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>

Covers assigning probabilities, combinatorial methods, conditional probability, independence, Bayes's Theorem, discrete random variables and special discrete probability distributions, continuous random variables and special continuous distributions, and addition theorems.

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.

Health Communication is an emerging field in the health and social sciences whereby health care professionals inform and influence individual, institutional, governmental, and public audiences about health issues for the advancement of health equity outcomes. It includes understanding health communication theory and application as well as the challenges of low health literacy on public health and patient-provider communications. MHEO 486 is a skills-based course that examines and builds upon theoretical foundations and practical applications of interpersonal, organizational, and mass communication relevant to health communications and today�s health care consumer. The course reviews strategies of persuasion and message framing theory in addressing problems related to health inequities among patient populations, along with understanding the role of social justice issues in health settings, the relationship between attitudes and health behaviors, and health promotion and prevention, and various health belief models. Students understand and discuss the importance of structural, economic, social, and other determinants of health in health disparities. They regularly participate in online discussions, interactive case studies, small group work, and the development of a final health communication campaign that addresses a specific problem area related to health disparities, as identified in the literature, and proposes actionable solutions for the betterment of society and the human condition.

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.

The goal of this course is to provide policy researchers and practitioners with a set of conceptual frameworks for analyzing the political environment of public policy and policy research, and to practice forming effective strategies for policy analysis, program evaluation, policy design, and advocacy. in other words, this course will enhance our understanding of what happens in the policy process when policies are formulated and implemented and our participation in the policy process now and in the future.

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.

Throughout the history of music, many women have been revered as performers, mostly singers or virtuoso keyboard artists. In reality, contributions to music by women are much more varied than that of performer. As composers and inspiration for composers, women have been responsible for the creation of a significant body of compositions in every historical era. As steadfast patrons of the arts, vast numbers of commissions were granted, compositions written, music clubs established, performers employed, and concert halls created. This study of music created and inspired by female composers combined with an understanding of their considerable philanthropy will cast a new light upon the roles of women in music.