SEMESTER 4 Course Descriptions
HCA 5306 Current Issues in Health Care Quality
Covers the historical evolution, current concepts, and future trends associated with the monitoring and evaluation of health care quality. Explores the major components of quality improvement to include patient care assessment, risk management, patient safety, medical management, outcomes management, and process improvement.
HCA 5329 Leadership in Complex Organizations
This course is designed to enable students to develop/refine their leadership skills through readings, self-exploration, and research. This is a true seminar course. Class participation is critical to the quality of this class. Your learning will result from your interaction with one another as well as from the instructors or from the readings. For this to happen, students must prepare for and participate in class. As you will soon see, students will spend part of their class time in large groups and part in small groups. Although class participation in the large group setting will be challenging, there will be a wide range of opportunities to participate in small groups. Students will examine leadership theory and, through case studies and discussion, better understand their leadership styles and qualities, as well as those of others. The course readings, case studies and guest speakers support the theoretical and practical aspect of leadership applied in complex settings.
MFIN 5340 Investments
Through a study of portfolio theory and asset-pricing models, students acquire the basic skills necessary to build and manage portfolios of different asset classes. This course applies theoretical concepts to investment analysis and portfolio management.
MBL 5110 Selected Topics in Business Law
This course builds on the material form HC Jurisprudence and from HC Contracting and Negotiations. Topics reviewed may include sales, negotiable instruments, the corporation qua corporation, debtor-creditor relations, bankruptcy, real property, and the governmental regulation of business. Case studies will be developed by the students and analyzed.
MMGT 5460 Operations Management & Research
This course provides an introduction to the concepts and analytic methods that are useful in understanding the management of a firm's operations. It provides basic definitions of operations management terms, tools and techniques for analyzing operations and making operational decisions. The course emphasizes application of concepts, techniques and methodologies from the field of operations management to organizations in the service industry.