This course provides an overview of the various aspects of health care organizations. Specific areas covered include the transition and development of the industry, organizational design, oversight and management roles and responsibilities of various types of health care institutions and professionals, evaluating the purpose and clinical performance of physicians, nurses, clinical support and community health services, and the organization’s functions of financial and human resource management, information services, customer services, and marketing and strategy.

1. Describe the major components of the U.S. healthcare system.
2. Examine the political, economic, and social forces that have influenced the organizational foundations of the United States healthcare system.
3. Explain how public policy has shaped the development of the U.S. healthcare system.
4. Analyze major healthcare organizational leadership roles and functions.
5. Examine how health care management concepts and theories are applied to critical issues in health care organizations.
6. Analyze the critical management issues, purpose, functions, and performance measures of different departments within healthcare organizations.
7. Use technology and information resources to research issues in health services organization management.
8. Write clearly and concisely about health services organization management using proper writing mechanics.

Examines criminal fraud, deceit, and misconduct by individuals, government, and business organizations. Reviews the various categories of white-collar crime including the general nature of the crimes, typical participants, application of technology in crimes, and factors contributing to the crimes. Discusses corporate and the legal system's effectiveness in combating these problems.

1. Differentiate between white-collar crime and other types of illegal acts.
2. Describe the various categories of white-collar crime, including the general nature of the crimes, typical participants, application of technology in crimes, and factors contributing to the crimes.
3. Analyze white-collar crime in terms of various theories related to criminology and crime.
4. Relate the sources of laws to white-collar crime and apply the basic provisions of major laws addressing white-collar crime.
5. Discuss the principle processes and government agencies involved in regulating/policing white- collar crime and the various self-regulation approaches used by organizations.
6. Determine the nature of fraud, its impact on business organizations, and recent trends in fraud prevention.
7. Evaluate the considerations and various controls and antifraud measures that organizations can use in developing fraud prevention programs.
8. Use technology and information resources to research issues in white-collar crime.
9. Write clearly and concisely about white-collar crime using proper writing mechanics.

This course provides students opportunities for analysis, synthesis, prescription, and application of entrepreneurship concepts. Students will use real-work entrepreneurship cases and apply critical thinking and decision-making skills involving complex entrepreneurship decisions.

1. Analyze the business creation and start-up process.
2. Evaluate the financial requirements and management of a small business.
3. Analyze the human resource needs of the small business.
4. Build an effective business plan.
5. Manage the process for innovation and development in a small business.
6. Analyze strategies for growth and business sustainability.
7. Use technology and information resources to research issues in entrepreneurship feasibility and analysis.
8. Write clearly and concisely about entrepreneurship feasibility and analysis using proper writing mechanics.

This course focuses on the strategic elements of marketing that organizations need to effectively compete in today’s business environment. Tools will be presented for use with gathering and analyzing marketing data, decision making, and implementation. The advances in technology will also be explored as well as the related impact on the marketing environment, competitiveness, and customer information.

1. Explain the concept of strategic marketing.
2. Analyze markets, segments, and customer value to determine the best marketing strategy.
3. Analyze market-driven strategies as they relate to specific situations.
4. Analyze the parts of a market-driven program development.
5. Identify the factors and issues that influence global market-driven organizations.
6. Explain the implementation and management of market-driven strategies.
7. Evaluate the importance of value chain strategies to the marketing channel.
8. Analyze pricing objectives, price sensitivity, strategies, policy, and structure to determine the best pricing strategy.
9. Analyze the selling functions used by organizations to increase buyer response from marketing strategies.
10. Use technology and information resources to research issues in strategic marketing.
11. Write clearly and concisely about strategic marketing using proper writing mechanics.

This course covers economics of the public sector and analytical framework for government involvement, official budgeting process, cost-benefit analysis, taxes and their economic impact, national debt, fiscal policy, negative income tax, and other current topics.

1. Examine the unique nature, functions, and role of public financial management.
2. Assess the impact of budget deficits / surpluses and national debt on public finance, and strategies for managing these issues.
3. Analyze current problems of social security and welfare systems, and formulate alternatives for changes in managing these systems.
4. Analyze the economic impact of the tax system in the U.S.
5. Apply the major concepts used in public finance to evaluate finance issues, isolate the core factors, and develop alternatives to address the issues. 
6. Develop financing alternatives for various types of government expenditures.
7. Use technology and information resources to research issues in public finance.
8. Write clearly and concisely about public finance using proper writing mechanics.

