Graduate Course Directory and Schedules

Meditation is often helpful in reducing stress, discovering inner resources for peace of mind, healing, creativity, and calming of spirit. Meditation is a universal, health-giving resource used for hundreds of years and in most cultures. This course will introduce the student to different methods of meditation, including gazing, imagery, breathing, mindfulness and other methods.

This course emphasizes muscular endurance training for the upper body, lower body, and abdominals. In a typical session, we use dumbbells, soft weights, tubing, steps, small medicine balls, and body resistance to challenge every major muscle group in the body. This class is an excellent choice for participants who get plenty of cardiovascular training through other activities and want to concentrate on muscular development.

This class gives instruction and practice in the use of resistance machines, free weights and other training implements. It is a self-paced class and individual workout plans are expected. Instruction will be given on proper lifting technique and spotting. Students are requested to follow a routine in order to achieve best results. Students can proceed on their own or arrange a time to design a program with the instructor. All weight room rules will be strictly enforced.

This class is reality based: we will teach what works best to defend against threats to your life and body in the real world. The training exposes you to simulated verbal attacks from obnoxious bar patrons, vulgar street thugs and the common irate, shopper who gets in your face and starts cussing a blue streak in the parking lot. As a reality based class the students are presented with live simulations which forces one to function even while jacked up on adrenaline. Since the adrenal rush is an instinctual reaction to stress, the trick is learning to harness and focus all that power into one’s defense by using tools that don’t require size or strength for the average person. Preferred strategy: remain cognizant of surrounding at all times. This increases our chance of being successful and fluctuates from day to night.

As a gateway course of the OHSU-PSU undergraduate Indigenous Health Concentration, this foundational course will engage in concepts of Indigenous values, knowledge and perspectives and launch students into concepts of racial healing and racial justice for health equity. This course will introduce students to a decolonizing framework to advance health equity that centers on the strengths of Indigenous peoples.

Examines social, behavioral, and environmental community health-related issues and the controversies that surround them. This course will be a recommended prerequisite for all upper-division classes in the major.

Designed to introduce the anatomical and mechanical principles of kinesiology and biomechanics and their influences upon human movement/physical activity to include; Fundamental principles of the anatomy related to the musculoskeletal system to include; basic muscular structure, functional anatomy of joints and basic principles of physics.

Examines scientific literature regarding lifestyle choices that promote optimal health and functioning. Behaviors regarding self-protection, self-care, and health promotion are compared to recommendations emerging from this literature.

Students will investigate the Missing Murdered Indigenous Women and People epidemic through a multi-layered decolonizing framework. They will study theory and praxis centered around historical trauma from colonization, the long-term effects of colonialism, and the social and system-level responses that serve to further disempower Indigenous women and girls and perpetuate the ongoing cycle of colonial violence against them. Students will also study critical healing and strengths-based approaches drawn from Indigenous values, experiences, and perspectives to address this critical issue.

This course presents an overview of health policymaking and describes health policy at the state and federal levels. In addition to the policy process, special emphasis is placed on the role of health services and public health managers and other advocates, and the role they play in crafting policy. The course examines new developments in health policy as they are introduced during the duration of the course and follows them throughout their journey.