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GNSX - 3099 Theories in Practice (3)
Surveys theoretical developments in the fields of gender and sexuality studies. Covers key concepts, thinkers, and debates in feminism, sexuality studies, and masculinity studies. Requisite courses: Take GNSX-2100 .
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GNSX - 3400 Global Politics of Gender (3)
Addresses gender issues in the local context of women’s movements in several regions and countries around the world as articulated by feminist scholars within those countries. Uses a comparative perspective to consider the diversity of issues and perspectives within women’s/feminist movements around the globe.
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GNSX - 3450 History Of Sexuality In The US (3)
Provides a historical perspective on how sexual attitudes, politics and human rights shape social policies and practices in current contexts. Examines the role of sexuality during major historical moments, including medieval sexuality, 20th Century American history, focusing on the work of sexologists, queer history, HIV/AIDS, and other topics.
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GNSX - 3500 Methods of Inquiry (3)
Examines approaches to research and research methodologies utilized by feminist and queer scholars to study issues related to gender and sexuality. Considers ethical and political dimensions to research methods and knowledge production. Requisite courses: Take GNSX-3100.
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GNSX - 3600 Politics Of Reproduction (3)
Examines the various ways that power shapes human reproductive rights and behavior from an historical, contemporary, national and global perspective.
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GNSX - 4000 Advanced Topics in Gender and Sexuality Studies (3)
Examines advanced topics in gender and sexuality studies. Focuses study through topic-related readings, research, fieldwork and/or projects. Note: Can be repeated for credit with different topic. Requisite courses: Take GNSX-3100.
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GNSX - 4700 Independent Study (1-3)
Individual readings and/or project in gender and sexuality studies under the supervision of the faculty. Can be repeated for credit with different topic.
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GNSX - 4800 Internship in Gender and Sexuality Studies (1-3)
Provides supervised, practical experiences in applied settings. Students work under the direction of a site supervisor and faculty director to carry out directed tasks in an approved field site related to the discipline of gender and sexuality studies. Note: To be enrolled in this course, students must have their proposals approved.
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GNSX - 4850 Undergraduate Research (1-3)
Provides an opportunity to further develop research skills in quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods and to actively participate in a practical research experience. Note: Can be repeated for credit with different topic. Requisite courses: Take GNSX-3500 .
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GNSX - 4869 Sex, Drugs, Rock, and Recovery (3)
Explores the concept of sexual health and examines related multicultural topics from theoretical and clinical perspectives. Develops strategies to work with sensitive sexual topics in the treatment realm and examine their personal attitudes toward atypical sexual behaviors. Fosters increased comfort in discussing sexual issues with clients.
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GNSX - 4900 Senior Seminar (3)
Presets current debates in gender and sexuality studies as the culminating experience of the Gender and Sexuality Studies major and minor. Focuses on synthesis of pervious coursework and application of theory and research within the context of activism and advocacy. Requisite courses: Take GNSX-3500 .
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Geography |
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GEOG - 1100 Geography, Non-Western World (3)
Examines the ways in which location, climate, resources, and cultural factors promote and inhibit change in the developing areas of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
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GEOG - 2100 Physical Geography (3)
Features investigations into the natural systems of the earth and their relationship to human activities. Includes examinations of the earth’s energy, water, and nutrient balances and how these balances influence and are influenced by human activities. Examines soils, climates, hydrology, tectonic activity, landforms, and vegetation from a global as well as urban perspective. Emphasizes understanding the various natural systems and how they relate to the built environment. Equivalent to GEOG-310.
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GEOG - 2200 North American Geography (3)
Examines the spatial and environmental aspects of economic activity. Covers the economics of prehistory and continues through the origin of agriculture and cities. Investigates aspects of the global and regional economy, including urban systems, agricultural systems, forestry, mineral resources, and ocean resources. Equivalent to GEOG-320.