This course provides an overview of marketing in health care organizations. Specific areas covered include the role of marketing in health care organizations, the marketing environment in the health care industry, strategy and market planning, the use of market information systems and market research, market segmentation, shaping product and service offerings, pricing strategies and decisions, designing and managing marketing channels, designing and managing marketing communications, and implementing marketing.

1. Describe the health care system and the role of marketing.
2. Analyze the competitive environment of a health services organization and identify a course of action that will allow for strategic marketing success.  
3. Analyze the users of the health care system.
4. Describe the various tools of the marketing mix available to health care providers.
5. Describe how health care providers can organize their marketing resources, implement their marketing plans, and use control tools to reach their stated goals.
6. Use technology and information resources to research issues in health services marketing.
7. Write clearly and concisely about health services marketing using proper writing mechanics.

Examines integral aspects of purchasing and materials management including function, organization, quality and quantity considerations, pricing policies, supplier selection, and ethical and legal implications. Reviews purchasing procedures, value analysis, inventory control, warehousing and traffic, capital equipment, make-or-buy decision-making, automation, budgets, and institutional and governmental purchasing practices.

1. Explain the functions, roles, and terminology of purchasing and supply management.
2. Recognize the alignment of purchasing and supply management with an organization’s goals and strategies.
3. Describe the Purchasing and Supply Management process and technology.
4. Explain make or buy, insourcing, and outsourcing decisions.
5. Identify various methods of identifying supply need and specification.
6. Explain the dichotomy of profit leverage and expense effects of purchasing and supply management in an organization.
7. Discuss the roles of quality, quantity, inventory, and delivery in purchasing and supply management.
8. Discuss price and cost management in making supply decisions.
9. Describe supplier selection, evaluation, supply research opportunities, and future trends.
10. Explain the legal and ethics considerations in purchasing and supply management.
11. Describe global supply management.
12. Use technology and information resources to research issues in purchasing and supply management.
13. Write clearly and concisely about issues in purchasing and supply management using proper writing mechanics.

Examines a variety of issues associated with conducting electronic commerce. Reviews the legal environment of business and the basis for business ethics. Examines key provisions of law relative to the protection of intellectual property, Web-based commercial activity, e-Contracts, and consumer protection. Discusses the nature of a variety of cybercrimes.

1. Describe the legal environment of business, the sources of American law, and the basis of authority for government to regulate business.
2. Define business ethics, explain the role of ethics in business, and describe the sources of ethical standards.
3. Determine how tort law and cybertort law impacts business operations.
4. Analyze the key provisions of law relative to intellectual property, the Internet, and cybercrime.
5. Summarize the underlying principles affecting international transactions and explain the jurisdiction of key U.S. commercial laws.
6. Describe the requirements of a contract and explain the basic provisions of contract law relative to e-Contracts, contract formation, enforceability, discharge, and remedies.
7. Examine how product liability and strict liability impacts business operations.
8. Analyze the principal types of business organizations and their key features.
9. Examine how the key powers and functions of administrative agencies relate to the conduct of business.
10. Explain the key provisions of federal law related to consumer protection, online securities offering, investor protection, and corporate governance.
11. Use technology and information resources to research legal, social, and ethical issues in e-Commerce.
12. Write clearly and concisely about legal, social, and ethical issues in e-Commerce using proper writing mechanics.

Provides an opportunity for students to integrate management principles, techniques, and theories by applying previously acquired knowledge of all business functional areas to analyze, develop, and implement business strategy. Utilizes cases from a variety of organizations, with emphasis on problem identification, analysis, and decision-making on strategic issues.

