PATH Course Descriptions

This course is designed to provide students with a foundational knowledge and understanding of the core principles of healthcare administration. Topics include the history of healthcare in America, healthcare finance, the ethics of healthcare, and current health policy and law.

The Pathway to Organizational Leadership is designed to provide adult students with a foundational understanding of concepts of interest to leaders in all kinds of organizations. During this course, participants will explore the global context of leadership, and how the global environment influences the way we lead. Participants will gain insight into their own decision-making and communication styles, increasing self-awareness, and will apply what they learn about themselves to better understand decision making and their approaches to conflict.

The Pathway to Project Management will provide a brief overview and analysis of concepts in the field of project management. Students will be exposed to project management history, processes and knowledge areas. Students will examine how project management has evolved over time and found its way into a diversity of industries with project managers and project management offices (PMOs) now being commonplace. From traditional to agile methodologies, students will consider different approaches to project management.

This course will provide a brief overview and analysis of concepts in the field of mental health and psychology. An emphasis will be placed on a broad understanding of the field of mental health, career opportunities in the helping professions, and the basic tenets of the study of psychology and stress.

The Pathway to Writing Excellence is an adult-centered course designed to equip students with the skills to captivate, educate, and persuade their readers -- whether writing a business proposal, an academic essay, an email, a blog, or a social media post. Students will ponder together the importance of purpose, audience, and writerly self-awareness, and discuss what’s new in the ever-changing world of proper grammar and internet etiquette.

This course will help students cultivate practical skills to increase marketability for a new career or advancement in a current career. Students will learn to articulate individual professional goals, assess career interests, navigate job search engines, and create resumes that align with job and company profiles.

This course is designed to provide students with a sneak peek into the core concepts or principles of information security and cybersecurity. Information security professionals work to protect information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability of organizational data. Students will learn how training and security awareness can help an organization reduce its risk.

This course is designed to provide students with a sneak peek into the core concepts or principles of data governance and data management. Data Governance can be defined as the overall administration, through clearly defined procedures and plans, that assures the availability, integrity, security, and usability of the structured and unstructured data available to an organization (AHIMA, 2020). This course will explain the difference between data analytics and informatics. Students will learn how big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are impacting data analytics.

A scheduled class with topics chosen to meet the special needs and interests of students, faculty, or visiting professors.