Health Administration, B.S.
[Health Administration-1202]
Students prepare for a career on the business side of healthcare when they join clinical and business professionals from all areas of the healthcare spectrum in a diverse learning environment. They will complete five semesters in the traditional Business Administration major, and having met the prescribed requirements, transition into the Health Administration B.S. program for the final 3 semesters. Beginning in the second semester of their junior year, students will complete classes online or in the evening, while also completing two required internships in a healthcare administration-related field.
SPECIFICS OF THE HEALTH ADMINISTRATION B.S. DEGREE
Minimum Total Hours: 120
Total Liberal Arts Hours Required: 60
General Education Requirements: Per Core Curriculum Requirements list (see General Education Council). Exceptions: only one fine arts course is required; must take PSYC 2600 for the behavioral science requirement; must take ECON 2010 for the history, economics, or social sciences requirement; Mathematics requirement is met through the major requirements.
Minimum Requirements: Overall and major GPA of 3.0 or greater; no grade less than C- in the major; minimum grade of C- in COMM 1105, COMP 1010, COMP 1020, and MATH 2400; meet with Undergraduate Business Program Chair to document a plan for degree completion; must also have own means of transportation to internships and RWC satellite campus.
Transfer Requirements: See institutional transfer policies.
Application to Major: Application to Major form can be secured from the Undergraduate Business Department and submitted during the second semester of the sophomore year. A minimum grade of C- in MATH 2400 and in all business courses is required for acceptance to the major. Minimum overall and major GPA's of 3.0 are required to be accepted and to remain in the major. Falling below an overall GPA or major GPA of 3.0 removes students from the major and precludes them from taking upper-level courses.
Major Requirements: 71 hours as follows:
- Common Professional Core (34 hours):
- ACCT 2010-Principles of Accounting I;
- ACCT 2010-Principles of Accounting I Lab;
- ACCT 2020-Principles of Accounting II;
- ACCT 2020-Principles of Accounting II Lab;
- BUAD 1010-Introduction to Business;
- BUAD 2100-Business Law I;
- BUAD 3210-Corporate Finance;
- BUAD 3500-Internship Preparation
- CSCI 1030-Introduction to Microsoft Excel;
- ECON 2020-Principles of Macroeconomics;
- MGMT 2010-Principles of Management and Social Entrepreneurship;
- MGMT 2200-Introduction to Human Resources
- MRKT 2020-Principles of Marketing;
- MATH 2400-Statistics;
- Health Administration Requirements (37 hours):
- PSYC 4410-Adult Development & Lifelong Learning;
- PSYC 2600-Organizational Dynamics;
- SOCS 3410-Organizational Leadership;
- HLTH 4000-Healthcare Organizations & Systems;
- PHIL 2413-Bioethics;
- HLTH 4250-Healthcare Reimbursement Systems;
- HLTH 4100-Healthcare Operations Management;
- BUAD 4500-Internship I*;
- HLTH 4800-Contemporary Issues in Healthcare and Marketing;
- MATH 2430-Biostatistics;
- HLTH 4910 & 4920-Applied Research project I and II;
- BUAD 4500-Internship II*.
*The Healthcare Administration (BHA) major requires the completion of two internship experiences during the student's senior year and requires the student to have access to transportation to participate in these off-campus internship experiences.