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Fine Arts (FA)
  
  

Foundations of Education (FDED)
  

  • FDED 200 - Philosophy of Education


    Semester Hours: 3
    Fall, Spring
    Consideration of selected issues involving morals and values, knowledge claims and assertions, the uniqueness of being human, and how these issues are all related to schooling and education. Emphasis is on contemporary problems confronting educational personnel. FDED 200 is an introductory course in philosophy of education. Students with more than an introductory course in philosophy should consult a Foundation of Education adviser about substitutions.
  

  • FDED 210 - Contemporary Educational Movements


    Semester Hours: 3
    Fall, Spring
    Examination of the most influential sets of proposals currently influencing American education. The ideas guiding progressive schools, humanistic education and the deschooling movement are among those explored. Emphasis throughout is on analysis and appraisal of these proposals for guiding educational practices and arrangements.
  

  • FDED 211 - The School and Society


    Semester Hours: 3
    Fall, Spring
    The school is a societal institution created specifically for the purpose of education. The school is both shaped by societal factors and, in turn, has impact upon the society. Contemporary schools for children and adolescents, as well as institutions of higher education for adults in the United States, are impacted by the political and governmental system of the country; the economy; patterns of social stratification; the multicultural diversity within the population. The school also interacts with other societal institutions concerned with education: museums, libraries, religious institutions, health care institutions, the work place in the community, as well as the family.
  
  

  • FDED 221 - Celebrating Humanity: Aesthetic Experience and Education in Global Perspective


    Semester Hours: 3
    Once a Year
    This course examines the role of the several arts and aesthetics experience in the lives and learning of children and adults across the globe. Opportunities are provided for students to focus an in-depth exploration of cultures drawn from two areas of the world: North Africa, Sub-Sahara Africa, South-East Asia, the Indian sub-continent, Asia and the Pacific Rim, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Central Europe, Western Europe, Mexico and Latin America, the Caribbean Islands, or Canada and Alaska. Materials are drawn from educational theory, aesthetic theory, and the history of the arts, culinary history, cultural anthropology, and social psychology. Students are required to visit museums and galleries and attend musical, theatrical, and dance performances. Participation does not presume either prior study in the history of the arts or in cross-cultural anthropology, although both are desirable.
  
  

  • FDED 223 - Analysis of Qualitative Data


    Semester Hours: 3
    Once a Year
    Principles, methods, and techniques in the analysis and reporting of such qualitative data as are obtained through field methods including observations, interviews and examination of documents. Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to plan, carry out and report the results of systematic analysis of qualitative data that have been collected in field settings. Emphasis on deriving thick description, grounded theory and preparing a case study from the data.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    FDED 222 . Open only to doctoral students. May not be taken as a foundations of education elective.
  

  • FDED 225 - The Museum as Educator


    Semester Hours: 3
    Once a Year
    Exploration of the evolution of educational functions and multiplicity of roles served by diverse kinds of museums, as those devoted to art, history, natural science, ethnography, technology and popular culture. Materials and educational theory are drawn from the fine arts, history, philosophy, and the several social and behavioral sciences. On-site field investigations of New York City and Long Island museums are required.
  
  

  • FDED 231 - Childhood and Adolescence in Historical Perspective


    Semester Hours: 3
    Spring
    Students explore aspects of childhood and adolescence drawn from a variety of cultures and historical eras. Attention is focused on the socialization of the young into acquiring the behaviors, norms, knowledge, and systems of belief traditionally held dear by the adult members of society. The crucial role of the family is underscored. Play, toys, and games are examined as preparation for societal participation. Where appropriate, the role of schooling and other educational institutions are examined, as well as educational thought. Museum visitations, cooperative team inquiry, and hands-on learning are required in addition to the usual methods of graduate study.
  

  • FDED 232 - Cross-Cultural Education: Comparative Perspectives


    Semester Hours: 3
    Once a Year
    This course will center upon the ways in which diverse cultural orientations relate to education and schooling. Selected Eastern and Western patterns of behavior and thought will be featured, though not exclusively. The dominant paradigms shaping institutions in the East and West will be explored through a comparative analysis of educational networks in cultural context. Relationships and connections among institutions, beliefs and behavior, and cultural orientation will be examined.
  

