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Major/Minor Course Requirements

Required Courses Checklist General Education/ Core Curriculum Categories Satisfied

  • HCA 101 Introduction to Health Care Administration (3)
  • INT 222 Social Sciences Statistics (3) Math/Symbolic Reasoning
  • HCA 230 Medical and Health Care Ethics (3) Humanities (PHIL)
  • HCA 245 Health Care Politics and Policy and Law (3) Social Science (POLS)
  • HCA 261 Epidemiology (3) Natural Science (BIOL)
  • HCA 310 Health Care Strategic Management (3) Oral Competency
  • HCA 320 Economics and Finance of Health Care Systems (3)
  • HCA 330 Managed Care (3)
  • HCA 387 Internship (3) Experiential
  • HCA 401 Senior Seminar (3) Writing Emphasis/Oral
    Competency
  • BUAD 210 Principles of Accounting I (3)
  • BUAD 230 Principles of Marketing (3)
  • BUAD 302 Human Resource Management (3)
  • ANT 208 Medical Anthropology (3) International or Diverse Cultures OR SOC 260 Sociology of Medicine (3) Social Science (SOC)
  • SOC 320 Methods in Sociological Research (3) Social Science (SOC)

HCA Electives (choose two) (6)

  • 235 Women’s Health Care Issues (3) Women’s Studies & Writing Emphasis
  • 240 Long-Term Care Administration (3)
  • 250 Global Health Care (3) International
  • 277 Colloquium (3)

TOTAL HOURS 51
See MBC Catalog for course descriptions.

Support Courses Checklist (recommended, not required)

BUAD 200 Principles of Management 3
BUAD 202 Organizational Behavior 3
BUAD 211 Accounting II 3
BUAD 220 Business Law I 3
BUAD 221 Business Law II 3
COMM 100 Speech Communications 3
CIS 110 Introduction to Computer Information Systems 3
ECON 301 Advanced Data Analysis 3
MATH 213 Introduction to Statistics 3
PHE 221 Emergency Health Care 2
POLS 101 Introduction to Public Administration 3
POLS 260 Public Policy 3
PSYC 213 Behavior Modification 3
PSYC 305 Physiological Psychology 3
PSYC 307 Drugs and Behavior 3
SOC 124 Aging 3
SOC 200 Drugs and Society 3
SOC 205 Death and Dying 3
See MBC Catalog for course descriptions.

Requirements for the Minor in Health Care Administration:
18 semester hours which include the following courses: HCA 101, HCA 230, HCA 261, and 9 hours of health care administration electives (with HCA prefix)

Requirements for the Certificate in Long Term Care Administration:
24 semester hours including the following: HCA 101, INT 222, HCA 230, HCA 240, HCA 261, HCA 310, HCA 320, and HCA 387. To qualify for the certificate, HCA 387 must be at least 400 hours under the supervision of a preceptor approved by the Virginia Board of Long Term Care Administrators.

Requirements for the Certificate in Health Care Management:
21 semester hours including HCA 101, INT 222, HCA 310, HCA 320, plus 9 hours of electives from: HCA 230, HCA 240, HCA 261, HCA 330, BUAD 230, BUAD 302