Department of Health Administration

Course Descriptions

First Year: First Semester

Units / Semester / Level / Code / Course Name
3 / 1 / First Year / HEA1100 / Principles of Management I
Course Descriptions:
Students who studies this Course will achieve the following objectives: Become familiar with the management concept; Distinguish between management as science and management in the practice; Become familiar with the components of the management process; Become capable to define each component in the management process. Be introduced to the skills which have to be possessed by managers. Distinguish between management as science and management as art. Be introduced to different management scopes. Specify the differences between business administration and general management. Capability of defining the relationship between management science and other sciences. Become familiar with Development of the management thinking. Classical school (traditional /old), Behavior school, Quantitative school, Systems school, Human relations school. Be introduced to different management functions. Planning, organizing, directing, and monitoring. Recognizing the concept of decision, Decision Making, and decision taking.
Units / Semester / Level / Code / Course Name
2 / 1 / First Year / STA3116 / Principles of Statistics
Course Descriptions:
The student learns during this course the following topics:
Definition and development of the scientific branch of statistics. Classification of statistics in descriptive and inferential statistics. Primary data: Collecting data, presenting data, characterizing data. Secondary data. Survey design steps. Closed-end question & open-end question in the questionnaire. Population vs. Sample. Sample kinds and its advantages and disadvantages. Frequency Distribution. What is a frequency distribution? Statistical ratios.
Units / Semester / Level / Code / Course Name
2 / 1 / First Year / CSC21100 / Computer Skills 1
Course Descriptions:
Content: After completing this course successfully, students will understand the basic concepts of computer systems. This includes hardware components, computer architecture, operating systems, application software, and computer networks. Students will gain a thorough basis to understand the technological issues raised by topics and problems of business informatics. Understanding the fundamental concepts discussed in this course is required for most other courses of the MBI program. This understanding will also help participants to evaluate new technological issues that are continuously raised in the rapid development of computer hardware, software, and networking technology.
Units / Semester / Level / Code / Course Name
3 / 1 / First Year / ENG1100 / General English 1
Course Descriptions:
Review verb forms, using auxiliaries, forming gerunds, word stress, forming adjectives, using verb forms in the narrative, the passive, have/get something done, present tense in the past, present, and future, tag questions, using articles correctly, giving emphasis and pronunciation stress.
Writing skills include planning and drafting a biography, making conversations, and writing a narrative. Students also learn how to write a formal letter.
All levels use the New Cutting Edge series, which is aimed at young adults studying general English.
Units / Semester / Level / Code / Course Name
2 / 1 / First Year / KUR11100 / Kurdology
Course Descriptions:
This course study the history of Kurdish people in political, social and economical approaches as well as knowing the history of Kurdish language and the accents used around and compare it with other languages. In additional to study the cultural movement by considering a simple for each of it which is it Kurdistan journal 1898-1902.

First Year: Second Semester:

