CSUEB Catalog 2007-2008: Health Care Administration (Undergraduate)

Health Care Administration

	Department Information
	General Information
	Undergraduate Course

Department Information

Department of Public Affairs and Administration
College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
Office: Meiklejohn Hall 4122
Phone: (510) 885-3282


Professors O. Jay Umeh (Chair), Ph.D. Texas Tech University Dvora Yanow, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Assistant Professors Lisa Faulkner, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley Toni E. Fogarty, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Please consult the 2008-2009 online catalog for any changes that may occur.

General Information

While the program in Health Care Administration is an interdisciplinary graduate program leading to the M.S. in Health Care Administration, the following course is offered for undergraduates who may be interested in pursuing the master's degree in health care administration or who wish to learn more about health care systems. HCA 4200 is a prerequisite for "Classified Graduate" status in the M.S. in Health Care Administration program. The other foundation courses are PUAD 4830 Organization Theory and Human Behavior or MGMT 3614 Organizational Behavior, and STAT 1000 Elements of Probability and Statistics (or its equivalent). See the Health Care Administration chapter in the graduate section of this catalog for additional information.

Undergraduate Course


The course prefix for the following course is HCA.
3999	Issues in Health Care Administration (4) Readings, discussion, and research on contemporary and/or significant issues in health care administration. May be repeated for credit when content varies.
4200	Social Construction of Health Care (4) The origin and structure of health care delivery systems. How ideas about health and medical care are anchored in social and cognitive relationships. The assumptions that inhibit systemic change and change strategies given these assumptions.