Course Descriptions
HESA 6363 Health Law and Policy: Current Issues
CREDIT HOURS: 3
This course offers an opportunity for students to engage critically with a set of lectures on cutting-edge health law and policy issues presented by distinguished guest speakers from a variety of scholarly disciplines and professional fields related to health law and policy. The lecture topics change from year to year, depending on the speakers and issues selected for presentation. Students are required to attend each lecture and to read material relevant to the given topic in advance of the lecture. Immediately following each lecture, students will attend a tutorial that will be facilitated by the course instructor. The tutorials will involve a roundtable discussion by the students of the lecture content and the reading material that was distributed prior to the lecture.
FORMAT: Seminar
PREREQUISITES:
HESA 6360.03
HESA 6365 Quality Management in Healthcare
CREDIT HOURS: 3
Quality Management (QM) provides participants with an understanding of QM concepts and practices in healthcare. The goal is to prepare students to actively contribute in a QM context. The scope ranges from broad topics associated with QM as an organization development strategy to teams, tools and techniques for effective process improvement projects.
PREREQUISITES:
HESA 5315
CROSS-LISTING: NURS 5865.03
HESA 6366 Health Law and Policy: Current Issues I
CREDIT HOURS: 1.5
This course offers an opportunity for students to engage critically with a set of lectures on cutting-edge health law and policy issues presented by distinguished guest speakers from a variety of scholarly disciplines and professional fields related to health law and policy. The lecture topics change from year to year, depending on the speakers and issues selected for presentation. Students are required to attend each lecture and to read material relevant to the given topic in advance of the lecture. Immediately following each lecture, students will attend a tutorial that will be facilitated by the course instructor. The tutorials will involve a roundtable discussion by the students of the lecture content and the reading material that was distributed prior to the lecture.
FORMAT:
FORMAT COMMENTS: Students are required to attend 4 lectures and to read material relevant to the given topic in advance of the lecture. Immediately following each lecture, students will attend a tutorial that will be facilitated by the course instructor. The tutorials will involve a roundtable discussion by the students of the lecture content and the reading material that was distributed prior to the lecture.
PREREQUISITES:
HESA 6360.03
EXCLUSIONS:
HESA 6363.03
HESA 6367 Health Law and Policy: Current Issues II
CREDIT HOURS: 1.5
This course offers an opportunity for students to engage critically with a set of lectures on cutting-edge health law and policy issues presented by distinguished guest speakers from a variety of scholarly disciplines and professional fields related to health law and policy. The lecture topics change from year to year, depending on the speakers and issues selected for presentation. Students are required to attend each lecture and to read material relevant to the given topic in advance of the lecture. Immediately following each lecture, students will attend a tutorial that will be facilitated by the course instructor. The tutorials will involve a roundtable discussion by the students of the lecture content and the reading material that was distributed prior to the lecture.
FORMAT:
FORMAT COMMENTS: Students are required to attend 4 lectures and to read material relevant to the given topic in advance of the lecture. Immediately following each lecture, students will attend a tutorial that will be facilitated by the course instructor. The tutorials will involve a roundtable discussion by the students of the lecture content and the reading material that was distributed prior to the lecture.
PREREQUISITES:
HESA 6360.03,
HESA 6366.03
EXCLUSIONS:
HESA 6363.03
HESA 6370 Comparative Healthcare Funding and Insurance Systems
CREDIT HOURS: 3
This course focuses on the finance and delivery of healthcare in systems across the globe. Students will examine the history, politics, demographics, health issues and related delivery challenges in national health systems. They will study their funding, workforce requirements, programs, facilities, technology and innovation; health systems are evaluated in terms of costs, quality, and population health outcomes.
HESA 6380 Senior Seminar
CREDIT HOURS: 3
Each class member prepares and presents a major analytical paper on a significant, unresolved healthcare problem related to his/her career aspirations. Practitioners and other interested persons are invited to the paper presentations scheduled during the last weeks of class. Classes focus on debates, interprofessional learning modules, a values exercise, and current issues in healthcare management raised by class members and the instructor. The class provides opportunities to analyze, synthesize and integrate knowledge and values while refining communication and appraisal skills. Senior Seminar is normally completed in the last term of the MHA program.
HESA 6390 Health Administration Residency
CREDIT HOURS: 6
A 16 week full time administrative residency is required for all students in the Master of Health Administration program. The objective of the residency is to provide first-hand familiarity with administrative problems and operations of a healthcare organization. Students are mentored by qualified, practicing senior health administrators. They apply and test administrative theories and concepts in a practical setting, and acquire administrative skills, knowledge, and perspectives through observation and contact with a diversity of programs and managers. Residency guidelines and information will be available to students in September of their first year.
NOTES: Residencies are required for all students. However, due to enrollment levels, not all placements may be available in the Halifax area.
HESA 6394 Directed Project
CREDIT HOURS: 3
In order to obtain credit, students are required to complete a written report based upon research in, or exposure to, a defined problem in health administration. For some students, this will involve research within a health agency or government department. It may be based upon the consideration of a problem which they have encountered during their actual employment or residency. In both cases, the design of the project and the preparation of the report will be done under the supervision of a member of the faculty.
HESA 6395 Directed Reading
CREDIT HOURS: 3
A special program of directed reading, with appropriate written assignments, may be arranged with a member of the faculty where the interest in a subject is not sufficiently widespread to warrant offering a regular course.
HESA 6400 Executive Decisions: Dynamics of Bias, Risk and Persuasion
CREDIT HOURS: 3
Powerful psychological constructs affect decision making. The course will focus on: a) recognizing the psychological constructs that can profoundly affect the decision-making process and the decision rendered; b) formulating strategies to effectively manage the potential influence of these psychological constructs; c) formulating strategies to influence and communicate decisions.
Offered 2017-2018
HESA 6505 Statistics for Health Administration
CREDIT HOURS: 3
This course provides graduate student in health administration with the skills to understand and carry out statistical analyses in their field. Computer labs using Excel form an integral part of the course. The course covers data acquisition and presentation, fundamentals of probability, distributions, inference, analysis of variance, and regression models.
HESA 9000 Thesis
CREDIT HOURS: 6
HESA 9001 Thesis Continuation
CREDIT HOURS: 6