Nov 03, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Healthcare Management, B.A.


The 120-credit hour Healthcare Management major welcomes students seeking their first bachelor’s degree as well as students who may already have a bachelor’s or an associate degree. The major is particularly suitable for those candidates who may already have a background through education and/or work experience in health-related fields, such as (but not limited to) counseling, medical technology, medical transcription, nursing, nursing assistant, nutrition, occupational therapy, physical therapy, or radiologic science. 

Core Curriculum: 38 - 51 credit hours


Please review the Core Curriculum  page for course options.

Electives (minimum of 28 credit hours)


Students must take elective hours in order to reach the 120 hours needed for graduation.

Technology Requirement


Computer competency will be demonstrated by successful completion of CS 210  within the major.

Outcomes


In addition to the university-wide outcomes, all graduates will demonstrate the following outcomes:

  • Be able to use deductive and inductive reasoning to solve business problems.
  • Be able to effectively research a subject and present the findings both orally and in writing.
  • Demonstrated interpersonal skills.
  • Be able to apply knowledge about the economic, legal, and interpersonal environment in the creation and management of the organization.
  • Build a team model that uses (1) inter-professional collaboration at the organizational and departmental levels, and (2) communication/relationship processes (influencing behaviors, diversity, community involvement, engendering trust, and demonstration of integrity). (HC 310 HC 330 HC 499 )
  • Explain key leadership initiatives in healthcare based on identification, interpretation, and application of health outcomes. (HC 330 HC 335 HC 499 )
  • Integrate critical reasoning and evidence-based decision making to effectively lead in a managed care facility. (HC 499 )
  • Employ current healthcare services components, laws, and policies to create a plan that impacts local, regional, national, and global communities. (HC 305 HC 499 )
  • Perform analysis of past trends and current structures, functions, and policies of the four basic healthcare services. (HC 305 HC 499 )
  • Evaluate healthcare services, marketing, and revenue trends from organizational, community, and national perspectives. (HC 330 HC 335 , HC 499 )

Assessment


Summative outcomes for the Bachelor of Arts in Healthcare Management are assessed through a written business plan and an oral presentation of that plan to outside professionals in the capstone course (BU 498 ).  Formative outcomes are assessed in individual courses as students move through the program. Each year data is gathered for one of the two outcomes. Faculty review both signature assessments in each course and results from the capstone experience.