1. Explain the concepts and models of the strategic management process, including strategy formulation, implementation, and evaluation.
2. Conduct an industry analysis (external audit) and an internal audit of an organization, and present the results using various matrices and analysis tools.
3. Describe the application of the various types of basic alternative strategies and considerations for their use.
4. Formulate business strategies through an analysis of the operating environments (external and internal, domestic and international).  
5. Integrate knowledge of the various business disciplines and develop alternative strategic actions to fit a variety of operational environments.
6. Explain the key management issues associated with strategy implementation and the considerations for managing change.
7. Describe the activities involved in strategy evaluation and control, and explain the role of contingency planning in strategic management.
8. Develop a strategic evaluation process to assess performance.
9. Describe the advantages for any business of fostering an ethically, environmentally, and socially responsible organizational culture.  
10. Use technology and information resources to research issues in business policy.
11. Write clearly and concisely about business policy using proper writing mechanics.

This course introduces contemporary healthcare human resource management issues within the U.S. healthcare system. Contrasts the differences between personnel administration and elements of strategic human resource management. Students learn key concepts such as; line vs. staff relationships, the manager/employee relationship, job design, job analysis, position descriptions, recruitment, retention, promotion, succession planning, legal issues, safety issues, labor relations, training, compensation, benefits, and performance appraisals. Current trends in healthcare human resource management are covered.

1. Appraise the aspects of managing human resources (HR) in healthcare organizations.
2. Analyze the relationships between human resources, executive management, and other organizational departments.
3. Evaluate laws and regulations affecting healthcare organizations.
4. Analyze the factors affecting the employee / employer relationship in healthcare organizations.
5. Analyze the elements of position descriptions, recruiting, and selection interviewing.
6. Discuss the importance of training and development.
7. Analyze the components of compensation, benefits, and performance management.
8. Scrutinize the ethical and moral aspects of human resource guidelines and decisions.
9. Apply the process of successful succession planning.
10. Analyze the elements of labor and employee relations.
11. Evaluate the process and advantages of arbitration.
12. Describe the use of consultants and maintaining an effective human resources department.
13. Use technology and information resources to research issues in healthcare human resources management.
14. Write clearly and concisely about healthcare human resources management using proper writing mechanics.

Surveys the practice of public relations in business, nonprofit organizations, and governmental institutions. Examines the major forms of media used in public relations: news releases, broadcast publicity, public service announcements, and institutional advertising.

1. Explain the basic functions of public relations, how it can be used to support corporate goals, and how it can be integrated into marketing strategy.
2. Analyze a communication process, identify dysfunctional aspects of the process, and develop action plans to improve the communications.
3. Incorporate ethical and legal parameters in planning and executing public relations actions.
4. Formulate and plan the implementation of public relations strategies to accomplish stated public relations objectives relative to various publics (media, employees, communities, governments, consumers, and international entities).
5. Develop a public relations research plan to analyze audiences, assess alternatives, and develop needed information to support decisions.
6. Formulate and plan the implementation of public relations strategies to deal with crisis situations.
7. Use technology and information resources to research issues in public relations.
8. Write clearly and concisely about public relations issues using proper writing mechanics.

This course covers advanced topics in the C++ object-oriented programming language. Students will test, document and design business-oriented programs and solve advanced programming problems. Topics include data structures, recursion, design patterns, memory management and exception handling.

1. Review, discuss and apply the method of recursion.
2. Compare and contrast recursive with iterative programming problem solving approaches.
3. Compare selection sort and merge sort algorithms.
4. Discuss the use and significance of linked lists.
5. Differentiate among list, queues and stack data types.
6. Understand the different types of operators.
7. Demonstrate the ability to implement overloaded operators in classes.
8. Design and use constructors and destructors.
9. Discuss how the memory management system operates.
10. Design and define template classes and functions.
11. Design approaches that manage exception handling conditions.
12. Discuss the use of name management techniques and mechanisms in C++.
13. Demonstrate the ability to group classes into a class hierarchy.
14. Demonstrate the ability to use the Standard Template Library (STL).
15. Demonstrate an understanding of object-oriented design as part of the software lifecycle.
16. Demonstrate the ability to use graphic notations to address solve a business problem using the Unified Modeling Language.
17. Compare and contrast common design patterns.
18. Research issues in forthcoming revisions of the C++ programming language.
19. Use technology and information resources to research issues in advanced C++ Programming.
20. Write clearly and concisely about advanced C++ Programming topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

The course presents a discussion on security policies created to protect and maintain a computing network, such as password policy, e-mail policy and Internet policy. Students are presented with a comprehensive view of information security policies, frameworks and issues related to organizational behavior and crisis management. Topics also include governance, regulation, mandates, business drivers and legal considerations when implementing security policies and frameworks.

