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Jun 23, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Professional Studies, Health Administration Concentration, B.S.
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University Studies
615-494-7714
Dianna Rust, program coordinator
Dianna.Rust@mtsu.edu
The Professional Studies program helps students prepare for management positions in the field of health administration. The Professional Studies major consists of foundation courses in communications, statistics, supervision, organizational systems, organizational relations, and international context. The Health Administration concentration focuses on classes in healthcare research, healthcare leadership management, trends and issues in healthcare, community health care, and international health.
NOTE: This major does not qualify you as an applicant for licensure consideration by the state of Tennessee. Many students who pursue this degree will be prepared for entry level healthcare administration positions. For information about the state of Tennessee’s licensure requirements go to www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/health/documents/BENHA_Online_Application.pdf.
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Degree Requirements
| True Blue Core (TBC) |
41 hours |
| Major Requirements |
36 hours |
| Electives |
43 hours |
| TOTAL |
120 hours |
True Blue Core (41 hours)
True Blue Core (TBC) requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in the Foundational Skills areas of Written Communication (WC), Information Literacy (Info Lit), Non-Written Communication (NWC), and Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). Knowledge Domains include Human Society and Social Relationships (HSSR), Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit), Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE), and History and Civic Learning (HCL), which include Discovery and Explorations categories. Students must choose at least one course from each Discovery category.
Major Requirements (36 hours)
Professional Core (18 hours)
Administration and Supervision
Choose one:
Organizational Systems
Choose one:
Team and Organizational Relations
Choose one:
Statistical Methods
Choose one:
Written Communication
Choose one:
International Context
Choose one:
Health Administration Concentration (15 hours)
Culminating Project (3 hours)
Curriculum: Professional Studies, Health Administration
Freshman
- Written Communication 3 credit hours
- Information Literacy 3 credit hours
- Non-Written Communication 3 credit hours
- Human Society and Social Relationships 3 credit hours
- Quantitative Literacy (MATH 1530 recommended) 3 credit hours
- Creativity and Cultural Expression 3 credit hours
- Scientific Literacy 4 credit hours
- Electives (UNIV 1010 recommended) 8 credit hours
Sophomore
- History and Civic Learning 6 credit hours
- Creativity and Cultural Expression Literature 3 credit hours
- Human Society and Social Relationships 3 credit hours
- Creativity and Cultural Expression 3 credit hours
- Scientific Literacy 4 credit hours
- Electives 11 hours
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