Strong preceptor and faculty supervision are available to all students and a variety of Directed Studies and Field Studies emphasizing health care work are available for the highly motivated student. Required offerings provide a firm understanding of the health care system, important health care issues and basic managerial and methodological skills. More advanced requirements and electives enhance and refine these areas of the student's specific interest. Areas of concentration such as nursing home administration, gerontology, and a variety of general health care management options in public and private sector insurance, finance, personnel, marketing, public relations, and sales roles are available. Federal and State programs, health maintenance organizations, hospices, planning and consulting firms, Group Practices, international service organizations, and many other organizations also are available to the student.
Students considering the major or minor are to meet with departmental faculty before declaring.
OR HC 401 or approved summer internship. The minor offers liberal arts and science majors an overview of the Health Care System, an appreciation for the extent to which this field touches all of our lives and an understanding of the broad array of opportunities in the many fields of endeavor in the health services administration for the non-major. Minor requirements . Any four from Department offerings may be chosen with Department advisor to complement the students major and career interests. Occasionally, by permission of the Chairperson, courses outside the departmental offerings will satisfy one elective course requirement.