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GEOG - 2500 World Regional Geography (3)
This teleclass, produced by PBS and Annenberg/CPB, builds an understanding of geography by examining the eleven regions of the world, their characteristics, and their interconnections. Perspectives from physical, political, historical, economic, and cultural geography are used. It also provides an examination of the many geographic forces currently at work in shaping the complex features of the world’s civilizations and environments and insights into a range of global geographic issues and global change. Equivalent to GEOG-405.
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GEOG - 3100 Nonwestern Economic Geography (3)
Examines the development and status of economic systems in various regions of the world other than Western Europe and North America, the importance of economics to geographical region, and the geographical differences that effect economics. Prerequisites: None
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GEOG - 4470 Human Geography (3)
Examines methods and approaches in human geography. Analyzes spatial perspective including the concepts of culture, landscape, region related to interpretation of human settlement patterns, social conflict, and social change. Equivalent to GEOG-447.
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Geographical Information Systems |
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GIS - 2100 Introduction to Geographical Information Systems-(GIS) (3)
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) provides researchers, policy makers, and citizens with a powerful analytical framework for decision making. GIS has advanced the way in which many disciplines examine problems by incorporating components of space and time not previously considered. An introduction to the principles and theory behind geographic data and experience in the use of state-of-the-art GIS software and related equipment will be provided.
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GIS - 2200 Intermediate Geographical Information Systems-(GIS) (3)
Principles of data acquisition, processing, and display through digital methods will be covered. Spatial structures and algorithms will be used as examples of current GIS applications. Vector-based GIS analysis and mapping will be examined from the physical, biological, and social sciences. Spatial querying, database management, site suitability analysis, proximity analysis, geo-database creation, and model building will be introduced. Prerequisite: take GIS-2100 .
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Global Studies |
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GBLS - 1100 Introduction to Global Studies (3)
Introduces globalization and the interconnections among people and places as a result of globalization. Traces the impact that globalization, sustainable development, global and geopolitics, and cultural integration/coherence and diversity have had on different regions of the
world. Explores the history of globalization, economic, and social development. Prerequisites: None
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GBLS - 2100 Cross-cultural Relationships (3)
Explores the application of anthropological, historical, political, and sociological concepts, techniques, and information to understanding cross-cultural relationships across the globe. Discusses the relevance of cross-cultural relationships to economic, social, cultural, and political development issues.
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Health Administration |
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HLAD - 3099 Healthcare Organization (3)
Introduces students to the foundational principles and their applications to current issues in health care organizational management and structure. Provides students the tools, concepts, and frameworks needed to make practical decisions relating to organizational structure and management of health systems. This course also introduces analytical and written inquiry as a mode to explain health care theories and approaches to challenges and barriers within the system. Equivalent to HLAD-3105.
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HLAD - 3101 Introduction to Healthcare Management Strategies (3)
Reviews management theory and function and applies concepts to healthcare and other non-profit organizations. Reviews the functions of administrative and medical management emphasizing the interrelationships among planning, organizing, directing, and controlling for individual departments and for-profit and non-profit healthcare organizations. Note: Offered in both face to face and online format. Equivalent to HLAD-301.
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HLAD - 3102 Principles of Healthcare Microeconomics (3)
Focuses on the principles of microeconomics which examine the basic fundamentals of the theory of the consumer, theory of the firm, market structures, resource markets, income distribution and poverty, and important issues of public choice, market failure, healthcare, and international economics. Introduces the theoretical and analytical framework at the introductory level of microeconomics that can be applied to healthcare. Equivalent to HLAD-302.
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HLAD - 3103 Basics of Healthcare Informatics (3)
Provides an overview of collection, storage, retrieval, communication, and optimal use of health related data, information, and knowledge. Covers introductory concepts of health systems analysis techniques, nature of computer applications in healthcare and problem-solving, and discusses the future of health information system technology. Includes an introduction to and use of database software in healthcare. Equivalent to HLAD-303.