  • FDED 233 - Children of Color: The Social Construction of Race in America’s Schools


    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    Grounded in sociological literature and discussions, this course will examine how racial categorizations of children affect and are affected by their school experiences. Particular attention will be paid to both the theoretical and practical implications of race as a socially constructed feature influencing academic and social development in the United States.


    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    May not be taken on a Pass/Fail basis.




  
  
  

  • FDED 242 - Foundational Perspectives in Multicultural Education


    Semester Hours: 3
    Spring
    This course introduces educators to the four foundational perspectives in multicultural education: Antiracism, Critical Theory/Postmodernism, Ethnic Studies, Liberal Democratic theory. Through an analysis of each foundational perspective, students will develop an understanding of how educational institutions can respond to the distinct challenges emerging with the multicultural condition.
  

  • FDED 244 - Seminar: Alternative Education


    Semester Hours: 3
    Fall, Spring
    An introduction to alternative education with emphasis on the qualities and organizational features which identify and distinguish it from conventional schooling. Descriptive accounts and visits from Long Island alternative school personnel provide first hand acquaintance with such educational arrangements; analytic materials and class discussion explore the qualities which alternative education reflects.
  

  • FDED 247 - The Family as Educator: Multicultural Dimensions


    Semester Hours: 3
    Spring
    Within America’s multiculturally diverse society, families are the first educators not only for infants, children, and adolescents, but for adults. Within the context of the family, important values, attitudes, and skills are first shaped and continue to be reinforced. Gender roles, religious identity, social class status, and ethnic group membership are conveyed within families and further reinforced by community institutions. Educators seeking to understand learners (be they infants, children, adolescents, or adults) must attend to familial patterns and variations as well as to community-based institutions. Education is, in the final analysis, much more than schooling.
  

  • FDED 248 - Multicultural Education in the Metropolitan Area


    Semester Hours: 3
    Fall
    Interdisciplinary examination of the educative influences of ethnicity as this impinges upon the school, the community’s agencies, the family and the learner within the metropolitan New York area. Students are required to engage in limited small group field investigation of agencies and institutions designed to provide services to ethnic group members.
  

  • FDED 249 - Workshop: Career Education


    Semester Hours: 3
    Spring
    Interdisciplinary study designed to provide both a theoretical understanding and practical application of several major career education emphases, namely: (1) self-image, self-awareness, selfconcept; (2) values clarification and decision making; (3) career awareness; (4) career information; (5) career choice and guidance; and (6) career training.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    Same as SED 249 .
  
  
  
  

  • FDED 255 - Seminar: Social Foundations of Education


    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    Content varies and students should obtain information about the area of focus for a given semester before registering for the seminar. These seminars are designed to take advantage of the special competence of visiting professors and to facilitate special attention to particularly timely problems and issues, or issues of special concern to a specific group of students or faculty.
  

  • FDED 256 - Seminar: Social Foundations of Education


    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    Content varies and students should obtain information about the area of focus for a given semester before registering for the seminar. These seminars are designed to take advantage of the special competence of visiting professors and to facilitate special attention to particularly timely problems and issues, or issues of special concern to a specific group of students or faculty.
  

  • FDED 257 - Seminar: Philosophy of Education


    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    Content varies and students should obtain information about the area of focus for a given semester before registering for the seminar. These seminars are designed to take advantage of the special competence of visiting professors and to facilitate special attention to particularly timely problems and issues, or issues of special concern to a specific group of students or faculty.
  

  • FDED 258 - Seminar: Philosophy of Education


    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    Content varies and students should obtain information about the area of focus for a given semester before registering for the seminar. These seminars are designed to take advantage of the special competence of visiting professors and to facilitate special attention to particularly timely problems and issues, or issues of special concern to a specific group of students or faculty.
  
