Naveen Jindal School of Management

Healthcare Management (BS)

Bachelor of Science in Healthcare Management

Degree Requirements (120 semester credit hours)¹

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Faculty

FACG> jsom-healthcare-management-bs

Professors: Ashiq Ali @axa042200, Gary Bolton @gxb122130, Huseyin Cavusoglu @huseyin, Jianqing Chen @jxc111031, William M. Cready @wmc041000, Gregory G. Dess @ggd021000, Umit G. Gurun @ugg041000, Kyle Hyndman @tdp062000, Varghese S. Jacob @vjacob, Dmitri Kuksov @dgk120030, Nanda Kumar @nkumar, Seung-Hyun Lee @sxl029100, Stanley Liebowitz @liebowit, Zhiang (John) Lin @zlin, Sumit K. Majumdar @skm021100, Syam Menon @sxm021300, Vijay S. Mookerjee @vijaym, B. P. S. Murthi @murthi, Vikram Nanda @vkn150030, Mike W. Peng @mxp059000, Hasan Pirkul @hpirkul, Suresh Radhakrishnan @sradhakr, Srinivasan Raghunathan @sraghu, Ram C. Rao @rrao, Brian Ratchford @btr051000, Michael J. Rebello @mjr071000, Gil Sadka @gxs143630, Sumit Sarkar @sumit, Wing Kwong (Eric) Tsang @wkt071000, Jun Xia @jxx132030, Ying Xie @yxx124930, Harold Zhang @hxz054000, Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng @zxz062000

Associate Professors: Mehmet Ayvaci @mua120030, Nina Baranchuk @nxb043000, Zhonglan Dai @zxd051000, Rebecca Files @rlf092000, Surya N. Janakiraman @suryaj, Robert L. Kieschnick Jr. @rkiesch, Atanu Lahiri @axl144730, Jun Li @jxl128031, Ningzhong Li @nxl124130, Lívia Markóczy @lxm055000, Ramachandran (Ram) Natarajan @nataraj, Naim Bugra Ozel @nbo150030, Young U. Ryu @ryoung, Harpreet Singh @hxs104000, Upender Subramanian @uxs092000, Shaojie Tang @sxt146930, Kelsey D. Wei @kdw061000, Han (Victor) Xia @hxx110930, Yexiao Xu @yexiaoxu, Alejandro Zentner @axz051000, Jieying Zhang @jxz146230, Yuan Zhang @yxz122931, Zhe (James) Zhang @zxz145430, Feng Zhao @fxz082000, Yibin Zhou @yxz066000

Assistant Professors: Sheen Levine @ssl140530, Radha Mookerjee @rvm019000, Alejandro Rivera Mesias @axr150331, Christian Von-Drathen @cxv141430, Guihua Wang @gxw130630, Steven Xiao @sxx150930

Associate Professors Emeriti: J. Richard Harrison @harrison, Jane Salk @jes025000, David J. Springate @spring8

Visiting Professor: Emily Choi @exc113230

Clinical Professors: John Barden @jpb063000, Britt Berrett @brb051000, Abhijit Biswas @axb019100, Shawn Carraher @smc130730, Larry Chasteen @chasteen, Howard Dover @hfd021000, John Gamino @jpg140630, Randall S. Guttery @rxg112530, William Hefley @weh150130, Marilyn Kaplan @mkaplan, Peter Lewin @plewin, Jeffrey Manzi @jxm158130, John F. McCracken @jfm, Diane S. McNulty @dmcnulty, Daniel Rajaratnam @dxr143430, Kannan Ramanathan @kxr087000, Mark Thouin @mxt083000, Habte Woldu @wolduh, Fang Wu @fxw052000, Laurie L. Ziegler @ziegler

Clinical Associate Professors: Shawn Alborz @sxa063000, Dawn Owens @dmo130130, Carolyn Reichert @carolyn

