Faculty from the IOD teach undergraduate and graduate level courses through UNH’s Colleges of Liberal Arts and Health and Human Services. These courses provide students with current research, best practices, historical insight, and hands-on experience. The current list of courses taught by IOD faculty includes:
Economics
ECON 727 - Advanced Econometrics
Instructor: Andrew Houtenville, Ph.D.
Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring
Method of least squares estimation with treatments for hetereogeneity and endogeneity. Method of maximum likelihood estimation. Binary choice models. Panel data models. Survival analysis. Topics employ calculus.
Health & Human Services
HHS 798 - Special Topics in Neurodevelopmental Disorders (LEND) Seminar
Instructors: Stacy Driscoll
Credits: 3.0
When Offered: Fall & Spring
Explores areas related to specific professional health interests. May repeat but not duplicate subject areas. A) Communication Disorders, B) Health Management and Policy, C) Medical Laboratory Science, D) Nursing, E) Occupational Therapy, F) Kinesiology, G) Recreation Management and Policy, J) Family Studies, K) Social Work, L) Health Promotion, M-Z) Interdisciplinary. Prerequisite: permission. Special fee on some topics.
Human Development and Family Studies
HDFS 525 - Human Development
Instructors: Kelsey Brandon
Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring
This course focuses on childhood risks such as poverty, family stress and dysfunction, social and emotional problems, and bullying, as well as how children cope with risk and demonstrate resilience. Students will learn about and visit a number of community programs in New Hampshire that support children and their families in times of stress. Site-visits will include introduction to a range of providers such as child advocates, counselors, social workers, juvenile detention workers, and teachers.
Public Health
PHP 990 - Field Study
Instructor: Karla Armenti, Ph.D.
Credits: 3.0
Term: Spring
This course provides a 16-week long opportunity for students to synthesize, integrate, and apply the skills and competencies they have acquired during enrollment in the MPH Program and apply them to a public health problem or project in a professional public health practice setting. Students are expected to spend a minimum of 40 hours in the organization (not including preparation time) exploring how that organization deals with a particular public health issue and working on a project for that organization. In addition, students present the findings of their work in a poster session following the conclusion of the course. This public health experience is conducted under the direction of a faculty member and a community public health mentor. This class meets one hour prior to the regularly scheduled core and elective courses in the MPH Program. Prereq: Completion of core courses and permission of course instructor and MPH Program Director.
Social Work
SW 704/804 - Adolescents with Emotional and Behavioral Challenges
Instructor: Heidi Cloutier
Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring
This course focuses on the characteristics and needs of youth with emotional and behavioral challenges based upon socio-cultural and ecological theories, and provides exposure to family- and youth-driven practices and approaches that represent System of Care values and principles.