  
  
  
  

  • FDED 280 - Logical Foundations of Teaching and Method


    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    Logical and linguistic foundations of teaching and classroom method. Elements of logic and philosophical semantics as applied to classroom teaching for critical thinking and inquiry: types of definition and meaning, conceptions of inference and reasoning, types of statements and modes of discourse-all as related to teaching operations.
  
  

  • FDED 285-289 A-Z - Special Topics


    Semester Hours: 1-3
    Fall, January, Spring, Summer
    Specific courses designed to explore emerging topics in foundations of education. As individual subjects are selected, each is assigned a letter (A-Z) and added to the course number. Specific titles and course descriptions for these special topics courses will be available  each semester in the Semester Planning Guide. Any course may be taken a number of times so long as there is a different letter designation each time it is taken.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    (Formerly Advanced Workshops.)
  
  
  

  • FDED 303 - Special Post-Master’s Topics


    Semester Hours: 1-3
    Periodically
    Specific courses designed to explore special issues and problems in foundations of education. Specific courses designed to explore emerging topics in foundations of education. Specific titles and course descriptions for these special topics courses will be available  each semester in the Semester Planning Guide.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    (Formerly Post-Master’s Workshops.)
  

  • FDED 304 - Special Post-Master’s Topics


    Semester Hours: 1-3
    Periodically
    Specific courses designed to explore special issues and problems in foundations of education. Specific courses designed to explore emerging topics in foundations of education. Specific titles and course descriptions for these special topics courses will be available  each semester in the Semester Planning Guide.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    (Formerly Post-Master’s Workshops.)
  

  • FDED 305 - Special Post-Master’s Topics


    Semester Hours: 1-3
    Periodically
    Specific courses designed to explore special issues and problems in foundations of education. Specific courses designed to explore emerging topics in foundations of education. Specific titles and course descriptions for these special topics courses will be available  each semester in the Semester Planning Guide.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    (Formerly Post-Master’s Workshops.)
  

  • FDED 306 - Special Post-Master’s Topics


    Semester Hours: 1-3
    Periodically
    Specific courses designed to explore special issues and problems in foundations of education. Specific courses designed to explore emerging topics in foundations of education. Specific titles and course descriptions for these special topics courses will be available  each semester in the Semester Planning Guide.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    (Formerly Post-Master’s Workshops.)
  

  • FDED 307 - Special Post-Master’s Topics


    Semester Hours: 1-3
    Periodically
    Specific courses designed to explore special issues and problems in foundations of education. Specific courses designed to explore emerging topics in foundations of education. Specific titles and course descriptions for these special topics courses will be available  each semester in the Semester Planning Guide.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    (Formerly Post-Master’s Workshops.)
  

  • FDED 308 - Special Post-Master’s Topics


    Semester Hours: 1-3
    Periodically
    Specific courses designed to explore special issues and problems in foundations of education. Specific courses designed to explore emerging topics in foundations of education. Specific titles and course descriptions for these special topics courses will be available  each semester in the Semester Planning Guide.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    (Formerly Post-Master’s Workshops.)
  

  • FDED 309 - Special Post-Master’s Topics


    Semester Hours: 1-3
    Periodically
    Specific courses designed to explore special issues and problems in foundations of education. Specific courses designed to explore emerging topics in foundations of education. Specific titles and course descriptions for these special topics courses will be available  each semester in the Semester Planning Guide.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    (Formerly Post-Master’s Workshops.)

French (FREN)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  • FREN 301 - Master’s Essay


    Semester Hours: 3

    Periodically

    This course represents a department member’s guidance and sponsoring of a student who undertakes to write a master’s essay. In the manner of the master’s thesis, the essay is expected to show thoroughness of scholarship. The student may present an original translation together with a substantial scholarly introduction and footnoted variants and explanations. Material for which prior translations exist will not be acceptable.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    Credit will be given when the essay is approved by appropriate members of the department.

