Health Care Management, B.A.

Minimum credits required: 58

Required Foundation Courses

• ECN 101 - Principles of Economics I, 4 credit hours (Micro)
• ECN 102 - Principles of Economics II, 4 credit hours (Macro)
• ECN 279 - Elements of Statistics, 4 credit hours
• CSC 141 - Advanced Applications for Information Analysis, 3 credit hours (not required of students who completed CSC 210 )
• MTH 136 - Applied College Mathematics, 3 credit hours

Required Health and Physical Education Course

• HPE 206 - Medical Terminology, 2 credit hours

Required Natural Science Course

Choose one course from the following:

• BIO 101 - Human Biology, 3 credit hours
• BIO 121L - Principles Of Biology I, 4 credit hours
• BIO 203L - Human Anatomy and Physiology I, 4 credit hours

Required Business Administration Courses

• BUS 211 - Principles of Accounting I, 3 credit hours
• BUS 212 - Principles of Accounting II, 3 credit hours
• BUS 305 - Introduction to Management, 3 credit hours
• BUS 326 - Legal Environment of Organizations, 3 credit hours
• BUS 330 - Introduction to Marketing, 3 credit hours
• BUS 342 - Corporate & Organizational Finance, 3 credit hours
• BUS 365 - Management Science, 3 credit hours
• BUS 451 - Management Strategy & Policy, 4 credit hours

Required Health Care Management Courses

• BUS 357 - Introduction to American Health Care, 3 credit hours
• BUS 367 - Health Care Law and Ethics, 3 credit hours
• BUS 377 - Health Care Environment, 3 credit hours
• BUS 409D - Behavioral Theories of Management, 3 credit hours
• BUS 487 - Problem Solving and Applied Health Care Management, 3 credit hours

Internship

An internship in, or an independent research project for a health or community agency is recommended for any student who does not have a minimum of one year of health-carerelated work experience. It is also strongly recommended that students with more than one year of health-care-related work experience consider participating in an experience that would broaden their focus and understanding of the overall health care world.

Mentoring Program

Baldwin Wallace University will work with the students in this program to make available mentors from the various healthcare industries to allow the student to have a greater appreciation of the “real world of healthcare.”

Recommended courses that are not required for the Health Care Management Major:

• CAS 112 - Presentational Speaking, 3 credit hours
• CAS 207 - Group Communication and Leadership, 3 credit hours
• BUS 215 - Introduction to Entrepreneurship, 3 credit hours
• BUS 358 - Business Communications, 3 credit hours
• HPE 245 - Health Behavior Management, 3 credit hours
• PSY 280 - Research Methods, 3 credit hours
• SOC 280 - Research Methods, 4 credit hours
• SOC 281 - Data Analysis Using PASW, 4 credit hours

Additional Requirements

Students majoring in Health Care Management must also meet these requirements:

1. At least six (6) courses at the 300-400 level must be completed in the Division of Business Administration at Baldwin Wallace University.
2. Students planning to attend graduate school are encouraged to take calculus.
3. A maximum of 4 semester hours of a D grade in a required BUS prefix course may be counted toward the major.