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 400A - UNH-4U: Career and Professional Seminar
Instructors: Brianna Hayward, Karen Martin-Brown
Credits: 1.0 to 4.0
Term: Fall & Spring
In this seminar, UNH-4U students will explore career interests, develop career plans, and learn and practice skills needed to land a job or internship. Specific objectives include: 1) articulating career goals and competencies; 2) creating an academic and career development plan; 3) demonstrating skills for job and internship pursuit; and 4) engaging in professional networking. UNH-4U students can participate in the seminar up to 4 semesters with specific seminar activities established in consultation with mentor.
HHS 400B - UNH-4U Seminar: Academic Success and Well-Being Seminar
Instructors: Brianna Hayward, Karen Martin-Brown
Credits: 1.0 to 4.0
Term: Fall & Spring
In this UNH-4U seminar, students will focus on resource availability and resource navigation to support academic success, healthy living, and well-being. Specific objectives include: 1) identifying and articulating goals in the areas of academic success, healthy living, and well-being; 2) establishing resource utilization plans in support of each of these goals; 3) demonstrating targeted knowledge and skills related to independence in managing individual needs. UNH-4U students can participate in the seminar up to 4 semesters with specific seminar activities established in consultation with mentor.
HHS 400C - UNH-4U Seminar: Independent Study
Instructors: Brianna Hayward
Credits: 1.0 to 4.0
Term: Fall & Spring
Qualified UNH-4U student will be permitted to pursue independent studies under faculty guidance.
HHS 400D - UNH-4U Seminar: Advanced Career and Professional Seminar
Instructors: Brianna Hayward
Credits: 1.0 to 6.0
Term: Fall
In this seminar, second year UNH-4U students will meet with instructor for weekly sessions to expand upon skills gained in HHS 400A in working toward individualized career goals. Students will practice skills needed to secure a job or internship. Specific objectives include: 1) update resume and cover letter; 2) create and/or a career portfolio; 3) engage in mock interviews; 4) actively seek and apply for paid employment and internship opportunities that align with career goals; 5) engage in professional networking; and 6) develop a job retention and growth plan. UNH-4U students may participate in the seminar up to 4 semesters with specific seminar activities established in consultation with mentor.
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.