General Business (GBUS)
  

  • GBUS 220 - Applied Business Principles and Aging


    Semester Hours: 3

    Once a Year

    An introductory general business course for health care professionals. Major components of business, including financial planning, strategic analysis, marketing management, and the management of human resources and organizations are examined. Emphasis is on how these concepts specifically relate to the aging population. Included are topics on the elderly as a viable market, management of health care facilities, and promotion of health care products and services. Functional categories of decision making, organizing and allocation of resources for administrators who operate in the area of the elderly are discussed.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    Open only to students matriculated in the Gerontology program. Not for M.B.A. degree credit.
  
  
  

  • GBUS 257 A-Z - Seminar: Special Topics in General Business


    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    An advanced in-depth treatment of special topics. Current topics are explored through a variety of methods, such as lectures, projects and case studies. As individual subjects are selected, each is assigned a letter (A-Z) which is affixed to the course number. Students may take up to two of these courses to fulfill their major requirements so long as each seminar has a different letter designation.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    MGT 207 and any additional prerequisites as stated in the course schedule. Open only to matriculated graduate students in the Zarb School of Business and in other Schools at Hofstra where appropriate. See specific program requirements.
  

  • GBUS 330 - Graduate Internship


    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    An interdisciplinary business internship open to graduate students from any specialization offered in the Zarb School of Business. Students work a minimum of 100 hours in the semester for selected business organizations. Students must submit periodic progress reports for review and a comprehensive in-depth evaluation of a complex strategic business decision at the end of the semester. Most internships carry some form of monetary remuneration.


    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    All core competency courses or approved equivalents, 24 graduate-level credits with a 3.3 average and permission of the department chairperson in the area of the student’s concentration and permission of the Management, Entrepreneurship and General Business Department chairperson. Open only to matriculated graduate students in the Zarb School of Business and in other Schools at Hofstra where appropriate. See specific program requirements.

Geology (GEOL)
  
  
  

  • GEOL 280 A-Z - Regional Geology for Teachers and Travelers


    Semester Hours: 1-4
    Intended for elementary and secondary school teachers who wish to expand their knowledge of field geology and its underlying concepts and explore in detail the geology of a particular geographic region. Courses may include some classroom time, but are primarily field trip experience designed to examine the geomorphic features and rock formations of a region and to interpret the geological processes that have operated through time.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    Permission of the instructor. As individual regions are selected, each is assigned a letter (A-Z) and added to the course number. This course may be taken a number of times so long as there is a different letter designation each time it is taken. (Formerly Workshop: Regional Geology for Teachers and Travelers.)

Gerontology (GRON)
  

  • GRON 211 - Aging With Developmental Disabilities


    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    People with developmental disabilities have significant physiological, functional, and psychosocial changes as they age. This course addresses these issues and examines ways for families, community practitioners, and advocates to meet varied needs of this growing population. Programs for this population will be examined.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    Fifteen clock hours of site visitation is required.
  

  • GRON 218 - Principles and Practices for Gerontological Marketing


    Semester Hours: 3
    Spring                     
    Gerontological organizations must reach-out to older people and their families in an ever-changing society. This course offers principles and practices in marketing gerontological programs and services. GRON 218 focuses primarily on strategies that not-for-profit organizations can use for marketing their programs and services to mature markets. There will also be discussions about gerontological marketing for entrepreneurial and large service organiztions. 

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    ANTH 215 , GRON 244 , and GBUS 220  or COUN 203  for counseling track and permission of adviser. May not be taken on a Pass/Fail basis.  

     
  

  • GRON 244 - Aging, Public Policy and the Law


    Semester Hours: 3
    Fall, Spring
    This is a survey course which examines the gerontological implications of major government programs, as well as legal and policy issues arising from the aging of the U.S. population. Emphasis is on areas where policy changes are required to meet the evolving social and legal needs of older people. Topics include income maintenance, health care, long term care and control over decision making by and for frail older people.




    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    (Formerly APS 244.)
  

  • GRON 248 - Life-Long Learning for the Aging


    Semester Hours: 3

    Periodically

    While adult learning has become a well-developed and mature discipline, less emphasis has been given to the educational and intellectual interest of the older adult. Focus on the relationship between teaching and learning, and the aging process. Emphasis on the special aspects and issues involved in life-long learning for the more senior members of our society.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    (Formerly COUN 248.)
  

