Naveen Jindal School of Management
Healthcare Management and Molecular Biology (Double Major) (BS)
Bachelor of Science in Healthcare Management and Molecular Biology (Double Major)
Degree Requirements (152-153 semester credit hours)1, 2
JSOM Faculty
Professors: Ashiq Ali , Alain Bensoussan , Gary Bolton , Metín Çakanyildirim , Huseyin Cavusoglu , William M. Cready , Milind Dawande , Theodore E. Day , Gregory G. Dess , Umit G. Gurun , Varghese S. Jacob , Sanjay Jain , Ganesh Janakiraman , Elena Katok , Dmitri Kuksov , Nanda Kumar , Seung-Hyun Lee , Stanley Liebowitz , Zhiang (John) Lin , Sumit K. Majumdar , Stanimir Markov , Syam Menon , Vijay S. Mookerjee , B. P. S. Murthi , Vikram Nanda , Özalp Özer , Mike W. Peng , Hasan Pirkul , Suresh Radhakrishnan , Srinivasan Raghunathan , Ram C. Rao , Brian Ratchford , Michael J. Rebello , Sumit Sarkar , Suresh P. Sethi , Kathryn E. Stecke , Wing Kwong (Eric) Tsang , Harold Zhang , Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng
Associate Professors: Mehmet Ayvaci , Nina Baranchuk , Norris Bruce , Jianqing Chen , Zhonglan Dai , Rebecca Files , Dorothée Honhon , Bin Hu , Kyle Hyndman , Surya N. Janakiraman , Robert L. Kieschnick Jr. , Atanu Lahiri , Jun Li , Ningzhong Li , Lívia Markóczy , Amit Mehra , Toyah Miller , Ramachandran (Ram) Natarajan , Naim Bugra Ozel , H. Dennis Park , Cuili Qian , Orlando C. Richard , Young U. Ryu , Gil Sadka , Harpreet Singh , David J. Springate , Upender Subramanian , Kelsey D. Wei , Han (Victor) Xia , Jun Xia , Ying Xie , Yexiao Xu , Alejandro Zentner , Jieying Zhang , Yuan Zhang , Feng Zhao , Yibin Zhou
Assistant Professors: Khai Chiong , Emily Choi , Andrew Frazelle , Ying Huang , Joonhwi Joo , Sora Jun , Sheen Levine , Meng Li , Maria Loumioti , Jean-Marie Meier , Radha Mookerjee , Anyan Qi , Alejandro Rivera Mesias , Alessio Saretto , Simon Siegenthaler , Serdar Simsek , Shaojie Tang , Xiaoxiao Tang , Shervin Tehrani , Ashwin Venkataraman , Christian Von-Drathen , Guihua Wang , Shouqiang Wang , Junfeng Wu , Steven Xiao , Yingjie Zhang , Zhe (James) Zhang , Xiaofei Zhao
Professors Emeriti: Dale Osborne , John J. Wiorkowski
Assistant Professors Emeriti: J. Richard Harrison , Jane Salk
Clinical Professors: John Barden , Britt Berrett , Abhijit Biswas , Ranavir Bose , Shawn Carraher , Larry Chasteen , David Cordell , Howard Dover , John Gamino , Randall S. Guttery , Charles Hazzard , William Hefley , Marilyn Kaplan , Sonia Leach , Peter Lewin , Jeffrey Manzi , Diane S. McNulty , Divakar Rajamani , Daniel Rajaratnam , Kannan Ramanathan , David Ritchey , Rajiv Shah , Mark Thouin , Jeff Weekley , Habte Woldu , Fang Wu , Laurie L. Ziegler
Clinical Associate Professors: Shawn Alborz , Dawn Owens , David Parks , Carolyn Reichert , Avanti P. Sethi , Ramesh Subramoniam , Aysegul Toptal , McClain Watson , David Widdifield
Clinical Assistant Professors: Athena Alimirzaei , Moran Blueshtein , Judd Bradbury , Sourav Chatterjee , Jerome Gafford , Ayfer Gurun , Maria Hasenhuttl , Julie Haworth , Jeffery (Jeff) Hicks , Revansiddha Khanapure , Kristen Lawson , Kathryn Lookadoo , Liping Ma , Sarah Moore , Ravi Narayan , Parneet Pahwa , Jason Parker , Drew Peabody , Nassim Sohaee
Assistant Professor of Instruction: Rasoul Ramezani
Senior Lecturers: Khatereh Ahadi , Semiramis Amirpour , Frank Anderson , Tiffany A. Bortz , Richard Bowen , Monica E. Brussolo , Juliann Chapman , George DeCourcy , Alexander Edsel , Amal El-Ashmawi , Negin Enayaty Ahangar , Mary Beth Goodrich , Thomas (Tom) Henderson , Abu Naser Islam , Scott Janke , Jennifer G. Johnson , Jackie Kimzey , Chris Linsteadt , Joseph Mauriello , Victoria D. McCrady , Edward Meda , Robert (Stephen) Molina , Prithi Narasimhan , Mohammad Naseri Taheri , Madison Pedigo , Matt Polze , Debra Richardson , Gaurav Shekhar , Margaret Smallwood , Steven Solcher , Timothy Stephens , Luell (Lou) Thompson , Guido Tirone , Robert Wright , Kathy Zolton , Hubert Zydorek
NSM Faculty
