2014-15-Undergraduate-Catalog

Requirements for the Healthcare Management MajorJ. Seth Chatfield, Assistant Professor of Healthcare ManagementHalpin-Harrison Hall, Room 244, (540) 665-5434, schatfie@su.eduHarry F. Byrd, Jr. School of Business • 244The BBA Healthcare Management major is a distinctive, interdisciplinary program with abusiness focus and a strong biological component. In addition to the BBA business core andelectives, the curriculum requires courses in biological sciences and other disciplines. Therequired biology course component of the curriculum is sufficient to earn a minor in biology.Unlike the General Business major, because of its interdisciplinary nature, a HealthcareManagement major student’s program of study is almost completely pre-specified.General Education Requirement (31 hours)Course Title Credit HoursENG 101 Composition (Domain 1) 3MCOM 150 Principles of Public Speaking (Domain 1) 3Unspecified (Domain 2) 3MATH 101 Pre-calculus (Domain 3) 3BA 203 Statistics and Data Analysis (Domain 3) 3BIO 121 General Biology I with Lab (Domain 4) 4PHIL 130 Introduction to Medical Ethics (Domain 5) 3EC 211 Principles of Macroeconomics (Domain 6) 3EC 212 Principles of Microeconomics (Domain 6) 3FYS 101 Going Global First-Year Seminar (Domain 7) 3Non-Business Elective Courses (23 hours)Course Title Credit HoursBIO 201 Medical Terminology 3BIO 231 Human Anatomy and Physiology I with Lab 4BIO 232 Human Anatomy and Physiology II with Lab 4BIO 365 Diseases in History 3HP 291 Searching Medical Resources 1SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology 3SOC 332 Medical Sociology 3Unspecified Non-Business Elective 2Business Core Courses (42 hours)Course Title Credit HoursIST 204 Computer Applications in Business Analysis 3BA 211 Principles of Accounting I 3BA 212 Principles of Accounting II 3BA 302 Quantitative Methods 3BA 303 Legal Environment of Business 3BA 307 Introduction to Management and Organizational Behavior 3BA 310 Introduction to MIS and E-Commerce 3BA 330 Introduction to Finance 3MCOM 350 Business and Professional Communication 3BA 360 Introduction to Marketing 3BA 395 Introduction to Operations and Supply Chain Management 3EC 450 International Economics 3BA 453 Human Resource Management and Business Ethics 3BA 490 Business Policy and Strategy 3