
Courses
Listed below are the courses of the HSA curriculum.
Note that there are options in some categories. If only one course
is listed in a category, then that specific course is required for
all HSA students. Note further that certain courses will be charged
at higher than general graduate tuition rates, particularly
in the David Eccles School of Business and the College of Nursing.
For tuition information in the School of Business, call 581-7785.
For information about the College of Nursing, call 581-8798.
A. MANAGEMENT SKILLS (12.5-16.5 Semester
Hours)
1. Accounting & Budgeting & Finance
1.1 Finance A (choose one of the following):
a. ACCT 6000Financial Accounting
(3)
b. ACCT 6001Managerial Accounting
(1.5)
c. HEDU 5450*Health Care Financial
Management (3)
(*)Students taking HEDU 5450, must also
take POL S 6380
(see A.1.2 below).
1.2 Finance B (choose one of the following):
a. Finance 6020Financial Management
(3)
(Prerequisite: ACCT 6000 or ACCT 6001)
b. POL S 6380Public Budgeting and
Finance (3)
2. Legal Aspects of Health Services Management (choose
one of the
following):
a. POL S 6230Administrative Law
( 3)
b. FPMD 6603 or 6604Law and Medicine
I or II (2)
Note: This category is not required of
MBA students.
3. Organizational Behavior (choose one of the following):
a. MGT 6051Managing and Leading
in Organizations (3)
b. MGT 5680Human Behavior in Organizations
(3)
c. POL S 6330Practice of Public
Management (3)
4. Management Information Systems (choose one of the following):
a. ACCT 6010Management Information
Systems (1.5)
b. NURS 6800Intro to Clinical Informatics
(2)
5. Marketing Skills (this course
required)
MKTG 6550Marketing for Health Professionals
(2)
B. HEALTH CARE SERVICES (4-5 Semester Hours)
1. Health Care Systems (choose one of the
following):
a. HEDU 5100Health Care in the United
States (3)
b. HEDU 6790Health Services Administration
(3)
c. FPMD 6401Health Policy and Managed
Care (2)
d. NURS 6002Health Care Delivery
(2)
2. HSA Capstone Seminar (this course
required)
POL S 6880Health Services Administration
Seminar (2)
Note: This course should be taken no
sooner than the year the student will graduate.
C. SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES (8 Semester
Hours)
1. Health Economics (this course required)
ECON 6190Health Economics (3)
2. Health Policy (this course required)
POL S 6321Health Policy (3)
3. Health Behavior (this course required)
FPMD 6600Social Context of Medicine and Public Health (2)
D. RESEARCH AND QUANTITATIVE SKILLS (8-9
Semester Hours)
1. Statistics One (or more) graduate level
course(s) in statistics or
research methods and design, as required
by the students degree
program. Courses that apply:
a. ED PS 6010Introduction to Statistics
& Research Design (3)
b. NURS 6000Scholarly Inquiry (3)
c. POL S 6290Quantitative Methods
in Public Admin. (3)
d. MGT 6040Data Analysis & Decision
Making (3)
e. SOC 6120Statistics I (3)
f. SO WK 6412Critical Utilization
of Research (3)
g. SO WK 6441Advanced Research I
in Health (2)
h. SO WK 6442Advanced Research II
in Health (2)
i. ECON 7001Quantitative
Methods I (3)
j. ECON 7002Quantitative Methods
II (3)
k. FPMD 6100Introduction to Biostatistics
(3)
2. Epidemiology (this course required):
FPMD 6300Introduction to Epidemiology
(3)
3. Program Evaluation (choose one of the following):
a. HEDU 6080Health Educ. Prog. Planning
& Evaluation (3)
b. NURS 6003Program Planning and
Development (3)
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