CULVER-STOCKTON COLLEGE
HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT COURSES HCM 230: Dimensions of (3) Healthcare Administration This course outlines the numerous aspects of understanding the healthcare business model and delivery system. This course defines the key components to healthcare service delivery and the requirements to match the level of care with the necessary acute care, outpatient care, or long-term care setting. Offered every fall. HCM 330: Healthcare Policy and Quality Initiatives (3) This course will intricately study the systematic approach to the existing quality healthcare initiatives and the policies that guide practice management. Administrative and operative healthcare management HCM 340: Healthcare Quality, (3) Risk Management and Ethics This course will review the interdisciplinary functions of healthcare quality and risk management as well as an in-depth understanding of the role of each as separate divisions in the healthcare system. The course will review the importance of the roles of ethics committees, quality assurance departments and risk management within the healthcare system as well as their roles in educating staff. Prerequisite: HCM 230. Offered every fall in the 3-week session.
HCM 430: Strategic Leadership and (3) (DW) Healthcare Regulation This course provides a detailed look into healthcare services, cost and reimbursement for the purpose of management, and care delivery. Students will learn leadership skills and types of care available and examine the latest trends in business innovation. Prerequisite: HCM 230. Offered every spring semester. HCM 476: Professional Internship (3) (CE) Internship in an appropriate agency, hospital, industry, or healthcare setting. Prerequisite: consent of faculty advisor and Internship Coordinator. ExL HCM 498: Global Studies (1) This course will focus on materials that will enable students to fully engage with the academic content of the immediately following 3-week travel course. This course will also enable travel course leaders to monitor passports, visas, payments, and application document completion. Offered each 12-week session in conjunction with an international travel class being offered in the 3-week session. HCM 499: Study Abroad (1-3) Students will study a variety of topics by combining college classroom activities with international travel. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Offered as needed.
HISTORY STATEMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
The primary aim of the field of history is training the student for a dynamic and effective citizenship. Departmental offerings are designed to give students an understanding of the development of civilization; an appreciation of its varied social, economic, political, and cultural components and their historical interaction; and a basic familiarity with historical methods and reasoning.
PROGRAM GOALS
• Students will be capable of understanding and analyzing key historical concepts and apply them to the world around them. • Students will be able to develop, write, and revise their own piece of original research on first attempt. • Students will be able to publicly defend their own original work as well as publicly critique the work of others.
BACHELOR OF ARTS WITH A MAJOR IN HISTORY (39 HOURS) Core Courses (18 hours) HIS 105: Themes in Modern World History (3) HIS 107: History of the United States to 1865 (3) HIS 108: History of the United States since 1865 (3) HIS 276: Exploratory Internship (3) OR HIS 476: Professional Internship (3) (not required for History Education majors) HIS 295: The Historian’s Craft (3) (taken in spring of the sophomore year) HIS 490: Senior Seminar in History (3) (taken in the fall of the senior year) 134
2021-2022 Academic Catalog
