Health Administration Major
The health administration major is designed to provide an opportunity to all business majors to explore the possibility of a career in healthcare. The program will create generations of value driven healthcare leaders prepared to address America’s healthcare challenges. Students will gain an understanding of the complexities of the healthcare system in the United States and gain exposure to international healthcare system.
Goal 1: Functional healthcare skills
Outcome 1.1: Students will learn the concepts and tools necessary to prepare for leadership roles within healthcare organizations.
Goal 2: Critical Thinking skills
Outcome 2.1: Students will learn the skills to make decisions regarding the delivery of healthcare
Goal 3: Communication Skills
Outcome 3.1: Students will learn to communicate with the stakeholders in healthcare including patients, providers, payers, and policy makers
Goal 4: Jesuit Traditions
Outcome 4.1: Students will understand the role of Ignatian values in making decisions which affect the health and lives of the communities they serve.
Goal 5: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Outcome 5.1: Students will engage respectfully, in a local and global context, with diverse human beliefs, abilities, experiences, identities, or cultures. Future healthcare administrators have an obligation to the communities they serve.
Cornerstone Core Curriculum Requirements
Consist of 14 core and 2 overlay requirements. See below for additional detailed information on each of these requirements.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| First Year Course Requirements | ||
| ENG 101 | Craft of Language | 3 |
| World History Course Area | 3 | |
| Philosophy Requirements | ||
Either Level One or Level Two (but not both) -- must be Ethics designated. If approved, philosophy courses may count for a student's Writing Intensive overlay. Students may not double-count the same course as Philosophy Level Two and as a Mission Overlay course. | ||
| Philosophy Level One | 3 | |
| Philosophy Level Two | 3 | |
| Theology & Religious Studies Requirements | ||
If approved, Theology & Religious Studies courses may count for a student's Writing Intensive overlay. Students may not double-count the same course as CCC Theology and as a Mission Overlay course. | ||
| Theology | 3 | |
| Religious Studies | 3 | |
| Diversity & INT 151 Requirements | ||
A student's Diversity course may not count for any other CCC course area requirement or as their Mission Overlay course. If approved, Diversity courses may count for a student's Writing Intensive Overlay requirement. INT 151 may not count for any other CCC requirements. This course must be taken in the first two years | ||
| Diversity | 3 | |
| INT 151 | Inequality in American Society | 1 |
| Math & Natural Science Requirements | ||
If approved, Math & Natural Science Requirements may count toward overlay requirements. | ||
| Mathematics | 3-4 | |
| Natural Science | 4 | |
| Social Science Requirement | 3 | |
If approved, such Social Science Requirement may count toward a student's overlay requirements. | ||
| Non-Native Language Requirement | 3-4 | |
A single Non-Native Language course may not count as an overlay course but a second language course fulfills a student's Mission Overlay requirement. | ||
| Literature Requirement | 3 | |
If approved, Literature courses may count toward a student's overlay requirements. | ||
| Fine and Performing Arts, Creativity, and Design Requirement | 3 | |
If approved, Fine and Performing Arts, Creativity, and Design courses may count toward a student's overlay requirements. | ||
| Overlay Requirements | ||
| Writing-Intensive | 3 | |
If approved, Writing-Intensive courses may double count as major courses, minor courses, electives, or as any CCC course area requirement except for the first-year courses (World History and Rhetoric and Composition). | ||
| Mission-Overlay | 3 | |
Mission Overlay courses may double count as major courses, minor courses, elective courses, or any of the following CCC course areas: Fine and Performing Arts, Creativity, and Design, Literature, Mathematics, Natural Science, or Social Science. | ||
| Total Hours | 47-49 | |
Recommended CCC Courses
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Writing Intensive | ||
| Health Policy | ||
| Mission-Overlay | ||
| Healthcare Law and Ethics | ||
| Healthcare Law and Ethics | ||
Business Foundation
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| ACC 101 | Concepts of Financial Acct | 3 |
| ACC 102 | Managerial Accounting | 3 |
| DSS 100 | Excel Competency | 1 |
| DSS 200 | AI in Business | 3 |
| DSS 210 | Business Statistics | 3 |
| DSS 220 | Business Analytics | 3 |
| ECN 102 | Introductory Economics Macro | 3 |
| FIN 200 | Intro to Finance 1 | 3 |
| or FIN 225 | Fund of Quantitative Finance | |
| MGT 110 | Essent'ls of Organzational Beh | 3 |
| or MGT 120 | Essentials of Management | |
| MGT 360 | Legal Environment of Business | 3 |
| MKT 201 | Principles of Marketing | 3 |
| BUS 495 | Business Strategy | 3 |
| Total Hours | 34 | |
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ECN 101 is a prerequisite for FIN 200 and may count towards the Cornerstone Core Curriculum Social Science requirement.
