Courses

• SAR AT 650: Clinical Reasoning Capstone
  (2-week class; on-campus; comprehensive)This culminating course features a series of activities designed to assess students' readiness to practice as athletic trainers.
• SAR AT 672: Patient-Oriented Evidence for Athletic Trainers
  This course, arranged to meet the needs of the individual student, is designed to provide the student with a substantial foundation in core knowledge and clinical application of the principles of evidence-based practice. Faculty will work with students to determine their baseline level of knowledge regarding foundations and application of EBP principles. Working from this baseline, specific learning objectives and expected outcomes will be determined.
• SAR HP 150: Freshman Year Experience
  This course is designed to provide an orientation to freshmen about the college experience. Expectations, guidelines and resources will be made available to aid freshmen in making informed decisions about the quality of their education while clarifying and enhancing the students' experiences with the Boston University community. Interaction with faculty advisors and peer mentors is provided.
• SAR HP 151: Introduction to the Health and Rehabilitation Professions
  Freshmen Seminar. Exploration of the roles and functions of the health and rehabilitation disciplines. Introduction to the health care system and its impact on society. Sargent students only.
• SAR HP 220: Occupation and Health
  Exploration of the factors that influence how people spend their time, including their choice of activity and their ability to perform important and meaningful activities, and of the impact of these occupations on health and well-being across the life course.
• SAR HP 225: Introduction to Critical Inquiry in Behavior and Health
  This course provides foundation skills in effective and efficient search of information resources relevant to the study of behavior and health, including on-line databases (e.g., PubMed, PsychInfo, CINAHL, NARIC), government sites, and other web sources. Students will learn basic skills to critically evaluate these information sources and to evaluate published research using quantitative and qualitative methods as needed to write a research-based paper.
• SAR HP 252: Health and Disability Across the Lifespan
  Overview of healthy development across the lifespan followed by an examination of common conditions that typically begin in certain stages. Each condition will be examined for its individual, group and systemic impacts.
• SAR HP 320: Health Conditions across the Life Course
  Overview of medical and psychosocial aspects of selected chronic diseases, with a particular focus on the impact of the disease and its management on the person's daily life.
• SAR HP 345: Introduction to Sports Medicine
  Intended for students interested in sports, coaching, medicine and exercise, this course provides an introduction to prevention of injury and illness, basic exercise principles, and first aid for an active population.
• SAR HP 353: Organization and Delivery of Health Care in the U.S.
  The focus of this interdisciplinary course is on increasing the student's understanding of the health care system, the social, environmental, and behavioral factors that affect health care, and on increasing the student's ability to work in interdisciplinary teams. The student will actively engage in individual work, group discussion and teamwork through written, oral, and web site assignments.
• SAR HP 405: Practicum and Seminar in Behavior and Health
  Practical experience in a health or social service related setting related to the student's specialization area. Includes participation in weekly seminar.
• SAR HP 412: Abnormal Behavior in Rehabilitation
  Survey of theory, research, and therapeutic interventions related to the rehabilitation of persons with psychiatric disabilities. Presents an overview of maladaptive problems in living from personal, biological, social, and environmental perspectives. Emphasizes issues of special relevance to health and rehabilitation professionals. 4 credits, 1st semester
• SAR HP 495: Senior Thesis
  
• SAR HP 500: Helping Skills: Fundamentals of Health Communications
  The course is designed to improve the student's cultural competence, interpersonal and human relations skills. Through lecture, experiential activities and class discussions, students explore the meaning of helping/healing and identify the factors that facilitate counseling and professional relationships. These skills are also fundamental for health promotion programs.
• SAR HP 504: Clinical Athletic Training III
  Continued athletic training experience under the supervision and guidance of a preceptor. Course content relates to career planning, pharmacology, psychology of injury and recovery, and non-orthopedic conditions. Additionally this course incorporates content designed to integrate students in DPT clinical education.
• SAR HP 505: Clinical Athletic Training IV
  Continued athletic training experience under the supervision and guidance of a preceptor. Course content includes examination of contemporary issues in a group-based discussion format.
• SAR HP 515: Practicum in Education
  Education experience under the supervision and guidance of a faculty member. This class will expose students to the theoretical foundations of educational practice and allow students to experience classroom teaching and evaluation from an instructor's perspective.
• SAR HP 522: Health/Lifespan
  
• SAR HP 531: Clinical Medicine I
  An overview of tissue response to injury, pain transmission, and pharmacology provide the foundation from which students will learn about physical agents and specific conditions from a medical perspective. Students will become familiar with the theoretical and practical application of physical agents as it relates to tissue response to injury and pain control. The laboratory portion of this course emphasizes safe and effective application of these modalities using a problem-solving approach to treatment planning and implementation.
• SAR HP 532: Clinical Medicine II
  This course introduces the athletic training and physical therapy student to the normal and abnormal physiology of different body systems as well as differential diagnoses in common medical conditions. Factors associated with those body systems that influence AT or PT examination and intervention will be discussed. Also discussed is when referral to other practitioners is recommended and required.

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