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  • OFM 245: Desktop Publishing

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    This course is designed for office professional staff, as well as for personal use. Using Microsoft Office Publisher software, students will reinforce and apply Windows skills, publication design techniques, page set-up and document layout, and work with text and graphic elements in a wide variety of business and personal publications. This is primarily a hands-on course.
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  • OFM 250: Proofreading and Editing

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    This course develops proficiency in proofreading and editing skills for the workplace. Students develop skills to detect and correct spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors and to ensure the use of audience-appropriate language in written communications including memos, letters, reports, email messages, databases, presentation slides, advertisements, and spreadsheets. Students will learn correct formatting of documents from business, health care, finance, and education.
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  • PBH 101: Introduction to Public Health

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    This course is designed to provide an overview of public health in the United States and globally as well as engage students in dialogue about the discipline of public health, the profession, and the interdisciplinary approach to addressing population health issues. Students work together in small groups to analyze and evaluate health information, health care systems and the social determinants of health. The history of public health and its five core areas - epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental health, social behavioral health, and health policy - are explored.
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  • PBH 102: Communication in Public Health

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    In this course the critical role of communication within public health is explored. The application of health communication theory to practice including risk communication, health literacy, and cross-cultural issues are examined. Using evidence-based thinking, a foundational understanding of theoretical and applied considerations in developing communication strategies designed to impact health and health behavior is developed.
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  • PBH 200: Public Health Education

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    This course addresses the field of health education as it relates to Public Health. Theories, practices, and principles of health promotion and disease prevention within U.S. and global communities are discussed using an evidence-based thinking approach. The role of the Health Educator in assessing and planning for community based health challenges is explored.
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  • PBH 201: Public Health Administration in the U.S. Healthcare System

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    This course is designed to provide a foundation for understanding the organization of the U.S. healthcare system. The role of public health in the administration of health care services and strategies to improve healthcare efficiency are critically examined. Also addressed is the quality and cost of health care and how policy, planning, ethical issues, and public and private systems can and do impact the health of individuals and populations.
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  • PBH 202: Environmental Health

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    This course examines the impact of the environment on human health and explores strategies used by public health professionals to minimize negative environmental effects. Environmental health hazards, exposure pathways and control, and the influence of climate change on individual and population health are discussed.
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  • PHI 100: Introduction to Philosophy

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    A general introduction to philosophical issues and the methods of philosophical investigation. The course may be essentially historical in its approach or essentially problem-focused. Readings may be drawn from 'big names' in the history of philosophy (e.g., Aristotle, Plato, Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Mill, and others) or from contemporary 'state-of-the-discipline' sources, or from both. Issues will include some from the following, among others: freewill and determinism; ethical relativism v ethical objectivism; the existence and rationality of belief in the existence of a god; the mind and body problem and the problem of other minds; the nature of persons and the possibility of artificial persons (thinking computers); applied philosophy issues such as the problem of abortion, the problem of same-sex marriage, the problem of death penalty.
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  • PHI 101: Introduction to Ethics

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    This course is an introduction to the history of the philosophical examination of ethics from ancient Greece through contemporary thought in Western Philosophy will examined. Attention will also be given to non-Western ethical traditions (Confucianism, Buddhism, for example) that began even earlier than well-documented Western ethics. The substance of dominant varieties of objectivist views such as virtue ethics, utilitarianism, and deontological ethics will come under our scrutiny. Similar attention will be given to relativist/subjectivist opposition to these various objectivist views. An on-going focal point for all of the inquiries in the course will be the "debate" between supporters of objectivist views and supporters of "anti"-objectivist views as this "debate" has progressed through history. The course will also include discussion of the proper relation between the government and the diverse substantive ethical perspectives of individuals in a society such as the United States that is intentionally ethically pluralistic.
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  • PHI 120: Ethical Issues Affecting Consumers and the Health Care Professions

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    This course addresses the needs of the health care consumer and the provider alike. Stemming from a philosophical base, this course will examine controversies emerging from rapid technological advances and modern health care practice. Conflicts discussed range from the person's right to choose or refuse a particular course of treatment to issues of euthanasia, genetic research, and human experimentation. Students are encouraged to participate in discussions of ethical problems reported in the popular media and to develop a personal decision-making system which can be applied to a variety of ethical issues. Emphasis is on critical analysis and the incorporation of theory to ethical deliberations. The course is interactive, therefore, open discussion format and familiarity with use of the computer is essential.
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