Curriculum
Healthcare Leadership & Administration Certificate
Deepen and develop healthcare leadership and administrative skills. Prepare to become a better leader and administrator.
Delivering High-Quality Healthcare
Learn how to deliver healthcare in a way that lowers costs while improving patient outcomes and satisfaction. Understand how to impact and improve the care offered by clinicians and employees you supervise. Delve into leadership theories, concepts, and challenges as they relate to healthcare.
Healthcare Systems
Learn how economics and healthcare systems interact. Deliver healthcare to the best of your clinic’s ability within that system.
Research & Data
Learn how economics and healthcare systems interact. Deliver healthcare to the best of your clinic’s ability within that system.
Communication Systems
Mediate and manage communication at every organizational level to optimize the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery.
Courses
Core Courses
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HLA 670Organizational Behavior & Management in Healthcare3
This course provides future healthcare leaders with the essential knowledge and competencies to analyze, manage, and optimize organizational performance within complex systems. The curriculum translates foundational theories of organizational dynamics and design into practical strategies for achieving operational excellence, focusing on the structures and systems that drive behavior and results. Specific topics include governance, strategic management and marketing, human resources management, recruiting, training, process improvement, management theory, and employee wellbeing. The course provides students with knowledge about how the best healthcare provider organizations respond to their environment, foster innovation, deliver high quality, cost-effective healthcare, and how they make and implement decisions about future activities.
Offered Winter, Summer
HLA 700Healthcare Legal & Ethical Issues3
This course explores the legal and ethical issues and dilemmas in the delivery of healthcare. The principles and practical application of laws and regulations affecting operational decisions of healthcare providers, health plans, and third-party payers are discussed. Also Content and dates are subject to change addressed are social, moral, and ethical issues encountered in the balance of patient interests, needs and rights.
Offered Winter, Summer
HLA 620Emotional Intelligence and Strategic Leadership in Healthcare3
Using a validated emotional intelligence (EI) assessment, learners will examine and strengthen core leadership competencies, including self-awareness, empathy, communication, collaboration, conflict management, decision-making and problem-solving, and change management. The course also explores the strategic role of organizational mission, vision, values, and foundational organizational functions such as human resources, delegation, and collaborative team dynamics. Through individual and organizational SWOT analyses, learners will evaluate internal and external factors influencing leadership effectiveness and develop evidence-informed strategies for organizational and professional development. Emphasizing real-world application, the course prepares learners to translate leadership theory into actionable, context-specific practice.
Offered Fall
HLA 746Leadership in Health Sciences3
This course focuses on developing essential leadership skills in health sciences, emphasizing mentorship, change management, and quality improvement. Students will create a personal leadership statement to define their approach and values while exploring strategies to support and inspire team members. Key topics include mentorship techniques for guiding future professionals, methods for implementing sustainable change management, and strategies for fostering continuous quality improvement in healthcare. Through case studies, practical exercises, and peer discussions, students will gain tools to cultivate a culture of excellence, adaptability, and mentorship within diverse health science settings.
Offered Summer
Electives
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HLA 680Strategic Change Management for Healthcare Organizations3
This course provides a comprehensive and practical exploration of how healthcare leaders can effectively navigate and guide organizational change. Students examine the forces shaping today’s healthcare environment and learn evidence-based approaches for identifying, planning, and implementing meaningful change initiatives. Emphasis is placed on building readiness for change, forming effective teams, communicating vision, addressing resistance, empowering employees, and sustaining momentum throughout the change process. Additional focus is given to creating a culture that supports continual improvement, integrating change considerations into hiring and onboarding, and recognizing the influence of change on leadership well-being. Through applied assignments and real-world analysis, students develop the skills needed to lead strategic change and strengthen organizational adaptability.
Offered Fall
HLA 740Healthcare Delivery3
This course will train healthcare leaders to implement or teach principles of delivering better healthcare at lower costs through improving clinical and non-clinical processes. This course will introduce methods and tools for conducting quality improvement projects. Also discussed will be methods of health services research, teams and teamwork, outcome measurement, and medical informatics. A key learning experience of this course will be developing and implementing a quality improvement project.
Offered Winter, Fall
Healthcare Professions Education
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Learning Design
Dive deep into learning theory, design, application, assessment, and evaluation. Prepare to incorporate a learner-centered approach to course development and instructional delivery.
Evidence-Based Learning
Learn to utilize evidence-based practices for healthcare professions education. Apply a wide variety of learning methods to ensure that your learning communities are able to completely grasp even the most complex concepts.
Clinical Education
Dive deep into quantitative and qualitative inquiry. Learn methods and applications as you examine traditions, trends, and emerging areas of practice. Understand how research informs practice.
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Core Courses
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HPE 670Learning Assessment & Evaluation3
This course examines a variety of assessment models and techniques used to evaluate student classroom performance, student clinical performance, instructor performance and educational programs. Students will design and execute assessment plans, interpret assessment data and develop continuous improvement plans.
HPE 740Learning Theory & Design3
This course incorporates a learner centered approach to course development and instructional delivery based on the best evidence of how people learn. Students will demonstrate both traditional and innovative instructional techniques and strategies for teaching in didactic settings based upon the evidence-base of best teaching practices.
HPE 760Instructional Strategies for Healthcare Educators3
This course provides a comprehensive exploration of instructional strategies and technologies essential for effective teaching in healthcare education, covering online, blended, and traditional classroom environments. Emphasis is placed on the design and delivery of low and high fidelity, simulation-based, and mixed media resources that support dynamic and interactive learning experiences. Students will examine best practices in course design and instructional delivery, engaging with current instructional technologies.
Electives
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HPE 752Curriculum Design for Healthcare Professions3
Students will learn how effective health professions curricula must integrate the basic and clinical sciences, connect didactic to experiential learning, be competency-based and time-variable, include andragogic underpinnings and approaches of delivery, and create meaningful program outcomes and assessment opportunities that verify quality and excellence. In addition timely issues such as the curricular incorporation of clinical experiences/education, the sociocultural aspects of healthcare, and pertinent accreditation issues and constraints for healthcare professions will be addressed.
Offered Winter & Fall Semester
HPE 620Clinical Education Experiential Design & Application for Healthcare Professions3
This course addresses the many issues germane to experiential or clinical education in the healthcare professions by reviewing the design, implementation and assessment of clinical experience in the healthcare fields. Among the topics to be covered include supervisory policies and practices, communication, feedback, developing clinical expertise and reasoning skills, professionalism, student learning documentation and mapping, preceptor/supervisor training and development, and the role of entrust able professional activities, competencies and milestones in student clinician development.
Offered Winter Semester