This course presents the ethical and legal implications for health care operations and the delivery of health care services. The unique legal aspects encountered in the provision of health services are analyzed. Legal and ethical issues challenging the provision of health care services will be explored. Students will analyze concepts regarding risk management, continuous quality improvement, guardianship designations, and institutional ethical structures. Additionally, students will learn how moral and ethical behaviors may conflict with medical law. Precedent-setting case studies of moral, ethical, and legal decisions are integrated into the course assignments to provide a foundational understanding of leadership decision-making in the health care setting. Prerequisites: GRO 325, HCA 305, HCA 205, HPR 201, HPR 231 or NUR 300.

 

This course introduces managerial accounting concepts to support decision-making within organizations. Topics covered include cost behavior, cost allocation, and budgeting. Emphasis is placed on financial analysis, performance evaluation, and management reports. Prerequisites: ACC 205

This course provides an international perspective on law enforcement. Students will focus on the phenomena of globalization of criminal activity, major aspects of the legal traditions and criminal justice systems of selected countries, as well as international legal and law enforcement institutions.

This course examines theoretical and applied criminal justice ethical standards as they relate to criminal justice decision-making. Students will evaluate issues concerning discretion, due process, truthfulness, corruption, and discrimination.

This course introduces the principles of financial accounting and reporting. Emphasis is placed on the accounting cycle and the application of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) to evaluate and record business transactions. Students will learn to prepare financial statements and analyze financial information to support business decisions.

This course introduces students to the process of, and conventions used in, print, broadcast, and digital media writing. Students will learn how to inform, entertain, and influence public opinion and consumer choices. Students will practice a range of skills necessary to be effective media content producers. Emphasis is on gathering information, writing styles, editing, and organization of written communication. 

This course provides an introduction to health care finance. Students will develop skills for the role of a health care manager to plan, control, direct and coordinate financial activities related to the organization’s day-to-day operation. Learning will consist of understanding financial reports, revenue sources, contractual allowances, budgeting, cost classifications, annualizing staffing, inventory and depreciation methods. Students will calculate financial ratios and analyze the results to determine the efficiency of the organization’s financial operations. Additionally, the functions of the health care financial manager will be addressed through understanding financial practices, governmental policies and regulations, cash management strategies and consistent methodologies involved in the financial decision-making process in the health care setting. Prerequisites: HCA 205 and ACC 281. 

This course introduces students to the intersection between psychology and the criminal justice system. Students will examine major sub-areas of psychology that comprise the discipline of forensic psychology including criminal psychology, legal psychology, victimology, police psychology, and correctional psychology.

This course introduces the use of research methods in the study of criminal justice. The focus is on the examination of the issues related to collecting, analyzing, and using data. Students will study quantitative and qualitative methods, criminal justice data, ethics, inferences, and social justice.

This course examines the structure, functions, and operations of the constitution and judicial processes. The impact of historical and contemporary constitutional issues on the criminal justice process will also be examined.