HLS 799 is an alternative professional experience required by the homeland security major. It is designed to be a substitute for HLS 770 (internship in HLS). Students function independently (but keep in regular contact with the instructor) as they devise a thesis topic and write a professional research paper in support of their thesis. The thesis is a research paper that uses either mostly secondary data collection methods with the expectation that the project be equivalent to the 180 hours interns are obligated to work. Cr/F.

Nature and functions of health care services and health professionals; impact of social, political, economic, ethical, professional, legal, and technological forces on health care systems. Current health policy issues. Does not count as Social Science Discovery for HMP majors.

An application driven introduction to computer-aided problem solving leveraging foundational knowledge in engineering and the physical sciences. Engineering applications are used to motivate the computational methods needed in scientific and engineering disciplines. Numerical methods, including the basic LU algorithm, one-dimensional root finding methods, and numerical differentiation and integration, are introduced as useful computational tools for tackling a broad range of engineering and scientific and engineering disciplines. Numerical methods, including the basic LU algorithm, one-dimensional root finding methods, the numerical differentiation and integration , are introduced as useful computational tools for tackling a broad range of engineering and scientific applications and to provide concrete and contextual programming experiences. MATLAB is used, with topics including scripts, functions, logical expressions, conditional statements, looping, data visualization, plotting, and recursion presented within the framework provided by both the numerical methods and the scientific or engineering problems. Laboratory included. Pre- or Coreq: MATH 426. No credit earned if credit received for MATH 445.

This weekly colloquium provides internship participants with professional development and career coaching necessary to guide students through transition from academic to professional. Assignments will be collected into final portfolio which will demonstrate integrative learning.