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Course Requirements

Core Course Requirement

The program requires that a minimum of 30 semester hours be completed including the following required core courses.

Required Core Courses
Semester Hours
BHS 3110 Health Care Ethics 3 Semester Hours
BHS 3120 Introduction to Epidemiology 3 Semester Hours
BHS 3150 Principles of Leadership 3 Semester Hours
BHS 3155 Conflict Resolution in Health Care 3 Semester Hours
BHS 3160 Health Policy 3 Semester Hours
BHS 4000 Cultural Competency in Health Care 3 Semester Hours
BHS 4100 Academic and Professional Writing 3 Semester Hours
Total
21 Semester Hours

General Education Requirement

Effective January 1, 2006 prior to matriculation, all applicants must have completed a minimum of 3 semester hours (or the equivalent) of college level written composition from a regionally accredited college or university with a minimum grade of a C (GPA of 2.0 on a four point grading scale).

In order to be eligible to graduate with the B.H.Sc. degree a student must have completed 30 semesters hours of General Education course work in addition to the B.H.Sc. curriculum with a resulting minimum total of 120 semester hours. If this requirement is not met at time of admission to the program it can be obtained concurrently while enrolled in the B.H.Sc. A student can obtain and transfer these courses through NSU’s Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences or another regionally accredited college or university.

Required General Education Course work:

Courses
Semester Hours
Written Communication above 1000 level
[must be completed prior to matriculation into program with minimum grade of a C (GPA of 2.0 on a four point grading scale)]
3 semester hours
Mathematics above 1000 level 3 semester hours
Humanities 6 semester hours
Social and Behavioral Sciences 9 semester hours
Natural and Physical Sciences 9 semester hours
Total
30 semester hours
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