health concentration - mpa degree plan.

Advisor: Alice Schumaker

Thirteen courses (39 graduate credit hours) are required for the MPA degree. Students complete the program by first taking the beginning core courses, then taking specialization courses. As students complete their concentration courses, they complete the ending core courses.

Beginning Core (12 credits):

PA 8050 Public Administration and Democracy
PA 8010 The Public Economy
PA 8090 Seminar in Organization Theory & Behavior
PA 8120 Research Methods or equivalent (POLS 800 at UNL)

Ending Core (9 credits):

PA 8300 Policy Design and Implementation
PA 8440 Organizational Development or PA 8530 Strategic Planning and Management
PA 8320 Policy Evaluation or PA 8450 Advanced Management Analysis

Concentration (18 credits or 15 Credits with Captone Project):

Required courses

PA 8720 Health Care Finance
PA 8740 Health Care Policy
*PA 8760 & PSM 810 US Health Care Delivery System

Elective courses (Choose any three)

PA 8990 Capstone Project
GERO 8516/PA 8516 Long Term Care Administration
GERO 8556/ HED 8556 Health Aspects of Aging
GERO 8476/ PSYCH 8476 Mental Health and Aging
GERO 8466 Aging and Human Behavior
GERO 8676 Programs and Services for the Aging
GERO 8356 Issues in Aging
GERO 8486 Comparative Gerontology
GERO 8506 Legal Aspects of Aging
GERO 8696/SOWK 8046 Working With Minority Elderly
GERO 8856/SOWK 8856 Hospice and Other Services for the Dying
GERO 8730/HED 8730 Dying, Death, and Grieving
GERO 8920 Special Studies in Gerontology
GERO 8970 Personal Values and Aging (1 cr)
GERO 8940 Practicum (3-6 cr)
GERO 9110/SOC 9110 Applied Social Gerontology
HED 8850 Health Aspects of Stress Management
HED 8700 Women’s Health Issues
HED 8600 Health Behavior
RLS 8426 Recreation Therapy: Intervention for the Aging
RLS 8246 Recreation Administration
HIS 8476 American Medicine and Public Health
PSYCH 8446 Abnormal Psychology (Prereq: PSYCH 1010)
PSYCH 8596 Psychology of Exceptional Children
PSM 806 Biostatistics
IPSM 820 Epidemiology: Theory and Applications
PSM 802 Ethics in Health Care