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Nov 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Healthcare Management, B.A.
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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.
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Core Curriculum: 38 - 51 credit hours
Please review the Core Curriculum page for course options.
Required Major Courses (57 credit hours)
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.
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