Health Care Management

This course is an examination of financial management, forecasting, and analysis. Topics to be covered include financial statement analysis, financial forecasting, working capital management, time value of money, and capital budgeting. Students will apply these concepts to real world situations to develop managerial skills.
Prerequisite: ACC1010.

Understanding the strategic, operational, administrative and financial structures that comprise a health services organization will be explored by learners. Strategy formulation and comparative advantages of growth options will be addressed as well as the fiscal implications. Learners will also be tasked with determining the effect of process quality on the firm’s operations.
Prerequisite: COM1050.

This course requires learners to holistically examine their personal value systems while probing current challenges in the health services industry. Learners begin by defining and describing values and missions at the personal level, and then they apply these ethical structures to the workplace. These exercises are complemented by assessing a variety of current issues within health services that entail ethical decision making models.
Prerequisite: COM3150.

This course examines the organization of health services and entities in the U.S. by examining individual service units and their interplay. Learners will examine different functional units in depth, and determine how they inter-relate. Special consideration will be given to current and perceived potential changes in the health services environment and their effects on the individual components and their relationships.
Prerequisite: COM1050.

Learners are challenged to apply theory from coursework in a health services setting. Students will work in conjunction with their faculty advisor to identify, develop and implement a project. The final product of the course will be a detailed thesis concerning the project and its outcomes.
Prerequisite: COM3150.

The effective implementation of new initiatives within the health services field is vital. In this course, learners will identify best practices in identification, development, funding and implementing of new initiatives in a variety of health services domains. Initiatives for underserved and/or at-risk populations will be examined. Learners will generate complete implementation plans for a proposed initiative.
Prerequisite: COM3150.

Learners are challenged to optimize organizational quality and efficiency through the use of effective management techniques. Appropriate health services management styles and techniques are evaluated. Effective communication is stressed at both the interpersonal and formal levels. The impact of diversity on management actions is also explored. Learners will distill these concepts and synthesize a personal management style.
Prerequisite: COM3150.

Learners will examine the role of health services in society. This evaluation will include a survey of current trends as they relate to health services as well as possible future changes and challenges. Additionally the course will probe the relationship of government involvement in health services and its effect on society as well as health services organizations.
Prerequisite: COM3150.

This course provides an interdisciplinary approach to quality management. The student will gain an understanding of historical and theoretical underpinnings of quality management, national and international quality standards, and methods for collecting and managing quality data.
Prerequisite: COM3150.

Learners are challenged to apply advanced theory from coursework in a health services setting. Students will work in conjunction with their faculty advisor to identify, develop, implement and evaluate a project. The final product of the course will be a detailed thesis concerning the project and its outcomes.
Prerequisite: To be taken during the final quarter of instruction.

Learners will explore the managerial applications of law in the health services setting. Current U.S. law as it pertains to the daily operations of existing and proposed health services concerns will be examined. Additionally, current U.S. law as it relates to areas of controversy and concern in the U.S. health care system will be examined and debated.
Prerequisites: COM3150, LEG1020.

This course investigates the behavior of people within organizations for the purpose of applying such knowledge toward improving an organizations' effectiveness. Three levels of behavior are studied: individual, individuals within a group, and inter-group behavior within organizations.
Prerequisites: COM1050, MGT2000.

This course is concerned with the allocation of scarce resources among competing interests. This course presents economics as a method of thought and a way of taking hold of a problem, breaking it down, and working systematically through a solution.

This course builds on skills learned in Composition I and further develops writing, researching, and critical thinking skills with a focus on writing and reading academic essays. The course culminates in a well-reasoned research paper.
Prerequisites: COM1050, KEY1010.

This is a writing course designed to engage the student in a more advanced exploration of the writing process. Students will continue to develop their writing skills through the reading of a variety of rhetoric selections and the writing of more complex essays. Emphasis is placed on expanding the knowledge of the research process and improving the ability to evaluate and integrate various kinds of research in the writing of an APA Style research paper.
Prerequisite: COM1050.

This interdisciplinary course examines the many ways that human creativity manifests itself in the areas of the visual arts, literature, philosophy, history, music, architecture and technology. In this course, students will gain a broad understanding of Western cultural history.
Prerequisite: COM1050.

This course is the study of real numbers and variables. Topics studied include operations involving real numbers and algebraic expressions, solving linear equations and inequalities, the Cartesian coordinate system, graphs of linear equations and inequalities, simplifying rational expressions and exponents, factoring and radicals.
Prerequisite: MAT1050 or MAT1100.

This course is an in-depth study of the traditional topics of college algebra. These topics include solving linear and quadratic equations and inequalities, graphs of equations and inequalities, operations involving polynomials and rational expressions, exponents, radicals, and an introduction to exponential and logarithmic functions.
Prerequisite: Passing score on placement assessment or MAT2950.

This course will provide the student with an understanding of terms, definitions, and formulae used in computing statistics. Topics studied include: presentation and interpretation of numerical data, measures of central tendency, dispersion, probability, continuous and discrete probability distribution, regression and chi-square distribution.
Prerequisite: MAT3010.

This course is designed to develop students’ basic skills of logical reasoning relative to problem solving and related argument analysis. Learning to provide evidence and well-reasoned support for asserted solutions and/or positions within frameworks of clarity, depth, precision, relevance, and fairness are central to the course.
Prerequisites: COM1000, COM1050 or ENG1040.

This course is an introduction to environmental science that includes energy principles, relationships of organisms in ecosystems, and human impacts.

This course presents basic concepts related to nutrients in foods and their metabolic functions; methods for assessment of nutritional status and of dietary adequacy; and applications to phases of the human life cycle.

This course introduces students to the process used to analyze, record, classify, summarize, and interpret financial information. They are shown how to assemble financial statements following the steps in the accounting cycle. The Combination Journal is used to record transactions of a service business. Students will receive an overview of payroll accounting.

This course provides valuable information for students who will be entering business as employees and who eventually may have the opportunity to manage a business for others. Also, students who may eventually own and operate their own business will benefit greatly from this course. The material is presented to aid students in learning the appropriate terminology used in business and the many activities involved in the successful operation of a business.

This course introduces basic marketing terminology and concepts. A foundation is presented for understanding and applying basic marketing principles such as the relationship between the company, its products, distribution, promotion and pricing.