May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours.

Supervised individual study on selected issues in community and leadership development. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits. Learning contract must be filed with Director of Graduate Studies.

Supervised individual graduate research projects on selected issues in community and leadership development. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits. Research Learning contract must be filed with Director of Graduate Studies. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 credit hours.

Review of the wellness-illness spectrum and the societal response in terms of health services. Topics to be covered include the nature and functions of health services agencies and professionals, and the impact of social, political, economic, regulatory, and technological forces. Also includes a discussion of major health problems and related health care programs.

The purpose of the course is to provide an integrated approach to understanding management in a variety of healthcare organizations (HCOs). This course highlights the major functions of healthcare managers and introduces students to the skills necessary to be successful managers. It also serves a foundation for the leadership series of courses that come after this course in the major.

A core program course that focuses on leadership and management knowledge, skills, and practices that promote healthcare quality, efficiency, and productivity. Methods to measure, monitor, and evaluate quality and productivity will be discussed.

This practicum is the first in a three-course sequence. In this foundational practicum, students gain practical general training and integrate learning from foundation Clinical Leadership and Management courses in a healthcare setting context.

A course in material and energy balances, units, conversions, tie elements, recycle, bypass, equations of state, heat effects, phase transitions, and the first and second laws of thermodynamics applications in separation processes involving equilibrium reactions and energy exchange.

Fundamentals of thermodynamics, review of first law, second and third laws, VL, LL and SL equilibria, homogeneous and heterogeneous chemical reaction equilibria.

Individual work on some selected problems in the field of chemical engineering. May be taken three times for a total of 9 credit hours.