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May 20, 2024
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College Catalog 2020-2021 ARCHIVED CATALOG
Course Descriptions
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Whittier College Healthcare Leadership Program |
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WCHL 255 - Healthcare Decisions in a Multi-Cultural World
In a complex healthcare environment, it is increasingly important that we understand how decisions have been made, and how healthcare employees can make the best decisions in the future. This course will explore the basis of healthcare decision-making, using data, statistical studies, case studies, and cultural influences to understand how different constituencies approach and respond to decision-making.
3 credits
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WCHL 300 - Management of Healthcare Systems
The focus of this course is management and its primary goal is to advance your understanding of management in complex systems. As 21st Century healthcare managers you must learn to think through multifaceted, ambiguous and dynamic situations and to construct operational approaches that foster effective and efficient outcomes. The course is founded upon thinking that brings a liberal arts perspective to the practice of management. To that end, students will increase their ability to develop and grow people, learn through experience, and work with others through difficult situations. Finally, this course will equip students to be more effective communicators and to employ analytical investigations.
3 credits
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WCHL 350 - Healthcare Finance and Accounting
This course provides an overview of financial and managerial accounting in the healthcare field. This background equips healthcare managers with important concepts that will help them handle their daily operational tasks and contribute to strategic decisions.
1.5 credits
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WCHL 355 - Healthcare Risk Management & the Law
Effective risk management in the healthcare industry requires a working knowledge of the law and the concepts of civil and administrative liability. The purpose of this class is to introduce these legal concepts to healthcare administrators and managers. With this background, healthcare managers can work proactively to avoid or minimize risks and/or can accumulate information and effectively report any incidents once they occur.
1.5 credits
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WCHL 400 - Leadership Development
This course explores the connection between leadership and morality and how to improve your competence as an ethical leader. Management and leadership influence the lives of people within the organization and outside it. By discussing managerial theoretical frameworks and empirical case studies, the course will allow you to develop your own analytical and judgmental skills for leading organizations.
1.5 credits
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WCHL 450 - Organizational Change and Research Project
The topic of this course is organizational change as it pertains to healthcare systems. We can think of change as a threat or an opportunity. The intent of this course is to equip you to turn change as a problem into change as a prospective gain. Fundamental to effective change is your ability to bring a liberal arts perspective to organizational change. This course, intentionally placed at the end of the WCHL program, is to give you the opportunity to become a change leader and manager.
3 credits
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