Health Services Administration
Courses
HSAD 110 The Healthcare Environment for Future Healthcare Professionals 3.0 Credits
This course provides students who wish to become future health care practitioners with an understanding of the US health care environment in which they will be working. It is designed to engage thoughtful discussions about the unique challenges and opportunities for the health care workforce of the future. Students will learn about the structure and components of the US health care delivery landscape; how that structure evolved and continues to change over time; what impact change agents have on the careers of health care professionals; and who and what influences how health care will be delivered by the next generation of health care providers.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if major is HSAD
HSAD 210 Health-Care Ethics I 3.0 Credits
This course addresses introductory concepts and basic issues in health-care ethics. The topics include but are not limited to decision-making, professionalism and advocacy, confidentiality, truth-telling and informed consent.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 [Min Grade: C] or ENGL 102 [Min Grade: C] or ENGL 103 [Min Grade: C]
HSAD 212 Careers in the Health Professions 3.0 Credits
This course prepares students for career development by presenting various career options in health management introducing various methods of self-assessment and allowing students to learn about how to find a mentor, interview for a job and learn about the various career options in health management, the various professional organizations dedicated to health management careers, and the networking opportunities linked to those organizations.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
HSAD 215 Physician Practice Management 3.0 Credits
This is an introductory course covering physician practice management. It will focus on the historical development of the physician practice within the United States, relevant key management concepts—organizational structure and governance, strategic planning, marketing, finance/operations, human resources, quality, and information systems, for example—as well as related future trends.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
HSAD 225 Perspectives on Disability 3.0 Credits
This course surveys the major theories, political strategies, historical events, cultural critiques/interventions and policy goals of the Disability Rights Movement in the United States.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated 1 times for 6 credits
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 [Min Grade: D] or ENGL 111 [Min Grade: D]
HSAD 305 Aging & the Law 3.0 Credits
Obtaining adequate health care is a critical issue for many older adults; providing it is a significant societal challenge. Our society, as many others, has developed legislative and other social policies to address the increased frailty, both physical and/or cognitive, and the corresponding needs which accompany age. This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of how legal institutions (legislatures and courts) have responded to these needs for the ostensible protection of older adults. The instruments that these legal institutions have developed will be examined as their purposes, effectiveness, desirability, costs (economic and otherwise), and possible alternatives will be evaluated.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
HSAD 308 The Affordable Care Act 3.0 Credits
This course provides an overview of current practical issues related to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act including issues faced by providers and employers; effects of the law on public health and politics; and funding and legal issues related to the Affordable Care Act.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ENGL 103 [Min Grade: C] or ENGL 113 [Min Grade: C]
HSAD 309 Advanced Health-Care Ethics 3.0 Credits
This course builds on the foundation provided in Health Care Ethics and discusses such issues as chronic care, end of life, beginning of life, distributive justice and the right to health care.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: HSAD 210 [Min Grade: C]
HSAD 310 Introduction to Health-Systems Administration 3.0 Credits
The course is designed to assist the student in understanding and preparing for the unique challenges presented to managers in a health services administration career. History and current milieu of U.S. health care are considered, as well as the ever changing infrastructure of the health-services industry.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 [Min Grade: C] or ENGL 102 [Min Grade: C] or ENGL 103 [Min Grade: C]
HSAD 312 Development of World Health Care 3.0 Credits
This course examines a broad overview of the ongoing development of health-care policies, availability, and philosophy in a cross-section of countries by means of detailed case studies to examine both common and unique challenges and solutions, as well as global responses, to crises, such as plagues, epidemics, and natural disasters.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 [Min Grade: D] or ENGL 105 [Min Grade: D] or HUM 106 [Min Grade: D]
HSAD 313 Evolution of Health Care in the United States 3.0 Credits
This course will cover the evolution of health care in the U.S. from pre-colonial times to the present by discussing improvements in treatment institutions, modalities, philosophies and access to care, as well as the impact of major events in history on health-care discoveries on the delivery and administration of health services in the United States.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 [Min Grade: D]
HSAD 314 Aging in a Global Context 3.0 Credits
This course explores essential aspects of aging and provides a multidisciplinary perspective on global aging. It provides an important context for understanding the global patterns of aging around the world, including the demographic and epidemiological patterns. The course emphasizes how these changes have affected the support and services for those over 60 around the world. International efforts to address the emerging global opportunities and challenges related to population aging will also be discussed.The course will cover specific programs and patterns in specific countries.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 [Min Grade: D] and ENGL 102 [Min Grade: D]
HSAD 315 Interdisciplinary Health Services 3.0 Credits
