Graduate Course Descriptions

This course provides learners with a comprehensive look at the importance of supply chains in our inter-connected world. Current topics in supply chain management, logistics, and advanced procurement are discussed.

Contemporary Marketing discusses relevant topics in the field of marketing addressing foundational concepts and emerging trends.

This course examines organizational failure, what contributes to dysfunctional teams and how to avoid unfavorable outcomes. Strategy, change management, team dynamics, building trust, rebranding, and pivoting are all explored.

The culminating experience requires synthesis and integration of knowledge gained throughout the program as demonstrated by response to a case study scenario. Students draw upon the concepts learned to prepare an analysis of and solution to a hypothetical business problem. Taken within the final 0-6 credits of the program.

Discussion of the effect of the increasing numbers in the aging population due to improved technology and medicine. The course focuses on the management of retirement and skilled nursing facilities and their efforts to keep up with the demands of a consumer driven influence on the new nursing home environment.

Identify resources needed to recruit and retain competent health care professionals in the health care industry to provide care for patients while protecting the medical professional.

The course includes didactic learning in utilizing the previously learned methods in accounting to make budgetary, price and service decisions, cost allocation, and time value of money determinations in making financial managerial decisions in healthcare.

Focus on economic issues in producing, delivering and financing health care. Impact of economics on the delivery of medical care influenced by the role of insurance companies, physicians and the medical care markets.

Focus on managing patient health care risks. Instruction will include a review of the importance of the health care record as well as the role of the risk management team in the health care facility. Mitigating loss throughout the health care industry will be discussed.

Introduction to health policy and how governmental influence affects the outcomes in the delivery of health care. Accessibility of care, quality of care, safety, and the environment will be discussed.