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3.00 Credits
This course explores the foundations of the environmental justice movement, current and emerging issues, and the application of environmental justice analysis to environmental policy and planning. It examines claims made by diverse groups along with the policy and civil society responses that address perceived inequity and injustice. While focused mainly on the United States, international issues and perspectives are also considered in relation to climate change, clean development mechanism trading, and cap-and-trade market approaches.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of the healthcare services system in America. Topics covered are: characteristics of the U.S. health system, the role of healthcare professionals, medical technology, healthcare financing sources, healthcare delivery structures (including outpatient and primary care), inpatient facilities, managed care and integrated organizations, long-term care, services for special populations, and system outcomes such as healthcare cost, access, and quality.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the study of the general principles, methods, and applications of epidemiology. It explores outbreak investigations, measures of infectious and chronic disease frequency, standardization of disease rates, study design, measures of association, hypothesis testing, bias, risk factors, effect modification, causal inference, disease screening, and surveillance. Case studies apply these concepts to a variety of infectious, acute, and chronic health conditions affecting the population.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a comprehensive examination of community development through exploring and understanding the role of networks. The course provides an overview of the types of networks and how each functions to create critical linkages that enable the ability of the community to respond to needs, threats, and challenges, and how these linkages can work to translate change and community effectiveness. Topics include improving governance; using community networks to bridge cultural and economic differences; improving communications and neighborhood relations; and using networks to work across agencies and facilitate planning. The course includes exercises aimed at promoting an understanding of networks and simulations to apply theory to practice. This course draws from several disciplines to discuss and apply network theory and practice to community economic development. Please note that students are required to work in groups.
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3.00 Credits
Operations management is the design and management of the processes that transform inputs into finished goods or services. This course presents an analysis of the operations within health service organizations like hospitals and other healthcare institutions and provides management tools and principles that are used to plan, organize, staff, and control the essential processes and systems of those healthcare organizations. The course also presents advanced techniques that can be used to manage and improve healthcare services to the benefit of both an organization and its patients. The primary areas of operations management that will be discussed include operations planning, financial management, supply and inventory management, technology management, and process and quality improvement activities. This course is focused on the technological aspects of operations, leaving human behavioral studies to other management or leadership courses.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to give students an in-depth introduction to the issues of health services law and ethics. Among the subjects covered are: the role of law in the U.S. healthcare system; the legal system and legal research; managing and regulating healthcare system including legal structure and governance of healthcare organizations; government regulations in public health and health services; protecting privacy of medical information, medical staff credentialing and clinical privileges; the laws in government payment programs; antitrust law in healthcare field; and legal and ethics issues in patient care and in health insurance.
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3.00 Credits
This course engages the student in the study of fundraising infrastructure, methods, and planning. Starting with philanthropy and universal fundraising concepts, the student then analyzes techniques such as direct mail, email, social media, special events, earned income, corporate giving, major gifts, and planned giving. The course is completed with the student creating his/her own fundraising plan based on an organization identified by the student.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, students will practice researching, writing, budgeting, and evaluating successful grant proposals. Grant writing ethics are stressed throughout the course. While the concepts covered can be applied to business, individual, and government proposals, this course focuses on philanthropic grants to nonprofit organizations from charitable foundations. Within one week of starting class, students will be required to identify a charitable or government entity and project to serve as a subject for their own proposal. To successfully complete the course, each student will create a proposal that he or she may wish to submit to grantmaking organizations, engage in the process of identifying funders and translating technical program objectives to a lay audience, create meaningful evaluation criteria or program process, and demonstrate how his or her program matches the funder's mission.
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3.00 Credits
Volunteers are the lifeblood of many public and nonprofit organizations. This course serves as an introduction to the theory and practice of the full range of volunteer management from recruiting prospective volunteers to issues surrounding the departure of a volunteer from the organization. Core issues surrounding volunteer management such as motivations, training, and risk management serve as key topics for this course.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the budget function and process of county, municipal, and state finance systems; the methods used to determine the needs of the community and individual agency and resource allocation to meet those needs; measuring the capability and benchmarking of the agency; preparation and presentation of the budget; and selling the budget and needs to the county or city administration.
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