This course focuses on the role, responsibilities, scope of practice, and special concerns of health-care providers and their disciplines. The concept of interdisciplinary health-care practice is examined, along with basic concepts of teamwork and team formation.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 [Min Grade: D] or ENGL 105 [Min Grade: D] or HUM 106 [Min Grade: D]
HSAD 316 Health Care across Cultures 3.0 Credits
Living in a pluralistic society poses many challenges and opportunities. This course examines the impact of cultural upon health-care decision. Concepts such as "health," "illness," "culture," "ethnicity," will be analyzed. Traditional and alternative approaches to the delivery of health care will be addressed.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 [Min Grade: D] or ENGL 105 [Min Grade: D] or HUM 106 [Min Grade: D]
HSAD 317 Religious Views on Health Care 3.0 Credits
Addresses the impact of a person's religious beliefs on the need for and delivery of health care. Specific issues will be discussed.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 [Min Grade: D] or HUM 101 [Min Grade: D]
HSAD 318 Health and Vulnerable Populations 3.0 Credits
Vulnerable populations, those with special needs for care or barriers to access care, have a significant impact upon health care, both in terms of concepts of justice and in systems of delivery. This course will look at the just distribution of health care through the eyes of various distinct vulnerable populations.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 [Min Grade: D] or ENGL 105 [Min Grade: D] or HUM 106 [Min Grade: D]
HSAD 319 Women and the Health Professions 3.0 Credits
This course explores women's early and controversial roles as health-care providers, the influence of government on women, and key contributions by women in the health professions.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 [Min Grade: D] or HUM 101 [Min Grade: D] or ENGL 111 [Min Grade: D]
HSAD 320 Managed Health Care 3.0 Credits
This course provides the student an opportunity to survey the major concepts and operational considerations of the provision of health-care services in a managed-care environment. The regulatory landscape as well as the physician/patient relationship is considered as a key to understanding the managed health care environment.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 [Min Grade: D] or ENGL 105 [Min Grade: D] or HUM 106 [Min Grade: D]
HSAD 321 Health-Care Human Resources 3.0 Credits
An introduction to the basic principles of human-resource management and their practical application in today's complex health-care organization. This course examines the role of human resources as a strategic partner within the organization.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: HSAD 310 [Min Grade: C] and HSAD 334 [Min Grade: C]
HSAD 322 Health-Care Law 3.0 Credits
Provides an overview of the major laws affecting health-care professionals and examines the current legal climate in health care.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 [Min Grade: C] or ENGL 102 [Min Grade: C] or ENGL 103 [Min Grade: C]
HSAD 323 Introduction to Long-Term Care Administration 3.0 Credits
This course covers organization, administrative of long term care services and post-acute services addressing the needs of the elderly and disabled populations. Long term care and post-acute care involves a description of the continuum of care, the types of providers and the range of services including nursing facilities, assisted living, housing, community-based services, and informal care giving. Also covered are the issues affecting integration across the continuum.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
HSAD 324 Health Technology and Ethical Responsibility 3.0 Credits
Developments in health care technology challenge many of our common assumptions about basic concepts such as health, disease, and normality. This course encourages students to consider some of the issues raised by changing health technology.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
Prerequisites: HSAD 210 [Min Grade: C] or PHIL 321 [Min Grade: C]
HSAD 325 Issues in Health Care System 3.0 Credits
This course provides the student with the opportunity to analyze management problems that are of current importance in today's health-care industry on a national and international level.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 [Min Grade: D] or ENGL 105 [Min Grade: D] or HUM 106 [Min Grade: D]
HSAD 326 Holism and Health Care 3.0 Credits
Details the development of medicine from the late nineteenth century to the present in view of the corresponding rise of interest in a holistic approach to health care by means of alternative and complementary medicine in relation to traditional medical practices.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 [Min Grade: D] or ENGL 105 [Min Grade: D] or HUM 106 [Min Grade: D]
HSAD 327 Partnerships in Health Care 3.0 Credits
Addresses health service as a collaborative venture identifying the primary stakeholders and partners in the administration of health care including clinicians, administrators, institutions, industry, private and governmental agencies, and the patient. In addition, practical strategies for developing effective partnerships are explored.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 [Min Grade: D] or ENGL 105 [Min Grade: D] or HUM 106 [Min Grade: D]
HSAD 328 Health Care for Diverse Groups 3.0 Credits
Examines the administration of health services and special needs to different subpopulations classified according to gender, ethnicity, race, weight (the obese), and sexual orientation.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 [Min Grade: D] or ENGL 105 [Min Grade: D] or HUM 106 [Min Grade: D]
HSAD 329 Health Care and the Media 3.0 Credits
Much of the public's perception of issues in health care comes from the media (newspapers, magazines, television, film, advertising, the internet). The course explores the interactive relationship between health care and the media in presenting information to the public.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ENGL 103 [Min Grade: D] or ENGL 105 [Min Grade: A] or HUM 108 [Min Grade: D]
HSAD 330 Financial Management in Health Care 3.0 Credits
Emphasizes basic financial management theory related to the health-care industry, as well as accounting practices for health-care organizations.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ACCT 115 [Min Grade: D] or ACCT 110 [Min Grade: D]
