Pharmaceutical & Healthcare Business Major
The pharmaceutical & healthcare business major at Saint Joseph’s University will teach you how to oversee efficient clinical research and manage complex healthcare costs that are currently challenging the industry. You have the option to add co-op or engage in faculty mentored research.
Goal 1: Leadership
Outcome 1.1: Students will demonstrate the ability to lead in team situations, that is, to motivate, inspire and direct a team to achieving its goals.
Goal 2: Knowledge of functional area
Outcome 2.1: Students will know core concepts within each business discipline of accounting, finance, management, marketing, and information technology.
Goal 3: Critical thinking and problem solving
Outcome 3.1: Students will be able to analyze business scenarios in an integrative way and make constructive and actionable recommendations for problem solving.
Goal 4: Interpersonal/communication skills
Outcome 4.1: Students will demonstrate competency in written and verbal communication aimed at facilitating, and reporting the results of, collaborative problem solving and decision making processes.
Goal 5: Ignatian Values
Outcome 5.1: Students will be able to generate scholarship that embodies free, open inquiry, and provokes imaginative thinking and reflection on values. An appreciation for and ability to apply the Ignatian values of: a commitment to rigorous education and lifelong learning; an insistence upon ethical decision making; a desire for social justice; and a care and concern for others.
Goal 6: Global/Diversity
Outcome 6.1: Students will understand the challenges businesses face in a global economy, and the cultural issues firms must address to succeed in this environment. A fuller understanding of and respect for diversity in the population and in organizations related to differences across cultures, ethnic groups, socioeconomic groups, gender and sexual orientation.
Goal 7: Strategic Thinking
Outcome 7.1: Students will exhibit strategic approaches to the complex business related problems in the pharmaceutical industry and provide alternative strategies evaluating the pros and cons of those approaches.
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 | ||
| Pharm Mkt Strat & Plan I | ||
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 | |
- 1
ECN 101 is a prerequisite for FIN 200 and may count towards the Cornerstone Core Curriculum Social Science requirement.
Major Requirements:
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| PMK 211 | Pharmaceutical Mkt Environment | 3 |
| PMK 221 | Pharmaceutical Mkt Research | 3 |
| PMK 331 | Pharm Sales Management | 3 |
| PMK 341 | Pharm Channels & Pricing | 3 |
| PMK 351 | Pharm Promotions Management | 3 |
| PMK 461 | Pharm Mkt Strat & Plan I | 3 |
| Calculus (will count for CCC: Mathematics) | 3-4 | |
| Precalculus | ||
| Differential Calculus | ||
| Fundamentals of Calculus | ||
| Calculus I | ||
| 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 |
| Non-Native Language | 3-4 | |
| ECN 101 | Introductory Economics Micro (or Mathematics) | 3 |
| Hours | 16-17 | |
| Spring | ||
| ACC 102 | Managerial Accounting | 3 |
| World History | 3 | |
| Literature | 3 | |
| ECN 101 | Introductory Economics Micro (or Mathematics) | 3 |
| MGT 110 | Essent'ls of Organzational Beh (or Philosophy Level One) | 3 |
| INT 151 | Inequality in American Society | 1 |
| Hours | 16 | |
| Sophomore | ||
| Fall | ||
| BIO 165 | Exploring the Living World Recommended Natural Science | 4 |
| BIO 165L | Exp. Living World Lab | 0 |
| DSS 200 | AI in Business | 3 |
| DSS 210 | Business Statistics | 3 |
| FIN 200 | Intro to Finance | 3 |
| Theology | 3 | |
| Hours | 16 | |
| Spring | ||
| PMK 211 | Pharmaceutical Mkt Environment | 3 |
| DSS 220 | Business Analytics | 3 |
| MKT 201 | Principles of Marketing | 3 |
| Philosophy Level Two | 3 | |
| ECN 102 | Introductory Economics Macro | 3 |
| Hours | 15 | |
| Junior | ||
| Fall | ||
| PMK 221 | Pharmaceutical Mkt Research | 3 |
| PMK 331 | Pharm Sales Management | 3 |
| MGT 360 | Legal Environment of Business | 3 |
| Religious Studies | 3 | |
| Free Elective | 3 | |
| Hours | 15 | |
| Spring | ||
| PMK 341 | Pharm Channels & Pricing | 3 |
| PMK 351 | Pharm Promotions Management | 3 |
| Fine & Performing Arts, Design & Creativity | 3 | |
| Free Electives | 6 | |
| Hours | 15 | |
| Senior | ||
| Fall | ||
| PMK 461 | Pharm Mkt Strat & Plan I | 3 |
| Free Electives | 9 | |
| Diversity | 3 | |
| Hours | 15 | |
| Spring | ||
| BUS 495 | Business Strategy | 3 |
| Free Electives | 9-12 | |
| Hours | 12-15 | |
| Total Hours | 120-124 | |