Stewart Auyash, Associate Professor and Chair
The Department of Health Policy Studies offers degree programs in health policy studies and health services administration. The department also offers minors in health communication and health services administration.
Health policy studies is a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary program that offers the opportunity to study policy and cultural issues related to health and health care at the regional, national, and international levels. The major is a broad-based, liberal, and interconnected course of study involving social, political, economic, and cultural research and analyses.
In addition to the required and elective courses in this degree program, students must complete a minor (or double major) of their choice and an eight-week internship in a health policy setting, usually during the summer following the junior year. Graduates of this program are well prepared to serve as policy analysts with government agencies, lobby groups, legislative offices, health facilities, private corporations, international health agencies, health activist organizations, and health policy institutes.
640-11000
War, Hunger, and Genocide: An International Health Perspective (3)
640-12000
Your Money and Your Health: The Business of Health Care (3)
640-13000
Healthy Viewings: Media and Health (3)
640-14000
Cyborgs, Clones and Policy: New Technologies in Health and Medicine (3)
6
Total, restricted electives
640-20500
Critical Health Issues
3
640-21500
Introduction to Health Policy and Policy Making
640-30400
Economics of Health Care
640-31500
Health Policy Research and Analysis
640-33510
Legal and Ethical Issues in Health Policy
640-39000
Health Policy Internship
4
640-41500
Health Policy Seminar
Total, specific requirements
22
303-11200
Food, Health and Federal Control (3)
303-27800
Environmental Health and Medicine (3)
310-36200
Theory and Politics of Public Policy (3)
310-36400
Law and Public Policy (3)
310-36500
The Politics of Health (3)
310-36600
Environmental Politics (3)
310-37000
Selected Topics in Public Policy (3)
314-xxxxx
Philosophy elective (200 or higher) (3)
319-22500
Health Communication (3) or
640-22500
Health Communication (3)
331-21500
Introduction to Contemporary Mental Health Issues (3)
331-31400
Sociology of Health and Medicine (3)
331-31600
Women and Health (3)
339-38000
Medical Anthropology (3)
640-32600
Health Planning and Administration (3)
640-36000
Front Page Public Health: Policy and Epidemiology (3)
640-43500
Health Care Law (3)
662-11300
Personal Health (3)
662-22500
Alcohol and Alcoholism (3)
662-22900
Disease and Lifestyle (3)
Total, health policy electives
12
In the School of Humanities and Sciences
306-12200
Principles of Microeconomics
310-10100
U.S. Politics (3) or
310-10300
U.S. and the World (3)
310-12900
Introduction to Global Studies (3) or
339-12900
640-12900
Introduction to Global Studies (3)
310-14100
Power: Race, Sex and Class (3) or
310-14200
Ideas and Ideologies (3)
313-15500
Basic Statistical Reasoning (3) or
313-24300
Statistics (3)
314-21200
Introduction to Ethics (3) or
314-23000
Medical Ethics (30
331-10100
Introduction to Sociology (3) or
339-10400
Cultural Anthropology (3)
377-10600
Academic Writing I (3) or
377-10700
Academic Writing II (3)
377-20100
Persuasive Argument
377-20500
Personal Essay
In the Gerontology Institute
680-10100
Introduction to Gerontology
680-31900
Aging Policies and Programs
Total, requirements outside department
36
Required minor
15-24
Liberal arts electives (LA) (Minimum number of liberal arts credits is 90)
6-21
From any area at Ithaca College
3-27
Total, B.A. in health policy studies
124
This degree program is being discontinued. Admission is open to transfer students only.
The degree program in health services administration is for students who want challenging careers in the management of health organizations, including hospitals, state and federal agencies, long-term care facilities, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), ambulatory care facilities, managed care corporations, mental health facilities, and other health-related organizations and companies. Some graduates pursue advanced degrees in health administration or business.
The curriculum provides in-depth training in health administration and management. As part of their professional preparation, students spend two summers as administrative interns in selected health care organizations. These two 4-credit internships are billed at the prevailing summer tuition rate. The health services administration program is an associate member of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration.
To maintain satisfactory academic standing, a student must maintain at least a 2.30 GPA in all major department courses (640-xxxxx) and maintain a cumulative GPA of at least 2.30.
Academic Warning --- A student who fails to meet the minimum standards stated above and is not suspended or dismissed will be placed on warning. A student on warning may not take fewer than 12 credits in a regular semester without approval by the department chair or dean.
Dismissal --- Failure to qualify for removal from warning after one semester will render the student subject to dismissal from the program. After any two warnings, the student will normally be dismissed from the program. If academic performance deficiencies include failure to meet minimum standards of the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance, the result may be suspension or dismissal from Ithaca College.