HSAD 331 [WI] Non-profits and Health Care 3.0 Credits
Provides an overview of the not-for-profit and advocacy sector of health care, explores business fundamentals and current models, selects a health topic, assesses the market, and assists students in developing their own not-for-profit and/or advocacy business.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: (HSAD 310 [Min Grade: C] and HSAD 332 [Min Grade: C])
HSAD 332 [WI] Health-Care Marketing 3.0 Credits
Provides a comprehensive review of marketing's role in the health-care field by examining the history of health-care marketing, the contributions of marketing to the strategic objectives of health-care organizations, and the effects of marketing on public relations and the consumer.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: HSAD 310 [Min Grade: C]
HSAD 333 Health, Illness, and the Arts 3.0 Credits
This course provides the opportunity to examine topics relevant to health and illness as depicted in the arts - primarily literature, film, and painting as well as other arts forms where appropriate.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 [Min Grade: D] and ENGL 102 [Min Grade: D] and ENGL 103 [Min Grade: D]
HSAD 334 Management of Health Services 3.0 Credits
In this course, students will learn forms and uses of traditional management functions - plan, direct, monitor, evaluate - as well as contemporary functions that are used in an array of health care services organizations. Students match skills and competencies within the respective domains of health services management.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: HSAD 310 [Min Grade: C]
HSAD 335 [WI] Health-Care Policy 3.0 Credits
This course provides an introduction to the development and implications of U.S. health-care policy, including key governmental and non-governmental participants and the political process.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: HSAD 310 [Min Grade: C] and PSCI 110 [Min Grade: D]
HSAD 336 Urban Health Care 3.0 Credits
Using an ecological model to analyze the special needs and issues in urban health care, students will examine the people, place, and politics of an urban area to assess the delivery and quality of health care and will complete an analysis of a real and current urban health-care-delivery problem, including solutions.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 [Min Grade: D]
HSAD 337 Health Care/Quality Improvement 3.0 Credits
Quality Improvement (QI) is a critical component of the health-care-delivery system in the United States. Because errors and reliability issues have major implications, standards and measures are imperative to ensure consistency and safety. As such, this course examines existing programs in place and best-industry practices.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 [Min Grade: D]
HSAD 340 Leadership in Health Services Administration 3.0 Credits
This course discusses issues in management and leadership in a health-care-administration setting by focusing on alternative organizational structures and the managerial role in these structures, as well as exploring managerial and leadership roles in specific health organizations and project management.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: HSAD 310 [Min Grade: C] and HSAD 334 [Min Grade: C]
HSAD 341 Risk Management in Healthcare Organizations 3.0 Credits
This course is an introduction to risk management in health care. It describes the roles of a risk manager and the risks associated with various health care settings. Regulatory, contractual and medical malpractice exposures are discussed and techniques for controlling and preventing loss are evaluated. Students prepare a risk management plan for a healthcare organization.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
HSAD 342 Children and Health Care 3.0 Credits
This course will focus on a range of issue facing the health-services industry in providing care to children with the goal of better understanding and meeting the special needs and challenges from both a direct care and systematic point of view.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 [Min Grade: D]
HSAD 343 Health and Illness in Film 3.0 Credits
This course analyzes various films with themes and stories related to health and illness in view of conceptual theories on health and illness and conceptual elements of film as a representational medium.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ENGL 101 [Min Grade: D] and ENGL 102 [Min Grade: D]
HSAD 345 Ethics in Health Care Management 3.0 Credits
This course focuses on one aspect of the role of health care management professionals: the ethical dimension. The course combines an understanding of ethical theory with the practical application of ethical principles to management issues that arise in the health care arena. Discussions will be guided by cases drawn from real work experiences.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
Prerequisites: HSAD 210 [Min Grade: C] or PHIL 321 [Min Grade: C]
HSAD 346 Mental Illness in the Media and Arts 3.0 Credits
The mentally ill and those who treat them are continually concerned about the portrayals of mental illness in the media and arts. Its often sensationalized and stigmatized image places an extra societal burden on the mentally ill and can lead to attempts to hide their illness rather than seek treatment. This course examines mental illness’s social constructs, their sources, and effects.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
HSAD 351 Ethical Issues in Reproduction 3.0 Credits
This course discusses ethical issues concerning human reproduction. The issues span contraception, abortion, assisted reproductive technologies, parenthood, and balancing fetal and maternal interests. Focus is placed on the variety of perspectives on these issues and underlying values.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
Prerequisites: HSAD 210 [Min Grade: C] or PHIL 321 [Min Grade: C]
HSAD 352 Ethics in Health Care Research 3.0 Credits
This course is designed to familiarize students with some of the ethical issues involved in health-care research. These issues include, but are not limited to, responsible authorship, use of human subjects, use of animals, defining and handling scientific misconduct, confidentiality, and conflicts of interest.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
Prerequisites: HSAD 210 [Min Grade: C] or PHIL 321 [Min Grade: C]
