Course Descriptions

HPA 400 – Principles of Management in Public Health | Sample Syllabus

3 hours. This online course provides a detailed discussion of the conceptual and theoretical foundations to the principles of management with an emphasis on public health and health care settings. The focus is on the classic management functions of planning, organizing, controlling and leading.

This course is based upon the thirteen effective management principles, which falls into four parts:

1. Managing a Public Health Organization
2. Planning, Organizing and Controlling
3. Working with People
4. Leading and Making Decisions

HPA 444 – Strategic Planning and Budgeting | Sample Syllabus

3 hours. Examines strategic planning within organizations, with constituencies and stakeholders.  Introduces management control function, its activities, structure, process, and consequences, including quality measures and performance evaluation. 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 | Sample Syllabus

3 hours. 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 |
Sample Syllabus

3 hours. 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.