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HPHE Courses

Core Courses

DED 701 Health Systems Organization: Theory and Practice
This course draws upon the social and behavioral sciences to examine theoretical formulations and research studies in public and private administration. It provides an overview of both institutional leadership and the assessment of organizational effectiveness and efficiency. Through the use of cases, incident processes, and simulations it provides dynamic, personalized experiences in problem identification and solving.
DED 702 Communications in Health Systems Organizations
This course examines problems and strategies of communications in the many environments that surround and affect human services institutions. It is designed to assess communications processes, determine problems, successes, and failures in communications, and improve one's ability to communicate in both individual and organizational settings. It emphasizes the use of cases, incident processes, and survey methodologies to analyze and improve institutional communications.
DED 703 Contemporary Health Care Systems: Law and Policy
This course examines a set of legal problems and policy issues that are common to the human services of medicine and education. Among the topics are the rights of the client and the provider, the right of the patient to refuse lifesaving care, informed consent, the rights of the mentally ill, regulating access to treatment, malpractice, the right to health care and education, inequalities in the provision of health and education services, and the social imperatives for ameliorating our system of human services.
DED 704 Contemporary Health Care Services: Finances and Controls
This course examines the trends, current conditions, and future prospects for financing human services in the United States. Demographic, economic, and political contexts are examined as well as the roles of federal, state, and private support of our institutions. Constraints and incentives facing managers of human services institutions in the profit-seeking, private non-profit, and public sectors of society are contrasted. Emphasis is placed on different strategies employed to review goals, secure revenue, and control the mission and the personnel required to accomplish the aims of the institution.

Health Policy Concentration

DHP 701 Comparative Health Care Systems: Politics and Problems
Topics covered are epidemiological studies of health problems that have been influential in the formation of health care policy, the ideological and political uses to which such data are put, and discussions of emerging health problems. Health Policy and Politics are examined in contemporary terms of the influence of politics and economic forces on the health care system of the United States.
DHP 702 Evaluation of Health Care Systems: Needs and Issues
This course provides an in-depth coverage of the quantitative and qualitative issues associated with population-based epidemiological research. Topics include issues in study design, measurement, methods of data collection, risk assessment, confounding variables, and analytic techniques. Applications of these methods to determine client care is (are) stressed in terms of institutional goals. Consideration will be given to the incidence and economics of major health impairments.
DHP 703 Simulation Workshop in Decision Making
Designed to explore systems approaches to institutional decision making, this course includes system concepts, system analysis, and assessment of problems in allocation and use of institutional resources. The approach employs a variety of simulation exercises, gaming approaches, and case studies to provide students with a range of typical decision situations in health policy and their analysis and evaluation. Emphasis will be placed on prevention strategies for proactive intervention.
DHP 704 Computer Applications in Health Policy
This course emphasizes the use of micro-computing with an emphasis on its application to health care systems applications. Topics include the use of spreadsheets for analysis and projection of data; planning and management of small data bases; and institutional research. Applications are made to financial planning, staffing requirements, business operations, and control logistics. The course will utilize computer processes to examine actual economic costs, resource allocations, and resultant impacts on health policy.

Health Education Concentration

DHE 701 Professional Health Education: History and Philosophy
This course examines the structure and operation of health professions education using primarily medicine and nursing as models for comparison and contrast. Students examine the various types of professional orientation, students, and educational activities in the modern human services organization. Historical and contemporary perspectives are reviewed and current needs for continuing professional learning are stressed in terms of institutional priorities. The course will conclude with the design and management of instructional systems for both academic and non-academic health care settings.
DHE 702 Practicum in Adult Learning
This course deals with three main areas of concern. The first is a synopsis of learning theories and developmental processes. The second is a comprehensive overview of current major contributors to the adult learning discipline, including Knowles and Houle. The concluding unit concerns middle-and later-life challenges and crises. The course develops understanding and confidence about what occurs in adult educational activities.
DHE 703 Assessment of Individual and Group Performances
The focus of this course is on the design and analysis of educational evaluation starting from the formation of evaluative questions, through the design of the process, to the analysis and utilization of results. Topics include an overview of evaluation models, quantitative and qualitative methods, and a critical analysis of selected evaluation projects.
DHE 704 Computer Applications in Health Education
This course emphasizes the use of micro-computing with an emphasis on its application to health care systems education. Topics include the use of spreadsheets for analysis and projection of data on educational and training needs and resources, planning and management of small data bases for tracking, and the use of computers in institutional research on education. Applications are made to financial controls, instructional operations, and control logistics. Instructional applications include software such as computer simulations.

Field Study Courses

DED 711 Field Study in Organizational Relationships: Intra-Institutional Problem-Solving
This course will consist of individual or small group research or evaluation experiences within a human service or health education organization. The policy question or problem to be studied will be identified and a self-designed learning plan developed by the student under the guidance and supervision of a faculty member and a qualified field mentor. This course will be limited to students who have completed the comprehensive core and appropriate portions of the individual area of concentration. Completion of the course will be marked by faculty, peer, and self-review of a submission of scholarly work in the form of a portfolio and presentation of an oral summary at a doctoral symposium.
DED 712 Field Study in Organizational Relationships: Inter-Institutional Problem-Solving
This course will consist of individual or small group research and evaluation experiences within a human service or health educational setting where inter- or trans-institutional policy is generated. The policy question or problem to be studied will be identified by the student under the guidance and supervision of a faculty member and a qualified field mentor. This course will be limited to students who have completed the comprehensive core and appropriate portions of the individual area of concentration. Completion of the course will be marked by faculty, peer, and self-review of a submission of scholarly work in the form of a developmental portfolio and presentation of an oral summary at a doctoral symposium.

Dissertation Preparation Courses

DED 721 Advanced Research Methods in Health Care Systems
This course will provide tutorial guidance and advanced preparation in either quantitative or qualitative research analysis dependent upon the research methodology appropriate to the emerging dissertation questions proposed by the doctoral student. The course will extend prior graduate training in research methodology and will concentrate on those processes most related to the proposed study. Instruction will be provided by a faculty member and a qualified field mentor who is acquainted with the research being proposed.
DED 722 Proposal Identification, Development, and Completion
This course is intended for doctoral students who have completed the Advanced Research Methods course or who enroll simultaneously in the two courses. Under the guidance and supervision of a faculty member and a qualified field mentor, the student will develop a dissertation proposal in the customary form of a statement of the problem to be studied, its significance to the field, a review of the related literature, and a set of protocols for the conduct of the study. At the conclusion of the course, the student should have both a completed dissertation proposal and the competency to defend it in an oral presentation to the dissertation committee.

Dissertation Courses

DED 801 Completion of the Dissertation: Conduct, Analysis, and Final Preparation of the Dissertation
Under the guidance of the dissertation committee, the doctoral candidate will complete the dissertation following the approved content and protocols of the proposal. Following the defense of the completed dissertation and the approval of the committee, the doctoral student will present an oral report on the findings and conclusions of the study to a faculty-student symposium.