HSAD 353 Public Health Ethics 3.0 Credits
This course will address ethical issues in public health. Students will be exposed to a variety of views on topics including, but not limited to, human rights, the balancing of individual rights with public interests, managing disasters, epidemics, risky behaviors, and the meaning of health from a population standpoint.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Restrictions: Cannot enroll if classification is Freshman
Prerequisites: HSAD 210 [Min Grade: C] or PHIL 321 [Min Grade: C]
HSAD 357 Health Information Systems 3.0 Credits
This is an introductory course into Health Information Systems. The course will cover a wide range of healthcare information technology topics including management, governance, regulatory compliance and how to align with information technology. There is a growing trend and need for healthcare providers to align their practices with information technology in order to achieve the common goal of quality patient care while ensuring government and regulatory mandates are met. At the end of the course, students will be able to understand and apply the concepts discussed in class within their respective work places. We will relate the course materials to active cases to bring real life experience into the classroom. This course will focus on the partnership between technology and healthcare.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ENGL 103 [Min Grade: C] or ENGL 113 [Min Grade: C]
HSAD 359 Project Management in Healthcare 3.0 Credits
This course explores the operations and management of project activities in public health and healthcare settings care by employing proven techniques, tools, and methods that a team leader or administrator could use. Management skills are essential to the success of any health project or activity, or in any industry. The specific challenges inherent in the health environment require an understanding of the dynamics of project progression from conception and development, through implementation and attainment, to final closure, particularly within the context of the continually changing and evolving climate in the health field.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
HSAD 360 Applied Healthcare Leadership 3.0 Credits
Through a series of live actor simulations, students are placed in a realistic healthcare leadership environment where they will function in teams to analyze and offer solutions for complex organizational issues.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
HSAD 362 Madness, Mental Health and Psychiatry in the Modern West 4.0 Credits
This course will examine changing assumptions, attitudes and ideas about behavior variously labeled madness, insanity, or mental illness; the development of professions, treatments, institutions and policies dealing with it; and the changing experiences of those afflicted.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
HSAD 363 Health Care Privacy & Security 3.0 Credits
This is an introductory course in the privacy and security of health information in health care organizations. The course covers a wide range of healthcare Privacy & Security topics including Privacy and Security policies and procedures, regulatory requirements, Security Audit controls, selection of Security Framework and others. At the end of the course, students will be able to understand and apply the concepts such as security and privacy discussed in class within healthcare organizations. We will relate the course materials to active cases to bring real life experience into the classroom.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ENGL 103 [Min Grade: C] or ENGL 113 [Min Grade: C]
HSAD 364 Interprofessional Group Dynamics in Healthcare 3.0 Credits
This course focuses on the basic concepts of team formation and development, successful teamwork, and the importance of inter-professional teamwork and collaboration in today’s healthcare environment. Selected professions on the healthcare team will be examined. Consideration will be given to the responsibilities, scope of practice, and special concerns of each discipline.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
HSAD 365 Advanced Healthcare Finance 3.0 Credits
This course follows HSAD 330, Financial Management in Health Care and emphasizes the use of basic financial and accounting practices learned previously for the completion of 10 detailed Case Studies.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: HSAD 330 [Min Grade: C]
HSAD 366 Global Aging Intensive Course Abroad 3.0 Credits
This Intensive Course Abroad provides students the opportunity to explore global aging in the context of a specific country chosen for this term. Students will recognize significant patterns in demography throughout the world. They will apply methods of epidemiology and place the country in the context of global trends. After learning key historical events and figures affecting the current society, students will describe the placement of this country in the context of global demographic trends. Students will visit the host country, visit various sites significant for the aging population and will report on particular programs or interventions.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
HSAD I199 Independent Study in Health Services Administration 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
HSAD I299 Independent Study in Health Services Administration 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
HSAD I399 Independent Study in Health Services Administration 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
HSAD I499 Independent Study in Health Services Administration 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
HSAD T180 Special Topics in Health Services Administration 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
HSAD T280 Special Topics in Health Services Administration 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
HSAD T380 Special Topics in Health Services Administration 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
HSAD T480 Special Topics in Health Services Administration 3.0 Credits
This course covers topics of particular interest to students majoring in health-services administration. In different terms, a variety of topics are presented to the students. May be repeated for credit.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
Prerequisites: ENGL 103 [Min Grade: D] or ENGL 105 [Min Grade: A] or ENGL 108 [Min Grade: D]