Healthcare Leadership (Minor)
This program was approved for students entering the university in the Summer 2024–Spring 2025 catalog year. For more information about catalog year, go to Catalog Year Information.
Minor in Healthcare Leadership
Unit: College of Education and Human Development
Department: Educational Leadership, Evaluation and Organizational Development (ELEOD)
Academic Plan Code(s): HCLSMIN
This program is completed entirely online.
All courses required for completion are routinely offered in accelerated format (e.g., during 8-week terms).
Admission to the minor in Healthcare Leadership requires completion of 24 credit hours, a cumulative GPA of 2.25, and a minimum of one year’s of healthcare experience across a wide variety of organizational settings. Applicants who do not meet these minimum requirements may petition the department for consideration of admission.
Program Core Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Core Courses | ||
| LEAD 416 | Principles of Healthcare Leadership and Management | 3 |
| LEAD 430 | Healthcare Finance and Accounting | 3 |
| LEAD 432 | Healthcare Quality Evaluation | 3 |
| LEAD 433 | Healthcare Law and Ethics | 3 |
| Select one course from the list below from the Interpersonal Supervision category: 1 | 3 | |
| Fundamentals of Healthcare Human Resource Management | ||
| Management of Diversity in Healthcare Organizations | ||
| Organizational Change in Healthcare | ||
| Conflict Management in Healthcare Organizations | ||
| Organizational Partnership and Community Engagement | ||
| Medical Anthropology | ||
| Health IT and Clinician Support | ||
| Nursing Leadership and Health Policy | ||
| Medical Sociology | ||
| Select at least one course (minimum of 3 credit hours total) from the list below from the Applied Quantitative Analysis Category: 1 | 3 | |
| Data Analytics in Organizations | ||
| Needs Assessment in Healthcare Organizations | ||
| Healthcare Information Management | ||
| Introduction to Heath Professions Skills Laboratory | ||
| Community Dental Health II | ||
| Introduction to Programming for GIS and Spatial Data Analysis | ||
| GIS and Public Health | ||
| Data Management and Spreadsheet Modelings for Industrial Engineering | ||
| Foundations of Actuarial Science | ||
| Nursing Research for Evidence-Based Practice | ||
| Applied Data Analysis for Epidemiology | ||
| Quantitative Methods in Public Health | ||
| Statistical Computing in R | ||
| Elements of Data Mining | ||
| Introduction to Social Statistics | ||
| Minimum Total Hours | 18 | |
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Some courses from this list may require pre-requisites and/or departmental approval from that designated department.
At least three (3) semester hours of the requirements for a minor must be successfully completed while enrolled in the University of Louisville.
To complete the minor, students must demonstrate competency by passing each class with a C- or better.
LEAD courses are offered in an 8-week format. Two half-term sessions will be available in Fall and Spring and one session will be available in Summer. Students may start the program at the beginning of the Fall and Spring terms, at the beginning of the second half of the Fall or Spring terms, or in the summer semester.