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HLAD - 3104 Healthcare Statistics (3)
Provides a basic review of elementary statistics and intermediate algebra. Applies analysis to healthcare data. Covers required healthcare utilization statistics and analysis and its application to industry standards and current results. Includes utilization, productivity, use rates, financial ratios, and intensity of service analyses for a variety of healthcare organizations. Equivalent to HLAD-304.
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HLAD - 3105 Health Care Organization (3)
Provides an understanding of how health care is organized in the United States and the way it is provided to consumers.
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HLAD - 3106 Introduction to Epidemiology (3)
Presents use of descriptive and analytic epidemiology, include: classification of disease, definitions of incidence and prevalence, uses of rates, rate adjustment, outbreak investigation, study design, cohort studies, case-control studies, experimental studies, life tables, and screening. Note: Offered in both face to face and online format. Equivalent to HLAD-335. Prerequisites: take HLAD-3103 , HLAD-3104 .
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HLAD - 3107 Medical Sociology (3)
This course applies sociological knowledge, concepts, and methodologies to healthcare processes for the purpose of enhancing the understanding of health administrators on the dynamics of interaction between patients and providers. In doing so, the course offers an overview of the diverse field of medical sociology from a theoretical and an applied perspective. Equivalent to HLAD-340. Prerequisites: take HLAD-3099 , HLAD-3108 .
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HLAD - 3108 Policy Politics in Healthcare (3)
Provides the student with theoretical tools required to understand local, state, and federal policies beginning with an appreciation of the policy process, policy analysis, healthcare ethics and its intersections with economics and political theory. Recent policy developments in healthcare are discussed from a political and ethical perspective.
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HLAD - 3109 Ethics in Healthcare Admin (3)
Presents some of the major ethical problems confronting society, the healthcare system, and the healthcare administrator. Each student will be encouraged to synthesize a personal professional philosophy to deal with the ethical dilemmas inherent in health services delivery. Note: Offered in both face to face and online format.
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HLAD - 3201 Healthcare Vocabularies (3)
Provides an overview of concepts such as Systematized Nomenclature Of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED), Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) 9 and 10 Clinical Modification (CM) and Procedure Coding System (PCS), Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) / Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS), medical vocabulary standards, natural language processing and the role of clinical terminology in electronic health records. Prerequisites: None
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HLAD - 3202 Healthcare Operations Management (3)
Covers basics of operations improvement, provides overview of the significant environmental trends in the healthcare industry. Addresses procedures and services in healthcare, control of quality, in-depth study of quality and performance improvement methodologies, policy development and documentation in healthcare. Focuses on strategic implementation of process improvement programs, techniques and tools in the healthcare environment with its complex reimbursement systems, physicians relations, workforce challenges and strong governmental regulations. Prerequisite: HLAD - 3099 Healthcare Organization (3)
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HLAD - 3203 Health Information Technology and Systems Analysis and Design (3)
Addresses systems analysis and design, healthcare system selection and evaluation processes, national health initiatives in health IT, systems life cycle analysis, workflow process re-engineering and design, process modeling and planning methods of healthcare IT. Prerequisite: Basic computer literacy course such as CPSC - 2005 Introduction to Computer Technology (3) .
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HLAD - 4001 Independent Study (1-8)
Individual reading, research, and/or project in health administration under the supervision of the full-time faculty. Equivalent to HLAD-470.
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HLAD - 4002 Internship (1-8)
Designed to provide health administration students with supervised practical experiences in applied settings. Equivalent to HLAD-480.
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HLAD - 4099 Health Administration Practicum (3)
Provides the student with a terminal experience integrating classroom learning and the field of practice. Reinforces and reviews competencies gained in health administration and gives students an opportunity to achieve professional growth and administrative skills. Equivalent to HLAD-490.
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HLAD - 4101 Healthcare Organizational Behavior (3)
Analyzes the behavior of people in healthcare organizations. Discusses organizational motivation, leadership, group behavior, communication, and decision-making for profit and non-profit healthcare organizations. Discusses the similarities and differences in various types of healthcare organizations. Equivalent to HLAD-401.
