CJ485 Homeland Security
College of Business and Criminal Justice Criminal Justice Department
Course Description: This course will provide an overview of the history and origins of Homeland Security. Students will learn about post 9/11 threats as well as relevant laws and regulations, challenges, and security pertaining to the border, immigration, transportation and public health from the perspective of Homeland Security.
Credit Hours: 3.00
Prerequisites: CJ230
Corequisites: None
MET434L Heat Transfer and Thermodynamics Lab
College of Technology Mechanical Engineering Technology Department
Course Description: This course consists of experimentation involving the fundamental principles of thermodynamics and heat transfer, as applied to internal combustion engines, steam engines, engine dynamometers, refrigeration and heat pumps, solar energy systems, and heat exchangers. Students will learn the basics of thermodynamics and heat transfer through laboratory experimentations.
Credit Hours: 1.00
Prerequisites: MET434
Corequisites: None
NUR581 Healthcare Technologies
College of Nursing Nursing Department
Course Description: This course provides a focus on the use of technology in the healthcare environment and nursing education programs. Topics discussed in this course include computer science, computer and information science, an introduction to regulatory standards for electronic data and monitoring systems, legal and ethical applications for nursing informatics, administrative information systems, telehealth, consumer information and education, simulation, emerging technologies and the future of nursing informatics.
Credit Hours: 3.00
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
MTH551 Healthcare Statistics
Arts and Sciences Department
Course Description: This course provides the basic knowledge required for the analysis, presentation and application of data relevant to nursing and healthcare issues. Fundamental to these skills, students will study descriptive and inferential statistics, sample and data preparation, probability and hypothesis testing, levels of data, measures of central tendencies, t-tests, correlations, and ANOVA, chi square, and regression analysis.
Credit Hours: 3.00
Prerequisites: MTH140
Corequisites: None
MHA530 Healthcare Statistics
College of Health Science Healthcare Administration Department
Course Description: This course provides the basic knowledge required for the analysis, presentation, and application of data relevant to healthcare issues. Fundamental to these skills, students will study descriptive and inferential statistics, sampling and data preparation, probability and hypothesis testing, levels of data, measures of central tendencies, t-tests, correlations, ANOVA, chi square, and regression analysis.
Credit Hours: 3.00
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
MHA574 Healthcare Performance Measures and Regulation
College of Health Science Healthcare Administration Department
Course Description: This course reviews how healthcare laws and regulations in various healthcare environments act as a basis for healthcare compliance. Students will be familiarized with federal and state laws related to the activities of healthcare agencies, using case studies to practice the development of policy writing, education, and training programs.
Credit Hours: 3.00
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
HCA200 Healthcare Marketing
College of Health Science Healthcare Administration Department
Course Description: This course presents the scope and practice of marketing principles as they are applied within healthcare delivery systems. Students will learn consumer behavior, market segmentation, SWOT analyses, and identification of new market opportunities. Assigned readings will include the role of social marketing, database research, as well as effective communication strategies involved in healthcare marketing.
Credit Hours: 3.00
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
MHA526 Healthcare Law and Ethics
College of Health Science Healthcare Administration Department
Course Description: This course introduces practical awareness of the legal and ethical issues involved in the delivery and administration of healthcare in the U.S. Students will learn the legal and regulatory foundation for the management of health care entities and the fundamental philosophy of values, morals, and ethics.
Credit Hours: 3.00
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
HCA422 Healthcare Emergency Management
College of Health Science Healthcare Administration Department
Course Description: This course will enable students to become familiar with, and acquire the skill and knowledge base necessary for, healthcare administrators in a crisis situation. This will include crisis situations that are epidemiological in origin as well as situations that are externally originated. The topics will include, but not be limited to, determination of priorities, availability and management of resources, and communication issues.
Credit Hours: 3.00
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
RAD420 Healthcare Delivery Systems
College of Health Science Medical Radiography Department
Course Description: This course will focus on the structure, operations, and outcomes associated with the United States' healthcare system and radiology’s role within that system.Students will learn how to assess a healthcare entity’s payer mix and expenditures in relation to the cost of services; identify key benchmarks in the development of the healthcare system; locate and read sources of research and monitoring of the healthcare system; and, evaluate the impact of existing legislation on the healthcare system.health care system, understand policy formation and implementation, and access sources of research and monitoring in healthcare delivery.
Credit Hours: 3.00
Prerequisites: RAD400
Corequisites: None