Clinical Assistant Professors: Moran Blueshtein @mxb135230, Jeffery (Jeff) Hicks @jnh061000, Kristen Lawson @kal110030, Liping Ma @lxm133730, Ravi Narayan @rln130030, Parneet Pahwa @pxp030100, Nassim Sohaee @nxs045000

Professors of Instruction: Semiramis Amirpour @sxa130731, Mary Beth Goodrich @goodrich, Chris Linsteadt @ccl019000, Matt Polze @mmp062000, Luell (Lou) Thompson @lot013000

Associate Professors of Instruction: Judd Bradbury @jdb101000, Amal El-Ashmawi @ahe013000, Ayfer Gurun @axg119030, Maria Hasenhuttl @h1562, Julie Haworth @haworth, Thomas (Tom) Henderson @txh093000, Jennifer G. Johnson @jxj091000, Hubert Zydorek @hxz120930

Assistant Professors of Instruction: Daniel Karnuta @dxk173030, Joseph Mauriello @jam151430, Victoria D. McCrady @vdm130030

Professors of Practice: Tiffany A. Bortz @tabortz, Alexander Edsel @ade012000, Rajiv Shah @rxs079000, Keith Thurgood @klt160130

Associate Professors of Practice: Richard Bowen @rxb073100, Jackie Kimzey @jxk092000, Margaret Smallwood @meg012400, Steven Solcher @sjs107020, Kathy Zolton @kxz121730

Assistant Professors of Practice: Edward Meda @exm150330, Timothy Stephens @tgs170130, Robert Wright @rgw091000

I. Core Curriculum Requirements: 42 semester credit hours²

Communication: 6 semester credit hours

Select any 6 semester credit hours from Communication Core courses (see advisor)

Mathematics: 3 semester credit hours

MATH 1325 Applied Calculus I^{3, 4, 5, 6}

Or select any 3 semester credit hours from Mathematics Core courses (see advisor)

Life and Physical Sciences: 6 semester credit hours

Select any 6 semester credit hours from Life and Physical Sciences Core courses (see advisor and degree requirements)

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

Or select any 6 semester credit hours from Government/Political Science Core courses (see advisor)

Social and Behavioral Sciences: 3 semester credit hours

Choose one of the following:⁷

BA 1310 Making Choices in Free Market Systems^{3, 4}

BA 1320 Business in a Global World^{3, 4}

ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics^{3, 4}

ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics^{3, 4}

Or select any 3 semester credit hours from Social and Behavioral Sciences Core courses (see advisor)

Component Area Option: 6 semester credit hours

Choose two of the following:⁷

BA 1310 Making Choices in Free Market Systems^{3, 4}

BA 1320 Business in a Global World^{3, 4}

ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics^{3, 4}

ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics^{3, 4}

Or select any 6 semester credit hours from Component Area Option Core courses (see advisor)

