Health Care Administration
Department Information
Department of Public Affairs and Administration
College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
Office: Meiklejohn Hall 4122
Phone: (510) 885-3282
Website: http://class.csueastbay.edu/publicadmin
Associate Professor Emeritus
George F. Goerl, Ph.D. University of California, Davis
Professors
Linda Dalton, Ph.D. Radcliff College/Harvard University
O. Jombo ("Jay") Umeh, Ph.D. Texas Tech University
Associate Professors
Jennifer L. Eagan, Ph.D. Duquesne University
Toni E. Fogarty (Chair), Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Frank E. Scott, D.P.A. University of La Verne
Assistant Professors
Michael Y. Moon, Ph.D. Teachers College, Columbia University
General Information
While the program in Health Care Administration is an interdisciplinary graduate program leading to the M.S. in Health Care Administration, the following course is offered for undergraduates who may be interested in pursuing the master's degree in health care administration or who wish to learn more about health care systems. HCA 4200 is a prerequisite for "Classified Graduate" status in the M.S. in Health Care Administration program. The other foundation courses are PUAD 4830 Organization Theory and Human Behavior or MGMT 3614 Organizational Behavior, and STAT 1000 Elements of Probability and Statistics (or its equivalent). See the Health Care Administration chapter in the graduate section of this catalog for additional information.
Undergraduate Courses
| Course Number | Course Information |
|---|---|
| 3999 | Issues in Health Care Administration (4) Readings, discussion, and research on contemporary and/or significant issues in health care administration. May be repeated for credit when content varies, for a maximum of 8 units. |
| 4200 | Social Construction of Health Care (4) The origin and structure of health care delivery systems. How ideas about health and medical care are anchored in social and cognitive relationships. The assumptions that inhibit systemic change and change strategies given these assumptions. |
