Reviews arithmetic, including percents, proportion, and geometric formulae. Covers functions of polynomials,  solving  polynomial and rational equations and linear inequalities, use of logarithms and exponential functions, graphing straight lines.  Emphasis on translating between words and equations  and  on problem solving.  Includes a lab for extra support.  Successful completion of Math 100 is equivalent to successful completion of Math 101.  Students may not take both courses.

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.

Pre-calculus in high school or MATH 101 or as recommended by results of the Math Placement Exam or Instructor Consent

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

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 thedistribution and determinants of diseases in a population). Students will learn conceptual and practicalissues 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 accelerated course provides students with the foundations to begin planning the Health Equity ChangeProject, encompassing the applied practicum and integrative learning experience. During this course, students start the process of seeking a practicum placement, practicing important career preparatory skills such as professional résumé and cover letter development, professional networking, and interviewing skills. Students also consider the ethical implications of potential practicum projects. Students select guiding public health competencies and develop associated practicum goals and objectives aligned with the mission and vision of the placement organization of their choice. At the mid-point of this course, students are expected to submit their Practicum Placement Form signed and approved by their preceptor. Although students will not be graded for this assignment, this form is considered a prerequisite for the submission and approval of their HECP proposal by the final weeks of this course.This course also 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, completing required IRB forms. Students then create a timeline and 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.

This course will prepare students for effective leadership and management in the nonprofit sector, a sector that spans organizations of all types and sizes and is a vital partner with the for profit and government sectors both nationally and internationally. The course will examine the nonprofit sector from historical, legal, societal, social entrepreneurial and social marketing perspectives and will address the skills required to lead a mission-based, nonprofit organization. There is a strong emphasis on the ethical underpinnings of nonprofit organizations and their applications; the differences between nonprofit and for profit organizations and how these differences drive decision making. Nonprofit-specific areas that are covered include the roles and responsibilities of boards of directors, fundraising and financial development, management of volunteer programs, financial structures, accountability, strategic planning and organizational growth.

Foundations of Women's Sports Management examines the fast-growing women's sports industry throughrevenue, equity, and strategy. Students analyze media, commercial, and game-day revenue, historicalbarriers, and core business functions, culminating in a strategic franchise-building project within a women'ssports league.

Negotiation and conflict resolution are becoming more important in organizations today. In the past, you probably would use negotiation and conflict resolution skills only if your job entailed formal dealings with unions, suppliers and customers or as a financial deal maker. In other words, negotiation was a skill needed only by people that did it for a living. All that has changed in organizations today. If you analzye an organization through a political lens all interactions are basically negotiations. That means that as a leader, at whatever level, you are frequently operating in a situation where your responsibility exceeds your authority. You will need to negotiate with a range of internal and external stakeholders in order to get your job done. In network and team structures, you are but one voice among many. To get your agenda accomplished, you will need to negotiate to build alliances amond different stakeholders and constituencies. As organizations become more diverse demographically and culturally, the potential for conflict increases, requiring even more attention to ways of dealing with it. And in these challenging times, the need to negotiate resources and support for yourself and your group becomes even more critical.

Looking for new means of self-expression, musicians, artists, and writers rejected traditional forms and methods of creativity in Paris at the turn of the 20th century. Students study these explosive new ways of creating music, art, and literature that changed the world forever. Topics include Debussy, Impressionism, Stravinsky, Picasso, Gertrude Stein.