640-10000
Introduction to the Vocabulary of Medicine
1
640-20600
Health Services Site Visits
640-21000
Issues in Health Services Administration
640-28600
Pre-Internship Seminar
0.5
640-32100
Departmental Planning, Budgeting, and Cost-Finding
640-32500
Health Planning
640-38700
Internship I
640-38800
Post-Internship Seminar
640-40300
Administration of Health Organizations and Agencies
640-41600
Applied Health Care Management
Health Care Law
640-48700
Internship II
Total
35
9 credits from the following electives
640-25000
International Health Issues (3)
640-27500
Women in Health Care Management (3)
640-30300
Computer Applications in the Health Care Field (3)
640-30500
Financial Management for Health Administrators (3)
640-30800
Program Evaluation (3)
640-33000
Quality Assessment and Risk Management in Health Care (3)
640-34000
Managed Health Care (3)
640-35000
Communication in Health Service Organizations (3)
640-40100
Public Health and Epidemiology (3)
640-49500
Special Topics in Health Administration (1-3)
640-49900
Independent Study (1-4)
680-24000
Fieldwork in Gerontology (3)
680-31400
Long-term Care Administration (3)
Aging Policies and Programs (3)
Total, health services electives
9
In the School of Business
880-22500
Financial Accounting
880-22600
Management Accounting
882-22000
Principles of Management
885-34000
Human Resource Management
887-20300
Introduction to Law I
In the School of Humanities and Sciences (H&S)
310-xxxxx
Politics elective
312-11000
Introduction to Computers and Information Systems
313-10500
Mathematics for Decision Making (3) or
313-10800
Calculus for Decision Making (4) or
313-11100
Calculus (4)
3-4
Statistics (3) or
313-24400
Statistics with Probability (4)
Medical Ethics
319-11500
Business and Professional Communication or
225-10800
Human Communication in Organizations
336-10500
Library Resources and Methods of Research (freshmen only)
0-1
Academic Writing I or
Academic Writing II
Persuasive Argument or
377-31200
Professional Writing
45-48
Liberal arts distribution
Natural science (NS) courses, only one of which may be mathematics
Fine arts (FA) course
Humanities (HU) courses
Social science (SS) courses
Liberal arts electives (LA)
Any fine arts, humanities, natural science, or social science courses
6-9
Total, liberal arts electives
27-30
Free electives
Total, B.S. in health services administration
128
An information sheet with further details and suggestions about these requirements is available from the department office.
The interdisciplinary minor in health communication is administered by the Department of Speech Communication and the Health Communication Steering Committee, which consists of one faculty member from each of the following departments: health policy studies; organizational communication, learning, and design; and speech communication. It involves coursework from three schools of the College and is designed to allow any student the opportunity to learn more about the complexities of communication in health care and health promotion.
For more information on this minor, see the Department of Speech Communication on page 291.
Open to students majoring in all disciplines except health services administration. This minor includes coursework in both health services administration and business. It is designed for students interested in a focused set of courses that will introduce them to the management issues and skills in health-related organizations. The minor includes a practical field experience in a local health organization and an elective for pursuing a specialized area of interest.
Health Planning and Administration
640-39600
Fieldwork in Health Services Administration
18
Total, health services administration minor
21
Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY
Altamonte Family Practice, Altamonte Springs, FL
Alterra Sterling House, Ithaca, NY
Alzheimers Disease and Related Disorders Association of Eastern Massachusetts, Inc., Cambridge, MA
Bellhaven Nursing Center, Brookhaven, NY
Benedict Family Health Center, Ballston Spa, NY
Benedictine Hospital, Kingston, NY
Boca Raton Community Hospital, Boca Raton, FL
Cayuga Medical Center at Ithaca, Ithaca, NY
Clare Bridge of Niskayuna, Niskayuna, NY
Cortland Memorial Hospital, Cortland, NY
Crouse-Irving Memorial Hospital, Syracuse, NY
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
DeMay Living Center, Newark, NY
Double "H" Hole in the Woods Ranch, Lake Luzerne, NY
Family Medicine Associates, Ithaca, NY
Franziska Racker Centers, Ithaca, NY
Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC
Hackensack Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ
Hospicare, Ithaca, NY
Hudson Haven Care Center, Inc., Wappingers Falls, NY
Institute for Mental Health Initiatives, Washington, DC
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, Washington, DC
Jordan Hospital, Plymouth, MA
Lane Memorial Hospital, Zachary, CA
Longview, Ithaca, NY
Loudon and Company, Lexington, KY
Lourdes Hospital, Binghamton, NY
Lutheran Homes of Central New York, Inc., Clinton, NY
Marriott of Maple Ridge of Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
Morristown Memorial Hospital, Morristown, NJ
National Rehabilitation Hospital/Suburban Regional Rehabilitation Outpatient Network, Bethesda, MD
New York State Health Department, Albany, NY
Orchard Cove, Canton, NJ
Paul's Run, Philadelphia, PA
Presbyterian Home for Central New York, New Hartford, NY
Reconstruction Home, Ithaca, NY
The Regency at Glen Cove, Glen Cove, NY
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA
St. John's Home, Rochester, NY
Stone Center of New Jersey, Newark, NJ
Tully Hill Alcohol Rehabilitation Center, Tully, NY
United Health Services of Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
Waterford Advisors, Inc., New York, NY
Westchester County Medical Center, Westchester, NY
Westwood Senior Village, West Seneca, NY
Winchester Hospital, Winchester, MA
Wingate at Ulster, Highland, NY
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