Entrepreneurial Studies 329/629

Submitted by gsweet on Thu, 2017-04-20 14:55

This course is a practicum, offering an opportunity to apply collective team work of a student/mentor alliance to building a launch pad for a technology-based venture. This course is open to Ross School MBA and BBA students as well as all UM graduate students. Student teams will work with mentors and principal investigators (PI) from UM faculty in the Medical School, College of Engineering and other divisions to build a business and marketing plan for a new technology or invention.

Entrepreneurship 500

Submitted by gsweet on Thu, 2020-05-07 16:41

Students will learn a wide range of concepts and skills to successfully navigate innovation-focused careers in small, medium, and large businesses and institutions. Students will study intellectual property, market and industry analysis, product-market fit, equity and stock options, program and project management, and communication, securing investment and government funding and more.

Finance 329/629

Submitted by gsweet on Mon, 2017-04-24 17:29

This course is a practicum, offering an opportunity to apply collective team work of a student/mentor alliance to building a launch pad for a technology-based venture. This course is open to Ross School MBA and BBA students as well as all UM graduate students. Student teams will work with mentors and principal investigators (PI) from UM faculty in the Medical School, College of Engineering and other divisions to build a business and marketing plan for a new technology or invention.

Health Behavior Health Education 679

Submitted by gsweet on Mon, 2020-08-31 14:46

This course offers an examination of U.S. health inequities from a historical lens and discussion of present-day issues. Through the readings, discussions, and assignments in this class, students will better understand historical policies, events, and movements that have led to health inequities and connect those to contemporary issues in the United States and within the field of public health. The course takes an intersectional perspective to examine health inequities, with a focus on inequities related to race, ethnicity, gender, and class.

Epidemiology 666

Submitted by gsweet on Sun, 2018-01-07 14:36

Reviews links between health conditions and socioeconomic development in low-income countries and trends in health and development indicators; socio-economic determinants of health, including poverty and income, education, nutrition, fertility, and culture and behavior; impact of globalization in terms of neo-liberal policies, trade and capital flows and the urbanization and their growth of the informal economy; examines the effects of health changes on economic growth and development.

Health Behavior Health Education 677

Submitted by gsweet on Mon, 2020-08-31 14:51

This course draws on the social-ecological model to consider the multi-level health impacts of immigration law enforcement on individuals, families and communities; the similarities between immigration enforcement conducted by ICE and law enforcement conducted by police; and how state violence is shaped by anti-Black, -Latino, and -Arab racism. Empirical data, articles, books, and media will be used to catalyze discussion and analysis of how immigration law enforcement impacts mixed-status communities throughout the U.S.

Health Management and Policy 619

Submitted by gsweet on Sun, 2018-01-07 14:47

This course analyzes the US policy process in relation to US healthcare and public health systems.  We explore how conditions within society are framed as problems, how problems are placed on political agendas, how problems get matched with potential solutions, and pay attention to the challenges of implementation and evaluation.

Health Management and Policy 626

Submitted by gsweet on Mon, 2020-08-31 14:55

This course is writing intensive and will critically examine aspects of health and policy reform from state and federal perspective. Taught primarily from a US perspective, topics with an international lens will be covered to explore domestic policy and international implications of policies and structures.

Social Work 560

Submitted by gsweet on Mon, 2018-01-15 10:57

This course is a generalist social work foundation offering in the Macro Practice Concentrations (Community Organization, Management, and Policy/Evaluation).  It covers basic content in these areas of social work method and prepares students to take the more advanced courses in their concentration.  It is partly survey in nature, touching on a range of methodologies and emphases, and providing an appreciation of the historical and contemporary importance of these methods in social work.  In addition, it deals with the process of professionalization and introduces students to a range of prac

Sociology 475

Submitted by gsweet on Mon, 2020-08-31 14:59

This course examines the influence of social and cultural factors on health, illness, and medical care.

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