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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 - 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-3105 , 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)
Introduce 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-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 - 3150 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 Introduction to 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.
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HLSC - 3300 Cultural Attunement in Healthcare (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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HLSC - 4100 Introduction to Health Promotion (3)
Presents models for health promotion programming and introduces skills involved in planning, implementing, and evaluating health promotion programs. Emphasis is on motivational and behavioral techniques to enhance change and on implementing cost-effective health promotion programs in a workplace setting. Sample vignettes and case studies provide practical and realistic practice in the application of health promotion concepts. Equivalent to HLSC-505.
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HLSC - 4101 HIV: The Epidemic: Issues for Healthcare Providers, Educators, Employers, and Consumers (3)
Provides an overview of the HIV/AIDS epidemic including changes in the pattern of occurrence, signs and symptoms, classifications of the disease, recognition of the course of the disease, and strategies for prevention. Prerequisites: none.
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HLSC - 4130 Nutritional Pathways (3)
Identifies cellular and nutrient make-up of the body as it relates to the body’s systems and the nutritional life cycle. Examines how socioeconomic factors enhance a person’s food choices and how diet, nutritional guidelines, and physical exercise decrease the risk of disease. Hazards in our food supply and issues regarding hunger and the global environment will also be presented. Prerequisites: none.
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HLSC - 4150 Health Education for Families and Communities (3)
Course explores specific topics in the area of health science and related fields. Topics vary and range from practical application to current conceptual areas and theories.
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HLSC - 4200 Comparative Complementary and Alternative Medicine (3)
Compares the history and paradigm of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) with that of conventional medicine. Reviews the major domains of CAM research. Evaluates the research on the effectiveness of CAM. Equivalent to HLSC-420.
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HLSC - 4300 Health and Wellness Programs (3)
This course will emphasize strategies for the development of program content, overall planning, implementation, and evaluation of health promotion programs in community and workplace settings. Equivalent to HLSC-455.
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HLSC - 4400 Medical Terminology (1)
This is an independent, self-paced course that is open to all students interested in gaining knowledge of medical terminology. A programmed text and computer-based instruction is utilized. This course is a prerequisite for admission to the Masters of Occupational Therapy program. An online option is available. Equivalent to HLSC-400.
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HLSC - 4470 Independent Study (1-8)
Individual reading, research, and/or project in the health sciences under the supervision of the faculty. Equivalent to HLSC-470.
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HLSC - 4890 Internship (1-8)
Designed to provide students in the health sciences with supervised practical experiences in applied settings. Equivalent to HLSC-480.
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HLSC - 5001 Current Topics (1-3)
Explores specific topics in the area of health science and related fields. Topics vary and range from practical application to current conceptual areas and theories. May be repeated for credit. Equivalent to HLSC-502.
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HLSC - 5200 Health Professions Education Instruction (3)
Designed to introduce health professions students to the skills and processes involved in health professions education in both clinical and didactic settings. Develops skills in planning, delivering, and evaluating health professions education programs. Equivalent to HLPE-315.
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HLSC - 5512 Changing Health Behaviors (3)
Examines the relationship between personal behaviors and health. Addresses skills, strategies, and models that can be used to help people make health-enhancing behavior changes. Equivalent to ADDS-512.
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HLSC - 6300 School Health Programs (3)
Presents an overview of the principles, philosophy, and development of school health programs in the U.S. Emphasizes the concepts of “healthful school living” and community participation in school health programs. Focuses on developing a team framework among teachers, health service personnel, parents, and pupils. Equivalent to HLPE-802.
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HLSC - 6310 Assessment of Health Instruction (3)
Examines assessment procedures employed in health education and allied health training programs. Emphasizes the development of valid and reliable instruments to assess health behaviors, attitudes, and skills. Equivalent to HLPE-815.
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HLSC - 6320 Continuing Education in Health (3)
Focuses on how the rapid pace of new discoveries in health, disease, treatment, and rehabilitation makes continuing education essential for everyone working in health fields. Develops skills in planning, delivering, and evaluating continuing education in health. Emphasis on developing change agent skills, motivation of others to update their knowledge and skills, involving colleagues in continuing education activities. Equivalent to HLPE-820.
