Upcoming Public, Nonprofit, & Health Online & Hybrid Courses

PNH 220 - Organizing for Change Description

The purpose of this course is to provide an introduction to community organizing, outreach and advocacy, specifically the knowledge, skill, and value base underpinning community organizing, planning, development, and change. It will emphasize the myriad roles, goals, and strategies in effecting social change in the public and nonprofit sectors. Offered fall and winter semesters.

Available Semesters

Winter 2025 - Online
Spring/Summer 2025 - Online

PNH 270 - Public and Nonprofit Admin Description

A survey of what is involved in the administration of public and nonprofit entities. How to hire, evaluate, and reward the right people, developing and carrying out public policies, preparing and interpreting budgets, dealing with various pressure groups and governmental agencies, and organizing human resources to carry out the public's business honestly and effectively. Several case studies will be used. Fulfills one of the Foundations - Social and Behavioral Sciences. Offered every semester.

Available Semesters

Spring/Summer 2025 - Online

PNH 335 - Grant Writing Description

Provides instruction in writing grants, evaluating grant proposals, and in researching and cultivating funding sources. Students will gain an understanding of the link between organizational mission and program development by preparing a full proposal to meet a real-life community need. Offered fall semester.

Available Semesters

Winter 2025 - Online
Spring/Summer 2025 - Online

PNH 376 - Personnel Policy & Admin Description

Managing the human resources of government and nonprofit agencies. An examination of public personnel functions (recruitment, training, employee relations, remuneration, conduct, and organization) and special issues such as collective bargaining and equal opportunity employment. Offered fall and winter semesters.

Available Semesters

Winter 2025 - Hybrid

PNH 390 - Leadership Dynamics Description

Examines and applies leadership issues, concepts, and situations that are evident in various community and public or nonprofit organizational contexts. Offered once a year.

Available Semesters

Winter 2025 - Online

PNH 420 - Organiztn Theory/Dynamics Description

An exploration of the various theories that inform the structures of organizations and the resulting dynamics of accommodation, direction, control, permission, and ethical dilemmas that are set in place within and between the public structures of our society. Offered fall and winter semesters.

Available Semesters

Spring/Summer 2025 - Online

PNH 495 - Community Analysis (capstone) Description

Basic analytical concepts, including group dynamic skills, housing and land use surveys, historic district analysis, and neighborhood identification. Offered every semester. Prerequisite: Senior standing.

Available Semesters

Winter 2025 - Hybrid

PNH 535 - Grant Writing Description

Instruction in finding grant sources, writing grants, developing grant budgets and evaluating grant proposals. As part of this course, students will be expected to write and submit at least one actual grant proposal. Offered once a year.

Available Semesters

Winter 2025 - Online

PNH 612 - Human Resources in Org Description

A survey of policies and issues in human resource management in public, nonprofit, and healthcare contexts, including volunteer management. The focus is on values, behavior, ethics, and human interactions in organizations. Offered spring/summer and winter semesters. Prerequisite: Admission to a master's program in the School of Public, Nonprofit, and Health Administration.

Available Semesters

Winter 2025 - Hybrid

PNH 614 - Organization Theory Description

Explores the various theories of organizations. The focus is on the process of structural development and the impact each structure has on individuals and groups. Offered fall and winter semesters. Prerequisite: PNH 520 or PNH 630 or PNH 660 (may be taken concurrently).

Available Semesters

Winter 2025 - Hybrid

PNH 616 - Public Policy Analysis Description

An exploration of theories advanced to explain policy formation; examination of how needs are identified, communicated to policymakers, evaluated and converted into formal policy, and implemented by administrative actions. Emphasis is on policy analysis in the public sector. Offered winter semester. Prerequisites: PNH 520 or PNH 630; and PNH 611.

Available Semesters

Winter 2025 - Hybrid

PNH 630 - Health Admin & Services Description

Overview of the current management, organization, and delivery of U.S. health care. Current management and organization theories are compared in relation to the health care system. Major system components are defined and studied. Included are discussions of staffing, dealing with internal and external constituencies, and identification of hospital types. Offered every other year.

Available Semesters

Winter 2025 - Hybrid

PNH 631 - Health Policy & Politics Description

Examines public policymaking in the health care sector since 1900. Emphasizes policy, the process of government regulation, and the character of health settings at the federal, state, and local levels with attention to the constitutional foundations, legislative policies, and bureaucratic implementation features of the system in a political context. Offered fall semester. Prerequisite: PNH 520 or PNH 630 (may be taken concurrently).

Available Semesters

Winter 2025 - Online

PNH 634 - Health Care Law and Ethics Description

Examines current and historical legal and ethical issues impacting health administration, including malpractice and other liability issues, licensing and regulation, professional ethics, contracts and property, insurance, corporate, taxation, anti-trust, fraud and abuse, medical staff, confidentiality, health care access, peer review, ethics committees, legal and ethical aspects of patient care decision-making and consent. Offered winter semester. Prerequisite: PNH 520 or PNH 630 (may be taken concurrently).

Available Semesters

Winter 2025 - Hybrid

PNH 636 - Healthcare Quality Improvement Description

This course focuses on methods and tools used to manage quality in a variety of health care settings, including hospitals, clinics, physician practices, managed care, and long-term care. It addresses developments in health care quality assurance and improvement, data sources and analysis tools, staffing and management, accreditation, and public relations. Offered winter semester. Prerequisites: PNH 611, PNH 612, PNH 630, and PNH 631.

