INDEPENDENT STUDY SYMPOSIUM

BACHELORS DEGREE IN HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION

HCA 460

Breyer State University
Instructor: Mark C. Barabas, DHA

SYLLABUS

COURSE OVERVIEW: Welcome to the Independent study Symposium in Health Care Administration, a course that is designed to increase your knowledge base in Health Care Administration issues and current events.

In fulfillment of the assignments that will provide focused study of Health Care issues you identify as important to your development as a manager. This course is designed to incorporate your own experiences and observations regarding your basic health care knowledge and how you apply the concepts you've studied into the practical world of Health Care Management. Self-direction and initiative must be displayed in completing your assignments.

PROCEED: This course is designed to access your health care knowledge base which you have accumulated from the prerequisite courses and your working experiences. You are to select twenty articles from current publications like: Modern Healthcare, Hospitals and Health Networks, Health Care Executive and others.

TIME FRAME: This is a twenty-semester hour course. This course is allotted ten weeks of time. You must complete all of the requirements for the course successfully by the end of the ten-week period. The first day of week one will begin the day that you register for the course.

It is up to you to comply with the time frames for assignments and completion of this course. Extensions are granted only for extenuating circumstances, and must be agreed upon by both you and I. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be awarded twenty-semester hours of credit.

TEXTBOOK: There is NO required textbook for this course.

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EXAMINATIONS: There are NO examinations for this course.

GRADING: The grading scale for this course is as follows:

90-100%    = A
80-89%      = B
70-79%      = C
Below 70% = Fail

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR: Mark Barabas has held senior administrative positions in hospitals for the past twenty-five years including CEO and COO. He has been a limited service faculty member for two different universities. For more information on Mr. Barabas's background please consult the faculty listing.

PREREQUISITES: You must successfully complete HCA: 140,180, 200, 240, 260, 300, 330, 360, 380. This is a self-paced, independent study course, with one-on-one faculty mentoring. There is NO required text for this course.

COURSE OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

1). Quickly determine the pertinent information contained in current Healthcare articles related to your role as a future Healthcare administrator.
2). Relate current Healthcare issues to your local market dynamics.
3). Identify national Healthcare trends in your local market.
4). Increase your "core" Healthcare knowledge acquired in prerequisite courses.
5). Focus on a topic area of interest or of weakness by using your "student choice" article selections to reach a goal you set. (Goal: become proficient with Strategic Planning issues. Plan to reach goal: two (2) mandatory and five (5) student choice articles completed on strategic planning issues).

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