Course Description
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Course Name: Health Policy Research and Analysis
Course Number: HSC 400
Lecture Room: VBT 124
Lecture Time: Monday 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM
Tutorial Section: Consult your individual schedule for times and room assignments
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisites: HSC 315 (HSC 3400 for Fall 2018)
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This course will consist of two major components: one large lecture and one smaller tutorial section. The large lecture, which meets once a week, will provide an opportunity for the entire class to puzzle through the research project, including a focus on research strategies and best practices, data analysis and presentation, conceptualization and measurement, and argument construction. To build these skills and become better consumers and producers of knowledge and information, the lecture will also examine critical health care and health policy challenges as a way to put these skills to work in specific cases.
The second major component of the course is the tutorial section. In addition to the weekly lecture, each student is also enrolled in a weekly tutorial section. The tutorial section meets every week and provides a forum for working with your team and getting feedback from your instructor and colleagues. The tutorial sections will use the Maastricht Seven Step Model, which will be discussed in detail in the lecture and tutorial section.
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Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:
- Explain the effectiveness of existing policies in addressing a specific issue in the healthcare system. (PLO 1)
- Participate in a coordinated team effort to research and analyze the impact of existing policies on healthcare. (PLO 2)
- Predict the ethical implications of existing policies. (PLO 3)
- Demonstrate critical, reflective and creative thinking to solve problems (PLO 4)
- Predict the impact of selected existing policies to address an issue in the healthcare system on population health (PLO 5)