1. Identify the role of an information systems security (ISS) policy framework in overcoming business challenges.
2. Analyze how security policies help mitigate risks and support business processes in various domains in the information technology (IT) infrastructure.
3. Summarize the ethical components and basic requirements for creating a security policy framework.
4. Compare and contrast the different methods, roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities of personnel, along with the governance and compliance of security policy framework.
5. Describe the different ISS policies associated with the user domain.
6. Analyze the different ISS policies associated with the IT infrastructure.
7. Describe the different ISS policies associated with risk management.
8. Compare and contrast the different ISS policies associated with incident response teams (IRT).
9. Describe different issues related to implementing and enforcing ISS policies.
10. Describe the different issues related to defining, tracking, monitoring, reporting, automating, and configuration of compliance systems and emerging technologies.
11. Design a security policy framework.
12. Use technology and information resources to research issues in security strategy and policy formation.
13. Write clearly and concisely about Information Systems Security Policy topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

Provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to perform administration tasks in a peer to peer network or server centric network. Administration topics include installation, configuration, user management, resource management, and security.

1. Identify computing conditions in which a system needs to be reconfigured.
2. Demonstrate the ability to install and configure an operating system and its associated updates.
3. Validate and successfully install a computer operating system.
4. Demonstrate the ability to discuss the migration phases and considerations in an operating system installation.
5. Prepare an enterprise environment for systems deployment using image files.
6. Configure and define the disks and devices in an operating system environment.
7. Demonstrate the ability to configure networking settings in an operating systems environment.
8. Compare and contrast among different layers of networking stack as it relates to operating systems.
9. Demonstrate the ability to apply technology tools to monitor and configure network performance.
10. Demonstrate the ability to set and configure resource permissions.
11. Demonstrate the ability to describe and configure secure computing applications.
12. Analyze computer performance and performance statistics.
13. Describe the properties of user accounts and configure its components.
14. Demonstrate authentication and authorization in configuring secure user accounts.
15. Demonstrate operating system troubleshooting techniques.
16. Demonstrate the ability to understand operating system administration activities.
17. Develop a deployment and troubleshooting plan for an operating system environment.
18. Discuss and configure mobile computing options.
19. Use technology and information resources to research issues in desktop administration and operating system environments.
20. Write clearly and concisely about desktop administration and operating system environments using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

This course familiarizes the student with the origins of criminal law and explores its historical development into modern American crimes codes. Each lesson introduces the student to substantive criminal law and associated legal principles and terminology. This course contrasts elements of crimes against persons, crimes against property, cyber-crime, white collar crime, and other types of crime. Early and modern approaches to identifying, deterring, preventing, detecting, prosecuting, and punishing criminal behavior are also examined.

1. Describe the nature and history of American criminal law.
2. Explain the role of individuals and federal, state, and local government agencies in crime fighting and prosecution of criminal offenses.
3. Analyze the essential legal elements of criminal conduct.
4. Explain the concept of criminal liability.
5. Apply the concept of criminal responsibility and give examples of justifications, excuses, and incapacity for criminal acts.
6. Contrast crimes against persons, crimes against property, and other types of criminal conduct.
7. Contrast white-collar crime, commercial crime, and cyber crime from conventional criminal conduct.
8. Use technology and information resources to research issues in criminal law.
9. Write clearly and concisely about criminal law using proper writing mechanics.

This course introduces students to the general purpose of information systems in organizations and their use of personal productivity software. Students will demonstrate tasks in common application software to include word processing, web browsing, spreadsheet modeling, database management, and presentation graphics.

1. Describe the purpose and use of contemporary information systems in organizations.
2. Distinguish among computing technologies in use by modern organizations.
3. Recognize common features of personal productivity software.
4. Use word processing software to create and format documents.
5. Understand and use the features of electronic mail.
6. Use web browsing software to search and navigate online web sites.
7. Use spreadsheet modeling techniques to create and format spreadsheets.
8. Use database management software to develop and query a database.
9. Use presentation graphic software to create and format presentations.
10. Use technology and information resources to research issues in information systems.
11. Write clearly and concisely about introductory information systems topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.