Health Information Technology

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Admission Requirements

Health Information Technology Degree Program (Major Code: HI13)

Health Information Technology Degree Program (Major Code: HI13)

Credit Required for Graduation: 64 semester credit hours

Curriculum Outline

General Education (15 Credits)

Area I: Language Arts and Communications

ENGL 1101

Composition and Rhetoric

3

* Students must pass above courses with a grade of C or higher.

Area II: Social and Behavioral Sciences

Students must choose from the following courses:

ECON 2105	Macroeconomics	3
ECON 2106	Microeconomics	3
HIST 1111	World History I	3
HIST 1112	World History II	3
HIST 2111	U.S. History I	3
HIST 2112	U.S. History II	3
POLS 1101	American Government	3
PSYC 1101	Introductory Psychology	3
SOCI 1101	Introduction to Sociology	3

* Students must pass above courses with a grade of C or higher.

Area III: Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Students must choose from the following courses:

MATH 1100	Quantitative Skills and Reasoning	3
MATH 1101	Mathematical Modeling	3
MATH 1111	College Algebra	3

* Students must pass above courses with a grade of C or higher.

Area IV: Humanities and Fine Arts

Students must choose from the following courses:

ARTS 1101	Art Appreciation	3
ENGL 2130	American Literature	3
ENGL 2310	English Literature from the Beginnings to 1700	3
HUMN 1101	Introduction to Humanities	3
MUSC 1101	Music Appreciation	3
MUSC 2040	History of Popular Music	3

* Students must pass above courses with a grade of C or higher.

General Education Electives (3 Credits)

Students may choose a course from Area II, Area III, Area IV, or from the following list:

BIOL 1111	Biology I	3
	AND
BIOL 1111L	Biology I Lab	1
BIOL 1112	Biology II	3
	AND
BIOL 1112L	Biology II Lab	1
CHEM 1151	Survey of Inorganic Chemistry	3
	AND
CHEM 1151L	Survey of Inorganic Chemistry Lab	1
CHEM 1211	Chemistry I	3
	AND
CHEM 1211L	Chemistry I Lab	1
CHEM 1212	Chemistry II	3
	AND
CHEM 1212L	Chemistry II Lab	1
ENGL 1102	Literature and Composition	3
MATH 1112	College Trigonometry	3
MATH 1113	Precalculus	3
MATH 1127	Introduction to Statistics	3
PHYS 1110	Conceptual Physics	3
	AND
PHYS 1110L	Conceptual Physics Lab	1
SPCH 1101	Public Speaking	3

* Students must pass above courses with a grade of C or higher.

Health Information Technology Core (16 Credits)

ALHS 1090	Medical Terminology for Allied Health Sciences	2
BIOL 2113	Anatomy and Physiology I	3
BIOL 2113L	Anatomy and Physiology I Lab	1
BIOL 2114	Anatomy and Physiology II	3
BIOL 2114L	Anatomy and Physiology II Lab	1
COMP 1000	Introduction to Computers	3
MAST 1120	Human Pathological Conditions in the Medical Office	3

* Students must pass above courses with a grade of C or higher.

Health Information Technology Major (33 Credits)

HIMT 1100	Introduction to Health Information Technology	3
HIMT 1150	Computer Applications in Healthcare	2
HIMT 1200	Legal Aspects of Healthcare	2
HIMT 1250	Health Record Content and Structure	2
HIMT 1350	Pharmacotherapy	2
HIMT 1400	Coding and Classification ICD Basic	4
HIMT 1410	Coding and Classification ICD Advanced	3
HIMT 2150	Healthcare Statistics	2
HIMT 2200	Performance Improvement	2
HIMT 2300	Healthcare Management	3
HIMT 2400	Coding and Classification System - CPT/HCPCS	3
HIMT 2410	Revenue Cycle Management	2
HIMT 2460	Health Information Technology Practicum	3

* Students must pass above courses with a grade of C or higher.