Undergraduate Catalog: Health Services Administration

Program Requirements HSA || Program Requirements Gerontology || Academic Facts

Alice McDonnell, Dr.P.H., R.N., Chairperson
Alexander Dawoody, Ph.D., M.A., M.H.A., M.P.A., M.Ed.

The student who majors in Health Services Administration will:

1. possess a working knowledge of major interpretations of the administration of health services;
2. engage in modes of research and inquiry which are used to explore, document, and understand problems of health care delivery;
3. participate actively in the discussion and critical evaluation of contemporary issues in American health care;
4. respond to the contemporary challenges of health care delivery, relating the study of health services to contemporary health service delivery problems;
5. empathize with and display sensitivity to the emotions and values of patients, patients’ families, coworkers, and other health care professionals, especially those from different cultural, ethnic, and/or class backgrounds.

 

The sequence of courses in the major is interdisciplinary and includes a significant integration of courses from business administration and the social sciences. Together with Marywood’s liberal arts curriculum, the courses in the major curriculum are designed to enable graduates to enter the job market in entry level administrative positions.

Marywood University’s Health Services Administration Program provides both an undergraduate and graduate degree with an option to complete both in a fiveyear period of time through advanced standing into the graduate program.

The undergraduate Health Services Administration major prepares students for entrylevel positions in health. The program provides the knowledge and skills necessary for administrative positions in nursing homes, hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, managed care, and the many other organizations providing health care in American society. A special track focuses upon health care delivery to the elderly. This major integrates courses in the social sciences, business, heath services administration and cognate courses (63 credits), as well as the liberal arts (64 credits). An important program component is an internship in a nursing home, hospital, managed care, public health agency, or other organization during the senior year. Advanced standing in Marywood University’s Graduate Program in Health Services Administration is available to qualified majors. A Gerontology major is also avail­able. Please see the Graduate Catalog for a five-­year degree option. Contact the Program Director.

This program will enhance the administrative training of students concerned with the provision of health care and the current health care reform. Students’ needs and goals are met, bringing the application of management skills from a theoretical model. This degree will be a step in meeting the needs of those professionals currently practicing and also will prepare the health service administrators of tomorrow.

Program requirements for Health Services Administration

Sixty-three credits with cognate courses are required, spread across the following disciplines and departments:

1. Five courses in Business Administration to include:
   

   BUS 123	Management and Career Options	3
   BUS 131	Accounting I	3
   BUS 132	Accounting II	3
   BUS 301	Management Information Systems	3
   BUS XXX	Business Elective	3

2. Eight courses in Sociology, Social Sciences, and Health Services Administration selected from the following:
   

   CJ 201	The Juvenile Justice Subsystem	3
   SOC 214	Social Problems	3
   SOC 350	Medical Sociology	3
   SOC 451	Social Research	3
   SOC 452	Computer Applications in Social Research	3
   HSA 425	Children's Rights and Societal Responses (crosslisted SSCI 425)	3
   HSA 430	Aging Issues (crosslisted SW 430/SSCI 430)	3
   HSA 461	Administrative Practicum in Health Care Systems	3
   GER 435	Aging and Society (crosslisted SOC 400/HSA 435)	3

3. Four courses in Health Services Administration to include:
   

   HSA 520	Introduction to Health Services Administration	3
   HSA 597	Health Services Administration Internship	3
   HSA 599	Health Services Administration Seminar	3
   HSA 537	Managerial Decision Making in Health Care Organizations	3

4. Cognate courses to include:
   

   ECON 100	Basic Economics	3
   PS 210	American Government and Politics	3
   PS 211	State and Local Government	3
   SOC 218	Anthropology	3

Program requirements for Gerontology

Sixty-three credits with cognate courses are required, spread across the following disciplines and departments:

1. Five courses in Business Administration to include:
   

   BUS 123	Management and Career Options	3
   BUS 131	Accounting I	3
   BUS 132	Accounting II	3
   BUS 301	Management Information Systems	3
   BUS XXX	Business Elective	3

2. Eight courses in Sociology and Health Services Administration to include:
   

   SOC 214	Social Problems	3
   SOC 350	Medical Sociology	3
   SOC 451	Social Research	3
   SOC 452	Computer Applications in Social Research	3
   GER 435	Aging and Society (crosslisted SOC 400/HSA 435)	3
   HSA 402	Society of Dying and Death (crosslisted SOC 402)	3
   HSA 430	Aging Issues (crosslisted SW 430/SSCI 430)	3
   HSA 461	Administrative Practicum in Health Care Systems	3

3. Four courses in Gerontology to include:
   

   GER 510	Concepts and Issues in Gerontology	3
   OR
   GER 525	Aging Changes and Health	3
   GER 530	Nutrition and the Elderly	3
   OR
   GER 520	Psychological Perspectives on Aging	3
   OR
   GER 529	Planning Healthcare Services for the Elderly	3
   GER 597	Internship Practicum	3
   GER 599	Internship Seminar	3

4. Cognate courses to include:
   

   ECON 100	Basic Economics	3
   PS 210	American Government and Politics	3
   PS 211	State and Local Government	3
   SOC 218	Anthropology	3

Academic Facts

1. 127 credits are required for a degree.
2. Transfer students must complete a minimum of 60 credits at Marywood University, divided equally between the major and the liberal arts.
3. Courses in the major should be taken at Marywood University. Courses to complete the liberal arts requirements may be taken at other universities and transferred at the grade level of C or above.
4. The student must maintain a QPA average of 2.50 in the major and 2.00 overall to graduate as well as be retained in the program.

 

Health Services Administration Courses