PUBPOL 5521

Health Care Leadership, Communication, and Ethics

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

This course provides an introduction to relational and ethical leadership skills in health care, focusing on three areas of professional competency: leadership and organizational behavior, communication, and ethics. Classes are structured to be highly interactive and participatory, allowing students to practice applying practical tools to the real-world challenges they will face professionally.

Forbidden Overlaps PUBPOL 5520, PUBPOL 5521

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Learning Outcomes

• Apply leadership and organizational behavior concepts to common health care scenarios and identify analytic approaches and practical strategies to lead and communicate effectively.
• Demonstrate professional business communication skills by composing clear, concise, and persuasive written messages and delivering effective oral presentations both with and without visual aids.
• Analyze ethical trade-offs in health care decision making by evaluating real-world cases where leaders must balance such issues as financial constraints, patient quality, regulatory requirements, etc. and develop ethical leadership practices that emphasize transparency, integrity, and social responsibility.

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