. - This course provides the foundational knowledge of food service and clinical nutrition management explored through a systems approach. Management of human resources, quantity food production, menu development, financial accountability and quality control will be discussed as well as regulatory and other controls that influence the function of the system. -
SAR HS 323: Research Experience
Conducting scientific research is often a multi-faceted experience involving not only the actual scientific experimentation, but also the reading and synthesizing of research, writing, oral presentation and other skills. The BU HUB curriculum is a means for establishing and requiring such experiences, therefore HUB units will be awarded to "Registered-in-research" students based on the level of research experience of the undergraduate. Thus, as a student progresses through additional semesters of research, new learning outcomes are achieved. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Teamwork/Collaboration. -
SAR HS 324: Research Experience
Conducting scientific research is often a multi-faceted experience involving not only the actual scientific experimentation, but also the reading and synthesizing of research, writing, oral presentation and other skills. The BU HUB curriculum is a means for establishing and requiring such experiences, therefore HUB units will be awarded to "Registered-in-research" students based on the level of research experience of the undergraduate. Thus, as a student progresses through additional semesters of research, new learning outcomes are achieved. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Teamwork/Collaboration. -
SAR HS 325: Introduction to Global Health
This course will provide students with an overview of the complex social, economic, political, environmental, and biological factors that structure the origins, consequences, and possible treatments of illness worldwide, as well as the promotion of health. Students will learn about the major themes and concepts shaping the interdisciplinary field of global health, and will gain an understanding of solutions to health challenges that have been successfully implemented in different parts of the world. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration. -
SAR HS 331: Physiology of Sex and Human Reproduction
Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS BI315 or BI211, or similar physiology course - In this course we will learn the physiological mechanisms behind fertility, gametogenesis, copulation, pregnancy and birth. We will explore the impacts of biological reproduction on the body and we will connect these topics to our everyday world. We utilize diverse perspectives and language in this class. Class time is split between active learning and lecture time. Grades are based on daily work, quizzes and presentations. -
SAR HS 332: Analyzing Bias and Discrimination in Medicine, Health, & Science
This interdisciplinary course will take a scientific approach, within an antiracist, anti-imperialist, intersectional framework, to uncover instances of bias and discrimination in medicine, health, and science; will commit to confronting these injustices; and will discuss how to move forward. We will work together to develop skills to help us recognize discrimination in our surroundings, understand systemic patterns of oppression, self-reflect on our own implicit biases, and advocate for social change. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Individual in Community
