BUSI-311 Introduction to Healthcare Administration

Discussion Board Forums (8)
Discussion boards are collaborative learning experiences. Therefore, the student is required to create a thread in response to the provided prompt for each forum. Each thread must be at least 400 words and demonstrate course-related knowledge. In addition to the thread, the student is required to reply to 2 other classmates’ threads. Each reply must be at least 300 words. Each thread and reply must include a biblical integration and at least 2 peer-reviewed source citations in current APA format (in addition to the textbook).

Research Project

Annotated Bibliography

The student will be placed into a group for the collaborative group project. Part 1 requires each group to research 20 scholarly journal articles from peer-reviewed journals to establish research for part 4 of the collaborative group project. The student will use a provided template to annotate each source. Current APA formatting must be used.

Peer Evaluations (4)

After each part of the collaborative group project, the student will evaluate the contributions of each of his/her group members using the Peer Evaluation Form. The student will also be evaluated by his/her group members. The resulting scores will be used to provide a final Peer Evaluation score for each part of the collaborative group project. All Peer Evaluation scores will be awarded provisionally.

Outline

Each group will complete a full-sentence Outline in preparation for Final Document of the collaborative group project. The outline will include a thesis statement, the research question(s)/issue(s) being answered/addressed, how much space will be allotted to each section of the paper, and a preliminary reference list of at least 20 sources.

Draft

Each group will be responsible for constructing and reviewing the draft document. The student will work collaboratively with the members of his/her group on a 5,000-word paper in current APA format. The topic area of the paper will be selected from 6 options; repeated topics are not allowed.

Final Document

Each group will be responsible for constructing and reviewing the final document. The student will work collaboratively with the members of his/her group on a 5,000-word paper in current APA format.

Quizzes (8)
The student will complete 8 open-book/open-note quizzes that contain multiple-choice questions. The student will have 50 minutes to complete each quiz.