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HLAD - 4103 Legal Aspects of Healthcare (3)
Discusses legal implications and ramifications of conduct in health services administration. Introduces principles of administrative law that form the foundation of decision-making processes in the health services arena. Equivalent to HLAD-465.
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HLAD - 4104 Healthcare Economics (3)
Applies economic analysis to health and healthcare services. Examines the concept of health as human capital. Investigates special features of the supply, demand, distribution, and economic impact of healthcare delivery. Equivalent to HLAD-460.
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HLAD - 4105 Management in the Healthcare Setting (3)
Examines the management, environment, and personnel of diverse healthcare facilities. Emphasizes applying descriptive information to various operational situations and problems in specific healthcare departments and on general problems encountered by junior or mid-level managers. Equivalent to HLAD-455. Prerequisites: take HLAD-4101 , HLAD-4103 , HLAD-4104 .
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HLAD - 4106 Healthcare Accounting (3)
Covers financial and managerial accounting concepts and their applications to healthcare organizations. Includes financial statement analysis, cost finding, and cost analysis. This course is also structured to prepare students for the long-term care administrators licensing examination. Equivalent to HLAD-502. Prerequisites: take HLAD-4101 , HLAD-4103 , HLAD-4104 .
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HLAD - 4107 Healthcare Human Resource Management (3)
Focuses on human resource management, program, and policies. Addresses recruitment of health professionals, manpower requirements, staffing, training, development, examination of qualifications standards, performance appraisals, and employee morale. Examines methods of developing leadership in supervisory health managers, issues of wage and salary administration, and labor relations issues in healthcare. Equivalent to HLAD-503. Prerequisites: take HLAD-4101 , HLAD-4103 , and HLAD-4104 .
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HLAD - 4108 Health Planning (3)
Introduces health planning concepts, methods, and data sources useful in developing community and institutional health plans. Covers demographic and patient-specific data and concepts of epidemiology. Equivalent to HLAD-450. Prerequisites: take HLAD-4101 , HLAD-4103 , HLAD-4104 .
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HLAD - 4111 Healthcare Information Systems (3)
Provides an overview of enterprise-wide systems, health IS repositories and databases, laboratory, pharmacy and radiology information systems, voice recognition systems and role in healthcare, computerized provider order entry (CPOE), clinical decision support systems (CDSS), historical, current and emerging health information systems, linkages among healthcare IT and business, planning and governance, characteristics of health IS and comparisons to systems in other industries. Prerequisite: HLAD - 3203 Health Information Technology and Systems Analysis and Design (3)
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HLAD - 4112 Healthcare Statistics II (3)
Covers intermediate statistics concepts especially as related to healthcare, including regression, biostatistics, use of clinical IS in performing clinically-effective research; analysis of “big data” / business intelligence, statistics use in decision-making, data mining in healthcare, part 1. Prerequisites: HLAD - 3104 Healthcare Statistics (3) , internet access, and the ability to use the Learning Management System - Blackboard.
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HLAD - 4901 Institutional Management for Healthcare Organizations (3)
Designed to be the capstone course for the bachelor of health administration. Discusses reading and research in the areas of healthcare, as well as investigation of administrative situations in healthcare settings. Equivalent to HLAD-468. Prerequisites: take HLAD-3104 , HLAD-4103 , HLAD-4105 , HLAD-4107 .
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HLAD - 5001 Current Topics in Health Administration (1-3)
Covers various topics relevant to current developments in the health administration field, such as managed care, reengineering, patient-centered care, TQM/CQI, disease management, budgeting, finance, personnel, planning, task analysis, team building, changing work force, healthcare paradigm shift, and many other topics. Equivalent to HLAD-582.
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HLAD - 5002 Study Abroad: Exploring the Swedish and Estonian Health Care Systems (3)
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) ranks Sweden as the best healthcare system in the world. In addition, the healthcare system in Sweden is often used as a model by other countries. This international health course offers opportunities to develop cross-cultural competencies for students with healthcare experience. They will explore questions such as these: What makes Swedish healthcare system the best? and How much of that can be replicated in other parts of the world? Prerequisites: Must be a declared undergraduate or graduate major in Health Administration with a GPA of 3.0 or higher; undergraduate majors must have passed HLAD-3099 with a B or higher; graduate majors must have passed HLAD-7101 with a B or higher.