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HLSC - 7500 Interprofessional Collaboration (3)
Examines effective communication and processing skills that will assist professionals from various healthcare disciplines to develop understanding and collaboration. Emphasis is on the use of effective techniques for collaboration and interdisciplinary team process resulting in valuing each professional’s expertise and overcoming barriers to effective and efficient patient/client care. Equivalent to HLSC-750.
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HLSC - 8050 Special Topics in Health Sciences (1-4)
Examines advanced specialized interdisciplinary topics in health sciences. Topics will vary. May be repeated for credit. Individual reading, research, and/or project in the health sciences under the supervision of the faculty. Equivalent to HLSC-850.
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HLSC - 8300 Epidemiology (3)
Advanced health concept course covering human ecology of diseases in groups and communities, consumer health sources in dealing with epidemiology problems, indices of community health and their usefulness to health centers, schools, and community health programs, and promotion of healthful living on a group and community basis. Equivalent to HLSC-830.
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HLSC - 8350 Responsible Conduct of Research (3)
Provides content related issues in research and scientific integrity and the responsible conduct of research, includes policies and procedures related to scientific misconduct, conflicts of interest, human subjects’ protection in biomedical research, intellectual property, authorship and peer review, and ethical issues in research. Equivalent to HLSC-840.
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HLSC - 8400 Information Management Nursing Decision Support (3)
Explores the use of computerized systems in nursing administration, education, teaching strategies, research, and clinical practices. Emphasizes information technology; an understanding of computer technology; and social, ethical, and legal issues associated with information technology in a healthcare environment. Equivalent to HLSC-841.
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HLSC - 8640 Exploring Interdisciplinary Team Process and Leadership (3)
This course will bring together graduate students from many disciplines to learn effective communication and processing skills that will allow them to develop the understanding necessary for effective collaboration. This course will use communication and team building skills to demonstrate the value of interdisciplinary approaches. Such an interdisciplinary approach will show students effective techniques for valuing and educating client/customers, identifying and overcoming barriers to effective customer/client service, and leading to outcomes desired by the client/customer. Equivalent to HLSC-864.
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HLSC - 8700 Independent Study (1-8)
Individual reading, research, and/or project in the health sciences under the supervision of the faculty. Equivalent to HLSC-870.
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HLSC - 8750 Healthcare Organizational Behavior (3)
Explores the behavior of people within healthcare organizations in view of influential factors related to individuals, work groups, information groups, and the larger organized system. Analyzes management strategies for implementing effective efficient structures and processes in healthcare organizations. Equivalent to HLSC-875.
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HLSC - 8800 Internship (1-8)
Designed to provide the health sciences student with supervised practical experiences in applied settings. Equivalent to HLSC-880.
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HLSC - 8900 Graduate Thesis/Project (1-8)
Provides the health sciences student an opportunity to synthesize graduate work by developing and completing a thesis or project specific to the student’s interests in the health sciences. Equivalent to HLSC-890.
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HLSC - 9200 Healthcare Security and Disaster Preparedness (3)
Focuses on the assessment of health needs of specific communities when compromised by events impacting homeland security. Provides strategies for planning and implementing plans developed in collaboration with local governmental agencies, public and private health sector providers, and county and state health agencies. Equivalent to HLSC-891.
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HIST - 1110 History of the United States to 1865 (3)
Provides a historical examination of the United States from the founding of the colonies through Reconstruction with special emphasis on connections between historical transformations and issues of race, class, gender, religion, nation-building, economic development and modernization, and the sectional conflict.
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HIST - 1120 History of the United States since 1865 (3)
Provides a historical examination of the United States from the Civil War through the present with special emphasis on connections between historical transformations and issues of race, class, gender, industrialization, immigration, urbanization, reform/social movements, and World Wars I and II.
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HIST - 2700 World History to 1500 (3)
Provides a conceptual and comparative approach to the history of world civilizations prior to 1500, societies and cultures that challenges persistent Eurocentric assumptions and worldviews. Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the Europe will be analyzed in their diversity and in relation to one another. Topics include religion, language, culture, commerce, migration, science, technology, ecology, and identity information.
