Course Descriptions
Course Title: The Obesity Pandemic: Introduction to Bariatric Science
3 Graduate CreditsCourse Description:
Bariatric Science is an evidence-based science that focuses on the research, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of obesity and its related biopsychosocial disorders. This course will explore the 20th century emergence of the obesity pandemic. Students will become familiar with the multi-factorial pathogenesis of obesity: genetic factors, the environment, psychosocial influences as well as current research that offers a multi-modality approach to management, treatment and prevention.
Course Title: Culture/Health: A World View
3 Graduate CreditsCourse Description:
This course provides students with a world view of health, culture, food, and nutrition habits of the most common ethnic and racial groups living in the United States. The course is designed to help health and education professionals understand, communicate, counsel, and develop effective interventions with members of different ethnic and religious groups in a culturally competent manner.
Course Title: Health Psychology: Focus on Obesity
3 Graduate CreditsCourse Description:
This course introduces, investigates and examines the biological, psychological and social origins of many contemporary diseases and disorders such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer with a special focus on obesity, the bariatric sciences and the mind/body connection. Students will examine and evaluate their own lifestyles and health behaviors, thus becoming more sensitive to human behaviors and conditions that impede behavioral change.
Course Title: Psychosocial Implications of Obesity: A Lifespan Perspective
3 Graduate CreditsCourse Description:
Bariatric Science is an evidence-based science that focuses on the research, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of obesity and its related This course focuses on the psychological and social processes that influence the development of obesity as well as the implicit psychosocial consequences of obesity throughout the lifespan. Dangerous dieting, bullying, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, personality disorders, depressive disorders, dismorphic disorder, substance abuse, and smoking acquisition are mental health disorders concomitant with obesity.