  • GRON 250 - Elder Abuse: Etiologies, Detection and Interventions


    Semester Hours: 3
    Spring
    This course examines the growing incidence of physical, psychological, financial and sexual elder-abuse, and ways for community practitioners and advocates to meet the varied needs of this population, which will grow as the percentage of the elderly increases. An overview of the scope and nature of the problem, identification and assessment of elder abuse, and appropriate interventions for this population will be examined.



    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    This course may not be taken on a Pass/Fail basis.




  
  
  

  • GRON 255 - Aging in American Life


    Semester Hours: 3
    An overview of gerontological theory and practice, with emphasis on ways that gerontology is being (re)shaped by the rapid aging of the U.S. population. This course includes a look at the changing demographic structure of the U.S. population, and an analysis of social institutions being (re)shaped by the aging of the U.S. population. This includes the family, health care, retirement, and American community life. Students learn basic research strategies and theoretical perspectives on aging, with abundant examples drawn from life in the contemporary United States.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    Credit given for this course or ANTH 215  or GRON 283A.
  
  

  • GRON 280-289 A-Z - Special Topics


    Semester Hours: 1-3
    Periodically
    Specific courses designed to explore emerging topics in gerontology. As individual subjects are selected, each is assigned a letter (A-Z) and added to the course number. Specific titles and course descriptions for these special topics courses will be available  each semester in the Semester Planning Guide. Any course may be taken a number of times so long as there is a different letter designation each time it is taken.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    (Formerly Workshops.)
  

  • GRON 290 - Supervised Field Visits to Geriatric Settings


    Semester Hours: 3
    Fall, Spring, Summer
    Off-campus supervised field visits to a variety of geriatric settings, and on-campus group discussions of those visits. Each field visit will last approximately 2 hours. Students will be accompanied by the professor on every field visit. Group discussions of fieldwork will last 90 minutes and will occur on the Hofstra campus, typically in the week following each visit. The goal of the fieldwork is to acquaint students with the full range of geriatric settings, community supports, and opportunities for gerontologists who work in such settings.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:

                    
  

  • GRON 294 - Administrative Internship


    Semester Hours: 3

    Fall, January, Spring, Summer

    This is a cooperative administrative internship at a community agency, nursing home, assisted living facility, senior center, or other organization which provides services or social support to older people. The intern will observe, study and report on agency policies, procedures and services. Where appropriate, the intern will participate in activities, staff meetings, and outreach efforts. The intern will work on-site, with a qualified staff-member and in addition, will be supervised by faculty from the Gerontology Program. There will be bi-weekly seminars held to consider the gerontological significance of the internship. 


    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    Departmental approval. Pass/Fail grade only. (Formerly APS 294.)
  

  • GRON 295 - Administrative Internship


    Semester Hours: 3

    Fall, January, Spring, Summer

    This is a cooperative administrative internship at a community agency, nursing home, assisted living facility, senior center, or other organization which provides services or social support to older people. The intern will observe, study and report on agency policies, procedures and services. Where appropriate, the intern will participate in activities, staff meetings, and outreach efforts. The intern will work on-site, with a qualified staff-member and in addition, will be supervised by faculty from the Gerontology Program. There will be bi-weekly seminars held to consider the gerontological significance of the internship.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    Departmental approval. Pass/Fail grade only. (Formerly APS 295.)
  

Health Administration (HADM)
  

  • HADM 200 - U.S. Health Services System


    Semester Hours: 3

    Fall, Spring
    An overview of the current health services system in the United States.  Emphasis on describing such health services as hospitals, nursing homes, ambulatory and home health care, behavioral health facilities, as well as issues relating to governmental roles, health insurance and professional autonomy and development.  Materials stress how the current health services system can better organize, deliver, and finance health care.   National trend data reviewed to document the evolution of health services and the prospects for change.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    (Formerly MHAE 259, Introduction to the U.S. Healthcare System.)

