Summer 2020 Study Abroad in England

5-week Courses Open to All Majors

May 24 – June 24, 2020

Two Different 5-week Classes

• The British and U.S. Health Care Systems: A Comparative Study
• Health Care Ethics and Jurisprudence

We have taught these courses in England during seventeen summers and students from over thirty-five universities have enrolled. We welcome your application.

5-week Classes:

Two health administration courses are being offered as part of the University of Evansville's five-week 2020 Summer School at Harlaxton College in England. Classes meet collectively for group information and individually to study each specific field of interest. Visits are planned to modern health care facilities and relevant historical sites. Other activities include group discussions with British citizens concerning the consumer's view of the British health care system. Students can register for one or both of the following courses.

The British and U.S. Health Care Systems: A Comparative Study, HSA 499/599

3 hours undergraduate or graduate credit

Bill Stroube, PhD

Professor of Health Services Administration

Director, Health Services Administration Program

This course focuses on a comparison of the health care systems in Great Britain and the United States. It also examines the origin and current status of the British health care. Visits are planned to modern health care facilities and historical sites in Leicester, Nottingham, Grantham, Lincoln and London. Other activities include group discussions with British citizens concerning the consumer’s view on the British health care system. British health care professionals will visit and discuss their role in the National Health Service. This class may be taken alone or in conjunction with the other health administration class. All majors are welcome.  No prerequisites.

Ethics and Jurisprudence in Health Care, HSA 406/506

3 hours undergraduate or graduate credit

Bill Stroube, Ph.D.

Professor of Health Services Administration

Director, Health Services Administration Program

Discusses ethical and legal issues in health care and their application to the health care organization, administrator, staff, employees and patients. Topics include issues at the end of life, distribution of health care, privacy, organizational ethics, professional ethics, and regulatory issues. Visits are planned to modern health care facilities and historical sites in Leicester, Nottingham, Grantham and Lincoln. Students will meet with British health care professionals and discuss ethical dilemmas in the delivery of health care in primary care, hospital, and hospice settings.  This class may be taken alone or in conjunction with the other health administration class. All majors are welcome.  No prerequisites.

Schedule

The five-week classes meet for two hours each day Monday through Thursday, with travel opportunities during the three-day weekends. Students will have the opportunity to travel on college-sponsored trips as well as individual travel. The third week of class will be devoted to additional field trips with the ten-day health services administration class.
There are no specific prerequisites for these courses and all majors are welcome.

Application

Applications for the 5-week classes are currently being accepted by the Office of Education Abroad. Space is limited and students are accepted on a rolling basis. The priority application and $250 deposit deadline is in late January 2020. Applications will be accepted after that date on a space available basis. Students enrolled at other universities will be instructed how to create a University of Evansville account. In July 2019 you may establish your account and submit your Summer 2020 application here.

Cost for 5-week Class

Tentative Costs Payable to University of Evansville are due by April 2020. (Final exact costs will be confirmed in March 2020.)

Estimated comprehensive undergraduate or graduate student cost: $4,995 (includes three hours of tuition for one course, housing, meals, student activity fee, local Harlaxton shuttle fee, health and wellness fee, and airport pick-up at London Heathrow for passengers landing at the designated time.) Students enrolling in both courses will pay additional tuition of approximaely $1,700. There is also a $350 site visit surcharge for each student enrolled in a health related course. Students enrolled in two courses pay the surcharge once.

Additional Expenses:  Airfare, airport return and personal expenses.

Faculty

Bill Stroube, Ph.D.

Bill Stroube is professor and director of the health services administration program at the University of Evansville. He also serves as Director of the Institute for Public Health. He has published in the areas of international health care issues, health care marketing, and health care ethics. Before joining the UE faculty in 1998, he spent 12 years in management positions in the pharmaceutical industry and eight years at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Washington, D.C.

Bill has extensive experience leading student groups through the British health care system, and also has taught summer classes in China, Hungary, Slovakia, and Austria. He has extensive experience working will universities in India and China. He currently serves as Adjunct Professor at IMS Unison University in Dehradun, India. Since 2000 he has taught more than twenty courses in England in a 10-day and 5-week format.

For additional course information, please contact either of the following:

Bill Stroube, Ph.D. 
Professor of Health Services Administration
Direct Phone 812-488-2870
stroube@evansville.edu

Cindy Felts, Student Services Specialist in Health Services Administration
Direct Phone 812-488-1046
cf128@evansville.edu