Courses
MHA 643 INNOVATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT 3.0 Credit(s)
With an ever-evolving landscape, innovation in healthcare is necessary in response to environmental disruptions. Organizational change theories and models, futurist literature, and major world trends in innovation that impact sustainable change efforts in education, health care, social enterprises, for- profit and not-for-profit organizations, and related disciplines are examined. Additional topics include models and strategies in anticipating, creating, and managing change; collaboration; overcoming resistance to change; and creativity and innovations. Students will investigate applications and practices of organizational change relevant to their academic and professional interests. Prerequisite: Take MHA-511
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
MHA 655 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 1.0 Credit(s)
Professional career development seminar designed to prepare students to leverage career services and to begin long-term career planning for their future as health administration leaders including carefully developed coursework and personal coaching. Preparation for the capstone course will be accomplished with selection of project or research topic will be discussed and finalized. (Program Director Approval)
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
MHA 644 PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATORS 3.0 Credit(s)
Project management expertise is an essential skill for healthcare administrators to ensure projects are conducted with a proven framework and aligned with organizational strategy. This course introduces tools and techniques designed to facilitate critical project management knowledge areas, such as scope, schedule, cost, quality, resource, communication, risk, procurement, and stakeholder. Emphasis is placed on the skills and abilities of effective project managers. Students will learn the value of delivering a project on time, within schedule, and to the customer's satisfaction.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
MHA 650 FIELD EXPERIENCE I 3.0 Credit(s)
This Field Experience/Internship is a practical learning experience arranged with a variety of healthcare organizations and which provides a supervised short-term educational experience. An Internship allows a student to develop professionally through a work experience under the guidance of leaders in the fields of health administration. As an extension of the curriculum, and the Internship experience affords the student an opportunity to apply his/her theoretical knowledge and technical skills in a practical manner gaining valuable training, which will better enable him/her to perform with a higher level of skill and confidence. Student involvement in a professional field experience has significant value during an academic career. The practical application of classroom theory gives meaning and fulfillment to formal education experiences through exposure to professionals. The purpose of this experience is to augment formal classroom instruction, to experiment with theory and concepts, to utilize resources, and to begin the development of professional competency.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
MHA 651 FIELD EXPERIENCE II 3.0 Credit(s)
A continuation of Field Experience I This field experience is a continuation of MHA 625- Field Experience I and builds on real-world experiences in the field of Health Administration. This course enables students to gain professional experience in a healthcare organization by working directly with our partner organizations in a supervised environment and provides the student with hands-on opportunities to integrate classroom education with real-world experience. Students will undertake informatics projects that provide skills and competencies through practice.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
SLP 695 SEMINAR IN LITERACY FOR STUDENTS WITH A 1.0 Credit(s)
This course will provide instruction in applying the evidence-based approaches for improving reading and writing for students with ASD. Issues regarding developing basic symbolic skills, developing alphabetic knowledge and decoding, enhancing reading comprehension, improving basic writing and composition will be addressed for this population.
Offered: Summer Semester All Years
SLP 696 SEMINAR IN ADVANCED PRACTICE FOR STUDENTS WITH ASD 1.0 Credit(s)
This course builds upon foundational knowledge of ASD gained in individual professional degree programs, with an interprofessional learning experience focused on evidence-based practices to support learning in those with ASD. Appropriate task and environmental adaptations will be highlighted and data- based decision making will be introduced as a method to monitor progress and ensure treatment efficacy.
Offered: Summer Semester All Years
SLP 697 SEMINAR IN INTERPROFESSIONAL PRACTICES FOR STUDENTS WITH ASD 1.0 Credit(s)
This course will provide SLP and OT students with opportunities to develop assessments and instructional materials that draw on the scope of practice and combined expertise of the two professions. Students will create joint lesson plans for teaching specific literacy skills and improving executive function in students with ASD.
Offered: Summer Semester All Years
OT 695 SEMINAR IN LITERACY FOR STUDENTS WITH ASD 1.0 Credit(s)
This course will provide instruction in applying the evidence-based approaches for improving reading and writing for students with ASD. Issues regarding developing basic symbolic skills, developing alphabetic knowledge and decoding, enhancing reading comprehension, improving basic writing and composition will be addressed for this population.
Offered: Summer Semester All Years
OT 696 SEMINAR IN ADVANCED PRACTICES FOR STUDENTS WITH ASD 1.0 Credit(s)
This course builds upon foundational knowledge of ASD gained in individual professional degree programs, with an interprofessional learning experience focused on evidence-based practices to support learning in those with ASD. Appropriate task and environmental adaptations will be highlighted and data- based decision making will be introduced as a method to monitor progress and ensure treatment efficacy.
Offered: Summer Semester All Years
OT 697 INTERPROFESSIONAL PRAC STUD W/ASD For Students With Asd 1.0 Credit(s)
Fall seminar in Interprofessional Practices for Students with ASD Prerequisite: Take OT-695 and OT-696
Offered: Fall Semester Contact Department
BU 676 DIGITAL AGE SUPPLY CHAIN MGT 3.0 Credit(s)
The supply chain management module addresses opportunities and operations for ensuring alignment of the Supply Chain with business strategy for namely delivering a more efficient, faster and more flexible product development, manufacturing, quality assurance, delivery, servicing and continuous improvement processes. We will dive deeper into some SCM concepts and practices and also explore areas around SCM transformation and digitization for delivering more value across the value chains.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
BU 677 BLOCKCHAIN & BIG DATA 3.0 Credit(s)
The course aims at providing a hands-on introduction to blockchain, distributed ledger and crypto-currencies. The course will address three major topics: Use cases for blockchain technologies in supply chain management and payment systems as well as tokenization of assets; how blockchain technology is implemented using different programming frameworks; and the design of payment architectures based on blockchain.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
BU 678 TURNAROUND MANAGEMENT 1.0 Credit(s)
Turnaround management can be defined as a process dedicated to corporate renewal. It uses analysis and planning to save troubled companies in order to return them to solvency, by identifying the reasons for failing performance, and rectifying them.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
NU 600 CONTINUOUS ENROLLMENT 0.0 Credit(s)
This course allows for MSN/FNP students to maintain continuous enrollment when they need additional time to complete required clinical hours.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department