+ Health Care Administration
Department
of Legal Studies
264 Business Administration, 419-372-2376
Purpose
The health care administration specialization is designed to prepare
students for management careers in a variety of health institutions.
The program provides career orientation for positions in specific
management areas such as accounting, general management, health
care information systems, human resource management, marketing,
and staff planning and research. The program, with an emphasis
on developing analytical and problem solving skills, provides
an excellent background for careers in this important and dynamic
field.
BSBA general
degree requirements
Students completing the health care administration specialization
must complete University,
general degree, pre-professional
and professional requirements
for the BSBA degree, including admission
to the BSBA program.
Health
Care Administration specialization requirements (24 hours)
Components of the specialization are required courses, internship
and a concentration in selected areas of business management.
The required courses are:
- BA 325,
420
- LEGS 425
- BA 429
(6 hours)
- Management
Concentration (9 hours)
The internship
component of the program includes six credit hours for BA 429
internship and provides students with practical experience in
the particular health care institutions and agencies in which
they may be professionally interested. Internships must be approved
by the program adviser, taken in the area of the student's management
concentration and taken after the student has completed at least
two courses in the concentration.
Concentrations
Students select a management concentration and complete the courses
as listed below:
- Accounting:
ACCT 331, 432, 460
- General
management: MGMT 361; FIN 350; and one from ACCT 331, FIN 412,
MGMT 456 or 465
- Health
care information systems: CS 261 or 205, MIS 360, and any 300-
or 400-level MIS course (except MIS 489)
- Human resource
management: MGMT 361; and two from
MGMT 454, 456; ECON 421; LEGS 419 or 429
- Marketing:
MKT 302, 405; and one from MKT
320, 410, 440
- Staff planning
and research: STAT 300, OR 480, and MKT 320