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HLAD - 5003 Exploring Healthcare System and Culture of China (3)
Explores the healthcare system and culture of China. Provides students with critical thinking skills focusing on understanding how China can provide universal coverage for an enormous population, but the United States cannot. Exposes students directly to the Chinese culture that has significant influence on China’s healthcare philosophy and its delivery system.Explores the healthcare system and culture of China. Provides students with critical thinking skills focusing on understanding how China can provide universal coverage for an enormous population, but the United States cannot. Exposes students directly to the Chinese culture that has significant influence on China’s healthcare philosophy and its delivery system. Requires special permission of Instructor for enrollment.
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HLAD - 5101 Introduction to Long-Term Care (3)
Provides a basic orientation to the long-term care continuum, including both nursing homes and noninstitutional alternatives, such as home health agencies and adult day care. Examines the long-term care needs of the chronically ill and disabled, and actual and proposed public policy responses to those needs. Equivalent to HLAD-520.
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HLAD - 5102 Nursing Home Administration (3)
Examines principles in the management of skilled nursing facilities and related institutions for the chronically ill and disabled. Explores issues in the regulation and reimbursement of nursing homes in Illinois. Equivalent to HLAD-525.
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HLAD - 5103 Introduction to Managed Care (3)
Provides an overview to managed care as it is evolving in the United States. Emphasis is placed on mainstream programs experiencing substantial success in the market place. Topics include the history of managed care, operating procedures, and techniques employed by managed care plans, and relationships with physicians, employers, and members. Equivalent to HLAD-530. Prerequisites: take HLAD-3099 , MGMT-2100 .
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HLAD - 5104 Health IT Leadership (3)
Addresses strategy, planning and IT alignment with the healthcare business; leadership in e-health environment; systems thinking and theory; management’s role in major IT initiatives; assessing and achieving value in health IT systems. Prerequisite: HLAD - 4111 Healthcare Information Systems (3)
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HLAD - 5105 Human Computer Interaction (3)
Covers topics relevant to healthcare technologies including usability of healthcare information systems; human factors engineering, work organization and tools; evaluation methods; user-centered design; interaction design and interface design. Prerequisite: HLAD - 4111 Healthcare Information Systems (3)
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HLAD - 6001 Health Administration Lecture Series (1-3)
Health practitioners discuss many of the issues and problems of the contemporary American healthcare delivery system. Major topics include the role of government, value and ethical considerations, the hospital and the consumer, and issues of manpower, financing, and quality of care. Equivalent to HLAD-630.
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HLAD - 6101 Legal Issues in Health Technology (3)
Provides an overview of growth in computers and communications technology; legal aspects of healthcare data privacy and security; electronic data interchange and compliance-related issues; policy and regulatory concerns of health data; interdependence and implementation of enterprise information policy; and patient rights and regulations. Prerequisite: HLAD - 4111 Healthcare Information Systems (3)
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HLAD - 7101 Introduction to Healthcare Organization (3)
This is a beginning interdisciplinary graduate course in healthcare organization and administration. The course deals conceptually and factually with the problems and issues of current healthcare delivery systems. The course is an introductory macroanalysis of the U.S. health care delivery systems. It consists of five major parts: a) determinants of health and healthcare services; b) organization of healthcare services; c) financing of healthcare services; d) coordination and control of these three systems; and finally, e) a synthesis: reorganization of healthcare services. The course is designed for healthcare administration students to achieve an understanding and knowledge of the current healthcare delivery systems to enable them to develop and implement appropriate current and future healthcare policies and programs. Equivalent to HLAD-700.