Units / Semester / Level / Code / Course Name
3 / 1 / First Year / HEA1200 / Principles of Management II
Course Descriptions:
Students who studies this Course will achieve the following objectives:
He Becomes familiar with the Concept of Management, Becomes capable to define each component of resources, Human resources, Material resources Financial resources Information and thoughts, be introduced to what makes a great manager?, Have an idea about Basics of group work, Become familiar with the classic administrative functions of management: Project planning, Managerial Organizing, Administrative Directing, Administrative Monitoring, Human Factor Behavior –Motivation –Achievement –Recognition The work itself -Challenging - Responsibility –Advancement –Problems -Where to Seek Solutions, Be introduced How to Build Quality into Team.
Units / Semester / Level / Code / Course Name
3 / 1 / First Year / ACC31101 / Principles of Accounting 1
Course Descriptions:
This course aims to introduce students to the emergence of accounting, development, and its importance, and elements of the accounting system infrastructure, analysis of financial operations in accordance with the equation of the budget, the method of double-entry, the books and records, the accounting cycle, processes related to the owner of the project and the operations of the goods, discount commercial paper and processed in the books, an address acquisition fixed assets and provide a simplified consumption of the three basic ways, and how to get rid of them and the preparation of trial balance and preparing of the profit & loss statement and balance sheet.
Units / Semester / Level / Code / Course Name
3 / 2 / First Year / HEA1103 / Financial Mathematics
Course Descriptions:
This module includes teaching of calculating of simple interest, arithmetic progression, geometric progression, compound interest of a lump sum at the beginning and at the end of the period, annuity calculating at the end of the period (End value) and at the beginning of the period (cash value), amortization calculating (installment calculating) and bond/debt valuation. The student will also learn during this course the manual using of schedules of interest-factors and the common logarithm beside using the pocket calculator.
Units / Semester / Level / Code / Course Name
2 / 2 / First Year / CSC21201 / Computer Skills II
Course Descriptions:
This course trains student skills of basic rhetoric, oral presentation, and role game. Using Microsoft word: Deep look at M.S. Word interface, skills like writing a resume “C.V.”, writing a business letter and Mail merging techniques. Introduction to M.S. Excel Interface learning skills like: drawing a business form, filling the form with formulas and field calculations. A deep look at M.S. PowerPoint, steps of designing a presentation.
Introducing themes and styles, effects, animations, timing, transitions. Learning skills of designing an excellent presentation. Verbal skills live presentation of each student. Introduction to M.S. Access: Creating a data base, tables, fields, types and formatting, and Introducing queries and relations between tables and databases.
Units / Semester / Level / Code / Course Name
3 / 1 / First Year / HEA1101 / Economics
Course Descriptions:
This course contains teaching of the main economic terms, which are necessary for a beginner in this field. It comprises the exhibition of economic problem, the economic systems, types of business organization, how prices are decided (market mechanism), the demand and supply curves of one commodity, the microeconomic equilibrium, the market forms according to the number of opponents of one-commodity market and labor demand and supply curves.
Units / Semester / Level / Code / Course Name
3 / 2 / First Year / ENG51201 / General English II
Course Descriptions:
Revision of present perfect tenses, making comparisons, like, as, as if/though, narrative tenses, countable and non countable nouns, future forms of verbs, indirect speech and reported speech, certainties and possibilities, passives, relative clauses, conditionals, gerunds and infinitives, expressing hypothetical meanings, present and past habit, participles clauses, obligation, permission, get and got, ability and possibility, so, such, too, enough, emphasis with what, and giving advice. All levels use the New Cutting Edge series, which is aimed at young adults studying general English.
Units / Semester / Level / Code / Course Name
2 / 2 / First Year / STA31216 / Applied Statistics
Course Descriptions:
The student learns during this course the following topics:
Describing data using numerical measures (Mean, median, mode, geometric mean, midrange, weighted means (Indexes of laspeyres & Paache), percentiles, quartiles). Measures of variation (range, interquartile range, variance and standard deviation, coefficient of variation). Skewness. Graph, Charts and Tables.

Second Year: First Semester

Units / Semester / Level / Code / Course Name
3 / 1 / Second Year / HEA2100 / Hospital Management
Course Descriptions:
The organization and management of health care institutions in an era of change in the health care system. The course covers the major systems in organizations delivering health care services, involving organizational design, governance, executive functions, clinical systems, and support systems.
Units / Semester / Level / Code / Course Name
3 / 1 / Second Year / ACC31201 / Principles of Accounting II
Course Descriptions:
This course will focus on:
The accounting for Merchandising (purchases Transaction, purchase return, & allowance, purchase discount, sales transaction, sales returns & allowance , sales discount ,…) . Notes payable & Notes receivable, account for fix assets, Final Accounts :( Trading Accounting, profit and losses Account) , preparing balance sheet , adjusting entries .
Units / Semester / Level / Code / Course Name
3 / 1 / Second Year / HEA2102 / Organization Theory
Course Descriptions:
Students who study this Course will discuss the following chapters: organizations and organizational effectiveness; stakeholders, managers, and ethics; managing in a changing global environment; basic challenges of organizational design; designing organizational structure: authority and control; designing organizational structure: specialization and coordination; creating and managing organizational culture; organizational design and strategy in a changing global environment; organizational design, competences, and technology; types and forms of organizational change; organizational transformations: birth, growth, decline, and death; decision making, learning, knowledge management, and information technology; innovation, entrepreneurship, and creativity; managing conflict, power, and politics.
Units / Semester / Level / Code / Course Name
3 / 1 / Second Year / BUA32103 / Human Resource Management 1
Course Descriptions:
Human resource management provides students in human resource management courses and practicing manager with a complete, comprehensive review of essential personnel management concepts and techniques in highly understandable form. This course includes strategic HR, recruitment and selection of employees, job analysis, planning, employees selection and testing, performance appraisal, managing careers, and benefits and services.
Units / Semester / Level / Code / Course Name
3 / 1 / Second Year / HEA2101 / Health Administration Ethics
Course Descriptions:
An analysis of health care issues through lecture, case study, and practitioner involvement. Emphasis on overseeing the moral mission of health institutions while at the same time maintaining the economic viability of those institutions.
Units / Semester / Level / Code / Course Name
3 / 1 / Second Year / HEA2103 / Health Economic
Course Descriptions:
Application of economic concepts to the health care sector. Demand and supply, elasticity, health insurance, regulation, competition, and cost-effectiveness analysis. Emphasis on use of economic analysis for strategic planning.
Units / Semester / Level / Code / Course Name
2 / 1 / Second Year / HEA2104 / Legal Aspects of Health Administration
Course Descriptions:
The legal principles and processes influencing heath care providers. Basic instruction in contract law and tort law. Focus on major health care liability-producing areas and interface between law and ethics.
Units / Semester / Level / Code / Course Name
3 / 1 / Second Year / HEA2105 / English for Health Administration
Course Descriptions:
Using “Health Vocabulary in Use” written by Bill Mascull, English course includes new features, activities, and new substance to make the learning of English inspiring and motivating for second year students of Health administration department.

