Pharmacy Administration Course Descriptions
Core Courses
Health Systems Management, PA742
This course provides an in-depth analysis of various health care system components, including the consumers, providers, financiers, and regulators of health services.
Research, PA797
Students conduct research in the social, administrative, or economic aspects of health services and pharmacy. Preparation of acceptable research paper is required.
Social and Behavioral Health I, PA806
This course will analyze the social and behavioral foundations of health care including issues related to the development of the health care professions. The social-psychological factors affecting how consumers regard cures and healing will be studied as well as the relationship between professionals and the public.
Health Services and Policy, PA808
Students will analyze the social, economic, and organizational foundations of health care, including the roles of practitioners relative to health institutions, government agencies, and patients.
Health Services Research Methods, HP810
This course covers techniques for evaluating research
methods, selecting research tools, designing a pilot study,
and preparing grant applications, as well as strategies
for selecting research tools and ethical issues in research.
(Prerequisite: HP760 or other statistics course satisfactory
to the instructor)
Health Economics, PA840
This course covers the development and assessment of economic evaluation tools for pharmaceutical interventions and health services and how to assess patient preferences and quality of life.
Graduate Seminar, PA890
Outside speakers make presentations of research methods and research results. Seminar includes reviews of current literature and publications. Students must make a presentation to receive course credit.
Statistics for Research, ST704/ST701
This course covers the design of experiments, randomized designs, cross-over designs, statistics, and analysis of variance and covariance.
Elective Courses
Public Health Research and Epidemiology, HP730
Foundations of public health research are presented,
including principles of health services research, population
health, demography, preventive health, environmental
health, and epidemiology.
(Prerequisite: HP750 or other
introductory statistics course satisfactory to the instructor)
Health Law and Regulation, HP740
This course provides students with tools of legal and regulatory analysis and presents principles of health law and an overview of federal and state regulatory programs affecting the health care industry.
Ethical Issues in Health Care, HP880
This course covers major ethical issues and methods of analyzing ethical conflicts in the delivery of health care services and in developing and implementing public policy.
Special Topics in Pharmacy, PA763
Students participate in course work on selected subjects under faculty supervision. Students prepare a paper analyzing an issue that they encountered in their work and give a presentation based on the paper.
Advanced Social/Behavioral Studies, PA850
This course addresses the application of principal concepts
in the social and behavioral sciences to the drug-use
process.
(Prerequisite: permission of instructor)
