Healthcare Administration Minor

Why Add a Minor?

  • Broaden your career opportunities
  • Gain specialized knowledge to stand out
  • Complement your major with in-demand skills
  • Strengthen your preparation for graduate or professional programs
  • Develop a well-rounded perspective in health-related fields

Healthcare Administration Minor (17 credit hours)

  • Enhance your program of study with a minor in Healthcare Administration
  • Gain insights into healthcare systems and leadership
  • Learn about management, finance, and policy in health organizations
  • Build a foundation for graduate study in healthcare, business, or related fields
  • Perfect complement for business, health, or social science majors

Required Courses (14 hours):

Utilizes guided independent student learning activities to teach the basic prefixes, suffixes, and roots of medical terms. Assists student in utilizing medical terminology appropriately in both written and verbal forms. Fall, spring.

Focuses on a holistic approach to a healthy lifestyle. Emphasizes assessment, management, and individual responsibility in promoting personal health. Meets the general education Health and Wellness requirement. Fall, spring.

Overview of the health care system. Reviews the history and current status of various segments of health care. Includes an analysis of the impact of socioeconomic, political, and current health care issues and trends.

Emphasizes the legal and ethical processes and their application to the health care organization, administrator, staff, employees, and patients. Includes ethical dimensions of the decision-making process and current ethical issues in health care.

Management theory and practice as applied by managers of health services. Emphasizes analysis of the manager's roles, interactions with people, the organization, and the environment. Special emphasis on human resource issues.

Integrates long-range goal planning with dimensions of marketing for health care services. Concepts, techniques, and theories used in the planning and management of marketing in the health care industry.

Choose one of the following (3 credit hours):

Focuses on the analysis of data common to health care. Includes data description, elements of probability, distribution of random variables, estimation and confidence intervals, binomial and normal distributions, hypothesis testing, contingency tables, regression analysis, and ANOVA.

Lectures and discussion of topics not covered in regular course offerings. Provides greater depth to topics of special interest or explores rapidly changing areas in health services administration.