     
  

  • HADM 201 - Health Policy and Legislation


    Semester Hours: 3
    Fall, Spring
    Explores the determinants, components, and process of health policymaking, as well as the options and constrains of health policies in the United States.  Topics will outline the development of U.S. health policies and examine a number of specific health policy issues and challenges facing the nation.  International comparisons will be featured to contrast political forces and their roles in policy analysis, formulation, implementation, evaluation, and change.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    HADM 200  or adviser permission.  (Formerly MHAE 260, Health Services Policy and Legislation.)
  

  • HADM 202 - Health Law and Ethics


    Semester Hours: 3

    Fall, Spring
    Investigates legal and ethical issues and problems encountered by administrators of health care facilities and programs. Topics discussed include government regulation of health care providers; patient consent to and refusal of treatment; reproduction issues; privacy and confidentiality; and mental health issues.  Students analyze legislation, ethicists’ commentary, and case law in medicine and healthcare through research and class participation. 

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    HADM 200  or adviser permission.

     

     
  

  • HADM 203 - Comparative Health Policies and Systems


    Semester Hours: 3

    Fall, Spring
    Course traces the United States health services system’s evolution into managed care and compares the United States system’s strengths and weaknesses with that of other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries.  Comparisons are made using such variables as costs, organization, financing, quality, benefits, and access, with the health services systems of Canada, Germany, United Kingdom and Japan. 

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    HADM 200  or adviser permission.

     
  

  • HADM 204 - Health Economics


    Semester Hours: 3

    Fall, Spring
    Applies micro- and macro-economic concepts, principles, and methods to the organization, delivery, costs, and financing of health services, while focusing on how economic factors influence access to health services.  The history of how health care economics developed in the United States and defied the laws of supply and demand is explored. 

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    HADM 200  or adviser permission. (Formerly MHAE 271, Economic Issues in the Healthcare Industry.)

     
  

  • HADM 205 - Health Systems Finance


    Semester Hours: 3
    Fall, Spring    
    Application of financial theories, concepts, and models to health services systems with an emphasis on the role of financial principles and analysis to decision-making.  Focuses on strategic financial planning, contract management, and the art of negotiation that promotes the integration of finance and managed care structures, such as health maintenance organizations (HMOs), preferred provider organizations (PPOs), and independent practice associations (IPAs). 

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    HADM 200  or adviser permission.
  

  • HADM 206 - Health Services Organizational Behavior and Analysis


    Semester Hours: 3
    Fall, Spring
    Applies management concepts, methods, and theories to contemporary health service organizations and service delivery systems.  Emphasis placed on environmental characteristics, personality constructs and development, political consequences, organizational mission and goals, structures and processes of present and evolving health services organizations. 

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    HADM 200  or adviser permission. (Formerly MHAE 297, Organizational Theories in Health Services).



  

  • HADM 207 - Health Policy Analysis and Methods


    Semester Hours: 3
    Fall, Spring    
    Applies theory and methods of health policy analysis to management decisionmaking and strategic planning.  Students research, critique, evaluate, and analyze current health policies in the public, nonprofit, and private health sectors.  Emphasis placed on the role of analysis during various phases of the public policy formulation and implementation cycle. 


    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    HADM 200 or adviser permission.  (Formerly MHAE 229, Health Services Policy Analysis and Management.)





  

  • HADM 208 - Epidemiology and Health Services Research


    Semester Hours: 3

    Fall, Spring
    Reviews and critiques descriptive and analytical epidemiology, as well as other statistical and research methods used in health services research.  Focus is on practical data interpretation and application of sound research findings for health services administrators, policy makers and planners.  Topics include disease patterns, illness rates, retrospective and prospective studies, measurement techniques, laboratory and field experimentation, quasi-experimental designs, survey procedures, experimental designs and evaluation strategies. 
     

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    HADM 200  or adviser permission.  (Formerly MHAE 278A, Epidemiological Research.)

     
  

  • HADM 209 - Health Administration Leadership


    Semester Hours: 3
    Fall, Spring
    A critical examination of the essential components of leadership qualities and characteristics necessary for a successful health services management career.  Course focuses on the key values that guide a leader’s personal and professional behavior in a frequently changing health services environment.  Selected definitions, theories, and models of leadership in health services systems will be analyzed and discussed. 




