May be repeated up to a maximum of 10 credits. Prereq: permission. Cr/F.

This course examines the advanced issues in child development within an ecological context. Theory and research on social, cultural, and development issues of early childhood will be the focus, with a particular emphasis on ecological and social constructivist frameworks. This seminar examines issues of diversity (race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, and social class), and topics include attachment, socialization of emotions, parenting beliefs, father-child relationships, and child care and preschool. Prereq: permission.

This course explores interventions that target problems faced by couples at various ages and stages of their relationship. The focus will be on developing and implementing effective strategies for enhancing attachments as well as approaches for improving communication and problem-solving skills in Couples Therapy. The format will be interactive with illustrative demonstration. Majors to include: HDFS: Marriage and Family Therapy and Social Work.

This course covers using Python as a programming language to write, implement, and design programs that are relevant to various aspects of programming in a health setting. After completion of this course, students should be comfortable with the basic data structures in Python and R (including arrays, dictionaries, and dataframes), conditional logic and iterators, writing Python and R functions, and using Python libraries to read external data and perform data manipulations and data analysis.