Health Care Leadership, B.S.
This program, offered both in an on-campus blended and online 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. It is also open to those just embarking on their health care careers.
Students applying to the B.S. in Health Care Leadership program are subject to the Undergraduate Admission Requirements.
Program Details:
- Requires 180 QH, including 60 QH of General Education, for completion
- A maximum of 60 QH of technical credit may be transferred
- Credit by examination and portfolio are accepted for general education and elective credit
- The Health Care Leadership Core must be taken at NLU
- Students may complete a concentration, listed below
Concentrations:
Aging Studies
Entrepreneurship
International Management
Leadership
Long-Term Care Administration
Urban and Policy Studies
Required Courses
Communications
One written communications course and one oral communications course
Humanities
| LAH 120 | Logic and Effective Thinking | 5 |
Note: Students transferring credit from other institutions or applying coursework previously completed at NLU may use any general education course in humanities.
Fine Arts
Note: Students transferring credit from other institutions or applying coursework previously completed at NLU may use any general education course in fine arts.
Quantitative Reasoning
Physical and Life Sciences
Note: Students transferring credit from other institutions or applying coursework previously completed at NLU may use any general education course in physical and life sciences.
Social Sciences
| LAS 118 | Introduction to Politics and U.S. Government | 5 |
| or | |
| LAS 203 | Survey of U.S. History | 5 |
Note: Students transferring credit from other institutions or applying coursework previously completed at NLU may use any general education course in social sciences.
Behavioral Science
Note: Students transferring credit from other institutions or applying coursework previously completed at NLU may use any general education course in behavioral sciences.
Additional General Education
Choose additional coursework in any general education area or other courses consistent with the integrated general education competencies of information and technology literacy, analytical skills, and ethics, values, and respect for human diversity (including Student Success courses) to bring total general education courses to 60 quarter hours.
Health Care Leadership Major - 59 QH
Gateway Courses - 5 QH
| HCL 301 | Overview of Health Care Delivery | 5 |
Core Courses - 54 QH
| HCL 311 | Professional Writing and Presentation Skills in Health Care | 5 |
| HCL 316 | Team Development in Health Care | 5 |
| HCL 320 | Educational Delivery & Assessment in Health Care | 5 |
| HCL 326 | Critical Thinking in Health Care | 5 |
| HCL 350 | Quality Analysis and Improvement in Health Care | 2 |
| HCL 410 | Health Care Supervision & Human Resources | 5 |
| HCL 416 | Financial and Physical Resource Administration | 5 |
| HCL 421 | Ethical and Legal Issues in Health Care | 5 |
| HCL 426 | Health Care Information Systems | 5 |
| HCL 431 | Marketing of Health Care Services | 5 |
| HCL 499 | Strategic Analysis and Planning in Health Care | 5 |
| PJM 300 | Overview of Project Management | 2 |
Electives - 61 QH
Choose elective courses to meet the minimum degree requirement of 180 QH
For more information about this program, visit http://www.nl.edu/academics/healthhumanservicesbachelors/bshealthcareleadership/