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HIST - 2710 World History Since 1500 (3)
Provides a conceptual and comparative approach to the history of world civilizations, societies, and cultures since 1500 that challenges persistent Eurocentric assumptions and worldviews. Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe will be analyzed in relation to one another.
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HIST - 3099 Junior Seminar: Public History and Civic Engagement (3)
Introduces and examines sources and methods used in public history. Students will conduct specific research projects focused on civic engagement, local, and/or community history engaging with public and private institutions in the region. Restriction: Junior status or higher. Instructional Method: Lecture/Discussion Intended Audience: History majors and other interested students. No prerequisites for this course.
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HIST - 3100 U.S. Economic History (3)
Examines the development of the American economy with special emphasis on the process of modernization and its effect on agriculture, commerce-industry, worker-employer relationships, and the value system of the people. Equivalent to HIST-310.
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HIST - 3101 Key Issues in State and Federal Constitutional Government (3)
Provides a practical and mature picture of U.S. Constitutional government in its own right as well as how it relates to the Illinois State Constitution. Factual knowledge about the contents of the U.S. Constitution is a baseline requirement of the course. Equivalent to HIST-301.
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HIST - 3111 World Environmental History (3)
Traces the impact of environmental change on major world cultures and historical events through the examination of select case studies and themes. Explores the transnational and global nature of environmental history. Applies multiple lenses and concepts, including race, class, and gender, to analyze environmental contributions to migration, imperialism, colonialism, the spread of epidemic diseases, and global capitalism. Prerequisites: none.
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HIST - 4001 Topics in History (3)
Engages in an in-depth study of specific topics in history. Students may take this course multiple times for credit when a different topic is featured. Topics are indicated in the subtitle of the course name and will be announced in advance.
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HIST - 4002 Topics in American History (3)
Engages in an in-depth study of specific topics in American history. Students may take this course multiple times for credit when a different topic is featured. Topics are indicated in the subtitle of the course name and will be announced in advance. Restriction: Sophomore status or higher.
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HIST - 4003 Topics in Global History (3)
Engages in an in-depth study of specific topics in United States history. Students may take this course multiple times for credit when a different topic is featured. Topics are indicated in the subtitle of the course name and will be announced in advance. Restriction: Sophomore status or higher.
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HIST - 4100 Beyond the Dream: Current Black Social Issues (3)
Examines issues in education, politics, business, economics, social life, and the arts as they relate to developments in the Black community since the Civil Rights Era. Equivalent to HIST-5100, HIST-500.
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HIST - 4110 The History of Illinois and Its Constitution (3)
Surveys the political, constitutional, and social history of the State of Illinois from 1700 to the present. Equivalent to HIST-501.
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HIST - 4115 Modern African History (3)
Surveys the significant themes in African history since 1800, examining pre-colonial African societies, European mercantilism, colonial political economies, resistance and the rise of African nationalism, and questions concerning liberation and revolution in Africa today. Historical texts, novels, films, and guest speakers will be used to promote a deeper understanding of the continent, its people, and their struggles. Equivalent to HIST-505.
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HIST - 4150 Modern U.S. History: 1900-1945 (3)
Examines U.S. domestic history and the role of the United States in world affairs from 1900-1945, including progressivism, imperialism, the New Deal, and World War II. Equivalent to HIST-515.
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HIST - 4160 Modern U.S. History, 1945-Present (3)
The approach of this course is inclusive and focuses on the issues of the Post-World War II era and beyond. It provides a context for in-depth study of more recent events, with an emphasis on content, methodology, and potential applications of U.S. history. Equivalent to HIST-5160, HIST-516. Prerequisites: take HIST-1110 and HIST-3100 .
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HIST - 4200 American Urban History (3)
Presents a historical examination of the process of modernization and its effect on the American city and people. Emphasizes race, class, gender, migration and mobility, family roles, machine politics, suburbanization, and various reform movements. Equivalent to HIST-520.
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HIST - 4300 Modern Middle Eastern History (3)
Examines Islamic civilization since the age of European expansion into the region. Topics covered include: imperialism, westernization, nationalism, and modernization; regions covered include Arab countries, Israel, Iran, and Turkey. Equivalent to HIST-530.
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