Professors: Rockford K. Draper , Juan E. González , Lawrence J. Reitzer , Stephen Spiro , Li Zhang , Michael Qiwei Zhang
Associate Professors: John G. Burr , Jeff L. DeJong , Heng Du , Tae Hoon Kim , Kelli Palmer , Duane D. Winkler , Zhenyu Xuan
Assistant Professors: Zachary Campbell , Nicole De Nisco , Nikki Delk , Jyoti Misra , Faruck Morcos
Professors Emeritus: Hans Bremer , Lee A. Bulla , Donald M. Gray
Associate Professors Emeritius: Gail A. M. Breen , Dennis L. Miller
Clinical Professor: David Murchison
Research Assistant Professors: Lan Guo , Li Liu
Assistant Professors of Instruction: Caitlin Braitsch , Ida Klang , Eva Sadat , Zhuoru Wu
Senior Lecturers: Mehmet Candas , Wen-Ju Lin , Meenakshi Maitra , Robert C. Marsh , Iti Mehta , Jing Pan , Elizabeth Pickett , Ruben D. Ramirez , Scott A. Rippel , Ilya Sapozhnikov , Subha Sarcar , Uma Srikanth , Michelle Wilson , Wen-Ho Yu
I. Core Curriculum Requirements: 42 semester credit hours3
Communication: 6 semester credit hours
Select any 6 semester credit hours from Communication Core courses (see advisor)
Mathematics: 3 semester credit hours
or MATH 2413 Differential Calculus4, 5, 6
Life and Physical Sciences: 6 semester credit hours
CHEM 1311 General Chemistry I4
or CHEM 1315 Honors Freshman Chemistry I4
CHEM 1312 General Chemistry II4
or CHEM 1316 Honors Freshman Chemistry II4
Language, Philosophy and Culture: 3 semester credit hours
Select any 3 semester credit hours from Language, Philosophy and Culture Core courses (see advisor)
Creative Arts: 3 semester credit hours
Select any 3 semester credit hours from Creative Arts Core courses (see advisor)
American History: 6 semester credit hours
Select any 6 semester credit hours from American History Core courses (see advisor)
Government/Political Science: 6 semester credit hours
GOVT 2305 American National Government
GOVT 2306 State and Local Government
Social and Behavioral Sciences: 3 semester credit hours
Choose one of the following:7
BA 1310 Making Choices in Free Market Systems8, 4
BA 1320 Business in a Global World8, 4
ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics8, 4
ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics8, 4
Component Area Option: 6 semester credit hours
Choose two of the following:7
or MATH 2414 Integral Calculus4, 5, 9
BA 1310 Making Choices in Free Market Systems8, 4
BA 1320 Business in a Global World8, 4
ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics8, 4
ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics8, 4
II. Major Requirements: 89-90 semester credit hours
Biology Major Preparatory Courses: 20-21 semester credit hours beyond Core Curriculum
CHEM 1111 General Chemistry Laboratory I
or CHEM 1115 Honors Freshman Chemistry Laboratory I
CHEM 1112 General Chemistry Laboratory II
or CHEM 1116 Honors Freshman Chemistry Laboratory II
CHEM 1311 General Chemistry I4
or CHEM 1315 Honors Freshman Chemistry I4
CHEM 1312 General Chemistry II4
or CHEM 1316 Honors Freshman Chemistry II4
CHEM 2123 Introductory Organic Chemistry Laboratory I8
CHEM 2125 Introductory Organic Chemistry Laboratory II8
CHEM 2323 Introductory Organic Chemistry I8
CHEM 2325 Introductory Organic Chemistry II8
or MATH 2413 Differential Calculus4, 5, 6
or MATH 2414 Integral Calculus4, 5, 9
PHYS 2325 Mechanics4 and PHYS 2125 Physics Laboratory I
or PHYS 2421 Honors Physics I - Mechanics and Heat4, 10
PHYS 2326 Electromagnetism and Waves4
or PHYS 2422 Honors Physics II - Electromagnetism and Waves4
PHYS 2126 Physics Laboratory II
Biology Core Courses: 33 semester credit hours
BIOL 2111 Introduction to Modern Biology Workshop I8
BIOL 2112 Introduction to Modern Biology Workshop II8
BIOL 2281 Introductory Biology Laboratory8
BIOL 2311 Introduction to Modern Biology I8
BIOL 2312 Introduction to Modern Biology II8
BIOL 3101 Classical and Molecular Genetics Workshop
BIOL 3102 Eukaryotic Molecular and Cell Biology Workshop
BIOL 3161 Biochemistry Workshop I
BIOL 3162 Biochemistry Workshop II
BIOL 3301 Classical and Molecular Genetics
BIOL 3302 Eukaryotic Molecular and Cell Biology
