Reviews arithmetic, including percents, proportion, and geometric formulae. Covers equations polynomials, rational expressions, and problem solving.

Covers analytic geometry, functions, limits and continuity, and differential calculus. Includes applications to extrema, physical problems, etc.

Covers integral calculus and applications to area, volume, etc.; transcendental functions; techniques of integration; polar coordinates; and improper integrals. Students may not take both MATH 121 and MATH 123.

Covers foundations of mathematics, combinatorial problem-solving, and graph theory. Includes the following topics: propositional logic and Booleana algebra, one-to-one, onto and invertible functions, cardinality, big-O, applications to complexity theory and cryptography, permutations, combinations, trees, binomial and multinomial coefficients, elementary probability, inclusion/ exclusion recurrence relations, basic graph theory, chains, paths, connectedness circuits, models, and numerous applications.</p>

Introduction to ordinary and partial differential equations. Discussion of both analytical and computer-based approaches to solving differential equations; applications to modeling in sciences. Systems of first order differential equations and introduction to dynamical systems. Topics in partial differential equations and further application to sciences as time permits

Consent of department required.

Provides professional experience for math-related majors. Credit hours are typically based on the number of work hours, determined by the instructor. Successful completion of work experiences as well as post internship presentation required for credit. Consent of the instructor required.

This course defines and examines the history and foundational concepts of health equity, social justice, and human rights. Students explore key cases of inequity and injustice occurring locally, nationally, and globally and apply a public health analytical lens to these challenges. This course also provides an overview and professional orientation to public health, its history, core concepts, functions, activities, professional ethics, and how it relates to (and differentiates from) other health professions.

This course introduces students to the principles and core concepts of epidemiology (the study of the<br />distribution and determinants of diseases in a population). Students will learn conceptual and practical<br />issues in designing and analyzing data from epidemiologic studies. Students learn foundational concepts, including chains of transmission, disease outbreak investigation, study designs, prevalence and incidence rates, risk ratios, bias, confounding, and screening. Students learn to critically evaluate scientific studies and gain skills in effectively presenting research findings. The examples used in the course will focus on how epidemiological methods can be used to (i) identify, measure, and explain health inequalities and (ii) evaluate programs and policies designed to reduce inequity.

Through this immersive course experience, students analyze racism and the several intersectional systems of oppression and marginalization that shape health. Students explore the social construction of race and the history of racism, with a large focus on the United States, and examine how the many manifestations of racism affect health. Each student engages in team and individual reflective activities to appraise their own social identity, location, position, and advantage/privilege along with assumptions, biases, and motivations. To gain a deeper understanding of the impact of structural racism locally, students do a site visit with a local social justice organization. Through this experience, students may consider the history of race and racism in Boston and how it is reflected across the urban landscape and its institutions, and how ongoing models of racial justice are unfolding in this context. Finally, students learn about ongoing models of racial justice at statewide and local institutions from practitioners pioneering initiatives as core endeavors toward health equity.

This course prepares students with skills of community organizing and health advocacy. Students learn key concepts and strategies, including base building, framing, assessing opportunity structure, goal setting, and effective health advocacy techniques. Students explore case studies and oral histories illuminating various models of change, such as social movements, social innovation, and social entrepreneurship. Students critically analyze past innovations and identify opportunities to address health inequities and power imbalances shaping community health.

This course provides students with the necessary ethical and structural tools to design their Health Equity Change Project (HECP), encompassing the applied practicum and integrative learning experience. Students frame and analyze their practicum objectives from an ethical perspective and create a logic model to approach their practicum from a realistic perspective. Ultimately, students develop and submit a final HECP proposal that builds upon their learning across the curriculum and that will guide their applied practice and integrative learning experience in the final terms of the program. This proposal serves as the basis for program approval to begin the HECP experience in subsequent terms.

This course serves as the second in a two-course sequence that incorporates the integrative learning and practice experience for the MPH degree. Through an applied practicum experience across two terms, students gain skills in designing, implementing, and evaluating a project to address a health inequity. In this course, students implement and evaluate the project they designed during the prior course, in consultation with their practicum supervisor and community and organizational partners. Students produce a final report and portfolio, evaluating their project and analyzing their attainment of program learning competencies.

This course builds a foundation of health and human rights law on which students may develop analyses and responses to health inequities and social injustices, thus developing their health equity practice. The course examines US law across the three branches of government and the government�s constitutional powers, duties, and limitations for intervention in issues of public health. The course then explores international law, emphasizing the international system of human rights and the interplay between human rights and systems of global governance. Throughout the course students will apply legal frameworks to past and contemporary social injustices, especially focusing on racial inequities, to build practical skills for advocacy and engagement with these systems.

This course provides students with the necessary ethical and structural tools to design their Health Equity Change Project (HECP), encompassing the applied practicum and integrative learning experience. Students frame and analyze their practicum objectives from an ethical perspective and create a logic model to approach their practicum from a realistic perspective. Ultimately, students develop and submit a final HECP proposal that builds upon their learning across the curriculum and that will guide their applied practice and integrative learning experience in the final terms of the program. This proposal serves as the basis for program approval to begin the HECP experience in subsequent terms.

This independent study is intended to allow students to supplement their MPH studies in an area of special interest to them. Students choose the topic and complete the independent study under the supervision of a member of the faculty. Objectives and deliverables will vary depending on the topic and approach, agreed upon in advance by the student and faculty. The independent study requires approval of the supervising faculty and the program director.

Focusing on a series of specific cases that exemplify the range of current economic policies, the course examines the various policies through a framework that: examines the policy's rationale, actual methods, and actual effects; evaluates the desirability of the effects; and considers alternative approaches. specific cases reviewed aim to be representative of the range of current economic policies and will also depend on anticipated interests of students.

This course introduces students to multivariate statistical methods for public policy analysis, covering multiple regression, logistic regression, and power analysis. students are assumed to have completed an introductory statistics course as a prerequisite for this course. Students will use SPSS, a statistical package for the social sciences.

This course is an introduction to financial management concepts and business practices. It includes the topics of accounting, finance and related analytical and performance management techniques that have particular relevance to managers. In this course, you should become fluent in the issues, data, and concepts of financial decision-making at the organizational level. By the conclusion of this course, you should understand what financial managers do in an organization and how to deal more effectively with them on issues of business and program strategy. This will require you to be able to: use basic business mathematics to inform decision making; understand how organizations are financed; read and understand a set of financial statements; calculate and interpret financial ratios; and perform a financial analysis; conduct basic cost analyses and understand their role in managerial decision-making; prepare and discuss a budget, the sources and importance of variance, and the concept of flexible budgeting as a control device; understand investment project decision making and be able to compute measures of return (NPV, breakeven); use Excel to create, interpret, and present results from financial models.

Introduces America's multicultural musical tradition, including Native American, African American, and Hawaiian contributions, with consideration of related material such as painting, sculpture, architecture, dance and literature. Gives special attention to jazz, blues, ragtime, concert repertoire, and musical theater and their influence upon European cultures.