2019-2020 Graduate Academic Catalog

2019–20 Graduate Academic Catalog Page 75 Graduate-Level Course Descriptions EDR-6375 – INNV-6280 HLCA-6700 Ethical Issues in Healthcare 3 hours This course will examine the various elements of healthcare compliance, including: occupational safety, security, patient and employment confidentiality/data protection, audit, HIPAA, and internal codes of conduct. The course will also examine emerging ethical issues and dilemmas that healthcare managers face. NOTE: For those students electing the healthcare concentration, this course substitutes (not replaces) for the M.B.A. course MGMT- 6700 Legal and Ethical Environment of Business. I Innovation and Entrepreneurship (INNV) INNV-6200 3 hours Emerging Trends and Opportunities for Innovation This course will cover the practice of identifying “problems worth solving” by analyzing trends and changes in the marketplace caused by technology disruption, regulatory changes, societal shifts and more. Students will study historical disruptions and opportunities to better understand what factors to look for in the current market of “contemporary problems and opportunities” that could be addressed through innovation. INNV-6250 Design Thinking Principles for Innovation 3 hours Creative problem-solving is one of the most critical skills that business leaders and entrepreneurs need to be successful. New solutions will require new thinking. Students will study and practice a wide and diverse body of work that will include subjects like: creating and managing an innovative working culture, understanding disparate thinking styles, divergent and convergent thinking, empathetic thinking, and creating rapid prototypes to test ideas. Prerequisite: INNV-6200 Emerging Trends and Opportunities for Innovation. INNV-6270 3 hours Business Modeling and New Venture Creation Students will learn how to quickly and effectively map a business model and/or business venture onto a visual-based- learning, nine-tiled “canvas” using it as both a diagnostic tool for missing components, but also as an idea-development tool. This process will address all nine “tiles” on the widely-used “business model canvas” tool currently being used in the innovation market place. Further students will be challenged with five “elements” from one of the Edisionian core competencies called “Super Value Creation.” Prerequisite: INNV-6250 Design Thinking Principles for Innovation. INNV-6280 Creativity to Entrepreneurship 3 hours This course synthesizes the cumulative curriculum for the MBA Innovation and Entrepreneurship Concentration and will serve as the capstone. The course will provide a learning experience that integrates across all courses within it. It will involve analysis of a situation concerning a new enterprise — an original venture or within a larger enterprise — to develop a business model, product, design and to compare against alternative business models so as to identify potential opportunities and challenges. Ultimately the course will assemble findings and culminate in a presentation of findings and proposed solutions. Prerequisites: INNV-6200 Emerging Trends and Opportunities for Innovation; INNV-6250 Design Thinking Principles for Innovation; INNV-6270 Business Modeling and New Venture Creation. EDR-6375 Supervised Field Experience — Secondary 1 hour The supervised field experiences allow teachers to apply the knowledge of the classes in three grade ranges. All teachers must engage in a PK–3 field experience (minimum 40 contact hours), a middle childhood field experience (minimum 30 contact hours), and a secondary field experience (minimum 30 contact hours). Field experiences may be completed concurrently or consecutively in any order. Teachers should sign up for the number of hours based on the number of field experiences they will complete within the semester. Prerequisites: EDR-6000 Linguistic and Language Development for Teachers; EDR-6100 Literacy Issues and Trends; EDR-6200 Diagnosis and Intervention in Reading; EDR-6300 Adolescent Reading: Theory and Practice. F Finance (FIN) FIN-6500 Executive Financial Management 3 hours This course focuses on the critical financial issues and decisions facing organizational leaders and business executives. Key concepts covered in the course iclude analysis of financial statements, time value of money, cost of capital, working capital management, and cash flow forecasting. Using these tools, students will learn to evaluate and determine the value of organizations and proposed capital projects. Prerequisite: ACCT- 6300 Accounting for Business Executives. H Healthcare (HLCA) HLCA-6300 Healthcare Systems 3 hours An introduction to healthcare delivery, focusing on consumers, providers, organization, financing, quality and utilization of services, health planning, and political and governmental impacts. Includes a comparison of the U.S. healthcare system with those of other countries. In addition, there is a brief overview of global health issues and public health policies. HLCA-6310 Healthcare Policy and Data Analysis 3 hours The goal of this course is to explore current issues impacting the U.S. healthcare system. Governmental, environmental, and economic realities serve as the impetus driving the healthcare industry. This course will help graduates understand the perspectives of these varied stakeholdrs. Students will learn how to leverage big data to make data-driven decisions and the benefits and challenges wrought by health information technology. HLCA-6320 Quality Management in Healthcare 3 hours The purpose of this course is to familiarize the student with the concepts and methodologies of quality improvement across the healthcare continuum. This course focuses on the vision, strategy, and tools relating to healthcare improvement. The course will introduce and explore the evolution of quality including definitions, principles, theories, and practices. The student is introduced to and applies a diverse collection of methods of quality improvement.