HCM 3010-3 Health Care Organization (3 + 0)

Prerequisite: junior or senior standing

Corequisite: 100 hours volunteer work in a U.S. health care facility for those students with no prior health care experience

This courses analyzes organizational structure, the nature of health, and health care delivery. Emphasis is placed on the interrelatedness of cultural, economic, political, and social aspects of health care delivery, along with its services and management. Disease origins and epidemiology are explored.

HCM 3020-3 Management Principles in Health Care (3 + 0)

Pre or Corequisite: HCM 3010

This is a course that is designed to provide a general orientation to management practices in the field of health care. Emphasis is placed on management concepts, processes, and theoretical content considered necessary for people who intend to practice in a health care management position.

HCM 3030-3 Health Care Jurisprudence (3 + 0)

Pre or Corequisite: HCM 3010

This course examines the legal and ethical issues involved in the management and delivery of health care services. Emphasis is placed on negligence, contracts, confidentiality, labor relations, and current medical/ethical issues.

HCM 3300-3 Management Issues and Health Policy (3 + 0)

Pre or Corequisites: HCM 3010 and HCM 3020

This course is designed to discuss the role of the health care manager in relation to health care planning, health policy, and other related management issues. The political process as it relates to policy development and health planning will be explored.

HCM 3500-3 Health Care Research Methods (3 + 0)

Pre or Corequisites: HCM 3010 and statistics

This course examines the research process, research terminology and the role of research as a tool for understanding and improving financing, delivery and management in health care organizations. Students critique relevant research articles, explore sources of funding for research projects, and apply this knowledge to health care management projects.

HCM 4020-3 Human Resource Management in Health Care (3 +0)

Pre or Corequisites: HCM 3010 and 3020

This course is specifically designed to analyze human resource management functions as they affect employee productivity and satisfaction in health services organizations. The course stresses functions, structure, laws, and principles that are significant in human resource management.

HCM 4030-3 Financial Management in Health Care (3 + 0)

Prerequisites: HCM 3010 and ACC 2010, and a departmentally approved computer course or permission of instructor

This course surveys the organizational and operational aspects of fiscal analysis and control of health care institutions. Emphasis is placed on the practical processes involved in the determination and analysis of revenues, costs, rates, working capital levels, budgets, and uses of the computer.

HCM 4040-3 Health Care Economics (3 + 0)

Prerequisites: HCM 3010 and ECO 2020

This course examines the major economic issues facing the health care industry. Emphasis is on the major elements of economic theory from a macro-economic perspective and how these theories are applied in the health service sector.

HCM 4500-2 Health Care Management Pre-Practicum (2 + 0)

Prerequisites: all 3000-level HCM courses, HCM 4020, all required support courses (This course must be taken the semester prior to HCM 4510.)

This is a preparatory course required of HCM majors prior to taking HCM 4510, Health Care Management Internship. Students are required to prepare a résumé, develop interview skills, determine placement agency and preceptor, and develop a proposal for the internship under faculty guidance.

HCM 4510-6 Health Care Management Practicum (1 + 15)

Prerequisites: HCM 4500, plus either HCM 4030 or 4040

A capstone course designed to provide the student the opportunity to integrate and operationalize all previously learned health management knowledge and skills. The student completes a health management project. The management area of study and the internship setting are mutually agreed upon by the student, the faculty member, and the health facility preceptor. (Senior Experience)