Second Year: second Semester

Units / Semester / Level / Code / Course Name
3 / 2 / Second Year / HEA2203 / Public Administration
Course Descriptions:
A program that prepares individuals to serve as managers in the executive arm of local, state, and federal government; and that focuses on the systematic study of executive organization and management. Includes instruction in the roles, development, and principles of public administration; the management of public policy; executive-legislative relations; public budgetary processes and financial management; administrative law; public personnel management; professional ethics; and research methods
Units / Semester / Level / Code / Course Name
3 / 2 / Second Year / HEA2200 / Health Finance
Course Descriptions:
This course will provide a comprehensive overview of the financial structure, market forces, controls and techniques used in the health care financial management and the perspectives of the various interest groups involved (providers, insurers, policy makers, patients and the general public). It will also provide students with a foundation in the use of financial tools and methodologies that will enable them to better understand the health care financial literature and perform effective analysis within the health care system on an as needed basis. This course will provide students with both a macro overview of the principal financial mechanisms in place across the health care industry and specific insights into the critical issues the industry currently faces. Additionally, the course will emphasize the development of practical financial analysis skills that will provide students with a foundation for immediate application within the health care industry and a better understanding of course materials as presented. Training in use of these tools will include use of several of the most important financial tools and methodologies employed across the health care industry such as benefit/cost and cost effectiveness analysis, ratio analysis and others.
Units / Semester / Level / Code / Course Name
3 / 2 / Second Year / HEA2206 / Operation Research
Course Descriptions:
Content: Students should understand the theoretical basis of Operational Research and be able to formulate and solve typical problems which arise in practice. Such problems are commonly encountered in industry, commerce and the public service. A wide range of techniques which can be used to solve typical Operational Research problems will be discussed. Among others Linear Programming, Integer Programming, Markov Chains, the Poisson Process, Queuing Theory, basics in Artificial Intelligence and Simulation are presented.
Units / Semester / Level / Code / Course Name
3 / 2 / Second Year / BUA32205 / Human Resource Management II
Course Descriptions:
This course is a complement to Human resource management 1 includes strategic HR, recruitment and selection of employees, job analysis, planning, employees selection and testing, performance appraisal, managing careers, and benefits and services.
Units / Semester / Level / Code / Course Name
3 / 2 / Second Year / HEA2205 / Organization Behavior
Course Descriptions:
A program that focuses on the scientific study of the behavior and motivations of individuals functioning in organized groups, and its application to business and industrial settings. Includes instruction in organization theory, industrial and organizational psychology, social psychology, sociology of organizations, reinforcement and incentive theory, employee relations strategies, organizational power and influence, organization stratification and hierarchy, leadership styles, and applications of operations research and other methodologies to organizational analysis.
Units / Semester / Level / Code / Course Name
3 / 2 / Second Year / HEA2201 / Health Services and Policy I
Course Descriptions:
First course of a two-course sequence providing an overview of the organization, delivery, financing and evaluation of the U.S. health care system. Emphasis is on major system components and their inter-relationships. Key concepts and topics include: social values, determinants of health and disease, estimating service requirements, health personnel, and health facilities.
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3 / 2 / Second Year / HEA2202 / Epidemiology Management
Course Descriptions:
Introduction to epidemiology for students majoring in any aspect of public health; covers the principles and methods of epidemiologic investigation including describing the patterns of illness in populations and research designs for investigating the etiology of disease. Introduces quantitative measures to determine risk, association and procedures for standardization of rates.
Units / Semester / Level / Code / Course Name
3 / 2 / Second Year / HEA2204 / Health Marketing
Course Descriptions:
Discusses and applies the concepts of healthcare planning and marketing to healthcare delivery, assessment of community needs and resource planning in both ambulatory and clinical settings. Includes health services planning and trends, demand for and use of health services, research methods and sources of marketing and planning data.

Third Year : First Semester