Major Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| HAD 201 | Intro to Healthcare Admin | 3 |
| HAD 301 | Health Info Mgmt Systems | 3 |
| HAD 302 | Financial Mgmt of Health Orgs | 3 |
| HAD 320 | Healthcare Law and Ethics | 3 |
| or HSC 251 | Healthcare Law and Ethics | |
| HAD 304 | Health Policy | 3 |
| HAD Elective: Any other HAD course or related course with advisor approval | 3 | |
| Healthcare Quality Improvement | ||
| Database Management | ||
| Data Wrangling & Visualization | ||
| Data Wrangling: Ethics Int. | ||
| Perspectives on Leadership | ||
| Pharmaceutical Mkt Environment | ||
| Selling Skills & Decisn Making | ||
| Pharm Sales Management | ||
| Sales Mgt for CPG & Foodserv | ||
| The Economics of Healthcare | ||
| Mathematics (will count as CCC: Mathematics) | 3-4 | |
| Precalculus | ||
| Differential Calculus | ||
| Whole Truth about Whole Number | ||
| Linear Methods | ||
| Math of Games & Politics | ||
| Math of Uncertainty:Rules/Prob | ||
| Sounding Number: Music & Math | ||
| Symmetry | ||
| Fundamentals of Calculus | ||
| Calculus I | ||
| Calculus II | ||
| Total Hours | 21-22 | |
Free Electives
Graduation requires 120 credits. Any credits necessary to reach that number outside of the CCC and major requirements are considered free electives.
| First Year | ||
|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | |
| DSS 100 | Excel Competency | 1 |
| ACC 101 | Concepts of Financial Acct | 3 |
| ENG 101 | Craft of Language | 3 |
| MGT 110 | Essent'ls of Organzational Beh (or Philosophy Level One) | 3 |
| Mathematics All allowed except Statistics | 3-4 | |
| Non-Native Language | 3-4 | |
| Hours | 16-18 | |
| Spring | ||
| ACC 102 | Managerial Accounting | 3 |
| Literature | 3 | |
| World History | 3 | |
| ECN 101 | Introductory Economics Micro (or Mathematics) | 3 |
| INT 151 | Inequality in American Society | 1 |
| MGT 110 | Essent'ls of Organzational Beh (or Philosophy Level One) | 3 |
| Hours | 16 | |
| Sophomore | ||
| Fall | ||
| HAD 201 | Intro to Healthcare Admin | 3 |
| DSS 200 | AI in Business | 3 |
| DSS 210 | Business Statistics | 3 |
| FIN 200 | Intro to Finance | 3 |
| MKT 201 | Principles of Marketing | 3 |
| Hours | 15 | |
| Spring | ||
| Theology | 3 | |
| DSS 220 | Business Analytics | 3 |
| Free Elective | 3 | |
| Philosophy Level Two | 3 | |
| Free Elective | 3 | |
| Hours | 15 | |
| Junior | ||
| Fall | ||
| ECN 102 | Introductory Economics Macro | 3 |
| MGT 360 | Legal Environment of Business | 3 |
| Religious Studies | 3 | |
| Free Elective | 3 | |
| HAD 301 | Health Info Mgmt Systems | 3 |
| Hours | 15 | |
| Spring | ||
| Free Electives | 6 | |
| Natural Science | 4 | |
| Fine & Performing Arts, Design & Creativity | 3 | |
| HAD Free Elective | 3 | |
| Hours | 16 | |
| Senior | ||
| Fall | ||
| HAD 304 | Health Policy | 3 |
| Diversity | 3 | |
| Major Elective | 3 | |
| Free Electives | 6 | |
| Hours | 15 | |
| Spring | ||
| BUS 495 | Business Strategy | 3 |
| Free Electives | 6-9 | |
| HAD 302 | Financial Mgmt of Health Orgs | 3 |
| Hours | 12-15 | |
| Total Hours | 120-125 | |