COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

HPA 400 – Principles of Management in Public Health
Provides a detailed discussion of the principles and practices of management with an emphasis on public health settings.

HPA 444 – Strategic Planning and Budgeting
Examines strategic planning within organizations, with constituencies and stakeholders. Students will learn to develop and use management control systems, including quality measures and performance evaluation. Prerequisite: HPA 400.

HPA 445 – Organizational Leadership in Public Health
Examines classic and contemporary leadership theory and practice as applied to the diverse organizational systems and community settings in which public health leaders function. Prerequisite: HPA 400.

HPA 446 – Public Health Resource Management: Methods, Ethics and Policy
Equips students to analyze, evaluate and address the relationships among budgets, resources, forces of change, and organizational and professional values as they pertain to managerial choices and decisions. Prerequisite: HPA 400.