Management BA with Healthcare Emergency Management Concentration
The BA Management with a concentration in Healthcare Emergency Management prepares individuals to take on greater leadership and management roles in emergency and crisis management. This program is ideal for emergency medical technicians, paramedics, and other frontline emergency responders, as well as other healthcare workers in education or communication, who are looking for greater career advancement. The program is also well-suited for career changers and working professionals with a background in public health, public policy, health services administration, nursing, law enforcement, or fire fighting.
The BA in Management with a concentration in Healthcare Emergency Management is comprised of 120 credit hours: 30 credit hours in the major, 9 credit hours of SCPS requirements, 21 hours in the Healthcare Emergency Management concentration, 48 credit hours of University Core Requirements and 12 credit hours of Electives. The curriculum is:
I. Management (30 credit hours)
- COMM 327 Small Group Communication
- COMM 273 Interpersonal Communication
- ECON 201 Principles of Microeconomics
- ECON 202 Principles of Macroeconomics
- CPST 247 Computer Concepts and Applications
- CPST 250 Foundations of Organizations
- CPST 310 Accounting Principles and Applications
- CPST 340 Marketing Concepts and Strategies
- CPST 349 Project Management
- CPST 350 Human Resources Principles and Practices
II. SCPS School Requirements (9 credits)
The following courses are required of all students:
- COMM 101 Public Speaking
- COMM 150 Communication Processes
- ENGL 310 Business and Professional Writing
As of Fall 2011, all Communication courses have changed from the CMUN prefix to COMM. Course numbers have also been adjusted but content has not. For more information, go to School of Communication.
III. Healthcare Emergency Management Concentration (21 credit hours)
- HEM 201 Introduction to Emergency Management
- HEM 240 Emergency Planning Public Health, Risk and Vulnerability
- HEM 260 Integrating Emergency Services in the Community & Disaster Sociology
- HEM 310 Introduction to Terrorism, Natural Disasters & Hazardous Materials: Managing Emergency Operations
- HEM 320 Introduction to Homeland Security: Decision Making in Public Administration
- HEM 340 Law and Ethics for the Emergency Manager
- COMM 231 Conflict Management and Communication
Advisory Board
Key members of the University medical and public health care communities have created the program curriculum, oversee its quality, and assess its learning objectives. They include:
- Mark E. Cichon, D.O., FACOEP, FACEP, Director of Emergency Medicine, Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC)
- Thomas J. Esposito, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.S., Professor of Surgery, Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, and Burns, Loyola University Health System
- Uei I. Lei, M.P.H., EMT-P, Emergency Preparedness Coordinator, Department of Emergency Medicine, LUMC
- Ida Androwich, Ph.D., R.N., Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing, Director of the Population-Based Infection Control and Environmental Safety program (PICES)
- Catherine Counard, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Medical Director, Cook County Department of Public Health
- Mary Dominiak, Ph.D., M.B.A., R.N., Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing, Director of the undergraduate major in Health Services Management
- Deon Pillard, M.S., Emergency Response Coordinator, Bioterrorism Preparedness, Will County Health Department
- Paula Willoughby DeJesus, D.O., Assistant Commissioner, Chicago Fire Department
- Harold Myron, Ph.D., Director of Educational Programs, Argonne National Laboratory