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HLAD - 7102 Community Health and Managerial Epidemiology (3)
Overviews population-based health issues and their administrative implications. Covers such topics as concepts of epidemiology, measurement of health and diseases, determinants of health, cultural and linguistically impacts on community health, and applications of epidemiology in health administration. Focuses on emerging trends and issues in disease patterns, diversity, community resource allocation, and improving and reforming the healthcare delivery system. Equivalent to HLAD-701. Prerequisite: take HLAD-3104 .
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HLAD - 7103 Information Systems for Healthcare Managers (3)
Provides an introduction to computers used to manage and analyze healthcare information. This course includes introductory concepts of computer technology and management of health information systems, concepts of system analysis and problem-solving, and extensive hands-on experience with various microcomputer software packages. Equivalent to HLAD-702. Prerequisite: take MIS-2101 .
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HLAD - 7104 Introduction to Health Services Research (3)
Introduces students to the field of health services research, which is defined as “a field of inquiry using quantitative or qualitative methodology to examine the impact of the organization, financing, and management of healthcare services on the access to, delivery, cost, outcomes, and quality of services.” Topics to be examined include general concepts in the field, methodological strategies, and critiques of the existing body of research literature. Equivalent to HLAD-703.
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HLAD - 7105 Applied Research Methods for Health Administration (3)
Introduces basic research methods and techniques to provide students with a sound foundation for undertaking research within health services organizations by emphasizing major steps in conducting a research, including conceptualization, research design, measurement, sampling, data collection and analysis. The statistical section of this course focuses on appropriate use and interpretation of commonly used statistics. Ethical issues will be referred to as appropriate throughout the semester. Equivalent to HLAD-705. Prerequisite: take STAT-4720.
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HLAD - 7106 Database Design and Administration of Healthcare System (3)
Structured Query Language (SQL) is the dominant language for database queries. Healthcare organizations have to store data in a SQL server for data processing. This course is not only designed to provide the core foundation for installing, managing, and supporting the SQL server, but also designed to help the student understand a compiled language for hospital file maintenance: TAL. Equivalent to HLAD-713. Prerequisite: take MIS-2101 .
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HLAD - 7107 Economics of Health Administration (3)
Applies the theoretical principles of economic analysis to studying, evaluating, and understanding the health services sector of the economy. Provides an understanding of the economic forces, which act upon healthcare markets. Explores the importance of scarcity and incentives in the delivery of healthcare, allowing for the unique differences that characterize the healthcare sector. Equivalent to HLAD-715. Prerequisites: take HLAD-3102 , HLAD-3104 .
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HLAD - 7108 Healthcare Policy (3)
Enables the student to describe, analyze, evaluate, and apply basic policy approaches to both American and international healthcare issues. Presents students with implementation skills for ethically managing power relations in a turbulent healthcare marketplace. Equivalent to HLAD-718. Prerequisites: take HLAD-3108 , HLAD-7102 .
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HLAD - 7109 Healthcare Informatics (3)
Investigates the current status of informatics in health administration. Prepares students for the computer assisted management process of the future. Includes microcomputer applications, systems analysis and design, and computer selection strategies. Knowledge of basic computer science is desirable. Equivalent to HLAD-725. Prerequisites: take HLAD-7101 , HLAD-7103 , HLAD-7105 .
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HLAD - 7110 Healthcare Financial Management (3)
Provides an overview of the primary facets of healthcare financial management. Includes such topics as budgeting, working capital management, intermediate reimbursement theory, financing indigent care, tax-exempt status, internal audit and control, and cost containment. Equivalent to HLAD-740. Prerequisites: take HLAD-4106 , HLAD-7102 .
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HLAD - 7111 Organizational Theories in Health Administration (3)
Studies organizational theories and behavior unique to effective administration of healthcare institutions. Views organizations as an open system that requires constant interaction with environment. Examines the relationships of input/structure, throughputs, outputs and external environment. Equivalent to HLAD-745. Prerequisite: take HLAD-3101 .
