Health Sciences / Bachelor of Science
Program: BS-HLTH-5
Total Credit Hours: 120
Major Credit Hours: 56
Health Sciences Program Details
The Health Science major offers flexibility and choice to match your career goals. You will discover various healthcare professions, ensuring you choose the career path that best aligns with your interests and values. By understanding the role and expertise of other members of the healthcare team, you will be prepared to collaborate as part of an interdisciplinary healthcare team.
Together with your classmates, you will learn key concepts essential for all healthcare professionals, including evidence-based practice, social drivers of health, healthcare law and ethics, intercultural communication, and interprofessional collaboration. Through real-world, case-based learning in the core courses, you will develop practical skills to promote healthy behaviors and identify risk factors for chronic diseases.
With support from your faculty mentor, you will choose from an extensive list of electives designed to meet graduate school admission requirements or implement the most effective strategies to improve the health of people and populations.
Unique Practical Capstone Experience
Your final experience in the program is a 2-credit-hour capstone course. In this course, you will partner with an agency whose objective is to improve the health of individuals or populations. Using the knowledge and skills gained in the Health Sciences Program, you will make a meaningful contribution to the community served by the organization.
Student Learning Outcomes of the B.S. in Health Sciences
Students who graduate from the B.S. in Health Sciences program will be able to:
- Demonstrate professional and ethical behaviors expected in healthcare.
- Demonstrate a foundational understanding of the U.S. health care system and their place within the system.
- Apply critical and scientific inquiry to identify and solve health dilemmas.
- Demonstrate foundational knowledge and application in a variety of health science disciplines, evident in classroom situations, laboratories, and clinical settings.
- Promote evidence-based, holistic self-care methods to maintain, restore, and improve the health status of individuals.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| General Education Courses (47-58 credits) | ||
| Course Courses | ||
| HLSC 10100 | General Anatomy and Physiology | 3 |
| HLSC 10200 | General Anatomy and Physiology Lab | 1 |
| HLSC 10300 | Advanced Anatomy and Physiology | 3 |
| HLSC 10400 | Advanced Anatomy and Physiology Lab | 1 |
| HUPR 19500 | Medical Terminology | 3 |
| HLSC 20000 | Health and the Healthcare Team | 3 |
| HUPR 25500 | Health Behavior | 3 |
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Epidemiology | ||
| Healthcare Informatics | ||
| HCMT 30000 | Unites States Healthcare System | 3 |
| HCMT 32000 | Healthcare Law & Ethics | 3 |
| Select one of the following: | 4 | |
| Exercise Physiology and Exercise Physiology Lab | ||
| Development and Analysis of Human Movement and Development and Analysis of Human Movement Lab | ||
| COMM 35000 | Intercultural Communication | 3 |
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Evidence Based Practice in Exercise Science | ||
| Research Methods in Healthcare | ||
| HLSC 40000 | Health Science Capstone | 2 |
| Electives | 18 | |
| General Biology 1 | ||
| General Biology 1 Lab | ||
| General Biology 2 | ||
| General Biology 2 Lab | ||
| General Microbiology | ||
| General Microbiology Lab | ||
| Pathophysiology | ||
| General Chemistry 1 and Laboratory | ||
| General Chemistry 1 Lab | ||
| General Chemistry 2 and Laboratory | ||
| General Chemistry 2 Lab | ||
| Organic Chemistry I Lab | ||
| Organic Chemistry I | ||
| Nutrition and Exercise | ||
| Calculus for the Life Sciences | ||
| College Physics 1 | ||
| College Physics 1 Lab | ||
| College Physics 2 | ||
| College Physics 2 Lab | ||
| Lifespan Development | ||
| Statistics for the Social Sciences | ||
| Abnormal Psychology | ||
| Health Psychology | ||
| Introduction to Health Communication | ||
| Introduction to Public Health | ||
| Health Promotion & Programming | ||
| Program Evaluation for Public Health Practice | ||
| Environmental Health | ||
| Total Hours | 56 | |