II. Major Requirements: 66 semester credit hours beyond Core Curriculum

Major Preparatory Courses: 12 semester credit hours beyond Core Curriculum⁷

ACCT 2301 Introductory Financial Accounting³

ACCT 2302 Introductory Management Accounting³

BLAW 2301 Business and Public Law³

MATH 1325 Applied Calculus I^{3, 4, 5, 6}

OPRE 3360 Managerial Methods in Decision Making Under Uncertainty

or STAT 3360 Probability and Statistics for Management and Economics

Choose two of the following:⁷

BA 1310 Making Choices in Free Market Systems^{3, 4}

BA 1320 Business in a Global World^{3, 4}

ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics^{3, 4}

ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics^{3, 4}

Major Core Courses: 24 semester credit hours

BCOM 1300 Introduction to Professionalism and Communication in Business⁸

or BCOM 3300 Professionalism and Communication in Business⁸

BCOM 4300 Managing Communications in Business

IMS 3310 International Business

FIN 3320 Business Finance

ITSS 3300 Information Technology for Business

OBHR 3330 Introduction to Human Resource Management

or OBHR 3310 Organizational Behavior

OPRE 3310 Operations Management

MKT 3300 Principles of Marketing

Major Related Courses: 18 semester credit hours

HMGT 3301 Introduction to Healthcare Management

HMGT 3310 Healthcare Regulatory Environment

HMGT 3311 Healthcare Financial Analysis

HMGT 3320 Complex and Dynamic Healthcare Environment⁹

or ECON 3330 Economics of Health⁹

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

HMGT 3080 Healthcare Management Honors Program Seminar¹⁰

Guided Electives: 12 semester credit hours

A practicum experience (internship) of at least 160 working hours is required; the student has the option of zero to 3 semester credit hours, depending on the particular internship, and preference for additional electives.

HMGT 4V90 Healthcare Management Internship

HMGT 4090 Healthcare Management Internship

BA 4090 Management Internship

A community engagement experience is required; the student has the option of zero or 3 semester credit hours, depending on the particular experience, and preference for additional electives.

IMS 4335 Social Sector Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement

or ENTP 4340 Social Sector Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement

or MKT 4360 Social Impact Marketing

or BA 4095 Social Sector Engagement and Community Outreach Practicum

Choose from the following to fulfill remaining Elective semester credit hours:

HMGT 4V81 Individual Study in Healthcare Management

HMGT 3320 Complex and Dynamic Healthcare Environment⁹

or ECON 3330 Economics of Health⁹

ENTP 3301 Innovation and Entrepreneurship

ENTP 4320 Small Business Management

ITSS 4300 Database Fundamentals

ITSS 4330 Systems Analysis and Design

ITSS 4340 Enterprise Resource Planning

ITSS 4351 Foundations of Business Intelligence

MECO 3360 Comparative Institutions of Production and Distribution

MECO 3361 Comparative Institutions of Production and Distribution II

MECO 4303 Decisions, Behavior, and Business Policy

MKT 4331 Digital Prospecting

MKT 4332 Advanced Professional Sales

OBHR 4300 Management of Non-Profit Organizations

OBHR 4310 Business Ethics

OBHR 4352 Negotiation and Dispute Resolution

OPRE 3330 Project Management

OPRE 4310 Lean and Six Sigma Processes

OPRE 4350 Spreadsheet Modeling and Analytics

OPRE 4355 Operations Management in the Healthcare Sector

The courses listed above can satisfy Guided Elective requirements in prior BS Healthcare Management catalogs, as long as they are not used elsewhere on degree plan.

Three semester credit hours of upper-level HMGT courses not listed or used elsewhere on degree plan, or equivalent or similar upper-level courses, may be used to fulfill a guided elective with advance written permission from the BS HCMG Program Director.

NOTE: Course prerequisites must be met.

III. Elective Requirements: 12 semester credit hours

Free Electives: 12 semester credit hours

Both lower- and upper-division courses may count as electives but students must complete at least 51 semester credit hours of upper-division courses to qualify for graduation.

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. 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.

3. Indicates a prerequisite class to be completed before enrolling for upper-division classes.

4. A required Major course that also fulfills a Core Curriculum requirement. Semester credit hours are counted in Core Curriculum.

5. Students may elect to substitute MATH 2413 or MATH 2417.

6. In order to make timely degree progress, students should complete MATH 1325 or its equivalent by the end of their first semester at UT Dallas. Students who will not meet this requirement should contact their academic advisor to discuss their degree timeline.

7. Certain courses listed are prerequisites for major core, major concentration, or major related courses. Choose accordingly.

8. JSOM first-time-in-college freshmen are required to take BCOM 1300 in their first semester. Transfer students and students new to JSOM are required to take BCOM 3300 in their first semester.

9. HMGT 3320 or ECON 3330 can be used to fulfill a guided elective if not used in Major Related Courses.

10. The Honors Program Seminar is only required for students in the Healthcare Management Honors Program.