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HLAD - 7112 Healthcare Management I (3)
Presents the major concepts and theories of healthcare management. Addresses the historical evolution of the healthcare management and examines how the historical development of healthcare institution is interwoven with current trends in healthcare administration. Discusses the management of health institutions from departmental level to system level. Equivalent to HLAD-755. Prerequisites: take HLAD-3101 , HLAD-7109 .
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HLAD - 8100 Health Information System Analysis and Design (3)
Specific focus will be on analysis, design, and implementation of health information systems. All stages of the systems development life-cycle will be considered. The course aims to provide a foundation in traditional structured analysis and design techniques, together with an introduction to object-oriented analysis and design concepts that are increasingly in use today. Equivalent to HLAD-801. Prerequisites: take CPSC-4578 , HLAD-7103 , HLAD-7106 , HLAD-7109 .
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HLAD - 8101 Quantitative Decision-Making for Health Administration (3)
Emphasizes quantitative approaches to decision making and problem solving related to the healthcare management by introducing quantitative techniques for optimization, forecasting, staffing and scheduling, productivity determination, resources allocation, and queuing models etc. Examines the benefits as well as the limits of quantitative techniques in a real-world context and promotes a greater use of quantitative techniques in health administration by managers. Equivalent to HLAD-806. Prerequisite: take HLAD-7109 .
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HLAD - 8102 Healthcare Program Planning and Evaluation (3)
This course is designed to help students to gain a basic understanding of how to plan and implement a health or healthcare program, and how to evaluate its process and outcome by focusing on the development of knowledge and skills necessary to planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating a health or healthcare program. Equivalent to HLAD-820. Prerequisite: take HLAD-7109 .
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HLAD - 8103 Healthcare Quality Improvement Concepts and Tools (3)
Introduces concepts of healthcare quality and define it in terms that are useful for healthcare administrators and managers. Focus on Lean Six-Sigma process improvement methodologies. Present quality tools and their application within healthcare organization context throughout DMAIC phases of Six-Sigma. Equivalent to HLAD-823. Prerequisite: take HLAD-7101 , HLAD-7102 , HLAD-7107 , HLAD-7111 , and HLAD-7112 .
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HLAD - 8104 Medical Records, Information Security, and the Law (3)
This course, from clinical, legal, and technical aspects, introduces students to concepts, strategies, and techniques of how to obtain, maintain, and protect medical information, especially the computer-based medical information system. Equivalent to HLAD-833. Prerequisites: take CPSC-4578 , HLAD-7103 , HLAD-7106 , HLAD-7109 .
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HLAD - 8105 Healthcare Human Resource Management (3)
Focuses on human resource management, programs, and policies. Addresses recruitment of health professionals, manpower requirements, staffing, training, development, examination of qualifications standards, performance appraisals, and employee morale. Examines methods of developing leadership in supervisory health managers, issues of compensation administration, and specific labor and HRM law governing healthcare institutions. Applies TQM and ethics theories to the HRM process. Equivalent to HLAD-835. Prerequisite: take HLAD-7112 .
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HLAD - 8106 Healthcare Law (3)
Focuses on corporate administrative and regulatory law significant for health services administration. Examines such issues as informed consent, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, medical staff issues, and liability. Equivalent to HLAD-837. Prerequisites: take HLAD-7101 , HLAD-7102 .
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HLAD - 8107 Healthcare: Financial Management II (3)
Focuses on theory and applications for such topics as capital financing, managed care contracting, physician contracts, equity financing, and performance reporting and analysis for specific healthcare entities. Equivalent to HLAD-846. Prerequisite: take HLAD-7110 .
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HLAD - 8108 Strategic Planning and Marketing for Health Administration (3)
Covers the strategic planning process in the competitive healthcare field, including alternative delivery systems. Focuses on definition of mission, external analysis, goal achievement, and generation of alternatives and their selection. Marketing of specific healthcare entities, theories, and practices are discussed. Equivalent to HLAD-850. Prerequisites: take HLAD-7110 , HLAD-8101 , HLAD-8102 ,HLAD-8105 .