BIOL 3361 Biochemistry I
BIOL 3362 Biochemistry II
or BIOL 3335 Microbial Physiology
BIOL 3380 Biochemistry Laboratory
BIOL 4461 Biophysical Chemistry
Business Major Preparatory Courses: 12 semester credit hours beyond Core Curriculum7
ACCT 2301 Introductory Financial Accounting8
ACCT 2302 Introductory Management Accounting8
BLAW 2301 Business and Public Law8
OPRE 3360 Managerial Methods in Decision Making Under Uncertainty
or STAT 2332 Introductory Statistics for Life Sciences
or STAT 3360 Probability and Statistics for Management and Economics
Choose two of the following:
BA 1310 Making Choices in Free Market Systems8, 4
or ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics8, 4
BA 1320 Business in a Global World8, 4
or ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics8, 4
Business Core Courses: 24 semester credit hours
BCOM 1300 Introduction to Professionalism and Communication in Business11
or BCOM 3300 Professionalism and Communication in Business11
BCOM 4300 Managing Communications in Business
IMS 3310 International Business
FIN 3320 Business Finance
OPRE 3310 Operations Management
ITSS 3300 Information Technology for Business
OBHR 3330 Introduction to Human Resource Management
or OBHR 3310 Organizational Behavior
MKT 3300 Principles of Marketing
III. Elective Requirements: 21 semester credit hours
A zero semester credit hour practicum experience is required:
HMGT 4090 Healthcare Management Internship
A zero semester credit hour community engagement experience is required:
BA 4095 Social Sector Engagement and Community Outreach Practicum
Healthcare Management Core Courses: 18 semester credit hours
HMGT 3301 Introduction to Healthcare Management
HMGT 3310 Healthcare Regulatory Environment
HMGT 3311 Healthcare Accounting
HMGT 3320 Complex and Dynamic Healthcare Environment
HMGT 4321 Introduction to Healthcare Information Systems
HMGT 4395 Capstone Senior Project - Healthcare Management
or BPS 4395 Capstone Senior Project - Business
or ENTP 4395 Capstone Senior Project - Entrepreneurship
Biology (3 semester credit hours):
BIOL 4380 Cell and Molecular Biology Laboratory12
or BIOL 3V96 Undergraduate Research in Molecular and Cell Biology
or BIOL 4391 Senior Research in Molecular and Cell Biology
or BIOL 4399 Senior Honors Research for Thesis in Molecular and Cell Biology
All students must complete at least 51 semester credit hours of upper-division courses to graduate.
1. Incoming freshmen must enroll and complete requirements of UNIV 1010 and the corresponding school-related freshman seminar course. Students, including transfer students, who complete their core curriculum at UT Dallas must take UNIV 2020.
2. Degree is 153-154 semester credit hours if students are required to take NATS 1101.
3. Curriculum Requirements can be fulfilled by other approved courses from institutions of higher education. The courses listed are recommended as the most efficient way to satisfy both Core Curriculum and Major Requirements at UT Dallas.
4. A required Major course that also fulfills a Core Curriculum requirement. Semester credit hours are counted in Core Curriculum.
5. Six semester credit hours of Calculus are counted under Mathematics Core and Component Area Option Core, and 2 semester credit hours of Calculus are counted as Biology Major Preparatory Courses.
6. Students may elect to substitute MATH 2417 for MATH 2413.
7. Certain courses listed are prerequisites for major core (e.g., BA 1310 or BA 1320 or ECON 2301 for IMS 3310), major concentration, or major related courses. Choose accordingly.
8. Indicates a prerequisite class to be completed before enrolling for upper-division classes.
9. Students may elect to substitute MATH 2419 for MATH 2414.
10. Students who complete PHYS 2421 do not need to complete PHYS 2125.
11. JSOM freshmen are required to take BCOM 1300. Transfer students and students new to JSOM are required to take BCOM 3300.
12. Requires permission of the Biology Undergraduate Advisor to ensure training in recombinant DNA analysis.