Healthcare Administration B.S.

Program Outcomes

After completing the B.S. in Healthcare Administration, students will be able to:

Demonstrate competence in critical thinking and problem-solving in healthcare settings.
Demonstrate competence in consensus-building, effective decision-making, and execution of an objective in a team setting.
Display effective professional communication skills, both orally and in writing.
Demonstrate competence in basic business operations, budgeting, and data analysis using the ethical standards of health care administrative practice.

Requirements

Required (core) requirements:

Students must achieve a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.000 in courses required for the major.

Total credits: 45

ACT 211 - Principles of Accounting I Credits: 3
ACT 212 - Principles of Accounting II Credits: 3
ECO 231 - Principles Microeconomics Credits: 3
ECO 232 - Principles Macroeconomics Credits: 3
ENL 265 - Business Communication Credits: 3
or, in the place of ENL 265, students may take ECO 350 - Intermediate Writing in Economics Credits: 3
ECO 332 - Economic Statistics Credits: 3
ECO 330 - Economic Statistics Lab Credits: 1
or, in place of ECO 330 and 332, students may take POM 212 - Business Statistics Credits: 3
MGT 201 - Leadership, Teamwork, and Collaboration Credits: 3
ECO 338 - Health Economics Credits: 3
MIS 315 - Information Systems Credits: 3
PSC 345 - Politic Of Public Health Credits: 3
PHL 317 - Ethics & Health Care Professionals Credits: 3
MGT 301 - Principles of Enterprise Management Credits: 3
POM 345 - Operations Management Credits: 3
ECO 320 - Economics Internship Credits: 3
ECO 475 - Healthcare Services Administration and Management Credits: 3

Additional Requirements

Additional University Studies Requirements:

ENL 101 - Critical Writing and Reading I Credits: 3
ENL 102 - Critical Writing and Reading II Credits: 3
CAS 103 - Introduction to the Arts & Sciences Credits: 3 (waived with 24 transfer credits)
MTH Mathematics (See Approved University Studies Course list) Credits: 3

Additional College of Arts and Sciences Requirements:

6 credits Literature
6 credits Natural Science electives
3 credits Humanities elective
3 credits Social Science elective
3 credits Humanities or Social Science elective

Students must achieve a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.000 in courses required for the major.

Program Outcomes

After completing the HSA track in economics, students will be able to:

Explain the influences of national and facility level economics, national and state legislation and regulation on the day-to-day structure and function of their profession
Evaluate the achievement or failure of management goals with theoretical concepts of social dynamics.
Design and implement goal structures, budgets and evaluative techniques in their specific discipline.