    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    Core courses or adviser permission.
  

  • HADM 220 - Behavioral Health Administration


    Semester Hours: 3

    Once a Year
    Studies the delivery and organization of behavioral health services including types of providers and treatment settings, professional training and licensure and their implications to diagnosis, treatment options and payment systems, concepts of adherence/compliance, the relationship between mental health and physical well-being, and emerging behavioral health issues. 

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    HADM 200  or adviser permission.  (Formerly MHAE 265, Behavioral Health Administration.)

     
  

  • HADM 221 - Hospital Organization and Administration


    Semester Hours: 3
    Once a Year
    Provides an historical overview of hospitals from the viewpoint of organizational and managerial systems.  Traces the development of the modern hospital as a complex organization that is guided by traditional organizational theory, governed by modern management methods and techniques, and subject to an array of external environmental factors. 


    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    HADM 200  or adviser permission.
  

  • HADM 222 - Medical Practice Administration


    Semester Hours: 3
    Once a Year
    Applies management strategies to several types of medical provider arrangements including solo practices, partnerships, groups, and academic medical practices.  Reviews the development of practices, marketing, administrative roles, human resources functions, daily office operations, and financial considerations as they apply to medical practices. 


    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    HADM 200  or adviser permission. 
  

  • HADM 223 - Ambulatory Care Administration


    Semester Hours: 3
    Once a Year
    Course surveys the essential components of ambulatory care services by reviewing management techniques, financial systems, organizational diversity, strategic planning methods, and historical perspectives relating to ambulatory systems.  Basic concepts of management are discussed as they apply to ambulatory care settings including clinics, private practices, freestanding medical systems, and prisons.



    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    HADM 200 or adviser permission.




  

  • HADM 224 - Home Health Administration


    Semester Hours: 3

    Once a Year
    Examines the administration and provision of non-institutional home healthcare services.  Emphasis placed on organizational structure, service delivery, financing, costs, staffing, utilization review, quality assurance and needs methodology.  Also studied are options to home health services, such as adult day care and comprehensive outpatient rehabilitative care. 

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    HADM 200  or adviser permission.

     

     
  

  • HADM 230 - Nursing Home and Long Term Care Administration


    Semester Hours: 3
    Once a Year
    Examines the delivery of nursing home and long-term care services within institutional and community-based settings.  Topics include geriatric illnesses; environmental and safety regulations; medical emergencies; human relations aspects of patient care; nursing policy; legal, organizational and management issues of long-term care; and utilization review and medical record keeping. Special attention is given to selected long-term care models, case management services, and the role of the gerontologist in long-term care settings.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    HADM 200  or adviser permission. (Formerly MHAE 249, Nursing Home Administration.)
  

  • HADM 231 - Nutrition and Aging


    Semester Hours: 3
    Once a Year
    Explores the importance of evidence-based nutrition data, nutritional practices, and nutrition education for the aging.  Theoretical components of nutrition in aging provides a basis for students to recommend appropriate nutrition programs for aging populations.  Psychosocial and cultural influences of nutrition on the elderly are also discussed. 



    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    (Formerly MHAE 291, Nutrition and the Aging)




  

  • HADM 232 - Health and Aging


    Semester Hours: 3

    Once a Year

    Examines aging as a normal process in the life cycle. Factors associated with healthy aging, as well as the problems of illness and disease as they affect the elderly, are explored. Surveys literature related to health services, security, nutrition, exercise, mental health, and physical/biological variables associated with aging.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    (Formerly MHAE 292, Health and the Aging.)
  

  • HADM 233 - Aging Policies, Planning and Administration for the Aging


    Semester Hours: 3
    Once a Year
    Explores the special needs and service requirements of an increasingly diverse senior citizen population. Applies strategic and political planning principles needed to administer effectively and efficiently a broad range of intergrated services, as well as fostering sensitivity and understanding among staff that serve the aged population.


    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    (Formerly MHAE 293, Healthcare Policies, Planning and Administration for the Aging.)




 

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