Health Care Leadership, B.S.

This program, offered in both face-to-face and online-only formats, is designed to meet the needs of adult learners whose primary focus is the health care field. This program is particularly suited to health care professionals who possess essential clinical skills but wish to enhance their career opportunities by developing proficiencies in management, supervision, leadership and education.

In addition to the College of Management and Business Undergraduate Admission Requirements, students must fulfill the following requirements in to start this program:

  • Provide a list of two academic or professional references
  • Have licensure, registration or certification in a health care profession with work experience or employment in a health related field

This degree requires:

  • 180 QH
  • A maximum of 60 QH of technical credit may be transferred

Students may choose to select an optional major or concentrations from those listed below:

Major:

Spanish Language and Culture Studies

Concentrations:

Public Policy

Aging Studies

International Management

Leadership

Required Courses

Communications - 5 QH

One college-level writing course. The below course is recommended:

LAE101English Composition I

Humanities - 5 QH

One Humanities course

Fine Arts - 5 QH

One Fine Arts course

Quantitative Reasoning/Math - 5 QH

One Mathematics course

Physical and Life Sciences - 5 QH

One Science course

Social Sciences - 5 QH

One Social Science course

Behavioral Science - 5 QH

One Behavioral Science course

Additional General Education Courses

Additional General Education courses to reach 60 QH of General Education

Health Care Leadership Core - 61 QH

HCL300Introduction to Health Care Leadership

HCL310Professional Writing in Health Care

HCL315Team Development in Health Care

HCL320Educational Delivery in Health Care

HCL325Educational Assessment in Health Care

HCL330Presentation Skills in Health Care

HCL335Overview of Health Care Delivery

HCL340Quantitative Methods for Health Administration

HCL345Principles of Health Care Supervision

HCL410Human Resource Development for Health Care Supervisors

HCL415Financial and Physical Resource Administration

HCL420Ethical and Legal Issues in Health Care

HCL425Health Care Information Systems

HCL430Marketing of Health Care Services

HCL440Health Care Systems

HCL450Business Planning in Health Care

Nonspecific Electives - 59 QH

Choose additional undergraduate courses to reach the 180 QH required for the degree