DHA Curriculum

 

The strength of the DHA program is the combination of faculty expertise in areas of health administration and the delivery model that enables professionals from across the country to interact, collaborate, and share experiences with the goal of increasing knowledge, abilities, and skills in health administration and leadership.

 

This program is under the authority of the College of Health Professions, the College of Graduate Studies and the Graduate Council. A representative curriculum for the DHA program is listed below. Courses are taken in sequence as listed below. Changes to this curriculum may be made as a result of continual quality review, professionals’ feedback on the program, and industry feedback and change.

DHA 700 Leadership: Foundations and Strategies for Health Care 3 (3-0): Examine the role of leaders in improving organizations and the relationship between situational leadership strategy, organizational culture, communication, and performance.

DHA 702 Probability and Statistics for the Health Professions 3 (3-0): Examine statistical and quantitative techniques for problem-solving and decision-making to understand, collect, conduct, and evaluate managerial, biomedical, and scientific research.

DHA 704 Population Health 3 (3-0): Explores applied epidemiology in relation to populations and health including standardizing information, marketing, community health technologies, and monitoring health behaviors of target groups.

DHA 705 Seminar in Public Health 1 (1-0): Focuses on current issues in health promotion and disease prevention, applied epidemiology, community health concerns, and how to positively impact health in communities.

DHA 706 Quantitative Analysis in Health Organizations 3 (3-0): Introduces statistical/quantitative techniques including general linear models, survey research methodology, and research applications cases, decision-making and problem-solving for health administration.

DHA 708 Organizational Theory and Behavior for the Health Professions 3 (3-0): Integrating theory and concepts from organizational theory and behavior literature, this course provides applications to improve dynamic health care organizations throughout the continuum of care.

DHA 709 Seminar in Health Dynamics: Current Issues, Trends & Change 1 (1-0): Examine current issues, trends, and the change necessary to improve the health system using a variety of presentations, group interactions, and discussion.

DHA 710 Qualitative and Operational Analysis in Health Care 3 (3-0): The assumptions, theories, and practice of qualitative research are developed. Operations research models for managerial decision-making and problem-solving are presented and applied. Prerequisites: DHA 702, Probability and Statistics for the Health Professions and DHA 706, Quantitative Analysis in Health Organizations.

DHA 712 Research Methods and Practice for the Health Professional 3 (3-0): Provides theoretical and applied concepts, techniques, procedures, and technologies used in scientific inquiry and reporting for applied clinical, health administrative and managerial research. Prerequisites: DHA 702, Probability and Statistics for the Health Professions and DHA 706, Quantitative Analysis in Health Organizations

DHA 713 Seminar in Health Services Research 1 (1-0): Examine research activity and reporting in the areas of health care financing, organization, delivery, access, and outcomes of health services. Prerequisites: DHA 712, Research Theory and Practice for the Health Professional.

DHA 714 Health Systems Thinking and Practice 3 (3-0): Examines systems thinking and organizational effectiveness. Students will practice using a variety of systems tools as applied to different organizational problems.

DHA 716 Communication in Health Organizations 3 (3-0): Examines the delivery and exchange of messages within health organizations. Contexts will include conflict, negotiating, networks, channel selection, knowledge management, and public relations.

DHA 717 Seminar in Health Care Dynamics: Stakeholder Relations 1 (1-0): Examine the concept of leadership style and how health care executives can more effectively communicate with multiple stakeholders both inside and outside the organization.

DHA 718 Health Care Law, Regulation, and Ethics 3 (3-0): Explores the legal and ethical issues found in the health care system, and investigates the health care administrator as decision-maker, leader and moral agent.

DHA 720 Health Economics 3 (3-0): Foundational economic and specific health economic theory, trends, market issues, and applications are presented to include health insurance and payment theory, processes, and applications.

DHA 721 Seminar in Health Care Policy and Politics 1 (1-0): This seminar will examine the political, legislative, and economic forces that influence health care policy and regulation development, implementation, and consequences of policy and legislation.

DHA 722 Health Informatics 3 (3-0): Focuses on the fundamental concepts and applications of managing information as a health care corporate asset, emphasizing converting data into information for decision support. Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor.

DHA 724 Fiscal Responsibility and Accountability for Health Entities 3 (3-0): Emphasizes financial management and financial operations theory, principles, and concepts as they relate to health care organizational decision-making and accountability. Prerequisites: DHA 720 Health Economics

DHA 725 Seminar in Strategic Planning for Health Organizations 1 (1-0): Examine the concepts, processes, and integration of management information systems, financial, human resource, and marketing plans into an organizational strategic planning system.

DHA 726 Applied Leadership 3 (3-0): Practical application of leadership principles focused on issues such as governance, decision making, motivation, empowerment, team building, change management, conflict resolution, accountability, credibility and ethics.

DHA 728 Health System Excellence 3 (3-0): Represents a synthesis of all previous classroom and field based learning experiences. Prerequisites: Completion of all previous DHA coursework. To be taken concurrently with Applied Leadership

DHA 898 Dissertation Design, Implementation, Defense, and Reporting 12 (spec): A description of the capstone research event, the design, implementation, defense, and reporting of a doctoral dissertation, is outlined. Prerequisites: Successful Completion of the didactic portion of the doctoral program and Comprehensive Examination.

 

 

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