Graduate Business Core
BUAD 500 Managerial and Leadership Analysis
This course gives attention to the knowledge and skills needed to grow and sustain performance in an organization, whether a full company, department, division, or other strategic business unit within an existing organization by getting the right things done through teams of people. It addresses the common management functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling.
BUAD 600 Organizational Behavior and Teamwork
This course responds to the increasing need for cooperative skills in concurrent design and engineering projects, interdepartmental committees, quality circles, self-managed work teams, and relationship selling. Self-awareness is the foundation of group dynamics. Areas to be covered include individual differences; personality; emotional intelligence; learning; ethics; decision making; and motivation. Group dynamics is understood to be a pillar of organizational success. Areas covered include communication; group dynamics; leadership; trust; power; and change. Both experiential and theoretical approaches are used to deepen understanding.
BUAD 650 Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
A study of selected contributions in political theory and how they contribute to an analysis of public policy on the role of ethical implications of administrative activity and provides a theoretical framework within which responsible decisions can be made. It relates the ethical considerations and legal principles to the organization’s responsibility to society.
BUAD 665 Strategic Decisions
Effective organizations strategically design their mission, vision, structure, and operations to anticipate and respond to external threats, opportunities, and conditions. This course explains how organizations formulate, implement, and evaluate strategies that help ensure their sustainability and profitability. Students are required to present an oral and written case study relating to a pre- sent Fortune 500 company describing the past, present, and future organizational challenges and to recommend effective, productive actions along with an action plan for implementation.
HCA Core
HCA 610 Healthcare Administration
This graduate level course examines the management of health care organizations from the perspective of the CEO or key administrator. The course focus includes health care organization’s mission and purpose, internal/external environment, culture, process of change, organizational structure and design, the role of the manager, and decision-making processes.
HCA 620 Evidenced-Based Healthcare
This graduate level course involves a systems approach examination of the U.S. health care system. The course focuses on the history of the healthcare industry, culture and values, policy, financing and delivery.
HCA 630 Financial Management in Healthcare
This graduate level course applies key financial concepts to healthcare administration. Key topics include managed care, and financial information required by managers to make decisions and recommendations for their organization.
HCA 640 Healthcare Informatics
This graduate level course focuses on informatics in health care organizations. Key topics covered - examination of clinical, medical record, and administrative information systems and models, and support management activities.
HCA 650 Healthcare Law and Ethics
This graduate level course introduces key information and concepts for administrators on the legal basis and application of law in the health care industry.
HCA 660 Emerging and Persistent Healthcare Issues
This graduate level course examines the broad foundation of the healthcare delivery system, focusing on emerging and persistent issues within the industry. Topics include the political, financial, and social constructs affecting the healthcare system.
