Applied Policy Clinics Topics Course

This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in Creative Writing and is open to both undergraduate and graduate students.

Investigates a selected issue in public policy or leadership.

Caring well for an aging population is among the greatest challenges facing both the United States and the world. Significant gaps persist between the health and social systems that older adults need, and those to which they have access. This course uses a multidisciplinary approach--encompassing history, public health, ethics, the social sciences, and literature--to explore these gaps, their impact, and their meaning.

This course is an introduction to clinical ethics, which concerns the identification, analysis, and resolution of ethical problems arising in patient care. The course deals with two tiers of ethical problems occurring frequently in the clinical setting: those that are present in every clinical encounter and special problems that arise with particular patients.

Independent research for undergraduate students enrolled in the BA/BS/MPH 5 year program or other programs that may be related to Public Health or Ethics.

This course explores the premodern through a multidisciplinary and global lens. A series of UVA faculty team-taught modules will treat such topics as travel and trade, the invention of race, cross-cultural exchange, multilingualism, conflict and trans-regional encounters, global book arts, gender and sexualities, and global religious practice. Students will be guided in producing a final seminar paper that works across disciplinary boundaries.

Covers the practice of data science, including communication, exploratory data analysis, and visualization. Also covered are the selection of algorithms to suit the problem to be solved, user needs, and data. Case studies will explore the impact of data science across different domains.

Leadership and Public Policy foundational skills course.

This course examines the ethical issues arising around big data and provides frameworks, context, concepts, and theories to help students think through and deal with the issues as they encounter them in their professional lives.