MBA Health Care Administration Course Descriptions
Course Descriptions
- HCA 545 - Public Health (3 Credits)
This course provides a comprehensive coverage of traditional public health responsibilities- assessing the burden of disease, preventing and controlling health threats, and developing policies and public administration responses to improve health --in a contemporary framework. It covers the basics of administration, including public health law, human resources management, budgeting and financing, and legislative relations in public health. - HCA 550 - Elderly and Managed Care (3 Credits)
This course will consider long-term service delivery programs designed to meet the special needs of seniors. The course will include a managerial overview of seniors' housing and care and will analyze the demographics of aging, the role of financing, and the evolving marketplace. - HCA 555 - Health Policy (3 Credits)
This course will make a critical analysis of federal and state health policy processes, outcomes, and issues. This course allows students to examine the efficiency and effectiveness of health policy issues associated with access, cost, and quality. Emphasis is placed on policy formulation, implementation, assessment, and modification.
Choose HCA 590 OR HCA 595- HCA 590 - Practicum (3 Credits)
This course will focus on executive skill development, which is designed to develop and enhance the skills necessary for success as a healthcare executive through management practice in health care administration. The course provides the students the opportunity to gain practical experience and integrate classroom knowledge and theory in an administrative setting within the health care industry. - HCA 595 - Thesis (3 Credits)
This course describes how to organize the written thesis, which is the central element of a graduate degree. The thesis is a formal document whose sole purpose is to prove that a student can make an incremental improvement in an area for knowledge, or the application of known techniques in a new area.