Available Semesters

Winter 2025 - Hybrid

PNH 638 - Continuing Care Mgmt Description

Overview of organization and management of continuing care organizations, including community-based, home health, adult daycare, hospices, mental health, and residential care options like senior living, assisted living, and skilled nursing facilities. Examines management and funding of institutional and noninstitutional settings serving the chronically, terminally, or mentally ill, or disabled elderly. Offered winter semester. Prerequisite: PNH 520 or PNH 630 (may be taken concurrently).

Available Semesters

Winter 2025 - Hybrid

PNH 639 - Community Benefits Assessment Description

Covers community assessment, program planning, and program management techniques with an emphasis on health. Community relations and coordination will be addressed. Prepares students for IRS, grant planning, and reporting. Course offered fall semester. Prerequisite: PNH 611 (for M.H.A. and M.P.N.L. students) or STA 610 (for M.P.H. students).

Available Semesters

Winter 2025 - Hybrid

PNH 640 - Marketing for PNH Orgs Description

This course explores and applies marketing and communications concepts to public, nonprofit and health organizations. Topics discussed include public relations, social media, marketing management, and community-based communications. Offered on sufficient demand. Prerequisite: PNH 520 or PNH 630 or PNH 660 (may be taken concurrently).

Available Semesters

Spring/Summer 2025 - Hybrid

PNH 643 - Strategic Mgt/Planning Description

Planning as a decision-making process, methods for defining goals in public and private planning programs, role of planning in policy formulation, planning for human environment relationships. Offered fall and winter semesters. Prerequisite: PNH 520 or PNH 630 or PA 660 (may be taken concurrently).

Available Semesters

Winter 2025 - Hybrid
Spring/Summer 2025 - Online

PNH 646 - Managerial Epidemiology Description

This course provides future health administrators with a firm grounding in the history and purpose of public health, population health, and the extensive variety of programming for improving population health. It also provides a grounding in managerial epidemiology. Offered fall semester.

Available Semesters

Winter 2025 - Online

PNH 662 - Nonprofit Financial Management Description

This course will examine nonprofit finance and accounting from the management perspective. Topics include financial policies and internal controls, financial statement presentation and analysis, audit and tax reporting, and budgeting. Offered winter semester. Prerequisite: PNH 520 or PNH 660.

Available Semesters

Winter 2025 - Online

PNH 664 - Program Evaluation Description

Program evaluation is an important component of management and quality improvement. This course draws from the leading scholars in evaluation to establish a foundation of knowledge in program evaluation and evaluation capacity building. Offered fall semester. Prerequisites: PNH 611 and PNH 614.

Available Semesters

Winter 2025 - Hybrid

PNH 666 - Foundations & Grantmaking Description

This course explores the implementation of strategic grantmaking and the application of theories of change by charitable foundations, nonprofit organizations, and governments as they aim to achieve measurable community impacts. Through field journal readings, case studies, and visiting practitioner presentations, students will gain practical knowledge in the evaluation of grant applications, the role of foundation program officers, and the effective execution of grantmaking strategies. Offered winter semester. Prerequisites: PNH 660 and PNH 667.

Available Semesters

Winter 2025 - Hybrid

PNH 668 - Grant Writing Description

Instruction in finding grant sources, writing grants, developing grant budgets, and evaluating grant proposals. As part of this course, students will be expected to write and submit at least one actual grant proposal. Offered once a year.

Available Semesters

Winter 2025 - Online
Spring/Summer 2025 - Online

PNH 671 - Build Sustainable Communities Description

Provides an overview of ecological, energy, climatic, and consumption issues impacting local communities. Through a multidisciplinary approach, students study the relationship among society, organizations, and the natural environment. Students examine how local governments and nonprofit organizations develop sustainable built landscapes, educate about sustainable best practices, and foster green economic development. Offered Fall semesters. Prerequisite: Admission to the sustainability certificate or MPA programs.

Available Semesters

Winter 2025 - Online

PNH 680 - Special Topics in Public Admin Description

A seminar for the study of important topics not ordinarily covered in other courses. This course may be taken more than once when the topic is different. Offered on sufficient demand. Prerequisite: Admission to the MPA or MHA program.

Available Semesters

Winter 2025 - Online

PNH 685 - Public Service Leadership Description

Examines the structure and dynamics of organizations; problems of financing, staffing, and program implementation; administrative reform and reorganization; qualitative and quantitative methods for managerial decision-making; goal-directed processes and effective planning. Uses a case study approach emphasizing management problems. Offered fall and winter semesters. Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours in M.P.A. or M.H.A. program.

Available Semesters

Spring/Summer 2025 - Online

PNH 693 - Research Project Description

The course requires preparation of an extensive research and writing assignment under faculty supervision. Offered on sufficient demand. Graded credit/no-credit. Prerequisites: Faculty approval of research proposal and completion of the Responsible Conduct of Research Training within the last three years.

Available Semesters

Winter 2025 - Online

PNH 699 - Directed Readings Description

A research or reading project, program proposal, or other approved activity that builds in the student's area of specialization. Offered fall and winter semesters. Graded credit/no-credit. Prerequisite: Permission of advisor.

Available Semesters

Winter 2025 - Online
Spring/Summer 2025 - Online