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HLAD - 8109 Independent Study (1-8)
Individual reading, research, and/or project in health administration under the supervision of the faculty. Equivalent to HLAD-870.
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HLAD - 8110 Internship (1-8)
Period of structured, preceptor-directed experience in the practice of health administration in a setting appropriate to the student’s career goals. The course is taken after completion of all other course work, but before conferring of the degree. Equivalent to HLAD-880.
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HLAD - 8111 Graduate Thesis/Project: (1-8)
Provides the health administration student an opportunity to synthesize graduate course work by developing and completing a thesis or project specific to the student’s interests in health administration. Equivalent to HLAD-890.
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HLAD - 8901 Healthcare Management II (3)
Capstone course in the graduate degree in Health Administration. Focuses on the effective administration of healthcare facilities and systems. Covers the administrator’s role in the application of such areas as finance, law, quantitative methods, human resource management, administrator/ medical staff relations, and ethics. Equivalent to HLAD-855. Prerequisites: take HLAD-8101 , HLAD-8102 , HLAD-8103 , HLAD-8104 , HLAD-8105 , HLAD-8106 , HLAD-8107 .
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HLAD - 8902 Health Administration Field Experience (3)
Students apply theories and principles of classroom learning in healthcare facility. The field experiences provide opportunities for development, integration, and reinforcement of competence. Equivalent to HLAD-865. Prerequisite: take HLAD-8901 .
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HLSC - 1050 Introduction to Health and Human Services Health Professions (3)
Provides students with a basic understanding of various health professions within the context of the broader healthcare system.
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HLSC - 2100 Contemporary Issues in Health (3)
Identifies and examines major health issues of our time. Designed to counteract apathy, dispel myths, and provide accurate information upon which to make decisions affecting individual and social health. Presents a broad overview of programs and policies in a historical context. Basic health concepts and terminology are presented for non-health care, as well as the health care track student. Equivalent to HLSC-305.
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HLSC - 2200 Global Health (3)
This is an entry-level course designed to examine major global health challenges, programs and policies. Students will be introduced to determinants of health and disease through a global lens. Students will analyze and explore contemporary issues as well as develop an understanding of the social determinants of health inequities. Prerequisites: None
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HLSC - 2300 Human Sexuality (3)
This course identified and discusses human sexuality issues of health, and introduces ethical and legal considerations in public health. Prerequisites: None
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HLSC - 3099 Introduction to Community Health (3)
Reviews the latest trends in community health in an effort to address health issues facing today’s communities. With an emphasis on developing the knowledge and skills necessary for a career in health education, this course covers topics such as epidemiology, community organization, program planning, minority health, healthcare, mental health, environmental health, drugs, safety, and occupational health. Equivalent to HLSC-330.
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HLSC - 3200 Foundations of Environmental Health (3)
This course examines health issues, scientific understanding of causes, and possible future approaches to control environmental health problems in industrialized and developing countries. Topics include public health and health care responses to environmental pollutants, physical, chemical, and biological agents of environmental contamination. This course also covers vectors for dissemination (air, water, soil); solid hazardous waste; susceptible populations; biomarkers and risk analysis; the scientific base for policy decisions; and emerging global environmental health problems. Equivalent to HLSC-340. Prerequisites: None
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HLSC - 3300 Disparities and Cultural Awareness in Health (3)
This course provides students with an understanding of how culture operates as a critical variable in planning educational, health promotion, and disease prevention strategies. Students will develop an understanding of what constitutes cultural attunement, and cultural sensitivity through issues pertinent to the design of culturally appropriate curriculum for health promotion strategies, prevention programs in community health, and service delivery systems. Equivalent to HLSC-421.
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HLSC - 3400 Principles of Aging and Physical Activity (3)
This course is designed to examine the aging process, and the physical and emotional aspects of aging well. Students will explore socio-demographics, health behavior and exercise needs of older adults, as well as become engaged in lessons of the emotional needs and as well as life course barriers to better aging. Equivalent to HLSC-344.
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