HCAD 300. INTRODUCTION TO HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATION. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: junior standing.
This course provides an introduction to healthcare administration. Reviewed are leading practices in healthcare leadership and management. The focus is on the components of these systems, how they interact, and their internal and external controls.

HCAD 302. HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: junior standing.
This course focuses on how supervisors and managers of healthcare administration accomplish their tasks and build effective teams. Examined are models of supervision, leadership styles, impact of personal values, relationships, and medical staff management. Emphasis is on how to build teams and evaluate performance.

HCAD 303. HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOR. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: junior standing.
This course provides an introduction to organizational behavior. Identified and reviewed are skills commonly associated with professional behavior critical to establishing and demonstrating competence in young professionals. The focus is developing and enhancing professional behavior.

HCAD 304. HEALTHCARE COMMUNICATIONS. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: junior standing.
This course focuses on communicating topics related to health through an examination of theoretical frameworks, communication techniques, and different technologies including eheatlh and mhealth. Topics include clinician to client communication, peer to peer communication, health literacy, health in the media, and effective healthcare communication.

HCAD 305. HEALTHCARE DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: junior standing.
Satisfies: a university graduation requirement–diversity.
This course introduces the concept of health equity and social determinants of health. This course analyses gaps in the delivery of healthcare related to race, ethnicity, social class, gender, nationality, and migration status. This course helps students gain an understanding of health disparities and interventions that promote health equity by overcoming social barriers.

HCAD 306. BUDGETS AND POLICY FOR HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATION. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: junior standing.
This course introduces a variety of types of budgets used in healthcare administration. Also covered is the impact of health policy and health economics as considerations to the budget process. Students gain a working knowledge of the components, assumptions, and complexity of the budget process in health organizations.

HCAD 310. HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND DESIGN. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: junior standing.
This course covers the methods used in healthcare research and evaluation which includes research designs, measurement, methods of analysis, and evaluation of published literature. The objective is to provide an understanding of the research process and evidence-based research as it relates to healthcare.

HCAD 311. INTRODUCTION TO HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATION HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: junior standing.
This course covers human resource management (HRM) as an ongoing process consisting of various critical functions including human resource planning, recruitment, selection, training and development, job analysis, performance appraisal, compensation, health, and safety. Various external forces that constrain managerial decision-making are considered including laws and regulations dealing with equal opportunity, workplace diversity and multiculturalism, especially as these impact HR policies.

HCAD 320. HEALTHCARE STRATEGIC PLANNING. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: junior standing.
This course presents an overview of the strategic planning process components in public, private, and government organizations. Components explored include mission, vision and value review, environmental analysis, identification of assumptions and premises, internal assessment, customer/market analysis both internal and external, critical strategic issues, and plan operationalization. Students complete a strategic planning process/project with a community organization.

HCAD 350. INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: junior standing.
Satisfies: a university graduation requirement–global studies.
This course examines factors that impact global health systems, analysis of healthcare delivery systems and influential governmental, economic, social, and political forces. Consideration of healthcare resource development and allocation.

HCAD 401. HEALTHCARE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: junior standing.
This course introduces the information technology used in healthcare for administrative, clinical, and facility needs. Support systems for healthcare are also discussed. This is an overview to become familiar with the breadth and scope of technology in healthcare and its impact on patients, providers, and payers.

HCAD 402. FINANCE IN HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: junior standing.
This course focuses on the practical application of healthcare finance theory as it applies to the current healthcare environment. Revenue cycle and expense applications are explored in depth, particularly in relationship to the delivery of health care services. Private and public healthcare funding are explored. Specific emphasis is placed on understanding components of the income statement and balance sheet, developing a budget, and using these statements for analyzing operational change.

HCAD 410. QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: junior standing.
This course examines the application of quality management strategies by utilizing process improvement in healthcare settings. There is a focus on problem solving methodologies that utilizes team facilitation skills. Students incorporate tools for communication, relationship-building, coordination, and collaboration that focus on quality patient-centered care with safety as an imperative. Exposure to leadership models with opportunities for hands-on projects.

HCAD 411. RISK MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS IN HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: junior standing.
This course introduces the roles of local, state, and federal regulatory agencies and accrediting bodies; the enforcement of federal guidelines, standards, and regulations; and the issues and demands of the regulatory environment that affect healthcare risks and operations in the United States.

HCAD 412. HEALTHCARE LAW, REGULATIONS & ETHICS. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: junior standing.
This course is an introduction to health-related legislation, regulation, and ethics in healthcare administration. The legal and ethical implications for providers and consumers of health care are explored. Topics covered include contracts, fraud, and abuse, antitrust and corporate, criminal and tax law, informed consent, patient rights, medical worker issues, and conflict of interest. Ethics, risk management, and corporate compliance are discussed.

HCAD 440. HEALTHCARE MARKETING. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: junior standing.
Introduction to contemporary marketing theory, strategies, and implementation processes in healthcare organizations. Focus on identification of market opportunity, communication, planning and promotion, pricing decision-making, and development of distribution channels and service designs.

HCAD 490. HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATION CAPSTONE. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: senior standing, must be taken concurrently with HCAD 495.
Satisfies: a university graduation requirement–senior capstone.
This course examines global and United States health care issues. This information is put forth in a context that allows healthcare administration seniors to better plan, design, and implement programs that are sensitive to the health needs of diverse populations. This course synthesizes knowledge and experience to identify better ways to implement health care delivery in a variety of settings.

HCAD 495. INTERNSHIP IN HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATION. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: senior standing.
This internship serves as a culminating experience for students in the Healthcare Administration program. The organization at which the internship experience occurs is chosen based on the student's goals and the organization's needs. Students learn the day-to-day operation of a healthcare organization by spending 20 hours a week on-site under direct supervision.

HCAD 496. EXPERIMENTAL COURSE. 1-5 Credits.

Experimental.

HCAD 497. WORKSHOP, SHORT COURSE, CONFERENCE, SEMINAR. 1-5 Credits.

HCAD 498. SEMINAR. 1-5 Credits.

HCAD 499. DIRECTED STUDY. 1-5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: permission of the instructor, department chair and college dean.